Remembering Mom

A couple of days ago on the 24th was the 26th anniversary of my sweet mom going to heaven.  Rich, Mary and I went out to her grave and placed some flowers there.  I always try to get roses because that was my mom's favorite.  I do it just to remember mom and honor her as I know she is with the Lord in heaven.  My sister, Denise, shared the most beautiful thing that my mom wrote, on her facebook page to honor mom.  I wanted to share it with you.  It was written on a piece of paper without a date on it.  It speaks so much of my mother's heart.

 

" Jesus, My Friend"

"When my heart is heavy and the tears are falling,

I look up to Jesus and know he understands.

And my heart fills to running over

when I think how he understands.

I can see him on his heavenly throne,

longing to come and comfort me

like he could have when he was here on earth.

But Lo! he said that 'I will not leave thee, nor forsake thee'.

So I say, in faith, believing: ' Jesus, I know you understand,

and I give myself to thee.'

All other friends may turn their backs on me,

but Jesus will always love me, no matter what may come.

I now consecrate this body and life to this wonderful friend.

Take it and use it like it was your own body.

All I desire is to be yours, dear blessed Jesus.

May this always be my prayer."

 

 

 

Here is a picture of mom with her favorite flowers and then a shot of the flowers we put out on Monday.

 

 

Nutcracker Ballet

I made a slide show of a collection of lovely still shots taken of the Nutcracker Ballet that Mary performed in on December 21 and 22.  I was able to also include a couple of video clips.  One was of my most favorite dance of the angels and the entrance of the snow fairy queen.  I just love the music to this dance!  I also included Mary's dance.  She was one of the little bon bons that came out from under Mrs. Ginger's dress.  She is one of the tallest ones with a blue/purple cape, an orange neck ruffle and she uses a red scarf to twirl with in part of the dance.  I hope you enjoy the jump back to the holidays and are able to capture some of the magic and fun of this beautiful ballet.

 

 

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Piano Fun

It was so cute the other night after Mary had her first piano lesson, she sat down and played her songs without me asking her to while I was washing the dishes. So I went in and video taped her. She was making up her own little tunes and just having fun. It was so special to see her enjoy the piano and having fun with it.

 

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From the Heart

Heart shaped food is so fun!  Mary and Rich get such a kick out of it, as the days to Valentine's approach I love to make them heart shaped food.  The other morning I made banana sourdough heart shaped pancakes. 

Mary and I were reading in this book tonight. We were on the chapter where the Ingalls family have guests for Christmas dinner and we came across this paragraph...

 

"Mrs. Boast was great fun. She was interested in everything and eager to learn how Ma managed so well. When you haven't milk enough to have sour milk, however do you make such delicious biscuits, Laura? It was fun to show her. Laura measured out the cups of sour dough, put in the soda and salt and flour and rolled out the biscuits on the board. "But how do you make the sour dough?" Mrs. Boast asked. "You start it," said Ma, "by putting some flour and warm water in a jar and letting it stand till it sours." "Then when you use it, always leave a little," said Laura. "And pour in the scraps of biscuit dough, like this, and more warm water. Laura put in the warm water and covered it. She put the clean cloth and the plate on the jar and just set it in a warm place. She set it in its place on the shelf by the stove and it's always ready to use, whenever you want it."

After we read that Mary's eye's lit up and said, "That's what we do!" It was so cool to read a real life story that happened back in the 1800's and see them do what we do.

 

He is loved just a little bit. Ha!

 

 

Mary is having so much fun getting Valentines in the mail.  Her Aunt Linda sent her this one.

 

 

She is having a lot of fun making Valentines this year.  She is such a little love bug.

 

Valentine's Day is Coming

Well with Valentine's Day just around the corner, someone is getting excited.  I made eggs in a nest with heart shaped toast for breakfast and we decorated her school room bulletin board.  Saving old Mylar balloons came in handy.

Mary has been working on some writing projects.  She will write one or two pages and then she draws a picture to go with her writing project.

 

I finally got my newest blog book printed up.  I had started out doing it each year but I let it go for 3 years.  So, I had a huge editing project on my hand.  I started editing last fall and I finished it a couple of weeks ago.  I was pleased how it turned out.  I make it for Mary so she will see what we did when she was little and she can read the stories of our life.

 

 

The cover.  I took this of Mary when she was about 3 1/2.

 

 

Here are a few shots of the pages inside.