This Is My Latest Project......................

this is in the girls loft. we went to stein mart to get the frames and then to kirklands to get the words. when i was in kirklands, i noticed they have another red one. i may end up getting that one and placing it on the opposite wall. who knows. i am sorry you can't see the words on the frames, they are wonderful. the red one sayes, other things may change us, but we start and end with family. the green one sayes, it is not the home i love, but the life that is lived here. the black one sayes, it does not count the number of breathes we take, but the moments that take away our breath. the framed black art sayes, family..... a journey to forever. as i am looking at the framed family, i am noticing it needs to come down and over a bit. it looks a little off kilter. what do you think? let me know.
this is my new stair case wall. i don't think the pictures do it justice!!!! i was very proud of the work i did, picking out the shapes fo the frames and the pictures to go in them. jw did sich an awesome job. i highly recommend her.



i have to say the more i am in this house, the more i love it. i am incredibly blessed.

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AND So Life Goes On.......................

we had a great Christmas with mine and david's family. one of my nieces got married and i was asked to speak. what an honor that was!!! i wish the best for them. ahhh to be young and in love. is a little different than being old and in love.

i got to visit with my best friend from high school. that was cool, even though it was under a sad circumstance. it was nice to sit in her childhood house where she grew up and we spent many an hour daydreaming about the men we would marry and the lives that we would have. i bet we visited for 4 hours. just catching up with each other. she looks just the same.

the time went by so fast on christmas break. we got back home on thursday, by the way, happy new year. i got a new garmen. it took me another way back home, and believe it or not, it was about 30 minutes faster. so that was nice.

i have to admit when i got home, it was so nice to be back in my house, my bed, and surrounded by my belonging. but i have to admit i sure delt with loneliness. you see david left christmas night and did not get back until 9 sunday night before we went back to school. i am so excited for his career, howeever, i do feel like i suffer the consequesnces. the loneliness gets tough at times.

the loneliness i am experiencing isn't a sad depressing loneliness, its the hollow left in the soul type. i am so thankful that i have my girls. i truly do not know what i would do with out them.

we are still in the process of looking for a church. that is not a fun process. this sunday we are going to a church that sister d recommended. however i know God will be faithful and we will find a church.

when we got home, i printed off some of the pictures that jw had taken and filled up my staircase wall with a collage of pictures. it looks so great. i bought frames 1/2 off at hobby lobby. i bought ovals, large and small; and rectangles and squares large and small. IT LOOKS SOOOOOO GOOD. i am rather proud of it myself. i will post a picture soon.

david is off this weekend. it is so nice to have him here. we went out with b&g last night and this other couple. boy was it good to be with other adults!!!!!!! we had so much fun.

well taks is getting closer. so that sure is my focus now. well i don't know much else. so ........

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tis the season..............

it is quiet in the house as the girls are sound a sleep. today was a good and busy day. the girls had pratice at church for their play at church tomorrow, so i dropped them off at ten this morning and picked them up at four.

it was nice to have some time to get some christmas shopping done by myself. you know it is funny i have all these stores up here to shop in and i find myself going to the same old places. i needed a new pair of jeans because i can only fit into two of the pair i have, so where do i end up buying the new pair, target.

isn't that funny. however, i do love kolh's. that has become one of our favorite stores. anyway, i finished the girls stuff. i always save the best for last. my favorite part of buying for the girls is their stockings. i love buying things for their stockings. it is so much fun. i always try to put things in their that i know will delight them. it is so delightful.

i also found david this very nice casual fossil watch. its face is very unique. i hope he will like it. you can't imagine the lines up here. it is crazy. but it is also fun.

we have settled into a church finally. God is so amazing, but He is forever surprizing me. i would try to explain it, but i don't think i would do a very good job. i am praying that God connect me to some people, when ever He is ready. the girls really enjoy the childrens church. we are beginning to actually have conversations beyond the nice pleasentries. that is nice. it is very slow building relationships here. people are friendly, but that is about it. they seem to always have their arms extended so as not to get close. but maybe that is just me. i am praying that God help me be what they need.

it is so nice having david home during the week. he typically leaves on friday and gets back on sunday. sometimes he leaves on saturday and gets home on monday, but that doesn't happen very often.

we are gong to have our own little family christmas on the tuesday before christmas. we are going to have it just the four of us. i am excited about it. we are going to have it on tuesday and then go see a movie after the girls take a break playing with their toys. we are also going to eat somewhere that day.

then we will go home on wednesday for christmas. that way david will have a night home before he has to drive back for work on friday. but at least he will be home for christmas.

we have one more week before we get out for the holidays. i am so excited.

it is hard to believe that i have completed half a year here. wow.

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our house is decorated so pretty. i am really enjoying being in our new house.

My Wonderful Life.................................

My richest blessings

Home Again, Home Again, Jiggidy Jog...

* there is no place like home. there is no place like home. there is no place like home. i am so excited to be home. we came home on friday. had our pictures made by the ever so talented, jw. she is so talented. i can't wait to get the pictures. i will post some pictures later when we get them.

* we went to our home church on Sunday, and even though our favorite pastor was not preaching, it WAS SO GOOD TO BE AT OUR CHURCH. to hear our music, to be with my church family. i was so blessed. we then went to have lunch with our peeps. THAT WAS AWESOME.

* one of my peeps is leaving and i am so happy for them, but so terribly sad for me. however, i have never just let a friendship die, and this one won't either. even if i hae to travel to the ends of the earth for it. friends, true friends are too hard to come by, to just let them fall by the wayside.

* i have never been to that part of the country, so it will be an adventure to DRIVE TO IT. my peeps will understand the significance of that statement. they will definitely have to help me get there. hopefully i won't have to go through a.


* well i am so happy to be with my family. we have visited, eaten out, going to a movie. what a great time we have had. it has been so much fun. we are going to have such a great time this week. hey my hubby got a deer. i am so happy for him.

* tomorrow i am going to see my friends in miles. my great teacher friends, who i miss so much. the girls are so excited to see their friends.

* turkey day is coming soon. it will be so good. all of the wonderful food and family. tomorrow i am going to my sisters to cook. we always do that. cook the night before thanksgiving. we have been doing that for years. i make my pecan pies and she makes her cherry-o creme pie. she also asked us to make home made chocolate chip cookies. i love to make those. we have so much fun. there is nothing like my mothers dressing. she is such a good cook.

* what a blessed woman i am. i am sitting in my mother's house eating breakfast with my family looking at my beautiful daughters and feeling so much love inside for them. my hubby is with me and i have come to realize how precious our time together is. we are an incredibly blessed family. my oldest daughter is serving us. what a sweet young lady she is.


* HAVE A VERY HAPPY THANKSGIVING. oh by the way i am making my blog un-private. what is the fun of having a blog if none of the people i love and care about can't share my life.

A Canopy of Love........................

Jesus reminded this weekend that HE is my covering. He not only reminded me, He took the time to literally show me with an amazingly beautiful canopy of trees. It was a magnificent display of love towards me. The tree were so beautiful. As i stood under the canopy of trees, God reminded me that there is nowhere that His arms do not reach. That there is no place I can't feel His arms holding me.

I stood under these trees looking up at amazement of His love. Looking up at the branches that stretch far and wide, I was reminded that Jesus had always been with me, will always be with me and that He is as close as the mention of His name.

The colors were spectacular. The trees with their painted leaves beckoned me to spend time with my heavenly father out in nature. As I sat in the stillness of the outside, the wind would create a musical with the leaves that were falling from the trees. Just as Jesus would whisper love to me , the leaves would sing their special melody.

It was a magical time. I so enjoyed seeing my church family. I so enjoyed just sitting beneath the trees. I so enjoyed sitting outside with my friends and eating lunch woth them. What a blessed time it was. This weekend was about rest for me. Just sitting and resting. I so needed this.

Thank you for your covering Jesus. Thank You that You see tomorrow. Thank You for setting my feet on solid ground, even when I don't recognize it. I am such a blessed daughter of the King.


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the sun is coming up over the horizon.........

well it has been a difficult adjustment, but i feel like i am beginning to see the sun over the horizon. week is getting better. not only has this been a test of endurance, but a lesson in computer skills. i have gain more computer skills in the three months that i have been at this school, but more than i have ever had in 42 years of life.

i was so focused on helping my girls adjust, that i TOTALLY underestimated the change for me. i never thought for a second, that a different school was require such change. i have felt all of the feelings of loneliness, left out in the desert, elation, fear, dred, and so many other emotions.

i knew there would be a difference between city kids and country kids, but i never dreamed such a difference. wow has it been a challenge. but i do feel like my class is beginning to come together. it does make me feel better that my principal, comes to us on a regular basis to sympathize about how difficult our classes are. it makes us feellike it is just not us.

we had a kid on friday get caught stealing from another students desk. it is our policy that wehn we sign a kids folder, they have to call their parents. a bit extreme don't you think? but these parents want to be super informed. well so the kid call his parent and the mother asks for the teacher to be put on the phone, the mother proceeds to gripe out the teacher!!!!!!

she sayes how do you know what happened, did you see it exactly? how do you know it wasn't his? my partner proceeds to tell her that she saw him. the mother is so mad that she had her son call home, she called to assistant principal. can you believe that??? of course our ap supported her. did i mentioned the parents are harder to deal with than the kids are?


but it is getting better.

did i mention, we found a church. yea..... it is such a wonderful GOD ordained occurance. my girls love it. there are actually kids in the childrens church that go to school with my girls.. it is such a down home tender feeling, real people church. it is not much to look at, but God looks to the inside of a man, so i decided to do the same. we meet in a storefront building. in this church there are such real people.

DO YOU KNOW HOW HARD IT IS TO FIND A CHURCH, WHEN YOU MEASURE EVERYTHING UP TO PERFECTION? WE LEFT NOT ONLY A CHURCH, BUT A FAMILY THAT WE WERE APART OF FOR MORE THAN 10 YEARS. IT IS A PARALYZING FEAT.
I AM NOT JUST SAYING THIS BECAUSE ONE DAY OUR FRIENDS MIGHT STUMBLE ON TO MY BLOG THAT HASN'T BEEN UPDATED IN MORE THAN A MONTH.

WE LEFT A FAMILY. OUR FAMILY. OUR HOME. OUR HEART. these people will never measure up to our home church, but it is sure is nice to know that there are a few west texans up here. but God is faithful.

so for now, the sun is beginning to shine.

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