Going to See Family!

I am going to see my beloved family tomorrow.  I am very excited to see my mother and daughters and sister and the BIL.  We are also treating ourselves to a trip to see our Chiropractor!  Yes, that is a real treat.  So, the husband us going with me and will return after 24 hours.  We finally had that awful skin tag removed from the dog's hind paw.  He is doing very well!  His heart murmur is barely there and the foot was becoming infected so we had to get something done.  He has not even had to use the cone of shame, yet!  He is such a wonderful dog.  He is loving responsive protective kind, all the things you could want in a dog.  I thank God for everyday I get to have with him.

I'll Live for Him

This old hymn just came to me as I was changing sheets today.  It reminded me of my mother's ever faithful life to her Savior and her family.  Oh that I might be a portion of her!  So, here is the chorus of that song, or refrain:

I’ll live for Him who died for me,
How happy then my life shall be!
I’ll live for Him who died for me,
My Savior and my God!

New Year Coming...

Last Christmas at my sister's house

Just a bit icy!

Merry Christmas!

Away in a Manger

One of my favorite Christmas carols is Away in a Manger.  All the verses are wonderful, but Mine is the last verse.  I hope you all have a great Christmas and enjoy time with family and friends.  We will be spending this time with part of the family and missing the others very much.  Maybe next year...

Be near me, Lord Jesus, I ask Thee to stay
Close by me forever, and love me, I pray.

Bless all the dear children in thy tender care,
And take us to heaven, to live with Thee there.

I'll Always Miss Her

I keep expecting it to get easier and I still miss her like it was yesterday!  My Jetta!

Another Day, Another Time

I spend a lot of time in the reflective mode.  This is not bad unless it is too much, and I border on too much.  A blogger I watch had a good post recently.  It was taken from the Dr Seuss book, Oh the Places You'll Go.  She was talking about being in the waiting place.  I find way too much of my life has been spent in the waiting place.  Waiting for the kids to get out of diapers, waiting for more money, waiting to lose weight, waiting for the Holidays, waiting for summer, waiting for fall...I could go on forever because I feel like I have wasted a lot of life waiting.  I also wonder if I have left people out waiting?  Have I loved less because I was busy waiting.  Have I missed opportunities to bless someone by waiting?  Way too many what ifs and what have I done all these years to bore people with, but sometimes sleep does not come because I think about this too much.  It is water under the bridge now, but that does not stop me from looking back.  But am I looking back too much to see what is coming up next?  Or simply missing life right now wondering about the water under the bridge and waiting?  Deep Crap!  The 35 years in Oklahoma,  some of which I was waiting to live in some other place, but now I do and that does not seem like such a bad place after all.