Monday, June 1, 2009

The Graduation Service at church was so special!

Even the clouds seemed to be celebrating with us this weekend. It was very quiet when the girls and boys who had sleepover parties with friends were not at home. They are chatterboxes when they are at home but when half the crew is gone it is felt in the house. Emma was wimpering from the silence.



There was a gorgeous pink reflective cloud in the sky among the other beautiful bimulous ones that adorned the sunset on our way home and I tried to photograph it, but the batteries were dead. :( It had been a celebration day and God was smiling with us, it seemed, rejoicing at the praises and glorious enjoyment of His presence that we had had.
It was a special weekend. This was Senior day and the graduation service, at church and an ice cream social. Wow! we are still reeling from the activity. I am surprised that everyone was able to "wake up and smell the coffee" for school this morning.




















By the way, today is Julia's birthday and I hardly know what to do with myself without the yearly story of Julia breaking mommy's water at Aunt Helen's birthday party. It was a cook out and of course, "show off" Ju was destined to steal the show from then on. We never had memorial day with out a reminiscence of Julia breaking the water and making her debut! Dad was probably in a funk that day and still showing himself to be a part of the family and he always would talk about being in the shower when they told him that the water had broken. I don't know who would have gotten him out of the shower. He always reminded us that he rushed out of the shower and forgot to dry his back, when he was off to the hospital. Grandma Monica would tell me my birth story because I was her birthday present and Dad would tell Ju's birth story because she was probably the one that made mommy's family accept him in the family, since they gave Aunt Helen a birthday present too. :) Who knew that they would be giving alot of people birthday presents through those years. Just a guess. 46 Years and I do miss hearing that story for the hundredth time. The best presents I ever got broke water at the most inopportune times like outside at Aunt Helen's house.
Thank you mommy, for going to the block that many times to give me all of the presents and the most special people in my life.
Ju was always a little show off. Dad would say, Ju do the boogaloo and she would do the twist and show out upon request without fail. She was always a show stopper. Now she gets to show out everyday for Jesus with her religion class! What a blessing!

Happy Birthday Ju! Thanks for all of your special stealing the show antics and love!

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Title- The Studious One!

Title- The Studious One!
artwork by Elyse

Of biscuits and syrup

Of biscuits and syrup
tasty treats

Happy Saturday!

Happy Saturday!
a day at the Raptor Center.

Widdle Emmie in outer space school

Emmie jumped on the bus and off it flew out into the atmosphere. There was a set of clouds with turbulence right above the house and it took a few minutes for my Emmie to buckle her seatbelt. They hit the bump hard and it knocked my Emmie out of her seat and she bumped her head. The video camera came on and the monitor looked through and stated, Ms. Emmie, where are you? You are not in your seat. Where are you? I am alright I fell because I hadn’t buckled correctly. Well jump up Emmie we have a long way to go and you have to be buckled there is entirely too much turbulence in the stratosphere for you to unbuckle now. As soon as we are through this weather system there will be straight sailing but right now you must buckle. Emmie scrambled into the seat with intensity and purpose now. She watched every cloud pass her window and her nose was pressed to the window trying to see the top of the house as it drifted slowly out of sight. Soon they were not only out of sight of the house, the sun came out brightly and just as quickly they were putting on the atmospherical breathing apparatus and the outerspherical lights. The ABA and the OL. These precautions were to make them appear to be satellites to the radar as they were out in the ionosphere. Emmie knew all about this now. She had gone to the orientation and had a good breakfast and it took them 20 minutes for her to get out past the atmospherical pull and to feel the zero gravity. It would be 15 minutes before the gravity simulators would take effect, a glitch in the system which was being worked on. Until then, they enjoyed the couple of minutes of floatation, while being connected to the seats by belt. The first thing they saw everyday was the strataflotsam. The items which had been dumped into the atmosphere by earlier generations. What would their generation do about this ecological waste area that remained floating above their heads? This was a question for the generations. For now it was the area that they had to guide through on the way to school.

Midnight at the OASIS

Midnight at the OASIS
Sunset in Huntersville

My little Emmie

ran to the bus on the first day of the last year of school. 2 buns on the side of her head. She kissed me and ran at dawn to the bus. She was starting the adventure of a lifetime. I would never see that little girl again, she was going to woman school!

My Father and I 1989

My Father and I 1989

to the tune of Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme

A VISIT TO PAPA











Are you going to Mary Immaculate?

Apricots, Chocolate Cherries and Pie,



Remember me to the one who lived there,



He once was a true love of mine,



Tell him to buy me an acre of land,



Apricots, Chocolate Cherries and Pie,



Between the muddy Hudson in Jamaica Bay,



Then, He’ll be a true love of mine,

Tell him to sow in it seeds of pure cream,



Apricots, Chocolate Cherries and Pie,



And build Ice cream mountains and buildings of whipped cream,

Then, He’ll be a true love of mine,



Tell him to reap them with sickles of M&M’s,



Apricots, Chocolate Cherries and Pie,



And chew bubble gum and eat till we’re done,



Then, He’ll be a true love of mine.



Tell him to run it off down the motor parkway,



Apricots, Chocolate Cherries and Pie,



After your done 50 pushups



and jog down the West Side Highway,



Then he’ll be a true love of mine…

(Don’t wait for me today dad, The kids are sick again, My tummy’s bulging again, My heart is aching again, And now there’s no love there…)





He once was, a true love of mine….So, Girls, I do beg you don't miss your Daddy,Apricots, Chocolate cherries and Pie,You have one short chance to see him on this side, Go visit him and let your light shine.