Tuesday, December 19, 2017

Celebrating serving my family!

Today!
Is a bunch of thoughts projected to my Elyseee! You know that don't you, Elyse. Even though the rest of the children have access to it, it is mainly for Elyse. They each have their own blogs, which are accessible through the links on the sidebar which are marquees with their names on them. I have a fictional blog link, "Don't Beg!" and a devotional blog, "Devotional thoughts".

All these expressions of love, sent to my children and any who may traverse this way on the internet are dedicated to encouraging and informing my dear ones of my current thoughts, for whatever value they may present.

Today, really today, Tuesday, December 19, 2017 is a beautiful, sunny day and I am thinking about the pleasure of serving my family for the benefit of helping them enjoy the Christmas Holiday!
I feel a part of a wonderful "Maternity" of unsung elfish women, whose silent service of washing and vacuuming and clearing up stuff and shopping, etc. make Christ clear to their loved ones. The others can bring the sermons and send the presents and write the stories about the wonder of Christmas, but the joy of finding the joy of giving yourself in service to your loved ones, is a gift in itself.

Today, I am celebrating the people whose joyous expressions have become part of my motivating portions of serving my family. I do pray that their encouragements and sweet spirited, motivations always find you and give you a glimpse of what you are doing, Elyse!

Irma Bombeck, Helpful Hints from Heloise, Martha Stewart, Paula Deen, Patti Labelle, cooks and cleaning women, that I have watched in hotels and offices, where we have been and now Ree Drummond has come into that sphere of personal motivators.
I will talk about the last one first and if you have any questions about the others, which I have pointed out to you, from time to time, just ask.
Come and Get It!
Her sweet face on the cover of that book speaks volumes. Is that the spirit that you invite your family to come to the holidays?
Home is where the heart is and Home is the grounding place that protects your family from the lightning of the world's burnings. How can you make it that?
Your sweet face, at the table and over the cookpot, when you can, is a tradition that we never want to lose. Other people can make the food and place it on the table, but there is nothing as filling to the soul as someone that you love planning and creating the menu for your holiday meal and being with you in the midst of it. Is it as you imagined it? Is that the right combination of cinnamon and nutmeg in the apple pie{I am imagining my cousin Lauren's delicious pie}? Is that home to you?
It sure is and it is your job to make that happen for people wherever you are!
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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.