Happy Thanksgiving!

I don't know how much time I will have this week to do another post...so I want to go ahead and wish everyone a Happy Thanksgiving.

I can't believe that it is already Thanksgiving week.  Where has the time gone?  This Thanksgiving will be different, and it will be hard.  But, I have so much to be thankful for and while I have wonderful memories of Thanksgivings past, I will cling to those who are still present and focus on making memories for my two sweet babies.

I read this last week, and Christy did such an amazing job on this.  You can really feel her heart and emotions in it.  I would love for each of you to read it.  I couldn't agree with her more, and she expressed so beautifully what I don't think I could say myself.  http://www.southernplate.com/2011/11/cranberry-crunch-and-ghosts-of-thanksgiving-past.html  Please take a moment to read this if you haven't already! 

My wish for each of you is a wonderful and Happy Thanksgiving.  May you cherish the times with your loved ones, and hold each of them a little closer and tighter.  If you are traveling, please be safe and careful.  We will be on the road, but thankfully we don't have a long drive. 

If you are shopping on Black Friday, please be safe, and may you find great deals on everything you are buying...I will be one of the ones out there in the madness, along with Sharon (hopefully, we won't be creating the madness, ha ha).  So please, I beg you STAY out of our way, lol!  Just kidding, unless you are the woman who tried to take the GPS from us a few years ago, then I'm not kidding.  Ha Ha...sorry, seriously be safe and realize it is just stuff, there is no reason to fight or hurt someone or get hurt (Sharon, please read me this statement, as I am getting trampled at Target...I may or may not remember it at that point). :)

Hope everyone has a Blessed Thanksgiving.

Much love and Big Hugs to each of you!

The end of October, and moving on to November...

My how much changes in a little over a week.  When I posted the blog last Monday, I had no idea how quickly things would change.  I talked about wondering all weekend long if I had dreamed that...well that NEVER was truer than the events of last week.  I still find myself stopping and saying was that a dream, did that REALLY happen???

For those that don't know, my Granny passed away on October 25th.  She had been really sick, for a really long time, but I don't think you are ever ready to say goodbye...I know I wasn't.  I should have been prepared for that phone call that I needed to get there to say goodbye, but I wasn't.  It all felt like a dream, and that I was moving in slow motion.  I still find myself in disbelief about it, and then at the craziest times it hits me.  I am so blessed to have had her for 33 1/2 years, and I am so fortunate that until last week I was a rarity that had all 4 of my grandparents still alive AND they have all been married over 60 years.  What a legacy that is!

On one hand I am glad that it is a new month, but on the other it's November.  That means that the holidays are right around the corner.  They have ALWAYS been my favorite time of year.  But it just won't be the same this year...
I will cling to the sweet, sweet memories that I have, and I know she would want us to laugh and enjoy ourselves.  She LOVED Thanksgiving and Christmas, but it just won't feel like those things without her.

Please keep us in your thoughts and prayers...as we get through this minute by minute, and day by day.  Thank God that we will see her again someday...I know she is having a blast in heaven with her parents, all her brothers and sisters, and all the other friends and family that are there.  We know that she is so much better off, she isn't sick or in pain anymore...Praise God that all things are made new again...


Christmas 2009


Much love and BIG Hugs to all!