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Monday, November 7, 2011
What is Pinterest?
This is a question I have been asked a lot actually. So the best way to describe it is to let the folk's at Pinterest tell you. Be forewarned..it's addicting. But it is full of a lot of great ideas to get your creative juices flowing. Now in order to pin you have got to be invited. So please shoot me an email and I would be happy to invite you!
Sunday, November 6, 2011
Missing my other life
Having one of those nights. Struggling with missing Jeff. It's been nearly seven years and I still ache for him. To hear his voice feel his touch.
Widows can relate to the dream where our husbands come back and you spend all night dreaming that your trying to catch them up on life. It's exhausting!
Another thing we can relate to is the question "how are you"? And our response "fine, great etc..". When we really want to say hurting, lonely, sad, frustrated etc.. Tired of being alone. I'm sad for my kids. Jeffrey just said today that he's sad he doesn't have a Daddy. He said, "I want to be like D and G". Now I know I have a Lord and Savior that loves me and my children. But sometimes I can't breathe my heart hurts so bad.
Widows can relate to the dream where our husbands come back and you spend all night dreaming that your trying to catch them up on life. It's exhausting!
Another thing we can relate to is the question "how are you"? And our response "fine, great etc..". When we really want to say hurting, lonely, sad, frustrated etc.. Tired of being alone. I'm sad for my kids. Jeffrey just said today that he's sad he doesn't have a Daddy. He said, "I want to be like D and G". Now I know I have a Lord and Savior that loves me and my children. But sometimes I can't breathe my heart hurts so bad.
Where did the Summer go?
Well, at my last post I mentioned our busy summer and oh my was it busy. Here is a run through.
We finished up school and immediately fell into VBS Son Surf Beach Blast. This was my I believe 5th year running doing crafts and I love it! It combines all my favorite things..My Savior, crafting and children. We had a great week!
During VBS week I got a visit from my dear friend who drove out from Colorado. Robyn Jones..Love her! We met when Cassie and her Wesley were 14 and sweet on each other. We attended the same church, the kids attended the church school, we did a bible study together, and just all in all our families enjoyed each others company. This friendship is one from when Jeff was here and is precious to me. Robyn's husband Jeff was diagnosed with Non Hodgkin's Lymphoma about a year after my Jeff was diagnosed with Hodgkin's Lymphoma. Jeff Jones is still hanging on..the Lord is still using this old cowboy!
So let's see..June 17th after VBS closing the kids and I raced home to get ready for our week at Mount Hermon. We literally packed up and headed to Sacramento to spend the night with my Folk's before making our way to the Santa Cruz area on Saturday. I cannot begin to tell you how excited we were about being gifted a week at this amazing camp. We were meeting up with 4 other widows and their children. Between us we had a total of 13 kiddos. I will be posting more on this later. But suffice to say the week was incredible. Since Jeff went home to our Lord. I have not had a more mentally relaxing time. This time with my sister's sharing our stories, concerns, hopes and dreams. I well up with tears just thinking about it. Craving it again! We had trying moments..like when my car seemed to have an explosion under the hood. a small fortune later all was okay. Overall the week meant so much to me and the kids. I think it says a lot that we are in October and they are still talking about camp and going back again. And if you as them what their favorite part of summer was Mount Hermon and having Cassie and the boys home top the list.
Right after we left camp we headed back to Sacramento to pick up my nieces and bring them home for a week. Love these girls and love having them with me. We of course crafted and just all in all had great family time. Before we knew it we were headed back to Sacramento for a day of fun with Grandma which included getting ready for Grace's 12th birthday party and my nieces getting their first Bible's!
July 2nd we celebrate Gracie's 12th Birthday. She gets her own blog post for this. But, we were also celebrating the arrival of the Roley family! Having all my kids together makes life all better for this Momma. After losing Jeff my heart is not whole unless they are all together. It may sound corny but it's true.With the kids home we went to visit Jeff's Grandpa who is 93 years old! I love Grandpa Fraizer. He is an incredible God fearing, silly, loves to tease, loving man.
We finished up school and immediately fell into VBS Son Surf Beach Blast. This was my I believe 5th year running doing crafts and I love it! It combines all my favorite things..My Savior, crafting and children. We had a great week!
During VBS week I got a visit from my dear friend who drove out from Colorado. Robyn Jones..Love her! We met when Cassie and her Wesley were 14 and sweet on each other. We attended the same church, the kids attended the church school, we did a bible study together, and just all in all our families enjoyed each others company. This friendship is one from when Jeff was here and is precious to me. Robyn's husband Jeff was diagnosed with Non Hodgkin's Lymphoma about a year after my Jeff was diagnosed with Hodgkin's Lymphoma. Jeff Jones is still hanging on..the Lord is still using this old cowboy!
So let's see..June 17th after VBS closing the kids and I raced home to get ready for our week at Mount Hermon. We literally packed up and headed to Sacramento to spend the night with my Folk's before making our way to the Santa Cruz area on Saturday. I cannot begin to tell you how excited we were about being gifted a week at this amazing camp. We were meeting up with 4 other widows and their children. Between us we had a total of 13 kiddos. I will be posting more on this later. But suffice to say the week was incredible. Since Jeff went home to our Lord. I have not had a more mentally relaxing time. This time with my sister's sharing our stories, concerns, hopes and dreams. I well up with tears just thinking about it. Craving it again! We had trying moments..like when my car seemed to have an explosion under the hood. a small fortune later all was okay. Overall the week meant so much to me and the kids. I think it says a lot that we are in October and they are still talking about camp and going back again. And if you as them what their favorite part of summer was Mount Hermon and having Cassie and the boys home top the list.
Right after we left camp we headed back to Sacramento to pick up my nieces and bring them home for a week. Love these girls and love having them with me. We of course crafted and just all in all had great family time. Before we knew it we were headed back to Sacramento for a day of fun with Grandma which included getting ready for Grace's 12th birthday party and my nieces getting their first Bible's!
July 2nd we celebrate Gracie's 12th Birthday. She gets her own blog post for this. But, we were also celebrating the arrival of the Roley family! Having all my kids together makes life all better for this Momma. After losing Jeff my heart is not whole unless they are all together. It may sound corny but it's true.With the kids home we went to visit Jeff's Grandpa who is 93 years old! I love Grandpa Fraizer. He is an incredible God fearing, silly, loves to tease, loving man.
My loves with Grandpa
David with Grandpa
And this is Cassie with Grandpa about David's age
Let's see..so Cassie and RW headed to Mount Hermon for their week and we brought the boys home and had a blast! Before we knew it the week was over and Cassie and RW were home and we got to enjoy sometime with RW and I was ever grateful for him helping me get a few things done around here. We also did some fun things like hike McCloud Falls. He was here about a week and then had to get back to work but Cassie and the boys stayed the summer! Yes the SUMMER! So blessed to have had them home for nearly 2 MONTHS! By the time we sent them off to Colorado it was time for to start school.
Thursday, June 2, 2011
The Countdown!
We are counting down at our house..Many things are on the horizon.
Just 4 more days of school!
10 till Vacation Bible School
16 till Family Camp at Mount Hermon
And then....just 29 days till The Roley's are here I can love on these sweet grand-babies of mine!
Wednesday, June 1, 2011
I am listening
This was posted on the Joyce Meyer facebook page today. I just love how God can reach us through many outlets. I needed to hear this today..well everyday!
New Blog
I have started a new blog. This one is a place where I can share crafts, tutorials and printables. I honestly follow so many crafty blogs that I need a better outlet to share all of them rather than on my family blog. I hope you will follow Crafty Chatter!
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