Archive for the 'love' Category
three years ago today…
…I saw my best friend for the last time. I was three days away from my wedding when I got the call that morning ~ Wednesday, August 3rd, 2005 ~ that the end was near. ”They” said probably two weeks. It was two days. Those minutes I got to spend with Shauna at her bedside […]
Read More..>>choosy mothers choose…
Seems it has been entirely too long since I’ve written anything out here. My life has been centered around summer fun, my church’s VBS program, and my newest family member, Fern - our “impossibly cute” (to quote my friend, Carson) three month old beagle. If I can figure out how to add a picture to […]
Read More..>>missing “the days”…
I usually deal with change really well, often embracing it, asking it in for tea, sitting down with it and becoming very-well acquainted in a relatively short amount of time. I guess that is the fancy way of saying it doesn’t take me long to get comfortable with “new and different”. I moved to McMinnville […]
Read More..>>friends are friends forever ~~ but i need her now…
I had one of those “once in a lifetime” kind of friends in my best friend, Shauna. I am still sad and angry that that “lifetime” turned out to be relatively short. I was reminded of all those feelings recently upon hearing someone speak about walking with a friend at the end of that […]
Read More..>>i’ll love you forever…
I am sitting here watching my youngest son sleep. He is 24 and on his way to study abroad in Perth until the end of June. His flight leaves on Monday afternoon. I’ve never had any of my kids that far away from me for that long. Noelle’s been on a few mission trips that […]
Read More..>>you just call out my name…
…those are the first words in the chorus of a song that Shauna put on one of the cds she made for me. While I realize that it is typically young lovers that give each other “mixed tapes”, Shauna, my best friend, would give me mixed cds. These cds are some of my most-priceless treasures […]
Read More..>>my husband
My husband and I played around with Photo Booth on my new Mac laptop tonight. Can I just say, I love my husband more than life itself. We’ve been friends most of our lives, and he has always been the guy that will just sit around with someone he loves and do goofy […]
Read More..>>the “you are a child of God” smile…
I remember when my best friend, Shauna, first got her cancer diagnosis. She went to Costco. As she roamed around the store, she looked at people, and I mean really looked at them ~ not past them, not through them, but at them. If they made eye contact with her, she smiled […]
Read More..>>this is my church…
http://www.fbcmac.org/index.php?pr=Inclusiveness_at_FBC…and I am pretty happy about that!!
Read More..>>a beautiful world
I saw a couple get engaged today, and I’ve pretty much been weepy ever since.I took my girls to the zoo after church - we hadn’t been in a long time (since Christmas, I think) and we were having just a terrific time checking out what’s new (a HUGE area devoted to bears that looks […]
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