I had a was driving my sister to school this morning and I for soem reason had this memory pop into my head of the frist Christmas I was old enough to help wrap presents at my Great Grandmothers House.

( A Christams Memrory so close to my heart, but far from my thoughts until today )

So Okay...I was like outside yesterday fighting with these evil non living yet very annoying creatures called christmas lights...I bought sooooo may lights last year and this year like none worked..so I had to buy more ( Read more... )

Holidays bring with it lot of joy and excitement and sadness...Not a depressing sadness just the something is lost and should not be kind of sadness..As I sit and plan out Thankgiving dinner I drift to thoughts that my brothers dinner will be in some mess hall in Germany two days befre he has to go to a war zone where I just heard on the news ( Read more... )

Saturday found me at the Kokomah Living history Encampment with my brohers and sisters...3 hours of walking to the various exhibts and sampling various wares......Its a strange mix of history and present...People in their costumes...Men dressed as Indians in their scant loin cloths, and bare legs. their bodies painted with red paint..to give the ( Read more... )

I spent yesterday evening sitting on a very uncomfortalble aluminum bleacher. I had joined the ranks of the sport parent...sadly i am not a parent just a sister....but I would not miss last night for the world......My little sister was excited she got to play her first exhibition match at tennis...She was so exicited she had made phone calls the ( Read more... )

So...I just talked to my brother.........He as most of you know is in Iraq....at Camp Victory........He told me that he cant patrol right now because he was injured....Now I know my brother..he wont tell me the whole story just what he thinks i need to know so i wont flip out....He got stitches in his stomach...he says he fell off a humvee...I dont ( Read more... )

This was a great escape, once we got through the jerry springer episode that was our first night there...you can read about that though in lucidraine 's journal....I can see really why people want to live there....Well let me back it up a bit..We went to micigan to Paradise Lake..And it is a mini paradise..The water is so clear..you can see to the bottom... ( Read more... )

Although I cant afford it I would love to have a lazy day....a frappacino from star bucks, a walk in the park, sit but a waterfall and write....that would be the best...sit by the water and write...take some pictures...nothing with a purpose, just me enjoying life and myself, that is what i want and that is what i need....but it wont happen....nope ( Read more... )

Okay picture this....The afternoon is hot and muggy, two grown women start to water the lawn....pretty normal right, well, the urge to be children becomes a little too strong, next thing you know there they are splashing in the sprinkler and spraying each other with the hose...childish, maybe, fun, definitely ( Read more... )

Amazing, as I sit here today crying like a baby..I just talked to my Brohter Devin, he is in Iraq, well on a ship the USS Whitney, patroling the Iraq coast...He tells me that he can see the bombs explode and that they sometimes hit the water, but not to worry all is well, and did you know I can see whales if i look out my window...And I am eaating ( Read more... )