Women Who Eat Chocolate

Our lives have been shaken up a bit in the last week.  Things were humming along nicely, but always when you think everything is perfect something comes along to shake it up.  You know, like how God likes to shake our foundations once in awhile?     Selena.  She is always the one I have had dreams about. She is so steady and calm, but the one I lost in the Schottenstein Center when she was 9 years old.  She said mom I wasn't lost - but I said to me you were.  I'm not sure why it's not the crazy older or younger kid that I have scary dreams about, but it's not. It's always her. She has crazy dreams too.  Dreams we talk about and dissect.  She is older and wiser than her 16 years.  She is meant for something higher, and God knew that when she was just a little girl. It's also I'm sure why He knew she could handle things. Injuries suck.  I'm just saying it how it is.  When she fell last week at soccer camp at Cedarville...

I will not label myself a bad blogger - even though all I've done is throw a few pictures on lately.  It's summer.  That means humid weather, barbecuing, taking random short road trips, and all around reconnecting with my family.  We've been watching alot of soccer, and the kids summer soccer schedules are also in full swing. It's also the first summer I've worked and my kids were at home.  :/   It's hard, but they aren't small anymore so they are pretty self-sufficient.  They make it easy because I'm not a clingy mom and they aren't clingy kids.  We raised 'em good. Our trip to Mexico was fabulous.  Having Belle fly in from West Palm Beach and meet in the Mexico City airport was like something out of a movie.  We didn't realize there was a new second terminal there, so of course she landed at the unknown-to-us 2nd terminal.  After a short train ride, we were reunited.  We flung our arms around each other and yes - it w...

"i don't know what it is about you that closes and opens, only something in me  understands the voice in your eyes is deeper than all roses."  e.e. cummings

I want to lay down in these pillows and go to sleep. Thanks to Hidden in France  for putting these on her lovely blog.  I'm addicted to the colors.  One of these days I will be updating this blog with a story or two from Mexico -- I seem to be mourning not being there.  Until then, I will be obstinant until a story comes to my head or at least  until I stop being depressed. :/

Oh, how this sweet little post from a favorite blog speaks to me. It's hard getting back in the swing of things after being on vacation for two weeks. I just want to hang a hammock and sway away.... decoratualma

"And a nameless longing filled her breast - a wish that she hardly dared to own - for something better than she had known."  - John Greenleaf Whittier

Restless is definitely the word for me this week. I'm patiently counting down the days til we head south in a big jet plane. My feelings and the restlessness I've been feeling have been put down on paper in the Holmes Bargain Hunter for all to read - take a look.  Patiently counting down the days.... Restless