Four Generations
This is a photo recently taken at our little grandson, Christopher Robin's family birthday party. You see my mom's hand at the bottom, my hand, our daughter's hand and then her little 18 month old baby girl, our little grand daughter. I loved the way it turned out, Grace took the shot.
Christopher Robin's mommy and daddy have such wonderful writings as decor in their home also in the Forest...
This one is handwritten with chalk on a framed chalkboard...
We are Rich!
A pillow to lay our head
Four walls to protect us
A loving home
Love for one another
Food on our table
Clean water
And a God who loves
us beyond measure!
The most important work you will ever do, will be within the walls of your home.
If you want to bring happiness to the whole world go home and love your family ~Mother Teresa
Aren't those beautiful? I loved them. Beautiful Truths.
Christopher Robin had the sweetest little birthday party, just immediate family and his little cousins. Vintage spider man comic book images hung from red spirals and blue and red balloons adorned everything. Our daughter, Zuzu, Christopher Robin's mommy got his old Spider Man dress-up suit and attached it up on the wall and the little cousins played pin the web on Spider man with string. So sweet.. Zuzu made a big zucchini pasta gravy casserole and a huge salad along with a homemade birthday cake. So fun, and so good and so much love shared.
One of the most cherished things in the world is to be loved and respected by a child, especially when it's our own grandchild, this is from Christopher Robin, he wrote us a Valentine, drew us a picture and picked out little gifts for us:
Kazoos! He even wrapped them for us so sweetly in construction paper... Oh my heart! We called him later and played our kazoos!
Oh But This One....
"What constitutes success? She has achieved success who has lived well; laughed often and loved much; who has gained the respect of intelligent people and the love of little children; who has filled her niche and accomplished her task; who has left the world better than she found it;...who has never lacked appreciation of earth's beauty, or failed to express it; who has always looked for the best in others and given the best she had."
~Bessie Stanley
Our youngest daughter, Grace had this large print (below) done for me for my birthday and I just love it, as many of you know, we lost three of our precious fur angels in 8 weeks last fall.
We had little Muffie for many years, since 2008, when he found us. It's a mystery to how old our little guy was when Joycie found him in the intersection one day, he was just sitting and waiting for her.
Muffie
I put the art print in a grouping with his little paw and nose print and precious card with a prayer that the vet and staff sent to us.
Grace, our youngest adult daughter gave me this for Valentines! It's a tiny portrait of me holding little Muffie 
and precious Coffee-girl is on the left...
We lost Coffee at the end of August if you recall, she was my little girlfriend and we lost Muffie in November.
My mom.
The physical therapist said she has become much stronger and that is a blessing. She has dementia so that can be heartbreaking but our family is trying to find good natured humor in funny little things she will do, and sometimes? She will snap right back to her old self, doing far better as a whole. A Gift.
As we go on to know Him better we shall find it a source of unspeakable joy that God is just what He is.
~A.W. Tozer
I must testify to God's faithfulness! He has gone before us. So many times I've been quite nervous about things (for good reason!), and Jem will reassure me, don't worry, don't be nervous, it's going to work out! And before the day is out he will say...See? I told you so.
The doctor who took care of her in the rehab could not see her until June. That was the Lord. I prayed one morning...Who can we bring my mom to for a well rounded checkup and wisely remove some of the unnecessary meds? In not much time at all, God gently put it on my heart, a doctor who is a Christian and one she had gone to 20 years before as well as me taking Janie our eldest to back when. What a blessing! Jem said that not only is he the nicest doctor he has met but probably one of the nicest persons he has met! He remembered me from 20 years ago, and quickly took her off some of the things that were not necessary at all before I even had to mention it. Hallelujah! He even loved my son in laws natural sleep aid for her!
Speaking of Dementia...
I would like to recommend a special program that PBS is still playing right now: Supercharger Brain, Maximizing Your Cognitive Abilities. This program is both fascinating and encouraging, this will help us all, I do believe. There are two very pleasant Italian ladies, one a neuroscientist, and one an associate Professor of Neuroscience at Cornell Medicine along with others. There are wonderful testimonies of various people in various stages of life. EDIT 3.6.24 Please check your listings, the above program is still playing in our area on pbs on regular antenna television.
This is not a special where there is one speaker on a dark stage, far more interesting than that. I'm so happy I dvrd it. You will see, things like a group of nuns who love to learn, a man who was diagnosed with Alzheimers who is beating it, very nice examples, all of them, it is highly encouraging.
Jem and I are going to learn to speak Italian together, there are so many resources we can get to learn, we purchased a cd for the car and there is an adorable youtube on it. I've joined a poetry site, I'm still sewing Little Dresses for Africa experimenting with trims and such. Any educational leaflet from say...Hillsdale College we receive in the mail I am carefully reading and learning from. When reading my Bible I am learning even from that in layers.
I'll close with this song Jem and I will hear in the car occasionally, I think it's just...so pretty. Oh the memories, oh my heart...
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How we leave the world is more important than how we enter it. ~Janette Oke
Me, (a little tot) and my Mom
Oh how I miss my dad...There are days when I say...Oh Daddy, I so need your help. The other morning when I was at the kitchen sink though...I could hear in my dad's voice...I'm proud of you.
Oh my heart...
Take care all, praying for you all, and I always covet your prayers. I appreciate you all.
~Amelia
