Thank you.......

Smiles

show

my

love

for

you.

Unfair......

Well......

it is so easy to get caught up in the mundane worries of everyday life.

Then something weird...

strange....

unexpected....

scarey......

frightening....

horrible.....

unfair.....

Yes...unfair seems to work the best,

well something unfair happens.

When it happens to people close to you,

it is very easy to assume the role of "chief critic".

So easy to think that our thinking is the correct and just thinking.

My ego tells me that I have a "clue".......

That I know what should happen to all involved......

that I would arrange the play differently.

My friends are dealing with a difficult,

impossible, UNFAIR situation.

It is unfolding at the hospital, as I write.

No one knows what to do.

The doctors, bless their hearts, really do not know what to do.

(and they admit it.....)

So....what do we do when we find ourselves in this situation?

Pray.

Young love........

Matt and Chelsea...

two sweet young adults.....

working hard on their future....

too shy to ask for help...

too smart to need much...

I am so fortunate to have them in my life.

They are smart, easy to be with.....

so in love.

Remember that?

How difficult it was to think of anything else?

So exciting to be together....

Young love......ahhhh.....

Who could compete with these beauties?

Truth stranger than fiction....

reality better than man-made.....

Nature at her best.....

What can I say?

These hydrangeas are right outside my front door.

They blow me away every time I walk out......

I absolutely love them.

I really want to cut them all and bring them inside,

where it isn't 95 degrees and humid.

But then I think they just might like that

sort of sauna saturated stuff.

I don't.

I have hot flashes.

If you have had hot flashes, you know.

If you haven't, just wait.

If you are a man,

why are you still reading?

Smiles!

Meet the grandchildren....

Top; Buddy

Below; Roxy

I know.....

they are dogs.

Well, when you have no grandchildren......yet,

this will have to do.

I have taken care of these two for the last week.

Their dad, my son, has been to the shore.

So......

I have had long blissful mornings,

sitting out in their backyard,

listening to the wind blow through the trees,

the birds chirping merrily as they teach their babies to fly,

and watching these two steal rawhide bones from each other.

Well,......

it may not be human grandchildren,

but feeding was easy,

clean up was quick,

and

no diapers.....

Yep just about perfect.

Wedding days.....

Ahhh.....

I love all the bridal blogs that I have read that last few days.

Especially the one about the wedding planned in one week.

http://100layercake.com/blog/archives/1345

And the ensuing surprises that take place at the

"engagement party".

Sort of sounds familiar.....

That's exactly what David and I did four and a half years ago.

My parents were in on it.

They hosted an engagement party for us on New Year's Day.

Only....it was the day we had gone to the chapel at eleven am.

We greeted our friends, in wedding attire....

Many laughs, big expressions....

lots of fun,

and it hasn't stopped.

We still laugh when we think of it now.

(the photos that wedding photographers get when they get married,

are usually done by friends, and so were mine)

Trust.....

Trust is comprised of a myriad to experiences.....

processing those experiences forces one to think about what you really believe.

Do you believe that there is a higher power that is in charge,

if not, are you willing to believe?

What would the purpose of trust be.....

other than to bring one closer to knowing that higher power?

Trusting a human being is a tricky thing...

it forces one to make assumptions about the other person

well.....that places you in a vulnerable position.

People make mistakes....

I have made mistakes......

My thought about a higher power goes something like this...

I am a mom.

I have the power to forgive my son, anything.

Period.

If I, a flawed person, have that kind of power,

then who am I to limit the amount of power that my higher power has?

I figure that being a higher power must mean that you have ALL the

information.

Most of the big problems in my life have been caused by a misunderstanding.

Meaning.........that I didn't have all the information.

So.....if I had all the information.....it would mean that I would have no misunderstandings,

no judgement.

No sin, no blame, no preconceived notions.....

How would that be?