Scenes from June

An array of bouquets filled my home -

as friends and family shared their love-

and their condolences -

for our beloved mother.

This little lamp lit mom's room

and the guardian angel watched over her.

The bouquet is from my dear friends at church

lovingly put together by Sarah.
Thank-you to all.

Family gathered to play....

...reminisce and fill my home with even more love.

Emma has spent a couple days with me, which as always

is fun. Here she is with my neighbor Henry getting ready

for a ride compliments of Henry's dad Jason, who has the

energy to bike with a trailer attached!

This is my bedroom 1 hour after Emma arrived!

Okay the ironing board is my contribution and I actually got a

few items ironed while playing house...

My new furniture compliments of Aunt Norma.

I'd been coveting the dressing table since I was a

little girl. Emma's first comment was "Nana, is

this for me?" A new coveter in my midst!

...and this is my garage. All ready for the sale

except for the pricing. Most of it is from Aunt Norma as

we moved her from her apt. into assisted living. Some

beautiful treasures to be had!!!!

Life

Life goes on - never to be quite the same.

Our mother gave us a lifetime of memories...

She'll be with me when a robin bathes in

the birdbath,

as I rake the leaves of fall,

as I enjoy the words of a good book,

as I worship our Lord.

There will be few places I won't feel her presence

and her touch upon my life.

Emma and I will miss our visits to "GG",

but I will be forever grateful that they had

a chance to know each other....

and life does go on , through the sorrow

there too is joy.

My Mother

Prayers for my mother please, as she passes through these final days on earth.

She seems comfortable, quite joyous at times as she relives moments in her life

and a desire to go "home".

God Bless her as she continues on this journey and fill us with Thy strength, peace and love.

Spring

The trees have flowered...
...the birds are bathing...

...a second tooth has gone off to the tooth fairy....

....a spring rain, with puddles to splash in...

....life is glorious and magical! Praise God!!!

YaYa Week-end

We began our week-end with absolutely beautiful weather

An evening on the deck overlooking Spider Lake....
Our hostess Libby reading one of the many letters written by
our parents and grandparents in the 1920's - 40's. Thank
goodness our mother's were "savers" of history.



Bride-to-Be Jeanne writing in the YaYa journal-
wedding in July!


A couple of the next generation dropped by for a few minutes -
two of Libby's kids Calvin and LeeAnne .
Congrats to LeeAnne - another baby coming in Oct.!!!





.....another guest stopped by too....cousin Alan's travel companion
Otis....this little guy has partied around the world. So glad he could
entertain us for a bit.....

Loss of First Tooth

Yesterday Emma lost her first tooth....hard to tell here, but it's one of her front lower ones.

Thank goodness not a top one, cause something tells me it could be a year before a new one grows in. No sign of a new one coming in yet! She is only 4!

Sunroom Refreshment

Chaos anyone? As the sunroom floors were being sanded and refinished the family room became one of the "storage" areas for all the furnishings etc.

A view from the kitchen (which also became a "storage" area) through the visqueen

which did in fact keep most of the dust from traveling thoughout the house!

The floors are done! I'll leave the visqueen for the painter to remove....

Well....so long as the room is empty, may as well repaint the walls right?!

Went with a deeper, fresher blue, which I love!

Oh, and the window trim which I'd planned on painting white....

in the end decided it was too much of a project

and ended up just restaining.

Ahh, the finished product! Spent all day yesterday putting the room back together

and am almost done! Threw an old quilt over the table and brought the Patricia Woods chairs back into the sunroom. Even had dinner in there last night with friend Sue M.

Retrieved the green chairs - one from the family room and one from the living room.

Now they are together again which is how they belong!

A few finishing touches yet to go...like getting the valences rehung....maybe yet today....




In the meantime need to figure out what to do with the item that didn't make it back into the room!