October 21, 2011

• I would like to thank all the little people...

  

  My dear blogging friend Lisa,  http://arewethereyet-davisfarmmom.blogspot.com/, graciously presented me with this lovely award.  I want to thank her very much for thinking of me and for appreciating my blog.  There are, of course, rules to follow in order to be able to post the award.  I have to post seven things about myself and then bestow this award on five blogging friends.  Posting 7 things about myself isn't difficult but for those of you who have been here before I am afraid they won't be new.

  1. I am head over heals in love with my family.  There is not a thing that I wouldn't do to help them become better people or happier.  The fact that that family is expanding everytime I turn around makes me terribly happy too.  I plan on spending the rest of my life working everyday to be the best mother, wife, grandmother, and person that I can be for all of them.

  2.  My favorite colors are the colors of the fall.  Greens, golds, burgundies, browns, and the grey of a lowering sky are the colors that stir up the creative in me and soothe the beast as well.  The color green especially has mystical powers over me.  The greens of spring can clear away the murk and must of a long winter and freshen the spaces in my heart.  The deep greens of a forest can fill my soul and make me imagine that God is strolling right beside me.  The more sprightly greens of fall, as the color is leached out of the leaves by the cold, give me an odd sense of safety and blessing. 

  3.  I am going on a trip with my husband in two weeks. Our second son, Ryan is graduating from the training he has been doing to get his green beret and he has made arrangements to fly us there to share his special day.  I rejoice and cry alternately at his generosity.  Not only will we be able to see his graduation but there is a chance that I will get to see my father too.  Only my family can possibly know what that means to me.  I had resigned myself to our good-byes two years ago and had not even dared to dream that I would ever get to see him this side of eternity.  God is so good.

  4.  I wear glasses but not to see only to read with.  My arms seem to be getting a bit short lately.  This has become a bit of a joke around here.  Mom can't keep track of her glasses since she really doesn't need them.  It isn't vanity really after all there are some really beautiful women who wear glasses.  My husband says he loves me with them or without (is there hidden meaning in that statement). If I could find my glasses I could read his expression and figure out if he is teasing me again.

  5.  I write poetry about very strange and unusual subjects.  It's the muse I guess but love is rarely on the menu.  I wrote a haiku about asparagus once and I just turned in one for a class about soybeans. (do we detect a common theme...food)  I am rarely inspired by emotion but frequently inspired by my stomach.  That is a sad testimony.

  6.  I taught my grandson to eat some very uncommon foods (uncommon for an 18 month old).  He devours such things as asparagus, pate, tomatoes, spinache, broccoli (both cooked and raw), raw green beans, radishes, and peppers and onions. My philosophy is if you are going to beg for food from grandma's plate you'd better not spit it out.

  7. Last but not least, I drink coffee by the pot.  Never used to drink the stuff but menopause seems to have cured that.  I'm the same way about chocolate, gasp! I never touched the stuff until menopause.  Now my husband is amazed at the way I can't seem to stay away from it.  It works for him since he has a mouth full of sweet teeth.

  Now that I have revealed all, I would like to bestow this Stylish Blogger award on @amelia, @jessicafleur, @saintvi, @wildwomanofthewest, and @seedsower.  These women are some classy bloggers.

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