It's Been a While....

I skipped the whole month of October. Time flies when your having fun or busy. So many things happened last month. One of my best friends got married the first weekend in October. That weekend was filled with fun wedding activities. I think Mandy and Brett's wedding was by far the most beautiful wedding I have ever had the privilege of attending. It was a picturesque autumn day on her family's property.

The next weekend I spent preparing for Aunt Lynn and Paul's visit for a few days. I was glad they got to come spend some time with me. We of course went shopping and out to eat. Oh and Aunt Lynn's favorite thing.....cleaned more. lol. I also realized that my cousin Paul, I know he loves me and I will always be the cool cousin, has gotten older and didn't want to stay until the weekend after Aunt Lynn went home. When he was younger he always wanted to stay with me but now since he is a junior in high school I guess that is not the case anymore. I'm proud of him. He has turned into an awesome young man and is very talented musically.

I'm not sure that I did anything the next weekend. I did go to Bree's soccer game but that was about it. I used my new vacuum cleaner that I was so excited about. lol. That Monday I went to the YO-YO Bible Study. I enjoy getting to spend time with this group of ladies. They have meant alot to my family. They were my mom's friends and were there every step of the way when she was sick. New faces have joined the group and I love them dearly as well. I look up to this group of ladies!

That next weekend was an emotional roller coaster. I attended my friend Jana's wedding in Franklin. It was at the Inn at Walking Horse Farm. It was a lovely fall day and she was a beautiful day. I left from there to come back home to Mrs. Linda King's Memorial Service. She was a Yo-Yo but before she was that to me she was my High School Pre-Cal and Calculus teacher. She was by far the teacher that had the most influence on me. She was so passionate about math! She was always there for us. We would have study sessions for the AP test at her house. Even in college I would email her problems that I was stuck on and she would help me. A couple of years ago she gave me a birthday card with a math teacher working a problem on the board. She worked the entire problem out in my card. It was so funny. I kept that card because of it. I take joy in knowing that I will see her again one day.

The next weekend I attended sweet Tiffany Gannon's baby shower and it was also Halloween!! I had some special trick or treaters come see me...A pig named Wilbur (ella), a skunk (my newphew Aiden), and a sweet cow girl (Bree). Aiden was more interested in chasing the cat up and down the sidewalk, Ella wanted to go straight to see Sadie, Bree was interested in her special treat bag. I got a text from Jen and he enjoyed his when he got in the car. I love those 3 little stinkers!

So that was my October. This weekend I have not felt good at all and have been resting. Hopefully this cold will be gone ASAP! I am so excited about the Holiday's this year and cannot wait to decorate for Christmas. I have not been excited since my mom's been gone but this year I am. I feel like I've got my spunk back!! Maybe it is working from home and not being on the road all the time. I finally feel like I have my life back!

Until next time....Love you all!

Life Lesson #2...Children are sometimes smarter than we think...

(On my birthday with my girls)












Sweet Ella was at my house tonight ...She is looking in my corner curio cabinet and sees all the teapots and says "It's a tea party in there.." I told her those were Weezer's mommies...She said "Weezer where is your mommy?" I told her that my mommy was in Heaven with Jesus to which she says, "but I went to church last night(I guess she heard Jesus and church was the first thing she thought of)." She then asked why and I told her because she was sick and she looks at me and says "did her back hurt?" She then proceeds to tell me "she (my mom) is flying and flying and she loves it" And she is right. She is my guardian angel. I love that little girl. She and Bree Bree make my heart happy.

I love spending time with Ella and Bree. I am their Weezer even though Bree doesn't really call me that anymore. I know they both love me in their own ways and my life is much richer to have them in it.

Busy weekend ahead....One of lifelong friends is getting married on Saturday afternoon. Mandy and Brett are tying the knot. It seems like just yesterday they had started dating but that has been 4 years ago. I spent alot of time in Nashville with Mandy after my mom died. Many weekends I spent in her apartment on Fairfax. We haven't spent as much time together over the last year but she will always be one of my best friends and I'm so happy for her as she begins this new chapter in her life. I also have a pedi with Linz, Bree's soccer game, Autumn street fair, and want to decorate my house for fall. We'll see if I get it all done.

Until next time....I love you all and hope you have a blessed day.

Never Alone - Lady Antebellum w Jim Brickman

The first time I heard this was Mother's Day weekend a couple of years ago. I burst into tears because I felt like it was my mom talking to me right at that moment....Just wanted to share.

Life Lesson #1....Life is Short

I've wanted to start a blog for sometime now...I'm better at expressing myself and true feelings sometimes in writing better than I am verbally....So with this weeks events happening on what was already an emotional week for me...I just feel the need to write...To express myself...To get it all out.

Life throws curveballs and I would say that has been what has happened the last 10 years of my life or so....but that is another topic. Losing my mom 4 1/2 years ago is probably the hardest thing I have ever faced...PERIOD. So that is how this week had started for me. Last weekend I was already thinking about her birthday which is coming up this Sunday, September 19th. She would be 57 if she was still here with us. But God saw fit to take her home.

So with the emotions of her not being here to celebrate her birthday and having not really gotten over the emotions that she wasn't here to help me celebrate mine a couple of weeks ago...I get a phone call on Monday around noon. My friend Laura is on the other end of the line asking "Did you hear about Terry?" Well at that second a million things probably went through my mind. I knew he had gotten married on Saturday and had left for his honeymoon the day before so I was thinking he did something goofy. However, this was not the case. I said no and she said "he died this morning." At that point I was in total shock and honestly still am. I have known him practically my entire life. He ways always so sweet and had a smile on his face. Memories from church trips and school have flooded my mind for the last few days.

One in particular I will never forget because I was so embarressed...I had 10th grade English with Terry and we had Ms. Dial (who also passed away a few years ago). I was participating in the discussion in class and Terry and JD were chit chatting and she sent them in the hall until I as finished talking. She then went in the hall and evidently told them they had to buy me a rose and get down on one knee and apologize the next day in front of the whole class....And they did it. Knowing me then you can probably think about how red I turned.

Life is just so short and we take the people in our lives for granted and we don't even realize it. It often times takes something like this to make us realize how time with our families and friends are short and we should never ever take them for granted. You can turn around and they are gone.

So while I learned this life lesson...that life is short...I had a reminder this week. For those of you who read this...know I love you dearly...that you will always have a special place in my heart and that I will always be here if you need me. I would not have made it, through the last few years especially, without my friends and family.

I'm praying for Terry's family and friends. That they may find comfort and strength during this difficult time.

Psalm 34:18 "The Lord is close to the brokenhearted and saves those that are crushed in spirit."

Until Next Time....I love you all!