our Memorial Day Weekend...

we took time to honor those who gave it all...

and to pray for their families left behind...

and I wish I could say I spent a lot of time here...

but we were too busy for that...

we finished up what was torn apart...

and cleaned and did laundry...

with these running underfoot...

but we did get a short drive in this evening...

other than that, its been spent at home...

checking off one project after another...

inside mainly...

but we are ready...

DH did such an awesome job on everything...

and I just tried to keep up...

;0)

we got new babies this morning, too...

4 more...

so, we haven't been slackin'...

and DH has 5 days off in a row...

so we made good use of him while we had him...

tomorrow...

is Craig's colonoscopy...

please pray things are ok...

he's been on a clear liquid diet today and taking things to flush is all out...

then I imagine the roof will be going on Wednesday or Thursday...

the noise itself will be crazy and I have no where to go to get away from it...

;0)

oh, well...

at least it won't take too long....

and it will be done...

;0)

hope you had a safe and restful weekend...

;0)

UPDATE: 5am

Craig started on his last part of the cleanse this morning and started vomiting...

really bad...

he threw up all the medicine...

with mucus...

has a fever...

and his stool wasn't clear yet...

we called and cancelled and he ate a bit of scrambled eggs and is back to sleep...

taking a down day...

tbt...

these were taken on June 28th, 1980...

that's me, my uncle Jimmy and my ex...

the wedding day...

Uncle Jimmy married us...

family group photo #1...

my grandpa, grandma, me, ex, mom, my brother...

family group photo #2...

my grandpa, grandma, me, ex, dad and brother...

the quality is not very good and they are fading pretty bad...

but it is what it is...

oh, to be that thin again...

;0)

amazing what you find when you clean!

and a tiny sneak preview on tomorrow's post...

thank you...

for all your sweet words...

for all your thoughts this way...

but mostly, for your prayers...

such sadness has draped over these little towns...

the tears are far from being shed...

but I know that God has each and every one covered...

in grace...

I am pretty sure that they got the beans in last night...

we are in the 80s with the air on...

the dust is flying and they are spraying like crazy...

a friend of mine asked if I wanted this...

;)

it has mattresses for it, too...

going on the deck tomorrow...

vintage and very heavy...

and it was free...

along with 2 desk chairs, 2 lamps for my bedroom and a back massage...

she even threw in a couple of hugs...

she is clearing out like we are...

and we are swapping these pieces for older versions that needed to go...

taking her my large tubs that we replaced with smaller, more manageable ones...

;)

summer is here...

and its time to get things together outside...

in between the thunderstorms over the next week or two...

the roof will be going on soon, too...

so ready to be done with that...

have good days...

warm days...

sunshiny days...

;0)

such a tragedy...

I am asking for prayers this morning for our community...

yesterday afternoon, amid the graduation parties going on...

a car of our local teenagers were involved in a really bad car accident...

the car left the road and rolled many times across a field...

Amberlyn was dead at the scene...

Carlito died later at the hospital...

and Lexi is in the hospital and expected to recover...

they did not have their seatbelts on and were all ejected...

they say it was horrific...

they were not seniors...

(graduation was Saturday night)

but we are a small town...

officially, school is out...

but the staff is opening the school today for any students who need someone to talk to or if they just don't want to be alone today...

pray for the families...

the friends...

especially the one that survived...

she lost her best friend and her boyfriend...

pray for the community as we come together to help those who need it most...

and to heal...

its going to be a hard week...

do you have that one thing?

the thing that can take you right back to when you were 7 years old?

this is mine...

inside of a large red candy tin with a rose on the lid...

hides some of the world's greatest treasure...

or so I thought...

this red tin sat on top of my grandma's dresser in their back bedroom...

grandma's bedroom and the room I slept in when I spent the night...

mom and I would stop by grandma and grandpa's a lot...

so they could talk and catch up on the goings on of neighbors and work...

kids and relatives...

and when I got bored listening...

I would head for the back bedroom, grab this tin off the top of the dresser...

and plop my butt in the hallway floor in front of the full length mirror...

because it was my height...

and would try on every piece in that tin...

sometimes all of them at once...

I could even try on the ear rings...

grandma had never had her ears pieced like mom had...

so her ear rings were clip ons...

and fit my little ears, too...

most of the time...

and I can remember her wearing every single piece of it...

because she liked to get gussied up on Saturday night...

and her and grandpa would kick up a heal at the local Moose Lodge...

they did a lot of square dancing and polkas...

;o)

and the waltzes...

they sure moved well together...

and I learned to dance standing on grandpa's toes...

yep, every time I open this tin, I am 7 years old again...

;o)

amazing what you find when you clean out your closet...

everything is all over the place still...

but going back in this morning...

except for this tin...

its time it sat on the top of my dresser for awhile...

;o)

have a wonderful Sunday...