Why "Black Shopping" is Priceless!

My darling Ash was so proud to go "black shopping with momma and grandma!"

Char described why it is fun the best... she said (and I am paraphrasing) that what she loves best is spending quality time with family. And shopping with the girls is just that. It usually doesn't matter what we buy or where we go, and now we don't bother to stay up all night or get up hours before the sun. We just go when we feel like it, and spend a few hours together, talking, laughing, just being together. That's what makes it all so priceless!

Camilla and Adilynne!

reading to Corduroy!

And another great reason to love this weekend... Jon picked out the perfect card!

Love my family and time with them!

The Roses are Blooming This November!

20 years ago today, this beautiful woman passed on... She was so amazing! In the year before her death, through a set of very challenging circumstances, my children and I were able to live with my family for eight months. Every single day of that time, I was able to talk with my mom. She told me she loved me every day, listened to my worries, prayed with me and for me, and spent time with my children. My daughter, who was just 3 years old then, still remembers "finger painting" (using pudding and food coloring) with her 

Grandma Pat!

What precious memories!

How very appropriate that my roses look like this in mid November:

  

My mother loved roses!

So on this day, I can look at the beauty of my roses and remember the beauty of my mother, the most caring, compassionate, and loving woman I have ever known!

Another Two!

This beauty is now two too! And these pics are so very Ash!!!

Fiercely independent! She had to carry BOTH stools WITHOUT help!

And so happy with life!

Loves nature, outside, bugs, dirt...

LOVES to read- any book, any time, always great to read!

And so LOVES her sis!

By mid-March, Luke and I will have 4 of these beautiful blessings called granddaughters! And we could not be happier!