Winter Snow

See the pretty snowflakes Falling from the sky; On the wall and housetops Soft and thick they lie.

On the window ledges, On the branches bare; Now how fast they gather, Filling all the air.

Look into the garden, Where the grass was green; Covered by the snowflakes, Not a blade is seen.

Now the bare black bushes All look soft and white, Every twig is laden, What a pretty sight!

THE WINDOW FROM WHICH WE LOOK

A young couple moves into a new neighborhood. The next morning while they are eating breakfast, The young woman sees her neighbor hanging the wash outside. "That laundry is not very clean", she said. "She doesn't know how to wash correctly. Perhaps she needs better laundry soap."

Her husband looked on, but remained silent.

Every time her neighbor would hang her wash to dry, The young woman would make the same comments.

About one month later, the woman was surprised to see a Nice clean wash on the line and said to her husband:

"Look, she has learned how to wash correctly. I wonder who taught her this."

The husband said, "I got up early this morning and Cleaned our windows."

And so it is with life. What we see when watching others Depends on the purity of the window through which we look!

Life without God is like having an unsharpened pencil..........It has no point!!

LOL

I just got off the phone with a friend living near the North Dakota and
the Canadian border. She said that since early this morning the snow has
gotten nearly waist high and is still falling. The temperature is dropping way
below zero and the north wind is increasing to near gale force. Her husband
has done nothing but look through the kitchen window and just stare. She says
that if it gets much worse, she may have to let him in.  LOL

My Daughter with her Granddaughter

So now what does that make me. haha Don’t get me wrong I really don’t mind being a great grandmother, but who thought that day would be now!  I still have one more grandchild on the way, too, but guessing that will be the last grandchild.
So now on to great-grandma time and hopefully all the new little ones to come are as precious as this little gal, Kamille, it will be grand, great, and wonderful. Maybe I can teach them some computer skills like I did with their mommy’s and daddy’s LOL  But hey so much technology is changing around us, now, they no doubt will be showing me new things. I think they come from the womb, these days, with all this knowledge. LOL Gee wiz, I had to learn from scratch.(would not give up a minute of that though)  I love to learn and try new things.  I’m still a Techy grandma, but it gets harder and harder to remember what I learned I’m bullheaded enough to keep trying. At least it keeps some parts of my brain alive!  LOL

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Dear Daughter

  Dear Daughter: It may seem strange for a mother to write a letter to a four-year-old child asleep in the next room. This letter won't mean anything to you now, but perhaps it will mean something later when you have a child of your own.
  When you were an infant and the newness wore off, I couldn't wait until you grew up. At first I found myself wishing, "If only she'd start walking" - and then "If only she'd start talking ... ....One day I realized you were out
of diapers. You were walking and talking, and pretty soon you'd be going off to school.
  I remember the morning your father and I brought your baby brother home from the hospital. You and I had been apart six days. When the door opened I saw you standing there, with your angel smile. You seemed so big compared to the baby I was holding in my arms.  It was hard to imagine that you were once that small. I suddenly realized how much of your babyhood I had wished away, it made me ashamed.  My heart almost broke.
  I cannot relive those first-four years, but I have been trying to make them up to you, and to myself.  I hope and pray that when your first child is born you will be more mature than I was.
I hope you will enjoy every phase of your child's growing up and not wish they would hurry and pass.
You and I will have our share of heated words and angry battles in the years to come, there  will be days when we just can't please each other. I will wish you were through with high school so I could send you to college and be rid of you, and then think back to that dear little face in the doorway and my anger will melt.  I will realize you never again will be as young as you are at this particular moment.
  Life rushes by too rapidly, my darling daughter, especially the lovely days and the beautiful times.
Be wiser than I.  Don't let a single moment skip away un-savored or unappreciated.

All my love- Mom

Happy New Year 2012

New Year Quotes:

 

An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in.  A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves.  ~Bill Vaughan

Youth is when you're allowed to stay up late on New Year's Eve.  Middle age is when you're forced to.  ~Bill Vaughn

Be always at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let each new year find you a better man.  ~Benjamin Franklin

Year's end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us.  ~Hal Borland

Never tell your resolution beforehand, or it's twice as onerous a duty.  ~John Selden

Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right.  ~Oprah Winfrey
Ring out the old, ring in the new,
Ring, happy bells, across the snow:
The year is going, let him go;
Ring out the false, ring in the true.
~Alfred, Lord Tennyson, 1850