HUGS

I was just looking threw pictures of us... and I noticed there is alot of huggin goin on-- Hugs are awesome-sweet-radical--righteous--they can cure just about anything--
mommy hugs make all your worries go away--
children hugs make your world bright--
friend hugs lift your spirit--

Hugs Hugs the more you get
The more you can pass around
I love hugs --all -from anyone you bet!
Hugs make a heart beat sound

Thump thump thump thump-------

I love hugs and I love hugs from you especially-----

I think I am going to count my hugs tomorrow----===

-Love Bye

My Lindsay

I had the most wonderful thing happen today.  I sent my usual morning "have a great day-I love you" texts to my children as I do each and every morning. As usual I joyfully received texts back from them all relaying the same and their own sweet messages to brighten my day.  Today Lindsay's ( my beautiful daughter in law and mommy to our Kirtlynn Ivy)  message made my heart sore among eagles... she called me mom.  Perhaps to some this is oddly amazing to me... but for me... it made the sun glisten through the clouds a little more brightly.  I began to ponder and reflected that I couldn't recall her ever calling me anything really. Not mom, TJ's mom, Laura etc.. we have always justed talked and expressed our love for one another. She has always  expressed her love for me as I do her.... but today she gave me a gift.... a simple gift... that to no one else it will mean anything---but to me--I just received a treasure-- funny how the simplest things can truly make you happy into the depths of your soul---how one simple word like "mom " can mean so very much--Lindsay is the joy in my son's life and for that she will always be a goddess to me. From the moment I met her I knew that she was a gentle soul.  When she walks in a room her smile brightens the darkest corners.  She has a quiet strength--and I have never heard her utter a single word against anyone. I love her with all my being and have from the moment she came into our lives.  Together she and my darling TJ will raise amazing children to be righteous and strong and true to who they are. 
When I grown up ------- I want to be just like Lindsay.

-Love Bye

My favorite accent

The sound of the low melodic sound of the Scottish accent is like none other on this earth.  I love the sound, the way it travels across my ear drum into my heart.  One of my favorite Scottish movies is Dear Frankie.  If ye havin seen it ye must.  It's brilliant! ( an added bonus is you get to hear and see Gerard Butler!!!)

a scene-

school girl speaking to her teacher " Miss what does it feel it like te be deaf?"
a class mate- "Brilliant ya woodnay be able te hear yer ma shoutin at ye te da stuff aw the time."

-Love bye

Mini Vaca

I am on a well needed and well deserved mini vaca to northern Arkansas.  A gorgeous trip back in time place called Eureka Springs.  The weather could not be more well behaved.  I am enjoying the sounds of nothing, especially in my mind.  My senses are filled with the architecture of an area I wish I could time travel back to.  I have been here before once years ago.  I feel refreshed and time alone is a wonderful thing that everyone should experience. 
I have gone into every shop on main street.  Every antique store I could find.  If the world could be such as this lovely village, life would be calming.  Something about the Victorian era that just makes you feel like your life slows to a crawl.  The attention to detail on these homes is just breath taking. 
I was blessed to grow up in a turn of the century home in Gibbsboro, New Jersey.  Three stories and twenty rooms of shear hide and go seek heaven for any child!!  I remember returning home from my summers spent in Brooklyn, New York with my sister Nola, and the first thing I would do was run around my house taking in every spectacle my eye would engulf.  I had to be sure that nothing had changed  a smidgen while I was away.  Being here reminds me of being a child again. That wonderful innocence of youthful play on long summer nights fetching fireflies and playing games with my friends.  Those days when it never seemed to get dark.
The innocence of that time.  Lady and the Tramp (Jim Dear and Darling), Meet me in St. Louis this is when life was so grand so simple.  I cannot believe I forgot my camera... I must get a disposable one.
(NOTE TO SELF DISPOSABLE DON'T TAKE GOOD FAR AWAY SHOTS!!!)
-Love Bye

A note to Katherine

There are moments that you find yourself saying "That's just what I say--or think about--"  To me music does that ..speaks those words in just the manner I would say them.... and brings back memories --those moments in time I was talking about before---

I think of my beautiful Katherine Elizabeth when I hear this song..... it takes me back to those many one on one mommy/daughter--best friends talks deep into the night that we so often shared.... those moments I miss---and cherish---make me cry--make me smile--make my heart leap so hard it just might burst into a FIST FULL OF GLITTER

You will have those moments with your children sweetheart-- you will-- because you are an amazing person--and you will be an even more amazing mother than you ever allow yourself to imagine. Remember how very proud I am of you and how very much I adore you.

Have you ever fed a lover
With just ur hands?
Close your eyes and
Trust it, just trust it.
Have you ever
thrown a fist full of
Glitter in the air?
Have you ever looked fear in the face
And said I just don't care?

It's only half past the of no return
The tip before the ice burg,
The sun before the burn
The thunder before the lightening
The breath before the phrase.

Have you ever felt this way?

Have you ever been touched so gently you had to cry?
Have you ever wished for an endless night?
Lassoed the moon and the stars
And pulled that rope tight.
Have you ever held your breath
And asked yourself
Will it ever get better than
Tonight----- tonight

glitter by Pink

-Love Bye

From the chronicles of Jenny Gay McGiggles

My friend Jenny at work is one of those most Hilarious people that you are just so thankful you are apart of  her inner circle...

Today on lunch we were watching youtube.com (you know how much I love youtube.com) clips about those poor little 8 year olds in their pole dancer outfits their parents (who by the way should be drawn and quartered!!  I'll address this subject in another post!) allowed to dance to provocatively to All the Single ladies.

The quote went " I don't think that these little girls know they are doing anything wrong"- some random person

Jenny- in a snap come back -"Of course they don't think they are doing anything wrong.... they just got off the pacifier!!"

-Love Bye

Random qutoes I love part one

I was thinking how much I love quotes-- here are some of my favorite--

"Cliffs are for climbing-- that's why God gave us grappling hooks" B. Fraser
"It only takes an extra second to be courteous" B. Fraser

"Perhaps Mr. Collins has a cousin" Elizabeth Bennett

"Are you sure I'm a tiger? I don't feel very much like a tiger.  Maybe I'm a vicious ass Koala bear... did you ever investigate that?" Kat Williams

"You can't even go to heaven if you get killed by eating spinach.. you can't even go.. you don't what to tell Jesus.. "Yes, Jesus I did have a salad I really did, I don't know what I was thinking." Kat Williams

"Welcome to King Burger where you can have it your way... But don't get crazy!" Bon qui qui

" You better not mess with my momma... you'll find a Chihuahua's head in your bed when you wake up in the mornin.. I mean I am a thug..I am gangsta" Angela Ross

"I don't play... I don't play.." Angela Ross

-Love Bye