Thanksgiving past

   Ray and I remodeled an old house once.... and made it look older. We gutted rooms, tore out ceilings, spent our professional drywall budget on new wiring and learned how to drywall ourselves, but when we were done, it looked great!   
   Then we sold it, moved into a finished house and have had no home projects since!

An electrician's nightmare

 

Mud on

Mud off

  




Emily helps

Living room completed!

Thanksgiving, 2006

Our Family 2006
Emily, Seth, Anne, Ray, Christina and Noah, Kelly

              Little did we know that this would be our last Thanksgiving together. Lessons in life:  Treasure every moment.  Don't put off  till tomorrow what you can do today.  Make a memory.  Hold precious those you love.  Because tomorrow is not guaranteed. 



                                                   

Balance

   A couple of weeks ago, I passed a rose bush.  It still had the remnants of a rose on it.  A jolt ran through me as I realized that summer was gone.  Sure, I'd done the summer things: the garden, the mowing, the sweating. But I hadn't stopped to smell the roses.  I'd  'busied' through another season.
  That was the great thing about Emily.  She saw the world through simple eyes.  My priorities are upside down in comparison to hers.  The "here and now" was what was important to Emily.  I spend my days getting things ready for the "what's next" and the "just in case" and I miss the present. I rationalize that someone's got to take care of business.
    Emily put the balance in my life. How I miss that girl.

Under a parachute with new friends

at a Girl Scout activity.

At the mall where Emily's class  signed songs

in American Sign Language. (Her primary language)