Egg Hunt 2011

Happy Easter

Easter Eggs

Winter Zoo Life

Our most recent snow, and the gals snow woman

 

Yes, we always clean wearing helmets and tutus. 

You never know cleaning can be dangerous, best not to take any chances.

St. Lucia Delivering rolls to Mama and Papa.

Cell phone walkie-talkie, hit present of Christmas.

Our St. Lucia bringing rolls to Mommy and Daddy.

My bathing beauties.

Dreaming of Violets

It's not often that you can see dreams unfold before your eyes and when they do you really need to cheer, take a moment and acknowledge it.   This is one of  those times.   

Growing up in the beach community of Sandy Hook I had a friend, we played, rode our bikes, swam, tried to beat each other in tennis, planned and talked about life, she was pretty sure even then of what she wanted to do and accomplish in her life.   She wanted to be her senior class president, and had her campaign well planned out even then, to be the next big tennis player with a grand slam under her belt.  To be a writer.  Not stopping there she self published a local newspaper that was, as I remember it, eagerly anticipated and enjoyed  by all those in the community.  I remember being recruited to help with it once and what fun I had.  

Many of us dream, few of us follow our dreams with determination  to see it through, however my friend and author Sarah Jio has done just that, writing a book that I am so looking forward to reading I will share now before it's even out.  This is a trailer for her book THE VIOLETS OF MARCH that is coming out April 26th, check it out and think about what dreams you have yet to tackle, it's a new year, what a great time to start!

 

For more info go to http://www.sarahjio.com/.

O Night Divine

I love singing Christmas carols and always look forward to them in church during the holiday season.  We sing with our church to the shut ins, bringing fruit baskets and cheer every year.  I  hear them on the radio in the car, and in the stores as we Christmas shop, on commercials, and TV specials.  This time of year we are surrounded with the songs of the holidays.  I sing them as on automatic pilot, enjoying, but not always thinking beyond my voice while I sing.  One of the girls was caroling today singing: "Mark the Harold angel sings, glory to the newborn king"   

In came O HOLY NIGHT, knocking at my door.  It's always been a favorite Christmas song, the commercial I'll turn up to hear, heard often enough to almost make it trite.  However it was one of the songs chosen to sing in our choir this year and sing, and sing, and sing.   And every time I sang there was a phrase whispering to me, 'pay attention'.  Here is the the first part of the song:

O Holy Night

O holy Night the stars are brightly shining,

It is the night of the dear Savior's birth.

Long lay the world in sin and error pining,

Till he appeared and the soul felt its worth.

A thrill of hope the weary world rejoices,

For yonder breaks a new and glorious morn.

Fall on your knees.  Oh, hear the angels voices!

O night divine, O night when Christ was born!

O holy night, O night divine.

Never before had those words revealed themselves in such a way.  The whole reason for that first Christmas was us, the world in sin and error pining, heavy and tired with the hopelessness of our own sin .

 Worthless, and out of hope.    

Till he appeared and the soul felt its worth.  Worth, what a word,  has your soul felt its worth?   "For God so loved the world that he gave his only son",  what a price was paid.   God gave his only son to pay the ransom for our soul.   Until recently, not really noticing before and having just sung the song thoughtlessly, I thought the world was the big blue ball we live on, not really the humanity, us, Me, that the song refers to.  
  
Wow, Alisha in sin and error pining, till He appeared and my soul felt its worth. A thrill of hope the weary Alisha rejoices,  for yonder breaks a new and glorious morn.  Fall on your knees! Oh hear the angel voices, O night divine when Christ my savior was born!

My soul feels its worth, I am a Child of the King, Savior of the world.  O Holy Night!