Life In a Small Town

****(my Project 365..week in picture entry is right before this one)*** Yeh yeh...I'm a day late in posting the pics from our Annual Family Easter Brunch and Egg hunt, but seriously....there were nearly 90 pics to upload and sort through...and I didn't get home til late. I'm just now getting to them! As you know, my very family oriented family finds reason to celebrate everything that goes on in our lives, and holidays are done up big. We have been gathering on the Saturday before Easter every year for a brunch for as long as I can remember (which actually, might not have been as long as it sounds...since my mind is not quite what it use to be, but trust me..it's been a lot of years!) This year the gathering was small. My sister, Jeanette, was hosting at her home in Hot Springs, but other obligations kept some folks away. It wound up being her and her hubby and 2 boys (Dalton and Max), my mom, and me with my 3 hoodlums kids. It didn't matter that our number was s...

*It's been an interesting week. More marriage talk, yet nothing "definite" yet. The hint of a ring..... throwing out dates.... but nothing concrete yet. (I love you Greg) *am learning to "Give it to God". He spoke, I heard, and I followed. Am trusting in Him now to handle the issues. (I love you, Lord) Busy weekend. *Reconnecting with people who have meant the world to me for the past 39 years, yet I just had not made the time to go see them. My "other grandparents" as I've always called them. These people loved my family, and took as in as their own, when we arrived in this state in the fall of 1970, far away from any biological family. My parents were a young couple with a 3 1/2 yr old (me), a 2 yr old, and a baby on the way. This family made us part of their own, and did all the grandparently things that our biologicals could not do due to distance. I love these people, and having learned of her newly diagnosed diabetes, and his onset of Alzheim...

I've always heard that as you get older, you get wiser, or better, or some such other phrase that's suppose to ease the thought that your life is slipping away. But in some cases, it's true. I'd like to think that I'm more wise than I was 20 years ago. At 21, I was just beginning to explore facets of my being. I was having my first real drinks, losing my virginity--finally, getting my degree to start my career, meeting and becoming friends with people whose lifestyles were very different from any I'd ever seen or experienced before. I was changing so quickly...even to the point of becoming blonde! lol There were so many things I was trying and doing...nothing I'm necessarily ashamed of, or anything illegal, mind you...I don't have all the wild stories to share that some do, but yes, I was growing and changing, and finding out some of the things that were important to me. And in those following 20 years, leading up to the point in my life in which I find ...