thoughts at Christmas

Steven comes home tonight .. finally..he has been with my parents and cousins in Disney since the 12th and then followed by 3 days at the condo on the beach. I am ready for him to be home, however he has had the best time. and so enjoyed the water. My dad took him fishing for the first time in the gulf and the at 4 caught the first fish and the most fish and helped my mama reel in her hammerhead shark which he thought was so cool and then Sunday was their beach day and he decided that he was going to swim out to my dad. no fear.. he did get to touch a shark that day. I hope to have pictures to post from the trip. Christmas time always make me think to that first Christmas with Steven and how heavy my heart was, which brings me to my mother who on the first trip to Baton Rouge played a song in the car "Joy Comes in the Morning", which of course had my crying like a baby,I have been listening to a lot lately along with the Gaither version of " Rock of Ages", this Christmas is also the frist anniversary of my grandmother passing. I am going to try to put both those songs on this post, just don't know if I can do that. But when Vestal Goodman sings her part "When I draw my fleeting breath and my eyes shall close in vain." It gives me chills
Have a Merry Christmas one and all

Merry Snow Day

yes it snowed in Baton Rouge today and only 4 of us are at work. this is Steven's Christmas pic from school.

Exciting weekend...

This is going to be a great weekend, since Ronnie and I have been married, the first weekend in December that we have Drake we go to the Tree Farm in Zachary and let the boys "cut down" the Christmas tree. The first Christmas we were married I actually took a camera as Steven was only 2 and Drake was 6. The image I was able to capture makes me nearly cry every time I look at it. To me it borders on a Norman Rockwell painting. I will try to get it posted Monday. After cutting the tree down we go up to the little shop they have and everyone picks out one ornament to put on the tree. Steven's first ornament was a football shaped pig. I have no idea, I guess he just liked it. I cant wait to see what he picks out this year, Drake chose a hunter sitting on a shotgun shell, Ronnie a motorcycle jacket, and I picked up Santa kneeling at the manger. I can only imagine in the years to come what will be on the tree and the years of teasing over the football shaped pink pig.

Happy Turkeys

Another holiday succesfully under the belt. We had Ronnie's family at the house this year. Our first major holiday in the "new house". 13 in all. Ronnie fried a turkey and it was wonderful, infact there was not the first crumb left. This was my first time to "do Thanksgiving" usually it has been with my parents or at other people's house. Needless to say, my little helper and i cooked stuff until 10 wednesday night. And at 10 pm when the first raw egg hit the floor I knew it was time to go to bed and hit it again in the morning. All in all it was a nice Thanksgiving and could not have asked for any better. ps hope to have new pics soon