Happy Thanksgiving 2008

Hey! Well it is my absolute favorite time of the year. THANKSGIVING!!!
WHOOHOO! YAY! YEHAW! So I am busy (as you can tell while I type this message)
Cooking and baking fixing a feast for a king or many hungry faces. I LOVE all the trimings
food . I remember as a little girl watching my grandma making stuffing giving me tastes telling
this is how it should taste when its done. I do so treasure those moments that I didnt know at
the time would come to be so cherished today . I try to pass that on to my kids and grandkids.
I wonder if they are listening. So home made bread for croutons and fudge and hello dollies and poppy seed bread and cinnamon rolls and dressing and marthas carrots and dill pickles and
mashed potatoes and gravy and corn and home made rolls and sighs it all tastes sooooooo good together and just melts in your mouth. I wont be cooking my turkey till the next saturday. We are going to spend this Thanksgiving day gratefully with our daughter in laws parents . Its so wonderful to have our son and his wife and new 5 week old baby home again so we are especially grateful this year. All my babies are around me. A dream come true . So I am off to make the cinnamon rolls for breakfast on Thanksgiving morning . May you be blessed and fruitful in His amazing Love. Rhonda

Well it is truly only a matter of time now. deep heavy sighs..........snow IS imminent........its snowing on the mountains like crazy and its only a matter of time now.........so my wonderful colors will fade and all will become white......right now its fall colors........red ,orange ,golden yellow, rusty shades of leaves among the green still in denial that winter is just around the corner ......so i will put up my fall decorations and pretend till the big turkey day that its still beautiful fall and soft and varied and just a hint of winter on the horizon........PRETEND the key word.......winter is coming....the mountains have told me so!! I LOVE FALL don't leave me !!!! ( dont leave me) cute......thats a freeby Sighs Rhonda

Busy Month

It sure has been a busy month. Our baby wonderful daughter, whos 14 is on the second and then grandsons is on the 21st and then oldest wonderful sons is the 23rd and oldest wonderful daughter is on the 25th. My brothers birthday is actually today Happy Birthday Roger! Where does time go? I remember waiting to hold the oldest one ,so painfully (i had just had a c/section) like it was yesterday. ...well yesterday WAS her birthday.......so we go day by day step by step and we wish and pray and inspite of me i have 4 amazing children. Adults who have familys of their own now and are growing faster then i could imagine. I Love my precious babies each one. Thank you Lord for each one and for being a stable hand on each one.....inspite of me.......I LOVE YOU ABBA. ........

Sighs WHERE Did all these clouds come from???? I mean seriously WHERE? and more importantly WHY do we have to have all the clouds all the time!!! So in a normal average summer we have an average 35 days of sunshine and now we have had 8 . YEP just 8 days of sunshine . Time we can go outside and NOT freeze our toes off or any other appendages that get cold so easily. So this summer is officially a bust. Sighs......no heat ......no sunshine......no motivation.......no going outside.......sighs.....I LOVE ALASKA! Wouldn't change it for the world........I LOVE LOVE LOVE IT! It's where I am supposed to be. SO yep just another cloudy day is paradise Alaska!

Well it's raining again....sighs. I fear that our "summer" is over and the rainy season is upon us. I miss the sunshine !!! SO WHY complain about the weather . It is going to happen weather ( ha ha ha) I want it to or not. So I try to keep happy with the chores I must do and love the people I love . I get to play with my stamps and make cards . I do write poetry so maybe I will work on some and post them on here. it would be nice to read them again. I LOVE RAIN!!!
Rhonda

Vacations

Well I just got home from a 10 day vacation to Hawaii!!! YES that wonderful amazing loved vacation spot. I really enjoyed myself and it was sweetened by being with my beloved son and his lovely wife. I Love them both so much. I love that they are going to have a sweet new little one in the fall . sighs.........YAHWEH is sooooooo good to me. I am so blessed and spoiled. Thank you so much Abba for all you give me and show me. Your loving Child ME!

"Conquering any difficulty always gives one a secret joy, for it means pushing back a boundary-line and adding to one's liberty."

- Henri Frederic Amiel, "The Private Journal of Henri Frederic Amiel"

These words are soo eye opening. I Love quotes ! Quotes make me think and open my eyes to possibilities . I like the word possibilities . Its a NOW word a word that makes you focus and look around and open your eyes . possibilities. Its a word that keeps one in the moment listening for direction and purpose. Possibilities a very cool word. So how does one add possibilities to pushing back a boundary line? Thus creating a liberty a lost freedom ? how does one do this? Perhaps one step at a time. moment by moment. Or just the realization of possibilities that were not always apparent to ones eyes or hearing.
Quotes are great ! I LIKE THEM !

For Now......Rhonda

Well its been an exciting year so far. Laughin , not sure exactly WHAT has been exciting but it is. I like to look at each day as exciting and discover what wonderful thing I can learn about me or others. I especially like to get WOWs from my Abba in heaven. every now and then HE will send me one to remind me of why life is exciting and why I am alive. I love reading my sons blog he is SO cute and his take on life is profound and fun. I need to get my daughter blogging she would love it also.
We have discovered a new show to laugh at. Its truly silly and just crazy at times . The name of the show is "My name is Earl". We just laugh and laugh. Tonight we watched one about cats and learning to be who we are instead of becoming someone we aren't just so someone else will like us. Compromise, it is a tricky thing. Sometimes it good and sometimes it's very very destructive. I am off to sleep. More SOON !!!