Ever Changing Crusades

GRAVES & Cemeteries

Into Family Tree ?   Ancestry?    This weekend I found a website called FindAGrave .

In just a few hours, I had located over 40 of my distant relatives’ graves.  I previously had no clue of their where-abouts, not even which state.

Find-A-Grave depends on volunteers to physically document “who is where”.  Some include pictures of the headstone/marker.  You may have to register on the website, but is free.

another blog to watch

I have recently stumbled across another blog that should be interesting to watch.  It is written by a Father-to-be to twins.  To my best calculations, the "normal" due date would be around March 1, 2007, which 99.9% probability the babies will come in January/February.  To get you up to speed...... Baby A = girl ........ Baby B = boy.   LINK to HowAboutTwo blog. 

ATTN: parents of triplets

Not too long ago, as I was searching various  Groups in Yahoo, I found   "multiplesclothingchain".  search for MulitiplesClothingChain group

It says ...."This group is for people who want to exchange clothing for their twins, triplets, quadruplets, quintuplets or more!".

So far I have not had any luck in finding clothes for my granddaughters.....BUT there seems to be quite a lot of postings in this group for TRIPLETS.   You, parents of triplets, tho may have better luck than me.  Hope so.

I'm fine

I have just realized that it's been almost 2 weeks since my last post.  This is let everyone anyone that is interested, know..........I'm doing fine.  I'm adjusting.  That eventually, I will get my head screwed back on, in the correct direction.  That my mind and my feet will some day stay on the same page at the same time.  Be patient.

Please send prayers for a blog friend of mine, and her family.  Her mother passed away just a month and a half ago.  Now her maternal grandmother has died too.  I am currently respecting her privacy is the reason I am not posting a link.

Prayers also need to be sent for another fellow blogger, Carol, which lost her husband about a month before I lost Ronnie.  Carol is a humor writer.  Read her blog with a "wait and see"  attitude.  Don't jump the gun.

New and Improved

The little girl was sitting in her grandfather’s lap as he read her a goodnight story.  From time to time, she would take her eyes off the book and reach up to touch his wrinkled cheek.  She was alternately stroking her own cheek and his. 

Finally she spoke.  “Granddad, did God make you?”

“Yes, sweetheart” he answered, “God made me a long time ago.”

“Oh,” she said, “then did God make me too?”

“Yes indeed, honey” he assured her. “God made you just a little while ago.”

“Oh”, she said feeling their respective faces again, she observed,

“God’s getting better at it now, isn’t He?”

veiw from different angle

If you haven't already noticed......... I would like to bring to your attention a particular blog that I've flagged in my "other blogs" (over in left column - scroll down)..........It's Not All Mary Poppins.   This lady works  (owns?)  at a childcare center in Canada.  She is witty & humorous, but tells-it-like-it-is.  I have recently enjoyed (and learned from) her postings on Dec. 17th & 19th.  I could just copy her posts, but that wouldn't be fair,  to her or to you.  Take a look.  I know I will be keeping-my-eye-on her blog .......... what will she post next?

"Before I was a Mom....."

Before I was a Mom -
I slept as late as I wanted and never worried about how late I got into bed.

I brushed my hair and my teeth everyday.

Before I was a Mom -

I cleaned my house each day.
I never tripped over toys or forgot words to a lullaby.
I didn't worry whether or not my plants were poisonous.
I never thought about immunizations.

Before I was a Mom -

I had never been Puked on, Pooped on, Spit on, Chewed on, Peed on.
I had complete control of my mind and my thoughts. I slept all night.

Before I was a Mom -

I never held down a screaming child
So that doctors could do tests. Or give shots.
I never looked into teary eyes and cried.I never got gloriously happy over a simple grin.
I never sat up late hours at night watching a baby sleep.

Before I was a Mom -
I never held a sleeping baby just because I didn't want to put it down.
I never felt my heart break into a million pieces when I couldn't stop the hurt.
I never knew that something so small could affect my life so much.
I never knew that I could love someone so much.
I never knew I would love being a Mom.

Before I was a Mom -
I didn't know the feeling of having my heart outside my body.
I didn't know how special it could feel to feed a hungry baby.
I didn't know that bond between a mother and her child.
I didn't know that something so small could make me feel so important and happy.

Before I was a Mom -
I had never gotten up in the middle of the night every 10 minutes to make sure all was okay.
I had never known the warmth, The joy, The love, The heartache,

The wonderment or the satisfaction of being a Mom.
I didn't know I was capable of feeling so much before I was a Mom.

And before I was a GRANDMOTHER -

I didn't know that all those "Mom" feelings more than doubled

When you see the little bundles being held by "my" baby.

a Mother's DAY

This is a dedication to my Mom on "Mother's Day".  Since her passing, this time last year, I came across this poem written by her.  From the wording, she must have written it a few months before my big brother was born.  Fifty-two years ago.  Happy Birthday, in a couple of days, to my bro.

Here's the poem she composed:

MY  BIRTHDAY

Sunday was such a beautiful day -

Just as if it were one day in May.

February the 8th of nineteen fifty-three;

So, now I'm 24, oh my, oh me.

Mom and Pop came for the gala occasion

And brought with them the cutest dog in the nation.

Only 28 hours they stayed here with us,

What glorious hours, not even a fuss.

A sewing machine, shears, and a big cake, too,

Everything I'd dreamed of, but thought way out of view.

My very dear Jimmy a waffle iron gave,

Waffles we enjoy and once a week crave.

All in all you can see what a birthday I rate.

And next year another will help celebrate,

Won't it be nice to have three in our family?

What shall his name be - Sandy or Randy -

Or maybe a daughter whom we could name Candy.

Whatever it is how happy we'll be,

Far after that day, we two will be three!

Crusade :   a Happy Mother's Day wish to mothers everywhere.........the root of life.