Day by Day

So, I want to remember this years from now and have it for my children and grandchildren......I sat with my father recently and by accident ended up in a discussion of his family.....wow I wish he would write a book on his life.  My Dad is the most knowledgeable, kind and loving person.  He has his faults, and he is the one who will tell you all about them, but as with all of us, the things that he doesn't like about himself come from difficult times when he had to rely on survival skills.  What I remember of my Dad....playing basketball, tennis and softball with us on his off working times (which was tough when he worked 3 jobs at once).  Helping him with his wood projects or sorting out canceled checks that needed to be put away.  Helping him at his job at the Herald, putting inserts in papers.  Being proud of all the writing he has done in his life.  Collecting all of his humorous columns as a Christmas present for him and learning how well...

Funny that this should come right after the faith post, but it has been on my mind lately.  I am definitely guilty of judging others.  How hard it is not to.  But recently something happened that I am finding it hard to come to peace with.  It is a judgement by others of someone they hardly even know.  The judgement is based on things that happened years ago and spite has become the method of dealing with that.  It is a situation which involves multi generations and leads to actions that are just petty.  Why do we hurt others?  If we truly look at our actions, how do we call ourselves christians?  Why do we think we are the ones capable of deciding whether human actions are correct?  There are always two sides to a story (as I have learned very well in my career and as a parent) and we can't possibly always know both sides, so how is it fair for us to make judgements on people?  I am guilty of judging right now because I don'...

I have found myself gravitating toward religion and the church more and more in the last six months.  I feel like I did when I was 15-23.....in need and in love with that spiritual connection which grounds me more.  It is a good feeling.  I think the path that led me to it again was the strong need with all of the things happening in my life.  My life is always filled with good things, but the tough times were outweighing my blessings, in my mind, and I needed something more to get me through.  When I really looked, I realized that "the footprints in the sand", were Jesus', not mine and he was carrying me.  When he put me down, we began to walk together and it is has been such a wonderful blessing to me.  I have found myself more open to listening to everything and everyone.  I am more in connection with the good and the positive.  I love going to church every week, despite some of the things I do not agree with that the institution of the ch...

Keera asked for Orbies for Christmas.  They are little plastic pieces that you put in water and they blow up to a huge size when they sit in water for awhile.  In these pictures, Keera is putting her hands in 900 orbies.  Connor is then trying to put Keera in her orbies.

 TV area-built in  Couch area-built in  Bob working  Whole room from one end to other-half finished Bob is slowly finishing above the garage for Brendan to live in.  He has half of it dry walled and has half to go.  Now that the weather is warming up, he will go out and work on it more.  He is almost ready for a plumber to put in the shower.  Here are pictures

Keera wanted her ears pierced, so here they are.   Keera's Principal decided to do a dance with her class, so they all learned "boogy woogy wonderland dance" from the Wii.  They bought tye-dye shirts for the class and they did the dance for the school and parents.  Bob and Keera's second father daughter dance in February.  One girl scout one and one for school. Keera playing basketball.

Princess (we discovered) throws up when she rides.  This is her insides on Katie and although I was driving, Connor was finding this quite humorous and took the opportunity to take Katie's pictures with throw up on her.  He is a true Brother.  Katie was screaming and wanting to get out of the car.  Just another day with the Reeds. Add caption 

This is Princess-our new puppy. This is Princess-3 months, Grady 4 years and Brendie, 18 years!