Natures "Love"

I saw this "heart rock" on Pinterest the other day.

I pinned it!

I loved what the owner of it said....

"I love this double heart rock my mom brought back from a trip up the northern California coast.  I am always looking for hearts in nature, along with other common shapes faces too, and letters... little serendipitous gifts from Nature that seem like offerings to connect to my world when I am always seeking to connect to hers. Whether it's the search or the actual treasured finds that delight, it is always a treat to make these discoveries of the "familiar" in a sometimes less than familiar environment.  I like to believe these discoveries, along with feeling a secret connection with something special just for you, is one of those magical ways in which nature can appear as a most unexpected muse!"

Since Alain was always giving me rocks shaped like hearts, I continue to also look for these heart shapes that remind me of his love.

 

 

New word on the street...

 Ever felt this before? 

 

Blogging Blues...

Family lunch at the BYU-Idaho Cross Roads....

I just don't know why I haven't been able to do a blog post recently.

I have a lot of deductions.

 I think I am feeling a little torn

on how to express my two lives...

One life,
 is the one that has to keep moving forward...

  the sun keeps coming up...

and my heart keeps beating.

The other 

is the one that still misses my best friend.

There are days where I think,

"Wow, is he mad at me...

 I sure haven't seem him in a long time?

Silly maybe,
 but some days it still doesn't' feel real,
and it doesn't make sense.

The low lows aren't as low,
(although they still come and usually catch me off guard).

but the happy highs just aren't as high either.
I try to keep my emotions pretty level....sad!

 

So grateful for his love letters, notes of appreciation,

birthday wishes and journals

that help keep our love alive

even though we are very far apart.

Spring always brings General Conference...

 Just thinking...

that I was the kind of kid who would have

thought she died and went to heaven,

 to have had a 

"conference activity packet!"

No such thing back in the day!

No Bingo 

No match games with M&M's

No color the general authorities ties...

On the Saturday sessions of general conference,

my mom would always turn up the radio very loud

to the station playing conference,

and then we would all go outside and work in the yard!

I felt like the whole entire neighborhood was listening right along with us!

(So embarrassing then... pretty good memories now!)

I copied off a Conference Activity Packet

for each of my grand kids 

(who can hold a pencil!)

and I will be getting them mailed off tomorrow.

I hope they have fun! 

  

A big thanks to sugardoodle.net!

(and my local copy store)

PS.  This site also has packets for youth and adults!

Bet you're not surprised I "DID"

copy one of those off for ME!

Not yet...

 

Still feeling a huge void in my life.

Yes, I am super busy.

Yes, I have dear, dear friends.

Yes, my family is so good to me.

But, no...

I haven't stop missing my Alain.

Not yet...

 

Yesterday these plants in my front yard

were covered in snow.

Today it is much warmer and they are standing a little taller.

The little white flowers are called,

"Snowdrops."

(At least that is what my mother called them.)

She and I would go out and pick up 

the dead oaks leaves we missed in the fall.

 My mother would exclaim,

"Oh look at the snowdrops...

it's almost spring!"

Spring and life and everything else goes on...

I'm hanging in there every day.

When will I stop missing him?

 I don't know the answer to that....

  but certainly & painfully...

 "not yet!"

 

Brooklyn Laura.... Six Years Old!

B utterfly lover...

R eally loves flowers, bugs, and "Wild Kratts"

O bviously beautiful & charming...

O bedient & quite a good sharer

K ind to others

L oves Nature (more than any child I know!)

Y es.. her Nana loves her!

N ever likes to be teased or laughed at...

     Brooklyn Laura is my sixth grandchild and 4th granddaughter!  

She is a joy!  

She definitely marches to the beat of her own drum.  

She does a lot of deep thinking and is very smart.  

Too smart... correcting me on the names of sea creatures, jungle animals or insects. 

 Every time last summer, I mean ever time she came over for a visit,

 she went right outside and came back with a huge handful of "flowers!"  

My vases were constantly filled with beauty!  

She also can spot a "heart rock" a mile away.  

I love you Brooklyn!

(Don't ever forget!) 

 

Happy Birthday Brooklyn!