Conner's Here

My sunshine is here visiting Grandma and Grandpa. He has been out mowing with Grandpa. He loves riding on the mower and he just adores his new drum set hehehehe !!! Thanks Aunt Julie you knew what you where doing.
I have done nothing but snuggle and grocery shop today !!! So it is a good day.
Debbi

Here is the sunshine of my life, Conner William. This is an older picture but I love his expression.My computer monitor always has a picture of him on it. He always makes me smile and yes I talk to him on the screen. Such as Good morning Conner. My family says I am a little crazy but oh well !!!
I hope to learn more about this blogging and how to add more things to it. That is when I yell Brandi come help me !!!

Today has been my idea of the perfect fall day. Just a littls light rain falling 68 degrees and a long ride in the car with just Jack and I. I know I am easy to please most of the time. We walked around Lowes to see what project we should start in the house. We have been here for 22 years and there are still thing we want to do. It is beautful (down back) as we call it. Our back yard sits on the Raquette River flowing down from the Adirondacks. I looked out the other day and there were about 10 kayaks going down river they were all different colors, I wish I could have grabbed my camera quick enough !! But I enjoyed a beautiful moment.
It is also nestling in time and I have been knitting. I have made about 70 hats so far and am starting on some scarves that will go to the kids at local schools. Most of the hats are headed to Burlington to the NIC unit and the Cancer unit also. I have to admit that I have enough yarn to make 200 more. I have gotten way over my head in buying yarn. But it is so much fun !!! Thanks to Bevscountrycottage.com site I am learning more about round loom knitting which I love.
Thanks for sharing my babbling.
Debbi

This is crazy, it is 11:15 and I have already been to bed. But something pulled me out to post this or I wouldn't go to sleep.
As you all well know Midlife has hit and with that comes getting rid of things that you don't need anymore. Most of you who know me well know that I have not thrown out a birthday card I have gotten since I was 17 (Yes I have them all). Today was a cleansing day !!! I found a large bag of cards that needed to be gone through. I had saved some for Michelle from her father and my wedding. She said throw them all out except for the ones from my Grandama Mousaw (who passed away when Michelle was very young) With that done and a large pile on the floor in front of me, I also found my Highschool Graduation cards. Yes 28 years ago and I have carted them since then. Some made me laugh, some I could not remember the sender??? But one made me sob.... It was a card from my Aunt Mary who passed away a year ago last May. I have been trying since then to express how I felt about her and could never get out quiet what I wanted. There was something extrememly special about her to me that only she and I knew. I was reading the card as I was talking to Michelle on the phone and almost could not finish it. This is what I had been looking for. This is what Aunt Mary did for me, how she made me feel... It is a beautiful baby blue card with an encouraging verse on the front, but the inside wriiten by her was wonderful. It follows:
June 23, 1978
Debbi,
Your smile always brings happiness to those it shines on, Thank God for you.
May your unbounded enthusiasm always enlighten those aroung you, So in this world with so many saddening things may your zest for life remain as full as the flower in Spring.
Your present was yesterdays future, may your dreams of days gone by, be yours today. "Special" thats you.
Congratulations, Al & Mary
This is how my Aunt Mary made me feel about myself. What a wonderful gift God gave me when he gave me her as an Aunt. The encouragement that I must have felt at 18 when I read this card obviously carried me through some rough time and now all these years later it is an answer to many prayers from me about where my life should go... She has guided me again. Just simple be happy, love life and know that you are "Special" if only to her.

I am now a Blogger

I have decided to get with the times and be a blogger. Actually I wanted a place to share family news and things going on in our lives. Also to show off pictures, and let my family know how the Family History is coming along.

I just got back from spending a week with Aunt Doris and Uncle Bill. They are great hosts, and Jacky and I had a great time. I scanned over 280 of Grandma & Grandpa Caswells picture while I was there. I hope to have them burned on CD's ,and get them to whom ever wants copies. Naming some have bee a task. Some will make you smile, laugh or cry.

I love my family very much and miss those of you I don't get to see often. Until later
Debbi