KarmaTube: Amazing Grace, by Wintley Phipps

KarmaTube: Amazing Grace, by Wintley Phipps

Happy New Year...!

After Christmas Sunday

Dear Family and Friends...
Yes, we have enjoyed the Christmas Celebration and Eric just left this afternoon. We had a great time together and miss him already. Christmas was
low key this year...but we really enjoyed what we did do....and just spending time together is the best anyway.
We are hoping that you all had a equally happy time with your family and that you are catching up with your rest now too. I did alot of cooking and baking and it is nice to now have alot of food that we don't have to prepare...munching and gaining weight now...back to walking etc...and weights very soon...like tomorrow.
Hugs & Prayers,
BJM

This is great!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UFrdJ2V3r7Y

Dear Family and Friends..


This is what I would like to do for longer periods of time during the winter...hibernate...! But the on coming Christmas season won't permit it...so we must tread on. Today I will get my Christmas tree up and start decorating if I am lucky. I have 2 days off in a row and must make it count.


This year if the weather co-operates enough...both of my children will be home for the Holiday...for 3 or 4 days at least. It has been at least 7 or 8 years since they have both been under the same roof at that time here at our home and I am so very anxious that something is going to stop this amazing holiday from happening. Be sending good thoughts about it all...and I hope to be able to spend at least one or 2 days with them before they fly away again into their lives and things they need to do...! Such is the saga of many parents here in Siskiyou county because of alot of harsh factors that play into the scene here. We really don't want our families on the roads when it is bad out there...but if it all happens it is a wonderful miracle!


Since last month...We celebrated Thanksgiving with our relative


Steve and Debbie and her sister Linda in Grass Valley! A very fun weekend eating tons of food and See's candy...going to the Craft fair...and Thrift stores... We had a blast and enjoyed all three of our little baby doggies...they all got along really well. Poor Dukie is getting over 2 surgeries still and Little Jake is a real trooper..as he can't walk as he is paralized from the waist down. Linda is such a good mommy...and does everything for him. Jake is a love!


I am getting ready for the Yearly Candlelighting Ceremony this year at Jackson Street School. It is a big thing to prepare for..getting a speaker, special music, sending invitations, making sure all the bases are covered and trying to make it so everyone feels alittle better about this time of year without our children that have died much too soon. I always feel like afterwards that I am much more mentally prepared to enjoy the fun of the holidays after we have gone through this Ceremony. December 13th @ 7pm is when you light a candle for your loved one. It is a continual wave of light around the world D~~starting from Austrailia...in each time zone @ 7:00 pm...and it travels around the globe. How awesome is that! what a giant Tribute to our babies!


Well, much to do today...probably will enter more here sooner than a month or so. I am just very slow about getting around to my blogging...I am always working or home doing things.


Hugs & Prayers to you all....and Merry Christmas & Happy New year also!


BJM

Fall, Autumn 2009

Dear Family and Friends,

Once again time has gone right by me so quickly...We keep such a hectic pace nowadays. This fall has been a good one...full of family and friends. We had a great dinner night a few weeks ago with Ron and Judy...just before Halloween and it was great Ribs and food that Judy made for us all. Ken & Jill Buckley also were guests and it was a fun evening. Judy goes all out decorating for the holidays it is near...so felt like it was our celebration for halloween that night.

Then the next few days we spendt here getting things ready for winter before we took off for Eric's home in Washington. Left on a Wednesday and came back on a Monday...Just right for a good visit. He is doing well and keeps a steady pace with his job and all. Has a new room mate Steve ...a old friend from Georgia when he was stationed there.

I will make a slide show in the next few days of the trip...to share what we did there...Got to have dinner with my sister Loretta and her husband Bob one night also...and spendt halloween night with Kristen and Christopher and their children and her mother in law for that evening. We went trick or treating and I took viedo of the night...was loads of fun...but alittle on the colder side. My sister wasn't feeling well that night and just stayed inside...she had walking phemonia and didn't know it.

So when we got back home all was well...We really miss Copper...our German Shorthair...He got sick about 3 or 4 weeks ago and we had to put him to sleep. He was such a sweet baby...and was 14 years old...He had one last good summer and really felt pretty good til the last few days...Who could ask for more...he had a great life and all the space he needed to run and chase birds and squirrels...It is strange to be without our old friend and buddy now...he greeted me each time I got home and always showed his excitement when things were happening. Dogs are pretty special...

well guess that is about all for now...must get ready for work..that always waits for me...

We will talk again soon before the holidays arrive...

Hugs & Prayers,

Bette Jo

P.S. Eric might come home for Christmas this year...Wow! I am so excited.!!!

"Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions.

Small people always do that, but the really great ones make

you feel that you, too, can become great."

-Mark Twain