The Heart's Music Can Heal

                                                                   So how are you doing tonight?  I always wonder about that because I can't ask you directly.  I have to have faith that you are doing well and all is ok there.  Hope you enjoyed Scott and Brendan's story, two ornery nephews.  Doing better today, still somewhat tired though.  My daughter told me that while they are in New York, the choir is going to see the live version of  "Phantom Of The Opera."  Now that would be something to see, even though I have seen it about three times here in Ohio but whose counting.  So she and I watched the movie.   ...

                                                                   Pray all your family are doing good, a hello to all of them Schizz, best to all of them too.  Hope you are doing well and keeping yourself healthy, thinking about how you are getting along and sending my love your way!                                                                ...

                                                                         Cold tired day today, my daughter had a track met tonight and it was cold enough to snow...don't like to see it let alone say it huh?  She is doing well and in long jump she marked 11.5.  She wants to beat that so bad.  You know they just started.                                                   ...

                                                                    Just wanting to check in and tell you I love you before you go to bed tonight.  Hope your day was a good one, that you are ok and all the family there is fine.                                                                    Everything seems to be the same, bu...

                                                             I think its graciously nice, always true to remind those who we love and care about that they are always so wonderful in our eyes, so on this day when everyone is looking towards Boston, Ma, I just want to remind you of that Stephen, love you so very much!                                               My favorite picture of all-time..got to be!

                                                              Just remembering what happened two years ago, just seems like it hasn't been that long.  Sure nice to see all the uplifting enthusiasm in Boston, such great encouragement for the nation and it surely needs it.  Spent my day exercising and sorting through art projects I need to get finished.  I was writing down themes for my Facebook Art Gallery, it will come easier to sort and post my work that way.   I opened all my windows to get the fresh air back in the house,it was a nice day for that!                                 ...

                                                               Sorry its early again, I know, was a busy day Tuesday, my daughter had a track meet and a band concert.  I feel more confident , still feeling sad, sorry if I grumbled about myself.  I get discouraged so easy sometimes.  I am doing better with losing weight and eating right.  Have to stay away from using too much of the darn salt..I know.                                             ...

                                                                      Monday was sure nice, we did get a little rain but most of the day was beautiful.  Hope you got to enjoy it.   Pray you are all doing well Stephen, especially you!    Pat did post that darn picture, that picture is a wreck.  Nobody smile except me and I look like a hideous bloated fish..I guess you can gather I didn't like it. Gosh, I thought I was doing well on my diet and walking, sure doesn't look like it so I do extend an apology to you and not share that picture.             ...

                                                              Kinda of a slow but beautiful day, the sun was out and Crystal, my daughter and I walked around Alum Creek Dam.  It was plenty busy, got a blister on my foot but got to walk a good stretch.  So far so good, our picture wasn't posted on Facebook, so we got out of that alright.  worked on my artwork just a bit today.                                                   ...

                                                              Hello Schizz, hope you are having a good Saturday afternoon.  Pat made down with her friend Betty.  What a pair of friends...The kids and I met them at Bob Evans in Delaware.  They haunted Goodwill first before we got there.  The kids were extremely bored out of their minds hanging around us old women..I can say I was the youngest out of the three of us..ha-ha..Got Pat beat by 20 years and Betty is older than her.  It can be said that we are all young at heart though!                       ...

                                                                  I know I said I'd write you tomorrow, I caught a break from all the storms and confusion of the morning, so I decided to write you this morning to wish you a great day with much love and if I could I'd top it off with a tender hug!                                                               ...

                                                                   It was in the seventies today and boy was it rainy and stormy,.  I spent most of the day working on my artwork and listening to classical music, not only is it enjoyable but helps me relax and not rush through it.  My daughter's second track meet was cancelled because of the rain but yesterday she placed third in the long jump!  My son got to work on the cash register at his job, he said he enjoyed it and had a nice group of people come in tonight!                       ...

                                                    Sorry I'm writing you a little later today, Pat talked to me on Facebook and wanted to come down Saturday and see the kids and I.  Glad its just her and not the other two, of course they wouldn't condescend to do that anyway...that is quite alright with the kids and I.  Thing is, like I said she has been wearing wigs, sometimes some of the wigs just doesn't look right.  She sent a picture of herself with an Easter card and the one she has on in it looks about the best.     I am sure the kids and I will be worn out by the time she leaves Saturday.  I know I can be a bundle of nerves but she is about ten times worse.    Especially now that Gar...

                                                                Got home sorta of late, the kids and I were plenty worn out. I think with the spring air and entertaining kinda wears the body out.  Mom was sure tired, her and dad had a doctor's appointment today, they weren't too thrilled about that.  Got to see my nephews, Scott and Randy, my niece, you know Randy's wife and their son Brendan.  My sister Jennie and brother(her hubby) aka grandma and grandpa.  My sister doesn't like the term grandma, so Brendan calls her "Jee-Jee" like "Gi-Gi" I told them they should put a French accent with that.           ...

                                                     Sorry its taken me a couple days to get back to you. I had to run errands yesterday.  My daughter went with me, by the time we got home, I just crashed.  Mom called and told me that Aunt Wanda died, she was 98, no matter what, its something for a lady who had battled diabetes , she had out lived all of her siblings.  I guess she donated her body to O.S.U for Medical Science, still she was a nice person and I'll miss her too.  My nephew Ben had to go to Children's because his digestive system isn't functioning right.  Not real sure what that means.  Its been one thing after another, seems like that is the way life goes sometimes huh?   ...

                                                            Thinking about you right now hon, hope the day is going good, my son has to work today and my daughter is done with track practice for the week.  Their coaches treated them with donuts from "Tim Hortons".  Made my trip down to "People In Need" today and while I waited the man who is a director there was telling me all about him and his wife's experiences in Africa while in the "Peace Corps" from what I could hear ( he spoke real softly at times, he and his wife are around in their seventies) it sounded like some experience.                  ...

                                                                  Been a couple of beautiful days, did some work outside and some sculpturing inside.  My daughter and took a walk on The Alum Creek Dam yesterday while my son hung out with his cousin.  It was sorta windy and cold but nice. not too many people were out.  We took Daisy (Miss Queenie Of The House) for a little dog, she sure has a big following and she acts big too.  Anyway she was making friends with parents and kids yesterday, its bad when a mother says"I want a small dog" in front of her little girl.  You know the little girl didn't even say a thing.     ...