yesterday's moments

Yesterday is like so many other days ,things we all do them typical days. MY DAY started with shopping, oil change to the car, picking up meds. for Mom. My neighbor had a Birthday, saw the love in a mothers eyes when she looked at her baby, held the door open for a old man a lot of moments that brought great joy.
There was a funeral, a child i love now has a black eye, was sent a email about a suicide, and some one with cancer. Moments of sorrow and loss and moment of great joy, yesterday would have been my fathers 81 birthday, and like his life so the day went. What will today bring!

Saturdays hopes

Was felling better so i was able to pick up my CASA kid and off we went on a new adventure. Today's morning was prep work, we will be traveling back in time next week. more pic's to follow it will be my first year so i am excited. My CASA and i are going to be in the village of Bethlehem. The Bethlehem Experience. my hope is that it will get people thinging on the gift of the birth of Christ. Go to http://www.gotobethlehem.com/ and check it out.
some came from a fair to help, and are not members of this chruch, yet they gave up there day to help set up. It was great every one pitching in and working together young and old it was a fun day. Then off to the birthday party at the park, can you remember your 18th?

i am sure this will be a birthday she will remember for ever. the kids BBQ'ed calif style, friends came but had to cut it short at 4:30 she had to work, i can remember working on my 18th. Was working in a convalescent home form the age of 15 1/2, with the elderly the ones with no family or family that is unable to care. Now i find myself in my late 40's working with foster kids the ones with no family or ones that are unable to care for waht ever reason. i have recieved blessing in both to see these young one with hope, and the lesson i learn for the old.

How thankful i find myself to have work with the forgotten one of our time in America. One of my favorite memories is a little old lady that was a Sunday school teacher she would sing Jesus love me, over and over all day. Some found that trying on there ears but for me i looked forward to seeing and singing with her each day she was a little ray of sun shine, in all the sadness. I find my self once again looking for the lessons and blessings, the more i look the more i see. We are a strong nation, and i love that there are thoughs out there helping all over the world. Yet were will we be if we as a stong nation fall our children and fall our elderly i think about what do other country see in us. What is your thoughs? Talk soon s.

THANK GOD FOR THE LITTLE DEVILS!

Started off the morning stuffing the turkey and of course devil eggs! That's my little devil always helping!

Mom and her youngest stripping Brussels sprouts. If your are from India's family they call them money balls i asked why she call them that she said "i dont know my dad always call them that". I have had susi money balls any one out that has another food item, with the same name?

it was great to have everyone pitchin and help, my back was out and i wasn't feeling very good the last couple of days! how could i not be thankful!

Brittnee and India with the wish bone ! i hope she get her wish . . .

and we finished off the night with some friends a simple Thanksgiving. I loved it, i hope yours was simply blessed!

Yoly made Pad Thia, i am sorry i didn't get a pic of it for you it's yummy! every one went home with leftovers. Nowing I don't have to cook for the next few days gives me one more thing to be thankful about, take care and talk soon. s.

TITLE THIS POEM MONDAY

LAST WEEK WE HAD ONLY ONE RESONCE THANK YOU AMY FOR STOPING BY LAST WEEK : so this week i will give you a hint; this one was writen by someone i know personal and is in a book he wrote. Enjoy!

The cable car carries me to the top of the mountain,
The sunlight of autumn caresses my head.
Vast clouds and mists fill the sky,
The Capital has disappeared,
only the sun shines!

The Fragrant Hills are radiant;
Autumn leaves, red as fire,
Have spread their sweet scent far and near.
The chillness of fall has already come;
Were i never again to see their rich color,
My heart would break!

Can you tell me who wrote this, or the title? last weeks poems "Journey of the Magi"

talk soon s.

time to Wickiup ! 3 (21's)

it's Wickiup jct time: time to be thankful for all we have around us time to make our list if we are real with ourselves we will be able to see all that God has given us. Thanks you to all who called today with wishes of a h-b day, and to thous that stop ed by, your the best. For all the loved ones that forgot. well lets be real no biggy how many time have i not called or remembered you special day, thanks for going easy on me, your the very best because you love me anyways. So many things to be thankful for. IT IS WICKIUP TIME TO START CHECKING OFF MY LIST.
time to shop smart there is 33 day left before: well yes "We all now 33 day before Christmas"

33 day before that blessed day of the birth, and with out that we would not have had Easter. Today and for the next 33 i will think about the gift of the birth as i shop for thous i love. So shop smart and give the gift of prayer, along with any other ( things ) you give, and receive with the heart of thanksgiving. So today was my 21st post, on the 21 day with 21 blessing and counting. have a blessed day and SHOP SMART talk soon. s.

E a T #3 mom's thursday guest post

Well here I am again ! I came home to shred papers that I have saved for thirty years, isn't that sad!! I don't think I will do that again for one reason i'l be dead and the other reason its to much work !!! It took me three days non stop. On a lighter note i found pictures of family that i haven't seen in years a nice surprise that brings back memories. Quote of the day keep up with your paper work its easier that way! See you next week. D.

SEPIA/BLACK AND WHITE/color

SEPIA OR BLACK AND WHITE: colorizing photo's is one of the hobbies i gave up a few years back i really love to take a photo's that has no color, and make them look like it was shot in color going through old photos i came cross these, it triggered in me a memory of going to class and learning how to colorize :

these are of my nieces and her friend she lives in Las Vegas, she comes each summer to visit, has form the age of 2 1/2 , she loves animals she has asked if she could have a zebra, horse, pig, it really doesn't matter what kind of animal. i have been pray that one day she will work with animals that she would focus on he school work. she has had a lot of up hill battle to over come, she lives in a small apartment, her nanny love her and take care of her, she gets no support from her father and it brakes my heart. Yet she still loves him, she has had to grow up and handle thing at a much fast pass then she should have had to.

i selfish prayer is that i may be there to see her fa fill her dreams, she is a special young woman still innocent in so many way, yet so grown up. Thanks for calling and keep up the good work at school your doing great. i think i will have to pick up that hobby again. i love you honey, much love aunt sherry

HIKING PIC

just one of the bridges we took to get to the water falls...
young love

Karate kid in training:

New friends Des and her man Des took up hiking as a new year resolution last year, they hike one x a week, and we got to go ! he he fun and my leg are sore but i loved it. Good work out!

good friends for about a year now just hanging out on the trail of life supporting each other. something we all need!

i enjoyed it so much that i will have to say i just may have to take it up this next year as a goal. to love on my self and get in shape. This year will be coming to a close soon have you thought what your going to do for a new years resolution i have never made one. This maybe a first.

Veterans Day

what do you see when you look at this pic ? Veterans Day is a day set aside to show respect to the ones that served in one of our Wars ! I think of when i was a little girl my mom baked she would have us once a week help her put together care packages we would sent note and letters to a young man we new and others in his troop. His name was John K. so thank you and to all that are serving today. thank you to the family's and your time aways form your loved ones. Veterans day is a day that our country has put aside to support and give thanks to thous that have gone into battle that have fought the good fight. There has been many battle through out history. in present time we have some people that were in WWII, others the Korean War, the Vietnam war. Today i give thanks to my Dad for the time he served. Now he has had many battle in his life, and from were i set the Korean War was probably the least of them. And as he enters the final days he may have on the earth i find, myself reflecting on the scars he has to carry. I pray he feals his peace and comfort. I once read how does one honor someone that has Dis-honored you. I asked my mom what she thought and she said to remove self and in cert God. This last year i have learned that most(not all) the homeless were once vets of a war or once in foster care or both. They are the one that have made this land i place were we can sleep at night, with out tanks rolling down the middle of your streets. So today i am humbled when thinking of this man and the battles only God No's yet he is still able to fight the good fight. I have new hope in a new friend received through a lovely woman Rena that i just met. She is a friend of my Dads, our friendship grows i will see a new side her refection of my Dad. We all have battles to face it's not what we go through it's how others see us as we live this life. So today i am counting my blessings. Thank You Dad for this new friend, and to my Father for this new friendship. Tring and Honor you as i grow in your light and my, this new friend only see you in me as i ask my self how can i serve today.

R/B united we stand

i just love when i don't have to cook anything for more time with loved ones. I will jump at the change to go out, for great mexican food, "why" it's cheap and it fill's you up. So off we went beause after driving Mom to the valley to vote 10 min in line 40 min. in the car to get there. Then by 11:00 picking up # 1 brother stoping for lunch to make sure mom was feed on time (diabectic) time frame keeping the sugar sugar sugar stable. ah home it is now 1:30 off to vote my self 1o min. no line, back in car off to pick up the cake across town, home by 3:oo. Set up for the night every one arrived. it's now 4:30
got in car but not before we voted ! the youngest 20, good for her i don't know if she is of the red or blue color because we dont care she voted and exercised her wright great job honey!

ah yes and we all got tat's for the ocassion. can you guess which one is mine?

the last votes were tallied before leaving for dinner! but not before the elderly cast there vote!

to enjoy dinner and return home for some fun! Just to see him smile makes me cry!

no dis-respect meant just a little humor ! but for some one that can forgive and let go he gets my vote he has my support !

This is a man that will always have my support, my vote. Even in his worst mental pain he was there for me, he helped me through porpate gave of his time to help clean up a 2800 square foot medical office (full of you name it), 2 weeks + off work then help move me to a new home . It was at a time in my life i really needed him and he shined. his mental illness has help me to grow as a person and for that i will forever me greatfull. Not only is he a freind he is my brother, happy birthday David.

SHOES/SOULS

Walking in others shoes, so at times i ponder on the paths of others. If i had lived there life how would it have been different. Then i must rest in knowing that God has a path for all of us, that he gives us no more then we can handle.
It is at this place William Woodworth my husband was laded to rest on the grounds of a desert surrounded by men that live a life of prayer . I received a letter form One of these pressies souls. The reflection of his love that day and over the past 14 year has brought tears to my eyes many times. I think of the girls there mom's and the loss they had to have felt that day and still do as they raise there families. I am sure there is others that ponder on the lose of a loved one. I am thankful in my weakness God was, and still is the strong one. The letter i received was sent to me because of a funeral, that was attended by so many that loved a very special Monk who i am blessed to have known. It reads: post maked date Oct 16Th 2008

Dearest Sherry, As you can imagine at times i frequently enjoy a certain forgetfulness----

But when i do have clear moment full pictures do restore Themselves fully. At the cemetery you were very present to me, Thank you! I realize that it must be hard to revisit pain-- But indeed

you my Friend have come a Great ways Courage and Much Love signed Dom, There are a few that know the full weight of that day and the life i lived with Bill. From the eulogy to the grave to the lunch shared that afternoon a family walked, O Lord i think of the shoes, we all walked that day and still do.

and like the Donuts from Valyermo we all have holes piece that God has removed to keep us close to him. Now some of the Donuts have big wholes with a lot of nuts, and others are like the Cinnamon sugar one's you can barley see the hole but it is there. I ponder how do people see me! Like Jackie O' with my glasses on being strong because i had to. Or like that big old nutty Donut that every one could see. And how different does God see me then others! Ah to be loved by God and prayed for by other! counting my blessing as i write this lovely man back and give thanks for his friendship. talk soon s.

DRESSER/SHEETS@3 6's

recap: Monday rested form trip Tuesday rest some more, then came Wednesday had to get out and about, Big eye opener linen and thing sale, sale, sale going out of business sale! light bulb going of in my head. eh eh bed sheet twin sett's, great so i pick up 6 why? because i like potato chips can't just have one, i am on my high getting my fix shopping i love to shop. It's Thursday Costco has taken care of this fix a few time in the past, so off i go but this time it just didn't do! The next day i still wanted to shop but it was time to hand out candy so i put on my witch's hat black pants, Palm Beach black wife beater, and stopped shopping, enjoyed the kids but that need was still there pulling at me, now what do you do when you run out of money and still have a need for that fix, you send you hubby up stairs he grabs the UN-used dresser in the spear room, you load up!! so with one big loads of sheet and a dresser I'm off, on an adventure in hope that the sheets will comfort 6 young girl in a home that has just a little more color now and when they lay there heads down i am thankful God loved and answered prayer from this little girls past and my fix is now at rest. but like any addiction i am sure it will be back, Christmas is just around the corner. re-cap of 6 days. Today was church and then time with http://www.casapacifica.org/ kid yes you are suppose to look, home by 2:00 and time with family now just a little shout out, talk soon.