Blog Your Heart - February

It's that time again!!  This time I'm less that 2 weeks behind.  But I honestly just adore that scrapbooker/blogger Stephanie Howell does this and encourages us to participate.  You can check out her post over here. 

If you don't know the rules, here's a quick run down.  You should do it too. 

1. blog whatever is authentic. whatever is truly on your mind and in your heart.
2. it can be serious, silly, short, long. note:no one said it has to be serious. but it should be authentic.
3. no judging allowed no snarky comments, no making fun, no passive agressive digs.if you are going to read the blogs linked below, don't be mean. nothing here is whining. it's me honestly sharing my feelings. if you feel that it's whining, then you don't have to read. :)
4. if you BYH, link back here. i'll add an inlinkz tool at the end of the post. i always read and comment on every single post.
5. feel free to use the graphic above. just make sure to link back to me. (Me being Stephanie)

Ok, here we go!!

1 - Missing this little peanut most terribly.  Her Mom sent me this picture just yesterday and it warms my heart. 

She is snuggling with a turtle we got her.  Yes, a brown turtle.  It is SO Lizzie.  Has the big droopy eyes and everything.  Each one of us gave our "love turtle" some hugs before we put it in the box and shipped it to her for Valentine's Day.  I think she likes it.  Makes this Grandma's heart happy.  She said his name is "Vallie".  Because she got him for Valentine's Day.  Why does she have to be on the other side of the country?  Thank goodness for Skype, cell phones and pictures.

2 - This girl is on the adventure and dream fulfillment of her lifetime (so far).

Tabitha (in the stripes, for those that don't know her) is on her African Adventure.  It is so amazing to see how far our sweet girl has come in the past 3 years.  We will share details on her trip when she gets back.

3 - My heart is so full for my hubby.  He works so hard.  Harder than me most days, I feel.  But we got to steal away for a very quick weekend to fly to San Francisco for the chocolate business.

It was great!  And he spoiled me too with the hotel we stayed in.

YES!!!  This is the lobby of the hotel we stayed in!!  Is this elegant or what?

4 - Grateful for medicine!!  As mentioned in the previous post, I was sick.  Still have that nasty cough where people think you must be a smoker and need to change brands or something.  But in a crazy, sort of insane way, I was kind of glad that the "keep going no matter what" attitude in me didn't keep going.  Rob and the kids sure got first hand experience of what "Mom's jobs" are around here.  They did great and pretty much kept the house together.  LOVE THEM!!!

5 - Challenging and completely out of my comfort zone!

Those bags full of percussion instruments are MINE!  The rest on the tile belong to my kids.  Yup!  I'm in a musicial production in the orchestra pit WITH 2 of my children.  NEVER in my wildest dreams did I ever think that would happen but it is.  The part out of my comfort zone?  Playing the snare drum.  It really is stretching me.

6 - Makes my heart happy when I hear my boy FINALLY got a job in his field of expertise.  Praying and hoping all hope it's the career job for him.  He needs it!!

7 - ALWAYS, ALWAYS, ALWAYS thinking and praying for our soldier in Qatar!  We miss our son-in-law Ryan like crazy and email him and send him care packages.  Still counting down the days until he returns.

8 - And trying to appreciate the beauty of the area where we live just a little bit more.  It seems when we fly somewhere else and then come home we notice the beauty even more.

And there's my heart ... for now.