Thursday Thoughts

As the day starts it is -17 degrees here...

I am thankful for heat and a warm house!
Hot coffee with flavored cream is awesome!
I am thinking I don't need to go anywhere today!
I am glad the car started for LilBlue this morning.
Only two more days til my MiB comes to see us!

We are supposed to get to 4 above, I hope so :)

Can you believe this?

MiB was on NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams but only for a blip, so don't blink or you will miss him!

Anyway, still pretty cool.

Oh wow, oh wow...

My friend nominated ME for some sort of little bloggy award thing... isn't that just so sweet...thanks so much my friend! It's a "best friends" award, cause we know each other in "real life" isn't that pretty coolio? I think so, I feel blessed that our paths have crossed and honored that she would pick me and a little embarrased as well cause you know I'm still kind of a novice to the whole blogging thing. I like to do it; if for no one else, me! So awards or not I continue on :)

I don't know if this award comes with any conditions or criteria...but I would like to thank the Academy for giving me this award...oh wait, it's not that kind of award, ha :) Well, anyway, I thinks it's pretty spiffy special, and as my southern friends say--so there ya go and there ya are!

Friday Flashback

It will soon be time to celebrate the birth of LilBlue...this is the day she got to meet her father for the first time at about 2 months old. Hard to believe this has been nearly 18 years ago; BIG flashback for me!



The homecoming was not without adventure...it took a trip around the world to bring MiB back to us in OK. He left the "sandbox" and traversed via plane through Diego Garcia, Japan, Alaska, then desparate to come home jumped in a car with three others who drove straight through from Chicago.

This was BEFORE cell phones and the not knowing was killer, all we knew is that he had left the desert. Then he was here, then there, then here, with no idea how long at each stop. You just have to love mil-air...cause it's all ya got for this type deal! Finally on US soil, but in ALASKA for heaven's sake and still dependent on mil-air we were still clueless as to his arrival home. Then another flight into the lower 48 to Chicago. This is where it got a little sticky, once in Chicago, it was commercial air and on your own flights to OKC; guess what? they were all the NEXT day so a couple of the guys decided they would rent a car and take turns driving it on in to OKC rather then wait on flights.

And about 12 hours later we were reunited after a looong 7.5 months; he left home a newly pregnant wife, but returned home to a new mother, with a most beautiful baby girl to introduce to a very excited father! It was so emotional, so exciting, so memorable, definitely a day that is etched on my heart forever. His first words were, "she's so little" and she was.

More on the birth of our one and only LilBlue in the days ahead!

Oh, don't forget to play along with Candid Carrie and the gang for Friday Foto Fiesta! It's fun and best of all completely FREE :)

Thursday Thoughts

Ohhhhh, what a week...here's what I know.

I do not like "hurling"
I am glad Lil Blue did not get it
I am so thankful I am feeling better
I think it could have been so much worse
I am looking foward and ready for the MiB visit!!

While I am not back 100% I know the worst has passed and I am so much better then I was on Monday. PTL!

Ick

Mrs Blue is not well...this is truly not the norm and Mrs. Blue does not like not being well. Let's hope it passes quickly.

Anyway, just wanted to check in and put a plug out to VOTE for another blog I follow. Her blog is Chatting at the Sky and she is amazing; I find a lot of inspiration in reading her. She is unique and very real. So if you have a minute click on the link, check her out and then give her your vote for the Best Small Blog award she is up for!

Until the quesiness is gone...

Thursday Thoughts!

WOW...it's the first day of a brand new year, so I thought that also called for a brand new layout!

Thoughts for today

• I was up shortly after midnight last night (thanks LilBlue!)
• I had french toast for brunch today, yummy!
• LilBlue still has a lingering cough...
• 2009 will bring about several changes--empty nesters.
• Still going to be working hard in 2009; those darn 5#s

So do you make resolutions? I do not, have not for some time, but if you do I hope you have success with them, unfortunately most people do not.

I mostly hope you will find contentment in 2009, real peace in your life, honesty about where you are, where you're going and how you are going to get there. I think I have shared this before but I find a lot of comfort in Jeremiah 29:11--"For I know the plans I have for you," declares the LORD, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future." God is faithful, I try to be faithful to Him, it's sometimes discouraging but when I look back on hard times in our past I see His faithfulness and that spurs me on.

blessings!