I Will Call Upon The Lord!

Friday wasn't a good day for me.  I woke up having that gut feeling that nothing is going to go right and I laid in bed thinking to myself I can only make it as good as I will let it be. So I got up. Got ready for my day and called Texas. That was my first mistake.  Found out that I am not seeing my baby girl today so I cried and cried.  I miss my baby girl and I know she was having fun with her family but the selfish part of me comes in to play and I just want her home to be with me.  She is mine and I don't really like her being that far from me.  

I call my friend Wendy and vent to her because she will listen to me and not get upset if I say something that I shouldn't say cause we all know we get upset and say crazy things.  But I asked her what else could go wrong today... That was my second mistake.  Shouldn't have asked that one.  

I get a text from my lil' sister asking if I have talked to my Aunt.  I almost dropped the phone, because if my little sister is asking me if I have talked to me Aunt then something is wrong because that is just very abnormal.  I texted her back and said No why?  She called me.  I am in the middle of Dollar Tree I really knew something wasn't right.  I listened to her as she read me what my aunt sent to us via a instant message, see I hadn't been home for a couple of hours so I had no idea.  The worst goes through my mind when it comes to someone needing to tell me something is wrong.  It isn't on purpose but because I am so far away from everyone, they don't bother me when its little things like so and so had a doctors appointment and things like that but they do let me know when something needed for me to know about.  Anyways, my sister reads to me that my cousin Robin's husband  'Dre is in ICU because he had to have surgery today to remove a tumor on his left lung and when they got in there it was more than expected and had to remove part of his lung and they found more smaller tumors.  I am was in shock.  I didn't talk much about it to my sister because I was in the store so we said our goodbyes.  I said a prayer as I was walking through the store looking for Sephy some shorts for camp.  

I feel bad because the missing of my daughter is minimal compared to what Robin is going through right now.  I want to be with her. I want to be there to comfort her.  I hate that we live far away from my family at times like this.  I know they know I want to be there and I just can't.  If I could I would.  Right now 'Dre needs prayers for strength, for healing.  My family needs prayers for strength to get through this with "Dre.  He has been battling cancer for over a year now.  I don't normally ask for prayer request, but right now we need it. 

On that note I had this song in my head all day on Friday.  It is one of the first Christian songs I remember from when I started going to church camp with my Cousin Robin. If it wasn't for Robin I would not be a Christian. She is the one who got me going to church and to church camp back in 7th grade.  She is my big sister! I love her, 'Dre and Lexie like there is no tomorrow and always will. 

 It is sung as a round at first. The lyrics are: 

I will call upon the Lord

Who is worthy to be praised

So shall I be saved from mine enemies

The Lord liveth, and blessed be my Rock

And may the God of my salvation be exalted

The Lord liveth, and blessed be my Rock

And may the God of my salvation be exalted

This video has two songs on it. I Will Call Upon the Lord and I Exhalt Thee.  

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My Memorial Day Weekend!

Thursday night I was sitting here reading blogs and trying to figure out what we where going to do this weekend. 

I kept talking to my Hubby saying that I really need to be in Texas this weekend. 

I need to see my family. This weekend is hard enough being 8 to 10 hrs away.  So I talked him into taking a road trip. 

It was just going to be me.  I was going to drive with Sephy and take her to her Mawma Trisha's. 

Friday Morning, hubby wakes up and starts getting ready for work and tells me to wait till the afternoon and he would go with me.  I talked him in to just calling in.  So he called in to work for Friday and Monday so he could take the sudden road trip with me to Texas.  I was glad.  It was nice for him to go with me.  

We head out at 8:30am.  No one knew we where coming down to Texas on Friday so we took our time. 

We stopped in Vicksburg and checked out the town. Visited the Old Courthouse Museum. 

Sephy made a friend. 

Read about Abraham Lincoln 

Really got in to it.  I love when she reads and wants to know more. 

First Flag after the Civil War.  They added the red chunk so that it did not appear to be a surrender.

We got to Mesquite and visited with family all evening Friday night. 

Saturday we got up early and headed to the brake place because I was under warranty and there isn't a Midas in this area so I had them check out my brakes. After we where done there we headed towards the cemeteries.  

First stop was my Grandma Bristow's.  She passed away a year ago May 29, 2009.  It has been a hard year for the whole family.  She was very dear to anyone that knew her.  She is very missed.  

The next stop was my Grandma Rose's.  She passed away June 1, 2000.  It has been 10 years.  I miss everyday too.  

The rest of the weekend I forgot my camera at the house,  so I didn't get any more pictures. 

We spent a lot of time with our family.  It was so nice because it had been since Christmas since I saw them last. I had a really good trip. Now my baby girl stayed in Texas for the month.  It is going to be a long month with out her.  I exchanged her for my teenage nephew "J" which I am going to use as a model while she is gone. I need new subjects to photograph anyways.  

I am glad to be home. Just wish it didn't end with my lip being the size of  my nose.   

I was trying to be pouty.  Just made it look even bigger.  haha

How did you spend your Memorial Day Weekend?? 

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Persephone's Ideas for my blog

Persephone is my daughter she is 10.  I refer to her as Sephy.  

We are sitting here and she came up with a list of things that I should do on my blog. 

So here it is: 

Money Monday:  take a picture of money

Food Friday:  Take a picture of food

Sun Sunday:  Draw a picture that has the sun in it and it has to be big then take a picture of it. 

and last but not least.. 

Sit Saturday:  You have to take a picture of someone sitting. 

It is all about pictures she said. 

I love doing photography challenges and she likes to do them right along with me.  That is why she came up with this list.  

School Project- Family Tree

My monkey had to do a family tree. It wasn't to hard to do.  It was a family project so we all had to work on it.  So I sat down with her yesterday and we got it done in about an hour.  They started a black history unit at school and this was the project she had to go along with it.  She really had a good time putting it together.  

Here she is with holding the poster.  (please excuse the background, hubby shot this picture this morning before school and didn't think about the background and I was still in bed.)  

We used this from www.wordle.net as a little bit of art work on it. 

If you click on the picture it will take you to it so you can see it bigger.  

For some reason it just doesn't look that great here. 

At the top she wanted to put My Family in French which is Ma Famille, I should have used white chalk.

We used this picture for her picture:  

This one of her daddy:

And this one of me.. (I covered my tat with my name, She picked out all the pictures to use.)

(I don't take pictures well and all the pictures I have that have me in them seem to have my hubby or monkey in them with me and we had to use one of just me.  This one she liked the best.)

I think that it was a lot of fun to put the tree together.  Monkey had a lot of fun doing it and She learned the names of some of her grandparents that are no longer with us.  She said momma I didn't realize that so many of our family is gone.  I told her that its okay they are all waiting on us.  

RIP 

Grandma Rose

Mawma Bristow

Pawpa 

Grampa Mike

We all love and  miss you and can't wait to see you on the other side!