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falling apart or falling into place?
It is like that country song that says some of God’s greatest gifts are unanswered prayers. It is so very hard to understand, though. I realize He has a plan for us but this does not change the fact that I feel hopeless, angry and lost. I literally do not know what to do with my life-our lives. I’ve always felt there was more. More than just going to work in the morning, returning in the evening to cook supper and before you know it, do it all again the next day. I’ve always thought that it was a child that was missing. If this isn’t what God has in store for us, what does He want us to do? And, I worry so much about if something ever happens to one of us. I don’t want the other to be alone. I realize that is a heavy burden (and the wrong reason) to place on a child. It’s like there is two of me right now. The realistic girl, that knows God has a plan, that knows that what has happened has for a reason. The other me is so frustrated, disappointed and depressed.
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collections
Every Christmas as a child I got so excited when the present truck (UPS) came, especially when he brought the box from my Nana and Pepe. They always gave everyone the best gifts! My Nana sent a porcelain Goebel angel for each year to my Mom. I remember my Mom would open the small rectangle box as soon as the gifts arrived and display it with all of the others. She never waited until Christmas Eve when we traditionally opened our other family gifts.
We lost my Nana almost five years ago. That first Christmas all three of my siblings and I got dozens of little rectangular boxes from our Mom. She had spent months upon months scouring auction sites searching for our very own angel from every single year that Goebel has made them. She did for us what her Mom had been doing for her. Every year since there is always a small rectangular gift in with the other gifts from my Mom. I open it right away. Adam said this year, “how come you always open that and we don’t get to open anything else?”. My response was simply that my Mom did, so I am, too. Later my Mom told me we get to open our angel right away because that is the “angel rule”.
The only other thing that I “collect” is nurse/doctor dolls and figurines. I can’t actually remember when or why I started this but it has been fun. Some are very valuable, some are not, some hold special meanings to me. In the top picture there is a funny looking doctor-dude with glasses on the far left side of the photo. He has a white shirt on, stethoscope around his neck and is behind Garfield and Mickey. He is a thumb person (if you click on the picture to make it bigger you’ll see this guy’s arm is actually a giant thumb!) and is from my Pepe. While very ugly and odd, he is awesome! My Pepe used to say he liked the thumb people because “everybody is thumbody”.
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time
I thought I had plenty of time. Embrace life. Don’t count on tomorrow, next month or even next year! Whatever it may be, trust God and go for it!
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Rock and Roll….and the naughty restaurant
When I was young I loved Saturday nights. My parents would have a radio station of some sort playing that would play rock from the 60s and 70s. They would have contests where you had to call in the name of the song to win a prize. My Dad always knew the song. Always. He would tell me the name and I would run as fast as my little legs would take me to the kitchen (where our only phone was!) and I would quickly dial the station. I never got through but he was always right. I’ve mentioned before that we absolutely love Cirque Du Soleil-like lurrrve it! On our trip we went to see Love-for the third or fourth time! The Beatles always bring me back to those Saturday nights.
I like it more each time I see it and I see things every time that I didn’t see before! If you ever have the chance, you just have to see it! Confetti shoots out of the ceiling a few times and there are speakers in the seats so you are in the music. Here is the way the show opens- (it is awesomesauce!):
We also saw Rock of Ages for the first time. It was great-brought us back to slow-dancing at junior high dances, making out at the softball field (sorry, Moms!), big hair, neon-ness, tight-rolled jeans and mullets.
When entering the theater they gave us these lighters-that were LED for us to wave during the concert! Perfect!
We wished we had these costumes with us from an 80’s party we went to a couple of years ago!
We ate a restaurant called Dick’s Last Resort-awesome burger place. We thought it may be kind of like Ed Debevic’s in Chicago, where the servers are rude on purpose and entertain while you are eating. It was similar only in more of an adult-sort of way (duh, look at the name). They make hats for the diners with sayings on them. I was kind of a smarty-pants to our server and he got me back with my hat-we aren’t comfortable ever.repeating.what.my.hat.said. EVER.
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