May Birthday's

I am finally trying to catch up on all the celebrating that has taken place in May. First of all I have been sick, with this random! cold! I think my Husband may have brought it home from School. I am hardly around a ton a people every day so that can only be my guess. Anyway! I have had the worst congestion, I've been so tired yet miserable that sleep really didn't come to be in a nice way. Oh sleep how I have missed it. I even contemplated staying up all night to write if I couldn't sleep without sneezing or coughing or waking up in (ALL) hours of the night without feeling like I couldn't breath. Oh it certainly has been a long! long! week! and one long! weekend. One very (LONG) Saturday! one very, very long Saturday. I thought this being sick would never have an end! I was miserable. But thanks to God I have had my husband home with me to take care of me and help me feel better.

Thanks to him and my momma, I am feeling much! much better today. I am up and about and ready to start my day but I still plan to get plenty of sleep. Of course drinking more and more water is my new goal. Sometimes I wonder how much water I really need to be drinking and wondering if there will ever be an end to that goal. Just like doing the dishes, every time you finish doing dishes it seems that when you turn around, BAM! there they are again stacking up! oh wow! I just did the dishes and NOW there they are again, it's never ending. I feel the same way about drinking water. Didn't I just have water and now I am refilling again and on top of that I am thirsty all over again! It's a never ending cycle of love, affection and determination. I love the dishes, I am determined to stick with it because I am passionate about having a clean kitchen oh the affection I have for it all.

On the other hand rather than my complaints, I should be adding on here. I love that God has blessed me with Dishes at all. Clean water to clean my dishes, I am so entirely blessed. I am thankful that I am not trying to have a meal on unsanitary dishes simply because there is no water, I am thankful that I have water at all to clean my dishes that is clean. I have such an affection for what God has given me. Although I find myself continually having to go back for refills in water. I find that God is a God who continually pours out His blessings. Clean drinking water. I can't forget that God has been my ever lasting provider. He has continually poured out more than enough and multiplied to make it last more than enough. I have nothing to complain about. My complaints are my greatest blessings.

This month of May has been a series of celebrating many great blessings that God has poured down upon us all. First we had Mother's Day and what a blessing that we can celebrate that day with such joy! Mother's are an infinite blessing.  Even if you haven't had the best mom in the world, the idea that you were brought into this world because of her is the greatest blessing of all! You are here and alive and that is a blessing in and of it's self. Mom's are a representation of (Life) they carry life and bring life into this world. That is who Jesus is, "life" May is the month of "life eternal" always living and bring forth "Life" forever and into the Heavens. Mother's Day was filled with blessings.

After Mother's Day we celebrated my Brother's Birthday on May 6th and it certainly was a celebration to remember! God has been involved in every aspect of my Brother's life and so it was an amazing gift to celebrate his life that day with close friends and family and those who could make it. We had peach cobbler and ice-cream and a cookout. Celebrating someone's life is a gift. Something we have the freedom to do here in America. What a wonderful gift that God has given to us. From day to day life is a "treasure" we should hold on close to it because without it we would not be here. We are God's treasure. Celebrating a life is a way to check off one more year of living life to the fullest. Every year counts a new mile stone in life.

This Sunday the 17th was my yearly Day Date with my Mom. We have a special something that we like to do each Spring in the Month of May. We have a luncheon at the Country Club! I have always really enjoyed such an occasion with her. We join the ladies from the Lutheran Church and we go have a fresh salad and always cake and coffee are severed. We hear lovely singing and a guest speaker who inspires us. It was a lovely afternoon, despite trying to get over a cold, I did enjoy myself.

May 17th also brought along with it another celebration, my Husbands Birthday! He has now caught up to my age, he is 27. He will be trying to make his way over the Hill from here. We had a fantastic celebration that my parents threw for him at their house. My mom makes some of the best tacos in the whole world. She made tacos and more tacos and a lot more tacos so we had three plates full of food. We had grape juice and apple juice and for dessert some of the best brownies in the whole world thanks to Marie Calendars you just mix and bake and then you are ready to serve. They were some great brownie mix! Something my mom had on hand. Later there was a lot of gifts to open up and since we forgot the Birthday Balloons for Garret, William gave Garret His one that he got on his Birthday on May 6th, it had lasted ALL this time!

We also played a really! fun game! it had me laughing so hard I wanted to cry and cough at the same time! Ever had that happen to you? Yup, that happen to me while I was laughing and crying so hard I couldn't contain myself. It is an unforgettable game. First someone draws a simple picture a very basic picture on a piece of paper. A line, a circle, a square box with a dot inside something simple like that. Then while everyone has there face only on their paper and looking at only their paper while sitting in a circle so that everyone's back is facing each others, the person who drew the picture will give someone in the circle the chance to see the picture that is drawn. Than that person will attempt to describe and give exact instructions at to how to draw what he or she is looking at. This way once everyone has had a chance to ask questions as to clarify what it is that he or she is looking at they can turn around to see if what they have drawn matches the picture of what he or she was describing. It is an excellent way to teach the art of what is communicated and if what is communicated was said correctly and precisely. You can use words such as one inch from the margin on the paper if you want to be exact in describing what you are looking at but for those of us who do not speak in exacting terms, this is quiet the challenge and lots of fun. Of course my Military Husband who is now a Veteran! loves the game because he knows how to give orders correctly and me I might not be so good at listening to every detail especially if I am tired so the game is one that will have you have you laughing until you cry.

Our night ended with some God time here at our house we watch the movie the Bible A.D here at our house with my entire family! It is a wonderful watch! we have enjoyed it thoroughly. It is a 12 week series but within that 12 weeks we are praying for a full revival of the Holy Spirit within our lives and within the lives of our family members. We are excited to be yet again celebrating another full few months here of other things to come such as Father's Day! I still do not yet know what all I will do for Father's Day but! I will be thinking about it.