For Baby Abigail

Ashley and Trevor's new baby girl is due in a little over a week. I am ready to meet her and wrap her up in the new quilt I made just for her!

The Gardener

Elizabeth Blake loves the garden...She loves the flowers, including the clover and dandelions. She loves to smell them, pick them and water them. She loves the raspberries. She loves to pick them and more importantly - EAT them. She even loves vegetables. Beans, carrots, tomatoes, potatoes, zucchini. Ants, bees, ladybugs and butterflies. She calls the butterflies to land on her hand, but they don't seem to understand. Oh what fun it is to experience it all through her eyes. (Even when she picked ALL the windflowers...some hadn't even opened up yet.) I am blessed to have such a sweet granddaughter, and to have been able to have her close by this summer.

XLV

I hit a milestone last Saturday, and it didn't even hit me that it was coming up until I called my Great Auntie Marje on Friday.  

Friday was her 90th birthday, and I am her almost twin.  We used to celebrate our birthdays together when I was a little girl.  I always felt special, because she would send me a card on my birthday.  Just me, because we were nearly twins.  Anyways, I am now exactly 1/2 of her age...I think I have reached the middle...and then the questions started...what have I done?  What do I still want to do?  I sat in the temple on Saturday, and contemplated these questions.  I would like to live with more JOY.  I would like to focus on making this half of my life more focussed on living a Christ-like life, and loving myself and my neighbor better.  I want to do better at using my time more usefully, and I need to set some new goals.  I am excited for the next 1/2!