A BELATED HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO MY MOM

Sunday would have been Mammie's 89th birthday. I wasn't there at graveside in person but someone else went for me and tenderly placed the flowers there. She called me while she was at Graveside, thinking someone had stolen the marker from the grave but there isn't one yet. I am finding it difficult to chose. I miss my mother and The call as a tiny blessing. It brought me to her side on her birthday. Happy Day, Mumsie Dearest. Love from your Bobbie.

HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY
TO ALL THE NUTTY MOTHERS!

Hope your day is wonderfully
filled with love and joy.

Miss you (and everyone) lots and lots!

Love Love!
Christie

A Couple Causes

I've found out about a couple websites recently that I want to share with you all because I think they are some great causes.

The first one is To Write Love on Her Arms. This is their mission: "To Write Love on Her Arms is a non-profit movement dedicated to presenting hope and finding help for people struggling with depression, addiction, self-injury and suicide. TWLOHA exists to encourage, inform, inspire and also to invest directly into treatment and recovery." They are faith based and focus a lot on community and the idea that people need other people.

The second one is Spread the Word to End the Word. The word they mean is the "r-word," or "retarded." This is a word I never use towards another person and I think this cause is a great one. For those of you who knew and loved Dolly, it's a website worth checking out.

I hope everyone is doing fabulously! I miss you all lots and hope to see you soon- if not on my trip home in May, then at Auntie Cindy's party in June!

Spring and Goats

I thought I had photos but I don't.

The goats have returned from their winter pasture.

Spring has sprung.

Stop by anytime, Jenn. They've been asking for you.

Candle Party

hello everyone...or lack of everyone??


anyways, I'm having a candle party at my house on monday, May 11th, and everyone better be there. haha. I don't know what time yet, but make sure your schedules are free!!

I'll post again when I figure out what time it will be, in the mean time, I expect to see some people posting!

Animal Planet

or life in the real world...

While we were visiting Grandpa Joe, I was watching the birds out the front window.
All of a sudden, I noticed what I thought was a morning dove and a blue jay going at it. Being nosy, Grandpa, Ruth, and I got up and moved to see what was going on.

It was this :

I am still trying to ID the hawk, but it was pretty interesting, yet kind of, um, well, morbid, to watch the battle. However, we watch Animal Planet, and here it was right in front of us...

I know it's Easter not Mother's Day but.......

Mike listens to "Music to Go to the Dump By" on Saturday mornings and introduced me to this song which I must share:



Loved it. Hope you do too!

hello!

Well, I guess it's been a million years since I posted last. I have been working. I went to boston for a super boring seminar with my friend Steve that also works at Second Growth. I have also been playing twister every week with some recovery friends. I had to do CPI training for VV last week, it was tough after like six hours of twister. haha. It's crisis prevention and intervention. Basically how to de-escalate someone who's super angry, and how to physicaly restrain them if they can't verbally de-escalate. Yesterday, I got some of my tattoo on my shoulder done.

I was going to post a picture of it, but I can't seem to find where they uploaded too! haha.

So anyways, that is my life in a nutshell....whats going on for everyone else?

Easter egg hunt

Our church did an Easter Egg Hunt on Palm Sunday. My class hides the eggs, while the younger groups find them. This is Ruth’s last year to hunt. Didn’t it go by fast?

 

 

 

 

HEY FAMILY!

So, I did this whole post and took forever because putting pictures on here and labeling them all is a pain, and when I posted it I realized it was the reading blog, not this one. So oy vay. It's been so long since I posted, I thought I would give a little update. I'm not sure if I've mentioned on here, but I have a second job now, working in the box office at the Washington Performing Arts Society, which sponsors all sorts of shows (mostly music--classical, jazz, etc) at different venues in the city. It's pretty good, though I hate being cooped up in an office all day. The extra paycheck is really nice. Also, I'm sure you all know, I'm living with Christie right now. It's fun, nice to have sister time. The commute is brutal, but it beats paying rent. Anyway, for some fun things-I recently made a trip up to Philadelphia and we went to the Eastern State Penitentiary, the oldest penitentiary in the world, I believe. Not to be confused with prison--apparently they are different things. Pictures!

Watch Tower

Death Row

Al Capone's Cell

It was really cool and old and creepy. I'm hoping to go back sometime and do the ghost tour. OOOOOOO!!!! Scaryyy. Anyhoo, hope to hear from the rest of you soon. LOVE LOVE!