My First Meme!!!

I've been tagged to play the middle name game. First, the rules:You have to post these rules on your blog. Players, you must list one fact that is somehow relevant to your life for each letter of your middle name. If you do not have a middle name, choose one you would like to have. When tagged, write your own blog post containing your middle name facts. At the end, choose one person to tag for each letter of your middle name. Then leave them a comment telling them they have been tagged.



G.....Godly woman, at least I strive to be! I fail a lot though.



R.....Reader, I love reading all sorts of books.



A.....appreciative of every blessing, every friend, every kindness shown, mostly that I know Christ.

Y.....Yawn, honestly, I am ALWAYS sleepy, especially if I should be dusting!


C....Caring, in fact I care too much sometimes and actually feel others' pain.

E....Enthusiastic...about life. O. K. not all the time, but hopefully most?

That was fun....now I tag Kristie and Emily.

America, the land of the free and the home of the brave!

I remember exactly where I was when I heard about the Twin Towers. I was in my car headed to a nice day at the beach, where my mama had a condominium and my aunt and two sisters were there already. I was almost there when my cell phone rang and a friend said, turn on your t.v. to which I replied I'm in the car. She told me that a plane had flown into one building.....I said what an awful accident! As i was on the phone with her, she exclaimed oh, my, another one! I hung up, too confused to talk.

When I arrived at the condo, my sisters were in front of the t.v. One sister was saying this is the start of WWIII. I was sick as I watched. I was a child during the Cuban Crisis and it felt like that only worse.....we were attacked in our safe, secure country.

That event started a huge wave of patriotism....where has that gone? Now we are all pulling against each other. We have forgotten that we are or were once the greatest nation in the world, even though we are such a young nation.

Those of us who know that this country was founded on Christian principles and believe that separation of church and state simply means the state can't interfere with the church, not that the church can't be everywhere, believe that without God, our nation is in deep trouble.

Let's pray that we will get back to the basics....love of God, love of fellow man and the spirit of helping one another. God bless American, land that I love!!

Pray for This Family

The following is an excerpt for the Wilhoite Pray Blog, written by Amy's husband.

My dear beloved Amy has gone home to meet her Lord. Shortly after 4:00 PM on this, September 10th, 2007, she took her last sweet breath. Moments before, she leaned up to me, and with much effort, told me she loved me - and gave me a kiss through her oxygen mask.

My heart is heavy for this young family. The grace and faith shown by them all has been a true picture of Christ. I don't know the family except from the Blog world, but I have been praying for Amy, Brandon and Gary. May God's everlastiing arms hold you and comfort you in this sad time. Amy is well now, healed by our savior.

It's a Magical Place!

Here we are, 7 women all 50 and over, starting off on their great adventure to Disney World! My conditions for going were 1. NO CHILDREN 2. NOBODY UNDER 50 and 3. NO SIBLING FUSSING! (j.k. about that last one!) So our group consisted of 3 sisters, 1 cousin and 3 friends.






I was already tired in this picture after driving all day and getting lost before we got there. Here we are stopped in a very nice subdivision trying to understand how we had gotten lost. Three of our group had printed out directions using Mapquest and all 3 were different! I was thinking to myself....as often as my sisters go, they should know the way by heart. :) We did finally manage to get to our destination, then went through about an hour of trying to get our rooms straightened out...I'll just say this, Enrique retired after we left the desk! Poor thing had 7 women trying to explain the room situation to him at one time. He did manage to maintain a smile, but I'm betting he went to the back after we left and took two tylenol and maybe cussed.




These are my two sisters, one older and one younger. We had a great time being together.

Here are Mickey and Pluto crouching down, hoping we won't come over and make fools of ourselves with them!

We went from park to park and did lots of stuff....my favorites were, Expedition Everest, Soaring, Tower of Terror and Nemo. Expedition Everest is a huge roller coaster. We rode it several times, one day 3 times in a row. My stomach started to protest after the third time.

We walked and walked and did too much to tell. It was so much fun (although don't try to tell my feet that!), but I'm glad to be home. So thanks to our 7 husbands, children and my two sweet dogs for living without us for 5 days. They all survived!

I'm back and I'm tired!

Now in case anyone tries to tell you a trip to Disney World is a restful vacation, I must send them there with my sisters! We had a GREAT time and I promise to post pictures of the group of 7 over 50 women. But not tonight...I have to soak my feet! :)

M I C K E Y M O U S E

Can you just hear the song in your head? Tomorrow morning bright and early, we set off for Disney World. My sisters, 3 friends and a cousin flying in from Virginia are going for 4 fun filled days in Orlando. I'm still trying to pack.....I have packing and clothing issues. I never know what to pack and usually wear 1/8 of what I take.

I'll be back Saturday!

The Joy of it all....Katie's Engagement

The engagement party was so much fun! I'm always so happy when the girls are here, especially when they can all be here together now that they all have such busy lives! Meeting Beau's mother was a pleasure and seeing old and new friends together to wish the couple a wonderful life was, well, it was just a good night!

Mary Grace, Emily and Katie had a great week together and today Emily flew back home. I want to write more about the party, but I am tired....a good tired.

AND, I have to start packing to go to Disney World Tuesday with my sisters. So more later!