Grab a box of tissues...and get ready to go 'UP UP UP' (for those of you..who have NOT met or heard of this young man)

Sometimes, I am amazed at the things...I seem to miss...

Last night I watched a video on YouTube...and in the sidebar I saw something that caught

my attention...

By the time I watched 3 video's it was past midnight...

I had tears running down my face...

and I felt blessed and lucky to have 

stumbled across the story of this family...

this young man.

Zach Sobiech is a 17 year old diagnosed with osteosarcoma, a rare form of bone cancer. With only months to live, Zach turned to music to say goodbye. Zach turned 18 years old (May 3rd, 2013) And Zach passed away

May 20, 2013

Since these videos have millions of hits...maybe it is just me..who missed out!

I was in my own fog...my mother was dying...

And Her passing was "not the way I had expected or assumed"

I think in part..that is why this touched me so.

People don't like to talk about death...I see death as a passing...

Make sure you have 45 min to hour...to get to know, this

beautiful young man ..and his family and friends.

Life has laughter..life has joy! But can there be beauty in pain? in loosing

someone we love...

I believe there can be...its a beauty that is so deep...

so real, so strong, the kind of beauty that brings us to humility and tears..

Grab more tissues...this next clip was just created...it is a year

after he passed...

  

  

and one of the the songs....he left behind...

Clouds...

There are people, who teach us a grace in life's circumstance's

that touches me sooo...

It's something to admire and uphold...

something to strive to emulate and become like!

Thank you Zach for your gift!

Maya Angelou’s Words

Yesterday, as I learned of the death of Maya Angelo 

I went to find some of the thing's that she spoke and wrote,

that touched so many lives.

I found this clip...and it made me smile...

Maya said, "I look at my life as a class"

I feel this way to, but I said it different...

"I look at life as learning"

I believe the Lord sent us here to learn...

however the choice to learn is ours and ours alone.

Like Maya, I believe we are ALL loved equally.

however some make choices that harm...

if we can love...like the lord loves,

we can have a deeper understanding and compassion for human nature...

with this understanding and compassion...

comes utter humility

As my children hit there teen years...

I realized..."Anything my child can  do...your child can do,

and anything your child can do, my child can do." yet so many times

there were parents who said, "No, not my  child"

they assumed there parenting, would keep there child from doing certain things.

I have learned that a child can struggle that comes's from a wonderful,

well parented home!  And another child, who came from great dysfunction can thrive.

who  our children become, is only part parenting...the rest is the soul we are given.

and they like us...are allowed choice's.

We can choose to take the heartache of life and let it make us bitter...

or we can choose to learn! 

There were times I looked into the heavens and wanted a time out!

But the learning never ceases.

I have learned to embrace it..and truly see the gifts in each obstacles

that comes my way...

I realize now, I will NEVER know it all.

I will never understand it all,

I will never be any better then anyone else..

I just am! 

But I made a choice to learn..from anything and everything..

that choice has been the greatest gift I have ever given myself.

I realized I am getting there...slowly one step at a time.

some learning curves take longer...but I strive to learn the lesson.

With this mind set...judgement of others has slowly gone out the door.

AND I had the nerve to think I wasn't judge mental...but I was.

I reacted as most humans would...because I had learned from humans

to react like this!

Yesterday my daughter shared with me about the women in California,

who killed her 3 little girls. Ages 3- 2 months. In that moment..my heart lurched...

but it didn't lurch  with the anger, disgust and conviction of evil in her..like it would

have 20 years ago...it lurched with utter 'Pain' for her.

There is evil out there! there are women who have killed...

but these women also abused.

The difference is in.."what kind of mother they truly were"

the difference is in the "shock" , of it, from family, friends and neighbor's!

Andrea Yates, drowned her 5 children. Yet family was trying to get her help.

No one understood why her husband stood by her.

Yet she truly loved her children..everyone saw this.

and who would know that more then her husband.

later, she let him go...he is now remarried and has another child...

but he stays in contact with her...

she has been on suicide watch countless times...

can you imagine waking up from a mental breakdown

realizing that what you loved most...you destroyed!

This woman in California also had happy healthy girls.

she loved them...but somehow she also broke...

to judge this...is wrong for we are human...

it is NOT our place. She needed help, these things happen to teach

us the reality of mental illness, Harmon changes, and that no one is immune.

It was the maternal grandma who called in...

can you imagine that mothers pain as well?...

and so I feel the 'Pain"

and I realized how different from when I had anger, and judged,

condemned and sent them to Hell mentally speaking...

I think about the children and I have no answers accept,

I picture the lords arms around them in those moments...

We have choices...and we can become bitter and judge..or see the world,

In a whole new 'Picture'.

Maya Angelou choose to learn, and she has left behind a legacy that

will never leave...she was a earthly teacher.

I pray that I can leave behind for my children and grandchildren a  

legacy of what life and love...truly is....

that is my

       prayer always....

Memorial day Story of Love and Sacrifice

In some way's I have always considered myself

LUCKY

because I was NOT born in the USA

it made me always appreciate it so much more!

to often, people complain...

not realizing the 'GIFT' of 

being here, living here!

we have more freedom's

then anywhere else!

Much more and we fight for those...

and the sacrifice for some are so great...

today I wanted to share this story...

A Memorial day story of love and sacrifice

I wrote a song..about the ones left behind

that sacrifice also....

but I don't have it downloaded to YouTube yet!

always remember to be and American...

to be here, right now..despite the political

upheaval...

we are above all..

most humbly blessed!

REMEMBER...

love and never forget!!!  

The 'Owl creek Farm' Home tour

Warm weather has arrived, and like everyone else...we are enjoying it!

Yet I am falling behind on pictures of this new home of ours...

this pic, was taken on the patio, Sunday morning...

we are still in love and in awe of this new place,

we call home!

Most of the home is pictured in this post. These are before pic's... :)

the dinning room was pictured in the post before this one.

So welcome to Our farm house

This is our living room

with beautiful wood mantel and Marble fireplace

This is the before move in pic...I choose to keep the drapes for now..they are very nice...

but the Valance's made the windows look to small...

I love bright and lite :)

this living room goes into a library/den area

Here is the opposite view. Showing the other fireplace and the Library den area.

our furniture is a bit sparse in this area...but we have plans :) This Library has floor to ceiling book cases

It reminds my grand daughters of 'Bell' in the castle Library.

To the left you can see the entrance to the dinning room...you can also see

the hallway with the staircase..and the cutest lil half bath 

under this staircase

This is our front door..solid brass and we have a very special key

And my Grand daughters eye's get wide..for only a mini castle..has this kind of Key :)

And the doors, have unique beautiful wonderful

solid brass knobs!

The little half bath under the stairs..is a Princess/ prince

bathroom! Because...

It has the perfect lil dental sink and sold brass Lion fixtures!
2 of our grand daughters were so thrilled they could reach the sink..
they washed there hands 3 times! I found the perfect mirror Yesterday to go in here!

The perfect lil princess/ prince bathroom
down the road I will take better pictures of this.

At the top of the stairs is built in dressers in the closets...
big solid and wonderful!

This is the beautiful brass upstairs hall light.
If you turn to the right on the top of the stairs,  you come to the upstairs bathroom
across from these wonderful closest

Oh the plans I have for this bathroom
and it's vanity :)

This bathroom also has sconces lighting
if you walk past this bathroom,
you come to the upstairs guest room.

This room has amazing views...and the birds can be heard singing
through the windows!

Notice the brass curtain rode? I had never seen one...I took all the other fixtures down...
the simplicity of these solid brass Rod's was beautiful enough.

Another view, and once again the beautiful brass sconce lighting!
as you can see, my style is just made up off many things I love.

The view down the hallway to the other bedroom...
Our grand baby room or kids room...
I will show that at a later date...still tweaking some things there :)

close up on the sconce's :)

Bottom of the stairs. How I love the wood and curve's.

down to the basement we go next...

I created a sewing room/ laundry room combo
in this space...the basement is not 100% finished.

The sewing room holds many things that my mom had in her sewing room...things i gave her,
and things left behind... this I made for her many years ago. it was my first attempt at painting a
rose...not so good..but I was thrilled you could tell what it was...lol
This is the first time, I have ever had a sewing room...a space
for all my sewing and craft things.

This has a variety of a lil bit of this...and lil bit of that...

This is the full view of this side.

The lamps in this room...I gave her, this pillow I made her
and the angel was the last birthday gift...on her last birthday...
along with several other lil things.

The sweater...my mom knitted for one of her Gr Grand daughter's. the purple bracelet
i wore during the last 2 years and her fighting cancer...
the little sewing machine sign I also made her...
much that you see in this room was gifts to my own mother...
and you can see the last picture of us alone...
taken on mothers day May 2013

This is the laundry side of this room.

From the top of the basement steps this is what you see...the door strait ahead is our
other guest room...I am calling it...
'The Montana room'

The Montana room has a king size bed and all our Pine furniture!

This space is cool in the summer and warm in the winter...and it has it's very own...

Half bath :)
I will show the before pic's of the master suite, kitchen and grand children/ kids room
soon! we have been busy with family, company and
grand babies...

This lil one, loved helping her Nana and Pa pa in the gardens!

Once she new...it was OK to have dirt between your toes...

she literally had the time of her life! 

here she is with Papa and Uncle Bubba!

This lil grand daughter also loved loved the farm :)

But...when she checked the mail and found a spider on the mail...
well that just didn't impress her much!

Soooooo if we are slow at blogging...it's because
its warmer and we are all enjoying
our farm...and home :)  (our oldest Grand daughter as the sunset!)

Inside 'Owl Creek farm's' Cape Cod/ farm house...The Dinningroom

What room to start with??? I was planning on the living room/ Library/den combo...

but for some reason decided to start with the Dinning room :)

When you come through the door of Owl creek farm...

This is the tunnel view you get :) because our camera's don't like to have 

peripheral vision! See the hallway to the left? and the wonderful  wall sconce's?

There is a wonderful storage closet there. And the door strait ahead? a Coat closet..then to

your right a peak into the library/den area and to the left a peak into the living room :)

(In many ways these are before picks...because I have not painted anything yet) I love this green color...but it's to dark  for this area of the home...yet it has been done so nice...

this wont be first first on my list...)

This is the dinning room before we cleaned and moved things in...

notice there was no overhead light??!

It had the wonderful Real brass sconce lighting 

but for eating, that wasn't really 'lite' enough...

We have never had a dinning room before. So this was a blank canvas and even tho

down the road I will paint...I was so excited about this big dinning room :)

I just had to have this Harvest Table! It's 8ft...and yet, that still 

wont fit all of us :)

In my dream's of chandeliers I always pictured more a white country cottage one...

But they did NOT go with this home...

However I did fall in love with this one..and it fits perfectly 

We had to swag it for now...there is no fixture there yet..and this Room only has

one outlet.

Isn't it pretty? It matches the brass sconce's !!! and the flavor of this home.

I don't have the chairs I need for the table..but I borrowed some from the Kitchen set :)

My style..ummm I love country cottage, but for my family,

the whites, the light colors, the roses..to much and they would be destroyed!

My husband is a man's man...and therefore he has dirt and grease and things hanging from his jeans.

he is not going to take his shoes off...that just is NOT who he is.

so I think you will see through out my home that I just have a 'Love Style'

I find pieces I love and put them with practical...I hang thing's

that have been gifts or made for me...because I LOVE those thing's...

so yes...a love style is what I would call me :)

My style is like, well like Music...it depends on my mood!

I love all kinds of music...country, pop, rock and roll, classics jazz..etc etc..

so my style is the same...it's what I fall in love with..right then and there... and I 

just combine it all!

I must say...I love having a dinning room! who would of "thunk it?" :)

All 5 of our kids senior pic's are on this wall (the oldest never had one taken..so we have her nursing pic up)

down the road I will have to get a 16 x 20 of her...and then we have are 5 grand kids...

so our love wall!!! 

These pic's were taken right before our Mothers day dinner!

Above the bay window :) "we create our tomorrows by what we dream today"

The lil plaque on this shelf was a gift from my husband

"we may not have it all together, but together we have it all"

This lil plaque I found..I just loved the saying because it's so true

'Integrity is doing the right thing when no one else  is watching"

I have always loved old red barns and white church's...

and to think..I now have my own old red barn...oh how blessed I am .

I am a sucker for pretty dishes! I so love them! but I hunt for special pieces.

My collection's are slow growing as I look for the perfect piece's...

but that also makes it fun.

The beautiful Brass sconces!

I will be posting more home pic's

but if your new, here are some other links that

will take you to post's about this home

and how blessed and lucky we feel.

Dream's and Blessing's

Only-3-more-days

A peak of the farm grounds and precious meant to be moments

Thanks for stopping by..I would love to hear from you!