It's August First Again...

I love this little blog and all the friends I've made along the way. I truly do love logging on every day to see what everyone has been up to! As a writer, I know that not everything I say is going to be noteworthy...but I do hope that what you find here either entertains you or educates you or makes you think.

So I'm pretty excited to have received an award from Stephanie whose blog is one of my new reads. I'm enjoying her posts...hop on over and check her out! Anyway, thanks, Stephanie for the award! I have only ever received one other one, so I still haven't prepared the official acceptance speech. :)


I am supposed to tag five blogs, but I truly cannot pick from my family of blogs. You all are superior scribblers to me! TAG!!!!!!

If you haven't seen the post below yet, you might not know that baby James arrived yesterday. My newest "nephew" whose arrival has been forever (it seems) in coming. I ended that post of his little newborn pictures by thanking God that he was able to be born yesterday...

...Because today is his big sister, Carol's birthday.

I'll probably write more about Carol and James tomorrow...but this sweet baby girl was the first birth I'd ever gotten to see. Nine years ago today, she was born, and six months later, God chose to take her back to Heaven with Him. It's something we still don't understand...something we still grieve. And yesterday as I stood in that hospital, just down the hall from where I stood nine years ago to the day, I could still remember that moment when she came into the world, and I cried for her right there in the hospital.

It was important to her parents that she and James get separate birthdays, and boy did we pray hard about that for a few hours yesterday!

So even as I celebrate this sweet baby boy...I remember his sister today.