Family

Family is important and this summer I enjoyed seeing my cousins that for some reason through the years contact was lost. Getting together was fun and the reminiscing of times gone by was enjoyable.


As I looked around at all of us I can truly say we all got a bit older but none of us changed inside, we still laughed and enjoyed each others company. How sad there was time missed in the years we had let slip by, then I realized it was only time that was lost not our feelings of family affection.

Little ones have grown and new ones have entered each others life, and so the cycle begins again.

Hopefully they will not loose touch with each other as we had done and can grasp onto the branch that becomes the family tree.

"I look back at my childhood and wonder if others do the same, and hopefully we will get together, and not just in the shadows of my mind…"

LuLu Borealis

August 25, 2010

Life Starts Anew

Spring has arrived and life starts anew, and I am happy to announce that we have a new addition to our family; Drew was due in April, but arrived on March 28th. I am looking forward to watching him grow and discover all the new things that surround him. Right now his main interest is eating and sleeping

Valentine's Day

To my love, I give a token, to show how much I care.

To my love, I give my heart and all my soul to bare.

To my love, I am just hoping your love you’ll want to share.

L. A. Hardt 2/28/2010

 With Valentines Day coming up rather fast you can’t help wonder what to get that special someone. With talk of health and diets, it might not be so wise to offer that box of chocolate. Hmmm….I’ll will never turn away a box of chocolate, I am reading that chocolate is good for you, and we all want what is good for us.

I feel a bit guilty because it seems females do much better on this holiday then the men do, okay I don’t feel that bad. I will admit I always loves those red paper hearts surrounded by that white paper lace that we made when we where kids. Those school projects might account for my craft hobbies.

I love crafting and will try most things, some of my favorites are jewelry making along with scrap booking and I make my own embellishments. I am always amazed to see what talents are out there taking place in someone’s kitchen. The human imagination is endless when it is set free.

It is said that there is no greater gift in life then love…I disagree I think it might be compassion.

LuLu Borealis

1/28/2010

On A Cold Winter Day

On a cold winter day I went with my sister to visit the town dock. It was freezing out but I had my camera and ready to take pictures. I had never really used this camera before, my son gave it to me and unfortunately he didn’t know where the instructions were on how the camera works.

I love to take pictures and always carry a Kodak digital that fits nicely into my purse and the only thing you have to do is press a button and the picture is taken. This camera was a new experience with more things to use to focus with and with finger tips freezing I stood on the windy dock taking pictures.

My sister was a good sport and stood out in the freezing wind with me, until she gave me that look, you know the one, where she knows you’re crazy and now she doubts
her own sanity. Anyway we both got back in the car and
looked at the camera to see if we could see how the pics came out but because it is an older digital the screen isn’t too big. I decided the only way to tell how the pictures come out was to wait till I got home.

Well I have to say I love the pictures.

"Sometimes life gives us nice surprises, one of them is nature."



LuLu Borealis

1/19/2010

My Paradise Moon Wishes Everyone a Happy Holiday

On Sunday evening I watched as the snow fell from the sky, the first snow of the season. When I awoke the next day the snow of the season deposited itself all over and caused cars to slid and slip including the plow. It was beautiful and new and even the dog found it fun to play in.

And as I get ready for the holiday I look out at
the snow, and recall so many fun things I did as a child.
I didn’t care how cold it was out; I rode my sleigh up
and down a hill of white cold snow.

I would go home and take off my wet gloves and boots and my fingers and feet burned as they thawed out. The next day I put on the gloves that dried near the stove and shoved my feet with my shoes into my goulashes
and went out again.

There are many memories in my mind as I sit here, the glass wax that my mother added color to and decorated the windows, the small round silver, green and red foil wreaths with the orange lighted candles in the middle that she put in each window.

The large colored Christmas lights that was wrapped through the branches that had so much space between them that the light radiated out of the tree which the balls and tinsel reflected the colors.

My heart is full of memories and good wishes for all to enjoy their holiday.

“Memories are precious stories that we share with ourselves and others like little pages of our lives.”

(If you double click on pics they became enlarged)

LuLu Borealis
12/21/2009

4 Weeks to Christmas

Now that Thanksgiving is over, this is where time seems to fly. With Christmas being less then 4 weeks away, I suggest getting any online shopping done ASAP. I worry that items that I order won’t come on time.

Most of the shopping that I do on the handmade shops seems to get here very quickly, but with the shipping it is not always in the hands of the seller. I myself mailed things early enough to reach the destination, and somehow it vanished into limbo, causing much anxiety and panic.

Although I insure any thing that I mail, thinking this will guarantee me delivery I am always reminded there are no guarantees in life. I chew my fingernails and pace the floor until I hear it finally has arrived, and I can begin to breathe again.

As I give a sigh of relief after hearing the last of my packages were delivered and arrived intact I very quickly forget all the anxiety I had just been through as I am told they love what they received. Yes I will again go through this year after year as I pack up the last of my gifts and run off to mail them.

"I wonder if people really see the true gifts in life...?"

LuLu Borealis
11/30/2009

The Colors of Fall in Late Afternoon

I just wanted to share some of pictures I took with my little camera.

These were taken not to far away from where I live in the late afternoon. I didn't have to travel far from home to get these wonderful shots...

"Nature has an eye for natural beauty."

LuLu Borealis

11/2/2009