Tuesday, August 3, 2010

a present for heaven

Today is a hard day to remember for all of us kids and I never really know how to approach it.  What can I do to make sure I am remembering, but at the same time not allow myself to get too sad?  I don't even know how to bring it up with people because it feels awkward and I don't know just what to say.  Jimmy and I talked to Erin on the computer this morning and we thought we should all eat a donut in honor of mom.  Coincidentally, Jimmy has been getting better at drawing these days and he especially likes making circles.  He started drawing circles inside of circles on my birthday card and I told him it looked like donuts.  Now we add frosting and sprinkles to them as well.  So we thought we would send this via "Angel Mail" to heaven to let Nona know we are thinking of her today.  Since I don't actually know how to do that outside of trying it to a white dove and letting it go into the sky, I thought if I put it on this blog that it might get there via the internet since surely they can get that in heaven. 


Hope to talk to you all at some point today, if I don't see you.  I know we have not kept up with our ideas for this blog and I really want to start up again.  Let's try to get it ready to share with the family by Mom's next birthday if we can.  To start us off again, here is a photo of all of us where hopefully none of us look too embarrassing.  What a great family!

We miss you Mom! 
Love you all!  ~Mary

Wednesday, May 20, 2009

was this...

the disneyland trip when mom woke us up and asked if we wanted to go to school or disneyland?


i remember sleeping in those old wooden bunk beds mary and i were sharing at the time and still half asleep hearing mary say, "school." what a sarcastic little fireball... or did you really want to go to school?
also, mary and i (although especially me) had some awesome fashions going on... were vests super in style or something?

our back yard...



rocky point trip II


















rocky point


























dorothy


st. patrick's day parties



beautiful

i realize this picture is really blurry, but i love it anyway. for some reason this is how i picture mom when i think of her. perhaps because this was always my favorite hair style? maybe because i was at the age when your mom was your whole world and so this is how she has always been in my mind? i don't know... but i just think she looks so beautiful and so happy. isn't this from mame and pop's 50th anniversary? there have got to be more pictures of mom from this day, but for some reason this is the one dad had...