Graduation Time!

This past weekend Nate and I ventured south to West Monroe, Louisiana to see my brother graduate from High School Monday night.  We had a very good visit.  I got to spend some quality time with my best friends and my brother! I still can remember when he was Nate's age.  Just doesn't seem possible that he has graduated High School.  It really didn't sink it to me until the band was playing the alma mater that I began to tear up thinking that just nine years ago I walked across that stage and accomplished the same victory that my brother was accomplishing that very moment! It hit me like a ton of bricks! I just want to sit him down and beat into him how to live his life because I have been there and done that. But I know that he has to learn from life and he isn't always going to make the right choice. But I do know that he has a strong foundation and a good head on his shoulders and he has such a BEAUTIFUL life ahead of him.  He is gonna do great things! I am so very proud of the man he has become! So even though Graduation Time was a little teary for me it means that my brother has made it through the first 13 years of school and I know that I had a part in those years and all I can do is SMILE!!

Mother's Love

Mother's Day is Sunday.  What a wonderful day to celebrate a mother's love for her children.  I didn't fully grasp that till I became a mom myself.  Growing up I always would make sure on mother's day that I would go out of my way to make sure my mom felt special.  When I found out I was pregnant with Nate a million thoughts went through my head almost instantly.  Thoughts about how I wanted to raise this baby to be strong and to always know he was truly loved.  I wanted nothing but the best for him.  Last year I got real emotional on mother's day because I finally got all the sacrifices my own mother had made for me throughout my life. I know that every woman out there who is a mother will understand that making those sacrifices is very worth it.  From the time I heard Nate's little heartbeat to watching him take his first breath, I have had a love like no other for him. Nothing can take the place or compete with a Mother's Love.  So on this Sunday, take time to truly make your mom feel special and if you are a mom also, Happy Mother's Day!!!!!

May Flowers

Recently we have got lots of rain which we did need some but I am very over the rain! My grandma (dad's mom) would always say March winds bring April showers which bring May flowers which cause June weddings! I always think of that in the spring and I always think of my dear Grandma Little.  She died unexpectedly when I was a sophomore in high school.  This October will mark twelve years she has been gone and it just doesn't seem right.  My grandma and I were very close!  I just feel like our time was cut short. She wasn't here to see me graduate, get married, or become a mom.  That is very tough for me because I want to be able to share all of my life's happiness with her! But then I remind myself she is and did get to see all of those things because I know without any doubt she is looking down on me from heaven! The night before her funeral those almost twelve years ago I had a dream that I was sitting on her couch and she was sitting in my Pawpaw's chair and she smiled at me and said I am ok and then she was gone.  I have carried that dream with me always and just remember that she is smiling down on me! So every year when Spring rolls around and all the rain comes I think right around the corner are some May flowers and I smile!