A Georgia Angel

Happy Friday Ya’ll.  I was just over at Sited and Blogged checking out their new posts this morning.  They have announced there is a new link site available and they will be hosting monthly blog hops, with the first introductory blog hop starting today.  The great thing about this Linky is that once you sign up, you are updated on all the blogs that are participating.  Makes it much easier to hop over and visit the new participants.  The introductory theme is “Introduce your blog…”

My name is Karen, and I’m a 47 year old single mom.  I have a 5 year old named Leah Rose, she is an energetic, chatty, intelligent child and keeps me on my toes.  She has been diagnosed with Freeman-Sheldon Syndrome and has a repaired midline cleft in the soft palate.  I, too, am like Jo, her children are 14 years apart, and mine are 16 years apart.  I have a 21 year old son, named Ted.  He’s single and unattached, and works as an aircraft mechanic.  He just bought his first home, and has a motorcyle, a convertible sports car for every day driving, and an RX-7 for car shows, and a jeep.  He is doing very well for himself and I am very proud of him.

For the past 13 years, I have worked full-time as an administrative assistant for a technology services company, and during the past 5 years I have been telecommuting, which is a blessing.  I love to blog, but sometimes I don’t write a lot, probably use photographs I have taken more than anything else.  Every now and then, I post a poem that I have written, but I do have some posts that I think are worth taking the time to read, here and here.  I also enjoy reading other mom blogs, reading books, web design & graphics, crochet, and sewing.  Oh, and I like to collect teddy bears and angels.  See  my “Teddy” and my  ”Angel” in the picture above?  :)

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Photo Taken:  6/20/09

This was a yellow flower that was growing around my aunt’s mailbox.  I stayed with her a few days to give my mom a break.  I thought these flowers were so lovely, and I played around with my camera some.  But it was awful hot.  The sweat was just pouring like rivers down my neck, but it was definitely worth it, I think.

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If you came by yesterday and saw my Wordless Wednesday post, you saw a bird sitting on a bird bath.  The bird is a female cardinal, and she would come out in the evenings for food on the bird feeder.

But only after “Daddy” had been by to check things out and give the all clear.

Unfortunately, the squirrels destroyed my fancy smanchy birdfeeder.  

So we had to get a “squirrel proof” birdfeederl

Unfortunately, “Mama” doesn’t like it.  I watched her for a couple of days trying to get food out of the bird feeder, but she just couldn’t manage.  She would just flap her wings trying to land on the shorter pegs.

So here is the photo I posted yesterday.  Here she is sitting on the bird bath.

Can you see what she is looking at? Look in the far left middle of the photo.

Do you see it?

Wait for it!

It’s Daddy!

He brought the food to her.

Isn’t that about the sweetest thing?  When I saw she was having trouble getting the food, I went out and sprinkled a little on the ground.  Then I sat with my camera on the tripod with the remote in my hand, about 10-12 feet away, and waited.  I really thought she would go after the food, but Daddy went scouting for it and brought it to her.  I stood there in awe and wonder as he flew back and forth several times dropping food in her mouth.  I think I read somewhere that cardinals are monogomous for life.  ”Daddy” is a very good provider.  I’ve watched him chase away some other bigger, male cardinals and, boy, he is tough.

It’s a wonder that these pictures turned out at all, they aren’t great, but I just kept clicking the button during the whole scene, hoping to get a few good shots.  I was thrilled at the way they turned out

I hope you have enjoyed my Bird Love Story.  Happy Thursday to all.

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See my Tell Me Thursday post here.

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Photo Taken:  5/8/09

This is one of the photos that I took when I took a drive through my neighborhood back in May.

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Mommy of the Week

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Thanks Jeanne!

This is a great group.  Come on by and check it out!

I’m still looking for quality articles for my Mommy Inspired Blog Carnival for the month of June.  I should have posted it last week, but I’ve been so busy with helping my aunt that I decided to postpone it.

Have you written a post lately that tells of how much your children inspire you, or how much you love your children?  I’m not really looking for articles on how-tos or tips on being a mother, just a story that tells of a mother’s love for her children.

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I need a pick me up, so I’ve been trying to think of good things that have happened lately.  I’m trying not to focus on the pain I’m experiencing all over, or my financial worries, or the not so great things that happened this week.

The good things…

1.  I had to get 2 prescriptions filled, and I was expecting to have to pay a total of $70 for them.  Instead I only had to pay $10 for one of the scrips and that was it.  The other one didn’t cost me anything.  Amazing.

2.  I’m thankful my A/C is working and I don’t have to spend a lot of time running around outside with heat indexes  up near 105-110.

3.  I’m thankful I have a pleasant home so that I can stay inside all the time.

4.  I’m thankful that my 5 year old daughter has plenty of toys and electronics to keep her occupied, so that I don’t have to entertain her all day.

5.  I’m thankful I have a nice, comfortable bed to sleep in tonight.

6.  I’m thankful I have a vehicle that is not falling apart on me.

7.  I’m thankful I have a steady paycheck and I can pay my mortgage.

8.  I’m thankful I have a working washer and dryer so that I don’t have to sit in a hot laundrymat to wash clothes.

9.  I’m thankful that summer break is almost half over.

10. I’m thankful for my friends and family who encourage me and support me.

“Be strong and courageous.  Do not be terrified; do not be discouraged, for the Lord your God will be with you wherever you go.” (Joshua 1:9)

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Chocolate!

Sweet Sweet Chocolate

Don’t make me wait

For the taste

Of Sweet Chocolate.

© Karen ~Georgia Angel 6/27/09

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Stacie from Super Mommy to the Rescue has graciously given me these awards here and here.

One Lovely Blog Award

Rules:

1. Accept the award, post it on your blog together with the name of the person who has granted the award and his or her blog link.

2. Pass the award to 15 other blogs that you have newly discovered. Remember to contact the bloggers to let them know they have been chosen for this award.

1) Faith, Family & Fibromyalgia

2) Keeping Up With the Kompagnes

3) Noble Nuggets

4) Mommy Snark

5) Blue Monkey Butt

6) Twin Happy

7) I’m Still Standing

Crazy Adventures in Parenting

9) Wife & Mom of 3

10) From Mom to Mom

11) Maneuvering Motherhood

12) Vickie’s Scrapbooking and Tidbits

13) Idealist Meets Reality

14) Sweet Words

15) Bugs and Snails

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Friends Award

This award is bestowed on to blogs that are exceedingly charming. These kind bloggers aim to find and be friends. They are not interested in self-aggrandizement. Our hope is that when the ribbons of these prizes are cut, even more friendships are propagated. Please give more attention to these writers. Deliver this award to eight bloggers who must choose eight more and include this cleverly-written text into the body of their award.

1) The Redhead Riter

2) Life in the Lapadula House

3) Hey Ya’ll

4) This Plate is Full

5) Scraps of Life

6) Jadehollow

7) All Things Cherished

Be Different Act Normal

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Super Comments Award

There is no rules for this award except to pass it on to 5 other blogs.

1) Around the Island

2) Do You See What I See

3) Twinfatuation

4) The Gift Closet

5) Write from Karen

Thank you Stacie for these lovely awards.  Be sure to visit Stacie’s lovely blog at Super Mommy to the Rescue.  She is a new friend that I have met through the June Comment Challenge and she is a very faithful reader and commenter.  Also, please visit all these lovely blogs.  I think they are worth taking a peek.

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If you came by yesterday and saw my Wordless Wednesday post, you were probably wondering how that pool got on top of the swing.  Was it a miraculous surge of wind that picked it up and put it up there?  That’s a possibility, because it feels like my house sits in a wind tunnel and the wind just rushes around my front door and around the side of the house and this tree.  Or did some stranger pick it up in the middle of the night and deposit it on the top of the swing?  The thought of that is kinda freaking me out.  Or was it the mighty hand of God showing us a way to be “on top of the world” or getting “away from it all”, as one of my commenters put it.

Alas, no miracle, just a human hand.  This is what happens when the yard is cleared in preparation for cutting the grass and you don’t really want to let the air out of the pool, or to try to shove it in the storage shed.

My daughter loves this little pool and had a grand time splashing with the dolphin a couple weeks ago.   Doesn’t she look like she’s on “top of the world” and getting “away from it all”?

Happy Thursday to all.

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This is a photo I scanned of my Great-Great Grandma Fletcher.  We have been told that she was of  Native American Indian heritage.  I don’t know when the photo was taken.  In fact, this was a photo reprint that my mother had made to give to me.  The only touchups I did was to digitally remove some scratches on the image.

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I am Taking a Stand

Today, I am tired and weary.
My head aches from every day care.
My eyes are hot and bleary.
My heart has taken all it can bear.

I pray for peace to overcome me.
I pray for my eyes to open wide.
I pray for wisdom to see.
I pray for God by my side.

I am taking a stand
To be guided by
God’s divine hand
and wipe my eyes dry.

My hands uplifted high
Thankful and in praise
God’s mercy on me is nigh
Glory to God to the end of my days.

© 6/22/09   Karen ~Georgia Angel

Psalm 6:1-10 (NIV)

¹O LORD, do not rebuke me in your anger
or discipline me in your wrath.

² Be merciful to me, LORD, for I am faint;
O LORD, heal me, for my bones are in agony.

³ My soul is in anguish.
How long, O LORD, how long?

⁴ Turn, O LORD, and deliver me;
save me because of your unfailing love.

⁵ No one remembers you when he is dead.
Who praises you from the grave?

⁶ I am worn out from groaning;
all night long I flood my bed with weeping
and drench my couch with tears.

⁷ My eyes grow weak with sorrow;
they fail because of all my foes.

⁸ Away from me, all you who do evil,
for the LORD has heard my weeping.

⁹ The LORD has heard my cry for mercy;
the LORD accepts my prayer.

¹⁰ All my enemies will be ashamed and dismayed;
they will turn back in sudden disgrace.

Isaiah 55:8-11 (NIV)

⁸ “For my thoughts are not your thoughts,
neither are your ways my ways,”
declares the LORD.

⁹ “As the heavens are higher than the earth,
so are my ways higher than your ways
and my thoughts than your thoughts.

¹⁰ As the rain and the snow
come down from heaven,
and do not return to it
without watering the earth
and making it bud and flourish,
so that it yields seed for the sower and bread for the eater,

¹¹ so is my word that goes out from my mouth:
It will not return to me empty,
but will accomplish what I desire
and achieve the purpose for which I sent it.

Hebrews 4:14-16 (NIV)

¹⁴Therefore, since we have a great high priest who has gone through the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold firmly to the faith we profess. ¹⁵For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but we have one who has been tempted in every way, just as we are—yet was without sin. ¹⁶Let us then approach the throne of grace with confidence, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help us in our time of need.

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This past weekend I stayed with my 82 year old aunt.  She was in the hospital last week with congestive heart failure.  Mama is basically her full-time caregiver, but she needed a break for the weekend after staying up at the hospital (she has had a hip replaced twice) and one of her church friends was having a church dedication service that she wanted to attend.  My aunt didn’t want to stay by herself over the weekend, so my daughter and I went over to “nurse” her.  My 5 year old is an excellent nurse, a “super helper”.

On Saturday night, my aunt shared a very brief story about her first husband, James, whom I never knew.  She said he was in the Marines stationed at Camp Pendleton.  He served with a man who was a “movie star” who illustrated a book called A Ribbon and a  Star:  The Third Marines at Bouganville.

She told me that the book was sent to her husband and he was tickled to death when he received it.  One of the illustrations in the book was of him standing up in his military uniform talking on the phone.  His name was written along the pants leg.  If I had had any sense about me, I would have taken some photos of the illustration, but it was late at night and I’m not really sure how she would have felt about it.  Anyway, my aunt said that at night he would read a chapter to her and explain to her what it was all about.

She also showed me some little photos  from the campaign described in the book.

Tonight, I looked up the book on Amazon…

The author was John Monks, Jr., a screen playwright, stage actor, and director.  He was a Captain in the marines and served with my uncle during the Bougainville Campaign.  The illustrator of the book was John Falter, who was the artist most famous for his Saturday Evening Post covers, and for creating the “loose lips sink ships” poster campaigns.

Unfortunately, I think my uncle suffered from PTSD and spent a very long time in the VA hospital.  I don’t think he ever recovered from it.  He did receive a medal and she showed me the original letter signed by Admiral Halsey.  My aunt really doesn’t talk about him too much.  They divorced later on, and she went on to marry two more times.

My aunt does not have any children, and I am one of two “favorite” nieces, and my daughter is one of two “favorite” great-nieces.  My aunt is worried that when she passes no one will know what that book is all about, and that no one will care.  I felt honored that she shared it with me.

I’ve always said I didn’t think I had anyone famous in my family.  I guess this is as close as I’m going to get.  :)

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