It's his birthday!

Mikey, did you know I believe you're of the sweetest guys alive? And I tell you, there are little of those left. Girls run for him!
Did I tell you that you're just the type to laugh you're head off along with? I can feel it! It's enough with chat to do that already.
I read this somewhere and I never forgot, it was just too true: We shared our hearts...and voilá friends forever!
I know there's much more to it, but we're getting there, and I love you! If you need me, I'm here...a few clicks away always. If you don't need me, I'll probably need you so please stay close.
"Happy Birthday to you! Happy Birthday to youu! Haaappy Birthdaay dear Mikey/cookie/muffin, Happy Birthday to youuu!" My singing will never be as good as yours. Oh sing to me again!
(Whispers: His special is "Amish paradise", a total success!)

"Glad I did it!"

"Making up my mind, you mean? I don't know, but Jo has given me a splendid rule. He says, when I'm perplexed, just to do what I would wish I had done when I shall be eighty." - Lucy M. Montgomery, Anne of the Island, some chapter in it.

Such good counsel for one like me...just do what you think you'd be glad you did if you were eighty. That is if, you're of the indecisive type... (wink)

Oh, let's pretend it's Christmas!

I have Christmas thoughts yet again and it's so weird. I've been thinking, and stumbling upon a few writings about it, and singing Christmas carols! There is just something about it that can bring life into the things you do. It can bring to life the reasons and meanings behind what we go through, what happens on Earth and the life we lead, and the love we all have to give -if we think about it.

Christmas means love, and there just is a certain bounce to my step if I think about love. And Christmas love was and is of the highest forms of love there is and ever could be. The ultimate.

The father sent His son. His son left it all behind, He gave up all he had to come, to live in the way a strange and very loved species does. He became a baby, a kid, a teen -special excitement on this one-, an adult, so that He could understand us all. And then He took all of our shortcomings and falling short of divine expectations, all on Himself. So that we could live with Him for eternity, do the things that make us happy and love forevermore! It's no fairy tale, no matter what we've done or haven't done.

You may know this all way too well, and I'm rambling. But it got me real happy just to think of it.

Merry Christmas! (grins)

Why wait till Christmas time again is here?

Why spend those precious hours in hectic ways,

Doing the things that you could do all year,

And let the noise and whirl of festival days

Drown out the angel’s song?

Why not take time to lift the eyes to candles in the sky,

To walk, some silent night, while carols chime,

And hear the hush of wings brush softly by?

Take time to meditate, to catch the spell

Of childish trust, that simple faith you knew

When love was everywhere, and all was well?

The gift you lost will then come back to you.

Seek not for Christmas in the busy mart,

But cradled somewhere in a trusting heart.

—Rachel van Crème

Ayleene's got a baby sister!

Congratulations Nate and Ali for your brand-new bundle of beauty, love and joy!
I can't wait to see her.
I felt this was an especially happy day, when I heard the news. I imagined angels singing and a host of them all around you, your family and the new adorable addition. I thought of all the commendation you guys will get in Heaven for working, raising your children and loving. I admire you as a couple. I admire you as parents. I admire you as a family!

Loving you is

H - Haunting

A - Anticipating
P - Priceless
P - Photographing
Y - Yearning

B - Beautiful
I - Interesting
R - Rewarding
T - True
H - Healthy
D - Daring
A - Addicting
Y - Yummy

It's learning, adapting, amusing, sharing, opening, praying, fighting, dreaming, absorbing, dancing -on my own till I have you- , accepting, simple, wrapping -my heart around yours-, wishing, experimenting, believing. Loving you is living.
Happy Birthday babe!

Something wild

You can’t experience success beyond your wildest dreams until you dare to dream something wild!

-Scott Sorrell

It's not a wild dream, but a wild something:
I so want to parachute one day!
I shall!