To My Dearest, Barry,

There is comfort in the strength of love:

Twill make a thing endurable,

Which else would overset the brain,

Or break the heart.
-William Wordsworth

"To My Dearest, Barry,

"Decisions were made, commitments to be kept.
"The time!"
"It is now?"

"All ready?"

"So soon!"
"Precious little time together spent,
We knew what each one meant.
Our hearts we felt beat, our Spirits did meet,
Our Souls; they became One.
God's blessings we did seek.
For safety and peace,
His help we knew we'd need.
Tears shed and hands held tight,

Lingering ... with might!
But alas, time could not last!

Our thoughts shared, we expressed our fear ...

We knew ~ We cared!

"Many more kisses ~ So-o dear!

Wished my pockets I could fill!
Your Last Kiss ... I Remember Still!

"But time marches on and the miles are long;

Hardships along the way ...
Each call was rejoiced for hearing your voice,
But ~
I'm so sorry your journey is hard!!!
Won't start? - perseverance,
"I'll pray for you!"
The Lord must need you meek!
Troubles more than double,
He needs us to be humble!
"Come. Come,
I Am, Here To Help!"
Prayers along the way from loved ones, every day.
We wished your journey was done!

"It is hard to be apart for now,
The distance; it is far!
The days linger on
And
The nights are lonely.
The question is there, of "How?"
Answers come and answers go.
So patience we must seek!

"Logic tells me, I can endure ...
But ~
My heart feels the absence of your warmth.

"I long to feel your arms about me;
To feel your presence near!
See your smile!
Look in your eyes!
Hear your voice ... "Hello!"
Feel your lips pressed to mine!
Yes ~ Heaven Be Divine!

"My heart feels breaking here ~
For loneliness? "Yes, I will endure
Long, I must wait!"
"I promise, I will faithful be
'Til time ...
Sets us free!"

With All My Love! Kristy

Grandkids

Today I am able to visit with some of my grandchildren that I haven't seen for a couple of months. Already there are big changes with all of them. Mykael is now a year older and was excited to show & tell what she got for her birthday. She had to put the new black top G-pa & G-ma gave her. It has sparkly silver hearts around the neck and waist. She is a bigger helper with making a great looking salad with lots of colors, and it went great with the chicken & broccoli casserole we all love to eat.

Jaden is taller and soon to pass his sister in height and his hair is growing in almost black now. Today he was drawing a joker for an art project for school and he did a GREAT JOB. I think there is some talent there to be developed. I'm not surprised!

Ashton came running home from church and into the house calling out for me, "Grandma, where are you?" Then throwing his arms around me and giving me great big hugs, "I love you so-o-o- much. I missed you! Nice to be needed and loved, I must say. He said he ran all the way from church as fast as he could.

Elias last night was helping me crochet and decided he needed to take the paper off of the next skein of yarn (before I was ready for it). Then I calmly told him "Please don't take the paper off of the yarn, I don't want you to do that." He lifted my hair away from my arm and I bent down over to him, he whispered in my ear, "spss - spss -spss, I need to take the paper off of the yarn because I want to. When he saw me laughing at what he had done, He got a great grin on his face, turned his head a little to the side and looked at me out of the corner of his eyes. I have whispered in my grandchildren's ears 'little love secrets' since they were born. It was so funny to me to have one of my little ones whisper in my ear for the 1st time. He really tickeled my ear!

Little Dylan just gets chubbier and more smiley and is so ticklish you can hardly pick him up without him 'grunting-a-giggle-turn-into-an-outright-laugh'. And he is solidly heavy rolls of muscle covered with so soft skin. Sometimes it sounds like he is crying when in realitly he is finding different pitches to use his loud voice - even if it does sound like a cry.

Seeing Alisha and Genevieve clear from the other side of the country is a great experience! Mommy looks good and healthy with a cute new hair due and Little Genevieve smiles more and more and more ... she is just like sunshine anytime of the day! She recognized us this time and I think that it has helped to hear our voices over Skype and once in a while, see our faces when we hook up the camera. She hasn't been afraid of us at all and lets us hold her and play with her alot. She really seems to be very social with all her cousins and Aunt and Uncle and G-ma & G-pa. I can't believe that she is already pulling herself up to stand at furniture when she only started crawling a couple of weeks ago. What a fast learner! We've enjoyed her very much! Mommy too! Thanks for sharing, Eric !!!

Well, we all made Yummy Famous Cookies tonight and each helped with a little part of it, especially the tasting part. YUM YUM. If there are any left - we might share with YOU.

So my children, here is a little piece of info on how your DAD is progressing these days. For his upcoming trip, he replaced the batteries in the walkie-talkies. Into the 1st he's holding (in his right hand) up to his mouth, he clicks it on and says:
"Hello! Can you hear me?"
With the other in his left hand (bringing it up to his mouth), he clicks it on and says:
" Yes! You're coming in loud and clear!"
At that point, as I am taking cookies out of the oven, I turn to look at him and he realizes that there were two witnesses to this and he get's this funny look on his face as I said to him:
"WOW that was a really good test for the new batteries."
Alisha's comments was:
"Good thing he wasn't in the other room!"
That's okay Hunny, we all have our moments!

Blog Set-up

Thanks to my 1st son Oliver, I am trying to set up this blog. He got me started and then he left me to my own and I am totally lost.

[He went to go pick up Dad who is now SAFELY OFF THE WORST ROADS OF THE WINTER (while driving a 'Grain Train' full of rock salt). He is trying to get it to Salmon for the Road Department to salt their roads locally. Too bad Dad doesn't have the equipment on the truck to spread infront of himself. I have been worried sick about him, he's been gone for the day with all the roads of ID closed. He was rerouted by the company and he has managed to get through but barely! I have also been on the Road Report & cell phone helping him to know what was ahead. I think that I can now rest knowing that he will be spending the night with Oliver & Liz & Teagan. Then he will be on the road in the morning to get the salt delivered and then back home. Hopefully!!!] Angels have been traveling with him and to the Lord, MY GRATITUDE!

I think that Jess was correct in her observation the other day - "You don't know the computer much do you Mom." My answer: "No I don't!!!"

Oliver said tonight - Time to learn - now!

Well right now I'm a little frazzled and tired so ... for now - Good Night All! Time for me to go to bed. Don't let the bed bugs bite!

To my grandkids: Pss Pss Grandma Lewis ( Kristy) loves you!!!