I'll likely be posting pictures from our trip home for quite some time.
I haven't even made it to Christmas day yet!
That baby of mine is high maintenance and that doesn't go hand in hand with computer use.
We arrived Alabama just in time to see a wondrously beautiful sunset.
I wasn't able to lay my hands on a tripod so I was unable to capture the reality of this sunset.
I'm just sayin' it wasn't lack of skill. I got mad skills. Okay?
I saw this sunset coming back from my Dad's house one night.
His house is great for sunsets, just like my Mom's.
I won't say sunsets are prettier in Alabama but I will say I definitely see a lot more of them there. Our house in Virginia sits in a shady hole where the view of the west is blocked at all times.
Sunsets do good things for me.
The sky does good things for me.
Charley recently said, "You have a very thick connection with you and the sky, Mom."
It made me cry a little bit.
Because not everybody knows these things about you...these little things (or BIG things like the SKY) that make you happy. And truth be told, a person would like for somebody to notice the little things that make them happy. And Charley noticed. All these years I've been looking at the sky, and I've been telling her to look at the sky, and she recognized that, and that's nice. As a mother, and I know other mothers can relate, you'd rather your kid say,
"My Mama loved the sky."
rather than,
"My Mama had a short fuse."
Right?
I mean she can say both, but the good needs to outweigh the bad.
That's my goal.
Please God let the good outweigh the bad...and thank you for the sky.
This is one of the most beautiful, well-written blog entries you've ever done. I got a little teary-eyed actually.
ReplyDeleteAw thank you sister. When I re-read it I hoped it would be follow-able, and not rambly, but left it as it was because that's what I wanted to say.
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