Hey dear ones, I have been shocked at the ads on my online journal recently so I am moving to http://storiesfromonejourney.blogspot.com/. I will be writing soon.

I am done with my first round of classes!! Five to be exact. Everything from Medical Modalities to Traditional Chinese Medicine. May I just say my butt is sagging a wee bit! I don't know how it happened but it appears I have made A's on all three exams and I am waiting to hear about my business class and my deep tissue Swedish class that were graded on papers and practical out of class massages I did. I do feel my age so I think I will arise and go now and fall on my face! Love to all who prayed for me.

My kids are hilarious! Every one of them. Audrey and Judah keep me laughing all the time with the new words they invent to portray their mindset. They live in a whole other world and I pray they stay there as long as they can. Some words that crack me up are anatomy replacements like: for my bottom Judah calls it an udo bottom...supposed to mean a rather plump one ....then when I wear my hair up he says it looks like a spankin' wheel????I have no idea what that means and then Benjamin's nose is a boo nose and anyone that does not have hair has a bowling ball head....I have to kindly remind him that he must not tease people outside our home because other people get their feelings hurt even though he says it all in love and fun at home. Then Audrey came flitting through the house the other day and the child loves all things dinosaur. She especially loves the flyers and pretends to be one. She said she was a flyer the other day so I asked what her name was and she said she was "flying turdy" Now don't that beat all!

I miss you Daddy................................... Lookin' out my back door....CCR Just got home from Illinois lock the front door oh boy! Got to sit down take a rest on the porch. Imagination sets in pretty soon I'm singin' CHORUS: Doo doo doo Lookin' out my back door. There's a giant doing cartwheels a statue wearin' high heels. Look at all the happy creatures dancing on the lawn. A dinosaur Victrola list'ning to Buck Owens. CHORUS Tambourines and elephants are playing in the band. Won't you take a ride on the flyin' spoon? Doo, doo doo. Wond'rous apparition provided by magician. CHORUS Tambourines and elephants are playing in the band. Won't you take a ride on the flyin' spoon? Doo, doo doo. Bother me tomorrow, today, I'll buy no sorrows. CHORUS Forward troubles Illinois, lock the front door, oh boy! Look at all the happy creatures dancing on the lawn. Bother me tomorrow, today, I'll buy no sorrows.

Happy Birthday to the sweetest of babies, my own Benjamin Kaelin who turned one yesterday. 10,000 words cannot convey the wonder and the gift you are to my life. I am swept away every morning I have the opportunity to see your bright brown eyes and dimpled smile. You keep my heart young. I delight in your growth the way you cruise around the furniture, the way you clap and wave bye bye and say..."buh buh" I love to hear you say Da Da and Ma Ma. I look forward to a lifetime Of seeing you develop and grow into the rich person you were designed to be. I love you beyond words or thought. It registers in my spirit where there are no ways to describe the beauty of what you are to me. Happy birthday my baby boy.....and many many many more.......