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A Moss Addition!!!

My sister will love me so much for posting this hospital picture of her, but what a sweet way to announce that the Moss family will shortly add another baby to their clan. This will be baby #2 for them. Allyson Moss(baby pictured above) will be five in October.(hard to believe)She is going to be a big sister and I'm sure a little mother as well. Speaking of big sister's acting like mother's to their siblings, I have this deep sense of desire to basically hold Melissa's hand through this. Like my little sister isn't a grown woman! It's like I want to make a lasagna and bake bread and deliver it to her house with a vase full of white daisies and make sure she takes her pre-natals and go to every dr.'s appointment with her to make sure they treat her well and that she understands it all and then I want to drive her home, tuck her in bed and make sure her feet are elevated so her ankles don't swell. This is ridiculous I know, but it's just the way I feel. I love you Melissa and I can hardly wait to meet this new niece or nephew of mine. Please take care of yourself as I don't live nearby to compulsively take care of you.(to which you breathe a huge sigh of relief:)CONGRATULATIONS JOSH AND MELISSA!!!!!!!!!!

A Heart Full Of Weeds

The small boy came towards her, sunshine gleaming on the crown of his dark hair made him appear angelic. Clutched within his fists were two lopsided flowers. This wasn't the first time he had brought her flowers but it didn't matter it had the same effect every time. Her heart panged with the moment and a choke was around her throat.

"Look Mom, I found these flowers for you." said he. She knelt in front of him and looked into his eyes, intrigued by the way a season or the color of his shirt or his tears could make his eyes a variety of shades. Today they were stormy gray with golden brown flecks in them.

"Thankyou, Elijah", the mother said," these are beautiful."
He bounced away into another childhood escapade, and the mother went inside and put the flowers into water. She set them in the window and took a picture, so as to never forget the way that love can present itself. Glowing sunsets across an ocean, an inspirational song, the promise from a friend and sometimes, weeds in a dixie cup.

The Naked Mole Rat

An interesting little creature that have been known to chew through concrete. Their class is mammal, their order rodentia. African people often refer to them as sand puppies,but today no puppies in sight,just five adorable newborn kittens. My lover of all animals son told me that one of Mabel's kittens looked like the naked mole rat. Well I will let you be the judge of that. Mabel's kittens were born yesterday on 6-25-08. Five in all, two orange,one buff,one gray and one black. Mommy and babies are doing well. Oh, and by the way these so-ugly-their-cute little rodents eat their own poo, the naked mole rat that is not the kittens.(although growing up we had a dog that...well maybe in another post.) That's right they do this in order to absorb more nutrients from their food. Two meals for the price of one. They don't only eat their poo they also roll around in it, this is done so they can identify members of the colony vs. an intruding colony. Quite similiar to the way I identify my own colony after a hot summer night of playing outside:) Just thought you would want to know:)

Luciano Pavarotti

Me: Matt, Oh, my gosh, come here.
Matt: What?
Me(while petting our new kitten who is laying upside down on my lap): What is this bump right here? Oh my gosh!
Matt: What bump?
Me: This bump right here. Touch it.
Matt: I don't want to touch it.
Me: Lucy's got balls. These are balls.
Matt(while holding Lucy under a lamp and blowing on the fur around her private.LOL): Yep, these are balls.
I could'nt make this stuff up if I tried people. So, yes, the beautiful little kitten that we have fallen in love with is a boy. Of course what else would he be?!? As Eli would say " Mom, your boy trapped." From this post forward Lucy will now be called Luci pronounced Loochi, as in the dead italian opera singer, Luciano Pavarotti.

"What I Like Best Is Nothing."

"What I Like Best Is Nothing." " How do you do nothing?" asked Pooh,after he had wondered for a long time." Well, it's when people call out at you just as you're going off to do it. What are you going to do, Christopher Robin, and you say; Oh, nothing, and then you go and do it." A.A. Milne (The House At Pooh Corner)
Yes, this is what my boys like to do best- nothing. I could'nt help but take a few pictures of all the nothingness. Pushing sticks in the ground and playing in laundry hampers is what makes up the golden adventures of being a boy at our house. Never underestimate the significance of nothing.

A New Birthday 6-20-08

Before I made you in your mother's womb, I choose you. Before you were born,I set you apart for a special work. Jeremiah 1:5
Long before I ever even had a thought of Benjamin, the Lord knew of this very night. A night when Ben would make a decision to ask Jesus to come and live inside his heart. Tonight Matt lead Ben in saying a prayer for salvation, I stood beside him and held onto Ben's hands. I know that my little boy's life has a place in God's kingdom for all eternity. The angels are rejoicing in heaven tonight and this mom's heart is so grateful for the cross. In all the ways that I will fail my children, grace will fall on me, and to know that the very boy I have given back to Jesus over and over again will now have the same grace fall on him, it is so much for my heart. Thankyou Jesus for your saving love and for the greatest privledge I've ever recieved, being your daughter.

Sammy's Whip Cream

Love

Lucy Jane

Mustard Seed

My First Entry

Well, this is it, a place for me to exhale. I look forward to learning how to blog. Hopefully there will be lots more to come. Stay tuned:)