It’s been a while since my last post.  I am really off my regular schedule this summer. My daughter has been on summer break from college.  I’ve enjoyed having time with her.  She has  a couple of weeks left before she goes back. My husband and I enjoyed a week at the beach with both of our married sons and their wives and our daughter over the Fourth of July holiday.  We were lucky enough to have a photographer take family pictures at the beach one evening.  I’ll tell you more about that trip later.  We loved the company but it was hot, hot, hot. We decided to upgrade our queen size mattress to a king size mattress.  I don’t know about you but buying a mattress for our bedroom is worse than buying a car. It has to make two people happy. The first mattress was an online purchase.  Fortunately, it had a 120 night guarantee.  The first night was like sleeping on...

Tb tv IWhen my son was in kindergarten, he learned “The Butterfly Song”.  The song begins “If I were a butterfly, I’d thank the Lord for giving me wings.  If I were a robin in a tree I’d thank you Lord  that I can sing”.” Ican still remember him with his missing front teeth lisp singing that song to me and his little brothers. It is one of  my most favorite memories of him as a little boy. Imagine that we are caterpillars and our loved ones who have passed are butterflies.  It is not so much that they have died as it is that we have not been fully developed.  Imagine that they have simply passed to the next stage and that it is us  who have not arrived. That is a thought that went through my head this morning.  As I pondered this idea the more it resonated with me.  Our loved ones have advanced from being a caterpillar with only feet to move their body to...