Micah and Sarah are EXCITED!!!!!

CONGRATS MICAH!!!! YOU MADE IT TO IVY LEAGUE!

Let us all call micah and tell him WOW! He will be in Carnegie Mellon out of Pittsburg,,,
Two hours south of Erie, PA! Julie and David are just in heaven!!!!
We meet tonight at the house to celebrate!

Julie tag

I have been tagged and this is the question...what do I say? There were no instructions as to what questions I must answer and so I am at a loss except to say...I love my family. I stay busy. I love to read and am presently reading eat,pray,love by gilbert. I enjoy scrapbooking, traveling, and playing grandma. Can't wait to see everyone this weekend who can come home for Christmas and love SKYPE.
Teaching orchestra floats my boat. I am tired of choir. I love lessons and seeing how much everyone grows.
I love naps. I love Sunday naps. I love it when I have energy. I love hand and foot and especially when I beat Julie at it. (that only happened once) I love the underdog and I cry during the Olympics, ATand T commercials.
I love T Day and tolerate the Christmas rush. Demands on musicicans is always hard at Christmas and then trying to do everything else really makes us crazy. This year was really nice. Hardly any performances. It was great.
I hate my family living all over the world. I want to win the Lottery so that is not a hardship. Or buy a winnabego to visit them in the driveway like we planned...
I am serious about my food and for Stephen to prepare it. Rule of the house...get what you see now it may be gone later. Although, since everyone has been moving out things stay around longer that I have seen in years except when they all come home of course...
Someone hand me the questions and I will answer the ones I missed above. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.

Sammy is walking!

Sammy will be 10 months next week and he started to walk last night! Way to go GUY!
Love, Grandma

Peggy Hello!

I had a great visit yesterday with a dear collegue who is here visiting for one more day. Peggy Bird and her family took a real adventure to heart and are living in Vacentia, Italy for three years. They have passed the one year mark and I was so glad to hear her voice. She has a blog spot also called Birdhouse...it is great.
Anyway, My thanks to Peggy for her advice and counsel. She is a dear friend, excellent violinist, and beautiful woman.
I was also impressed by her blog which is thoughtful and beautiful. It gave me some ideas I would like to share. Technology has certainly made us very savy. I got to talk in real time to my grandchildren last night through skype, I can post pictures so I don't have to make a Christmas letter this year...we are doing the blog thing...I can email, text message, call from anypoint I want etc. Isn't it amazing how connected we are becoming? Now why don't we connect as human beings and forget the hatred and wars? Seems like an oxymoron to me.

Check out my other blog...

Check on yomamapicblog.blogspot.com
It has old photos and some fun stuff too...
love, yomama

Remembering

Got a few Christmas moments to publish for you...
Thanks to the Stevens' House and lake...

Our Deepest Fear is not that we are inadequate, by Marianne Williamson, Nelson Mandela incorrectly. A Return To Love: Reflections on the Principles of

Our Deepest Fear is not that we are inadequate, by Marianne Williamson, Nelson Mandela incorrectly. A Return To Love: Reflections on the Principles of A Course in Miracles, Quotes - Inspir: "“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.”"

Home and relaxing

We had a scare in our family. John, my brother went in Friday for his chemo and started home with a breathing problem. Well, they turned around and headed back. He was found with a blood clot to the lung. So they put a filter on him, and kept him until Sunday afternoon. My dad and Ro went to see him on Sunday...weather there is bad but they got into Peoria ok and Don picked them up. Hopefully he is feeling better today, Monday, Dec. 3. We hope so...hang in there brother!