3 year's plus a bit of blog reflection

It is difficult to fathom that it has been 3-year's since the Lord called my mother home as of today. This past year seem to be the hardest, more tears and vivid emptiness. I would not have wanted her to live in pain however, I miss her so much. She was the center of our family which, has since drifted apart which, I can presume adds to the emptiness. But to get through the tough days I fall back on my faith that everything has a reason or possibly a lesson one needs to learn, whatever the case I am melancholy and reflective today.

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I thank the Lord daily for my many blessings, my husband being one of them along with the unconditional love I receive from our pets. I am so grateful for my health considering the family history and for all the blessings I recognise and the ones I do not.

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The kids blog has kept me sooo busy that I have neglected this one. I decided today in my melancholy mood to rededicate a bit of time daily to my Lot 53. I need to recapture the excitement I once had at chronicling our life to look back upon so, here we go ...

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Well, even though it is relatively early in the day I have already spent a couple of hours digging a hole to move a small tree. I know it's crazy but I want to get as much of the benefits from this tree as possible. Okay, truth be told ~ I (we) do not like the adjacent neighbors and from the time they have moved in we have planted a few things to grow and block the view. No luck though because we practically live on rock and unless we hire a company to drill into the ground well, most of our selections that were planted struggled. The light bulb finally went off in my head yesterday and I am moving the hole ~ how about that lol. Plus the shade from this tree will now put most of it, once it has grown, in our yard rather then giving the ugh neighbors the shade benefits. Call me mean but hey my kiddos love to lay in the yard so why not make my laborous efforts pay off for my babies! As it is, we get backyard sun most of the entire day.

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I need to focus on detail cleaning the house because we are going to have a visitor in early June and they have never seen our home. Of course I want to show off how blessed we are so I need to get busy but as I promised I must give time to my bloggie.

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I have been meaning to mention that my babies now sleep in our room at night if they want. I'm not sure if I have mentioned that before but we have prepared an area so they could be close to us. They seem to really love the freedom to go up and down the stairs at their pleasure since we have beds upstairs and beds downstairs. Don't get me wrong, they still are not allowed on the carpet but once we discovered the plastic carpet protector plastic I am thrilled to give them more freedom. One day we hope to have wood floors and the carpet won't be an issue anymore but for the time being...

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It was so funny when we first started using the plastic because the darlings could see the carpet through the plastic and thought it was a trick. We had to literally put them on the plastic and they realized the difference by the feel on their paws. Best invention ever!

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The darlings have always been well behaved by not stepping on the carpet or at least so we thought. In the wee hours of the morning recently I heard some rattling and I thought it was in my dreams. It took a bit to get my eyes open and what do you think I saw ~ Ginger apparently had a lapse of her training and had her head deep inside a box of treats I had next to my bed. When I said 'what are you doing!?' and quickly but quietly seemed to tip-toe back to her bed and hid behind her pillow. I thought it was so funny that I just went back to sleep. Gosh I love them so.

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There's so much more to catch up on but I will leave some for other posts. As it is I have made bloggie a promise to dedicate time daily right?!

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Celebrate Life Y Mom of The Lot out

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pee ess: (as the darlings would say) cloudy yet cool, a bit sunny and it's suppose to rain