Memorial Day

Feeling: bewildered
Sup? My 3 day weekend is over. But that's Ok. I'm feelin mighty fine and I'm ready to begin the week! Today is Monday...Memorial Day...a very important day where we honor all of the important soldiers, veterans, and those who have given their lives for our freedom! As for me, it was my "lazy day" since I have been runnin amuck all weekend. But, I aint complaining...I had an AWESOME weekend and got to spend special time with people that I totally adore!! (Sara, Heather, Sonya, my family, Paula, and Dina) I woke up kinda late today (later than any other day this weekend, or for quite a while for that matter)- I got up at 11:30. I was online for awhile doin webpage stuff and lookin up school stuff. I went to bed for a lil while, then got up and got BACK online to scan pictures & talk to Emily... and then I left for Granny's at 5. I cleaned her apartment and then afterwards she fixed me tea & pizza (bad bad I know) but all I had eaten at the point today was poptarts at like 1, so ya know. Then she dug out all of this really neat stuff out of her top drawer in her bedroom that was stuff from her childhood and young adulthood. It was too cool! I love looking at old stuff. I went through several bags full of stuff. VERY old pictures, granny's school report cards, newspaper clippings of family, the front page of the Knox News Sentinel when Kennedy was shot, letters that Granny had received dating back to 1956 up until like 1998. She let me keep 3 letters. They were from my mom when her & my dad lived in Houston! 2 of the letters were written in 1978 when my mom was 20 yrs old and they first moved down there. My dad wrote on it too so it is really special to me. He wrote to my granny how happy him & my mom were and how they were on cloud nine together and all this sweet stuff. Then there was another one they both wrote on too...pretty much saying the same stuff, and the 3rd one was just from my mom written in April of 1982 (so I was 6 months old and Jimmy was 2) and mom is talking about how we are, the things we are doing & learning & saying..and it is just so special. I ended up leaving Granny's at 10! lol. I was there 5 hours...cleaning maybe an hour & a half..the rest was talking & looking through stuff. It was really neat. Now Im at home and gonna go to bed soon. Here is a great song by the best singer ever: "WHY" By: Crystal Lewis My thoughts they overwhelm me My mind cannot contain The pain that is within me Why I long for understanding I live to know the peace that comes from being sure of something My eyes are blind to your ways oh Lord Yet I've seen you love and care, so I rest in your knowing Though I may not know I take on your strength as though it were my own Standing on the promises your word for me provides I find therein the answer To the question Why... My complaint today is bitter But sweet is your reply My questioning still lingers though why You know each road I travel down My heart and Yours are one But I just don't see the good in all this My eyes are blind to your ways oh Lord yet I've seen you love and care so... I rest in your knowing Though I may not know I take on your strength as though it were my own Standing on the promises your word for me provides I find therein the answer To the question Why... Through suffering and sorrow Comes peace beyond belief For our present set of circumstances Serve only to remind us of the gold we can't yet see
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I like your journal it's neat. Sounds like you had a good day hanging out with your Grandma and looking through old stuff. I enjoy doing that, sometimes spending time with family can be fun.