So, Rache and I were chatting on Facebook the other night, and we came up with an idea that we are both saying out loud so we can make it become a reality! Or rather, we are both blogging about it to make it a reality!
In 2013, to celebrate the world NOT ending in 2012, let's all of us meet in New York and have a huge first time reunion!
That gives us four years-ish to plan and save, and wouldn't it be wonderful for us all to meet?
I believe the difference between a dream that comes true, and one that doesn't, is whether or not you say it out loud.
So, when you are reading this, and get to this point, please take a deep breath and say loud and clear:
'We are going to meet in New York in 2013 and have a hell of a time!'
xo
Stevie
Saturday, January 31, 2009
Sunday, January 25, 2009
and so.
Scott... and Kootenay National Park... on our way to see Tony.
I am moving in a week. To be an alpaca rancher with Tony. Lol... changes changes!
More soon!
xo
Wednesday, January 14, 2009
January... 14.. oh my..
I realized today how very quickly certain things in my life are coming up. On Saturday, my darling son Justin will turn 19, and I can hardly believe the wee baby I brought home is now hitting six feet, and is only a year younger than I was when I had him.
He is a good boy, a good man, and I am so very proud of him.
Justin is one of those souls that feels things deeply, yet holds his cards close to his chest. The rapid recent changes in our lives has had him a little perpelexed I think, but we have had some good moments of communication (not easy for the likes of him and I, butting heads as often as we do!)
Justin has always amazed me a little with his mechanical abilities. Always taking things apart and seemingly always putting them back together in better order than they originally were. Just as Scott sees music as a language, Justin sees circuits and engines and all those mysterious bits and pieces as clearly as I would see words on a page. It truly amazes me.
He was flying when he was 15, his first solo, I believe, a critical turning point in his life. I remember him calling me late one evening, after he and one of his instructors had been soaring for hours, breathless and tripping over his words as he told me he had shared a thermal with a hawk.
"I flew RIGHT BESIDE HIM," he told me, and in a more hushed tone, added, in not to many words, it was an almost spiritual experience. I could not stop the tears his voice and words drew out of me, a salty smile that I will never forget. My boy was becoming a man.
It would seem that experience made driving a car passe, and he has only just finally made the push to get his full driving licence this month. HAHA!! It must be hard for him to drive on the ground with all those corners and restrictions when flying at 11,000 feet was part of his normal days that wonderful summer.
He is so endlessly funny, and smart, with a healthy dose of sarcasm in his charactor. I wonder if I have prepared him enough for the world... or perhaps what I really wonder is if the world is prepared for him. He does things his own way, more's the pity, a trait of mine I would have happily not passed on to him. But I know he will find his way, just as I did, just as we all do.
I am as tall as I can be with pride for him. I know he will do good things in his life, make a difference for people, and while he is on his way to living his own life, I hope, oh, I hope I hope I hope, that he remembers he is always going to be my little boy, and no matter where the winds take us, he has a home with me.
Welcome to the legally adult world my darling Justin... I love you forever... all the way to the moon and back.
And that is far... very very far.
xo
Mom
He is a good boy, a good man, and I am so very proud of him.
Justin is one of those souls that feels things deeply, yet holds his cards close to his chest. The rapid recent changes in our lives has had him a little perpelexed I think, but we have had some good moments of communication (not easy for the likes of him and I, butting heads as often as we do!)
Justin has always amazed me a little with his mechanical abilities. Always taking things apart and seemingly always putting them back together in better order than they originally were. Just as Scott sees music as a language, Justin sees circuits and engines and all those mysterious bits and pieces as clearly as I would see words on a page. It truly amazes me.
He was flying when he was 15, his first solo, I believe, a critical turning point in his life. I remember him calling me late one evening, after he and one of his instructors had been soaring for hours, breathless and tripping over his words as he told me he had shared a thermal with a hawk.
"I flew RIGHT BESIDE HIM," he told me, and in a more hushed tone, added, in not to many words, it was an almost spiritual experience. I could not stop the tears his voice and words drew out of me, a salty smile that I will never forget. My boy was becoming a man.
It would seem that experience made driving a car passe, and he has only just finally made the push to get his full driving licence this month. HAHA!! It must be hard for him to drive on the ground with all those corners and restrictions when flying at 11,000 feet was part of his normal days that wonderful summer.
He is so endlessly funny, and smart, with a healthy dose of sarcasm in his charactor. I wonder if I have prepared him enough for the world... or perhaps what I really wonder is if the world is prepared for him. He does things his own way, more's the pity, a trait of mine I would have happily not passed on to him. But I know he will find his way, just as I did, just as we all do.
I am as tall as I can be with pride for him. I know he will do good things in his life, make a difference for people, and while he is on his way to living his own life, I hope, oh, I hope I hope I hope, that he remembers he is always going to be my little boy, and no matter where the winds take us, he has a home with me.
Welcome to the legally adult world my darling Justin... I love you forever... all the way to the moon and back.
And that is far... very very far.
xo
Mom
Tuesday, January 06, 2009
Our wedding.........
So, Tony and I have chosen as our final date Saturday, June 20, 2 p.m. in Exshaw Alberta at my sister Rose`s home.
:)
We are both very excited!
Of course you are all invited, and I know it is not likely many of my darling overseas or overcountry loves can attend, but you are invited just the same.
We have much to do, but really, it will be a simple wedding, no gifts, just the presence of friends and family. Potluck, and bring lots of laughter...
xo
S
Adendum
I have to admit, as much as I understand and do appreciate the expressions of concerns regarding the short time Tony and I have been together and become engaged, it is a little... wearying. Of course, a few members of both our families have mentioned it, some more vocally, but I wonder if they really think we have not given this serious consideration... for ourselves, as well as my children. We are adults. We are both well thinking, and have not done this lightly or without consideration. After all, we resisted the temptation, great though it was, to get married last week! lol!
I have listened to the concerns from my own family, some expressed clearly and vocally, other via vague words, pursed lips and expressions, and I take them all to heart for what they are: concerns for me from those who love me. And now that they have expressed them, I would ask they please be done with it.
What I appreciate far more are those many friends who have rejoiced with me, and most expecially my mother, who ackowledges the short time, but is celebrating with me and even helping me plan. I don't think that just being happy for me, without questioning me, is really too much to ask.
Ok, I vented. Thanks for listening. It hasn't bothered me all that much, but it obviously has bothered me a little. And now I can get on with the business of being happy!
xo
:)
We are both very excited!
Of course you are all invited, and I know it is not likely many of my darling overseas or overcountry loves can attend, but you are invited just the same.
We have much to do, but really, it will be a simple wedding, no gifts, just the presence of friends and family. Potluck, and bring lots of laughter...
xo
S
Adendum
I have to admit, as much as I understand and do appreciate the expressions of concerns regarding the short time Tony and I have been together and become engaged, it is a little... wearying. Of course, a few members of both our families have mentioned it, some more vocally, but I wonder if they really think we have not given this serious consideration... for ourselves, as well as my children. We are adults. We are both well thinking, and have not done this lightly or without consideration. After all, we resisted the temptation, great though it was, to get married last week! lol!
I have listened to the concerns from my own family, some expressed clearly and vocally, other via vague words, pursed lips and expressions, and I take them all to heart for what they are: concerns for me from those who love me. And now that they have expressed them, I would ask they please be done with it.
What I appreciate far more are those many friends who have rejoiced with me, and most expecially my mother, who ackowledges the short time, but is celebrating with me and even helping me plan. I don't think that just being happy for me, without questioning me, is really too much to ask.
Ok, I vented. Thanks for listening. It hasn't bothered me all that much, but it obviously has bothered me a little. And now I can get on with the business of being happy!
xo
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