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                                    HAPPY BIRTHDAY, DYLAN!

                                          You Rock!

Dylan (aka my GrandDude) has been a wonderful part of our lives now for 358 days!  If you do the math, you know that he will be 1 YEAR old in just 7 days!  WOW!  I cannot believe he is almost a year old!  Time has just flown by.

He is so cute and charming!  He’s well on his way to walking and talking . . .  as his Daddy tells us here.  He is having his 1st birthday bash next weekend, and I can’t wait to see his face and his reaction to all the hulabaloo just for him.

Adam & Megan have done an awesome job teaching him about the world around him and words and sign language and music, and of course, computers

According to one of my biggest fans, my last post was, well, lacking.  So I apologize.

I’ve got doggie doo on my plate and can’t discuss it in a public forum (YAY) and well, that’s how I was feeling the other day.  Eh. Such is life.

Since I don’t want to mixe doggie doo with anything good, stay tuned for a much happier subject to be posted later today.

I hear a lot of songs that I can identify with these days.  Of course, they are Country music- what other form of music can tell a tale like Country can?

Right now I’m stuck on “Stand” by Rascal Flatts.  You should listen to it some time. (Even if you are not a Country Music fan)  The words are inspiring:

You feel like a candle in a hurricane
Just like a picture with a broken frame
Alone and helpless
Like you’ve lost your fight
But you’ll be alright, you’ll be alright

[Chorus]:  Cause when push comes to shove
You taste what you’re made of
You might bend till you break
Cause its all you can take
On your knees you look up
Decide you’ve had enough
You get mad, you get strong
Wipe your hands, shake it off
Then you Stand,

Then you stand

Life’s like a novel
With the end ripped out
The edge of a canyon
With only one way down
Take what you’re given before its gone
Start holding on, keep holding on

[Repeat Chorus]

Everytime you get up
And get back in the race
One more small piece of you
Starts to fall into place

See?  Inspiring.

I am in LOVE with FaceBook!  Yes, its true.  FaceBook has brought so much goodness to my life in the past couple months, I just canNOT believe it!!

Lets start with reconnecting with cousins I have not seen since we were little kids, in the 70’s…  WOW!  (I have a rather large, spread out family, and we’ve moved all over the place, all of us. . .)  When you are 11 you don’t necessarily consider how to keep track of cousins, aunts and uncles for the future… I believe my current tally of found relatives is up to 5 right now!  Its been so great to find them (or be found by them) and catch up on how all of our lives have gone.  Just amazing, and so wonderful! 

AND I was able to find some “long lost friends” too!  (Or they found me :) ) So far I have connected with my best friends from high school, from in the Air Force and from when I lived in Virginia Beach!  I LOVE FaceBook.

Okay.  So.  Mid October, my friend Janice (from the Air Force) came out to DC to work, and voila’ fit in a visit with me!  It was SO great to chat, chat, eat some very good food, and chat some more… there’s never enough time to catch up… but we tried, yes we did! I’m totally looking forward to her next visit…

Then!  The very next weekend, I was finally able to catch up with my friend Linda - from high school!  Again with the chatting non-stop!  And we ate at Chevy’s, a place I’ve heard so much about (Cammie :)  but never been to before (Yum! By the way!)  I think our “lunch” lasted about 4+ hours.  (and I forgot my camera… and my cellphone was having camera issues, so, um next time for sure!)  We have tho, already started working on another date that we can get together!  Linda lives pretty close by, so it will be great to visit more! 

But that’s not all!  This Saturday, I’ll be hanging out with my friend Michele from Va Beach!  She’s teaches at Granby high school and has won some awards and will be up in NoVa for that… and she’s fitting me into her visit too!  I can hardly wait!!

I have some rockin’ family and friends!

I’ve even managed a visit with Adam, Megan & Dylan recently- They are such good parents and Dylan is sooo charming!  Such a good boy!  Dylan will be one on “black Friday” this year. . . I’m eagerly awaiting his birthday bash!

Justin and I finally, (after 4 years of all talk and no action) spent a day in DC together… well, okay, we spent the day at the Library of Congress. . .  ooohing and ahhhhing about the architecture and the totally cool book collections!  We also went by the National Museum of Crime and Punishment.  That was pretty cool too.  We both love a good cop story!

So, Life has been pretty much a whirlwind for the past 6 months or so.  But it feels good, and I’m trying to enjoy the ride!