I LOVE TEXAS!

Greetings all!

Yikes! It's almost been a month since I last wrote. ...doesn't mean I haven't been writing, just haven't posted here. Time does fly!

So today I was driving home after I stopped at the gas station where gas is $2.47...yep, you read right! Two dollars and forty seven cents! Yowsers! I filled up my little box for a whole $21! Ya, ya, it may not be the COOLEST car on earth, but how many of you can say you can fill up for that!!

Anyway, I was driving home, listening to some good ol Texas country music and this lady drives up beside me. Her window is rolled down and she is telling me, "Your gas cap is open!" I look at her, give her the thumbs up and she waves on by. I pull over, switch on my hazards, and go to close it. I am on a highway that has 3 lanes on my side and I see cars on the lane closest to where I am stopped and as they see me, they all move over to a lane further from me. (I sigh) I LOVE TEXAS! People are just NICE! Genuinely NICE! I get in my little car, heart full of gratitude for this great state and as I look around, see open fields, horses, bails of hay, birds and lots of trees. I am grateful to be in this great state! This, for sure, is GOD'S COUNTRY!!! For those of you throughout the US that would try to dispute that, sorry....no case here! It's shut! I LOVE THIS PLACE!

A whole lot going on here! My family came in and visited and we got to spend a lot of time together. It was a good time and I thoroughly enjoyed it! New chapters opening in my life, of which I shall speak of later....time tells all things, but I am very much loving it! No, not everything is perfect as I journey through these days, but if nothing else, I am grateful for my family, friends, and loved ones. Though my mind gets filled with worries of tomorrow, I am grateful that yesterday is over and keeps moving further away! I know I am not where I want to be, but I am SO grateful I am not where I used to be! The air is cleaner, the sky is bluer and life is beyond just bareable, it is a good one today!

I have so many random thoughts that I have written in the last month, but for whatever reason, they just don't seem "postable". LOL!

Something on my heart today, however, that is near and dear.
Some of you may or may not know, but in my lifetime, I have had to "bury" children, or hopes of them. A few failed preganancies left me empty at times and yes, sometimes I feel the scars that have been left behind. I don't know the reasons as to why, how, and what, but I do know that all things happen for a reason. HOWEVER, I bring this up because today is Oct 15. It is the official day of Pregnancy and Infant loss nationally. (yes, there is actually an organization) So tonight, just as many others across this great nation, I will light a candle and remember those that we never saw and those that maybe we had for a little while and we lost. If you or someone you know has lost someone, maybe take a moment to do that for them. And for those of you who have been so fortunate to see the fruit of a pregnancy and celebrate all the great firsts, hug on your munchkins, TRULY, they are an incredible miracle!

Anyway....hope all is well with all! I will try to get on this and scribe more regularly....I was doing so good! LOL!