Lily during VBS week!

This was my Lily last week - every morning at my house having tea parties and snacks and talking and laughing with me - Grandma. I love VBS week! Here I am sure we were talking about shoes and just how great they are!

Greatest Comedian Dancing

The other night Em called to ask if I was watching "So you think you can dance" I wasn't. I was watching :"Last comedian standing" So then I switched over. hmmmm........then I switched back. Then I switched to "Greatest American Inventor". Now I had a 3-way thing going. switch switch switch again. Soon I was not going to the last one, just the dance and comedy. Then more dance , then no comedy, just dance. What is it about dancing that is so addictive??? Deep inside me there must be the heart of a dancer. It just never surfaced - until now - and now I am just a couch dancer. Sad, but true. If any of you young people think you can dance, you'd best be doing it now!!!

It's a clear day

Don was there for me last night. We had a really good talk. It's so awesome that God sent him to me. He has helped me and blessed me so many times and in so many ways. Gotta love him - dorkiness and all!!! (takes one to know one!) And these grandkids are something else. Their grandpa is looking down on them and smiling all the time. As much as they make us smile, you can imagine he has much more to smile about. Lots of emotions and stress have been released and today is another day. I love my family so much.

10 years

It's been fast and it's been long and slow. It's been hard. I still miss him. I sometimes fear forgetting about little details of him, but trust God to keep me mindful of the important things. I remember at that last hour whispering in his ear, "Tell Jesus about me! I'm not as strong as you are."

Is it really Friday already??? wow. I have been outside painting on Lily's playhouse and came in to take a break. So far the roof is magenta, the window trim and door trim blue. I have the border drawn around the door and windows and ready to start painting it - you guessed it - black and white checks. The walls will be yellow. If Laura doesn't come over and help soon, I will stop asking her what she thinks of this or that and completely have my way with it! And who knows what it will end up like! (maybe that is her strategy) It's been kind of hard to stick with it with all the rain we've been having, but the winds are drying things real fast too!!! Better come help, Laura, cause I'm having large polka dots dancing through my head!!!

Artsfest happening

The artfest weekend was great - as it always is - storms went before us and after us and God sent them around us during the showtimes. Just like I knew He would. Such crazy weather. And crazy people. Colorful, wonderful people. It was not our best $-wise, but still good. It's hard to explain what happens everytime. It is something beyond ourselves. We take God's word to the streets and just sit back and it all happens. And it's always amazing somehow. Maybe Jill could put it in words better but that's how I would put it!!! Amazing crazy stuff!!!

I am going to blog today before I get too busy with my artwork. The Iowa Artsfest is this weekend. We will set up downtown tonight and the artshow part of it runs Sat. and Sun. Sounds like we will get rain off and on, but I am not worried. I have been praying about it and I believe God will provide a cover over us and the show will go on . . . . as my grandpa Fry used to say, "hell or high water". Perhaps it will be the latter. I started a new project last night and need to finish up today. Typical me. I was ready, but oooops, one more thing! Hopefully Jill will take some photos and blog about it on Monday. Guess I am just too lazy to learn it. CC people, I went to the dr. yesterday. Tell your dad my cholesterol is still fine, as is my blood sugar. He was asking about it last weekend and I told him I had already been tested again and was going to find out this week. Praise God. I have been off work one week and I miss those little kids already. At the Dr. we spent part of the time talking about his son Parker, who is in my class and happens to be one of my favorites. I told him to tell Parker I love him and I miss him so much. He just patted me on the back. Good "bedside manner". We had supper at our new I-Hop last night. It was yummy. We can eat off the senior menu (55+) Then we went over to Sycamore Mall and saw the big live show - Joe Exotic - sounds like a male stripper - but no. His real name is Joe Schreibvogel, but who can say that? Exotic is a much better stage name! He was a master illusionist. Kind of cheesey, but still very good. He also had some exotic wild animals with him. And he gave kids a great message against drugs, alcohol, and bullying. Don hopes to take the boys over this weekend to see it. They'll love it. So my summer is a whirlwind of excitement and challenges so far. Stay tuned for more!