Confession

Hello. My name is Sally. It has been 8 days since my last post.

Not sure what is going on with me. Seems there is no time to thought process, blog, sew, read, craft, etc. etc. And therefore I feel like I am going through life doing nothing well.

Celebrated my Mom's birthday with family and that was lovely. Sometimes my large family is a little daunting to me. Not sure where I fit in and all. But this was grand. It was a gorgeous day and my Mom seemed to flourish being surrounded by family. Even three of her nieces traveled in...2 from Michigan and 1 from California. Also, brother and family from Massachusetts and sister from Wisconsin.

We shared favorite memories of Mom. One was that they had never heard my Mom raise her voice. Throughout the course of the day with three boys I am thinking that that must skip a generation. ha ha. Also, my brother shared the story of my Mom and Dad purchasing their first car and leaving it parked on the driveway because there wasn't a bridge across the creek. Apparently it flooded in the night and moved the car into the fields. The car was taken in town to the local Buick dealer and they removed the parts from the car and spread them around the garage to dry and fix. Apparently the garage was located in a flood plain as well because it proceeded to flood the new car a second time.

We sat around and listened to my niece, her boyfriend, my brother and nephew play guitar and sing a few songs. She blew out the candles in one full swoop and we munched on homemade carrot cake and Penn State Creamery ice cream. My sister exclaimed and I agree, "It was such a great day I wish we could do it all over again."

My mom shares her birthday with my friend Nancy. We gave John and family flowers knowing that it would be an emotional day for them. I pictured Nancy thriving in the sunshine of the day. She would have loved to see the spring flowers blooming and the robin's nest being built in the tree in her front yard.

There is an African Violet perched on my kitchen window that loves the warmth and glow of the evening sun. It has white flowers yet there is one white flower with purple edges. I asked Kim if she had ever seen a white flower suddenly have one purple flower in the middle. She replied, "Maybe that's Nancy sending you that flower from heaven."If so, thanks Nancy and Happy birthday.