all on a Sunday Afternoon

talk about making a little girl so happy, well that's what happened this weekend
Aunt C invited us to a concert and to hang out with the group:)
well just look at the photos:)

Baby boy went to the prom and made a statement:)
I selected this quote because it reminds me of him today:)

"Greatness is not in where we stand, but in what direction we are moving. We must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it - but sail we must and not drift, nor lie at anchor." - Oliver Wendell Holmes

Friday brings Faith

Great Job, being The Rock this week GBF You have been the hands and feet of Jesus:)

best friend's wonderfull Aunt goes to heaven:)

Heaven's Beauty

by Ann Moncrief

Have you ever tried to imagine the beauty you'd behold,
If ever you had the pleasure of walking Heaven's streets of pure gold?

We've heard preachers preach it; our parents talked it too,
You only have this pleasure by being born anew.

I sometimes sit and think of the wondrous things there'll be,
The only way to know for sure is take the trip and see.

There must be lovely angels with flowing gowns of white,
And above their heads a halo shining oh so bright.

There'll surely be no sadness among the people there,
Because in this beautiful place, no one has a care.

I can see Jesus standing with his arms opened wide,
It's his way of saying, "Come stand by my side."

The music that I'm hearing has the prettiest sound and tone,
It's played on harps of gold by Jesus' very own.

I don't mean to rush the journey; I'm not quite ready to go,
But when I do reach that city, happy I'll be, I know.

I wrote this poem in 1984. As another person stated, I have to be inspired by something or someone. It seems at times God speaks through me.


happy trails Aunt C welcome home:)

Our boy is almost done with the first year:)

Boys are found everywhere-on top of, underneath, inside of, climbing on, swinging from, running around or jumping to. Mothers love them, little girls hate them, older sisters and brothers tolerate them, adults ignore them and Heaven protects them. A boy is Truth with dirt on its face, Beauty with a cut on its finger, Wisdom with bubble gum in its hair and the Hope of the future with a frog in its pocket."


-- Alan Marshall Beck

our boy is all of these things to us, but to the world he looks like a grown up:)
but his Mischievous smiles reminds us of all the fun in his heart,


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a weekend full of great translations:)

This weekend our family is blessed with great translations:)
I completed my Medical translations course and am now a trained Medical Interpreter:)
and son #2 has made his Theater debut on Georgetown and below find his review:)

a year ago both these things were just a thought in both of our minds:)
today success in both:) imagine if we had just thought about it:)
go out and do it, don't just think about it,
Gods will be done in your life today:)

Theater
Nothing Lost in Nomad’s ‘Translations’

By Kaitlyn Edsall
Hoya Staff Writer
Friday, April 20, 2007
Tomorrow night marks an important milestone for Georgetown’s theater department.

At 8 p.m., the first student-directed, main stage production to be staged in the Davis Performing Arts Center will begin. Nomadic Theatre, also celebrating its 25th year on the Hilltop, will finish off this year’s three-play repertoire with performances of Translations in the Devine Theater.

Translations, a play by Brian Friel and directed by Jojo Ruf (COL ’08), is primarily about language barriers. Set in Ireland in 1833 as the British enter and attempt to instill the English tongue on the Gaelic-speaking isle, the play, which Ruf and producer Emily Howard (SFS ’07) have been working on for a year and a half, showcases Nomadic’s superior acting and addresses powerful ideas about identity, love and division with humor, sensitivity and grace.

The play opens gaily as a group of Irish students attend a hedge school, a school originally established in Ireland to illegally continue Catholic education. They converse joyfully and bawdily, in “Irish,” or Gaelic, Latin and Greek, reading Homer and enumerating the derivatives of verbs as they miscalculate their times tables — all, of course, with spot-on Irish brogues. But the ominous still hangs in the air, with whispers of potato famines and the British surveying their land.

And then the schoolmaster’s prodigal son, Owen (Alex Kostura, SFS ’09), returns with two British soldiers making a map of their land, and all things take a turn for the worst, especially when the young, idealistic orthographer Lt. George Yolland (played with likeable eagerness by Jamie Scott, COL ’10) falls for a local Irish lass with big dreams of far-off places, Maire (Cat Graves, COL ’08).

But of course, the conflicted Maire, played beautifully by Graves, is already engaged to Manus, the schoolmaster’s lame but admirable helper (played by an even more likeable Andrew Dolan, COL ’10). Thus the star-crossed, language-divided lovers flirt from afar, until one night at a dance they have a very Love Actually moment, speaking to each other the same words in different tongues, until they finally kiss and the world around them falls to pieces.

The jovial-turned-vastly-dark play is supported brilliantly by Kyle Fitzpatrick (COL ’08) as Doalty, a bumbling, mischievous and often hilarious Irish youth and his bonny blonde lass Bridget (Laura Stewart, COL ’09). As the alcohol-challenged, Latin-professing poet and schoolmaster Hugh, and his longtime, Athena-loving friend, Jimmy Jack, Jason Hibner (COL ’07) and Joshua DeMinter (COL ’09) are equally hilarious and devastating — seesawing between joyous and dilapidated. And Mike Mitchell (COL ’10) is appropriately stiff as the unforgiving Captain Lancey.

But perhaps the most gripping performance comes from the actress with the fewest lines. Giving a particularly heart-wrenching performance, and almost stealing the show from its leading lady, Rachel Caywood (COL ’10) plays the mute Sarah, who is just learning to speak her own name from Manus as the play opens. She’s completely expressive, even without words. Perhaps it is ironic that in a play about language, the most captivating character is the one who hardly speaks at all.

But that is the sadness of the play: the language and the culture that the intruding British evict. They are stealing not just their curly-haired girls, but their identity and voice.

As the astute young George points out, by replacing the names of the Irish lakes, roads and villages, “something is being eroded.” A great, multilingual society is being forced to speak simply English. And perhaps the saddest part of all is that Translations is spoken entirely in English, not Gaelic. For who would understand it?

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confession never doing it again , in this town:)

I found a joke that really describes my thoughts about my last confession
not that I was drunk, but that the priest was not aware of the situation and used very poor judgement,
don't let my words affect your confession, just take toilet paper you might need it for the poop in the confession box:)


A drunken man staggered in to a Catholic church and sat down in a confession box, saying nothing.

The bewildered priest coughed to attract his attention, but still the man said nothing.

The priest then knocked on the wall three times in a final attempt to get the man to speak.

Finally, the drunk replied, "No use knockin', mate, there's no paper in this one either."

just another reminder of what true character is:)

You can do anything you want

Let Your Light Shine



Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.

It is our light, not our darkness, which most frightens us.
We ask ourselves, "Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous,
talented, and fabulous?"
Actually, who are you not to be?

You are a child of God.
Your playing small doesn't serve the world.
There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that
other people won't feel insecure around you.

We are born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us.
It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone.
And, as we let our light shine, we unconsciously give
other people permission to do the same.

As we are liberated from our own fear,
our presence automatically liberates others.
- Marianne Williamson

become a person of character:)

Character, not circumstances, makes the man...."

one step closer to the goal:)

another day that feels like the first day of school:)
but I know this gets me closer to the goal, a goal that
is yet to be determine by God, his plan is not yet revealed,
but I prepare for it, with faith and a huge smile on my face
Thank you God for the opportunity to expand my brain muscle again:)










"When you contend with challenges that test your strength, you move more surely towards the top."

worry:)

how true is the below quote, free your self from
this type of worry,
live your life for the right reasons:)


March 24, 2001
You wouldn't worry so much about what others thought of you,
if you knew how seldom they did.
—Phillip McGraw, quoting his father

find it under the rainbow:)

As I travel my path I know that this journey would have been
easier 25 years ago, but time does not go back, the journey
is always forward so march on and do the things that need to be done
to achieve the goal:) so today it's back to school and learning
education the only path to a liberating future

Advance confidently in the direction of your dreams and endeavor to live the life you have imagined.
The future is not just some place you are going to, but is a place you are creating,
and the paths to it are not found, they are made.
Follow your passion as long as you live, and on this you will reach success."

He has risen

A commander & the Production manager & the doctor
they are all baby boys to me
Easter is the time we get together and enjoy family:)
our boys are all special and a true blessings to us
God is Good:) All the time:)
Thank you boys for being such a blessing to us:)

the Song

always remember that the joy in your life comes from within,
even when others can't hear the song, always keep it in your heart:)
the song gives the journey the lift it needs:)
sometimes slow and sometimes fast you decided the melody:)



A good friend knows the song in your heart,
and can sing it back when you forget the words.
—Unknown

teach kindness:)

Teaching a child not to step on a caterpillar is as valuable to the child as it is to the caterpillar.
—Bradley Miller

Struggle on the journey

On Holy Thursday, the last few steps of the journey begins: really enjoy the journey with our Lord,
the journey is the best part of the celebration:)

these quotes reflect the human journey, which we struggle with daily:)


After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb. I have taken a moment here to rest, to steal a view of the glorious vista that surrounds me, to look back on the distance I have come. But I can rest only for a moment, for with freedom comes responsibilities, and I dare not linger, for my long walk is not yet ended.

- Nelson Mandela

Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really progress at all, but just terrible things.

- Russell Baker

I love spock:)

I don't have to say anything about this:)


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Dreamer beware:)

I have a dream is not just something that MLK had in his heart:)
I believe that my dream is something most moms have:)
I have a dream, one day I will have the confidence I need to do what I need to do for myself what only I can do:)
that means I will get the education I need to get the future I dream of:)
A future I am still not sure of what it is, but I know it's there, my future is like faith
it's there not sure how or why it's still there, but I know I will become the person God want me to be:)
So in the meantime I dream and study and become stronger in my Dream:
when the roles change in the household, Children grow and get bigger and smarter so does the dreams :)

so enjoy the below quote it really hits home:)




To dream of the person you want to be is a waste to the person you are.
—Anonymous

Courage is the answer:)

Courage has many faces:)
how do you see your courage today:)


Courage does not always roar. Sometimes,
it is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying,
"I will try again tomorrow."

Surprise someone today:)

I know that sometimes people seem so surprised to see what I do
and how I accomplish it:)
so go out today and smile at someone, it might surprise them:)

"Always give people more than they expect to get.