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A random post with a tribute to my friends....

So  it's a little after three pm and it's as warm as summer out there.  The kids and I wound up the school work in a rather haphazard way and called it good enough.  How can one stick to school work when there is bb guns to shoot and tire swings hanging from tall trees and dirt to dig in?  Lots and Lots and Lots of dirt!   I throw my hands up in defeat!  It's impossible to keep the dirt out and it's impossible to capture it all inside.  We live on a dusty Nebraska dirt pile.  7 acres of it.  And to the boys it's the best play ground ever.  So I should be not complaining!  Jeanie even loves it.
     Jeanie gave me the scare of my life yesterday.  I'm still writhing inside about it.... I feel so bad for her!  She got her big toe and part of her foot in the beater part of the vacuum cleaner while it was going.  Our vacuum cleaner is the epitome of  roaring power.  She has a very bad bad burn from it.  It just whipped the skin off her foot and toe in seconds.  Thankfully there is a thin layer left to regrow off of but the doc says any more skin off would mean we'd be doing skin grafts.  So today, I keep rebandaging it because she's a little wild child and keeps escaping outside and getting it wet or dirty.  I'm a very scared mommy when these kinds of things happen.  It looks very gross indeed and just makes me feel sick for her.  She's being a trooper really.
    It was a year ago my dear friend Jenn was here to visit.  Her Karis Bell is two today!  And it was three years ago we went to see them in Georgia.  It feels like it's time to see her again!  God keeps growing us up and we keep getting older and our kids are growing up and we never see each other but I thank God for her away down south.


 
   And then this dear lady moved to Nebraska  almost three years ago and  became an instant kindred spirit.  I love her spirit and great sense of humor and honesty.  She tells me the truth about me and  loves me anyhow.  She's blessed my life tremdously.  And then THEY MOVED AWAY back home to Tennessee!  I cry inside but God wants them back there for some reason.  I miss her.  Funny thing?  We never even saw much of each other when she was here.




Precious. 



I am so blessed by the souls of so many good good friends!   There are my sister friends and old friends and local friends.  Why is it I never take pictures of the friends who live right beside me? 
I found a few pictures of some of the dear friends I got to see in the last year.  God is so good to me to have such wonderful real souls in my life!   I love you all.  







'             I am missing so very many many people here.  Count yourself  in here all of you.   And God bless each of you extra special this Easter weekend!  Do  you know what an encouragement and boost it is to remember my  friends and remember again how you've blessed my soul? 

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Breanna Bauman said…
I miss you!!!! Soooo much!!!! You now have 2 excuses to come this way!!!! TN and Georgia are just right together;) love reading your blog:) hugs love you all~
April 04, 2015 2:40 PM
Shilah Writes said…
I spent a day with Lorita this week. There is something to be said for the old faithful friends that will always be there even when they are away. I miss you too, Shilah
April 04, 2015 2:43 PM
Jenn said…
Awwwww, I must say, I totaly agree that its time to see each other again! I had never seen the pic of poor Jeanie-baby sobbing while we enjoyed our drink! And I also must say, if God would have rearranged our lives and I would have missed out on your friendship, I would have missed one of my very favorite blessings of life! So thankful for you!
April 06, 2015 9:09 PM
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