New direction...................................

Taking a new direction....well maybe not so new...at least to me. I had such great plans for blogging and leaving a record of my existence other than the next generation....not that they aren't fantastic. They are the light of my life!!!! My 4 lovely daughters...My oldest has flown the coop...she just rescently moved out on her own. The Christmas Elf is still as sassy as ever and the younger two keep me hopping, but any who...hehehe...I want to include my artwork here for your consideration.

That's my girl!!!

June 13th 2008...Catching up!!!!

Wow!!!! I didn't realize how long it had been since I had updated!!!! I have so much to be thankful for. My oldest has graduated! I have lots of mixed feelings....happiness...sadness... Tomorrow is her graduation party. She is celebrating the finish of a 12 year career and the beginning of a new chapter in her life. Me?! I'm celebrating the rearing of an intelligent beautiful young woman to adulthood without eating my young....hehehehehe!

Time to BRAG!!!! My lovely graduate entered the local Ladies Auxilliary V.F.W. Patriotic Art Competition and won 1st place in her school. Now her piece will go on to the district level. She has a very good chance. Her artwork recieved a perfect score and we are very hopeful. If she takes the division judging then she will receive tickets to Reno and accomidations for the national judging at the september convention. If she should win the national judging...cross your fingers...she will receive a $10,000 scholarship and her artwork will appear on the cover of Time Magazine!!!!

To Rock Or Not To Rock...That Is The Question!

One of my favorite pastimes is singing! I love it! Give me a good tune be it via the radio, karaoke, or a live band and I'll be singing along!!! It just makes me feel good.

My husband is musically inclined. He can pick up most instruments and figure out how to use them and not to badly at that. He's been a drummer for 30+ years. Ayup...he's one of those people! (Laura turns green with envy) Though I can sing I can't play a single instrument. I've tried and failed miserably.

Well, anyway, the point of this is that I have a decision to make. My hubby and I have tried a few times to put a band together with me singing...we are even trying yet again at this very moment and due to one problem or another it just hasn't worked out. I was handed an opportunity to try out with a different band. I'm just not sure what to do about it.

You see I'm not what you would expect of your average lead singer of a band. Lead singers aren't average people. They (or they seem to me anyway) are outgoing, confident and gifted people. In my case I can sing fairly well and on the outside I appear confident enough, but on the inside I'm a quaking bowl of jello. I FEAR performing in public. Once I get past the first song I'm usually alright, but before during and after that first my knees and hands shake, my heart races and I feel like I could fall on my face. It's terrifying!!!

I wonder also, if I try this on my own without my hubby there as a fall back if I could over come my fear...if part of my fear has to do with disappointing him and at the same time I wonder if doing this on my own would be disloyal to him.

Well, there's alot to think about...more later...
Laura

An ending and a beginning....

This is the start of a new school year and will probably be a rough one for me as a parent. As you know I have 4 lovely daughters. My oldest is 17 and finishing her highschool career this year. I'm already feeling the strain of letting go. My youngest is 4 soon to be 5 years old and starting preschool which is a new experience for both of us. None of her siblings started school before kindergarden. It is so hard to let go no matter the age.

This has been a summer to remember. Alot of fun with all my girls and some sorrow as well. We lost my grandmother, Maybelle Hester, just this past month. She was 81years old. A wonderful down to earth mother, grandmother, great-grandmother and so much more! She was all things to all that knew her and I will miss her so much! I love you grandma!

I will be around a bit more to share my thoughts after this school year gets underway.
More later,
Laura

Nobody's Business..........................................

As I have previously mentioned I am something of a "Jill of All Trades"...I've worked since I was 18. I've explored so many career options...I've forgotten more than I remember....hehehe

Currently I tend bar at a local place 2 0r 3 nights a week. It is amazing to me the number of people who live to butt their noses into everybody elses business and or shove their business under everybodies' noses...are you following me here? OOOOOooooooo, the DRAMA!!!

Not going into details that would break the bartender /um...? customer confidentiallity clause...
but, people should just mind their own back yards!!!
If we all would just try harder to make our own happiness rather than climbing mountains of others suffering in an effort to feel superior...The world would be a much happier place.

Why does age matter..........

Tonight I saw a wonderful couple...he was in his late 30's and she was considerably older. A Summer / Autumn relationship most definitely. They were so cute together. You could tell that they had only been dating for a short time and that they really enjoyed one another. You would think that the pleasure that they obviously found in one another would be all that mattered, but unfortunately like many other women in the world she was conditioned into thinking that he was to young for her. Why is it ok for a 45 year old man to date a woman 20 years his junior, but it's not ok for a woman to do the same. Don't get me wrong....if you are a minor....age does matter! If you are two consenting adults what's the big deal?!!!! I just don't get it! It shouldn't be their age, but who they are inside that matters. You only live once!!! So live!!!!