Ok so we've been home for a month now....

Make a Smilebox slideshow

Some of the Florida pics

You HAVE to see this......

One Home <-------- click on it!!!!!

and another discussion with Cousin Barb....

Cousin Barb and Mav - a discussion.....

Finding Sarah

Ok so I was here on vacation....roaming through a bookstore for some easy beach reading.

Sometimes things you are meant to find just POP out at ya. I was looking through piles upon piles and there was one book that i noticed right away. Maybe because I had seen similar (and read them) books in the past.

It was called "Moving On" by Sarah Ban Breathnach. For some reason I knew I was to buy this book. Years ago I read her other books.....you can find out more here: http://www.simpleabundance.com/



Well since her Simple Abundance days - many things have happened in her life. I felt that rang true with me as well and the title of this book I was caring around the store just really sunk in.

Standing right there in a store while my boys ran around me in circles, I realized it was time to Move On. I am sure most think it's been way too long...i should have moved past everything already. But I haven't. Not by any choice of my own really - it just happens 9or actually doesn;t happen) because you are so busy taking care of everyone else.



I have spent so much time making sure everyone else was ok - when all along - I wasn't taking the time to mourn my Moms passing. Instead I waited for her to come back.

You could ask me where I have been the past year and a half....I have no answer for you. I seem to recall buying a new home in the country - but none of the excitement was there. I vaguely remember trips, family holidays and girlfriend time...but was my heart in it? I THOUGHT so.....but I think I tried so hard that I even convinced myself. Now it's all a blur - as everyday has been since my Mom died.



Anyway, when I opened the book and read Sarah's words...I knew I had found someone who understood. Someone who had been there...even though her loss wasn't the same as mine.



Not word for word for word...but this stopped me in my tracks:



"Consider the aftershocks at either extreme of life's spectrum.....The event will Strip you of the familiar....We do not feel or look like ourselves. Even if we still answer to our names, we begin a wrenching process of seperating from our previous identities. Think of it as psychic identity theft. We have been snatched, mind and body, from all that was customary, from the person you were just yesterday."



Anyway - I am reading the book - and have realized it is time for me to get back into real life - back to the land of the living...

I mean ... HELL...that is what Mom would have wanted...now if she would just help me figure out HOW to go about doing that!

Hi PawPaw!

Ahhhh Vacation!

First the Mississippi Bridge - and then the river...
Then the BEACH!!!! woooohooooooo!


So we made it safe and sound and are having a great time! i will try to keep everyone updated here with any photos we take!

Needed a good laugh tonight...

Kalterman Family Reunion - The funniest home videos are here

Levi - new hockey season

Sooo Levi tried out for a traveling hockey team and made the team. They had their first game today...and they had a blast! Of course I forgot my camera - so my friend Marie sent me a couple she got of Levi. How awesome are the new uniforms!!??

Obviously I have lost my mind

Our rescue had to take in 25 bunnies yesterday that came from a seizure in Tennessee. I don't know all of the circumstances - but I had to drive to Texarkana and pick the whole bunny crew up. It was a very tiring raod trip - though I did get to go alone! Yay!

Anyway - now I have 11 more than I had before - a grand total of 21 bunnies!!!! All but three are living in the Bunny House for now and I am working on getting more cages and hay and food etc!

For now - here are the photos I have to share...

A walk to the pond!

We started our walk by checking out some really funky clouds - even spotted a rainbow!














When the boys saw the pond - immediately - they were IN!
















Busy Catching minnows and frogs!



















Rockne began to check out the water...















And Boscoe just relaxed in the sun...










THEN.....it was all over...Rockne was off!

He was freakin' hilarious! He had a blast!