Family Happenings!

Got this in my email the other day from my uncle and thought I would share it! I am going to keep it posted at work so it will remind me to just pray when I get frustrated!

My cousin passed away last week and her funeral was on Saturday. Now she is my mom's first cousin so I think that makes her my second. Martha Bibby Green. She was always so very nice! I always had a good time around Martha and just remember her smiling a lot. She really loved the Lord too. A couple of months ago she was praying in church and she said that she had actually seen the Lord at the church. She was so in awe and excited about that.

During the service her preacher was saying that as we were sitting there that Martha was in the presence of the Lord. That she was face to face with Him and that if he knew Martha she was on her knees praising Him to His face!!! How awesome! I know her sisters, brothers, her son and granddaughter are going to miss her terribly. But the thought of her praising God just made me happy. I know her family would appreciate your prayers for them at this time.

Martha wanted to be cremated and I knew that when they cremate people they put them in the wood/cardboard coffins that look like the ones on the cowboy movies. Well Martha's son just didn't want his mother in one of those coffins. So they looked at a couple of others and the one he picked for her was just beautiful. It looked like a regular steel casket but it was just wood or cardboard. It had the appearance of wood but I thought I heard my other cousin say it was cardboard. If it was cardboard they did an excellent job because the wood looked like wood! It was just beautiful. I thought it was prettier than a lot of the steel caskets I have seen. Just a plain wood grain looking coffin. I told my family that that is what I'd like to be buried in. Just a simple, and to me, beautiful wood grain looking coffin.

I wasn't planning on spending too much time after the funeral with family. I had quite a few things I needed to do at home. I was just going to drop off some chicken and leave. But I decided to ride over with my sisters and we all really had a good time catching up with family. The circumstances was not idea but seeing everyone was great. It was almost 5 when I got home!

Sunday after church I got a call that my brother (who has been gone for a while working out of town) had surprised everyone with a visit home. So we all got together and went out to eat. Mexican of course! lol It was nice seeing him again and today he is heading back to North Carolina. So please say a prayer for him while he is traveling and working away from home. I know it is hard on his daughters and him too.

Well I guess that's it for today. I have a few posts I'm working on letting you know a little more about what I have been doing so stay tuned!!


Have a blessed day!

Out Of The Mouth Of Babes!

Hello everyone,

Had to share, couldn't keep it to myself. They call him Sky Angel Cowboy. Please take the time to watch, oh and have tissue ready!




Have a blessed day!

Wonderful Friday!

Hello Everyone,

I am so happy that it is Friday. I have the weekend off and Alabama will be playing tomorrow. Also this is my weekend with my darling Ray. What don't I like about it being Friday? Larry is off on Fridays and I just don't think it's right that he should be off. Granted he works 4 - 10's but I hate when he is off and I am at work. It just doesn't seem right. That, my friends, is what you call envy.

So on Friday mornings I am the slowest person in the world. I take my time doing everything. He sits there and tells me I am awful begrudging him his Fridays. I am. But I can't help it. Sigh...

Remember the power point presentation I blogged about yesterday? Well two of our agents have sent in their materials. Let me just say that you know some people are just plain stupid. I don't mean to be ugly but have a little sense. The company that we work for and that we are doing the presentation for sent all the agents an example of what they want. You know a bullet guide for them to go by. Well they used "Aerospace Opportunities in Your Area" as an example. One of the agents has actually just emailed me his list of "Aerospace" clients. Here's your sign!

I know that sounded ugly but I am a work in progress. Every day a lesson is learned. Every day a bible verse is understood. Have you ever not "got" a bible verse? To me it is so funny that I'll read something and don't quite get it. I'll re-read it . . nope still don't get it. So I pray that I do and then I read on. A week goes by and then BAM! I got it. Like the V8 commercials. God just slaps you on the head and saids "Duh!". I have to laugh when that happens.

Now a couple of pictures of my Grammyson just because he makes me laugh! I love you little man.



The lamb picture (see my Halloween post). lol He didn't even like wearing it.



He just truly brightens my day.

When someone in your family dies you know how you and your family are reacting but you really don't know how it affects people outside of your family. When my brother died he had a lot of close friends. They came around for a while but eventually they move on. Which is what they should do. First I need to say that it does still hurt to see his friends. I get a pain in my heart when I see them. I ran into one of my brother's best friends the other night.

I guess I've known him since he was in kindergarten. He was telling me that he has had a bad time with drugs since my brother died. He told me that he finally went to an NA meeting and the first person he seen there was my other brother. He took it as a sign that he was right in going to the meeting. Then he said on the way home a song came on, "Tuesday's Gone", he said that since Ray had his accident on a Tuesday he has never been able to listen to that song since he died. He took that as another sign and that he just started crying. Then he ran into me. He was teary eyed while he was telling me his story. He said I know now that I am doing the right thing and that I need to straighten out. I guess God had me in the right place at the right time. I told him that I loved him and that if he needed anything to call me. I also said that he is doing the right thing for him and his family and that I was very proud of him. I hadn't realized that after twenty years he was still hurting too.

So I guess that wraps it up today. I need to finish up my part of that presentation and hope the others have their's in here by 5 o'clock. Cause it's Friday and I am so ready to go home. Have a great weekend everyone.

Have a blessed day!

Valerie

Remembering My Brother Ray!

Hello Everyone,

Well today it has been 20 years since my brother Ray passed away. I have been meaning to tell you about him since I started my last blog, but it's just kinda hard to do it. I'm just gonna blog like I'm writing to him, that's about the only way I can bring myself to do it without crying here at work.



TWENTY years! It hurts to think that you have been gone that long. You have missed out on all of our children. You only knew Tash and Tony. I know you loved them and loved playing with them. You would absolutely love all of the other kids. There's Matthew Ray, Dakota Andrew, Nikki LaShae, India Megan, Steven, Larissa Desirae, Steven James, and Keely Shay. All your nieces and nephews know about you. Now you have a great nephew Ray. I have often wondered about your children and what they would have looked like and been like. We have missed so much, you have missed so much.

If only you hadn't died. What would it be like? I try to think of what you might look like. Who you might have married. How many kids you might have had. It's just so sad and unfair that your life was cut so short. It was an awful time for us after you died. We were so positive that you would live. We had our faith in God. We thought the peace we felt was because you were going to live. We were so angry when you did die. We were hurt and mad. If it hadn't been for God in our lives there's no way we could have handled it.

When you died you were all alone in that cemetary. Not for long, Mrs. Hacker joined you just two months later, when you died she kept saying it should have been her. Then Polly Tucker who also loved you, she was buried in the memorial building facing your grave. Now you know that Grandma and Grandpa are with you, Uncle Paul, Uncle Joe, Uncle Troy and Uncle Junior have all passed. You have lots of company now. And just last year Kristy passed away. I know there are others but those are just a few that come to mind.

Please know that you are never forgotten. Every gathering, every dinner, every day - you are always a part of it and always will be. It's been TWENTY years but the hurt still seems like that day. You are always in my heart, mind, thoughts and life.

I better go now I am getting teary eyed and still have a lot to do here. I love you little brother and always will! I'll miss you forever.

Have a blessed day!

Valerie