oh yeah...

lovely young one!

happy birthday to the rock star!

we are alive because of you.

we are loved because of you.

we are happy because of you.

you have fed, nurtured, taught, carried,

led, encouraged, disciplined, enjoyed us.

we love you!

mark, sarah & patrick, laura & john, suz, summy, bennye, bruno and etc.

3:00 AM...nobody home on facebook

Really people, sleep is waaayyyy overrated. Do you have any idea how much time you can waste in the middle of the night and never get interrupted? It is really a euphoric state of being. No one online, NOTHING on TV, no phone calls and all the time in the world to be uninterrupted. Maybe it is just the sheer joy of completeing a thought or having nothing calling you to a task but then there is three hours from now that will beckon me to coffee, another day and the continued sensationalizing of hurricanes and pentacostals.

Where the roles start changing and the lines get blurred.

Nothing like your children being all over the place...
Sarah Beth and Patrick in the middle of Gustav eating peanut butter and jelly, drinking the water they bought for their own personal hurricane party.
Laura and John somewhere in the states of Georgia and Alabama
Suzannah somewhere in Prattville...(sorry Alan but she really wanted to see his family and he is a pretty good guy)
Summer somewhere...in the house
Corey somewhere in Romania...and i haven't heard a word!
My Momma...right here with me.