Signs of Spring....

As I was getting myself ready to enjoy this beautiful spring day and the high of 70 degrees, I realized, the first sign of spring had begun....I'm shaving my legs.  I even painted my toe nails and rubbed a deep moiturizer into my legs and feet.  I wonder if men do anything different for spring.  I think not...for them, they are good to go.  Women always spend more time on themselves in the spring and summer.  For one thing, we are showing more skin and for me, it is a chance for rebirth again.  Every where you look outside, you see life coming back to what once appeared dead.  That is how I feel.  The warmth of that first spring sun on me and that first walk in the forest, just brings new life to my body and soul.  I was in Walmart yesterday and the sights of spring are already coming out.  It was only a high of 57 yesterday, but while I was in there I saw a young man dressed for much warmer weather.  He had on droopy shorts and one of those tank tops with the arm holes that are open to the waist.  What a sight, he was quite overweight, so the exposed love handles was not a good look...if I would have had my camera I would have taken a picture and posted it on the Fashions of Walmart site.  Half the fun of going to Walmart is the people watching that is for sure.
   So many tragedies have occurred this week.  It really makes you count your blessings.  As tough as you think your life is, they are just daily struggles, no life and death situations face you and your loved ones.  I really cannot ever remember one particular country facing so many horrific catastrophes all at one time.  I even heard that a volcano also erupted this week and I saw that it also snowed too.  What else could go wrong for those poor people?  I pray that God will show them mercy...what his plan is, I surely don't know.  This is what tests your faith.  If these people can come back from this and be stronger and better than they were, than they are truly people of God.
    Sean is taking his nap right now, so I thought I would write a few thoughts down.  If anybody is still reading my blog, I sure would appreciate a word or two from you.  Writers like to know they have written something that somebody else feels is worth reading.  I am writing these blogs for my family and for my grandkids.  Someday I will put them in a book and maybe someday they can read them and think..."Boy, that Mimi was quite a lady, a little whacky, but she loved us!

Proof of love

I read a story in a magazine that is prompting this blog.  The story was about being happy.  A french poet named Pierre Reverdy wrote, " There is no love.  There is only PROOF OF LOVE."  It is so true.  Whatever love I might feel in my heart, others would see only in my actions.  You can tell someone that you love them, but if you can make them see and feel it, is the greatest love of all.  I have always tried to do this and I hope my family knows this and appreciates the little things that I do.  Some of my most cherished possessions from my family and friends didn't cost that much.  These things truly came from their hearts.  They were gifts that took some thought to achieve.  A gift that was bought because someone knew me and knew me well enough to know that this present would make me so happy.  My son Seth gave me one of my most cherished gifts of all.  My Mom died when I was 34 yrs. old and Seth was just 7.  Before she died, she gave each of the kids a graduation card and put some money in it.  She told me to give this to them on their graduation day.  I promised her I would and I did.  When Seth graduated, I gave him the much anticipated card.  He opened it, and held the $100 dollar bill.  It was his first one that he had ever had.  I didn't take it from him of course and didn't know what he did with it.  My birthday is July 29th, just another birthday....Seth walks up to me and hands me a box with a card.  I open the card, it said, "TO OUR BEAUTIFUL DAUGHTER ON HER BIRTHDAY",  and on the inside it said, "LOVE, MOM AND DAD.  Tears swelled up in my eyes, I couldn't believe what I was seeing.  I looked at him and he said open the box.  Inside the box was a piece of driftwood with two dolphins on it.  He said those dolphins are Mom Mom and Pop Pop.  I used their money to buy this for you.  Well, to this day, I will never forget what he did and he could never top this gift.  That to me was the ultimate PROOF OF LOVE.  I guess I have to give equal billing to Regan too.  She gave us a collage of all our cruise memories one time for our Anniversary that means so much to me, but the biggest Proof of Love was when she asked her Dad and I to be present with her when Karaline and Nickolas were born.  Those memories are burned in my memory forever.  The first time we laid eyes on Karaline and Nick are the most beautiful memories I have.  Rich has given me many wonderful gifts and some not so wonderful.  Gift giving for him is just not one of his strong suits.  The one that stands out for me and he probably does not even know this, is my built in hair dryer.  We had gone to Vegas one time and in the bathroom was a built in the wall hair dryer.  I remarked how much I liked it and wished that I could have something like this at home.  He evidentally was listening, because for my birthday that year, I got my built in hair dryer.  I just love this thing and everytime I use it, I know it is a PROOF OF LOVE from Rich.  Everyday there are PROOFS OF LOVE, some are not so memorable, but they are proof that someone loves you.  Recently, I entered Karaline and Sean in a Model Photo Contest and asked all my Facebook friends to please vote for them.  The most votes would win the contest.  I am overwelmed by all the Proofs of Love and votes that Karaline and Sean have gotten.  It is the little things in life that mean the most.  As I go through my life, I will try to do my Proofs of love to my friends and family.  I only hope that they have a story or two to tell about me when I'm gone from this earth.  In the end, it is the PROOFS OF LOVE that you remember and that brings you comfort and joy.