Blessings, Childhood Photos, and Musings.

[ShutterbugMama]

Thank you God for my Grandma.  Who would have EVER thunk it, huh???  She had these photos of me when I was little (3 years old)...LOOK HOW HIGH THE RAIL IS THAT IM SITTING ON!!!!!  OMG!  And yeah, thats me coming through the dog door.  Thank you God for these photos.  I love to see pieces of my hstory, even thought it comes in fragmented peices.  I feel that they help me put the puzzle back together, piece by piece...in Gods time. 

Thank you God for my Adoptive MOM (ginny19).  I love her...Id simply be lost without her, and I have no idea how it came to pass that she would accept me for a daughter, but she did, and I thank You for her, God. 

Thank you God for How pasty white my skin is.  I love it..Im relishing in the fact that I am white as a ghost, and CANCER FREE....Im cancer free.....NO MORE CANCER..Melanoma is not part of me....I am free.  Thank you God for pulling me through the toughest time of my life, and for giving me Sisters who held their hands out for me to hold during the single scariest thing I've ever been through.  I am free now, I am alive, I am healthy and I AM SUBBORN!  Thank you God.  : )

Thank you God for options.  I know there are so many options for me, my children, my friends...I knwo we all have all these BEAUTIFUL options...we are free to make choices, use our free will, and CHOSE what we do with ourselves.  God gave me life, God gave me the world, God gave me purpose...what I do with His gift, is my gift to Him.

Thank you God for Milk and Cookies.  They somehow always make everything ok.

Count your blessings, sisters.  And FOR CRYING OUT LOUD, REMEMBER TO LAUGH!  (Good for the abs...ask cardioqueen, she will concur).

Sweet dreams.

~Elle

[TotallyTart]

Dec. 12, 2007 at 11:01 PM

Milk and Cookies I need to really lay off the Milk and cookies, Before I gain back the 5 pounds I lost. I wasn't always a health nut till I was told I had High Cholesterol, then I became a health freak then I got pregnant and sick and the only thing that made me feel better was chocolate. So out went the health food, Now I'm working on it again and during the holidays Yeah right, that's going to well, So I'm doing as good as I can till after Christmas. Then I'm done for good. and so is everyone else...they will be loving me,,,I've already told them after tricker treating we will be donating the candy and I will pay them 5 bucks for every pound they give away. That made it easier for them. No Cookies next christmas it's veggies and veggie trays. We've been there before it's just a matter of going back...Love Ya Sister Sweet Dreams...Lisa

[HendrixandMama]

Dec. 12, 2007 at 11:14 PM aww darlin, this post made me smile. "what i do with his gift, is my gift to him." stunning.

[tally79]

Dec. 12, 2007 at 11:33 PM aww..you are so lucky to have pictures of you when you were little, my birth mom lost all my pictures,I don't even have any baby pictures =*(  I love the one of you coming through the dog door...and how in the world did you get up there that high on that rail??

[shell81]

Dec. 13, 2007 at 12:19 AM

That is such a cute picture!!

I thank god my dad is here right now and thank him for, my sister doing all the things that need to be done. My family and dear friends that are here for me through all of this,. Thanks Elle!

[roolynn]

Dec. 13, 2007 at 7:26 AM Elle, I can't tell you how happy I am that you are cancer free!  It's a blessing and I thank God for it everyday.  I love the pictures!  I'm adopted, from about 2 weeks old, and I recently met my biological uncle.  He had some pictures for me of his father that was really nice.  So I understand about wanting to have that information, even though I have a feeling that my adoption was a lot different than yours!  Thank you for being you!

[kmaggie]

Dec. 13, 2007 at 7:51 AM why can't I see any pictures? I have never been able to see any of the pics...

[ST6153]

Dec. 13, 2007 at 9:06 AM Yay cancer free! I am pasty white with you but by choice. I am afraid of the sun lol. ( I am Irish and Scottish and I burn soooo easily and BAD)

[Angela7780]

Dec. 13, 2007 at 10:04 AM Yikes, that picture is so high up! I would be sweating buckets if one of my kids were sitting on that rail. Isn't it odd the stuff they let us do in the 70's? I'm so thankful to be here.

[cardioqueen]

Dec. 13, 2007 at 1:49 PM

Yay for laughter-it's instant core contraction!!

Love you, sister!!