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Precious Ones ~
'Tis the week after New Year's
And all through the land
bloggers are scheming up new games
it really could get out-of-hand!"

Tara, my special bloggy friend, has tagged me
in her blog New Day New Seasons and challenged
me to search my photo files to select the 4th photo
from the 4th folder and then write about it, soooo....

Here it is:

This is a photo taken during Christmas 2007.

That was my Mom's last Christmas with us.

Oh, how she loved Christmas! She'd accumulate little

gifts for months and excitedly wrap and wrap and wrap.

Here she is soaking in the love

of her granddaughter, Katie -my firstborn.

I suppose these 2 ladies are the most influential women

in my life and that is saying a lot!

You see I have some very influential,

loving women in my life,

yet I suppose that family affects us

in a way that no one else can.

I pray that I can be the mother that

Katie needs even as she is a mother herself.

~~~

And this is an appropriate photo to share

because my Mom's birthday is January 26th

and though she is with Jesus now, she would have been

77 years old this month if she was still earthbound.

Losing a parent is such a profound life transition...

whether or not they "drove you crazy,"

it really is something when they are gone.

This life is so short!

May we live it to the fullest, praising GOD

for His continual Goodness and Love.

~~~

So, how about you?

Will you be "random" and pick the 4th photo

from your 4th folder and share with us?

May God bless your heart and mind and body

this new year and always!