Trick or Treat in DOHA?

BOO!

My idea of a "good for you" treat, probably turned out to be a trick on me cause we ran out in about an hour. Pebbles and Bam Bam were a hit at the party they went to I'm sure.

Where has time gone?

I am feeling homesick for my long lost three college kids. It has finally hit me that time passes sometimes faster than we know. The world turns constantly and sometimes we forget to stop and concentrate on the moment we are in, the present...

Now I have realised I did not do it enough in the past. Heck, I was busy raising 4 kids!

So Today I am looking back, which a lot of us do... Remembering "The Way It Was"... (Sounds like a movie...) I have started longing for the times when I worked for weeks on Halloween costumes, making a black widow spider that was never worn cause it looked stupid once finished. Or the all time favorite "Gorilla carrying a boy in a cage", (First place of course...) I spent all afternoon yesterday trying to find a Pebbles and Bam Bam costume for Ash and Josh who are too old for trick or treating but hate to grow up... I hate it too. I hate it more today now that I am feeling this way.

The sun rises every morning, and sets every night. We must pause... from the book, or carpool, or email, or cooking long enough to realize this day we can never get back. This dinner will never happen again while you are holding hands and praying together, you never step in a river twice even at the same spot, because it is always flowing.

Change is eternity ~ everlasting ~ ongoing.

It is obvious by looking at the pictures below.

Where are my four little babies?

Where is my young family?

What happened?

All I know is I can't wait until we are all six in the same room together again.

Miss you all terribly...

LOVE MOM

MOSES and VOLLEYBALL

I never thought I would use those two words together to describe anything.

But I have just returned from Amman Jordan for the 2008 EMAC Volleyball Tournament for ASD. Ashlynn and team were strong first place all the way up til the end, but just didn't come out on top. We took a hard second. But the boys DOMINATED all the way to First. We are proud of both teams and coaches... The parents were out in numbers, the most anyone has seen at an EMAC tournament, that is something to be proud of too. I am blessed to have been there.

I managed to take a side trip early one morning and the first to arrive out to Mt. Nebo where Moses saw the Promise Land. Can't really describe the feeling of being there, a place that is really in the bible. WOW. As I sat down alone in a small chapel to pray, I heard this shuffling from a small closet in the corner covered by a curtain, then out comes a precious 99 year old priest with a feather plume dusting off the benches and opening the windows. He was ignoring me when I asked if I could take his picture. Can you believe that?


Jordan was a very friendly place and the countryside reminded me of the south of Italy kinda Mediterranean looking. Dotted with olive trees, tall skinny cypress, rolling hills, and a wonderful cool breeze. Except it was very desolate. Almost like it still looked exactly like it was 2000 years ago. (All except the Gucci billboard on the main road to Amman.)

A city called Jeresh was an old Roman city that was better preserved than anything I have ever seen even in Rome. I had fun making the Artful Images from there.

Here is the menu we had at lunch.

YUMMMMM! I'll have the Scrotum Super Sized! (just kidding!)
Now back to Doha to get busy with Senior, Family and Christmas shoots.

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FUNNY

I walk the dog in the compound at 7AM without a shower or even brushing my teeth some mornings. There is this crazy friend that also is equally not fixed "up", especially in the bra department. So we see eachother at our not-so-best, should I say. I made a comment to her husband recently about seeing her walk her dog, and her puppies every morning. (I thought I was being funny.) Until one day he stayed home from work and walked with her and guess who was walking puppies, ME!

Yesterday I received a Birthday card from my sweet friend in Switzerland and I had to modify it a tad to come up with this and sent it to my friend at the Embassy. I am sure she got a good laugh.

I'm not being quiet anymore. Wasn't very good at it anyway.