Jewells of Thought

June has been quite a month. I have already created the articles ‘June’ and ‘1936’ which meant a lot to me. For 12 years a special little girl has brought such intense love into my family. We prayed for her before she became a possibility so really we prayed for her for 14 years. Yesterday was her first of 2 birthday parties Moms and Dads so she gets twice the fun and presents right?

Yesterday was my brother’s party a week before her actual day. Her mother is throwing the 2nd party on her birthday. So birthday parties after a divorce are always interesting. I now somehow have 3 nieces instead of just one, because her little sisters continue to call me aunt, and my parents their grandparents. To be honest we enjoy being thought of by them in that way. My goodness I have a picture of the three of them with washable tattoos on their wrists while we were watching them for most of the day. Sometimes this divorce thing makes for the most craziness of circumstances.

God has certainly brought us some laughable moments since bringing this little girl into our world. So many times though I have thought what would our grandpas think of this girl? While on that thought more ideas have been swirling in my head. Looking at the pictures Aunt Martha has gone through have brought back some beautiful moments. The clock Dad made is now in our house, there is a picture of Dad, Grandpa Leo and I want to say Jared in front of that clock. Three generations of fathers now.

I don’t want to give away all of my thoughts, but that picture really was poignant and I shared why in my ‘Patriarchs’ article from Friday night. Yet that clock started another group of what the men in my life used their hands for… the many ways they showed their love in what they did.

Today may have been Father’s Day, but I feel I need to do this series over the next week. When God puts something into your mind there is a reason. Listen to His voice… I hope I am giving justice to the articles He wants.

As I looked over which card to give dad this morning, there were actually more than I thought that could be used. While I was sidetracked by my foot injuries I made a boatload of cards the fall of 2019. Some of these looked really amazingly good for home-made. Partially due to my Cricut cutter and having absolute fun making them. My hands are rarely idle in part to those men.

Yeah I think I had a lot of thoughts this weekend. The biggest challenge was when I had finished ‘Patriarchs’ and the normal one-step and publish wasn’t working. It really felt like someone was working on me trying to sabotage my articles from being seen. I still can’t get Patriarchs on my Facebook page I had to bypass it to get it on my regular page instead of the Jewell’s of Thought page.

It’s really nice to be on the other end of the weekend now looking back at how God got me through this weekend!