Patience and Fortitude

Maxx can do it!
He is so patient, and takes one button at a time.
"I can do this Mom!", he says.






"Patience and fortitude conquer all things" -R.W.Emerson

Oh this happy day of May!

What a beautiful way to start May.
What a joyous celebration.
What fun to meet new people and make new friends.
Oh, what spring will bring.
Happy May Day!

Now's the month of May

Time to run and play
Throw your cares away
Until another day



Now's the month of May
Time to run and play
Find your partner now
And with her take a bow



Now's the month of May
Time to run and play
Take a dear friend by the hand
And walk around our stand



Now's the month of May
Time to run and play
Time to take our Ribbons
And circle round our pole



Our beautiful May day celebration at the Shining Star Waldorf School.

Enjoying Rest, The Spring, and Some Time Off

Maxx and I are at the lake having some R&R time.
Today is a day off. We are enjoying this amazing weather... 70 and perfect at the lake. We love to just sit outside watch the wildlife, feel the breeze, and soak in the sun. We are 30 minutes away from small town and 2 1/2 hours from home and the city. We are so blessed to have Grommy and Popah's house as a small retreat into nature and recharge. Time is slower and so peaceful.




Maxx picked some wild flowers growing in the woods for Grommy and Mommy.





Take rest; a field that has rested gives a bountiful crop. ~Ovid

Sliding on the First day of Spring... Belated

It's spring fever. That is what the name of it is. And when you've got it, you want - oh, you don't quite know what it is you do want, but it just fairly makes your heart ache, you want it so! ~Mark Twain

Yes, this seems to be how my life is going...everything is belated.

No matter how organized I feel I am ... there are never enough hours in the day...I have thank you cards half written, some even written & sealed...just missing part of an address. I have saved stuff and purchased stuff for craft projects...waiting on that great idea to become reality. My to do list is huge and getting bigger by the minute. I think I need a secretary. Hey, but it is Spring...

Fresh, clean, blank, new...one more time.

Maxx and I spent part of the first day of Spring last week outside. We had a great hour to have a picnic and get some playtime in at he "AWESOME Slide Park!" before we had to get in the car and dash to work and the babysitters. The park has 7 chutes of pure fun!!!

Best Happiness

Maxx and I spent most of our day outside today.

What a beautiful day here in Texas!

One of our many joys was "Lizard Watching".

"Ahhhh!"

"They jump!"

They were everywhere sunning themselves. As the sun would move and leave the lizard in the shade...they would move a few more inches and turn to bask in those rays. Some were bright green others were brown, we saw some change as they moved around.

Maxx tried his best to catch one...but "no cigar". It ran as fast as those little legs could run. "Whew!" Just fast enough to get to a group of potted plants and disappear like he was made to do. Then that pour thing probably had a heart attack.

So doing my nature research to have more lizard facts, I found out that they are Green Anole not Chameleons...good to know. The one in the photo below was the biggest one, King. We saw King do the "king tut dance neck move" and then he would flex his chin out and it was a pinkish red. "What in the wooorld!!! is he DOooing?"

We wondered what that was for...now I know, he was reminding the rest of the lizard mob that he was Boss, or he was trying to impress the ladies...I can just hear those lizardesses *wolf whistle* "Hot stuff right there. Mmmm Mmm! King is king in my book, baby!"

Another lizard story.

The second morning we were in our new place we woke up to a lizard in our bathroom and it kinda freaked us out. The day before we had, had our door open enjoying the day, and he must have made a wrong turn and got stuck inside. We put a paper bag down and told him to run in to the bag and we would take him out side to be free. Next thing we knew into the bag he went, like he understood what we said. We grabbed the bag and outside we went. It took the little green intruder no time after we sat that bag down for him to bolt. We wished him well and Maxx told him loud and clear ..." and stay out!"

“Precisely the least, the softest, lightest, a lizard's rustling, a breath, a flash, a moment - a little makes the way of the best happiness.” ~Friedrich Nietzsche

Spring is Here!!!

Okay, so 2 months have flown by...

Updates and random thoughts.

Maxx turned 4 1/2.

We had 2 Friday the 13ths...one was our 5th wedding anniversary.

As most know, Maxx and I are in Texas with family and starting a new life, while father lion is working on himself back in Chicago.

How I miss my friends!!!...and Maxx's school.

This winter opened many new doors.

How grateful I am for all the warmth and love Maxx and I received.

This has been a soul searching journey.

Yay for spring!

I am excited for the warm weather, Texas wild flowers, and being so close to family for a while. Year of the Ox...this has been a challenging and rewarding year already.

Maxx loves to play with legos and take showers in the morning.

We moved into our own place just a week ago and are still settling.

I plan to be on here more, now that father lion brought some of our things on a very good visit.

Have a beautiful morning.

"It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade. " ~Charles Dickens

Hello..time is flying Merriment and Happy New Year!!!

So I started a few blogs and they never got finished. For the holidays and for New Year's.
Happy New Year my friends. I can not believe it is 10 days old already.
Here are a few pictures from our days here in Texas. I love you all, Jane

Jordan and Maxx Fishing with Uncle Clay

Uncle Clay Teaching Maxx to Fish

Okay check out Maxx's first fish. About 1.5 pound fat black Bass. Uncle Clay put a round bobber on Maxx's line and Maxx being 4 began to play a game while sitting and being patient. "Get the bobber to sit on a leaf" So that minnow moving up and down while Maxx was playing his game drove that poor Bass crazy and away went the bobber and Uncle Clay grabbed the pole and reeled it in. It was a blast to watch all the cousins around oooo and ahhh over Maxx's first fish. Yay!

Maxx the Captain