Bryden's Blue Suede Shoes!

 

Christmas Time

The tree from Oregon

We didn't buy a tree last year since we left to New York, but for the past seveal years our tree has been bought from a family that travels down from Oregon and sells them. We all agreed that the tree we picked this year was the best one there. When we lived in Luling we went with Pape to chop down our tree. That was always a treat for the kids. The thought makes me miss my Daddy.

Third in the State of TEXAS Not too Shabby!

It was not the end result that the team and all of Calallen had hoped for but, I and so many others, will always be proud of the great effort and heart that this team showed. Given played an amazing game! Exactly like an "ugly wolf" would have.

Fired up for Round Five!

"Dude, Y"all are going to the State Semi- Finals!"

Monica Anne McClure published in the Adirondak Review Winter Issue 2010

http://www.theadirondackreview.com/MonicaMcClure.html

On to Round 4!

Game 2 Playoff Win!

 

THANK YOU!

Love It all, Love it all. LOVE IT ALL!

Kmac at 22

Kmac came for a visit Friday November 5th. His birthday 22 years ago! That sounds so unbelievable. Funny how the visions of your children as children never leave your mind. I will never forget how after we had put him to bed in his crib he showed up in the living room and Bray and I both looked at each other wondering if the other had taken him out;neither of us had. He had climbed out alone! And just to make sure we put him back in and waited to see if he would do it again. Without a word and a sound he showed up again. We knew then that he was ready for a big boy bed. I suppose we will tell and retell the story of how Brayde dropped me off at the hospital, got me settled in to labor for Kindred and then left to go and play his alumni basketball game at St. Edward's. I said he could but, looking back I can't believe I did.
He came back though and even though I can't really remember that clearly I am going to say that they won!

Kmac and Jmac shoulder to shoulder!

The" New Two" aka Cleopatra and a pirate

Oak St. Backyard Chill.

It's not Central Park, but it was a great place to rest and relax.

2 and seven is nine!

Photo opp very late Saturday night, saying goodbye to Rebekah. Gathering all at once is becoming somewhat rare and so we treasure every minute together.

The City of God, St. Augustine

In one introduction to the City of God by Etienne Gilson it is written that..."Many, perhaps most, readers never finish reading the City of God in its original form."  That will most likely be me!  I just picked it up Sunday afternoon because I can't just sit from 1:30 -7:00 watching softball and baseball and nothing else!  And while I love watching the "new two" play I can do more than one or two and sometimes three things at a time.
So, wow, I am only in the forward and even though it is abridged for modern readers it is slow go. Read and re-read for sure.
I am though already so revived mentally by what I have read.  The following paraphrase is what I want to share.  Indulge me with your time and even a comment or two.
This is from the foreword by Vernon Bourke:  ...through the one ancestor, from whom all men are sprung, this unity...is not just an ideal..but a fact....instead of considering themselves bound together by a mere likeness of nature ,men are conscious of a real family bond.  None of the faithful could doubt that all men, regardless of race, color or appearance, have their origin in the first man created by God.  There was no doubt in St. Augustine's mind that God Himself had created the human race in this way so that men might understand how pleasing unity, even in diversity, was to God, nor could they doubt that their unity was a family unity.  Thus, men are naturally brothers in Adam even before being supernaturally brothers in Christ; of this we are assured by faith.