Wednesday, November 28, 2018

Shine Little Star

By MoBerries at 9:31 AM No comments

This song is absolutely my favorite Christmas song, "Shine Little Star". My children sang it in church choir when they were small, some before they were even able to read the words. I picked this for Molly's funeral, and all of the nieces and nephews sang it there. So beautifully. And, I always said, if we ever made a family Christmas album, this song had to be on it.
Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays, God bless us, everyone! ❤️️

Watching the photos pass through on this video, I can remember the day they were all taken and the events around them. Each picture brings back memories like getting ready to go to the Noah's Ark Christmas program or looking for fabric to recreate the 'first Christmas' for Christmas cards. Events that when I look at the photos don't seem so very long ago.

The fact that I can so easily recall standing inside the bathroom taking the photo of 'Cindy Lou Who' Natalie with her hair done up in multiple ponytails may explain why it is so hard to move on from so many things. They are always right there on the edge of my memory, waiting for some little something to bring them back into sharp focus, like it just happened.

Memoies,
Like the corners of my mind
Misty water-colored memories
Of the way we were...
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The Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Week

By MoBerries at 9:37 PM No comments

Yes, the title of this post is based off of the book Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day link

This past Saturday we decided to drive out to the bay.

We were stopped by the police. Our truck has expired tabs. Two months expired. Our truck need it's brakes fixed. It's transmission fixed. And it is leaking gas into the cab. Since we live in California, we can not get new tabs without first passing a smog test. We cannot pass a smog test without fixing many things. We don't have money to fix any of them.

In addition to expired tabs, we had to explain why our insurance was still registered to an address that we no longer live at. You know, that whole homeless thing.

All in all, not a good time.

Then, on Sunday, I sat outside and watched the clouds float by. But, these clouds didn't just float past, they became faces and then angels and then animals. Very detailed animals in the sky. Very much not cloud like. Even though I knew my eyes were seeing things that could not be real, I could not make it stop.

Fairly certain this in NOT GOOD.

But, without insurance, there is nothing I can do about seeing things that aren't real. Just hope it is stress related.

Life just keeps getting better and better, all the time.

Oh, and, tomorrow, we have to move. Still haven't start packing. It will cost us $400 more a month for the three of us to stay in this one room hotel room.

I just don't have the energy to watch the country fall apart, as well.

Hoping for better news, soon.

Happy fall.

Coit Tower

By MoBerries at 9:04 PM No comments

Climbing Coit Tower:

As the afternoon waned, Nataliie, Geg and I parked down by the Pacific Wharf. Then, we walked UP! 435 stairs plus 8 inclines (hill like objects) to the top of Coit Tower. Of course, afterwards, we had to walk those 435 stairs back down.

Coit Tower, a slender white concrete column rising from the top of Telegraph Hill, has been an emblem of San Francisco’s skyline since its completion in 1933, a welcoming beacon to visitors and residents alike. Its observation deck, reached by elevator (tickets can be purchased in the gift shop), provides 360-degree views of the city and bay, including the Golden Gate and Bay bridges.

Some of the movies showing Coit Tower: San Andreas, Boys & Girls, After the Thin Man, Dr. Dolittle, Sister Act 2, The Enforcer, The Presidio, The Rock, Innerspace.

Only you will have stars that can laugh.

By MoBerries at 12:33 PM family No comments

Trying to remember one good day, but it the good keeps slipping away:

Sitting in the living room. The room we are never supposed to be in. Scraggly green and yellow shag carpet tickles are knees and ankles and toes. We climb up onto the reclining chair and snuggle in closer as she reads.

The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or touched, they are felt with the heart. Antoinede Saint-Exupéry

The story is long and sometimes confusing, but this never happens. This uninterrupted time with her.

The big sister from far away.

The Little Prince

You—you alone will have the stars as no one else has them...In one of the stars I shall be living. In one of them I shall be laughing. And so it will be as if all the stars were laughing, when you look at the sky at night...You—only you—will have stars that can laugh. Antoinede Saint-Exupéry

Chinatown -- San Francisco

By MoBerries at 2:42 PM No comments

Five month in the Bay Area, and we finally made it into San Francisco's Chinatown. This Bay Area Chinatown is the largest Chinatown outside of Asia. It is also the oldest Chinatown in North America. Inside Guide to Chinatown