Just a quick note to say thank you for the prayers and good thoughts for Braylon.

He gained 3 ounces yesterday and pooped !  I don't remember ever being excited about baby poop but we sure are!

all the test for yucky stuff were negative

He's got new calorie enhanced vitamin enriched formula and

He's going home today!

YAY!!!

Many Thanks

ILYM

the moon coming up
the sun going down
the stars coming out
the world going round

each day is a miracle
our blessings abound

Our precious great grandson Braylon is in the hospital.  He was born 8 weeks early, 3lbs and 11 ounces.  He's not keeping his formula down very well  and has only gained an ounce in the last 4 weeks, the doctors are running test to see what might be going on.  I'm off to check on him.   Prayers and thoughts positive are welcome.

Braylon 3 weeks ago.

ilym

I have a hard time
writing poems that don't rhyme
if they don't
aren't they really just stories?

They are not say the books
there is meter and verse
to count them you must be a genius!

You do it with ease
you've practiced you've pleased
and that's why I call you
extraordinary

I didn't have much time again today...it was an extraordinary day though...I had my first hummingbird visit.
I put my feeders out as soon as the honeysuckle starts budding out, which was yesterday.  I saw three, probably the same one at different times but boy was I excited!

Tomorrow I have a VBS workshop... surely I will be inspired by some tiny miracle...if not I'll go through the photo's of the kids and grands....see you soon

ilym

I believe

I believe in fairy tales
nightingales and
eating kale

I believe in dandelions
puppy breath and
negative Ions

I believe in pennies heads up
grab em all
you'll have good luck

I believe in being straight
tell the truth
don't be late

I believe in the moon and stars
making wishes
good cigars

I believe that Mountain Tops
are magic places
full of love
and Gods good graces

four leaf clovers
counting crows
one for sorrows
two for joys

I'll just say this is free form again, it's a busy time for me at work, however I sure am enjoying the poetry, I could spend more time studying the different poetry forms but then I wouldn't have time to read all the lovely works of art.  Speaking of Mountain Tops...below is one of my favorite mountains.

Brasstown Bald is the highest natural point in the state of Georgia, USA, with a summit elevation of 4,784 feet above mean sea level. The mountain is known to the native Cherokee people as Enotah.

 I do believe this is a magical place.

ilym

My home town is very small
less than a grand of us
I know them all

A grocery, a bank
two pharmacies and
three places where you can fill up your tank

four places to eat
several antiques
a grammar school that is pretty darn neat

but the park is the best
for fun or for rest
a cave and a spring we surely are blessed

Nash and Nova in the park yesterday
eating Ice Cream...it was such a lovely day!

I didn't have much time to study the types of poetry today, but I think this may be Free Verse:

A Free Verse Poem does not follow any rules. Their creation is completely in the hands of the author. Rhyming, syllable count, punctuation, number of lines, number of stanzas, and line formation can be done however the author wants in order to convey the idea. There is no right or wrong way to create a Free Verse poem.

whew

now I'm off to ride the church bus and pick up  little children
Jesus  loves them all and so do I
but I'd like to snatch the heads off
some of the grown-ups
but I won't

ILYM

April is National Poetry Month and our very own murisopsis has challenged us to write a poem each day of the month.  She also gave us prompts to follow and said it would be easy.....

the first prompt is "Simple" so I googled simple poetry and found a wealth of information, of course it came from 3rd graders and that's about my speed.  I chose to write Acrostic Poetry today.  Acrostic poetry uses the letters of the title of the poem to create the poem. This is a free form poem and has as many lines as the title has letters.

This will be a good learning experience...Thanks Val.

SIMPLE

Six geese play

in the creek behind the house

minding their goslings

palamates they are, they have simple webbed feet

Labradors  chase them until I say

ENOUGH

I know there are more than six geese here

but eight geese simply didn't fit the format...

this is the creek behind  our house

and last springs goslings turned into geese

(ha - that kinda sounded like a poem too

maybe I'm a poet and don't know it

Have A Great First Day of April

ILYM

I never seem to have time enough time these day....

but I wanted to show off my grandchildren

Our oldest Grandson Reece and Grandaughter-in-law Jacklyn

Family Day at Ft. Benning Georgia March 15, 2014

this is our first Great Grandson Braylon Matthew

he was born Dec. 20, 2013 weighing a whopping 3 pounds 11 ounces

he came home February 1, 2014

Mara is our oldest Granddaughter

this is her debutante picture I think

she's a freshman at West Georgia University

the Debutante Ball raises scholarship money for young women

Nova Rae and Nash,

our youngest granddaughter and grandson

Nash is a Great Big Brother

and I am truly blessed.

Now I'm off to check on the new roofing....

our house was built sometime prior to 1878

it has a cedar shake roof  and at least two layers of asphalt shingles on top of that

now the insurance company say's they won't insure us unless we get a brand new roof

which means tearing off the roof down to the ceiling rafters

Barry and I are to old to be tearing off roofing so we're contracting it out.

it makes me kinda of sad - the roof doesn't leak

and someone a long time ago put a whole lot of time into nailing up all those shakes

such is progress I guess....

I need to cover the attic space so that all the building material and old shakes don't fall into the house

and make sure the roofers don't trample down the spirea which is in full bloom.

Ya'll have a Great Week

ILYM

The new granddaughter does have a name:

Nova Rae Bryant

She is the best baby ever, although I'm pretty sure I've said that about all my babies.

Nash, Nova and Tiffany (my daughter-in-law)

Our son Jordan and Nova's father

They sure have made me a proud Grandmother

only they don't call me grandmother they call me Moon...How cool is that!

A big thank you to Dr. ZSA_MD and to Eugenia at xanga.  I'd forgotten to respond to an important email and my account was deactivated yesterday.  Apparently, despite lack of communications, xanga is alive...and Zakiah and Eugenia Rock!

ILYM

This morning at 6:16am our 5th grandchild was born.  A precious little girl, she weighed 7 lbs. 5.3 oz. and is 20 inches tall...

I missed the delivery by 15 minutes  but I told them not to wait on me.

She's just beautiful...but we need a name, if you have suggestions chime in.

I'm going to spend the night at the hospital with Mother and Child, so Mom can catch some much needed sleep and I can have the baby all to myself =)

ILYM