Life's Little Blessings

Today was a pretty good day because I was able to register for the second 8 week session of my CNA course at COD.  Now I have to get my unoffical copy of my transcripts over to COD so that they can verfiy some pre-reg's so that way I can take a Chemistry and Psychology: Life Span classes.  I have to be enrolled in 12 credit hours to recieve my full federal pell grant money.

Today in church we learned about the "True" meaning of the candy cane.  I found it pretty interesting and now I look at the Candy Cane so differently but it has deepen the True Meaning od this Holiday Season.  The below information is what I was able to find about the true meaning of the candy cane. The True Meaning of the Candy Cane A candy maker in Indiana wanted to make a candy that would be a witness for Jesus, so he made the Christmas Candy Cane. He incorporated several symbols for the birth, ministry and death of Jesus Christ. He began with a stick of pure white hard candy. White to symbolize the Virgin Birth and sinless nature of Jesus. The hardness of the candy was used to to symbolize the Solid Rock, the Foundation of the Church and firmness of the promises of God. The candy maker made this candy in the form of a "J" to represent the precious name of Jesus, who came to earth as our Savior. It also represents the staff of the "Good Shepherd"

I can't believe it as been 5 years already since Jim and I first got married.  It seems like yestreday was our wedding day.  We have been truely blessed the last 5 years.  We have welcomed 2 beautiful and special daughters into our lives. Jim and I are still crazy in love and I know that I fall in-love with all over again at least once a week.  I also can say that I do love him more today than the first day we met.   We have gone through rough times with money and jobs, but I know that their is going to a brighter future soon.  We have a lot of plans for the next many many years together, but our plans for the next year are pretty simple.  I will be going back to school starting in Jan 2011, to finish my Bacholer's in Nursing.  I want to be a RN in either Labor/Delivery or in Pediatrics.  We are planning a small getaway just the two of us, some more quality time with girls and some weekend adventures with the girls.      Jim and I.......Dec. 2005          Jim and I.......D

So today I was able to finally meet my younger brother Robert.  i haven't seen him since he was 6 years old, but a few months shy of his 7th birthday, and I was 10 years old.  This was a reunion in the making for 19 years.  My brother Robert and I were both adopted in the early 90s and the family that adopted him was the same family that had been taking care of him since we were taken from our mom in 1985.  He looked nothing like i thought, but then again I was always told that he looked like my older brother Jimmy.  He definately looks like my mom's side of the family and he reminds us of our Uncle John ans our cousin Chucky with a beard.  I see some of my brother Jimmy in him and I see some of myself in him too. He spent the day with me and my family, then went and saw our mom who hasn't seen him since 1994, and then our Uncle Eddie and his family. Below are some pictures of the day. My brother Robert         Robert, Me and my brother Michael