Tuesday, June 22, 2010
Casey and Kaika
You've Got to Love Hawaii
Tanner's Reading Place in the Ulu Tree
Mother's Day
Wow! I had the most wonderful Mother's Day! It was so special to have all my kids home, especially my girls home from Africa. The girls also invited my dear friend, Patricia, over to celebrate Mother's Day with me. I decided we are inviting her next year too because she arrived with the crowns and beads to really make me feel like I was queen for the day. The girls fixed a fantastic meal and we ate to our hearts delight and then just sat and visited while everyone did the dishes and cleaned the mess up. I love days like that!
Patricia's son, Alexander, is Cody's friend. We met through the boys and the minute I met her I felt that friendship bond. She is an inspiration to me in so many ways. I have stood in awe as I have watched her face her trials so gracious and positively. I'm sure her lovely bald head (voted by many on the island to be perfectly shaped) is a dead give away that she is beating back cancer that continues to plague her - but look at that smile on her face. Do you see what I mean about her? I find I selfishly try to be around her just to feel of her love and greatness.
Tanner's Midnight Lights Restaurant
Tanner received some money for his birthday and wanted to give back to his friends in the neighborhood so he and his friend, Taimona, spent the day making the Midnight Lights Restaurant. The picture is blurry but I wanted you to get an idea of how they had lights and tiki torches to set the "mood." When Steve and I arrived home from our Friday night date, business had slowed to a trickle but I think every kid on our block was full of soda. (Yuck) They opened again the next day with the left over soda and musubi for lunch. They loved giving away free food.
Saturday, February 20, 2010
Last But Not Least
I couldn't ask for better kids! I feel really blessed as a mother. It was wonderful to be together over the holidays after three years. We flew to the Big Island and stayed at the home some kind friends let us use. As I watched the kids playing games, having "sleepovers", competing in basketball games and just talking together I remembered back to earlier years when I felt so overwhelmed with so many little ones at home. Seeing them all grown up and enjoying each other now really was a payback for the earlier hard times.
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