Recent Random Moments

Celebrated Mother's Day and Mother-to-be-Day.  Awesome Kids! Awesome Day!

 Chelsea's 19th Birthday at Wanda Sykes Concert
 (my jaw ached from laughing)

 My nephew Garth at his Mountain Bike Race in 95 degree weather.  Kudos for riding in that heat!

 My niece Bethany got engaged at Disneyland, so this is the impromtu "engagement" cake

 I put together.

Teri, the baby of the family turned 40, oh my and there was a party.......

and last but not least,

Chelsea sang the National Anthem at the Relay for Life Cancer Walk

and just last Saturday night opened for Nashville's hottest new band

"The Farm"

WHEW.

Now we are just on BABY WATCH.

Any time now. Any moment now, or so the Doctor says....

Stand by.

And then there was one.

One Bee Gee left.

Where there had been Three.

My favorite band, next to the Beatles ~ of all time.

Robin Gibb passed away Sunday.

I can't even comprehend.

This is the 3rd son, that Mrs. Gibb has layed to rest.

No parent, should ever have to bury a child, leave alone three.

Heartthrob, Andy Gibb was her youngest.

Then, Robin's twin, Maurice just a few year ago.

Her oldest Barry is her only surviving son.

I got to see the Bee Gees in the early seventies at Dodger Stadium.

I still have the t-shirt from that day.

I still have my "Saturday Night Fever" album.

And my disco dance moves.

God Bless you, Robin. 

May you join your brothers above and harmonize with them once again.

Mum

Me and My Mum

There is nothing like the bond between a mother and a child.

Here on earth and after.

You are always connected

Always.

Now that I have children of my own, I understand the depth of that connection between a mother and child.

The joy, the heartache and the inbetween

and the simple moments you never forget.

~  these are a few of mine ~

when I was very young,  I asked my mom, how will I know when I meet the "right one"

and her answer was "you will just know".  It can't be explained, she said.

"you will just know"

~

 sitting together at the air conditioned lunch counter of Newberry's department store in Arizona

sharing her favorite egg salad sandwhich on rye,

washing it down with an ice cold rootbeer after shopping for our "bargains"

~

 coming home from school in the sixth grade

to find she had laid out a dress for me on my bed

to wear to my first dance that night...

complete with a pearl necklace.

~

 pretending to be asleep when she laid my Christmas stocking

at the foot of my bed every Christmas eve

and listening to her footsteps as she crept out of my room

~

 watching her pack home made fried chicken, potato salad, and date nut bars

 to fill the Coleman cooler and pile in the station wagon for a Sunday picnic

at the Verde river.

and her scent.  Every now and then, it fills the air

and I just smile.  I know Mom, I know.

and I thank you for letting me know you are ok.

and now in just a few short weeks, I will be a grandmother and my daughter

will begin to fill her new daughter's life with these sweet moments too

and that just makes my heart swell.

XOXO

Happy Mother's Day!

Hugs,

Trace



We Got the Beat......

It's been a week of  B E A T S...got to listen to  Scarlett's sweet little heart beat...only 38 more days, but who's counting

and then tonight, it was the Go-Go's concert.