Summertime in Small Town America.

It's Saturday morning and I am sitting out on my front porch feeling the cool breeze that is blowing and listening to my wind chimes that I picked up at Dollar General last week. Living in a small town is the only place to live. I was raised in Denver, Colorado, I was use to big city living. When I first came here to Nebraska I did not think I would like small town life. There is where I was wrong! I had lived in smaller towns than Denver, like Laramie, WY, even there they have big named stores and stop lights. Here in Friend, NE they don't have any stoplights and no big name stores. Our grocery store has all of 4 isles in it. We have to travel 18 miles to go to Wal Mart. I have had to learn to do my "big shopping" at the beginning of the month and smaller things at our store here in town.

Here I feel safe to do things that in Denver or even Laramie you would never consider doing; like leaving my house unlocked and letting my kids wonder all around town. That girls really seem to like it as well. I will never move back to a big city, I don't ever want to leave here.

Here we go again...

Well its been almost a year since the last time I blogged.  We have lost friends who we thought was family and gained friends who have become the closest family we have.  Robert's friend Marcus who we convinced that trucking jobs are better in Nebraska and he moved himself and his girlfriend up to Nebraska.  We got them all moved in with us and then we found out things we did not like about Marcus and we kicked him out and kept Cassey!  Cassey is expecting her first and only son (according to her anyways.)  She is due any day now, we have been busy getting a house ready for a new baby and moving into a new house.

For the first time in a long time Robert and I are doing well for ourselves.  It has been a long road over the past 4 years, however, we made it through all the shit and we are still strong.

Last month our children proved that I am getting older yet again when the oldest of the twins Ilyssa entered into Womanhood!  God that makes me feel old.  I still see her as the little tiny pink baby that I use to worry about because she was so small.  Of course I see that about all three of our girls.  Again, life goes on.

I use to tell my mom that I could not wait for my babies to walk and talk.  She always told me, "Enjoy them while they are small, because it goes by far too quick!"  I can honestly say I know for a fact that it really does.