Anandale- I had a gray kitty, I don't remember his name. One day my kitty just didn't come home. I was very sad, and looked for him for a long time, days, weeks...and then finally gave up. A lot of time passed, close to a year--I was walking home from school, and hear a mewing. I was talking with a friend and I heard it again. I thought it sounded like my old kitty, but how could it be? I looked around and sure enough it was him!!!!! Sweet reunion.

Another memory of Anandale, VA--
 I think I must have been in the 2-3 grade in this home. I remember being a total pizza fiend, even then. My parents would wait for me to go to bed...wait a short time, hoping I was asleep, then, they would either order pizza, which was quite a treat in those days; or they would make pizza. The smell would kill me because I LOVED PIZZA. Sometimes I would go out of my room and beg for pizza and sometimes my folks would let me have a little, but for the most part they sent me back to bed. Sometimes they were strong and really did wait until I was asleep; then, I would have no choice but to dig in the trash to see if they had hidden their evilness. If there was anything left in the box I would snarf it up-such a treat. :-)

It's been a loooong time since I've written; I really meant to do it more often, but life happens and bang you are years down the road. So here is it now 2016, a new year has begun. In November 2014 I was diagnosed with cancer. Maybe more will come about this later; but for now I am here  and living life, fighting the THIEF that would take me away and relying on God's gift of healing and my faith that treatment through alternative methods is the only way I could go. I believe I will beat this fully.

Meanwhile I've had many things change. I have 7 grandkids now. 5 Girls and 2 boys. Evelyn, 10, Sophia (7), Lucy, (7), Vera, (5), Kate, (5), Andrew, (2), and Ethan, 17 months! They are such a gift and I love them all as if they were my very own children. They light my days. I think that's it for now.