MY HEART SEEKS PEACE!

My heart seeks peace

It looks everywhere

It opens up too freely

Sometimes painfully so

Searching for the heart to finally know

It reaches out to anyone

Who it feels can help

Opening the door to heartbreak

Finally the shadow passes

And the light shines in

For the heart finds out

That peace is within

A POEM FOR MOTHERS

A POEM FOR MOTHERS

(THIS IS ALSO FOR ALL STEP MOMS AND ADOPTED MOMS OR CARETAKER OF A CHILD. A MOM IS SOMEONE DEVOTED TO GIVING LOVING CARE OF A CHILD OR CHILDREN)

Mothers aren’t perfect and they sure aren’t given a manual on how to be. Some women become mothers because they want to and some don’t it just happens. Having a baby doesn’t make you a mother. Technically yes it does in the sense you have given birth but not in the sense of loving, teaching, and raising the children to be good people and most of all to know that they are wonderful and so very much loved.

BEING A MOTHER

A moment, your world changes, your life is dramatically different from this moment on.

A beautiful baby is put in your arms, you are no longer the child you are the mom.

That one moment transforms your world.

It doesn’t matter if it is a boy or girl.

For most of us that moment is sheer joy.

It is tempting to see it as a toy.

But now that you hold baby & daddy makes three.

The responsibility is mainly on thee.

Never again will life be the same.

To think it is better is no shame.

As a mommy there is so much joy and love.

This baby is something you will always be thinking of.

With this child you will grow so much.

This gift has such a special touch.

With that love may come some pain

It is all worth it that into your world this baby came.

It touches your life like no other.

There is nothing better than being a mother.

GOOD MORNING! GOOD MORNING! THE GARDEN DOES CALL!

This month is one of my favorite months because I love to work in the garden. I end up stiff as a board usually but I will dig in the dirt till I just can’t anymore.

Today is Sunny and going to be warm. It will be a good day to work in the garden. I just wish I could figure a way to outsmart the weeds. They are always ahead of me. I clean one area out and move to another, when I go back to check the first section the weeds are coming up again. What do you do? If only everything would grow so well.

Gardening is therapeutic. It is life coming up again and again and its results are beautiful. I hope you all enjoy my little jingle and have a wonderful day!

Good Morning, Good Morning, I say to you all.

Up at 5 am seems to be my call.

My garden waits for the work to get done.

It is waiting for me, I am the one.

I pick up the weeds that get in the way.

The flowers most definitely have something to say.

They are starting to bloom and want all the attention,

They are very spoiled did I mention?

The trees all need trimming so new buds will grow.

Sometimes it is too much work this I know.

But the pleasure of my hands in the dirt,

it is more than enough of an extra perk.

And then when the blooms do show their beautiful face.

I know that the garden is my very special place.

So I go out again at this early hour.

Hoping to see all the new plants start to flower.

Wishing that the weeds did not again appear,

that is always my biggest fear!!

And sure enough just as I thought,

they snuck up again, oh please tell me not!

THANK YOU DAD FOR THE GOOD THINGS YOU SHARED!

Good Morning to you all! I have to say I really enjoyed the A-Z Challenge. And it was quite the challenge for me. As you all know I am not a daily blogger. In fact I sometimes am not even a weekly blogger if that. So this was a lot of work for me but I really did have fun and learned a lot with it. Thank You all who followed and Thank all of you great bloggers out there who shared in this adventure.

There are many things that happen to you as a child. Some are good memories and some are not. I choose to remember all the good I can. Today is the anniversary of my Dad’s passing about 37 years ago. My dad taught me many good things and as I was thinking of my dad and our time together, I remembered these thoughts of good things my dad taught me.

My Father taught me many things.

One of which gave me wings.

Knowledge, that gave me Independence to be on my own,

that is one of the important lessons I was shown.

Another very important fact, face life with a smile, it will take you many a mile.

He believed an apple and a walk a day will help keep the doctors away.

He loved nature and the country side and said it was a great place to be.

There are so many wondrous things to see.

But most of all he had a love of learning and reading.

And with his book that was his favorite thing for the evening.

He said you are never too old to learn,

You don’t want your mind to burn.

He taught me how much in a book you could see,

While reading you can go anywhere you want to be.

Thank you Dad for all the good things your shared with me!

Z THE ZEALOT & THE END OF THE APRIL A – Z CHALLENGE

ZANNY, ZAPPY, ZINGY, ZIPPY Z

Z is today what it was always meant to be.
Z runs Zigzagged and does it Zealously.
Three lines make Z long and lean and sharp it does looks.
So sad to say it didn’t earn very many pages in the book.
But Z has the strength of Zeus and well not be dismissed.
Z rides at the end of the Alphabet to collect the fair Maiden’s kiss.

April was Poetry Month so in its honor I give you a quick little poem. And to the end of the April A – Z Challenge it was a great learning experience and a lot of fun. There are some wonderful bloggers out there. This challenge brought out so many of them. Thank You all. I learned so much.

And now for the Scrabble and Word game players! (These words are not capitalized in the dictionary.) Looking into the dictionary for a word a day will help you so many times with your vocabulary for the games and your brain.

Z can’t seem to make up its mind and sometimes has words spelled two different ways you will find!

Za, Zaddik (also can be spelled tZaddik), Zaffer, Zaftig(also can be spelled Zoftig), Zag,Zaibatsu, Zaire, Zamia, Zamindar(also can be spelled Zemindar), Zander, Zap, Zapateado, Zapateo, Zareba (also can be spelled Zareeba), Zarf, Zaxis, Zero, Zeta, Zinc, Zoom, Zonk, Zouk, Zwitterion, Zydeco, and yes this was a surprise to me ZZZ is in the dictionary used to represent the sound of a person snoring.

EVER WONDER Y? THE A – Z CHALLENGE CONT.

EVER WONDER Y??

Y is Youth!

Yabbering Youth Yells Yak!

Y’all Yards Yield Yellow Yams!

(And YES to all who ask Y’all is in the Webster’s dictionary but not in the Scrabble one.)

Yachtsman Yank Yawls, Yawning.

Y also has the abilitY to be added to the end of manY words but does not take the lead with many words. In the word WHY it sounds like it is spelled with just the letter Y. Being a sneakY little devil, it hides sometimes and is silent or sometimes it is so loud such as whY that it hides the other letters.

Y is a letter to be used in various waYs but apparentlY doesn’t like to take the lead. MaYbe because it’s shY or too busY Yacking YaketY Yak! Or maYbe it likes being at the end finalizing things. Yet it can be anYwhere in a word as in: analYsis, baYonet, beYond, craYon, hYmm, lYmph, pYrite, roYal, sYringe and oxYgen and here is a good one, zYgote.

It has six and a half pages in the dictionarY and almost four in the Scrabble dictionarY.

As You see Y, it stands straight and tall with its arms outreaching for more!

Good luck in Your word games and Have A Great DaY!

Here are some words for the Word games. All of these come out of the dictionary and are not capitalized in the dictionary only here to give Y its day of acknowledgement!

Yack, Yakety, Yak, Yakitori, Yam, Yamen, Yang, Yank, Yanqui, Yar, Yardage, Yardarm, Yardbird, Yare, Yarmuika, Yarn, Yarrow, Yashmak, Yataghan, Yaup, Yaupon, Yautia, Yaw, Yawl, Yawp, Yaup, Yaxis, Ye, Yea, Yeah, Yean, Year, Yeast, Yegg, Yech or Yecch, Yelp, Yen, Yenta, Yep, Yes, Yeshiva, Yet, Yeti, Yew, Yid, Yield, Yin, Yip, Yippie, Yo, Yob, Yoga, Yogi, Yoke, Yolk, Yon, Yond, Yonder, Yore, You, Young, Your, Yourn, Youse, Yowl, Yuan, Yucca, Yuck, Yule, Yum, Yup, Yuppie, Yurt.

X in Xanadu THE A – Z CHALLENGE CONTINUES

X in Xanadu

Oh poor X lives in Xanadu, a place of great beauty and luxury but only has barely two pages of its own.

X is lonely but holds itself straight and tall because it has a secret and knows it all!

In the Scrabble Dictionary it only has one page.

In Scrabble and in Words with Friends it is worth eight points.

Those who play know how hard it is to use it.

Our family plays the Alphabet game in the car sometimes. It is where you find a word that starts with each letter. You can’t use cars or moving vehicles only signs and buildings. Well X is almost impossible to find. When someone finds one it sends the excitement level up 100 notches at least. It is a great game for trips. It helps kill time and helps kids with their letters and words and keeps the peace sometimes, lol.

Today’s words for the word games:

Xanthus, Xanthate, Xanthene, Xanthic, Xaxis, Xeno, Xero, Xi, Xu, Xylan, Xyst, Xyster.

Today I went to the dictionary and then to the Scrabble dictionary.

Good luck.
Xcellent Xercises Xcell Xcuburance. LOL!
Have a Great Day!

WELL, WELL, WELL WELCOME WONDERING W THE A – Z CHALLENGE CONT.

WELL, WELL, WELL, WELCOME WONDERING W

W is Welcoming, Wonder, Wishing, With Wisdom!

Writers Wither Without Words!

Wiley Whistles While whittling with Wild Woods!

William Went Wild When Willy Weeped.

Where We Wander Water Waves.

Walking Waldo Wavered.

Wanting Wrongly Wastes Wishes.

Weary Women Wink, Winning Whiskey.

White Widows Whisper What Will Win.

Waltzing With Walter, Winnie Whines.

That was fun. Most of those I did without the dictionary today. W is an easy letter With lots of Wonderful Words.
And for the Scrabble and Word games:
Wick, Wade, Wag, Wend, Wet, Wheal, Whine, Whee, Wilder, Widish, Winged, Wobble, Withy, Wore, Worms, Wrap, Wry, Wulfenite, Wye, We, Wo, Wu, Wan, Wap, Wis, Wys, Wye, Wyd. (Of course none are capital in dict)

V IS VICTORIOUS THE A – Z CHALLENGE CONTINUES

V IS VICTORIOUS

Victory to all! I think everyone deserves Victories in their live. We have to work for them and sometimes very hard but it can change attitudes. It can encourage people to climb mountains and chase their dreams. And when they do they are Victorious! There is nothing like when you reach the top of that mountain. It can be overcoming a loss or an illness, getting that well deserved promotion and raise, or it can be for some stepping out their front door and even climbing that mountain for real. But whatever it is for you when you accomplish it you will love the feeling you get from that Victory. No amount of money can give you that feeling. It doesn’t matter if it is a small Victory or a big one. It matters to make them happen! Have a great game!

And today’s Scrabble words:(some just came to my head without having to look in the dictionary!)
Viola, Vicious, Vivid, Vacancy, Vacation, Vaccine, Vacuum, Vagabond, Vacillate, Value, Vampire, Vamp,
Vane, Vanity, Vantage, View, Velour, Vegetarian, Velvet, Verst, Viand, Vibes, Vocation, Vote, Vulgar,
Vug.

U is UNDERSTANDING THE A – Z CHALLENGE CONTINUES

U is UNDERSTANDING

U Brought out the word Understanding for me right away.  I actually have just recently reached an Understanding.  It took long enough but sometimes we believe too much we are told especially as an open trusting child and our hearts sometimes block the brain from realizing that.  I ask all you parents and care givers of children watch not only your actions but you words towards your kids!   What we tell our children they believe.  They grow up believing.  If we teach them they are a bum then they will believe that they are a bum and if we teach them they are a president they may just be a president.  Now many can overcome those negative believes because they find that UNDERSTANDING, but so many more don’t.  That is why we have all the broken people we do.  

Now to the children:   This is where that UNDERSTANDING comes in.  Hopefully you will learn it early.  If you gain that understanding you will see that you can teach yourself what you want to be in this life.  So start early looking for it.  UNDERSTANDING will help us all.  Some will have to work harder and longer to find it but we can.  If we are lucky we will meet people along the way to help, but it is up to ourselves to find it and make ourselves happier.   It is our mind that controls how we will react and that reaction is what can make lemonade out of lemons.  And that I truly believe that comes from UNDERSTANDING!  It can be different for everyone but I hope you all find the UNDERSTANDING YOU NEED to have a great life.

And now back to U:  It has 26 pages of its own in my dictionary.

Ulysses Understands.

U is Unique, Upright, Upstanding & Understanding.

Umbrellas unhinge unabatedly ultimately.

Unhurried Ursula Undressed

Now some Scrabble words:

Udals, ugged, ulna, ulnae, umami, ulzie,  unary, unces, unfix, uncus, umped,

Uneth, unget, ungot, ursid, usnea, usque, usury, upo, ule, ulu, uni, urb, ure, ute, ug.