Praying for a friend...

Sherri, te acompanan mis oraciones y todo mi corazon.

In loving memory of our little girl
Shanah May Bixler
Born still July 11 2005
at 28 weeks gestation
Weighed 850 grams


If beauty is indeed God's handwriting
Then your tiny face was His art
We are so happy you stayed for as long as you did. . .
So sad that you had to leave. . .
And so thankful that you are at peace.
You will never know sickness, sorrow, or fear
I will never have to worry about you.
You, and your brother, will never know anything but a perfect life.
So as a mother, I think. . .
I was blessed to carry you under heart
Blessed to hold you and see your sweet face
Blessed to let you go.

We love you always, Shanah.

Love,
Mommy, Daddy, Christian, Savannah and Sarah
Go, be with your brother, little one.

Simple Joy 2 

Simlpe joy. 

Arighty then,


As much as we would like for life to work out in such a way that everyone else's happiness worked its way into our own, that's not how it works. As my good friend Charlock pointed out, the important thing is to live, to continue letting go of the old and embracing the new.

The moment you accept the beauty of change and find the strength within you to let love for others rise above your own concerns and fear, you realize there is nothing to be lost and everything to gain. A mind bender for some and a theory for many.

I however count myself fortunate to look through the eyes of someone other than I who is also on the ledge and afraid to take a plunge. I feel their uncertainty and their longing to appease that desire to just be happy and have no "what if's".

I know that one day I may very likely feel that same uncertainty or that they may someday experience mine, and the important thing is that we recognize that even though we may not take equal steps, that in itself is no reason to grow apart in heart or let a part of us die.


Really, as misunderstood as we may all at some point feel, when we see the needs of others... well perhaps not everyone, but for me, that alone is the only incentive I need to realize that; I am fortunate to be alive, blessed to have the opportunity to give of myself to others, I need to stop being a whiner and lastly, join in with the singing.

La vida es bella.

People in the back now... "Aaaaay yaayaa yaaay... Canta y no llores!! Porque cantando se alegra cielito lindo los corazones!!!..."

Capitulo 1

And so do folks complete chapters in their lives and move on... sometimes you just with they'd clue you in as to when the story ends.

The thing about happy endings you see is that no one wants to be the bad guy, cause they never get to cash in on it. No, it's the good people that live happily ever after with their pasted smiles in fairyland dreamworld while the unfortunate bad guys are left to an elusive fate or are forgotten and left to oblivion. At least they get all the interesting characters, heh.

So I think I may finally have to step up to the elusive role. Hey, someone has to be the bad guy so the happy people can have their ending.

To all you fairy land characters, may you live happily everafter...

I've always wondered though... are the best stories the ones that end with; "THE END", "TO BE CONTINUED..." or "THE BEGINNING"?

Well, the one I've always liked, and since this is my blog, it will have to be...

"COLORIN COLORADO ESTE CUENTO SE HA ACABADO"

continuara...