Happy Thanksgiving to my US friends and family

UPDATE on my last blog - son is on new medication and is doing much better!! Thank you for your love and support!
HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!!!!!

The harvest is ending,

the earth is dying.

The cattle have come in from their fields.

We have the earth's bounty

on the table before us

and for this we give thanks to the gods

Ft. Wayne, IN vacation Part 1

Beautiful Art done by Aniston

I, had the time of my life! 
Eva, Rob, Katelyn, Taylor, Aniston all the dogs and cats showed the most wonderul hospitality and love while I stayed in their home for the beginning of my Sabbatical.  It was most relaxing and fun!  Thank you guys again for the wonderful time!  Next time it won't take me 8 years to visit LOL Below are what I think are the best pictures of my trip, I am not posting all since I went camera happy.
I will post a blog on my first experiance at Build A Bear at another time, but for now here is my US family...

Front of house



back of house











Aniston's Art

Aniston Art

Talented Aniston

Aniston loves Sprinkles

Wow Sprinkles!

Taylor

Chef Taylor

My Gangsta Girls Taylor and Kate

Katelyn and Taylor

Kate aka Bubble girl doing homework/nap

Taylor, Rob and Indy watching TV

Kate and Taylor

Odie!

Ritz the massive cat!

Indy and Zeke

Everyone needs a bathroom dog like Jack

Pookieman!

Too Funny!

I will never look at nail polish the same after beeing painted up by Taylor

Now the Reason for these kids and animals... Meet the Oy's

Eva LOL

Eva feeding her little chickens aka birds

Says it all!

Rob

They are all about Family!

Well that is it for this blog, look forward to my Build A Bear experiance, and the Craftroom tour and Mancave tours to come!

I am So Blessed!

Today I finally got my phone and internet fixed.  I said to the guy, you know I work in a call center I could care less if you fixed my phone LOL however tonight a friend called and I was so happy to talk to him for 2 hours!  He is moving here around October and it will be wonderful to have him around!  We were lovers a once apon a time, but his friendship and our conversations about everything is what's important to me and if we happen to become lovers again, who am I to argue with fate LMAO!!

I have so much love in my life and I am feeling it today, great friends near and far, wonderful family near and far, a job that I enjoy going to and doing and 2 great children who light up my life with everything from laughter to tears.

I have my faith and to me that is everything!  I saw a sign that said "Nature is my Church" and that is so true!  If it is warm enough tomorrow I will be planting my ass on the beach and enjoying nature at it's finest!

Keep your loved ones in your heart and prayers, ask Spirit to bless them and keep them safe as I am doing for mine and all of you!

Missing my Grand's

Lately while doing my meditation studies I have been seeing the colours red, black and white and those colours make me think of my Nanny.  With her white hair and blouse and her red vest and black skirts.  It is funny when both my Nanny and Poppa were still alive, I use to dream of a green house and a green chair next to a fireplace with a brown leather chair on the other side of the fireplace and I knew my Grandmother and Grandfather were watching over me and that felt safe, and now I since going through what I can only call my 'breakdown' it seems my Nanny is close by and it feels like she is hugging me sometimes and other times just sitting on the side of my bed.  These are lovely feelings; I feel the love of my grandparents from both sides sending it out to me and I am forever grateful and wish I knew how to send them love back.

I think my urge for sewing and knitting right now are my connecting with my grandmothers somehow, wow I am actually crying as I write this out lol I am such an old sap! lol

Reading my cousin's blog today and how she dealt with her bickering kids reminded me so much of our Nanny and how much she loved all of us Grand's and the Great Grand's and would have been thrilled to have meet the Great Great Grand's.  Thank you Michelle for reminding me of the loving nature of Doris we were so lucky to have had her for as long as we did and to have Poppa even longer was such a wonderful blessing. 

I have OFTEN thought about how it would have been to have my Mom's parents see us grow up into the adults we have become, I wish they could have seen us and all our kids, I think they would have enjoyed it a great deal! 

To Thomas, Olive, Doris and Frank, I miss each of you so much and for some reason a lot today.  May you all keep watching over all of us and sending us the love we sometimes do not think we deserve. 
I love you all very much. 
Sharron Colleen

Time Flys by

HAPPY 18th Birthday May 31st Joe, you have grown into a wonderful young man and btw you are NOT signing up for the Army!!

Love your Mom xoxoxox

Ready for the next Phase of my Life to begin! This is a serious post.

At some point a person has to decide they have had enough alone time.

I love my family, friends, kids, job, cats and at most times, my life but I have had enough of being a single parent, Mom and woman.

I am in a place in my life where I wonder if in my past lives if I was an adulterer or adulteress, my relationships either end due to lack of emotional commitment from him or although I give my trust, heart, life I get cheated on and it is not for a lack of, well you know what I mean. :)

I would like to find a man who is honest, has a purpose in his life, a JOB, teeth *you have no idea*, and knows what it is he wants out of this life we live even if he isn't 'there' yet.

I wonder if there is anyone out there for me sometimes, I have thought that I had found 'THE' one for me, however we were too young but are good friends after many years apart.

Then I met and married another I thought was my life partner, after we had our children he became distant and just not there for any of us.

Then I met Tom who 'said' all the 'right' things to me and I fell head over heals. Although others saw and some even told me he was a big cheater and lair, I just didn't see it as I was not ready to be 'alone' as a woman.

Then after a few years I decided I was ready to move on and I met Fred, we started as friends and ended falling deeply in love. We blended our families together and the kids even started calling each other brothers, then after a couple of years of what seemed like a blissful relationship, he cheated on me and left me for her.

That broke my heart in so many pieces it has taken me years to heal.

Thanks to my family, friends and my belief that things happen for a reason, that we create a lot of the drama in our lives and we follow patterns from past lives I have said ENOUGH! I deserve to be happy, I deserve to feel safe and I DESERVE to love and feel love again.

I would LOVE to have a 'LOVE' like my Parents, my sister, my grandparents and like others who deeply love each other and are surely each other's PARTNER!

So, if you know anyone you think deserves to have me in their life, I will gladly start very slow with email and phone calls LOL cousins, COME ON you must know someone LOL

I pray that God and Goddess bless me with someone to be my life partner who will be good to my kids and grandson, will be able to interact with my friends and family and be supportive and loving to me and mine.

OK that is all, I just needed to see it in writing and put it out there for my soul to find who I am suppose to live the rest of my life with.

Bright Blessings to all who read this and think, OMG she has lost her ever loving mind!

Sherry (Autumn Turtle)

My sister Sandy's Tribute to our Grandfather

Papa’s legacy

My grandfather (Frank Senicar) was an amazing man. He was the patriarch of our family
I can’t speak to what life was like to be Frank’s child but I can speak to life as Frank’s grandchild and great grandchildren and great great grandchildren.

Family was the most important thing to him. He was always smiling, he was content with life. He accepted everyone for who they were, expectations were never beyond what each individual could attain. I can’t remember ever hearing him raise his voice at me,

My family had the luxury of growing up in the same town as our grandparents. This made for a different experience I believe. We would stop by and Papa would get home from work at the Cooperage, dressed in his work clothes, have a beer sit on the patio in the back. You were always greeted with a big hug and expected to sit on his lap and let him know what was new …did you have a boyfriend to which our response was usually Papa! After he retired he would pick us up in strawberry season and we would go strawberry picking together, an adventure that now I cherish but at the time wow did I wish he had better things to do because I hated strawberry picking. Through grades 6-8 my sisters’ and I would come for lunch at Nanny and Papa’s much to their delight, we would have cheese dreams, beet soup, waffles and ice cream & home made doughnuts. Often Papa was not there these days as he was driving for the cancer society, this got him out of the house and he was doing something to help others. We can only imagine the peace and tranquility he experienced each of these days on his trips to Hamilton. For those who knew my grandmother you can appreciate that Papa was the seen not heard person in the relationship and boy could she talk!!! Obviously this was the dominant trait to be passed on as there are only a few quiet soles within this family. He adored Nanny beyond what most relationships these days could even hope to attain. their love was special.

I was never embarrassed of my grandparents, I loved when they would stop by when I was working at Canadian Tire through high school and college they just wanted to know that I was well and they were so proud of me for pursuing my dream of being a nurse. For a couple that worked hard their entire lives all they wanted for their grandchildren was for us to live a good life and be happy.

Now for the legacy that Papa has left through the eyes of his great grandchildren:

· The man never had a job… he has been retired since I was 10yr old. They cannot understand his work experience in the tobacco fields or years in the Cooperage although for anyone that looked at his fingers ouch that might give them a clue.
· Wow what a memory… he knew every member of our family and what was important to them …somedays I can’t remember the names of my own children.
· Eat what you like and love….. years of table cream in his coffee, Nanny’s baking. We have grown up watching our fat intake and caloric intake…. maybe it is us that are doing it wrong.
· Driving into his mid 90’s
· Living in his own home until his stroke

We can only hope that Papa’s resiliency, compassion, strength and love are passed onto our children, because out of his 4 children,11 grandchildren, 25 great grandchildren and 2 great great grandchildren probability tells us that many of us will not come close to attaining this legacy.

The Best Mail EVER!!

Today I went to get the mail from my mail box and other than junk mail there was a letter, a real letter in the mail for me!

I don't believe I have been so excited about mail in a long time, it was from my youngest neice Kate.

She had sent me a lovely letter and this WONDERFUL painting!

I cried, it was just so touching and sweet of her to do that for me.

Love & Prayers

God and Goddess, watch over those going in for procedures today and those in poor health.

There are people in their lives that love them dearly as do you and we need them around longer.

So Mote It Be.

Yuletide Greetings

I want to wish all my friends the happiest of Yuletide blessings and a Very Merry Christmas.

I am sure you will all enjoy your days with family and friends and those you hold dear to you.

Be safe, and Be happy and the best to you and your's.

Love Sherry, Mike, Joey, Steph and Zander

[Gizmo and Torrie too]