FAMILY – Page 23 – Skelton Sketches

Small Beginnings…

Posted on January 27, 2012April 29, 2017 by lindaskelton

This blog generally features trails and trips and natural wonders along the way, but this week I’m looking back at the way I’ve come. I’m celebrating the half century journey I’ve had so far, particularly its beginnings…

Long ago and far away a little girl was welcomed into a family already boasting two boys…

She was a hit!

And from what I hear, too good to spank…hmmm…

Do you believe it?!

She was her Daddy’s little girl…

And then along came another dolly, and now they were four…

(*Don’t miss the red patent leather shoes. Oooo I loved them!)

What a lot of life has been traversed since that once-upon-a-time, now half a century ago…

–LS

I have been young, and now am old, yet I have not seen the righteous forsaken or his children begging for bread. (Ps.37:25)

“But this I call to mind, and therefore I have hope. The steadfast love of the LORD never ceases, his mercies never come to an end; they are new every morning; great is your faithfulness. ‘The LORD is my portion,’ says my soul, ‘therefore I will hope in him.’” (Lam.3:21-24ESV)

First Snow

Posted on January 14, 2012April 29, 2017 by lindaskelton

Tonight…snow enough for snowballs, and cold fingers, and a brisk squeaky walk under the streetlights with lemon snow slushie to follow, compliments of my last baby…

“God thunders with His voice wondrously, Doing great things which we cannot comprehend.
For to the snow He says, ‘Fall on the earth,’ And to the downpour and the rain, ‘Be strong.’” Job 37:5,6

—LS

–2011 in Review–

Posted on December 30, 2011April 29, 2017 by lindaskelton

This was the year to round out my half a century on the planet…and the first year in as long as I can remember that I haven’t (at least not yet) composed a year-end letter…So I’ve been flipping back through old photos to jog my memories…

Another year of many trails and travels—with destinations as close as Scout Mountain and the Ragged Islands and as far away as Alaska and Las Vegas…

January–

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We gained a beautiful granddaughter this year. Which has of course necessitated more travels to visit…

February–

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And as always, I’ve been out and about capturing the seasons in nature…

March–

April

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May

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…walking and praying…

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June

…and watching for seeds planted to begin to grow…

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…and wonders to appear…

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It was a year for a family reunion to celebrate an 80th birthday…

July–

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…and the year for losing my most faithful hiking companion of the four-legged variety, reducing markedly the amount of hiking I’ve done since…

Instead, I became an A-1 stoker for my life companion! Oh the miles we did ride and the sweat and smiles we did share…

August–

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September ended in Alaska, giving my mom a hand in making plans for my dad…He’s now in a private care facility in the city, far from home and mom most of the time…waiting to go Home.

By October the little tykes had grown so much they needed another visit!

And the rest of the year has found me out and about enjoying the scenery closer to home…

November–

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…continually grateful and amazed at this world God has let us inhabit for another year…

Which brings us ‘round to December again…treasuring family near at hand, carrying on with all the family traditions, for who knows if this will be the last year they are home under this one roof… (gulp)

Our present to ourselves this year was a (near)new Tandem to replace our homemade and not-as-strong-as-it-should-be relic…We are stoked to start putting on the miles together!

And that is a smattering of our year here.

Here’s wishing you and yours a God-Blessed New Year!

–LS, for the Skelton crew…