MY HUNDREDTH DAY!

Tuesday morning, April 6th. It is 3:45. I am up, the dogs are up. I couldn't sleep. The weather seems good, so we shall have to let the day go forward and see what it brings.

I personally keep listening for a drum roll. Thinking there should be one somewhere for me. Today is my hundredth day. Can you believe it? Now I know that seems no big deal to anyone else but it is to me. I started this on December 28th, I had watched a movie I had received for Christmas, I thought it might be fun to try. I was feeling kind of low and thought why not. I made this big brag. I would do this for 365 days, One year. Probably not really meaning it, just saying the words. Then a odd process began. I started thinking of what it would mean to leave a little piece of me behind.

I hope if you read these words that lay before you. That you will first take a look at the pictures at the top of the page. This is them, the crew, the greatgrands, yes these smiling guys are the Greatgrands. What a bunch. When this was taken our famous family hero Malachi was not old enough to be in the picture. So I have left his picture on below the one of theirs. I cannot simply sitting here at this computer covey to you what this bunch means to me.

As the days passed with this blog, I began to think if I could just stay true to this, then have them put in book form. Maybe thirty years from now one or two of them will see it, pick it up, read it and say. "Oh yes, I remember Granny Billye. You know they say she always showed her cleavage." But they will remember, and they will read the words, my memories and my thoughts. I love the idea of that happening.

They are so special. We will pull up at Billies, they each usally come up to me at different times. A hug, a smile. They never know what those small gestures mean to me. They each are different, they each are a small part of me. So kids if years down the road you come across these words. I hope you know that each of you has given me such pleasure and joy.

Writing this Blog has been a challenge for me. I intend to do all in my power to finish this year. I have always had a love of writing. I am not a great writer, but could always take a idea and make up a story. Make these people come to life to me. The end product was never always good but I still have had that ability to create them. But this Blog is a really different concept. This hasn't been make believe. So I have stumbled around and sometimes have written a page that was totally pathetic. Actually may times. If you have read these then you already know about those many days. But thanks to one person, I have been able to prevail these last hundred days.

Geri, my sister has listened every morning before six o:clock to these ramblings of mine. She has encouraged. When I have written pure fourth grade type essay's, she has still kept urging, keep going. When I said this is silly nobody reads this trash. She has kept the praise up, the little red engine theory going for me. "Oh yes I can." Now I realize one hundred days does not a year make. But for me to stick with it for that long is a serious step for me.

These daily blogs may not mean much at all. Just silly words of a rambling woman. But a little part of my memories, feelings, thoughts and beliefs I hope will be left behind. So with the thought of these smiling faces at the top of the page I have kept going. My long term goal to have them all put together at the end of the year. So one day years from now they can say, "We had this crazy greatgranny who wrote a daily blog for a year. She was a hoot." So for all you guys, Angel, Andrew, Orien, Damien, Darian, Mikayla, Malachi, Kiefer, Amber, Victoria, Brett, Bradly, Ryan. These pages guys are for all of you. A small part of me to leave behind, so you won't forget me. I love you all.

So with my first hundred days behind me and only 265 more days to go. I will take a deep breath and keep on rolling. Because as I told my sister Geri a couple of weeks back it doesn't really matter if anyone reads these. It matters to me that I finish it. So tomorrow once again I will be back. I will try to do better. But you know the drill. For now I'm outta here.