June Bug

Our June was packed full of some exciting times. Most of them fun. The pictures are on this website under Pictures > June 2009.

The events include:

*Autrey Mill excursion with the Burdett family and then lunch at our place
*Lucye’s first pool (it sits on our porch). That night Lucye said “Daddy, I’m too tired to hear tonight’s bedtime story. Can you just email it to me, and I’ll read it in the morning?” True story. Okay, I lied. It wasn’t true. But she was exhausted.
*Lots of fun gardening: new additions and a deer siting!
*Clothing drive (that blonde is Teri in the picture—she stayed for hours to help unpack and sort the 4 boxes of clothes Amy loaned to Lucye for the summer—hooray!)
*Eating MORE mouse-k-teer pancakes that Grandma Marilee taught Daddy to make. In fact, Lucye is eating us out of house and home. Literally, she likes tile.

A few things didn’t appear. Notably, we discovered a new dog park! Our neighbors got a new dog and told us about the dog park at the East Roswell Park (one street over from our subdivision entrance). Lucye and Anna had so much fun; I could have kicked myself for not taking the camera. What’s one more bruise? I’ll get pictures next time.

Another June event of interest was the death of a pop icon. Yes, I said it. Although Lucye didn’t know MJ like I did (ha), she will hear his music one day. She will know he was famous for good things, and then, unfortunately, bad things (which I'm not convinced were true). Since God will be his judge, and I can’t throw stones, I choose to remember, and to share with Lucye, the joy his music brought to my life. The 80’s wouldn’t have been the same for me without him, and I’m so glad he shared his God-given talent with the world. In his day, he supported many charities world-wide with his talents. As I see it, his music uplifted and healed many in my generation. Lucye will know, that like most people, he wasn’t all bad (okay, I had to get that pun in there on his album Bad). Love the sinner, but not the sin. I try to keep that in mind and show her the good in people. Can’t -- let -- evil -- win…

See you in July!