Shiva revisited

You may have heard of Shiva, the Hindu goddess of destruction. Granted, I am fairly ignorant of Hinduism, but "destruction" seems a fairly clear word. There are those who say Shiva destroys evil, and that Shiva also creates, but, lets face it, destruction is destruction. Simple.

So what do I do about my delightful daughter, who did this (below) to the furniture from my living room?













Before that, the dining room used to be a nice room--it used to look like this....













After we dealt with that mess, she did THIS to my dining room!












All of that lead to THIS..............................................and THIS


However, the final result was THIS.

Maybe there's something to the creation side of of the goddess of destruction after all.




However, we still call Julie "Shiva"



Did I mention that my mother just told me that when I was a kid I started stripping the wallpaper off her bedroom wall so she would start repainting?......

Family Picnic

A long time ago, I went to my first Kerr family picnic at Two Rivers Park. I think I had been married all of two weeks. There were about 10 family members there, out of a total of 21 possible.

Yesterday I went to another Kerr family picnic, again at Two Rivers Park--Wow. (didn't count, but a total of 65 (I think) are possible). People who didn't even exist in the first photos had children! 6 babies were or will be born in an 18 month period that ends this month. And every member of the family is wonderful. What an awesome bunch!

Cutest grandkid ever

Well, I haven't been too active on this blog for quite a while. If you want to know what I've been up to, you need to check my hostfamilylife.blogspot.com blog. That's what tends to keep me busy. That, and emergencies, and lately, rearranging my house and life so that Nina, Nathan and the cutest grandkid ever can come live here so that Nathan can finish his schooling. Of course, now I am in the midst of finding new host families for my students next year, so that's also keeping me busy. It may turn into a viable income opportunity, which I am so hoping for as it is way more up my alley than the hospital job which I no longer have--now I am a housekeeper. Not exactly my favorite career choice, but it has it's compensations, the major one being that I get to hang around with people while I work. Mostly, however, this post is just to show off little Benny. It's like enjoying my kids all over again, without the hassle. This is one lucky kid--he is surrounded by love on all sides.