Circles are wonderful!

I didn't get a blog written for last week like I had intended to do. I was so busy with scouts, the summit, fruit, and trying to get our new schedules off the ground that even my children and my sweet husband didn't get much attention. I didn't have the time to sit and think. I was thinking while I was trying to go to sleep however and these are my thoughts of late... I was thinking of circles, weird, yes I know but all the great circles of our lives are such wonderful things to think on. First, the circle of life. I have been thinking lately of my Great Grandmother Bertha Wright. She passed away when I was 12. My memories of her are very clear in my mind. We were preparing plums for freezing when the smell got my attention. I remembered the bells on the back door, the wood she was drawing on, the papers and boxes everywhere, food cooking, and plums, oh I remember the plums. I told my children about how her home always smelled of fruit, wood, plums, paper, and if knowledge could have a smell she had it. She was a simple lady, yet she was amazing to me. A true pioneer. She had a hard life yet she lived it with passion. She was a happy soul. I have one of her slat bonnets that I love to sit and smell. It still smells like her. She was frugal in all things and loved all. Great qualities that have passed around the circle to my Grandmother June Dexter. Grandma Dexter was also a simple Lady, yet throughout my growing years I viewed her as the greatest woman on earth next to my Mother. I was lucky to have a grandmother like her. She taught of love, service,compassion, patience and being frugal. I miss her sweet smile and ready hugs and kisses. She was a person who would look you into the eye and say hello and mean it. She wanted to know how you had been since she last saw you. She was full of compassion for all Gods creatures. Grandma Wright was so full of life and wanted new adventures. She did some amazing things in her older years that women just didn't do then. That has passed on around the circle to my Mother Judy. My Mom is adventurous and full of life. She is always ready for all the chaos we can dish out. She needed this in order to have 7 children. She has had a very hard life and yet she has survived it with gusto and flair. She is my hero! She doesn't look on her life with negative eyes she accepts what She has and moves with it. She doesn't let things get her down for to long. She may have a rotten day or two just like the rest of us, but she comes out ready to deal with the world. This was passed around the circle to me. I watched my Mother deal with life and I learned from her to not let things weigh so heavily that I can't move forward. I like this stubborn streak in myself. I think my Mom was also a real pioneer. Not many women could do the things my Mother has had to do. She makes me smile inside when I think of some of the crazy things she has done for fun. "Lets make someones day" is her Motto. She has made many of mine and has made some awesome memories for my children as well. Through the circle I have received many attributes about myself that are wonderful and I want them to be passed on. Heavenly Father knows what traits go to whom and I hope that my children receive some of the great ones like me. I like that I am frugal,Thank you Grandma Wright, Grandma Dexter and Mom. I like that I love life and the trials that come my way,Thank you Grandma Wright, Grandma Dexter and Mom. The older I get the more I notice things in My Mother that I seen in My Great Grandmother and my Grandmother. I love this and I can't wait see in my children some of the traits going around the circle. Sometimes we see something in a child, or a spouse and wonder why or how did that get in them. We didn't teach them that. Well my friends, it is in the circle of life and it is going around and I think it is amazing! The funny things, like when my Mom and I were going through some of Grandma Dexter's things, we found little things like rubber bands, clips, baby diaper pins, and other little odds and ends in many a small box tucked in here and there. We even found some that belonged to Grandma Wright. Grandma Dexter had loved them just as they were and she saved them. I will smile, when in years to come I will find them in my own Mother's belongings and I will think of "Them", all my Grandmas before and know that, they are smiling. That circle of life has added another round and then It will be my turn to have my children laugh at me and see all my quirks and think of us all, and we will all be smiling knowing that the circle will catch up to them also. I love the circle of life. My other circles are going to have to wait this blog is long enough. Love to you all!