Thank You for Reading...

Well friends, the summer is coming to a close.  Labor Day was the last hoorah for most folks and the island traffic has almost ceased to exist.  Our cabins are still full and there are fish to be caught, but most people have returned to the real world to work full time jobs and conduct full time lives.  I admit to a pang of jealousy at times, watching these people load up their boats and head back to the city.  Back to friends and coffee shops, Target and restaurants with steak and pasta.  While most days I thank God for this life, I have moments of pure heartache for home.  I still miss my house, almost 2 years later.  Does that ever end?
Our children have each had a birthday since my last post, Tyson turning 4 and Andie turning 2.  And as every year, I spend the day thinking back to the days they were born.  I have a horrible memory and can't remember anything anymore, but I can remember every second and every thought of June 27, 2009 and September 15, 2011.  I think it's fair to say kids' birthdays are just as special to a mom as they are to the kid. On Andie's birthday there were times I had to pause and smile at something she did that I know would have melted my mom's heart or made her laugh.  She would have loved this girl.  It's times like these that you think if only we'd had a little more time, or maybe had children a little earlier in life. We could have made more memories that included Mom.  We saw the first anniversary of her passing on July 1st and  took our little family to the beach and roasted hot dogs, spent the day doing absolutely nothing of importance.  Time marches on, but memories stand in place with a certain refusal to budge.  For this, I am thankful.

I joined Facebook earlier in the summer and have to come to hate it, just as I suspected I would.  Oh the things people find important enough to tell the whole world.  Though it has connected us with people from years back and allowed us to connect with friends, it has also made me realize how privacy is such a thing of the past.  Nobody holds back anymore, do they?  I don't post much, feeling that some things are only important to me and somehow seem more important when just kept private.  Along those lines, I decided to withdraw from the television show, which by the way has recently been picked up by the network and will move forward this winter.  You will still be able to bring the Angle into your own homes!  I wish them luck and hope that people will allow it to be the funny little show they have planned, instead of the mockery everyone is so afraid of.  But television is just not for me.  I see no reason to see my face on the screen, and even less reason to hear my screechy voice proclaiming some passing thought every Wednesday night!

As for the blog, I believe it has run its course.  The first year was fun to share with friends back home and remind people of the Angle what a unique little world we live in.  I enjoy writing and sharing my perspectives and my ridiculous sense of humor.  But my life is just that, mine.  I live in my quiet little bubble.  I stay out of the drama and do my job, spend as much time with my family as possible and take in what God has given me.  In this world of technology, we forget the easiest way to share experiences and love of life---the telephone.  Writing a blog and joining Facebook and having text massaging has taken away the value of hearing the voice of a loved one, with real conversation and dialogue.  If you miss the blog and want to hear a funny little story, call me.  I can embellish way better in live action than in writing.

Thank you to everyone that has read the blog and enjoyed it.  What a sense of accomplishment I feel from the great comments and praise I have received.  I became someone interesting when we moved to the Angle, at least for awhile.  Now I'm just your average mom, scrubbing toilets everyday and living in the most peaceful place on earth.  Nothing to prove.  With age comes experience, and with that experience comes the knowledge that you still know nothing.   Thank you for reading my stories and laughing at the fact that I still know nothing and love to say so.

So long to the blog.  Life is good, from this Angle.

Summer Time

 

Just chillin'......

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

At the dump. 

 

 

 

 

 

For Stacey, Per Your Request

I am late on blogging and had a conversation about it with a good friend on Facebook. So I'm pasting in on as a blog post because I'm a big fat cheater-face. It went like this: ********Stacey Kerns: i know you are busy, but it is time for a blog update. do it. i miss you *********Lisa McKeever: I know, I'm sorry. I just sat here staring at a blank page for 45 minutes and just can't come up with anything. We've been working so much I don't have the time to write or subject matter to write about. I can tell you I sent an email to the production company of the TV show and backed out of that. I have decided not to do it, for a lot of reasons that I won't go into here. I've been painting our house, fence and deck when I get the chance. And of course cleaning cabin after cabin after cabin. Oh desk job--I don't miss you one iota, but I do think of you fondly when I am scrubbing some man's puke off the side of a toilet. 10 hours ago · Like · 3.. *********Stacey Langum Kerns: That was totally a mini blog post. I feel better already. I still miss you, though. 10 hours ago via mobile · Like..