November 17 – “Pictures on the wall”

Watching Chris play on Facebook is really a fun thing to behold.  She went for so long without a page that she is just now catching up on learning how to navigate her own page as well as to other people's walls.  We uploaded some pictures from a big family get together that we went to, so now she has the potential of getting some feedback.  I don't think she has ever put anything into her status update, though.  Maybe I can talk her into trying that next.    She has finally decided to start putting pictures up on the walls and one shelves and wherever there is an appropriate space.  Since she found all the old photos from when she was a kid, she started developing collages of baby pictures starting with hers and mine and tracking through the grandkids.  That one should be fun when she gets done.  She experimented with a wedding photo collection of my grandmother and grandfather, my Mom and Dad, and us.  We had to reprint the one of us for the computer scans we made before the storm.  I did one in color and one in black and white, since the others were both in black and white.  As it turned out it didn't matter.  That particular combination didn't make it.  Yesterday she was going to put up the underwater photos we have from when the boys took swimming lessons.  There was a diver with a camera under the water, and he took the pictures as the kids dove to recover plastic rings.  Really amazing pictures.  She wanted to put them up in the "yellow room" next to the colorful skimboard already on the wall, but once we held them up, she didn't like the way they looked.  Back to the drawing board.    One thing that did make it on the wall (and looks really good, by the way), was a quilt holder / shelf combination.  It is at the end of our hallway, and the quilt she hung up really adds a lot of color.  Of course the shelf on top made for more decisions about what pictures to put up there.  Right now the leaders in that sweepstakes are 8 X 10's of each of us when we were about four years old.  That's some cute children.  Really shows how little we have changed over the last fifty plus years (Sure …).   I guess all this activity means we have completed another step in our Hurricane Ike recovery.  Pictures on the wall.  What's next?      Colossians 1:15-17 says, "He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation.  For by him all things were created: things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or powers or rulers or authorities; all things were created by him and for him. He is before all things, and in him all things hold together."   Father, thanks for progress.  Little steps.  One day at a time.  Amen.