STARFISH DESIGNS: Sep 9, 2012

Sunday, September 9, 2012

Happy Birthday.....Steven and Kacie

Kacie Elizabeth

The love and respect our kids have for one another fills me with awe!

Kara, Kacie, Dad, Shelly, Kristen, and Steven!

So much fun and laughter when they are all together!

September is always a special month in our family because we have the joy of celebrating the birth's of two of our five children! Steven's birthday is September 1 and Kacie was born on September 9th! The joy these two have brought me personally and to our family is amazing! Both of them are kind, beautiful, creative, musical, generous, funny, and bright! They continue to amaze me with their lives and their contributions to the lives of their family and friends!

I celebrate them both and pray that their lives continue to be blessed with good health in body, mind, and spirit! Happy Birthday Kacie Elizabeth and Steven Konrad! You are loved with an everlasting love!

Steven....his love for music and his talents continue to inspire me!

Words and Widsom from Anne Morrow Lindbergh

"It is a difficult lesson to learn today--to leave one's friends and family and deliberately practice the art of solitude for an hour or a day or a week. For me, the break is the most difficult. Parting is inevitably painful, even for a short time. It is like an amputation, I feel. A limb is being torn off, without which I shall be unable to function. And yet, once it is done, I find there is a quality to being alone that is incredibly precious. Life rushes back into the void, richer, more vivid, fuller than before. It is as if parting one did actually lose an arm. And then, like the star-fish, one grows it anew; one is whole again, complete and round--more whole, even than before"