Sorry for not posting

I am terribly sorry for not posting very much lately. I suppose I should tell you about some things that have happening lately.

First of all, the week of the Reformed Family Bible Conference, my Grandma died. The good thing about it was that she was a Christian, and she is now in heaven with our Lord. Another really neat thing is that my mom's cousin Michelle had given birth to a little girl only a week before that!

Another reason is I have been going to my Grandparent's house so much lately, that I've barely been able to do anything at home at all! The good thing is I get to see my baby cousin. She is adorable! And guess what her name is? Autumn! We thought that was a really funny coincidence. I've held her twice. Holding her just melts my heart, she is so small and lovable. Everyone keeps saying-"Now remember, you have to give her back!"

Then we went to Spruce Pine, NC, Thursday for a rock show and then to sift for rocks. I bought two Chinese beads made out of cinnabar resin. Then we went to one of those places where they give you a bucket of rocks and sand and there is this trough with water running through it. You take a shovelful of the sand and rocks and dump them into a sieve which you then put in the trough, shake it and sift through the rocks that are left, picking out ones you think are pretty. My mom, brother Simon and I had a lot of fun doing this, and Simon was so good at picking them out.

Some of the stones he wanted to keep weren't even pretty, in my eyes. Then I realized something. Beauty is in the eyes of the beholder. I use that phrase so much, but I forgot about it now. I had become blinded by the beauty of the big pretty rocks, and I didn't even think about the white gravels that were, in fact, very pretty. I decided I would quite turning down Simon's requests to keep a gravel or two, and we ended up with some very unique ones!



The picture above is a ring with a Star Sapphire embeded in it. The name reminded my of my story. Remeber, Adrian's uncle was Sapphire. And I have taken into consideration that Sapphire is not typically a boy's name. :P






-Autumn