My Piano Playing Grand Child

On Saturday Jada played at two piano recitals for the Northwest Florida Music Teachers Association. Wow she was just wonderful. The girl is grace under pressure, she is not nervous at all. She strolls up plays her piece takes a bow and returns to her seat. At the first concert she played "Home on the Range," while the audience sang. During the second recital she played "Sailors Dance." There were 20 to 30 children taking part in each recital, between 5 and 17 years old. All of the children did fantastic jobs. Jada got a trophy for her year of attending concerts, doing her music homework and playing for the church. Oh yea, she played on Sunday for the Youth Choir. She loves to entertain!

Guess who I met?

Actually you probably don't know her but......Yesterday I had the opportunity to go to a secondary education teacher's conference luncheon. I didn't know anything about the conference until my friend, Barbara Dixon just happened to come by on Friday night and mentioned it and showed me the list of guest speakers and low and behold on the list was Jacqueline Woodson, an African American author whom I have long admired. I don't believe in coincidence I know that I was suppose to meet her, so I rushed right out and got a seat in the luncheon. It was wonderful, she is a great writer having won numerous awards and her speech was so inspirational for anyone wanting to write. What a treat, and I purchased a copy of 2 of her books, one for Jada and one for me and had her to autograph them. I baby sat Jada Saturday night and we shared the book entitled "Show Way." It is a great picture book story for families about family history from slavery until the present. It talked abut how we all have to "follow the road" to what we want out of life. I don't know about you guys but at my age I am still on the road discovering what I want to become! So I say to you all "follow the road!"

A Blessed Family

These past two weeks have been surreal to me and I know to all of our family. Losing our dear sister Tut has been very trying. I think of her every day and almost pick up the phone to call her because we talked, laughed, cried and prayed together all the time. She was a wonderful sister and friend and I miss her but know that God knows best. Just sitting in her service last Wednesday and hearing all of the wonderful remarks and thinking about how much she did for us as children and as adults and I marvel at what a wonderful person she was. As Reverend Johnson said "she gave her all" to serve the Lord. Brother's, Sisters, Nieces, Nephews and Friends we need to learn from Tut's example and Let the Work that we do each and Every day speak for us. Tut, Stine, Baby Sister, we all loved her and she will be missed.

Let's all stay in touch with each other and meet on July 19th in NJ to help celebrate the marriage of Ken and Keesha!

Fred and Alonda did we ever choose a name for Baby Sullivan? I still vote for Olivia, it's a great name or Sandra would be nice too! Just think about it!