Who Is Erika Anyway?

 How was everyone's Easter? What did you do? Mine, well... mine was an adventure, but then again, what part of life isn't an adventure? Have you ever planned something out and imagined exactly how it is going to go? Of course you have, who hasn't? We do it everyday, when you wake up you have a rough plan of how your day is going to go and then WACK! Your day takes a curve ball or in the case of our Easter, the weekend takes a curveball.  It started out on Saturday with the rather embarrassing bit for James and I. See we have this thing were James always wants to be hugging me, stealing my spot on the couch, clinging to me, etc. This goes both ways, however, it seems we never want to be affectionate siblings at the same time. Therefore, irritating the other one. An incident such as this occurred on Saturday. James and I were "fighting" over the couch and I was the one not in the mood to be touched. One thing lead to another and before anyone realized it (except mo...

    It really is, this is my Father's world. He created it for me and gave me the privilege to live in it.  I don't know where all of you live, but where I do, I am blessed with four beautiful seasons. I get all giddy talking about where I live, I love it THAT much!    In the winter often times we get a glorious blanket of snow over our mountain tops and fields. My mom calls the crystallized snow, diamonds and that is the perfect description of what it looks like. Though the snow sometimes poses problems for traveling and morning commutes, it also brings out the kid in all of us.  There are snow angels that must be made, snowmen to build, a thousand hills to sled and gallons of hot chocolate to drink.   God does a beautiful job with the snow. He knows how happy it makes this little girl and I am pretty sure he would do it, if I was the only one it made happy, because he loves me that much. Winter is a sparkling time of year.  As wi...