Hubfest 2011 making family time special and walking in the change

HUBFEST 2011

Hubfest is a festival held here in Hattiesburg Ms, every year.It is a time filled with music,food and vendors.

In the past years we have always tried to attend and enjoy this as a family.Why change right? just because some family isn't here it is still important to enjoy the ones you have.

"Testimony"

I know that many new people come across a blog everyday and I feel lead to do this.

For you knew friends.

I am just a simple Southern lady that loves and always enjoyed life with my three children,grandkids and husband. Family events were a time that I loved making memories until a year ago this month my husband of 27 years decided to walk away and move on with a new woman. Why sit here and lie and pretend that life isn't hard with the changes that come.

Still there are days I ask WHY? I know I gave it all I had and since have realized people have problems and make choices. Not only do they live with them it causes us to change our lives.

I with the help of God and great friends decided to hold my head up high and try each day to be strong and push forward. Does it hurt to know he is married to me and can live with a new family and act like life a bowl of cherries? Yes it does,but it is just that an act.I can't even start to see how someone can not miss these beautiful babies I am still blessed to see daily.There is no man in this world that could cause me to give up my family.

( I add this in because what I have gone through can be of help for someone out there)

It is a testimony and God will use that which the devil means for bad.

So if you have had a life that you thought was like "Southern Living" and then one day woke up to see it was a lie that something or someone changed this for you..THERE IS HOPE.

As I woke up yesterday and said yea HUBFEST...I'm still going and will enjoy it I took the day to not look back on the past years,but to make new memories of the ones I love.

One of the boothes had signs made of old barn wood and I LOVE them. I walked and read each one and they held so many messages. One of the signs stood out to me and I knew it was from God.

"God wont bring us to what he want bring us through"

I looked around me and realized God has never left me and has been there even in the dark times.

I noticed my family wasn't the same,but I had them and was blessed to be at HUBFEST 2011 and to enjoy. Who knows what can happen in a year,but one thing for sure we decide each day to enjoy or not.

Me and my baby boy Chancey...I think I got tired of saying "CHEESE" This is my sons children...Jayden and Angel.I just love how they show their personalities in the photo.

Nothing like time with my babies...it is so funny they are looking at each other like we have a crazy Nana...They are right "Crazy about my family"