if you feed them...

...they will come.

this has been a post a long time coming, but today, i was inspired to finally do it because of this:


our house in grand haven had bird feeders, too...and we got birds. i just didn't have a good viewing area. but the house in midland has an excellent area for bird feeders. you can see them from the kitchen window, the eating area, the screen room...and boy, do those birds come.

the bird feeders were one of the last things moved and one of the first things put into place when we unpacked.

i had a hard time moving from grand haven. i'd waited for a long time to move back there and i loved having our family there. we'd been through so much with grandmoth and grandfath, it seemed like it was almost okay to go because they didn't need us anymore - for filling bird feeders, or anything else. i still had my bird feeders. and this feeling in the back of my mind that maybe the birds wouldn't come. maybe i was going to lose that part of my life, too.

literally within hours of getting them set up at the new house...they came. lots of them. and there were the usuals...the chickadees and the blue jays. but we got other birds, too. some i had to look up what they were. and i honestly felt that grandfath was telling me it was okay. i think he sent the birds.

and this morning, when i am thinking of them so much, with tomorrow looming over my head, i looked out the kitchen window to see that beautiful red cardinal, with a snowy background telling me that it's okay.