Spring is in the air!!

It may still be snowing or raining, very hard actually but it feels like spring in my heart. I have avoided writing since last year because I was reflecting. I may mean procrastinating but the result is the same...No words. I guess I didn't have the words to explain what I had been through. Last year was a challenge to say the least. We lost a lot of people in the Tumbleweed world last year. So many, that I didn't want to write anymore. I thought, who will believe that after losing my beloved father, Hilary's father, Suzie's father and then one of our best friends, Brian, I could have anything positive or fun to say? Who would believe that we could still believe in our business and want to paint furniture and walls and create beautiful things... Who would believe? Maybe the faithful. Maybe I have found my faith? I'm sure I'll be pissed off for a long time that my father can't answer my calls but I am amazed at how with me he remains. He is the air I breathe and the reason I want to go on. I know my father would want Tumbleweed to continue to grow and prosper. I know he wants us all to live our lives and enjoy each day. I may include many more photos of my father and I promise you none of them will show him stressing at the drawing board. He knew how to live and still leave my mother money!

That said, the good news is....Courtney Delancey became a married woman and 4 lovely children became a family. They are building a house which I'm sure we'll feature here with stories to tell. My brother survived the dog bite, just won another song award and he's traveling around the country in a grape truck!! Check him out at SeanPatrickMcGraw.com. My sister is walking in the L.A. Marathon for my father. My mother and I will be going to Dubai and India this spring. That is if I can get all my work done, make some money. Get my website up and running and sell some furniture!....Did I mention that Jonny will be watching the dogs while I'm away? So, it looks like a good year so far and even when it's not so good it's all we got and as my mother always says. "Put a smile on your face and a song in your heart!"