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I'm 59 years old. I've been married to my hubby for ... WOW! 30 years! I'm Mom to 4 great kids - 2 girls, 2 boys - and one granddaughter, now 12, and a grandson who is 5! I am a firm believer that Jesus Christ is my Savior, and I struggle daily to be the woman He wants me to be.

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    Tuesday, June 16, 2009

    Ruby Tuesday... and stuff...

    Ruby Tuesday is hosted by Mary, The Teach


    Well, c'mon... the FLOWERS are pretty! (actually I like the fly's shiny back too! Big it!)

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    Oy! Soooo yesterday I had this almost sorta wonderful day planned! This is how a lot of my days go. There was this place that I always wanted to go to as a child... only my mother would never take me -- said it was too far away. (well, that was her reason) So, when Amanda was small, I looked for it only to find out that it had closed down. The land had been purchased by a developer and it was just ... gone. Well, the other day I was reading this Maryland magazine, and something was mentioned about something that sounded very similar... and so I got online and started investigating and found out that it's "sorta" back. Ohhhhhh I got sO excited! I immediately started plotting and planning to take Luz and Amanda there! I wanted to take them BOTH because if it is indeed baaaaaaaack, then Amanda would want to be there to see Luz enjoy it. BUT... I didn't want to TELL Amanda (or Luz) about it because I'm not sure "how back" it really is! It seems a farm in the same area has been able to obtain a lot of the pieces from this place, and has restored them and is trying to put it back together again - maybe just a little different. But since I was never actually THERE as a child I wouldn't know the difference anyway... now would I??? LOL! But anyway... I wanted to keep it a secret and I didn't want to make a BIG deal about it because I just didn't know what we were getting into. I really would have LIKED to just sort of take them out for a drive and STUMBLE across it... but you can't DO that with Amanda! So... I just told her I wanted to take her to a place that I HOPED would be a lot of fun, but that honestly I just wasn't suuuuure... and she went for it! Soooooo yesterday was the day, Mom & I got our acts together and got out by 10:00 - picked Amanda & Luz up by 11:00 and headed up there. It's about 45 minutes from their house, so we stopped and had lunch cuz we wanted everyone to be NOT hungry so we could play for a long time if we desired to. We finally arrived at the place around 1:30 only to find out that it is CLOSED on MONDAYS!!! Oyyyyyyyy VEY! I'm sure it probably SAID that on their website ... somewhere! I'm also sure I didn't SEE it! Soooo... we had passed a park - a county park - about 1/4 mile back, and we decided to just turn around and go there. Well... in the turning around process Luz spotted The Castle! "NANA!!! There's a CASTLE!!! It's a FAIRY PRINCESS CASTLE!!!" Oh boy. I was busted! Yes Lucy Loo ... it is! "Is THAT where we were going Nana???" Yes Luz... it was... "Ohhhhhh I WANNA go there Nana!!!" Sooo... Amanda says well, we can go on Thursday or Friday... I have appointments Wednesday and Luz has a play date tomorrow. Well! A PLAY date! Perfect! I suggested and Amanda arranged for the play date to come WITH us and we will go there tomorrow! Luz will have 10x as much fun with a friend along and won't have to wait an "eternity"! So stay tuned for Tomorrow's post which will CERTAINLY be about the place with the princess castle! In the meantime, I will tell you that it may have been a God thing for us to end up at Centennial Park yesterday. We had a ball! They have an AWESOME playground. And miles and miles and miles of trails. And we rented a pedal boat and did some water exploration! So the day was not a loss at all! In fact it was a GREAT day --- and today will be ANOTHER great day, both spent with two of my favorite girls in the whole wide world!

    Amanda & Luz slide together!
    (she's almost getting too big to do that with!)

    Look at the FACE on this!
    Climbing is her one weak spot...
    she'll get there eventually - but
    it's really not her favorite activity.

    Mom in the pedal boat...

    We heard 17 different stories about how her mother's brothers/her younger brothers/her uncles/her mother's uncles/... pushed/tossed/threw/... her/her aunt/her sister/and her/... in the water one time and she stood there and told/yelled/hollered at them to come get her out or if she told Mama they were really gonna get it! But they were gonna get it anyway cuz she was gonna beat the crap out of 'em when she got out!!! And YES, we DID ask her several times - just to clarify - if she was really STANDING there in the water - and she said yes! And we DID ask her why she didn't just walk out!? And she said cuz she was TOO scared of the water! ROFL! But... each time she told the story, it only happened ONCE and it NEVER happened again! Except the time they took her to a church revival to be baptized... but that's a whole 'nuther set of stories! *whew*

    OH! Annnnnnnnnnd my friend John was BACK at Bible Study last night with us!!! He is doing SO great! I'll tell ya -- he's not going to need that walker much longer! He is doing GREAT!!! GOD is sooooooooooo GOOD!!!

    Oh... by the way... I just meant to tell you guys that I LOOOOOVED all your ideas for what I SHOULD have done with those pictures yesterday! Wish I'd thought to do ANY one of them! LOL!

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    Wednesday, June 10, 2009

    Idiom Wednesday... M & N


    It is Wednesday again, and thus time for some idioms! Jientje hosts this game and encourages us to pictorially display two new idioms each week - beginning with the assigned letters for the week. We're on M & N this week. It's NOT too late for you to jump in and play if you'd like to!

    My idiom for "M" is...

    Melts my heart!

    If it melts my heart, it affects me emotionally. It can be
    a happy thing or a sad thing - but it affects me.


    And for letter "N"...

    Nip it in the bud!

    If you nip it in the bud, you stop it before it "blooms" out of control!
    You deal with a small problem before it becomes something serious.


    So. What's YOUR idiom today?

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    Mom Stuff...

    Soooooo... Mom & I went to stay with my friend John while Paula worked. We were John Sitting, if you will! I should have been sitting ON him - but that would have been hard since I practically had to sit on Mom! We had to be there at 7:30 - which is WAAAAAAAY early for Mom to be UP, much less ready to leave the house! But I woke her and hustled her along and we made it! She kept nodding out the first couple of hours we were there - and I was fine with that! But after lunch, around 1:00 she started thinking it was time for her to "get on down the road". She'd stand up and say, "Well, thank y'all for lunch, that was a great treat. I've got to be gettin' now though... I've got to go to the grocery store and get home before those kids tear up my house." And then she'd walk over to the patio doors (which thankfully she couldn't figure out how to open!) and point at the road... "which road is that out there again?" Huntingtown Road, I'd say. She'd think about that for a minute. "And what's that cross road down there?" Well - the cross road isn't for about 2.5 miles down the road - but I'd tell her! Of course, neither name sounded familiar to her, so then she'd say - well, I guess I'll just walk down there, and then I'll see which way I'm supposed to go! (and this is where I was SCREAMING - in my head - GET BEHIND ME SATAN!!! - cuz I was suuuuuuuuuurely tempted!) We must have gone through this whoooooole entire routine 7 or 8 times and then finally John's physical therapist showed up and that distracted her! And then his speech therapist showed up and THAT distracted her too! And by then, Paula was due home in 30 minutes and I KNEW I could survive!!! ROFL!

    Did I tell you that yesterday morning she came downstairs with NO pants? She had her jammy shirt, a jacket, some lovely turquoise socks, and her shoes. No pants. She wished me good morning, headed into the kitchen and took her pills (which I put out for her when I get up) and poured a cup of coffee. Then she came in, sat down, gulped her coffee down and was ready to go! I said where ya going? She said she was going to walk up and get the mail. I said you better get dressed first. She pulled her jacket closed and said "this oughta be fine". GET BEHIND ME SATAN!!! Go put some pants on Mom. One of these days... lol... ONE of these daaaays!

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    I know none of you need me to share my facebook account with you. UNfortunately some of my very dearest friends have given up blogging or nearly given it up, and are self admittedly FB addicts. Now, I don't deny them that... I understand it entirely. I am a blogging addict. But my feelings are very hurt that they can't pull away from FB for 3 minutes a day to come visit me too. They're ON the computer... I'm not that far away! I don't worry about the readers I've lost that I was never really close to. It's just these were friends that I thought were forever. And it hurts. *shrug* There. I've vented. Granted it was a quiet vent... but a vent nonetheless.

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