Myles and Gracie all dressed up

Well I haven't posted in a while. Been so busy with my little tastes of heaven. First Kevin was in the hospital for over a week with double pnemonia and I got to keep their kids. Now I loved having them for a whole week, but not under those conditions! He is all better now and back at work and the kids are home. I miss them.

Today I didn't have any grands at house so I just loafed around. Actually enjoyed just the tv's and me! No MiMi I'm thirsty, MiMi I'm hungry, MiMi I'm bored, MiMi it's hot, MiMi I got to poop!!! I miss them though.

Grace and Myles started school today and Jacob and Katie start Monday.

I will be catching up on some sewing now. Amy puts me to shame. I think in two days she made about 6 Lucy's, 6 skorts, embroidered Tees to go with them, even made a couple of outfits by a new pattern called GiGi. It is a button down the front blouse and pants. Very cute. She made all these for Katie and Grace. She is so good.

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100 things about me

100 Things About Me Very Random, almost confusingly random!

1. I am a wife, mother, grandmother, sister, neice, and an aunt!

2. I love rain.

3. I wish I had a college degree in home Economics, I think they call it something else today!

4. I wish I had a college degree!

5. If I had a college degree, it would probably be in English Literature.

6. It really bothers me that I don't have a college degree, can you tell!

7. I loved being a mom.

8. I was a stay at home mom until my youngest was 11 years old.

9. I have a son, age 36.

10. I have a daughter, age 32.

11. I have been married for 38 years!

12. I got married at 18.

13. Since my kids did go to college and worked some before having children, I became a GM at

the old age of 50.

14. I love being a grandmother.

15. I have a twin sister.

16. I like to sew.

17. I am learning to quilt.

18. I pieced my first full size quilt this month. It will go to my granddaughter Grace.

19. I am about to start my Katie a quilt.

20. I plan to make all of them (my five grands) a quilt to use now.

21. I plan to make them all one to give them for a wedding present.

22. I am so not good at finishing my plans!

23. I like to embroider with my Embroidery machine.

24. I plan to embroider a quilt for my granddaughters too.

25. I bought my daughter an embroidery machine.

26. I live in the middle of Alabama.

27. I have two brothers and two sisters.

28. I have one brother and two sisters that live in the area of the state I live in.

29. I have one brother that lives one state over.

30. We all see each other at the same time, rarely!

30. My mother died five years ago.

31. I miss her.

32. I still have her on my answering machine.

33. I love playing on my computer.

34. My husband hates the time I spend on my pc.

35. My husband is so talented.

36. My husband has completely remodeled our home.

37. We have lived in this house, bought new, for 35 years.

38. Nothing is the same, he has re-furbished even the wiring and plumbing.

39. My husband and I are totally opposite in personality.

40. I am very close to my daughter.

41. My son and his father are very close.

42. I don't smoke.

43. I do like to eat.

44. I don't like to cook anymore.

45. I am retired from civil service.

46. I love staying at home.

47. Even in high school I liked staying at home.

48. My twin must have got the go out a have fun gene! Cause I had rather stay home.

49. I rarely get bored!

50. I have never broken a bone.

51. I had a hairline skull fracture when I was 17.

52. I was in a bad car wreck at 17, see #51.

53. My then boyfriend, now husband was driving the car when we had the wreck.

54. I really and truly believe it was God hitting me in the head and saying "You better marry

this one, I know your future!"

55. I love material/fabric.

56. I love books.

57. I like to read.

58. I love piano, and wish I could play it.

59. I had a case of pneumonia and pericardidis a little over a year ago. Very painful to breathe.

60. I have an unrealistic fear of gettting it again.

61. I do have osteoarthritis that is painful.

62. I plan to start an exercise program for this arthritis.

63. I wish I had an inground pool.

64. I know I would plan to exercise by swimming everyday! see #22.

65. I have traveled to Green Bay WI, Las Vegas NV, South and North Carolina, Tennessee,

Georgia, Florida, Mississippi, and Denver Colorado.

66. My father was from Georgia.

67. My father died when I was two years old.

68. Both my maternal and paternal grandfathers were already dead before I was born.

69. I loved my grandma, my mother's mother.

70. I still can hear her saying her prayers in the dark, after we were in the bed, when my sister

and i spent the night with her.

71. I like to scrapbook some.

72. I like to play with my pictures on and off the computer.

73. My youngest grandson is 2 yrs old and just had a broken thumb.

74. Two of my grandchildren are adopted from the country of Kazahkstan.

75. I wish I had my own beach condo.

76. I love going to my daughter's inlaws beach home.

77. I am never late.

78. My daughter is my best friend.

79. We are alike in many ways.

80. I am a born again christian.

81. That means that since I believe Jesus died on the cross for me, I have a mansion in Heaven!

82. I have a friend that I used to work with, haven't seen her in 10 years, but we email all

the time.

83. I am a night person.

84. My husband is a morning person.

85. This causes a lot of arguments!

86. I am an Alabama Crimson Tide fan.

87. I love to talk with my grand kids. They are so funny. but don't let them see you laughing at

something they said.

88. I love to read other peoples blogs.

89. I love to watch HGTV and TLC.

90. I hate housework.

91. I love Italian food.

92. I love romantic comedies.

93. I love to swing.

94. I like medical shows.

95. Co-workers always asked me about their medical situations as if I had some

important letters after my name!!!

96. I love flying in airplanes. Or did before arthritis!

97. I collect books on quilting and scrapbooking.

98. I like to go to open houses for new homes to get ideas for my husband to do with out home!!

99. I love clean sheets.

100. I love my life right now!

Handprints

Sometimes you get discouragedBecause I am so small,

And always leave my fingerprintsOn furniture and walls.

But everyday I am growing,-I'll be grown up someday,

And all these tiny handprintsWill simply fade away.

So here's a final handprint,

Just so you can recall,

Exactly how my fingers looked

When I was very small.

Yesterday we spent almost the whole day getting the kids handprints done. I have handprints and feetprints of Amy's kids since they were a few days old. But I have never gotten Myles and Grace's. So yesterday I went to a pottery show and had me a large platter done with all five kids, and a flowerpot and a mug with only Myles and Grace. They are 6 and 5 but at least I'll have something to smile back on. Can't wait to get them and display them.

I was very tired when I got home, drove to B'ham to Gadsden and back home, about three hours of driving and I don't like to drive. Makes me very sleepy. I have a bad reputation for driving for some reason. No wrecks, no tickets, just falling asleep! Go figure.

Well half the day has gone already and I need to go sew something. Maybe something wonderful will happen that I can post about later today.

Children are a blessing from God, ALL CHILDREN!

God's Colors

Nothing has gone right today starting with getting up entirely too early. And now I cannot get a playlist to work on my page. I think I will go back to bed and start over tomorrow!

So I leave you with these beautiful pictures that tell me God loves me!

good night :-)

the much loved Chocolate Chip Brownie

Well I have not only had the wonderful joy of entertaining these three kiddoes all weekend but also the little Chocolate Chip Brownie, as they have so aptly named him. Jacob says he will be called Chipper though. They sure do love him. He is the cutest thing, especially when he runs after one of them. At one time he had Caleb by the leg of his pants and wouldn't let go until Katie went over a took him off. So funny.

I am exhausted to say the least so I am going to take the hottest shower I can and go to bed. I have to go to the kiddoes house tomorrow as Amy has to work the book fair at Jacob's school.

Jason and a friend came over for lunch. She brought her nine month old baby boy. So cute. Jason didn't have his little ones this weekend so we didn't get to see them.

A good day, except for no Myles or Grace.

later

Leaping Lizards Bat Man

Went to Amy's today and to a pet shop to see how Caleb and Katie would handle a small puppy. Caleb had to kiss every one of them. So cute. Course I washed his mouth off when we got back to the car.

There also was a lizard there. Not the little kind but the kind that grows to four feet! This particular one was the size of a football, not counting his neck/head and tail! Caleb was facinated with it and would stoop on the floor with his chin in his hands and watch it. Now a few months ago Caleb had several nightmares in one night and after the fourth one we got out of him that snakes were getting him, so sad it was. Well smart me decided to pick him up and let him look over into the cage the lizard was in right at the exact moment the lizard decided to stand on its hind legs and try to come through the screen on top of the cage, and at the same time stick its snake like tongue out! Needless to say Caleb went bonkers. I hope he does not have nightmares about this. Mimi can be so stupid sometimes. Thank goodness when we left I asked him what was his favorite thing in the pet store and he said the 'wizard'. I sure hope it was not because it scared him the most! There was also a snake there but it was in something like a hollowed out log and you could barely see him (it was a brightly lit cage and he was a bright readdish color) no scary at all.

They have decided to get a six week old chocalate cocker spaniel. All three kids are spending the night with me Saturday night, so I guess I'll have a puppy here also. Can't wait.

Which one would you choose?

Kindergartener's are so funny

Jacob's dad Kevin, ate lunch with him at school last Friday. While listening to the boys and girls talk he carefully kept a straight face.

Seems, Jacob's friend, Barnes, said he did 50 push ups every morning. Not to be outdone, Jacob said “That’s nothing. When I wake up in the middle of the night and can’t go back to sleep, I do 100 push-ups."

Barnes being clearly impressed said “Really.” Jacob kinda did his head back and looked down his nose at Barnes and said “Huh huh,” while nodding his head and blinking real slow. Kevin had to bite his tongue not to laugh out loud.

I worked with four and five year olds for two years a long time ago. I loved everyday of it. Now that my grandkids are at that age I love my life to pieces. I love to just sit a talk to them or especially listen to them talk with each other. So much fun. You NEVER know what is going to come out of their mouths.