Friday, January 6, 2012
It's The Weekend!
I love the weekends even though I'm retired,maybe it's because all the people that are important to me are either still working or go to school.Today I got out and did a little shopping...the first time I'd been out since Christmas! Before Christmas I saw this cute little armless,black and white chair with lettering on it,that I fell in love with. Today I went back to that store and walked around and around and around, all of a sudden I saw it! It was meant to be... So that cute little chair is now stting beside my fireplace. Tis going to be a good weekend....Well now it's time for "Happy Hour!" See Ya..
Thursday, January 5, 2012
My Grandchildren
Being a Grandma is the best! I've been a Grandma for 18 years! I've got 3 grandchildren, 2 girls and a boy. It's been wonderful to be able to live close to all 3 of them,so I get to see them pretty often. It's also been so much fun to watch them become good friends with each other,two are brother and sister, one is an only child. They get along with each other and have sooo much fun. I not only love them very much,I really like them. They make me laugh, and they teach me things. They are all "pluged in" and know more about elctronics than I do.... the youngest is 8!!!!
The nice thing about being a Grandparent is just relaxing and enjoying these people just the way they are. I don't have to dicipline them,(they don't need it any way) or get involed with how they do in school,or with there friendships. I feel so lucky, and yes "blessed" that my Grandchildren and Children are really kind, honest,lovely human beings. It makes beining a Grandma a very rewarding time of life!
The nice thing about being a Grandparent is just relaxing and enjoying these people just the way they are. I don't have to dicipline them,(they don't need it any way) or get involed with how they do in school,or with there friendships. I feel so lucky, and yes "blessed" that my Grandchildren and Children are really kind, honest,lovely human beings. It makes beining a Grandma a very rewarding time of life!
Tuesday, January 3, 2012
My Grandma
I had one grandma,my paternal grandma Klein. I was her first grandchild,and she was crazy about me as I was her. I came along ten years after her last child.I was the only granddaughter for fifteen years ,with a string of six boys, before Debbie and Tammy arrived back to back.It was fun being the only girl while it lasted!!!
Grandma was a tall, strong, woman, with a quiet voice, and seemed timid, but,once you knew her learned she had her opinions. She had light blue eyes, long blond hair, and very fair skin,which she washed every night before bed and applied Noxzema to.
I loved going to her house. It was in the country,two miles from town.Her one hunderd year old house was on a tree lined lane next to a creek. Her white kitchen gleamed, smelled of geraniums and home baked bread. The clock in the dining room chimed on the half hour and hour. Her buffet was adorned with dolies that she made,and a bowl of her homemade anise red candies. Her living room was wallpapered in a pretty green and white lily patterned,her piano,took center stage lined with framed photos of her children and grandchildren. She did her daily devotions in the living room.Reading her bible, playing her piano and praying for every child and neighbor or freind. I know this, I was kneeling beside her on the times I was visiting.
Her bed room was upstairs.A cozy room with slanted walls,and big fluffy quilts that she and her freinds had made. I loved sleeping with her in that room. In the morning before sunrise she would get up and go help my grandpa milk their four or five cows. She would tell me the night before not to get up.until she got back! How exciting that seemed to me. Her room was above the kitchen, and the wood stove pipe came up through her room. Her and grandpa would come back, and she would crank up that stove and start making breakfast. I loved peeking down at them through the grate in the floor.
I know this sounds like "Litttle House on the Prarie"and it kinda was. I have so many wonderful memorys of that time in my life when Grandma was around. Those days are gone forever....times were so simple, but so rich then. I don't want to forget them, I want to remember where I came from. Just a simple little girl from South Dakota. You know that is where the Ingdalls from House in the Prarie were from? South Dakota.
Grandma was a tall, strong, woman, with a quiet voice, and seemed timid, but,once you knew her learned she had her opinions. She had light blue eyes, long blond hair, and very fair skin,which she washed every night before bed and applied Noxzema to.
I loved going to her house. It was in the country,two miles from town.Her one hunderd year old house was on a tree lined lane next to a creek. Her white kitchen gleamed, smelled of geraniums and home baked bread. The clock in the dining room chimed on the half hour and hour. Her buffet was adorned with dolies that she made,and a bowl of her homemade anise red candies. Her living room was wallpapered in a pretty green and white lily patterned,her piano,took center stage lined with framed photos of her children and grandchildren. She did her daily devotions in the living room.Reading her bible, playing her piano and praying for every child and neighbor or freind. I know this, I was kneeling beside her on the times I was visiting.
Her bed room was upstairs.A cozy room with slanted walls,and big fluffy quilts that she and her freinds had made. I loved sleeping with her in that room. In the morning before sunrise she would get up and go help my grandpa milk their four or five cows. She would tell me the night before not to get up.until she got back! How exciting that seemed to me. Her room was above the kitchen, and the wood stove pipe came up through her room. Her and grandpa would come back, and she would crank up that stove and start making breakfast. I loved peeking down at them through the grate in the floor.
I know this sounds like "Litttle House on the Prarie"and it kinda was. I have so many wonderful memorys of that time in my life when Grandma was around. Those days are gone forever....times were so simple, but so rich then. I don't want to forget them, I want to remember where I came from. Just a simple little girl from South Dakota. You know that is where the Ingdalls from House in the Prarie were from? South Dakota.
Monday, January 2, 2012
January 2,2012
This is a New Year!! Whew!! Life moves fast!! Seems like I was just done basking in the glow of a wonderful Thanksgiving,when it was time to get started on Christmas. Christmas...Celebrateing the birth of Christ,it's just not your ordinary holiday. I don't know of any other birthday party that is celebrated by so many people all at the same time. Shopping,cooking, bakeing,decorateing inside and out,new cloths,partys,church services,concerts,parades,it goes on and on an on. We love it! It's fun! It's pretty and very exciting and yes romantic.
Like everyone else I want a new beginning, a make over, changes in the way I do life. This little blog may just be the start of something new. I want to learn new things this year,be a better Grammy to my Grandchildren, learn how to connect with them in a new way. Of course like everyone else I'd like to live a healthier life,so I'll be working on that too. This little blog is new today!! A new learning experiance for me. I'm actually just learning how to use the computer,so this may be a little rough,but thats o.k. its a new journey and a New Year!!!
Like everyone else I want a new beginning, a make over, changes in the way I do life. This little blog may just be the start of something new. I want to learn new things this year,be a better Grammy to my Grandchildren, learn how to connect with them in a new way. Of course like everyone else I'd like to live a healthier life,so I'll be working on that too. This little blog is new today!! A new learning experiance for me. I'm actually just learning how to use the computer,so this may be a little rough,but thats o.k. its a new journey and a New Year!!!
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