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Hi Colleen,
Thanks for the tip on the upcoming TSV. It sounds cute. I haven’t tried a skort from them yet. This might be the year. I love their bermuda shorts as they come to my knee and cover all the parts that I don’t want to show on my thighs. I wore them all through our trip to Disney last year. Of course if I buy a skort in February I won’t be able to wear it until June. lol
Glad that your Mom is doing better. I hope the baby comes soon. Maybe she will wait until Kendall’s birthday on the 16th. Go get that shot you will need it to keep up with Owen and take care of your Mom and Danyielle. I hope that your weather remains good so you won’t have to deal with snow or ice on top of everything else.
I just heard the Rams are moving back to California so now you won’t have a football team. Who will Ron root for then. I can’t think of which team might be closest.
Keep us posted when you get the next chance.
GailHi Adele,
Now that I think of it I used to make a dish with cut up red potatoes, garlic and onion that I roasted with some olive oil. Haven’t made that in a long time probably because I have such an issue with garlic making me sick to my stomach. My Dad was the same way.
It will be interesting to hear Barbara’s reaction on seeing her grandchild for the first time. I’m sorry that your Dad missed seeing Steph. Those milestones can be really happy and sad when we think of those loved ones who are missing them. My Dad only saw Jenny one time as he died the year that she was born. And he only saw Brent maybe three times. Greg’s Dad died too only a few years later. That’s why I make sure we get over to see our grandkids often as I want them to know us and have memories of us like Greg and I have of our grandparents. Our kids barely knew their cousins or grandparents and aunts and uncles as everyone lived all over the country. I know Greg at one time had thoughts of retiring to a warmer climate and I absolutely refused as i didn’t want grandkids who would only see us once a year and we would be strangers to them. Right about now with a temperature of 12 and a windchill of minus 10 I am rethinking all that. lol
It’s funny about cats-they are kind of like potato chips-you can’t just have one. It seems like once you get one strays just know to turn up at your house.
So I’m trying to get this dynamic all straight. Is Enzo Marissa’s boyfriend? And Amanda and Marissa live with Heather and that is close by in your old house-or do I have this all screwed up. I don’t know if it’s just me but I like to get a picture in my head of everyone in their places. I can kind of picture Colleen in Missouri and Barbara in Tennessee because I have been to those states-I can kind of picture Debbie in Oregon because we were fairly close to where she lives when we were in Idaho. But I have not been anywhere out east so I have a hard time conceptualizing it. Hopefully that will be on our to do list in the future.
Hope everyone is staying warm. I have pulled out all my comfy cozy sweaters and corduroy and velour pants to stay warm in this cold. Of course the sun shines when it is 10 degrees. lol
GailHi Colleen,
I’m so glad that your Mom was on the phone with your sister when she passed out. That way she knew something was wrong right away and could get help for her. That must have been so scary for everyone. I’m glad that she’s home and getting some outside help to recuperate too. In my opinion those home health workers don’t keep coming for long enough but that was my own personal experience and I guess that is all decided by Medicare. We will keep praying for her recovery and also pray for a speedy delivery-(didn’t the postman on Mr. Rogers say that) for Danyielle-and then we can finally find out the name of this sweet new baby girl. Colleen-you will be a busy girl and I hope that you can figure out how to be in two places at once. Sending love and prayers your way.
GailHi Adele,
Boy that Gary is a problem to feed-he sounds a lot like Brent is and how Kim was. They would not touch a green salad or fresh vegetables and dip with a ten foot pole. I always had to adjust the menu when they were here. I am lucky in that Greg will eat about anything that I fix. I know that he likes some things better than others but he will eat most things. The roasted peppers sound good. We have done that on the grill but I never just did them in the oven in winter for some odd reason. I think I will do that some time coming up. How long do you roast and at what temp? I have not tried to buy fresh green beans lately so I don’t know what the supply around here is like. I will look next time I am in the store.
That’s interesting that Bobby had invisible fish. Do you think he had a big desire for a pet as a kid? Jolly doesn’t come around anymore. My kids thought it was so funny when I told them I had an invisible friend. I too have been told that it is a sign of intelligence and creativity. Also if someone (me) did something wrong or broke something Jolly was also a good scapegoat. I’ve been told that I did use the phrase “Jolly did it” in some situations. lol I often wonder why I chose that name. Perhaps I was unhappy?
The grandkids are better. You know how fast the little ones bounce back. They are going Thursday night to spend the night at an indoor waterpark for Kendall’s birthday and they will do something on Friday so Jenny is keeping her home from school.
How was Marissa’s dinner. It’s a good thing we are not Irish as we are not corned beef and cabbage fans. Fortunately most of the things that we don’t like we both don’t like-except Greg likes sauerkraut and I don’t. So sometimes I have to break down and make him a little anyway. The girls are probably at the stage in life where they prefer money or a gift card for a birthday gift so that makes things easier. I’ll bet it was hard to get a candle in that cookie so that you could sing happy birthday to her. lol Maybe that’s why she requests cookies so that she doesn’t get the song. lol
GailHi Barbara,
We could never stay warm with just a wood stove. We have to have central heat but we have to fuel it with propane since we are out in the country and there are no natural gas lines out here. I know some people use wood but they have some kind of blower system with it and their houses are all on one level.
I wonder if there’s some way Jerry’s Mom could take the brother’s name off that account. Also does she have a will and does anyone have power of attorney over her finances and her healthcare decisions? I hope Jerry won’t exhaust himself with all of this plus taking care of your plumbing needs. He has a lot of stress right now.
I haven’t bought any new Quacker since before Christmas. I see where they are coming out with new boot cut pull on Dream Jeanne but I have to stop getting the Dream Jeannes even in the short as they are getting too long on me. I guess i have been shrinking since they first came out with them plus 28and 1/2 inches is still pretty long for a short or a petite-27 would be much better. You figure some regular inseams are 29 inches so their short really isn’t that short.
I think Mimi and Poppy are such cute names. I couldn’t be Mimi since Jenny has a French Bulldog named Mimi and I couldn’t be Grandma Gail as both Grandma’s are Gail-plus I didn’t want to be called Grandma so we picked Gigi and it turned out well-except when Piper was little and she thought Greg and I came as a package and just called each of us Gigigrandpa. lol
Here was my big ahaa moment when Kendall our first grandchild was born. When we saw her right afterward my first thought was ” here is our immortality-this is how we live on after we are gone from this earth.” It was such a profound moment and then you immediately fall in love-in some ways even a little more so than you do with your own children because you realize that these kids you can just love and love and love without having to worry about how they are behaving and the other things you had to worry about with your own kids. Grandkids are just a vessel that you can fill with pure love.
We are at minus 11 here this morning. Much too cold for anyone. Gosh-I am already longing for spring. The only good thing I can say is that the sun is out.
GailHi Colleen,
Did your Mom have a fall or something that caused her to have to go to the hospital. I know that you are very worried about her and we are praying for a speedy recovery. If she needs that walker your family may really have to pressure her to use it. I know no one ever wants to but sometimes it is necessary for the person’s welfare. I know Greg’s Mom didn’t want to use it but I just had to keep insisting because it was for her own safety. I know sometimes she must have been mad at me for being such a pain in the butt-but I was just trying to keep her safe after she had some falls. She finally did use it most of the time unless she would forget.
I hope your Mom will seriously think about going to a senior apartment or come live with one of you guys for her own well being. None of us like to give up our independence but sometimes it really is in our best interest to do so. As to her being too much trouble-just tell her that she took care of all you kids for so many years and now it’s your turn to take care of her. Tell her you’re sure that she never said that you kids were too much trouble and that you feel the same way about her.
It’s nice that your siblings can all take turns staying with her right now. It is a good thing to have family close by. Keep us posted.
Hugs,
GailHi Adele,
I hope that Colleen’s mother is all right also. You never know what will happen as our parents age and we all know that we will more than likely lose them one day. Greg was lucky to have his Mom until she was 93. I was not so fortunate as my Mom died at 77 and my Dad at 63. We all want our parents to live to a ripe old age-as long as they are healthy and not suffering in any way. It’s so hard to lose them even though we realize that in the scheme of things we probably will. We just have to move on after that loss but we never stop thinking about them and loving them. I remember my sister saying after my Mom died and even though we were all adults “now we are orphans” and I think that just about sums it up. My brother and sister are older than I am Bruce is the oldest and I want to say that he is 72-if he isn’t yet he will be in a couple of months. I can never remember if they were born in 42 and 43 or 43 and 44. All I know is that they were close together-I think 15 months and older than me so they stuck together and I was the odd man out which probably was the cause of me inventing my invisible friend Jolly. It’s funny how you wanted brothers and sisters and and I had a good friend who was an only child growing up and I thought she had it made and wanted to be like her. I guess we always want what we don’t have but my sister was mean to me growing up so at that time I would have rather done without her. They probably resented me as they got stuck taking care of me sometimes, probably my sister more than my brother since she was the other girl and that’s how things rolled back then. But you don’t think of that when you are little. Anyway, we are the best of friends now even though we only see each other once a year or so.
I would venture to guess that maybe you had the same thing with one leg being longer. You should do that DNA test sometime. I’m sure it would be very informative.
I had no idea that neuropathy would be affected by temperature and humidity. We don’t have any 99 restaurants around here. It sounds like Gary eats like a little kid. I know it is frustrating fixing food for picky eaters. that’s funny about going out late and being sore and tired the next day. Pretty soon you will be going out at 3 for the blue plate specials. Isn’t it funny how as we age we start doing many of the things that we used to laugh at other people for doing. We do kind of become our parents. I tell Greg that all the time as he says corny things just like his Dad used to. But of course I am perfect! lol
Well it looks like we may have gotten a couple inches of snow yesterday. Nothing too bad. Now we are going to get a big dip in temperature. Highs only in the teens. Brrrrr!
Is today Marrisa’s birthday corned beef dinner? Happy Birthday Marissa! What do the grandkids call you by the way? We are Gigi and Grandpa.Enjoy your day.
GailHi Adele,
I wrote notes to you,Colleen and Barbara this morning and for some reason yours didn’t post. Maybe i forgot to hit submit. Who knows.
Good thinking-you are right King Arthur has all those things to do with baking. However I am a lazy baker and prefer to use the bread machine and the prepared mixes. I know that must be sacrilege to you as you are such and avid baker but it works for the two of us. Speaking of baking-Colleen mentioned using Splenda. if you try it be careful as you have to adjust the ingredients accordingly. I tried once with my pound cake and it came out very flat. I think you would have to look up recipes made for splenda to use it effectively. Yes the Contadina pizza squeeze comes in a plastic bottle like ketchup and you just use what you need and refrigerate the rest until next time.
I hope that Marissa will get the rest that she needs. I never heard of a virus that attacks the joints. I wonder how the doctor knows that. I guess there are all types of viruses. Winter just seems to be the time when we are all cooped up inside passing them around. And because Marissa works in a store she comes in contact with so many different people. Pretty soon we will all be wearing masks like in Asia. When we were at immediate care last week there were people walking around with masks. I suppose doctor’s offices and hospitals are two of the germiest places.
Greg is still having trouble with his ankle. I told him it takes months sometimes for a sprain to feel better but he thinks everything should be healed in a week. Of course the last couple of weeks the guy who is out in the factory has been on vacation so instead of being in the office Greg has been out on the floor a lot and doing more walking than usual doesn’t help. I’m glad that Heather’s back will be okay. I kind of figured that eventually she would need the hip replaced. I know they like to wait as long as possible before doing it so it doesn’t wear out and they have to replace it again. My brother has had both of his hips replaced. When it got so bad that he couldn’t ride anymore he got it done as an old cowboy can’t give up his horses. Since Heather and Steph had similar problems is that something that was inherited or was it just coincidence.
I’m glad that you got out last night. Where did you go. We stayed in to stay away from the germs at Jenny’s and because it was quite foggy out too. It’s been snowing a bit today but I don’t know how much we are supposed to get. I just want the sun to shine!!!
GailHi Barbara,
I have to say Jerry is such a good son. He reminds me of Greg with all the things that he is doing for his Mom. And it is true. Usually it’s one person that ends up doing it all for an aging parent. Here’s the thing about those accounts with his brother’s name on them. They wouldn’t necessarily go to the brother if she would die. I had my name on my Mom’s account and Greg and I could write checks on his Mom’s account-mainly because we paid her bills for her-but if it’s in her will that all her assets are to distributed equally after her death then those accounts should be divided among all the siblings. The problem is that with his name on the accounts he could clean them all out before the executor could distribute the estate. Of course if she stays home with a home health worker or goes to assisted living that money could get used up anyway which I think is the whole purpose of having that savings so that you have money to take care of yourself when you get older in whatever way you need. I will never understand why adult children get so greedy about money that belongs to their parents and was never theirs to begin with. I’ve seen that tear families apart so many times-and all for what? something that was never yours to begin with. I have to say when my Mother died my brother sister and I were very careful not to step on anyone’s toes about anything that Mom owned and Mom had a written list of where personal possessions should go. With Greg’s Mom too he as executor had everything written up to show that it was all equally distributed. In that case the only one who had her nose out of joint was Greg’s oldest brothers wife who thought she should have gotten some personal things but those things all went to Greg’s sister as it should be-those things were her mothers. Plus Greg’s brothers and sister were so grateful to us for taking care of their Mom during the last 6 years of her life that they were in no way going to complain about anything as they were just happy to have their Mom in our care. You know taking care of an elderly parent should just not cause this must conflict if only everyone had their hearts in the right place. I really feel for Jerry but he is the only one trying to do the right thing. I will be praying that he has the strength to deal with all these family squabbles and that his mother will see that some of the brothers do not have her best interests at heart.
I hope Sarah has an easy pregnancy. Jenny would get quite sick at the beginning and throw up a lot but it does pass. i have a feeling that once the baby comes Sarah will be more than happy for your help and also your expertise as a nurse. That sure would have made me feel more secure as a new Mom having a nurse in the family who lived right close by.
Are you still having trouble with your computer? I hope that situation has been fixed and that you have the broken toilet under control too. it’s always something? Isn’t it?
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