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Hi Debbie,
Glad to hear that you are feeling better. Take care of that cold! I hope the plugged ear and the dizziness will subside so that you can come back and play with us more often. We missed you.
GailHi Colleen,
I got one of those American Girl doll books too. It will come in handy though because the child that Greg and I adopted this year for ONP has an American girl doll on her list so I will order her’s from the book.
Your chicken and dumplings dinner sounds so good. I wish one of the churches around here had one of those.
Ron better stop rooting for the Mets-he’s jinxing us. Is he secretly parading a Billy goat around your back yard during the games? lol I declare lots of potato soup for Ron if he doesn’t quit it. I will personally send some down from Illinois.
I hope the shower went well. I’ll bet there were lots of cute little baby girl gifts to oooh and ahhh over. It’s so exciting!
Right now Brent is just staying in a motel as he is planning on moving to Vegas for a new job at the end of the month. it’s a college town so there are lots of reasonable places to stay so this is okay for the short term. I told him he’s always welcome to come back here and stay again-so we will have to see what he decides to do. I just wish he could find something to feel positive about to get his spirits up.
The concert went well and it looks like a lot of kids got adopted by Secret Santas so that is a big deal. The more people that adopt kids and shop for them the more money ONP has to put toward other things. Greg won an autographed Arnold Palmer picture for his collection at the auction and I won a girls Halloween basket for the kids. There was another basket full of games that I wanted but our friend Patti won it-she will take it up north to their cabin and it will be there for when her kids and grandkids come up to visit so that was nice for her.
Yesterday was like a perfect birthday for a guy-we spent all day watching football and baseball-unfortunately both of our teams lost. Greg did cook dinner though-he made some of the walleye that he brought back from Canada, potato pancakes, asparagus and applesauce. He even washed the pots and pans after dinner. He is a good husband-I made an excellent choice those many years ago.
GailHi Adele,
You bake such cute things for all the holidays. I wish I still had all that gumption-but I understand that baking is an outlet for you just like reading is for me. It’s just that with baking you have something tangible at the end of the day-with reading there is nothing physical to show for it. But boy is my mind enriched! lol
I loved Aizen’s version of Gary/Grandpa. It’s so funny the way the little ones pronounce some things. Piper always says cool instead of pool and pronounces carnival carninnal. Sometimes it makes for some confusing conversations.
It is close to when Kim died. It was November 28th which just so happened to be Thanksgiving that year so that is a tough time for him. Of course my first instinct is to tell him to come back home. He said like he feels like a failure at everything he does-which is quite scary to me. I miss him and would like him back here where I feel he would be safe. But then on the other hand maybe he would do well with the move to Vegas and find some success there and feel better about himself. I swear adult children can be just as stressful as having teens. I just wish he could feel like he has some successes in life. I’ve been sending encouraging e-mails. I am of the school of thought that if you feel negative and like a failure that you draw that sort of energy toward yourself and that if you feel positive and successful you eventually will be. I know it’s all sort of metaphysical but I really feel it’s important to put out positive energy into this world. Actually, Jeanne taught me a lot about that. Look at her story going from close to destitute to being a successful business owner. And I really believe her can do attitude was her tipping point. Maybe I’ll have to lend him my copy of Pull Yourself Up By Your Brastraps-reading that would get him some interesting looks in the breakroom or coffee shop. lol We’ll see what he decides to do-I just want him to be safe and happy.
GailThanks so much. I will have to fiddle with this stuff later as I have much to do in the early part of the week. All so much work just to put on a couple of little pictures. In the meantime if anyone wants to see them they are posted on my wall and they show up on the home page right now as they are new. This new website seems to make everything take so many more steps to accomplish anything. Plus still cannot copy and paste pictures which is just silly. It would help if I were more tech savvy. if I were 12 years old I would know all about computers and social media and all that stuff. sometimes my brain can’t keep up with it all. Thanks for the info.
GailOkay-I’m ticked off now so I need to rant for a minute. So I’m trying to post some pictures from the concert last night. I was able to post one to my wall but not to this discussion because it exceeds the allowed file size. Greg says in order to get it on here I can dilute the file which of course I don’t know how to do. Which means any pictures that I take with my camera cannot be posted on the discussions just cell phone pictures-but the pictures I wanted to put up are on my camera not my phone. This is so frustrating!!! Most of us are a bunch of older women who are technologically unsophisticated-why does it have to be so hard???!!! Pus all the pictures post so teeny tiny! I give up. I’m done ranting. As the old song goes (Sorta) It’s my birthday and I’ll rant if I want to rant if I want to rant if I want to-you would rant too if it happened to you. Okay-going to watch the Bears and maybe nap a little. I guess I’m just tired and crabby. Need to rest up to cheer the Cubs on as I guess Ron and I have a rivalry. Too much sports too little time. Now if the Bulls and Blackhawks would just play today too my head could explode from sports overload.
Lets try this again. Dress Rehearsal.
Dress Rehearsal
Hi All.
Adele, I’m glad to hear that Gary is doing well. I’m sure with the chilly weather there will be something good cooking at your house this weekend. I know there’s going to be some good ribs and potato salad down in Tennessee too and hopefully no potato soup in Missouri.
Colleen, I agree with Adele I’m sure everything about the shower will turn out fine and Danyielle will be very appreciative so just relax and enjoy looking at all the cute little baby things and think about that precious little bundle to be. And now because I am a Libra who likes to see both sides of the story and this is our month let me play devil’s advocate for a minute. If the shower is on the Dad’s side of the family maybe it is his first child or the first grandchild or niece or first something for somebody so they feel a shower and a special day is in order. After all a new baby is cause for excitement and celebration I think we all agree on that. As to the food I think every group does that differently. We had all kinds of finger food and little cakes here for Jenny’s shower and her MIL had sandwiches and salads and chips at her house-so everyone has different ideas on food. I guess any day that someone is giving me presents to open is a good day-so I’m sure they only have the best intentions at heart. It will all work itself out in the end so you and Danyielle should just relax and enjoy-after all it’s only a few times in life that someone has a party in our honor. Enjoy the pampering-it comes few and far between. So now I have done my Libraian duty and showed the other side and weighed it all out on the “scales of justice” and I will shut my mouth. lol This too shall pass and everything will turn out fine. Actually I’ve found that many times that something that I was dreading turned out to be a lot more fun than I had ever anticipated.
Now speaking of something not fun-I’ve been sitting on this news for a couple of weeks-things did not work out in NM for Brent and Rachel and he is really down in the dumps. He feels like he is a failure at everything and that life keeps on giving him bad breaks. This is so worrisome as he is so far away and he feels so all alone in this world. Needless to say I am worried. He has plans on moving to Las Vegas and getting a job there with a friend. But now he says he is not sure that he wants to do that either. Hopefully we will get a chance to discuss this more this weekend. He can always come back here-I think he knows that but perhaps he needs to hear it in words since he is feeling so down about everything. So we could use some prayers shooting over in this direction for this particular problem. I thought this move and moving right in with her was not a good idea. It’s always better to move and get your own place first so that if the relationship goes down the tubes at least you are living independently.
I will have to miss the first playoff game because of the concert tonight. I hope that the Cubs can win without me concentrating on the game and sending out all my good vibes. lol Hopefully there will be some good silent auction items-sometimes I will find a good Christmas present for Greg amidst all the Chicago sports paraphernalia. Greg’s sister and fiancée are not coming but I guess Troy from Greg’s work and his wife are coming so I’ll have someone else at my table at least.
Barbara, do not feel bad about the anniversary card thing. I told both kids when they got married that they would be getting cards but no gifts for their anniversaries. I would still do birthdays and Christmas for all of them but told them that anniversary gifts are from husband to wife and visa versa. I figured if there were no expectations right up front there would be no disappointments later on. Sometimes I surprise even myself as I am usually a pushover. lol I figure all the times we went out to dinner with both couples and picked up the tab is gift enough.
Gosh, both of Adam’s daughters were over at Jenny’s last night. they are a freshman and sophomore in high school now and have really turned into two beautiful and very nice young women. At one point last night they were both sitting there with their phones and headphones on and I looked over at Jenny and said “Is this typical of life with a teenager nowadays?” And she said, “I guess so,” and just kind of shrugged her shoulders. One was bopping out to some music and one was live streaming some show-I am so out of it technologically speaking -I don’t even know how they keep up with it all.Gail
Hi All.
Adele, hope Gary is doing good after his quick surgery. Hope you at least got into the Quacker duds to pick him up. They need to see those sparkles in the outpatient surgery.
Barbara, keep up the evening walks. Greg and I used to walk the paths every night with the dogs but we stopped doing it a couple of years ago. I really need to start doing that again. If Jerry likes those bliss lights I think a TSV is coming up for one this week. We really like ours especially the green one that shines on the pond.-in the winter it just sparkles on the ice and snow.
Colleen, glad to hear that you got a gastro referral. It sounds like the doctor that you got sent to accidentally is nicer than your regular doctor. I don’t think Danyielle will get mad at you about the surprise shower. Just tell her that you had absolutely no input at all on that idea. I think getting your mother the tees with the sparkle around the neck is a great idea.
My SIL closed on her house yesterday so now she and her dog are officially living with the fiancée. Maybe if they get married I will be able to attend this wedding. I missed her first wedding because Jenny had roseola and was contagious so I couldn’t leave her with the friend I planned to because she had little kids who would have been exposed to it. Of course some older couples don’t get married because it affects their finances negatively. We’ll see what happens.
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