[Gail Norusis]

in reply to: Hi Girls-Here's Celebrating the Dog Days of August Part 2 #15047

Hi Adele,
Do you have to go back and have the tooth checked? Greg has an appointment with the endodontist to look at that tooth on Monday. I will let you know what they recommend doing with it. He has already had a root canal in that tooth/crown.
You and my sister could really talk shop together. She worked in different areas of Child Protective Services for many many years. She was also the first, appointed by the governor, Ombudsmen for DCFS for the state of Indiana. So she set up the whole program for that for the state. That was her last job before she retired. She applied for the job never thinking that she would get it but her qualifications and number of years of experience were so strong that they just scooped her right up for the job. It was a great opportunity for her too as those last few years of working at a higher pay scale really benefitted her social security. However, it was quite stressful too so she was glad to retire from there. Plus with her background she can get part time work anytime she would want or need it. She is still so high energy-she is always doing something-ballroom dancing taking classes-she is just active active active-unlike me her couch potato sister. It’s hard to believe we came from the same parents. lol
Any treats cooking in your house this weekend? I imagine that your mind is churning with the fall delights that you will be whipping up. Gotta display something on all those pumpkin plates! lol
Gail

[Gail Norusis]

in reply to: Hi Girls-Here's Celebrating the Dog Days of August Part 2 #15046

Hi Colleen,
It has gotten cooler here too-although by the end of next week I think it will be in the eighties again. I wish we could have September and October with weather in the 60’s and 70’s-to me that’s perfect for going outdoors and doing things. Pretty soon it will be time for your annual hay ride. Gosh I haven’t done one of those since high school. Brings back lots of old memories.
Big week at the Crone household. Lachlan lost his first tooth. Kendall learned to ride a bike without training wheels and Jenny got a call from Kendall’s Spanish teacher telling her how well she is doing and how she can just see her little mind churning and following along in class and that Kendall is her helpful buddy. So that was good news. Jenny and Adam ran 8 and a half miles before we got there last night. They might run a half marathon on Halloween. More power to them. I think she had 22,000 steps on her fit bit yesterday. Oh to be 33 again and able to work and take care of a house and family and run 8 and 1/2 miles all in one day! I couldn’t do all that in one week.
Sometimes I think that Rocky would benefit from an older dog friend. When he comes home from the groomer where he has been more active because of the other dogs he always has a better appetite because he has not just been sleeping all day like he does here now that there are no other dogs in the house. Gosh we have had dogs ever since we have been married. In a way I can’t imagine life without one. I can’t have cats because Greg is allergic so there really is no other alternative anymore. Also I can’t have a miniature horse in the house (lol) because we discovered last year at ONP that he is allergic to those also.
Hope that you have a nice cool weekend.
Gail

[Gail Norusis]

in reply to: Hi Girls-Here's Celebrating the Dog Days of August Part 2 #15041

Adele,
Adam is dyslexic too and I don’t think he was ever diagnosed in school. He just said he had a hard time since his two brothers and sister got such good grade and he was always middle of the road. When you have to struggle so much you just don’t enjoy learning. it’s not that you are not smart you just need tools that help you learn in a different manner.
Speaking of adoptions and the legal system-Brent was born by C-section which means he could be released from the hospital before his mother. I guess legally there are only certain people that can technically carry him out of the hospital and it didn’t include the adoptive parents. I guess the grandparents wanted no part of it so the judge actually went to the hospital and carried the baby (Brent) out and placed him with the lawyer and his wife who then brought him to our house. it also happened to be 4th of July weekend. This was a private adoption-I suppose things would be different with an agency or a government body. Anyway, in all the years since whenever that judge was on a ballot she got my vote. Now I think she is higher up in the system so she gets appointed to her jobs.
I had to laugh when you mentioned my being able to express myself. Sometimes I have to grope for words that used to come easily. But it reminded me of the words a college professor wrote on a hastily written essay. His comment was “your facility with words sometimes does you in”-meaning in a nice way-I can tell that you didn’t put much time into this and although it’s good it could be excellent. For some reason his comment always stuck in my brain after that and I try not to do things half-assed so to speak. lol
It is weird that you and Greg had the same thing with your tooth. He has an appointment with the root canal/crown doctors-not sure of their official title-on Monday. Not sure what they will decide to do with the tooth. I’ll keep you posted.
Gail

[Gail Norusis]

in reply to: Hi Girls-Here's Celebrating the Dog Days of August Part 2 #15035

Forget to tell you all. My SIL got the results from her bone marrow biopsy and there is no damage to bone or marrow so other than the enlarged red blood cells and she said a few minor things she is good to go. She has to do blood work once a month and sees the hematologist again in January. So thank you all for the prayers. She also finally sold her house so I said she should go forth now and be happy and healthy in her new life.

[Gail Norusis]

in reply to: Hi Girls-Here's Celebrating the Dog Days of August Part 2 #15034

Hi Colleen,
That is funny about Kaylee and Danyielle’s boyfriend. She sounds like a very strong minded little girl who wants to run the whole show. Something tells me she will not like the competition of another little girl in the family. Maybe she will take on a big sister type of role and be the new baby’s teacher. I always have to stop and think before I write about your granddaughters because you have both a Kylie and a Kaylee so I have to make sure I have the right name with the right person.
I think the pink and the gray shirt would go with a lot of things-the wine pants and also gray or black or denim-it sounds like it should be pretty versatile. I’m looking forward to the cooler weather to take out the fall and Halloween Quacker to wear.
Poor Greg has a toothache and came home early today to go to the dentist. He has an infection under a crown for some reason so he is on an antibiotic and has to go to a specialist on Monday. Fortunately once he’s on the antibiotic the pain should go away.
Took Rocky to the groomers today and when I went to pick him up he had gone into one of the crates there and was just laying there waiting for me to come get him. It was a little sad though because it reminded me when I used to take all three dogs there and they all used to go together into one of the huge crates. We used to come into that place like a tornado and now it’s just me and little Rocky. He was having a bit of trouble getting down the two steps into the garage to go out to his potty enclosure so Greg just built him a ramp and carpeted it so it wouldn’t be slippery and now it’s much easier for him. Gosh-we’re lucky to have husbands who know how to build things and fix things.
Has your weather broken yet? We are now getting some cooler temperatures and also some rain.
The other day I walked past the patio doors and found our old nemesis the blue heron out there scoping out the koi pond again. For some reason they always seem to come in the spring and the fall. So I had to go out and chase him away. It used to be the dogs would bark and scare him but Rocky seldom barks because he doesn’t hear anymore. However he does bark when he is done in the dog pen. Sometimes I would let Abby out to chase him away. He probably can’t get the big koi in the big pond because it’s too deep but if he discovers that there are babies in the upper shallow pond they will be sitting ducks. Every fall we have this war on the blue heron.
Gail

[Gail Norusis]

in reply to: Hi Girls-Here's Celebrating the Dog Days of August Part 2 #15033

Hi Barbara,
I have never drawn four square on the sidewalk with chalk but I have drawn hopscotch. What is four square?
You are not doing anything wrong when it comes to Neal and Sarah. It seems like each new family develops their own dynamic and what works for them. When you think of it our families are probably different in some ways than our parents families and so on down the line. What we would do isn’t necessarily what our kids would do but it’s hard to accept that especially when they are living under our roof. I’ve found it much easier to accept the differences when they are not living with us on a daily basis and I am constantly confronted with it first hand. I guess it’s kind of out of sight out of mind or ignorance is bliss-but it seems to work. I think the idea of the Waltons and three generations living happily under the same roof is probably pretty romanticized. Although, Adele’s house is like that and they seem to make it work okay. It just seems once they get married they have a new and different family unit in the combination that the two of them make-if I am making any sense at all. I’m having a hard time expressing my meaning. Sometimes I really don’t think the young ones realize that they should be helping-it seems once they have a family themselves and realize how much work it all can be that the light bulb finally goes off. I was lucky in that Kim was brought up with what I call old fashioned “southern” values and she was always very helpful.
However, if there is a confrontation your son will most likely take his wife’s side and when you think about it our husbands probably would have taken our sides too when we were young married couples-it’s just the way it is when a new family unit is formed. That’s why it’s so much harder when you are all under one roof. Because you can see what is going on and you want to speak up but don’t want to cause a rift. This won’t solve the underlying situation but hopefully they will soon have saved enough money to get their own place and when you are not living together the strain will be less. The situation will not change but you won’t be living with it and watching it day after day. So keep your eye on the prize, Barbara. and if they are driving you up the wall you can always come here and vent to us and then look out the window and see all your lovely solar lights and feel the peace filling your soul.
Gail

[Gail Norusis]

in reply to: Hi Girls-Here's Celebrating the Dog Days of August Part 2 #15032

Hi Adele,
Glad to hear that JJ got the good teacher and has friends in his room. I hope that he has a good year too.
You are right everyone does have a story. I remember seeing an Oprah show one time based on just that premise. I don’t remember the episode well but I think they had people working with the audience members to each write their own story. Sometimes soap operas have nothing on real life stories. People are very interesting if you just take the time to listen. Speaking of doing home studies for adoptions and foster placement-it seems like they did one again after the baby is in your home before final papers are signed-anyway-at the time I was obviously pregnant and was afraid that they would take the baby (Brent ) back because of that. Funny how your mind works.
Yes back in the day not many careers were open to woman. You really weren’t allowed to dream. My mother really pushed me into speech pathology because special ed. teachers were needed (she was secretary to the superintendent of schools) so she knew what she was talking about but I had no passion for that field-she thought that would be the best special ed path as it was also something that I could still do privately if I married and had a family-practical but not really my hearts desire. I wanted special ed which back then was divided up into hearing and speech path, teaching either what they called mentally retarded which was broken into two categories-educable and non educable-and teaching mentally disturbed and socially maladjusted which was the field of special ed that I wanted. Naturally the categories were not very politically correct back then. And nothing was really geared toward Dyslexia or ADD and autism was like a rare occurrence back then. And now most of special ed emphasizes those categories. it’s funny though-Brent’s best high school friend got a special ed degree with an emphasis on emotionally troubled kids so I like to think perhaps somewhere along the line in the many hours and days that he spent at our house something of me rubbed off on him.
It must just be me who stopped getting notices when someone else posts. I don’t know what’s going on. I have the box checked and was getting them but all of a sudden they have stopped. Maybe it has something to do with having to sign out of my Yahoo page now in order to try and track down where all the interenet overages are all of a sudden coming from. I swear it started right after Greg got his new phone-it just doesn’t make sense-we are doing the same things that we always did and now all of a sudden we are using a zillion times more data. We need a super computer sleuth to figure this one out!
Gail

[Gail Norusis]

in reply to: Hi Girls-Here's Celebrating the Dog Days of August Part 2 #15025

Happy birthday Barbara. If you haven’t accepted your friendship requests and you want to go to the top of the page and click on my page. Scroll down and you will see where people have asked to friend you and you can click on accept or reject as you see fit. At least I think it’s your birthday-it said it was on the old site.
Gail

[Gail Norusis]

in reply to: Hi Girls-Here's Celebrating the Dog Days of August Part 2 #15012

Anyone else not getting their e-mail notifications when someone posts on this topic or is it just me? Greg has been fooling around with computers trying to figure out why we are all of a sudden using so much data so maybe he did something.

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