Andrew

What is sweeter than a little boy and his dog.  This is my grandson, Andrew with Murphy.  He loves her to death and Murphy loves him to death. 

Hubby and I took Andrew to an observation place at the Nashville Airport today.  He loved watching the planes taking off and landing!  We stopped at the store afterwards and he got juice and candy.  Then we had to stop at another place for Hubby and Drew found an 18 wheeler that had 4 trucks on it and of course he wanted it.  He was so sweet.  Of course he took the truck to the checkout and brought it home. 

He's learned to use the potty chair!  I'm so proud of him.  He tells me when he has to go.  There've been a couple of accidents, but that's okay.  It's just part of the process.  It happens when they're ready.
He tells me he's a big boy.  I say, "but you're still Nana's baby".  He agrees and I love it.

It's such a lovely day here and I'm so glad we got to enjoy part of it outside.  Hope your day is pleasant and that you do something you enjoy.

Spring

Everywhere I look around my yard, I see signs of spring.  My weeping willows have tiny green leaves, my flowering peach tree is blooming, my magnolia bushes are beginning to bloom and there are shoots from planted bulbs popping through the ground.  I love it.  Give me some color other than gray, brown and dead looking outside and my heart immediately feels happy no matter what's going on in life. Although I'm sick and can't get outside to piddle, just knowing spring is trying to make its entrance even if it is February, gives me something new to think about.  Something happy.  (I'm sitting here in the chair with the TV off, gazing out the window.)  The wind is blowing and I opened the patio door so I can hear the wind chimes.  Love them.

I finished reading my book, The Help, last night.  It was a wonderful book.  My friend, Tammy, has the movie and offered to let me borrow it.  I plan to do just that.  I love to read a good book.  It's kind of sad though when the last page has been read.  I don't want the story to end. 

It's time to make myself get busy whether I feel like it or not.  I must get some things done today.  My Andrew will be here tomorrow night. 

Have a wonderful Wednesday.

Of Course...More Rambling.

I think it was last October when I decided it was time to clean out closets, declutter, and have a yard sale. I can't recall if that decision was made prior to finding out my son would be getting married November 5th of  last year or not.  Regardless,  I cleaned out closets, declutterd and ended up with several plastic storage containers of things I no longer wanted to store.  These would go in the yard sale. 

With the wedding, Thanksgiving and then Christmas, I knew the yard sale would have to wait until spring.  Surely by then things would have calmed down a bit, the weather would be nicer and I might even re-declutter and have more things to sell.  Yeah right.

Since I put those things in the containers to sell, I've reclaimed:

Some saucers and plates purchased from an antique store that used to hang on my walls.  (I want to rehang them.)
My RB sunglasses (I got contacts so I can wear them again.)
A candle holder (I really did like it on top of my china cabinet.)

I thinks that's all I dragged back to use again.  Is that funny or what?  I guess some of the things I thought of as clutter when I went on my "spree" weren't actually clutter because I really did like them and after not having them where I could see them for awhile, I realized I missed them so back in the house they came.  Well, the sunglasses don't fall into that category, but I NEED them since I no longer wear glasses having lens that darken when out in the sun. 

Hopefully I'll be having that yard sale the first weekend of April if I can stop bringing the stuff back in.

How often do we decide we need to declutter our lives?  Not houses and things, but lives.  Do we let go of friends we think we don't need any longer only to find out later that we really did need them afterall?  Do we turn off the TV, the computers, the cell phones only to suffer withdrawals?  I've found that I get sick and tired of noise.  Hubby goes out to his office to work and many days, I cut the TV off just so I can have quiet.  It helps me declutter my life because then I can focus on whatever I'm doing or what I need to do.  Or, I can just let my brain rest and declutter.  Sometimes the noise of a TV or radio just drive me bonkers.  Turning it off and just sitting in my chair gazing outside allows me to think clearly about something, to daydream, have an idea, and clear out the cobwebs in my head.

Speaking of cobwebs,  it's amazing how many I've been able to see with the new contacts.  Have mercy.  I saw one this past weekend and yanked my curtains down, washed them, got the cobwebs down and that's where it ended.  I got sick and haven't felt like putting them back up.  I also noticed that my windows need to be cleaned.  No point in putting the curtains up until that is done.  Oh and the walls are dusty too.  Gotta get them clean too and since I'm gonna paint, it would have to be done anyway.  And, it's time to clean the lampshades again.   I'll put all that on a list of things I have to do.  For now, I'm gonna sit in my chair and gaze out the window for a few minutes.  Then, I'm going to go crawl back into bed and read some more of The Help.  No TV will be blaring either.   I'll deal with the stuff to do tomorrow, or maybe the next day.  Today, I'm gonna enjoy my book and quietness.  My body won't let me do otherwise, so I won't feel guilty!

Hope you find time to enjoy some quiet time and allow your brain to rest!

Rambling Monday Morning

The crud chose me as its next victim and it slapped me in the face yesterday.  The coughing drives me crazy.  I decided to take some 'quill before I went to bed.  It helped the cough, but the sleeping was miserable.  I dozed, woke up, dreamed crazy dreams and feel like I worked all night.  I woke up at 5am and decided to get up and make coffee, let the dogs out watch the morning news. 

February 19th marked two years since my sweet MIL passed away.  I still have her chest of drawers and dresser in what is now my grandson's bedroom and her collection of photos have been stored in one of those drawers.  Since Andrew is almost three, I decided it was time to get those photos out of there, so Saturday while "he was helping me clean his room" I put all the photos in a plastic tub so I could put them in albums and/or photo boxes.  Some I will scan and send to a cousin so he can put them in the Granville, TN Museum.  He'd asked for some after Mom died and I've just never gotten around to getting them scanned. 

While Mom was living with us and had nothing to do other than sit or lie down, I asked her to go through her photos and write the names of the subject on the back.  I'm so glad she did that.  My boys probably won't have a clue as to who some of them are, but maybe down the road someone will do a family tree and find the boys who may be able to look through the photos and provide some info that's needed.  

Rambling along..I'm having fun waiting for Hubby and my son to notice something different about me.  I've worn glasses for years.  This past Wednesday I went to see my eye doctor due to a problem with my eyelid.  I had not scheduled an appointment and didn't tell family I was going.  While there, doc checked my eyes and said they had gotten worse in the past year.  (I never got the prescription filled last year.)   I knew I had to get new ones because I was having a hard time seeing with the old ones, even though they were bifocals.   I decided to get contacts.  Yes.  So, since Wednesday, I have not worn my glasses at all and guess what!!!  The ONLY person who has noticed is my 2 year old grandson.  He said, "Nana put your glasses on."  Hubby was in the room, but had us tuned out while watching TV.  I'm going to see just how long it takes for Hubby to notice.  I think it's hilarious that it's been nearly a week and he hasn't realized I'm not wearing glasses.  It doesn't hurt my feelings at all, although when I was younger, I would have probably gotten upset that he didn't notice.  It's funny how things change as one gets older.  I think in my case, Hubby's lucky that I've changed in that respect.  HA

That's enough rambling for now.  This coffee is good and I'm going to go have another cup.

Merry Monday, y'all.

A Winner...

Cathy B. is the winner of my cookbook giveway.  She gets to choose 3 of the 6 cookbooks I showed.  Congrats, Cathy and I hope you enjoy them.

Stay tuned!  You never know when I'll have another giveaway!!!

Saturday Sunshine

Thank you, Jesus!  The sun is shining brightly even though it's rather chilly outside.  Andrew is here and he brings even more sunshine to my life.    Last night, he got quiet while in the kitchen.  I went to check on him and he had decided to feed the dogs.  As you can see above, some of it didn't make it into the doggie bowl.    It's not scattered just in the area you see, it was scattered all over the kitchen floor.  LOL

We have nothing planned for the weekend.  Dale is in a 12 hour class today.  Jon and Brenda plan to come over today and Greg will be playing with Andrew.   There's always something to pick up or clean up around here, so I'll be doing that.

Hope you all have a great weekend.  I'm going to enjoy my family.

We Are Losing Our Freedom

The text below was forwarded to me today.  Somehow, someway, we have to stop sitting idly by and letting this type thing happen.

 

Ft. Bragg connection!!

Obama stops soldier from speaking

Something you'll want to be aware of: Obama stops soldier from speaking ..Sent by Retired Vice Admiral Bob Scarborough, of Arlington , Va. "I wanted to give you all some disturbing information on our wonderful president. I work with the Catch-A-Dream Foundation, which provides hunting and fishing trips to children with life-threatening illnesses.

 

This past weekend we had our annual banquet/fundraiser event in Starkville . As a part of our program, we had scheduled Sgt. 1st Class Greg Stube to come; he's a highly decorated U.S. Army Green Beret and inspirational speaker who was severely injured while deployed overseas and didn't have much of a chance for survival. Greg is stationed at Ft. Bragg , NC and received permission from his commanding officer to come speak at our function.

 

Everything was on go until Obama made a policy that NO U.S. SERVICEMAN CAN SPEAK AT ANY FAITH-BASED PUBLIC EVENTS ANYMORE. Needless to say, Greg had to cancel his speaking event with us. Didn't know if anyone else was aware of this new policy. You're just starting to see the Obamanation. This is just how the Nazis did it in the 1930s -- slowly, one step at a time.

 

This should be forwarded to everyone regardless of party affiliation! We have lost 50% of our freedom of speech in the last 2 years. The news media is not allowed to print anything negative about this evil Obama.

ARE YOU STILL GOING TO REELECT HIM???????????

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Robert D. Sinacola

COL (Ret), AVN, USAR