my grandloves~

amanda ~ bailey ~ brooke

Isn't it just the best being a parent and double best being a grandparent?  I think so.  My children have brought so much joy to my life and now the next generation is doing it for me all over again.  When I see these grandloves of mine my heart just melts.  They are three of the sweetest girls ... I think it's genetics and they get it from me! Haha!!

Sometimes they say the cutest things :)
Last Monday at Amanda's ball game ~ Bailey says ...

"Grandpa, can I have $25.00 for the confession stand?"

LOL ... what! 

Is there a priest in there? 

It's concession ~ not confession.

Talk about inflation.

Whatever happened to the days of asking for a quarter?

Until next time...
So it goes in my neck of the woods.
~mel

sara's b'day~

It's hard to believe that my second child of three is 32 years old today.  Happy Birthday Sara!

I scanned part of a page from her scrapbook.  It was the day she came home from the hospital and big sister Staci met her for the first time. Notice the blue blanket from her Aunt Cheryl ... she thought for sure she was going to be a boy.  Her Grandpa Punky thought so too ~ and as I recall quite a few bets were lost that day when she came out missing an appendage. lol

 

It has been such a wonderful experience growing old with my kids.  It's just hard to believe though how fast the years have gone by.  It seems like yesterday when I first held my sweet little Sara Jean for the first time.

  She was a happy baby ~ always with a big smile ... 

 She was a funny one ... her favorite shirt was her frog shirt ... and she loved putting on the Mr. Potato Head lips.  Also, she was a handful to keep clothes on when she was two. I couldn't count how many times she would go outside and strip! Cars would be driving by and honking their horns.

Besides being a stripper, Sara went through a whole year between two and three ... being a mini Sally Jessie Raphael ... wearing her red sunglasses with the lenses popped out.  She LOVED THOSE GLASSES!!!

Yep... she was my little clown.  All my kids were and still are a lot of fun to be around.  I love each and everyone of them and their sense of humor. 

and now she's all grown up ~ 

still smiling and happy:)  with a happy husband and a "where's waldo" brother who always seems to show up in the picture... lol

Sara... I'm proud to be your Momma ~ you make me smile:) 

Happy Birthday baby girl ~ thank you for being you!! I love you!

Until next time...

So it goes in my neck of the woods.

~mel

bluebird of happiness~

The bluebird of happiness flew down and pooped all over me ... and it wasn't happy poo ~ I want their happy poo!!!!
it's been a hectic time again and sometimes it's just not that easy to keep a smile on this grumpy ol' face of mine:(

Once again, I had to stay in the hospital for a 24 hour watch period because of my atypical complications with this goofy heart of mine, esophagus spasms and neuropathy residual pain from when I had shingles a year ago.  Will it ever end? 

After taking four nitro tablets at home and not being able to get my chest and back pain to go away ... I ended up in ER on Saturday.  I'm fine now ... after getting a nitro drip hooked into the veins, some heparin flowing through the arteries and some morphine to make me smile.  Seriously, not a fun way to spend a day.

All is better now and for that I AM THANKFUL!!  It just seems that whenever I reach a point of feeling good ~ something always creeps up on me again and knocks the wind out of my sail.  Not fair... but I'm a fighter and will NOT let this get me down ... even though it sounds like it from the beginning of this post... wishing bluebirds would poop on me.  Yeah right!  Just try it you poopy little birds.

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Last night we did go for a little ride after supper.  We went into town to watch the girls softball team.  My Grandlove Amanda plays on the Jr. Varsity team.  We only stayed  through the fourth inning of her game because I just couldn't take much more than that; but it still was nice to see her play. We had already watched the Varsity Team play before that.  They lost their game; but the Jr. Varsity Team was ahead when we left.  I'll have to call Amanda later and get the update on the remainder of her game.  I hope they won. 

All three of my granddaughters are playing ball this year ~ and all are on the summer leagues ... so I know there will be more games to see.  Even Bailey had her first practice yesterday for t-ball.  I'm just happy to see them participating in sports.  Active kids are happy kids:)

Seriously, may the bluebird of happiness shine down upon all of us.  Life's too short to be grumpy and miserable.  This is the Day the Lord has made, REJOICE and be glad in it!

Until next time...
So it goes in my neck of the woods.
~mel