Howdy all, its been a while since I posted. I am STILL fighting this bronchitus stuff. This has hung on far longer than I anticipated or wanted. Lordee be, out out dang bronchitus out!!! I am tired of coughing and wheezing and such...keep me in your prayers.
Nothing much new here, I did give my precious Momma a birthday party on Sunday. We didn't go big, we sent small. Just her sisters, and brother and a couple of sister in laws. We had cake, chips, dips, small sammies and frozen pink lemonade, tea, and water. We had a good time and fellowship. I think for one of her earmarks like maybe 80th, I would like to give her a "This is Your Life" and have everyone write a memory of her and bind in a book for her. Try to get some photos and make a power point for us all to giggle at and adore. Doncha think that would be fun...if not that one then certainly one soon. I wasn't going to do anything for this 77th one, but then I realized...mmmmm? that is an earmark. No telling what the next year can bring, but I hope another happy memory to add to the life book.
Our Daughtry reunion is coming up and I can hardly wait...good food, family, fun, laughs, entertainment and so much more. We will start on Friday with Uncle Ralph's famous chicken and rice and so many deserts and other things...then on Saturday..oh what a FEAST! Too much to name, but I can tell you ..no one will leave hungry. This year is will be held in Madison at my cousin Shari's house. She has several sink holes spring fed, so fishing is in store. Jim tells stories and he and Shari sing as well as their daughter Bethany who is currently in Nashville making music. She will be there to tell us all about her career and what's happening with her. We will see cousins and aunts that we only see once per year and my house will be overflowing too. This year I will house Damon, Kim, and Adian and no telling who else. There were 10 siblings to Alvin and Myrtice and they are a close knit family full of love and enjoy being together. My mom has sisters, Doris, Annette, Glenda, and Jackie. She has brothers, Paul, Alvin, Jr., Larry, Ralph, and Eddie. Add children to that and then children to their children and you get a host of lovely cousins, neices, nephews, babies, teenagers, old, young, tweens and lots of noise.
We will have trail rides, 4 wheelers, dune buggies, and all those all terrain vehicles to enjoy and roam around on their property...so for fun in the sun and with everyone, come on down to the Daughtry annual reunion and have some viddles and fun with us!
I will post some pix sometime in October as the reunion occurs the lst weekend each year!!!Doncha wish you were a Daughtry descendant.
Thursday, September 10, 2009
Tuesday, August 18, 2009
A quarter for your thoughts...inflation!
Just an update: I have been fighting chronic bronchial asthma since the last week of July and it stinks!!! I had an iv and some steroids today and they make me feel all jittery inside. Like a wound clock that is ticking off faster and faster!! I could breath a lil easier since then, but have had the headache that accompany's the breathing treatments too! UGH UGH...I feel for all those with the swine flu and the flu like symptoms and from what I hear it is running rampant through out the county and our surrounding ones as well.
I am excited about the news of my son becoming a recruiter and his new duty base being in GA. He will be stationed in the Waycross area by Dec 10 of this year. That means I get to watch Landyn and Lil Jarrod grow up and hopefully Corben will join them this summer. I doubt if Kyra ever does, but at least I will get to see her on holidays and summers. Thats a good consolation and she will always be my grandaughter..nothing or no one can take that away! I am just excited my son will be back on Georgia turf. His wife is from New Jersery, but she seems to want to come to GA and be surrounded by family and have us close by to share the boys with. Having Aunts, Uncles, MeeMaw, cousins and all that will be awesome for them! They've never lived close enough to have help. I am anxious to be a part of their growing lives. I hope they can learn to live in GA again..I mean excessive heat, gnats, sweltering summers, rain, bugs, mice, and all that other wildlife!!! But then again, no snow blowers needed, no worry about frost bite, no mosquitoes as big as helicopters over head or hovering around to bleed you dry, no lifeline packages in your car, no ice to scrape, no blizzards to be caught in, tons of clothing, wet muddy floors from snow, ok ok..maybe GA wins over North Dakota.
Ok nothing new to post tonite. Oh yeah..one more thing, we traded vehicles. I thought with all the grands being so close, I needed more room to haul those cute lil rascals. We got a minivan. It is a Grand Caravan. How funny?? We as grandparents needed a grand van!! Its the Nanny Transit. Its not new its a 2007, but who wants to pay 30,000 for brand new car..not me!!! I can live with "neused!". I have a terrific husband who sees the need and wants the BEST for all his grandsons and one granddaughter! I love you Paul even more today than I did when we said I DO....
Closing with life's good blessing on you all...God is good ..ALL THE TIME!!!
I am excited about the news of my son becoming a recruiter and his new duty base being in GA. He will be stationed in the Waycross area by Dec 10 of this year. That means I get to watch Landyn and Lil Jarrod grow up and hopefully Corben will join them this summer. I doubt if Kyra ever does, but at least I will get to see her on holidays and summers. Thats a good consolation and she will always be my grandaughter..nothing or no one can take that away! I am just excited my son will be back on Georgia turf. His wife is from New Jersery, but she seems to want to come to GA and be surrounded by family and have us close by to share the boys with. Having Aunts, Uncles, MeeMaw, cousins and all that will be awesome for them! They've never lived close enough to have help. I am anxious to be a part of their growing lives. I hope they can learn to live in GA again..I mean excessive heat, gnats, sweltering summers, rain, bugs, mice, and all that other wildlife!!! But then again, no snow blowers needed, no worry about frost bite, no mosquitoes as big as helicopters over head or hovering around to bleed you dry, no lifeline packages in your car, no ice to scrape, no blizzards to be caught in, tons of clothing, wet muddy floors from snow, ok ok..maybe GA wins over North Dakota.
Ok nothing new to post tonite. Oh yeah..one more thing, we traded vehicles. I thought with all the grands being so close, I needed more room to haul those cute lil rascals. We got a minivan. It is a Grand Caravan. How funny?? We as grandparents needed a grand van!! Its the Nanny Transit. Its not new its a 2007, but who wants to pay 30,000 for brand new car..not me!!! I can live with "neused!". I have a terrific husband who sees the need and wants the BEST for all his grandsons and one granddaughter! I love you Paul even more today than I did when we said I DO....
Closing with life's good blessing on you all...God is good ..ALL THE TIME!!!
Friday, July 31, 2009
Being a Grandmother is Better than Being a Parent!
Let me think of why I wanted to blog....hmmmmm??? Well I saw a few online and they were interesting. It was good reading about others lives and what they do daily...does that sound a little like eavesdropping?? Nope...its just fun reading! And its a great way to keep up with friends and family that you have little communications with daily or often.
Life for me at my ripe ole age of 55 is definitely not boring! I love being a Nana or Nanny as the two that live in our town call me. I have 6 grandchildren, a 12 year old named Corben, 2 six years old, Noah, and Kyra (our only girl) and 2 three years old, Alden and Landyn; and one five months old, Jarrod Jr. All are special and all are beyond loved! Four of those adored grandchildren live in North Dakota, so this Georgia Nana is lucky to see them at least once a year. But we do stay in touch by phone and computer..hooray for technology. The other two live in the same town as me and my hubs. I get to interact with them a lot and I help out with school pickup and babysitting when its needed. I have loved watching them grow from tottering toddlers to the young boys they are today.
Just today, I had to give Noah some medicine due to an ear infection and bronchitis. The medicine must taste really awful. Yesterday we softened it up with a sugar spoon and a sip of Mellow Yellow. Well, today we were out of Mellow Yellow, but I did coat the tip end of the spoon with the sugar. I gave him an orange Cyrstal Lite drink to chug after the medication. I told him it was the type drinks that astronauts drank while they were on the moon and in space. He took a sip, gently sipped the medicine, and proceeded to gag and try to swallow. Once he got it down and declared how nasty it was, he told me..."Nanny, that medicine taste bad and that astronaut juice didn't help it!!!" I was trying hard not to chuckle. He kept the medicine down and luckily that was all I had to give him. Those are the reasons I love being a Nanny, getting to be a part of the loving moments and the cute phrases and just plain watching them grow. Being a grandmother is better than being a parent!
Alden was sick and staying with me one day week before last and he always likes to talk to his Poppa. He asked me to get him on the phone and he told him" Poppa I at your house cuz I sick ..(he said this while frowning and using his most pitiful voice)..I heard Poppa say "uhhuh" on the other end of the phone. Alden then proceeded to tell him to go to the bank, get some money and bring him some ice cream...round like Nanny's brace (his word for my bracelet)..Now how adorable is that? Being a grandmother is better than being a parent!
Last weekend my 12 year old calls from North Dakota and he ask, "Nana are you on face book?" I answer yes (remember I am a techno savvy grandma!) and he then ask will I be his friend ...how precious and how honored I was that he wanted his ole Nana for a friend. Being a grandmother is better than being a parent!
And the other week, my granddaughter calls and we talk and laugh for a few minutes and the phone goes around to all the other kiddos in Grand Forks. We say our I love yous and goodbyes and hang up. Later on that night (10:3o pm to be exact) the phone rings..I answer and Kyra is on the other end and says .." Hi Nana, whatcha doing now?" We talk for a few minutes and she ask if her Poptart (her nickname for her Poppa) was up? I told her no that only I was and I would tell him she called. She then told me, " It's OK Nana, I can call him tomorrow . his face is beside his number too!!" She had called on her Dad's cell phone by putting our faces with the numbers. Being a grandmother is better than being a parent!!!
I love hearing the coos and gurgles of Little Jarrod and the chatter of Landyn too. Landyn always wants to talk to Poppa and he tolerates Nana, but he does tell us goodnight and he loves us when he does call. I am telling you ...being a grandmother is better than being a parent!!!
Guess that is what this blog is all about and if you had any doubt..ask me..BEING A NANA is the BEST!!!
Life for me at my ripe ole age of 55 is definitely not boring! I love being a Nana or Nanny as the two that live in our town call me. I have 6 grandchildren, a 12 year old named Corben, 2 six years old, Noah, and Kyra (our only girl) and 2 three years old, Alden and Landyn; and one five months old, Jarrod Jr. All are special and all are beyond loved! Four of those adored grandchildren live in North Dakota, so this Georgia Nana is lucky to see them at least once a year. But we do stay in touch by phone and computer..hooray for technology. The other two live in the same town as me and my hubs. I get to interact with them a lot and I help out with school pickup and babysitting when its needed. I have loved watching them grow from tottering toddlers to the young boys they are today.
Just today, I had to give Noah some medicine due to an ear infection and bronchitis. The medicine must taste really awful. Yesterday we softened it up with a sugar spoon and a sip of Mellow Yellow. Well, today we were out of Mellow Yellow, but I did coat the tip end of the spoon with the sugar. I gave him an orange Cyrstal Lite drink to chug after the medication. I told him it was the type drinks that astronauts drank while they were on the moon and in space. He took a sip, gently sipped the medicine, and proceeded to gag and try to swallow. Once he got it down and declared how nasty it was, he told me..."Nanny, that medicine taste bad and that astronaut juice didn't help it!!!" I was trying hard not to chuckle. He kept the medicine down and luckily that was all I had to give him. Those are the reasons I love being a Nanny, getting to be a part of the loving moments and the cute phrases and just plain watching them grow. Being a grandmother is better than being a parent!
Alden was sick and staying with me one day week before last and he always likes to talk to his Poppa. He asked me to get him on the phone and he told him" Poppa I at your house cuz I sick ..(he said this while frowning and using his most pitiful voice)..I heard Poppa say "uhhuh" on the other end of the phone. Alden then proceeded to tell him to go to the bank, get some money and bring him some ice cream...round like Nanny's brace (his word for my bracelet)..Now how adorable is that? Being a grandmother is better than being a parent!
Last weekend my 12 year old calls from North Dakota and he ask, "Nana are you on face book?" I answer yes (remember I am a techno savvy grandma!) and he then ask will I be his friend ...how precious and how honored I was that he wanted his ole Nana for a friend. Being a grandmother is better than being a parent!
And the other week, my granddaughter calls and we talk and laugh for a few minutes and the phone goes around to all the other kiddos in Grand Forks. We say our I love yous and goodbyes and hang up. Later on that night (10:3o pm to be exact) the phone rings..I answer and Kyra is on the other end and says .." Hi Nana, whatcha doing now?" We talk for a few minutes and she ask if her Poptart (her nickname for her Poppa) was up? I told her no that only I was and I would tell him she called. She then told me, " It's OK Nana, I can call him tomorrow . his face is beside his number too!!" She had called on her Dad's cell phone by putting our faces with the numbers. Being a grandmother is better than being a parent!!!
I love hearing the coos and gurgles of Little Jarrod and the chatter of Landyn too. Landyn always wants to talk to Poppa and he tolerates Nana, but he does tell us goodnight and he loves us when he does call. I am telling you ...being a grandmother is better than being a parent!!!
Guess that is what this blog is all about and if you had any doubt..ask me..BEING A NANA is the BEST!!!
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