Sarah Can Stand Up (with a little help)

She is anxious to be able to keep up with her brother!

Doing My Part to Keep the USPS in Business!

I love to buy for my grandchildren and it was easy when they lived close enough that I could go and see them every week. I always tried to take them a little gift when I would go to see them. Since they have moved far away, it is a little more complicated to give them "things". So, now instead of putting the things that I buy for them in the trunk and driving to give it to them, I have to depend on the United States Postal Service to deliver things to them. They may not recognize me when they see me, but they will know that Mimi is thinking about them and trying to maintain a relationship with them. So, even if they know me as "The Mimi who mails me stuff"; they will still know me. It has changed the way that I shop for them though. I have to consider how hard something will be to mail, how big, how heavy, etc. It will also affect my Christmas Shopping....no more large toys because they won't have much room in their car. It is a challenge, but I am up to it!

I will probably get a "Thank You" note from the USPS, but I don't think that their mailman will put me on his Christmas list :)

It has been a good weekend!

Drew, Lindsay and Maddie came home for the weekend and it was great to be able to spend some time with them. We didn't do much, but it was nice to have some time to just sit around and be together. We all went to a wonderful wedding reception on Saturday night and it was nice getting to talk to lots of people that we hadn't seen in a while. When your children are young and involved in lots of activities you see people (usually the same people) at these activities and form a friendship. After your kids have left the nest, you loose contact. So, attending a social event is a great time to catch up. I am amazed at how easy it is to pick right back up chatting with people that you don't see once a year and carry on a conversation as though you still see them every week. It isn't an ackward situation at all and the talk flows freely.

Sometimes Life Just Jumps Up and Bites You in the Butt!

And I am having one of those days!
The day started out as any other. I got up and started to do my nails. Half way thru I ran out of polish...ok, start over with a different color.

Then, I go to get in my car....where are the keys? I look all through the car with time running close on me making my 8:30 meeting in the next county. I get my purse out and put it on the trunk and start to look all through it...no keys. I come back into the house and look everywhere, finally got my spare key and I jump in the car. I finally get out of my driveway, because by this time I am right smack in the middle of the school traffic and as I am heading down the road I see something fall off my car...oh my goodness what was that? I remembered that I had taken things out of my purse on my trunk in the desperate search for my keys, so I immediately pull off at the first safe place and look thru my purse, ok, wallet is there, planner is there, and then I realize that my glasses were not there. So I drive back up the road and sure enough on the side of the road is the case that I keep my glasses in. I pull over in a driveway and walk back up the side of the road, in the wet grass with white pants on, pick up the mangled case and no glasses..they were laying broken in the middle of the road. Well, I could have sat right down in the wet grass and cried. Oh well, it could have been worse I guess. The glasses were very expensive, but were two years old so I guess I will be getting new ones. I came back home to look for my old glasses and as luck would have it I found them. I also looked for my keys and low and behold there they were in my purse.

I think all things happen for a reason, and for some reason God just didn't want me traveling to the next county this morning.

When Smiling Makes You Sad!

All around my house I keep running into things that make me smile and sad. I smile at all of the sweet memories that I have of my grandchildren, but then they make me sad as reality sets in. I am thankful that they are happy and well, but I sure do miss them.




This distant Grandparenting is tough.

A Tree Alone

I love this tree. It stands all alone in the lake. It looks dead, yet it stands upright. It is like it refuses to give up. I just like this tree.

Anchors Away!

We finally got a new boat....it starts and idles...woohoo!! We really like it, now if the weather would just cooperate maybe we could enjoy it.
We didn't like the position of the trolling motor so Gene moved it farther away from the pontoons.

We are surrounded by lake scum. It is worse this year than we have ever seen it. Gene made an attempt to move it away from the dock by getting in our little fishing boat which we have named "The Minnow" and using the net to move it on out into the cove. It helped, but there is still a lot there.

Last year I attempted to "grow" a worm farm. I wasn't very successful. Somehow the worms just seemed to disappear. I am attempting it again! Wish me luck!

P.S. I miss my grandbabies soooooo much.