Thoughts

I have just been sitting here playing games and listening to my music and started wondering if any body really listens to the words.

I am a Country Music fan but I do like all kinds of music, but I think that the words in the Country songs now a days tell real life stores about real people and the things that they have happening in their lives and I think man I really don't have it as bad as alot of people do. I mean parents who have kids with thinks like Cancer, MS, MD, Heart defects and all the adults that have gone to war and has come back with out an arm or leg. I have to thank God that I am one of the lucky ones that has healthy kids and my grandaughter is over coming the problems that she had the first couple of years of her life. A child with ADD has their problems but is not in danger of losing their lives.

Now don't get me wrong there are alot of songs that are happy too but tonight I have heard more of the ones that really make a person sit down and thank the LORD is not so bad.

So I guess I will give you all a great big :-)

Holidays

I for one am glad that the holidays are over. You see more people out and about at the stores more at this time of the year then at any other. Only good thing about shopping at this time of year is that you might run into someone that you haven't seen in years.

I really think that people go crazy now adays more so then when I was younger. Maybe that is because I wasn't the one out there fighting the crowds to get that one special Cabbage Patch doll during the Blue Light Special at KMart. I am really telling my age now. HAHAHA

The Holidays are suppose to be a time of family and friends getting together and remembering the birth of a very special person, but I think that everyone has lost sight of what Christmas really means. Oh sure I loved getting the toys and all but people use to give more things that were hand made that really ment something to a person. Now it is all about money..............

I miss the times that my family would be together and open presents and eat the dinner that my mom would slave over to make for us and the card games that we would all sit down to play after dinner. Ya the seven of us kids would fight all year long but I thing that at that time we all knew just how much we all ment and LOVED each other. Now we all go our seperate ways because we all have our own families but I really would like to have a great big dinner with all my brothers, sisters, neices, nephews, grandkids and the spouses. So the ones of us that remember and knew my Mom and dad could enjoy remembering the good times and tell the others how a rock in the foundation of family can keep a family together.

I WANT TO WISH EVERYONE A HAPPY NEW YEAR AND MAY IT BRING PEACE TO EACH AND EVERYONE.

Hey how is everyone out there in blog land?

I know I have missed a few days of writting but have been busy. I have been playing tea party with my granddaughter, had a b-day on the 6th so am another yr older and wishing that winter didn't have to come along because I don't care for the cold and snowy days of winter.

I do want to give a shout out to my sister Lee who had a b-day on Nov.21, sorry I missed calling you but here ya go anywayHAPPY BIRTHDAY SIS :-)

THERE WERE AFEW OTHER B-DAYS IN NOV AND DEC OUR NEPHEWJOSH WHO WAS BORN ON LEE'S B-DAY AND OUR NEPHEW jAKE WHO WAS BORN THE DAY AFTER MINE. both are the sons of our youngest brother

I can't forget my dranddaughter whoses birthday is coming up next week I will have to write all about her day and her party :-)


You know kids are the funniest people in the world all you have to do is listen to them and they will make you smile deep sown to your soul. I know this to be true because that is what happens every time my little special angels say they love and miss their NANA and proceed to give me hugs and kisses . I would't trade them in for the world and all the money in it.

I have to say that all my neices, nephews, great neices and great nephews are very special to me and my family but I guess every one is partical to someone and KIKI and AJ are the ones for me. The 2 of them besides my 2 girls are what keep me going. I love and live for the kids no matter what the ages they are all great.

Thanksgiving

I would like to say I hope everyone out there in Blog land had a great thanksgiving with their families. Mine was ok I went over to my brothers and my baby brother and his youngest son was there. We had great food and company. I just wish that it was like the old days when my mom was around she made all the holidays fun because everyone would come to her house for the dinners. The adults would play card games while the kids would just round around chasing each other and playing. My mom was a great cook, for thanksgiving it was always Turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes and gravy, sweet potatoes and her cranberry sauce. Boy those were the days, now everyone goes their own way.

I think for xmas I am going to stay home and do nothing because my oldest daughter will go to her boyfriends moms for dinner and the young man that I take care of is going to his grandmothers with his aunt and great aunt so that leaves me and Kendra to fend for ourselfs. Which won't be to bad as it will be quiet around here. :-)

I hope everyone out there is farther along in thier shopping then I am for I haven't even really got a chance to start on it yet. I guess I had better get a move on other wise I will have one unhappy daughter on my hands.

Now on a brighter note, I went over to my youngest sisters house tonight and she showed me her engagment ring that she just got and I must say it was a bute. She is going to get married in April on the 29 of 2006. I must say that when 1 person in my family gets married or has a baby then everyone thinks that they must do the same thing it seems like. LOL

I would LOVE to see all 4 of my brothers and my 2 sisters get together and get along with each other for more then a min. lol I really think that we need to get a picture of us all for our kids to remember us all when we are not around. I would also like to get a picture of all the neices and nephews and great neices and nephews. Now that I am turning 53 in oh my 10 days I would like to have everyone together one more time in case it is the last.
Boy am I getting old LOL

Well enough for today I will try to catch up more tomorrow on my writing and maybe I will start to get better so I am not as boring. :-)

Who Knew

Who knew what I was getting myself into when I took on the job of driving a friend back and forth to work. This friend worked with me and when he came to me and asked me to drive him back and forth to work because he didn't trust driving any more because of his M.S. and being in a wheelchair, I told him we would try it out for awhile and see how it goes. That was 4 yrs ago, then it went to my cooking his meals for him and now I live with him and have become his care giver. I do everything for him from dressing him to feeding him his meals and showering him, shaving him, dressing him, I scratch his itches, rub his feet when they start to feel like they are burning. I even wipe his butt when he goes to the bathroom and now I have to do wound care from a surgery and change his urostimy bag. I started this entry a half hour ago and have had to stop 5 times to go pause the tv so he could take a short nap, put his legs up, then take them down and lean him forward, scratch his heel and put his legs back up and itch his nose. I think I am loosing it today because on top of all of his demands I watch my nephew who I adore and would not give him up for nothing and I also have my grandaughter who is another one of my life lines. If it weren't for my girls and my babies I think that I would go nuts here.


Ok onto something happier now. Speaking of my babies it was so cute last night when my nephew AJ's mom picked him up he wanted to leave his back pack here for my friend in the wheelchair because he thought that he might need it. AJ is always doing or saying something so cute that will just melt your heart no matter how mad you get at him. Like the other day when his mom was bring him to my house he goes NaNa's home I Love NaNa. Then there is my grandaughter Keiara I was there when she was born and got to cut the cord. I think that has bonded us together like nothing else could. She is so sweet and yet so onary that you can't stay mad at her for very long either. :-) When my daughter brought her over last week for the first time in a week the minute she came in and saw me she ran to me with a great big smile on her precious face and said I love you NaNa. So no matter how bad or sad I feel when those 2 come around I feel a whole lot better.

I think that I will stop here and write more tomorrow. I am going to try to writ something every day. Don't know if I will have that much to say but I sure am going to give it a try :-)

First I want to say Hi and thanks to all of you out there that made comments, next I have to say thanks to Ari my special niece for helping me out with this sight.
Please know that I am not a very exciting person but I needed some place that I could go to let off steam about my 14 yr old once in awhile with other parents that might have some of the same things going on with their kids. I love my daughter more then anything but right now I don't like her a lot. I know that sounds bad but she is changing and I am afraid that she is going to end up getting into trouble and I sure don't want that to happen.

Now on a lighter note I would like to wish everyone out there in blogger land a very Happy and Safe Thanksgiving. I hope everyone will be with their loved ones and friends and that you all get enough Turkey to eat and if there is any left over send them my way I LOVE cold turkey sandwiches.

Hey I might learn how to write yet. lol

Well now I am new here to this blogging thing so everyone be kind and help me out alot PLEASEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I am not the writer that my neice and sister is but I just wanted to have some place to go and put my feelings down so that I can save my sanity. I will end up talking alot about my girls. I have 2 daughters and a grandaughter who are the most important people in my life. Oh ya I can't leave out my nephew who I take care of and have since he was born he calls me NaNa just like my grandaughter does. They are both 2 yrs old, my grandaughter will be 3 in December and my nephew will be 3 in March. My daughters are 23 and 14 yrs old and boy do i have my hands full with the 14 yr old. However I would not trade either of my girls for a hundred kids that were the best behaved kids in the world.