We are about to bid the year 2012 a hearty Good-Bye and my mind is thinking of things that happened this year. For our family it has been a relatively good year. We've had some good times together and had some good laughs. Mark has moved back into the area and Jordan got to spend time with him this last summer.
I've found a project that keeps me as busy as I will let it. Ted and I both have pretty good health. Ted got to go see Gale this year and I took a quick trip to California. Ted also spent a week working back at Sager Brown in November with plans to return next year.
It's been a terrible year in the area of disasters. So much pain related to tornados, floods, and violence. Now they are playing marbles in Washington D.C. and using OUR marbles. Such a show of childishness. (Is that a word?)
Today a friend on Face Book suggested taking a jar and starting on New Year's Day write down good things that happen to us and put them in that jar. Then next New Year's Day we take those notes out and read them. I think I'm going to do this. It just might shock us because we have some very good people in this world and they do a lot of nice things for us but we don't usually remember these.
Happy New Year everyone.
Sunday, December 30, 2012
Monday, December 10, 2012
Original Big Wheel
Tonight on Facebook there was a Kohl's ad on a sidebar selling an Original Big Wheel. The price was a mere $49.95.
I can't remember what we paid for the one we got Connie and Mark but it wasn't that much, I know.
That thing had more miles on it than our car when we got home from Alaska. It went around our court at least 50 times a day.
One day I saw Connie coming down the neighbors drive standing up on the back of it yelling at the top of her lungs. Scared me to death but she never fell.
Mark, however, fell over backwards one evening and had a cut in the back of his head. We decided we'd better take him in for a stitch so off we went to the E.R.
We were there 3 hours for just one or two stitches. I was a wreck by the time we got home. They had a DOA come in while we were there and then the police brought some guy in that had been in the local jail. He convinced them the stuff he had in his pocket was for his heart when it really was cocaine or some drug that put him in OVERDOSE.
When the thing finally wore out or the kids outgrew it, Ted took the seat and wheels and made a little seat that I could pull behind my bicycle. It was really neat and the neighbor kids loved it. It was also a big money maker one time in Indiana when the kids had a carnival and Mark sold rides on it.
I kind of miss those days but then again I kind of like seeing the Grandkids do their thing now.
I can't remember what we paid for the one we got Connie and Mark but it wasn't that much, I know.
That thing had more miles on it than our car when we got home from Alaska. It went around our court at least 50 times a day.
One day I saw Connie coming down the neighbors drive standing up on the back of it yelling at the top of her lungs. Scared me to death but she never fell.
Mark, however, fell over backwards one evening and had a cut in the back of his head. We decided we'd better take him in for a stitch so off we went to the E.R.
We were there 3 hours for just one or two stitches. I was a wreck by the time we got home. They had a DOA come in while we were there and then the police brought some guy in that had been in the local jail. He convinced them the stuff he had in his pocket was for his heart when it really was cocaine or some drug that put him in OVERDOSE.
When the thing finally wore out or the kids outgrew it, Ted took the seat and wheels and made a little seat that I could pull behind my bicycle. It was really neat and the neighbor kids loved it. It was also a big money maker one time in Indiana when the kids had a carnival and Mark sold rides on it.
I kind of miss those days but then again I kind of like seeing the Grandkids do their thing now.
Monday, December 3, 2012
Christmas Spirit
This year I just could not get into the Christmas Spirit. We had a WONDERFUL week-end of church activities with things I really do believe in. BUT..when it came to decorating the house my heart just wasn't in it.
Today, however, I began slow and finally drug the lights and the tree out. We have a snowman made from a part of a landscape timber a friend made us when we lived at the lake. I LOVE Mr. Snowman and he is now on our front porch. The friend that made him died several years ago.
I did drape some lights on the front bushes and some on the Pergola in back. We have yet to see those at night.
Then Ted was working a crossword puzzle and I heard him talking to himself about Gold, Frankensense and Myrth. I looked at him and told him that wasn't right. We got into a "conversation" and he kept saying Myrth. I finally said I would look the spelling up in the Bible. So here we were, sitting in the front room with the Bible and I'm looking for the Christmas Story. By the time I found it and had the correct spelling he had his trusty dictionary and had beat me to it. We both know now that it is MYRRH. Neither one of us knew how to actually spell this but I bet we don't forget it for awhile.
So we've decorated and read the Christmas story and I'm actually getting in the Christmas spirit.
Today, however, I began slow and finally drug the lights and the tree out. We have a snowman made from a part of a landscape timber a friend made us when we lived at the lake. I LOVE Mr. Snowman and he is now on our front porch. The friend that made him died several years ago.
I did drape some lights on the front bushes and some on the Pergola in back. We have yet to see those at night.
Then Ted was working a crossword puzzle and I heard him talking to himself about Gold, Frankensense and Myrth. I looked at him and told him that wasn't right. We got into a "conversation" and he kept saying Myrth. I finally said I would look the spelling up in the Bible. So here we were, sitting in the front room with the Bible and I'm looking for the Christmas Story. By the time I found it and had the correct spelling he had his trusty dictionary and had beat me to it. We both know now that it is MYRRH. Neither one of us knew how to actually spell this but I bet we don't forget it for awhile.
So we've decorated and read the Christmas story and I'm actually getting in the Christmas spirit.
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