Design Frustration!

So I've managed to allow another month to roll by without even one post....don't know how you everyday bloggers do it...amazing peoples!

I guess I really need to set aside time to finish remodeling my design here...it's right up there in my priority list with get a root canal...no, I'm kidding...I need help! Don't even remember how I go that fancy background, or where I got it...I will have to work on it....but I am open to assistance here...Devon where are you? You are a wiz at this....I need you....tomorrow maybe....hugs...

Christmas Crafts....

Had fun this Christmas making some things I have posted here...the blocks were a lot of fun, easy and cute...thanks to my DIL for having a "block party" with me....and this Santa canvas was lots of fun too...I love arranging things...whether on a shelf or on a canvas...it's a quirky thing about me.....I wish I could decorate Disneyland's Main Street windows....that would be the ultimate job!!!

Welcome in the New Year

Would you like to join me on the patio and sit in these chairs and have a cup of coffee?????Hehehe!
Love the snow...it's beautiful and a welcomed break from the heat of summer....and I might just be crazy enough to go out there and have my coffee tomorrow.....and watch it all melt!



Or we could BBQ some yummy chicken on here, and it would be SNOW wonderful! Except it would keep falling off this one....darn, I don't know how that happens.....it was upright in my files....

It's been fun...gotta run get that coffee....

Another year.....

I hardly wrote anything this year...can't believe how fast it's gone...and here Jonah is nine months old...the holidays started off great...a trip to the pumpkin patch, and lunch, and it's been crazy busy ever since...it's the 23rd of November again...one of my last posts was that day...last year...I was very down, and not too optimistic about the holidays...and seeing the kids...but this year we are all going to Wanda's house...that will be a blessing, to all be together again...little people there, my niece and her new hubby, my folks, it will be great! I am looking forward to it....I need to get back into writing here...it's been too long...so much happening...and working two jobs makes it tough to get around....but I vow to do better! Happy Fall.....the days are growing more blustery....as Pooh would say....and cold...having my second cup of hot cocoa right now.....chill chill....need a hot bath! I think I will finish and go take one!

Mammoth Vacation

We had a wonderful time in Mammoth with the kids...the weather was gorgeous, we caught 40 trout over the course of 5 days, breakfast at the Stove, and lunch at Grumpy's....games, and a hike...it was a good time...we just love the Sierras....they are beautiful....

Gramma

I look back on the last post...it was so heartfelt, and so true...but I am here to say for now, I have Jonah almost every week since his birth....through the weeks past, we have somehow managed to find opportunity to see him, and Josh and Jenna have been very generous to share their time with us...I can only hope that it continues...I do feel blessed, at least they aren't 3 states away like my sister's grandkids...so I am reminded, to count my blessings, and rejoice in what I do have, not what I don't....interesting enough, I listened to a an account of the story of Jonah yesterday on my way to church, of all the stories to hear something new about...it spoke to my heart, convicting my soul, giving insight I never expected....I will share it one day...for now I hold it in my heart, ponder it and turn it over and over, see it from every angle....what truth He gave me.....

Jonah and the Wail....

And so it begins...another generation has found life....Jonah, our first grandson was born last week....much anticipated, but this week is just another week...or so it seems...the reality of who he is, hasn't set in...we will rarely see him...and there will be other children who I see regularly that will probably remain just as much a part of our life or more then he will....a cruel truth...not expected....and certainly not welcomed...but that's the way the cookie crumbles...I'll get over it, accept it, because I have no alternative...I'll throw my attention into my own life, and my projects and not focus on what I wish it could be...there is a hurt in my heart, (seems to be the case alot lately) and the source is repeatedly the same...so it seems easier to just let it go...fool myself into believing it doesn't matter...because it doesn't to anyone but me...oh how I long to have the emotions (none) of Bob, he never responds to life emotionally...ever....just a whatever mentality...so beginning now I have to adopt that position...I've been hurt before, and I will deal with it, soothe it, replace it with something else...something that will allow me to come to grips with this new title...I am a gramma they tell me...why doesn't my heart feel like it....instead, it just feels like another day....another week, another month...wailing doesn't change a darn thing....nothing can, nothing will...