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SEBASTIAN RIEEKAN..has arrived
Tanya gave birth by c-section tuesday to Sebastian Rieekan Vera. He is healthy ...very handsome and adored by his Nana
8lbs 8ounes 21 3/4 inches long.Pictures soon!! -
off to michigan...
we are off to michigan to meet my new grandson!!!!!
Tanya will be induced monday if he doesn't arrive naturally this weekend!
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My Dogs...too cute for words
I threw the dogs plastic bone..they both raced to fetch it and ended up carrying it back together.So I threw it again...same results.
They are eager to please and very cute.Abbey does tend to run faster . As you can see little cody is doing all he can to stay with her.
I love shelties.
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Do I mosey too much...we think not!
Today I will spend the day just moseying around with my youngest daughter. I had invited two other mothers and their teens to come along and they bailed. One said her daughter was too busy and just didn't want to hang out with her mother.The other seemed to allow her schedule to fill up .I wish they could look into my minds eyes and see how fast this time pases by.Seems one day your following them from behind trees to kindergarten and in the next moment they are graduating high school.It was planned as a day to drive up the lake along a country road . We had planned on hitting a fruit stand or two. Lunch at an outdoor sandwich shop along side cherry groves and the lake. A simple stroll thru an old park...then home.A very "simple" day actually.We may even find an antique shop or two. I am sure to find a favorite childhood toy ...at which my daughter will laugh and tell me how very old it is. She will then compare it to something today.I have trouble understanding most of todays "games"and she laughs at the simplicity of mine.I mean I know Yo-Yo's are still around but how often do you see a kid playing with one. They are busy texting and playing video games.bowling alongside the T.V on a WII game. What little boy or girl still walks around with marbles in their pocket? My advice; if worth anything to you younger xanga moms out there would be..take some time to mosey around with your kids today. Slow everything down for in the simple things you find extraordinary moments.
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A Sensitive little plant...mimosa?
Last night we attended a picnic /social . It was fun. hamburgers,hots and conversation.They started a small pit bonfire for the youth to make S'mores. The men played basketball and discussed strategy for their next softball game. Was a very pleasant friday night. Our host had a variety of perennials and annuals growing in her yard. This one plant was a bit strange. I had never heard of it. It is called a mimosa plant. She said it is also known as a tickle me plant or a sensitive plant. It has very fine thin green leaves and grows delicate pink flowers. Heres the strange part...when you touch it it folds down ..almost crumbling under your touch. It is an instant effect.Have any of you ever heard of such a plant..I will be looking this one up today. here are a couple before and after pictures. Hope everyone as a wonderful saturday!
before touching...This is what it looks like
After touching....This is what it looks like
It opens back up within about 20 minutes.
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Wednesdays whine and wonder...
Today I have a realtor showing my house to a prospective buyer at noon. I can not believe we may be moving again. Our house in Pa. never sold...my husbands employer even wiggle out of the contract to buy it. My husband's company sent in an inspector to look at our house and he failed it..in the small print our contract states that if our old house failed inspection they did not have to buy it. The house was only a year old.We fixed everything but it did not matter. It is... I am sure just a coincidence that it failed during a struggling housing market(hear my sarcasm). Anyway to make a long story shorter...we lost everything we had invested in the house in PA. Which would have been rolled into this house.Lowering our payments enough to add the extremely high taxes onto our monthly payments.After two years of hoping the house in Pa would sell , it is time to face reality and sell this house.
Is the market going to pick up soon? I hear it is going to get worse before it gets better.
Enough whining..it will work out. We will be carried over it all and look back with wonder and wow...and maybe a few -"wHOOPP- sa -Daisies"
Ever wonder where whoops -a-daisy came from...ever wonder why you'd wonder that question. lol
I looked it up..so if you are in a wondering kinda mood heres the 411-
The first use of "whoops-a-daisy" per se is around 1925, in a New Yorker cartoon. An expression of surprise or dismay, specifically upon discovering one's own error. The modern-day equivalent would be "D'aaH!!", I'm afraid, which is much less expressive. The term was shortened to "whoops" by 1937.One assumes that it was related to the expression "to whoop," as in giving "whoops of joy." That usage goes back to the early 1600s.
I still enjoy Hugh Grants usage of the term in the movie "knotting hill' as he slightly slips and stumbles climbing a fence he exclaims while slipping "whoop-sa-daisey" Ahhh..a romantic comedy at it's best!
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A true story shared from the pulpit this week...Mathew 11:30
A tragedy overtook Chicago as fire ravaged the city. When it was all over, 300 people were dead and 100,000 were homeless. Horatio Spafford was one of those who tried to help the people of the city get back on their feet. He was a lawyer .He invested much of his money into the Chicago real estate, he'd lost a great deal in the fire. His only son (he had four daughters) had died about the same time. Still, for two years Spafford assisted the homeless, impoverished, and grief-stricken ruined by the fire.
After about two years of work, Spafford and his family decided to take a vacation. They were to join Moody on an evangelistic crusades, then travel in Europe. Horatio was delayed , but sent his family on ahead. He planned on meeting up with them.
Their ship never made it. Off Newfoundland, it collided with an English sailing ship and sank. Horatio's wife, Anna survived their four daughters--Maggie, Tanetta, Annie, and Bessie did not. Horatio received a horrible telegram from his wife, only two words long it read; "saved alone."
Spafford boarded the next available ship. He needed to be near his grieving wife, and the two finally met up with Dwight Moody. "It is well," Spafford told him quietly. "The will of God be done."
The story goes on to explain as Spafford passed where his daughters ship sank and they were lost at sea. He felt an overwhelming peace.A peace only given by God. This is when we hear that he penned his now famous song "Peace Like A River"..."It is well..."
I will never sing this song the same way again.
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HHHMMMmmm
Gullible, that pretty much describes my husband. My hubby turned 52 this year...he's way older than his wife. The other day I decided to speak in a softer voice. I wondered how long he would wait before mentioning he couldn't hear me.Everyone jokes that around 50 you loose a few things; memory, hearing , vision problems appear from nowhere. Well, I figured it would be fun to start with the hearing. So, picture this; I begin to talk in a very low voice during our normal everyday conversations. my husband;being the proud man he is, just leans a little closer to me. Believe me it took all I had not to bust a gut. A few hours(yes, hours!) later he finally says"what is going on here, I am having trouble hearing" to which I mouth, without a sound; "really" He of course catches on. Russ isn't daft just gullible. Britt caught on right away...we had a good laugh.Yes at times I have been known to play the occasional practical joke. My poor husband is too easy a target.
I really need a hobby.
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