A Beautiful Sunday morning and my ramblings...

Good news! Carl survived another tax day. I worry about his heart when he has to open his wallet! Every year I fear him clutching his heart much like Fred Sanford and announcing "it's the big one!" (tee hee).

Yesterday ended up a good day. Rebecca and I went to Huntsville, had a few stores to stop at, had lunch at Olive Garden, went to Costco and home again. And, the sun was shining! All in all a very good day and once again, my life is good!

Keith's sister Kelsey had a car accident on Friday. They live in the Baltimore area and she hit black ice on the road. She is banged up and sore but thankfully she is not seriously hurt. Her car is totaled but that is only a thing and can be replaced. When Keith had his serious accident in 1988 and was in a coma for 5 weeks, Debbie took a leave of absence from her job to stay with me at Huntsville hospital. The nurses had a hard time wrapping their heads around me (the Mom) and Debbie (the stepmom) staying together and caring for Keith. I have always felt that extended families are just more family. Maybe it's because of me being an only child? I have wonderful family through marriage and I love them all. In my mind, one can never have too much family! I love all of you!

I hope to see Meagan today before she goes back to T town. Love to get the chance to spend time with our granddaughters.

Well, I'm going to post a few more pics. Hope you enjoy.

Carol and her doll family at Christmas

One of my favorite shots. A friend Georgina, Mom, & Me in the Blue Ridge Parkway

My Mom and me in the Smokies

My best childhood friend Jeannie and me

Ashley took this shot of this little guy

Lori and Me

Me and Jake

Brent and friends. They really seemed to like Brent.

Dreaded chores.....tax day!

Oh No!!! It's the dreaded tax day! 1 p.m. appointment with our accountant. I know everybody dreads this but with Carl's "creative accounting" I hate it. Always on the last day he starts yelling where is this, where is that, and it's stuff HE is suppose to be keeping up with. It always ends up in one of us or both being mad.

Our granddaughter Meagen has a birthday next week! The big 2nd decade, 20! We wish her lots of fun!

Well, I've messed around on the computer long enough this morning. Going to go to Costco after taxes with my friend Rebecca. What an exciting life, huh!

Vacation memories

I hate to sound like a broken record but I'm sooo tired of cold weather! This past weekend was beautiful and then it turned gray and cold again. I've been thinking about last years vacation. Emily and I had such a fun time. I think the favorite thing was going to see The Jersey Boy's. I love the oldies and I'm so glad we went to Chicago and saw that show. Emily liked the chicago style pizza too. We did a lot in the 4 days we were there. I've always loved going to Chicago, there is so much to do. My problem was trying to hold out! Ain't no spring chicken anymore.

Anyway, I haven't posted any vacation pics so I thought I would. Of course, when I think about our first night there it was cold too. We went out on the lake to watch the fireworks and were not properly dressed for such a night! Brrrrr! But it was fun and we had a great time anyway. Emily is such a good sport and a lot of fun to do things with.

My big day was going to Publix and the bank. Hey, it's ok to have an uneventful day off. Work can be enough stress. I'm making meatloaf for supper and Carl just came home. So goodbye for now.

Oops...

My recent post was too long so to see all the photos you have to check older posts. :)

Thank you Ashley!

I want to start out by thanking our granddaughter Ashley. She "challenged" her family and friends to create their own blogs and it looks like she's been successful! I must admit sometime I feel slightly foolish blogging but I have enjoyed it anyway.

Yesterday was a fun day! I met Ashley & Brent over at the farm for practice photo shoot. I think we got some interesting pics to say the least. Lori & Keith came over and then Big Daddy. It was a pretty sunny day and we all had a nice time. Ashley helped me with changing some fonts and colors. She is so sweet to help and so smart too!

I went to Rebecca's again last night and we played Scrabble again. We laugh and act silly and it is just fun!

My project this weekend has been photos. Taking new ones and copying old slide photos. I've got slides from the 1950's to 1980's. The slides of my family from the 1950's are priceless! I'll post some pics at the end. When Carl and I met, he had a black dog named Bear. I know lots of people think this but he was the "best dog ever". He would ride around in Carl's old ford maverick (he traded a lawn mower for this car) or in the truck and he just loved to go! He loved to ride so much one day he got in the truck bed of one of Carl's friends and we got a call about an hour later that Bear was at his house up on Antioch Road in Somerville. I still miss that dog.