Thursday, May 19, 2011

Goodness - It has been so long - Going to see a play on Friday in Rice Village "I am Barbie" looking forward to that and then on Monday taking my son to see Primus - can't wait - they are amazing. I took Monday and Tuesday off for it!

Saturday, April 16, 2011

The upstairs hall closet has it's guts spewed on the floor, preventing entry into two bedrooms, waiting for me to decide what gets tossed. goes to charity or kept. It's a tough discussion. One item I want to keep is a handmade kaleidoscope, given to me by a man a long time ago that my grandfather once took me and my sister to visit. She got one as well, but I can't remember if hers had the same red wall paper on wrapped around the outside as mine or if it was different. I wonder if she still has hers. I have treasured mine. My grandfather was so proud of us girls that he use to take us on his visits to his patients. He was a small town doctor who made house calls. Once such visit was to a man who made wooden toys, hence the kaleidoscope. Another visit was to a woman who was home bound. We had to drive farther than usual and through a wooded area. I don't remember seeing a car around the home. She was a large woman. Grandfather gave her a shot of something, delivered some meds, took her blood pressure and then sat down to talk with her. There was a smell in the air. A smell I now call death. I have smelled that smell three times in my life (actually 4 - but I can't be sure about the third time. If it was a smell or just a feeling - so I am going to discounted as just a feeling). That time with the large woman who was home bound. Then again when I visited a neighbor of my grandparents. We use to visit them ever so often crossing PeePa's yard and ending up in their back yard. I can't remember their names, but they were kind to us and had cookies (such the memories of a child "they had cookies" funny now). On our last visit the husband gave me a elephant with ivory tusks, which I still have somewhere - waiting to be decided on. I don't know what was given to my sister, Tracy, but it was something of the same. I smelled death on that day too. Less than a month later the wife had died in a car accident. The seat beat caused internal bleeding. She died in hospital (as they use to say back then, maybe still do). The last time was I smelled death was a weekend in June. The whole family was gathering at my parents house to celebrate 3 birthdays, Father's day, an anniversary and an upcoming birth (my sister's first child, Emilie). My son, husband and I had just arrived at the home and were entering via the back door. The minute we entered the back door I turned to my son and said " You smell that? That's old people smell." I now know that was death. The house doesn't have that smell any more. My father died less than a week later. The red kaleidoscope is fulled with dust now. I wonder if I can clean it out with a vacuum clearer or a hair dryer (I don't own a hair dryer). I really don't want to loss it. It provides so many memories and one leads to another. Such a small thing. And why the hell won't this post allow for paragraphs???
Woke up this morning hugging my husband for warmth.

Wednesday, August 11, 2010

Today I felt sorry for myself

Which is totally unlike me. But I really, really wanted to hug my father tight and tell him one more time that I love him.

It made me sad that I can not do it. Not today. But maybe when I die. God, I am so morbid.

Monday, June 29, 2009

This past weekend with the family











Camping over Memorial Day weekend











Friday, June 26, 2009

Life is flying by

and what do I have to show for it. hum . . . Nothing! A big fat nothing!

No, but wait! That's not all! You get a big, fat nothing some more.

I've got pics to show, but not with me today. Been camping twice in the last month. Now it's too hot to go camping since we're having 100 degree weather (odd for June). We been going swimming instead.

I am going to Mom's this weekend. Been getting the guilt trip from my sister to go. So I go.

I've been seeing famous people everywhere lately. Saw the TAPS van from that show on SciFi called "Ghost Hunters", saw the guy from that show in a restaurant, saw Molly Ringwald in the same restaurant. Yep seeing famous people all over.

I hope to get some more up here soon, but it doesn't really matter. The only people that are coming here are looking for Chitty Chitty Bang Bang stuff. Write one reference to that and it's history for ya.

I do not know why this makes me laugh




This is so cheesy, but I love it.

I am a proud Moma !

Thursday, March 26, 2009

from high school


Tuesday, March 24, 2009

Niece & Nephew