Count your Blessings
For the last month we have enjoyed having our grandchildren share some time with us. Jerra spent the most time, Joshua spent about three weeks and Jake only had about 5 days. But every day was joyful (and trying at times) with them.
Jerra is such a beauty - inside and out. She has beautiful blonde hair (which I can never get her to wear down!) which she dyed brown before the end of her time here. She looks great whatever color she chooses! I still love the blonde if I had to be honest! But she likes the new look for awhile. She loves to bake and bake she did! We always had cake or brownies or cookies fresh from the oven. She liked the jet ski...even if it is a little slow-poke one! We had some great times, and funny time floating down the river with a friend. She had fun with her friend in Michigan for a week too. She seemed to like and enjoy her birthday gift of a computer, monitor and printer ....grandpa set it up here on our internet and she was on it daily.....for hours sometimes! She is really computer savy! I'm impressed!
Josh is just getting taller and taller and so good looking. He has beautiful brown wavy hair (which he wears too long....but heck, if I had his hair I would wear it long too!). He is passing me up quickly! He had most fun, I would guess....at the golf course. Dave gave him a couple of lessons at the driving range and I played a few holes with him one day also, and after two days he just felt like he knew everything about golf! (hummm.....think he might be in for a surprise if he really takes the game up! I have been playing for years, and still don't have it right!) Dave also had him running sprints in the yard and he is getting faster and better all the time. Wish we could watch him play football this year, but too much distance between us now. Dave will miss that. Me too. He also had fun with his two friends...at two different times...coming to join us at Indiana beach and spending a night at the lake with him. He knows everything about everything. He loves movies and Dave took him to Batman and then we all went to War of the Worlds... (still not sure I liked that one!). They rented movies to watch at home too. He also liked the boat ride up the river where he could swing on the rope and tow-bar hanging from a tree. He is a good swimmer and liked floating down the river and harassing his sister! He loves TV even though we only have a few channels and no Games! He liked the computer when Jerra would let him get on-line.
I picked up Jake on Wednesday night and we had a few days left that he got to spend here with all of us. He loves Indiana Beach and he rides EVERYTHING! He liked Meghan, the granddaughter of my friend who got us passes for the beach, and they stuck together like glue!
He is the very BEST fire builder you could ever find! We had great bon-fires every night. He worked like a trooper gathering wood from the wood pile and arranging it Tee-pee fashion in the fire pit. He even made fires first thing in the morning! He helped cover the boat (and uncover it before boat trips) and that was a lot of help for grandma! He is getting so tall that he is almost passing me up just like Josh is !
We all spent a lot of time swimming and on the boat and floating down the river. We did go shopping in Lafayette for jeans and stuff and made many a trip to Wal-Mart in Monticello. We also enjoy the dunes with Jerra and Josh (and Scruffy). We went to a couple of movies and rented some to watch at home. We went to Indiana beach twice for the pay-one-price all day rides and they were there ALL DAY! Jake only got to go once, but he surely got his money worth.
This was a tough time for Dave in the beginning as his last chemo treatment was May 24th and we were still going back and forth to Lafayette a lot. Sometimes Jerra and Josh stayed home and took care of Scruffy and just swam and watched TV. A couple of times they made the trip with us and went shopping at the mall. Dave was tired and not feeling too good some days, but he got feeling better toward the end of June and spent more time with all of us. There was much laundry, dirty dishes, shopping for food, picking up and instructing them to pick up....and even though I slept for 12 hours the day after they all left.....it was wonderful having them all. They are truly our "blessings" and we enjoyed them very much. However, I do know why 66 year old women don't give birth!! Golly....kids can make you tired after you get old!
Jerra was so excited about going home and seeing her friends, but it was wonderful having her for probably the last time for a long visit. Now she is going to graduate from high school...get a job...maybe go to college and will be starting her busy life as a pre-adult learning to be responsible for herself. Quite a giant step. It isn't easy being 18 years old in the world today.
Hopefully, there is still time for Josh and Jake to come for vacations with us before they are too grown up.
Stacey and Justin spent Saturday and Sunday with us before they headed home with their three children and two goats (pretty good sized ones at that) in a jeep and a prizm. They were packed to the gills!! But thankfully, had a safe trip home and now are back into their routine as Dad and I are back into ours.
We took yesterday and treated ourselves to a SLOW day...went to do errans in Monticello, then went to the ZOO in Indianapolis and loved the new Dolphin dome and all the animals and then took in a INDIANS baseball came at Victory field which is beautiful. Indians were awful...but the evening was just Perfect with Dave sitting by my side in the warm evening air under the lights of the baseball field.
Today I really...counted my blessings....all of them -- Dave, Stacey and Justin, Davey and his boys, Jerra, Josh and Jake -- and not least of all...Scruffy! God is good. Another good day...one-day-at-a-time.
Jerra is such a beauty - inside and out. She has beautiful blonde hair (which I can never get her to wear down!) which she dyed brown before the end of her time here. She looks great whatever color she chooses! I still love the blonde if I had to be honest! But she likes the new look for awhile. She loves to bake and bake she did! We always had cake or brownies or cookies fresh from the oven. She liked the jet ski...even if it is a little slow-poke one! We had some great times, and funny time floating down the river with a friend. She had fun with her friend in Michigan for a week too. She seemed to like and enjoy her birthday gift of a computer, monitor and printer ....grandpa set it up here on our internet and she was on it daily.....for hours sometimes! She is really computer savy! I'm impressed!
Josh is just getting taller and taller and so good looking. He has beautiful brown wavy hair (which he wears too long....but heck, if I had his hair I would wear it long too!). He is passing me up quickly! He had most fun, I would guess....at the golf course. Dave gave him a couple of lessons at the driving range and I played a few holes with him one day also, and after two days he just felt like he knew everything about golf! (hummm.....think he might be in for a surprise if he really takes the game up! I have been playing for years, and still don't have it right!) Dave also had him running sprints in the yard and he is getting faster and better all the time. Wish we could watch him play football this year, but too much distance between us now. Dave will miss that. Me too. He also had fun with his two friends...at two different times...coming to join us at Indiana beach and spending a night at the lake with him. He knows everything about everything. He loves movies and Dave took him to Batman and then we all went to War of the Worlds... (still not sure I liked that one!). They rented movies to watch at home too. He also liked the boat ride up the river where he could swing on the rope and tow-bar hanging from a tree. He is a good swimmer and liked floating down the river and harassing his sister! He loves TV even though we only have a few channels and no Games! He liked the computer when Jerra would let him get on-line.
I picked up Jake on Wednesday night and we had a few days left that he got to spend here with all of us. He loves Indiana Beach and he rides EVERYTHING! He liked Meghan, the granddaughter of my friend who got us passes for the beach, and they stuck together like glue!
He is the very BEST fire builder you could ever find! We had great bon-fires every night. He worked like a trooper gathering wood from the wood pile and arranging it Tee-pee fashion in the fire pit. He even made fires first thing in the morning! He helped cover the boat (and uncover it before boat trips) and that was a lot of help for grandma! He is getting so tall that he is almost passing me up just like Josh is !
We all spent a lot of time swimming and on the boat and floating down the river. We did go shopping in Lafayette for jeans and stuff and made many a trip to Wal-Mart in Monticello. We also enjoy the dunes with Jerra and Josh (and Scruffy). We went to a couple of movies and rented some to watch at home. We went to Indiana beach twice for the pay-one-price all day rides and they were there ALL DAY! Jake only got to go once, but he surely got his money worth.
This was a tough time for Dave in the beginning as his last chemo treatment was May 24th and we were still going back and forth to Lafayette a lot. Sometimes Jerra and Josh stayed home and took care of Scruffy and just swam and watched TV. A couple of times they made the trip with us and went shopping at the mall. Dave was tired and not feeling too good some days, but he got feeling better toward the end of June and spent more time with all of us. There was much laundry, dirty dishes, shopping for food, picking up and instructing them to pick up....and even though I slept for 12 hours the day after they all left.....it was wonderful having them all. They are truly our "blessings" and we enjoyed them very much. However, I do know why 66 year old women don't give birth!! Golly....kids can make you tired after you get old!
Jerra was so excited about going home and seeing her friends, but it was wonderful having her for probably the last time for a long visit. Now she is going to graduate from high school...get a job...maybe go to college and will be starting her busy life as a pre-adult learning to be responsible for herself. Quite a giant step. It isn't easy being 18 years old in the world today.
Hopefully, there is still time for Josh and Jake to come for vacations with us before they are too grown up.
Stacey and Justin spent Saturday and Sunday with us before they headed home with their three children and two goats (pretty good sized ones at that) in a jeep and a prizm. They were packed to the gills!! But thankfully, had a safe trip home and now are back into their routine as Dad and I are back into ours.
We took yesterday and treated ourselves to a SLOW day...went to do errans in Monticello, then went to the ZOO in Indianapolis and loved the new Dolphin dome and all the animals and then took in a INDIANS baseball came at Victory field which is beautiful. Indians were awful...but the evening was just Perfect with Dave sitting by my side in the warm evening air under the lights of the baseball field.
Today I really...counted my blessings....all of them -- Dave, Stacey and Justin, Davey and his boys, Jerra, Josh and Jake -- and not least of all...Scruffy! God is good. Another good day...one-day-at-a-time.
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