THE GRANDKIDS WE MISSED SO MUCH THIS VACATION IS ON JENNIFERS BACK....KALEB FRONT, ZACK NEXT AND THEN LEAH...ELY IS LAST WHO WE SAW. GREAT FUN KIDS!!! LOVE THEM ALL!! THEY MAKE GRANDMA ROCK WITH JOY!!!
3 years ago
Tuesday, August 28, 2007
GRANDKIDS THE HEART OF GRANDPARENTS
OUR SONS FAMILY....AREN'T THEY CUTE....NOT THE PARENTS THE KIDS!!!! GOT TO LOVE THEM!
NOTHIN' LIKE A GOOD OLD VACATION
WE HAD A GREAT VACATION....NOTHING IS BETTER THAN SPENDING IT WITH YOUR CHILDREN AND GRANDCHILDREN. MY HEART SWELLS WITH PRIDE AT EACH ONE OF OUR 6 CHILDREN; THEIR ACCOMPLISHMENTS, THE GOALS THEY HAVE REACHED OR ARE WORKING ON AND JUST THE WONDERFUL PERSONS THEY HAVE BECOME. AND WE LOVE THE SPOUSES AS WELL.....WE HAVE SUCH A GREAT TIME TOGETHER!!
AND WHAT A JOY TO BE A GRANDPARENT. WE GOT TO MET OUR NEWEST GRAND BABY JILL....HAPPY BABY I HAVE EVER SEEN. SHE WAS ALWAYS SMILING NEVER CRIED ONCE, TIL MY DAUGHTERS SHAUNA AND JEN TALKED TO HER IN HER FACE AND SHE CRIED AWFUL. (WOULDN'T YOU IF SOMEONE WAS IN YOUR FACE....IT WAS PRETTY FUNNY I MUST SAY.)
OUR SON'S DAUGHTER RORY HAS THIS HUGE CRUSH ON GRANDPA. I COULD OF LAUGHED WHEN WE WERE WATCHING TV AFTER HE HAD SWUNG HER ON THE SWING AND HE KEPT DOZING IN THE CHAIR. RORY WAS SITTING BY ME AND STARTED TO CRY..."WHAT IS WRONG?" I ASKED. "I CAN'T TALKED TO HIM HIS EYES ARE CLOSED!" I TOLD HER HE DOES THAT ALL THE TIME JUST GO OVER AND WIGGLE HIS KNEE AND YOU CAN TALK TO HIM ALL YOU WANT. SHE QUIETLY WENT OVER, SHOOK HIS KNEE AND WAS SURPRISED TO SEE HIM A WAKE FOR A TALK. KIDS ARE JUST SO CUTE!!! SHE LIKES HER GRANDPA.
ELY THEIR SON CARRIES ON THE MOST INTERESTING CONVERSATIONS. I HAD GREAT FUN WITH EACH ONE EITHER PLAYING GAMES, GOING ON WALKS, PLAYING IN THE WATER AND GIVING LOTS OF HUGS AND KISSES. I AM SO LUCKY!!! WE MISSED OUR OTHER 3 GRAND CHILDREN THAT COULDN'T COME. BUT EACH MOMENT SPEND WITH THEM IS PRICELESS.
WE WERE LUCKY TO HAVE ALL OUR CHILDREN THERE BUT ONE.....COULDN'T HAVE A BETTER VACATION!!!
AND WHAT A JOY TO BE A GRANDPARENT. WE GOT TO MET OUR NEWEST GRAND BABY JILL....HAPPY BABY I HAVE EVER SEEN. SHE WAS ALWAYS SMILING NEVER CRIED ONCE, TIL MY DAUGHTERS SHAUNA AND JEN TALKED TO HER IN HER FACE AND SHE CRIED AWFUL. (WOULDN'T YOU IF SOMEONE WAS IN YOUR FACE....IT WAS PRETTY FUNNY I MUST SAY.)
OUR SON'S DAUGHTER RORY HAS THIS HUGE CRUSH ON GRANDPA. I COULD OF LAUGHED WHEN WE WERE WATCHING TV AFTER HE HAD SWUNG HER ON THE SWING AND HE KEPT DOZING IN THE CHAIR. RORY WAS SITTING BY ME AND STARTED TO CRY..."WHAT IS WRONG?" I ASKED. "I CAN'T TALKED TO HIM HIS EYES ARE CLOSED!" I TOLD HER HE DOES THAT ALL THE TIME JUST GO OVER AND WIGGLE HIS KNEE AND YOU CAN TALK TO HIM ALL YOU WANT. SHE QUIETLY WENT OVER, SHOOK HIS KNEE AND WAS SURPRISED TO SEE HIM A WAKE FOR A TALK. KIDS ARE JUST SO CUTE!!! SHE LIKES HER GRANDPA.
ELY THEIR SON CARRIES ON THE MOST INTERESTING CONVERSATIONS. I HAD GREAT FUN WITH EACH ONE EITHER PLAYING GAMES, GOING ON WALKS, PLAYING IN THE WATER AND GIVING LOTS OF HUGS AND KISSES. I AM SO LUCKY!!! WE MISSED OUR OTHER 3 GRAND CHILDREN THAT COULDN'T COME. BUT EACH MOMENT SPEND WITH THEM IS PRICELESS.
WE WERE LUCKY TO HAVE ALL OUR CHILDREN THERE BUT ONE.....COULDN'T HAVE A BETTER VACATION!!!
Tuesday, August 14, 2007
GRANDMA ON THE MOVE
WE ARE OFF TO SEE THE GRANDKIDS....ESPECIALLY THE NEWEST ONE. WE GET TO SPOIL, PAMPER, LOVE AND GIVE THEM BACK IF THEY CRY OR DON'T BEHAVE. I MISS THEM DEARLY. WE HAVE 6 IN ALL...3GIRLS AND 3BOYS, BETWEEN TWO CHILDREN. SHAUNA'S KALEB, LEAH AND ZACH. JASON'S ELI, RORY AND JILL. WE ALSO HAVE ONE ON THE WAY! LUCKY US!!! WISH THEY LIVED CLOSER BUT FOR NOW WE WELL ENJOY THEM AND TAKE LOTS OF PICTURES. (ABOVE PICTURE WAS AT THE FAMILY REUNION 2006 AND THE KIDS WERE TRIED TO TAKING PICTURES....THEY ARE MUCH CUTER) SO FOR NOW....TIL AFTER OUT TRIP......HAPPY VACATION!!!
AUGUST 14, 2007 FUTURE PARKING LOT UPDATE
JUST LOOK AT THIS HUGH HOLE...I ALMOST THINK THEY ARE DIGGING TO CHINA!! IN THE SHADOWS I TRIED TO GET A PICTURE OF A MAN WORKING TO SHOW THE DEPTH BUT IT DIDN'T WORK. THEY ARE NOW LEVELING TO BUILD UP, UP AND UP...5 LEVELS OF WONDERFUL PARKING!!
Wednesday, August 1, 2007
GRANDMA CAN'T SHOP ANYMORE.....
Looks like shopping for me is over!! In our local Sunday newspaper there was an article by a Patricia Mclaughlin ‘GRANDMA CAN'T SHOP BECAUSE NOTHING FITS HER RIGHT.’ It has me very concern and worried!!
In 1994 Patricia interviewed a William Rankin who owned Dress Rite Company. The Dress Rite Company made custom dressmaking forms for home sewers for $550.00. Three years before his company, as a side line, he made customize dress forms by casting women's torso in paper-mache so you could make clothes that would fit perfectly. It caught his attention a very different body shape kept coming up in his customized dress forms. He concluded it as the shape of the older women. William explained 'her body shape gradually shifts. A lot of things are different. There’s a little hump at the back of the neck. The neck goes way forward, the rib cage begins to expand, the bust falls and the spine condenses. At the waist there’s almost like a ledge that develops. The shoulders tend to roll forward, the waist gets larger, a rather large abdomen develops, and the buttocks flatten.’
Does this sound familiar ladies? It is like a whole transfiguration seems to take place as we get older.
He goes on to say these changes make it almost impossible for older women to find clothes that fit. So we tend to buy sloppy stuff and try to make do. Pants that fit them in the waist would be too big in the hips, so they were stuck with elastic-waist pants. Rankin also says ‘to make it worse women are wearing the elastic waist pants backwards to fit their pooched-out abdomens and flattened rears.’
How awful is that? Sounds like a nightmare. The article goes on to say that around this time the institute for standards research of American Society for testing and materials measured nearly 7,000 women over 55 noticed in 38 state’s concluded what Rankin noticed: 'as the body ages the head is carried farther forward, the shoulders roll forward to widen the back and narrow the chest, the spine shortens and condenses, the rib cage expands, the burst falls, the waist thickens, the abdomen rounds out and the buttocks fattens. '
To make things worse……. no one wants to accommodate for making clothes to fit women in their late 50, 60, 70, 80, and 90. The study also showed older women spent less on cloths so the market is geared to the younger set because they buy more. If there was a market for us we would be glad to spend the money!!! What an old gal to do? I guess we just hope someone out there will take pity on us and produces some stylish cloths that fit right. I don't want to look like a sloppy old lady but be classy and sophisticated in what days I have left!!! One can only hope.......so our shopping days can go on!!
In 1994 Patricia interviewed a William Rankin who owned Dress Rite Company. The Dress Rite Company made custom dressmaking forms for home sewers for $550.00. Three years before his company, as a side line, he made customize dress forms by casting women's torso in paper-mache so you could make clothes that would fit perfectly. It caught his attention a very different body shape kept coming up in his customized dress forms. He concluded it as the shape of the older women. William explained 'her body shape gradually shifts. A lot of things are different. There’s a little hump at the back of the neck. The neck goes way forward, the rib cage begins to expand, the bust falls and the spine condenses. At the waist there’s almost like a ledge that develops. The shoulders tend to roll forward, the waist gets larger, a rather large abdomen develops, and the buttocks flatten.’
Does this sound familiar ladies? It is like a whole transfiguration seems to take place as we get older.
He goes on to say these changes make it almost impossible for older women to find clothes that fit. So we tend to buy sloppy stuff and try to make do. Pants that fit them in the waist would be too big in the hips, so they were stuck with elastic-waist pants. Rankin also says ‘to make it worse women are wearing the elastic waist pants backwards to fit their pooched-out abdomens and flattened rears.’
How awful is that? Sounds like a nightmare. The article goes on to say that around this time the institute for standards research of American Society for testing and materials measured nearly 7,000 women over 55 noticed in 38 state’s concluded what Rankin noticed: 'as the body ages the head is carried farther forward, the shoulders roll forward to widen the back and narrow the chest, the spine shortens and condenses, the rib cage expands, the burst falls, the waist thickens, the abdomen rounds out and the buttocks fattens. '
To make things worse……. no one wants to accommodate for making clothes to fit women in their late 50, 60, 70, 80, and 90. The study also showed older women spent less on cloths so the market is geared to the younger set because they buy more. If there was a market for us we would be glad to spend the money!!! What an old gal to do? I guess we just hope someone out there will take pity on us and produces some stylish cloths that fit right. I don't want to look like a sloppy old lady but be classy and sophisticated in what days I have left!!! One can only hope.......so our shopping days can go on!!
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