Snow

Miss Brighton loving the snow. Just like her Mama use to. 

Snow Angel Practice in the Winter of 2012

Wednesday's Weather

Windy Wendesday... that is the forecast here in  Highland, Illinois. My cousin is coming up tomorrow so we can celebrate Brighton's 4th birthday it isn't in real life until March 3rd. But, who cares, cake will be there. So far she is having fun on this trip. Really enjoying her Great Grandparents, Great Aunt, Cousins and whomever else stops by. It was a large event tonight Bonnie, Jake's Lady stopped by and painted B's toes and fingers for her. A happy four year old.  Aunt Jayne is sick with the flu, my mom is pulling in second. I really hope the rest of us don't get this thing. 


It's is hard sleeping in this house...you hear everything but nothing at the sametime....I need white noise.... not, dead silence that is so loud one could scream or so many creeks in this house making noise and such I don't know how to explain it...it just is. 


Life has been weird lately adjusting to the Grandparents being gone. My mom and aunt are pretty sad about it. Not sure how to cheer them up. I mean seriously. I have no idea what to do for them. 

Music?

Some reason I like this little song. now particular...just a feeling...

Grandma and Grandpa's Final Resting Place

Here we are the night before at a place in Folsom called Chicago Fire... It was Okay.. Jake grabbed my camera and took a few pics.  Above is Pinky my son... with a screwball face on. Next to him is Aunt Jayne

 Then it is me. My hair is short from being sick and it started falling out...but now it is growing back :)

 The gang of yea hoo's they raisied... from left to right, Tashia, Pinky, Callie, Kim, Jayne, Jake, Pat, Richey, Denny... Joanne was in Illinois taking care of lewis her husband he ain't doing well. Allie and Reno, Jakes kids and Briley his Grand daughter stayed home. Kim's Daughters Kalea and Lola were in Alabama their other grandma. Juhn Kim's other half was about and around here somewhere, Tashia's husband was somewhere around here. My husband was at work in Lebanon, Oregon. My Daughter was at work in Portland. Pat husband Bob was at work in las Vegas...oh yeah my Grandkids Brighton and Jack were with there Dad's. If I forgot someone I am sorry I have a 3 year old underfoot of me right now. 

 Kim, Pat, Jayne

 Wes, Jake, Pinky

 Jake and I making a feeble attempt to keep it together while talking about our grandparents. Jake lost it and I had taken a sedative so I wouldn't get all crying and such...I walked more like the funeral Drunk... GREAT :( but i didn't want to break down and cry...instead I was wobbly...

 Granny's final bed

 the on looking of the burial plot

the worst part, when they lower them in the ground more later

A month of Letters

Go Check the site out and see how it works, I think it might be a hoot! I am gonna go for it ;)

A month of Letters

this is how to get to this great site with the following idea.
Hope to see you all there :......and life goes on....da da di da do....

A Dying Fact

So when my Grandpa was bed ridden last year we had gotten some new t-shirts and cut them up the back so it was easy on him to put fresh clothes on him everyday. Well, I just found out that my mom and aunt were putting these same old shirts on my Grandmother in her dying bed. Well, I don't know but I got pissed off.

I think if and old woman of 89 years old is bed ridden she should at least have some flowered t-shirts. Not her husbands old blue, red, orange, green and brown dying shirts. So I texted my Mom, My Aunt and My Brother and chewed them all out. This picture above is the result. My granny will now be laying in her dying bed in a fashionable way... Flowers and Purple. I love it. Thank you so much family for listening to me.

Let it be known if I end up in a dying bed... I want flowers and purple also and some make up and someone combs my hair and washes me everyday and puts some makeup on my face and brushes my teeth and if I have some crazy hairs on my face. I want the crazy things pulled and any black heads Squeeze away!!! Sorry to be so direct but wouldn't you want the same?

Peanut, Flooding and Granny

So yeah I am suppose to be updating this site, my blog... LOL, I am doing so good at it. Don't ya think? Don't come here if you are looking for Grammar... it doesn't exist here! ha ha

Anyway. Granny is still chugging along. She keeps having strokes. She is in the bed almost all the time now.. Get's in the wheel chair a few minutes every day...

Well, I live in Oregon and we are having this gigantic flooding again. It is terrible... We have lost 2 lives so far that I am aware of and some homes.. I don't remember it raining so hard, so much, for just a few days causing all this mess. Washington State is in a freeze.. I have a friend that just moved there...what a welcome she got.

This picture was taken by Pamela Hayes... it has been passed all around Facebook today.. I have no idea whom she is but I would like to personally thank her for this picture. She has taken many that express the tragedy unfolding...

Oh and by the way My Family Dog Peanut passed away on Jan 16, 2012. She passed from complications from Diabetes and overall a dislike for feeling like shit and having to wear diapers and get stuck with needles... it was degrading to her.. Seriously she was so unhappy... I love you my little "Woo Woo" girl. Her most favorite person in the whole world.. my son "Pinky"... "I am sorry your dog passed son".

Peanut is the silver one... Ozzie is the black...he is now 3... When Peanut lost her mom she needed a companion so that is when Ozzie came into the home... I must say Ozzie is so sad about losing Peanut... But, I just can't get another little one right now. So that is life today! :)

update

So here we go starting this new year. Have lost 3 people so far in just a week. A friends mother, another friends mother and Putter's Grandpa... hope it stops at 3. That would be enough for me.

Brighton is doing well. We are learning our ABC, 123.. words...how to scribble inside the lines and most of all how to me calm and not want to eat every 15 minutes... She was eating like an old coal train when she first got her.. Anxiety I will call it. Now she is nice and calm. She eats normal... Yeah!!!!

She doesn't like Vegetables except corn and in my book corn ain't a vegetable. So I have been making smoothies for her sneaking the veggies in...you can drink anything with a straw and a pretty spritz of whipping cream on the top... I love my Vita-Mix machine... well that's the news from the Pacific Northwest for today... Have a good one!

Pinky New Year

Have not posted a picture of Pinky my son in a while. So there it is. His New Years Party. Found it on face book and stole it..looks like some sort of wine thing. He is doing good. He has a awesome job that he just loves. He loves mostly the security of money coming in to his pocket on a regular basis. I am so glad for him and he also has a lot of good friends. Yeah for Pinky... From the Old Mom!!

A day of Brighton

A Day in the Life of Brighton... full of energy and fun....

She wanted her box to be made into a race car with doors.... okay

Then she was out to ride her scooter that Aunt Jayne got her and Papa built... it stopped raining for a few minutes so we could test the scooter. 

Getting ready for the road

Not sure exactly what I am feeling right now. My mom called yesterday and said both my Dad and Grandmother are on Hospice. Neither one of them can walk right now. Grandma keeps having strokes and can't even suck out of a straw... Last year dealing with my Grandfather so close and taking care of him his last 30 days of his life. Well, let's just say it has left me screwed up! Yeah that is how I would put it. So I am not in any hurry to get out there and see what is going on and helping. I have my own set of Medical Problems. Gonna need the neck surgery again. The titanium screw is backing off and I have my grand daughter Brighton full time 24/7 she is a handful... :)

2012 it is

It's is the start of the New Year... 2012.. I have about 13 minutes left to post for the new year. I am so hoping this year is so much better than last year. :) Smiles for hope.

I have my Brighton back again. I love her so much. A 3 1/2 year old keeps me busy and I am thankful for it. I need the reason to get up and make the day happen. I took a picture of her this evening as she was snuggling into bed. I will post it tomorrow with this post... Ah it is so much fun being a Nana.. Why is that? I enjoy it much better than the Mama time. Maybe as they say it is because I have so much more patience. For instance she didn't want to finish her dinner tonight. She mashed a taquito in her mouth and kept adding more milk but not swallowing and making a ton of nosies and faces...a little bit came out and got on her clothes. I simply asked in a calm voice "are you ready for bed?" NO she replied and promptly swallowed her food. Ha Ha..it cracked me up what I learned in that moment.. when I was younger. I would have reacted so much differently. Life is Good!!!

I am feeling the itch again to blog...lookout world something is starting to boil.....I feel it!!! soon :)

2012... :)

Bwahahahah this is so damn true it is amazing :)

President doing the Crotch Salute

The CROTCH SALUTE AT IT AGAIN.

At the Ft. Hood Memorial Service...

The Crotch Salute Returns! I am sorry folks, but is this what  was elected President of our country? You know, the United States of America.  I do believe that saluting the flag goes with that, as does respecting and honoring the service members who have died. Does this pompous ass believe he is above that gesture? He can shower us all with flowery words (via teleprompter) and dazzle us with his B.S., but actions speak louder. This sucks!

 EVERYONE needs to see this Pic!

Too Cute...watch and listen

First Days

My Very First GrandChild Jack Pepper Smith has his first real day of school. He will be going to an all day Kindergarten class. His Step Sister will be in one class and he will be in the other... They are sick of each other at home. So they thought it best for them to be in seperate classes....

Jack first day.... "How was your first day"..Jack..."it was okay" Nana, "what did you do?" Jack replied. "We went outside and then we ate and then we went outside and guess what we had an ice cream from Dairy King"....OH Geesh... Teacher Report... Jack is the clown of the class and get all the other kids off task.... Oh Boy.... I hope this gets better... Just Saying. This is Jacks step sister Avalynn. She is a real sweetie...but Jack wants to be in charge :)

9/11/2001

The local paper asked for our thoughts on 9/11. I submitted this to the paper but it didn't run.... :(... but that's okay... was very interesting the people's memories that they did pic. (grumble) 


9/11
I remember it like it was yesterday.


The TV was on, the plane was headed for the second tower.... The first tower was a blaze....our world as we know it died that day.

I ran into the other room and woke up my husband. "I said something bad has happened, come and watch"... We couldn't believe what we were seeing on live television. The images were just awful.  It was horrific to see people jumping to their death. We kept asking each other. "What the hell is going on"? ... No one knew. It was truly crippling. It seemed so unreal. Like it wasn't true. We sat and watched as the anchors tried to make sense of what everyone was watching. Then we found out there were plane crashes in other places in the East. For 3 days we sat glued to that television. It was hard to leave it. We needed to see what was happening and why. Seeing the President go to ground Zero truly helped many people to have some kind of hope for that moment. 

I remember how this country banded together like we had no issue's. We were all Americans and loved this country... The Flag of the United States flew every where you looked. It was about all the people that died, all the first responders rescuing survivors and looking for the dead. All the people that sifted through all that destruction, looking for memories of people and evidence of the people that had wronged so many that day.  At first the death toll was thought to be in the 10,000 range, just in the towers. But for some reason on that day the public count was lessened. The rumors were flying around the country like crazy. Whom had done this to all these people, to the country of the USA?  It was so sad for so many souls to be lost that day. Also so many current souls are being lost today due to illnesses from the toxins that poisoned the rescue workers. We lose souls every single day in our armed forces and contracted people fighting for the American Freedom.  May all who fell, all the ordinary heroes of that day rest in peace. I hope and pray our country rallies as one before there is no more USA and freedoms so taken for granted are lost. I really don't see an end to these wars...it is like man can not, not fight... it has gone on for centuries. 

Thank you for listening

Callie Hanson

The Dread Factor

Daughter goes for the Dreaded Dreads.... She's Gone.... Portlandia on me!!! Yikes