It's going to be a good day today. I can always tell that when I wake up bright eyed and bushy tailed instead of with aches and pains and still to tired to get up feelings. We had our 3 year old granddaughter for a couple of hours yesterday while her Mom took her brother for his one year old health checkup. Since turning 3 our granddaughter has really started to come into her own...I think moving over here with the rest of her Family has helped bring that out beautifully too. She talked up a storm to both Papaw and I and when we asked her questions she didn't just say yes or no, but conversed with us with quite a few sentences. She goes to "school" now (Mother's Day Out) on Tuesdays and Thursdays now and Ballet classes on Wednesday and while she loved her Ballet class from day one, "school" was a something she has been working out her feelings about, but each time she goes she takes a step forward and is now interacting with her teachers and some of the other children after only a few weeks. Her one year old brother goes too and since he is only with 3 other babies he gets lots of rocking and loving and is doing alright at what his sister calls "Baby school." Below is my granddaughter on her 1st day of School.
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Good afternoon, everyone. We went down to the beach last weekend. I got a few pictures but, as always, I forgot to take my camera. I'm going to have to tie it around my neck with a string. I took pictures with my Kindle. I can't take very good pictures with that.
Good morning to you all, it's a grey day here again, we are going out to dinner to Lisa's cousins home this evening, Lisa is working today The symphony concert we went to last night was packed, it being the first of the season, the guest pianist was an Englishman, though I had never heard of him A blurry pic taken with my phone I am stressed at the moment filling in a form for my next 12 month visa to Russia, they have made the whole process more complex because the UK visa authority made theirs very complicated, tit for tat ....It took Lisa more than a week to fill in the application form for her UK visa, all the Russian documents had to be officially translated into English, including the deeds of property owned her, the whole system has become a sort of madness, which seems the way of the world at present Enjoy your Wednesday I need another cognac already
It's so nice when we can find our places and moments of peace during all the chaos Terry and it seems like you are able to do that quite well. Have a blessed day.
I love porches. Our little cottage has a small one which is plenty big enough for just the two of us and a visitor or two if you like cozing up together. I loved the older homes that have the wrap around porches or even just a porch that is like a large living area like in the pictures above. These days most people don't have the time to visit inside your home....much less on a porch. Sometimes though I dream of having a large porch like in the pics above and I envision my daughters and our grandkids all gathering with us there to enjoy time with each other. Most new homes have patios, but that's not the same as a porch to me and while I have seen pictures of some beautiful patio areas...give me a big porch anyday. Today the sun is shining over here, there is just a slight chance of rain, and my Honey took the day off with me so we can run a few errands together. He doesn't know it yet but he's going grocery shopping with me as I am tired of trying to figure out what "we" want to eat all the time. Maybe he will notice some things he will feel like having me cook for a change. The older I get the less appetite I have for food and I think I read somewhere this is a natural thing as we age but I told my Honey yesterday that maybe we should go pick up a few dilly meals from Picadilly Cafeteria today to eat. The dilly meals are complete home cooked healthy meals including a meat, two vegetables and a roll or corn bread stick for a very good price that actually ends up cheaper than if you have to buy all the ingredients to cook that meal at home. And it will be a nice break to have someone else cooking for a time or two. Hope the sun is shining where you are today and that you find the blessings you can count today.
Happy Wednesday! In the 90's today but I go out early and the rest of the day is inside with the A/C on so itvreally doesn't matter. One good thing about living alone is the option of never cooking if you don't feel like it. I seldom feel like it anymore. Did enough for two lifetimes as a wife and mother. My hubby loved his Hungarian home cooked meals and I was happy to please him with my great cooking skills. I had other skills also but just talking about cooking now. My ex liked cooking but I didn't care for his cooking so that was just one more negative in that relationship....I think secretly he was trying to fatten me up and that made me angry.
I know if my husband leaves this earth before I do...I'm done with cooking except if I reallly feel like it. Which basically, with my sweet Honey is how it really is now anyway! I just make alot at one time so we can have "encores" for a few days.
Autumn can bring such beautiful colors forth in nature too. If I can't be at the beach, then lakes on the second best places I love to be. I actually enjoy being able to go fishing in the lakes more than I do going swimming in the ocean. Do you live where Autumn brings out beautiful colors everywhere to? We have also been blessed with a new member in our family. My nephew and his wife have a new baby boy and we are all thrilled that both mother and child did just fine through the delivery and birth.