March 6, 2009

• HELP!!!

  “I’m stuck in Facebook and can’t get out!!!”

  LOL

  Can we say “addicted”??

  I truly am still reading you all via e-mail subscription digest.  I still enjoy seeing what is going on with all of you—so I haven’t forgotten you.

  This last week or so, more and more family members have “friended” me on Facebook.  Son, Jeff, started a couple weeks ago, and he did a lot more searching for family members than I did.  Most of them found me through him.  He put up a bunch of photos from their travels.  I don’t have any of them uploaded onto Xanga yet, but will share them with you when I do.  It has been fun to reconnect with them all, and see pictures of them and their families.

  Talked to Jeff  the Wednesday after our anniversary.  He called to wish us a belated Happy Anniversary.  I have to tell you a funny story that he told me.  He is 46—well, almost 47.  He took the kids shopping at Ross’s.  Gretta loves shopping the discount stores—she is a teenager, after all.  After leaving the store, Jeff was looking at the receipt, and started to turn back and go in and give them a piece of his mind!!  They had the “nerve” to give him a Senior Discount!!!    Then he realized he saved $4.00—and changed his mind!  LOL!

  It is kinda creepy to think that my kids are almost old enough in some places to get a Senior discount.  It doesn’t seem THAT long ago I started getting them!  Where do the years go????

  Today, it is 43 degrees at 1:30 pm.  Bright and sunny, too.  But Sunday is supposed to bring another round of messy weather again.  Ken is still scraping ice off of the driveway from the last mess.  This is the time of year it can get warm enough during the day to start melting, and then freeze at night.  Down at the bottom of the driveway, where all the water runs down to, it can get pretty thick with ice.  But it gives him something to do.  He has to get outside and do something every day.  Not me. 

  On Sunday we will go to Lutheran High for their Sunday Showcase.  They have a lunch, entertainment, and silent and oral auctions.  Grandson, Avery, is in the singing/dancing group, and will be entertaining for a while.  We haven’t been able to see him perform yet this year, and this could be our only opportunity.  I probably won’t bid on anything.  Sure don’t NEED anything!!  But we always see a lot of people there that we know, so it is a fun thing to do at this time of year.  Helps get me out of my doldrums!!

  Heard that grandson, Jordan ,23, who is the only grand from Jeff’s family still living in Wisconsin (across state in LaCrosse), is going to be in a wedding party the end of April.  It is a “destination wedding”, being held in Jamaica.  So he and his girlfriend are flying down there for it.  Know they will have a wonderful time.  What an opportunity!

  Our oldest grandson, Jacob, will be taking his first “boards” for eventually becoming a Chiropractor soon.  I think he said there are a total of 6 tests.  He doesn’t graduate for another 1 1/2 yrs, but has to start the testing process already.

  Local granddaughter, Lydia, who will be graduating from college this May as an Athletic Trainer, has been accepted at the hospital in the town just S. of us.  They had given her scholarships for the last 3 yrs (or was it 2?), with the provision that if there was a position open when she graduated, she would work for them for 3 (or 2?) yrs.  In this economy, she is fortunate to have been able to get a job right away!!  If they had not had an opening for her, the scholarship would have been forgiven.

      My stepdad, age 93 1/2, in Arizona, has been living in his own apartment in an Assisted Living facility for several years.  He had been having a problem lately with one leg swelling, and landed in the hospital.  Then he went into the nursing home section of  his facility for what was supposed to be a few days.  He also had to be kept on oxygen.  His dementia had gotten worse, he was very belligerant, and he fought the oxygen tube all the time.  They (staff and psychiatrist) decided that he just could not go back to living alone in his own apartment there.  It took a few days, but they made room for him in the Alzheimer’s unit there.  My sis had to take care of all of this, for which I am eternally grateful.  She is 10 yrs. older than I, and has her hands full right now, too.  They just sold their winter mobile home there in Scottsdale, and bought another one on the west side of Phoenix— in order to be nearer their daughter and granddaughter and their families.  So they have also been packing and getting ready for their move the end of this month—-along with taking care of all of this with Dad.  At least this all happened while they were still there in the valley.  Dad is settled into the Alzheimers’ unit.  They will get everything in place at their new home, and then go back up to their main home in the mountains for the summer—4 hours away.

   I think that brings you up to date with us.

  Ken just brought the mail in.  Would you believe I have 6 catalogs to look through??  That should keep me busy until suppertime!  I just have to keep repeating to myself—”I don’t need anything.  I don’t need anything!!!!!!!”  LOL

  Have a great weekend everyone!!  Love you all!!

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

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