[Colleen]

in reply to: It's December! Happy Holidays Everyone! #52260

Hi DD,
It sounds like you are going to get a lot of snow. They do come on a lot when we get snow. Mostly to tell the road conditions. We probably get more snow then you do. It is nice that you have friends there and that you can get together with and spend the cold days with. One of you will have to make a big pot of chili or soup and all of you get together and eat it together.
I like the pictures that you posted. THey are so cute. The pictures that you took are probably really good. I love to watch the snow. It will be fun to see what our puppy thinks of the snow. This will be his first year in the snow. Does Jewel like the snow? That is funny that she took over your blanket. They are soft and warm. She is a smart cat.
We are just about done decorating. It took me two days to find my Nativity set. We forgot that we put it in the plastic container. We are really getting scattered brained. Finally got it up and now it looks more like Christmas. It is funny how certain decorations make it seem more like Christmas then others. Now that it is up and all my Santa’s are out we are ready to go.
Well that is about all from here. Have a good night and stay warm.
Colleen

[Colleen]

in reply to: It's December! Happy Holidays Everyone! #52258

Hi Adele,
That is good that Gary is feeling better. I can imagine that you are worried when he gets sick. He seems to get kidney infections really easily. Diabetes does that to people. It is a nasty disease.
I am glad that the pulled pork turned out really good. That was funny about Aizen not wanting any protein. With all the energy that he has you would not think that he would need more. lol I bet that he made Gary smile when he brought peanuts into him. That was so sweet. At least he made sure that Gary would not starve.
I do not go to the doctor until the 22nd of December. It is not in St. Louis it is in Cape Gerardo. So it is in the opposite direction. It is just about as far from here as St. Louis. Any of the really good doctors are in one of those cities. So we always have to drive a long ways to see one of them.
How are you feeling now? I hope that the pain in your neck and shoulders are gone now. Did you have to have another shot or was the one all that they gave you? I am asking a lot of questions.
Christine doing okay. She said that she had not heard from you for awhile. I will tell her that you were asking about her. We have adopted Christine into our family. I am her adopted mom. She is such a sweet girl and the whole family loves her. We miss her since she has not been able to come to visit for awhile. I just hope that she will get to come back again soon. I know that it is expensive and hard with her health issues to make the trip though.
Well that is about all from here. Have a great night.
Colleen

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in reply to: It's December! Happy Holidays Everyone! #52256

Hi Gail,
I missed that last night. I really wanted to see it. Maybe they will show it again. Did Derek have a very big part on there? I saw him in the Macey day parade. They did a skit from that show.
I can imagine you kids trying not to laugh out of respect for the priest. It is hard to do when you are a kid. My mom and dad did not have a priest come to there house until they moved and all of us kids were out of school. He was from my dads old neighborhood when they were kids. I think he was younger then he was though. It is funny how people get together when they are older.
It seems like every time she goes to the doctor they find something else wrong with her. We will have to just keep praying that it stops for her soon. How did your doctors appointment go today? I hope that they did not find anything else going on with you or have to change your medicine. It is usually a mess when they change medicine. There always seem to be problems with that. I will be glad when this visit with the specialist is over with and we know what is going on. It seems like all of us are spending a lot of time at doctors offices.
I still miss living in Rockford. I really liked it there and so did the girls. Ron says that he does not miss it at all. I do not know if Melissa remembers as much about it as the two older girls do. She was pretty little when we moved.
Well that is about all from here. Have a good night.
Colleen

[Colleen]

in reply to: It's December! Happy Holidays Everyone! #52157

Hi DD,
I hope that the rain did not get into anyones apartment. That would be a mess. I wonder if they are going to be able to do anything with all the rain coming and the cold and ice. It is so aggravating when they do not do the job right in the first place. Hope they get if fixed soon.
I love to watch it snow. It is so pretty and where we are it lands on the trees and they look so pretty. Especially the pines they seem to look the prettiest. People do not know how to drive in the snow here either. There are a lot of accidents and we have snow all winter some years. So people here do not have any excuse. It is just so nice not having to drive in it unless we have to. So far all they are predicting for us is rain.
I love all the pictures that you posted again. The houses in the pictures are so pretty. I really like the old big houses they were so pretty. I just would not want to live in one now there is too much cleaning to do in them.
I am not done decorating yet either. Hope to get it done this week. I have to get the rest of my stuff out. Well that is about all from here. Take care of yourself and hope that your cold is gone soon.
Colleen

[Colleen]

in reply to: It's December! Happy Holidays Everyone! #52155

Hi Adele,
This site has really been acting up. Sometimes you can write a response and it will disappear. It has been happening to all of us. I hope that they are not going to give up on this site. We have been on here for a long time and we enjoy chatting to each other. It would be a shame if they let this go.
I am not done decorating yet either. I do not think that I will ever get done. We have a Christmas party to go to Saturday. It is Ron’s family Christmas so we have to go. This is the second one that I have been to this year. We had our Christmas lunch the other day that we have every year with friends. It is just a bunch of woman.
Doctor appointments get tiresome sometimes. I have one on the 21st and the 22nd of this month. It is a lot right before Christmas. I had to keep the one because it is the specialist that I have been waiting to see. His office called me and set it up today. They will not do anything until after Christmas I am sure. They will be going away for the holidays and so that will take care of that for this year. I think that I would rather wait now since Christmas is so close.
That is good that the shot took away 50% of the pain. Hope the next shot will help even more. It will be nice to have both shoulders not hurting. It is hard to get anything done if your shoulders and neck are hurting. Has the Christmas baking started yet or will there be any since you are hurting so bad. Maybe the kids will come and help you this time.
That is great that Marissa’s car is covered by insurance. Sometimes it is hard to get them to pay. I hope they find the people that did that. That was a terrible thing to do.
We do pulled pork in the crock pot all the time. It is a lot easier to do it that way. Every one will really like it and they will not be able to tell that is how you cooked it. I think that the meat is more tender when you fix it that way.
I hope that you had a good time with Steph and family tonight. It is nice when they come over to visit. It must have been fun to have the grands over also. We have not seen Aliza for awhile. Hope to see her soon.
You have a lot of lunches to go to the next couple of weeks. It is fun to get together with friends for lunch. It is nice to go out and relax and just enjoy yourself.
Well that is about all from here. Have a good night.
Colleen

[Colleen]

in reply to: It's December! Happy Holidays Everyone! #52152

Hi Gail,
The nun did have to go to other schools. She was the music teacher for all the grade schools in our area. I never did figure out why she traveled around like that but that is the way they did things back then. That really makes me feel old saying back then. It is true though so that is how it is. Some of the nuns use to be fun. My parents would have them over for bbqs and things like that and they would play badminton and volley ball and things like that. They were a lot more fun then they were in school It was also embarrassing to have the nuns at our house. You know how kids are about being teachers pet. It was just something that they did and it was nice for the nuns I guess.
It was probably an infomercial but he did not tape the whole thing. He just taped the part showing the parts that came with the mixer. It had the phone number to call to order on there also. We will see what happens because you can never tell what he is going to do. That is one thing that he may get upset about is if he thinks that I do not use it enough. So I may have to make bread and cream puffs all the time.lol
My parents lived in Dutzow when we lived in Rockford and Ron’s parents live in Greenville. They neither one lived close to the other and never did. We lived in a suburb of St. Louis when I was a kid. We lived there until I was out of high school and married for a couple of years. Then they decided to move to Dutzow because the neighborhood was getting pretty bad where they lived. That was a shame too. It use to be a really nice neighborhood but then they started having some rough characters moving in that area. So they felt like they had to move. My dad had a dream house that he wanted to build and that is what they did. It was a Spanish type of house. They lived there until my dad passed away. Down where Ron lived in Greenville there was not a lot of jobs there so they all moved up to Rockford or Rochelle. THey worked at Green Giant or what that factory was there. Ron worked in Rockford and when the jobs were bad in Mo. he decided that we should move there. He knew that he could get a job there. So we moved there.
Christine is still having trouble with her foot. I think that she wrote something on here today. She is having a problem with her eye. She has a torn retina and her eye is hemorrhaging. I think that she wrote about it on here. I hope that she gets good care.
Well that is about all from here have a good night.
Colleen

[Colleen]

in reply to: It's December! Happy Holidays Everyone! #52117

Hi Gail,
That was a lot of snow for a dusting. We just got the rain guess you got all the snow. We will probably get our share later on in the year. We do not get that much until the end of December and the beginning of January. It will be interesting to see how much we will get this year. Were the kids happy to have the snow? I bet they were ready to go play in the snow.
This was when we were in Catholic school. We had music all the time but she was a special teacher and came only every two months. She was an older nun so it was probably hard for her to get around like she did. I do not know why she did it that way. She should have let the ones who couldn’t draw just make squiggly lines and that would have been good enough. We could have made lines that looked like the ocean or lines that would look like a storm. She just did not know that we had that type of talent. lol
That would be nice to make the thick battered things again. Your pound cakes sound really good. I am not really good at kneading bread anymore so that would be nice for that also. Ron put the commercial for the kitchen aid on the dvr so I could see it. So had to watch it. He is going to call about it but do ot know if he will get it or not. He may just talk about it until after Christmas. You never know about him.lol Maybe he will cut out a picture of it and put it under the tree. That would be my luck.
We did a lot of traveling on Christmas when we lived in Illinois. We use to travel from our house to my mom and dad’s and then down to his mom and dad’s. We would stop at my parents first and drop off the gifts from Santa so the kids would not notice them and then go to Ron’s parents. They celebrated on Christmas eve and my family did it on Christmas day. So it really worked out nice. The kids got to see both families.
Well that is about all from here. Have a good night.
Colleen

[Colleen]

in reply to: It's December! Happy Holidays Everyone! #52100

Hi Sue,
It is a shame that parents are trying to take over the library. They need to read all of the classics and do a lot of things that they do not do on the computer. I never did like letting the kids take calculators to school for math class. All that taught them was to take out a machine and figure that all out. They do not use their heads for anything.
Why don’t they just let the kids play sports without bringing anything else into it. Sounds like they worked really hard to get where they are and should be given the praise that they deserve. How sad. I am glad that they won.
Well that is about all from here. Have a good night.
Colleen

[Colleen]

in reply to: It's December! Happy Holidays Everyone! #52098

Hi Gail,
Ron did ask me what I wanted for Christmas. I can tell him but that does not mean that is what I am going to get. He saw a Kitchenaid mixer on tv today and was talking about how neat it was. I have been asking for one for three or four years but still do not have one. He liked all the attachments it had. I asked him when he thought that I would make my own pasta. That has never happened so maybe he is going to take it up for a hobby. I want one that will mix pastry dough that is what I am interested in. I use to make cream puffs but since I got arthritis in my fingers it is hard to mix the batter. It would be nice to knead bread also.
I do love to go to the art gallery in St. Louis but do not know a lot about the painters. When we were in grade school we had a music teacher that would come once every two months and she would play music and we had to draw a picture of what it made us feel like. That is one thing that I could not do and that is draw. So mine were always really simple and sometimes I wished it could be a picture of a person sleeping from getting bored. I could stand to listen to the music but not the drawing. I was just a weird kid. The music teacher was always a nun that went around to different schools.
We use to do the every other year with Danyielle but now that she goes to her boyfriends family she stopped doing it. Melissa does not have the room and Mandy does not have a table. So everyone comes here. I would go anywhere they wanted me to go but they just want to come here. I do enjoy going to the base on the 4th. They have the best fireworks display and band there. We really had a good time when we went there last year. We will do it next year also if they are still there.
I cannot believe that you had snow today. We had rain all day and it has been really cold. They are not predicting snow here yet but we will see. We are supposed to have more rain on Tuesday. It seems awfully cold for rain hope it does not freeze. That would be a mess.
Well that is about all from here. Have a great night.
Colleen

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