[Colleen]

in reply to: It's November-Time To Count Our Blessings. #51475

Hi Adele, Gail, Barbara and DD and anyone else that I forgot.
I am not writing much tonight. Have a few things that I need to get done still tonight. If I do not talk to you before Thursday have a great Thanks giving and enjoy being with whoever you are with. I will be thinking of all of you and hoping that you are not eating too much food lol
Have a good one
Colleen

[Colleen]

in reply to: It's November-Time To Count Our Blessings. #51426

Hi Adele,
Your pies look really good. You are such a good baker. I do not think that there is anything that you cannot bake. Is that the only pies that you are baking for Thanks giving?
The picture that you made for Tillie is really pretty. She will really like that. My oldest sister loves light houses. She use to live in California and I do not know if that is where she saw them and fell in love with them. It is good to hear that Tillie is doing okay. I guess that she is ready to celebrate Thanks giving with all of you. I wonder if the two of you will be wearing the same top again this year. It is funny how you two end up wearing the same tops.
I have heard that boys are a lot easier to deal with then girls. Right now my girls are getting along really well. That goes on for awhile and then they get mad at each other. Then they all start to call me to tell me their side of the story. I have to stay neutral and not say a word. Try to get them to get them to work it out. It is not any easier when they get older.
My poor mom has broke with a rash. They do not know what caused it and they just keep telling her to put this lotion on it. It is not helping though. So she is trying to figure out if she is eating something that is causing it or if there is something in the house. That would be horrible to break out like that and not know why.
Well that is about all from here. Have a good night.
Colleen

[Colleen]

in reply to: It's November-Time To Count Our Blessings. #51424

Hi Barbara,
Try not to let Sarah get you down. That was a terrible thing for her to say about Jerry. Isn’t her dad afraid to hold the baby? You are right about not telling Jerry. That would break his heart. Just try to have a good holiday and not let her get you down. That must have hurt Neal and Joey that she said that.
You are having Thanks giving on Saturday? What ever day you can get together with Joey is the best day to do it. You can celebrate Thanks giving on any day that your family can be there. That would be the best time. I hope that you and Jerry and Joey just enjoy the day and eat all the turkey you want. That is my motto for this year. I am not going to let any of the family upset me and I am going to do things like I always have and if they do not want to come that is fine with me. Life is too short to let things like that bother me. I also refuse to watch the news. I do not want to hear anymore of that stuff either. It is just a downer and so why listen. After the holidays will be time enough to listen to that junk.
I hope that you feel better and the antibiotics are working. Take care of yourself. Get some extra rest when you can.
Colleen

[Colleen]

in reply to: It's November-Time To Count Our Blessings. #51367

Hi Adele,
That stocking is so cute. You are so good at doing things like that. I wish that I had your talent. There is not anything that you cannot do. You make your own curtains and cook and make things for your grands. They are lucky to have you as a grandmother.
I still have to get the house ready for all the guests on Thursday. I have to baby proof the house so Aliza will not get into everything. She is a character. I have not seen her for awhile. It will be nice to see her on Thursday. I have a rag doll that I think that I will give her. That should keep her busy for a long time. Babies are so much fun and she is growing so fast. It will not be long and she will be a year old. That is just unbelievable.Time sure does fly by.
The girls have asked for a few things of ours. My youngest daughter wants my grandmothers dishes and my oldest grand wants my good dishes. It is hard to believe that they are over 40 years old. I look at them and I think was it that long ago that I got those.
I am so glad that Steph has decided to come to the house for dinner. Maybe her and Bobby will make it up when she is there. Girls can hold a grudge for a long time. I wonder if boys do that. We had three of them and they were a handful at times. We were lucky that not all three went thru their teen years together. That must have been interesting for you with a boy and a girl. They were not jealous of each other and did not get into each others things. I do not know why all this stuff is going thru my head. I just keep going back to when the kids were younger. Old age is creeping up.
How is Tillie doing? I guess she is excited for the holidays. You are so lucky to have her there with you. Does she do any cooking for the holidays? Wondered if she has a favorite dish that all of you liked that she does every year. That would be fun to have a dinner with all the generations fixing their favorite dish. That would be fun for one holiday.
Well that is about all from here have a good night.
Colleen

[Colleen]

in reply to: It's November-Time To Count Our Blessings. #51365

Hi Gail,
I am really glad that Brent is doing well and he has a new girlfriend and is happy. It is hard to think of our children being so far away from home and being by them self. Sounds like he found a really nice girl and he is starting to move on. He really needed that.
I am not that familiar with New Mexico. We should go and visit my nephew and his family they come here and stay whenever they come home. It is really nice to see them. We are missing the boys they are growing so fast. That is hard to go to places where it is so dense and boring. We are so use to hills and trees all over the place.
I hope that you sister and your sil had good trips. That is nice that they got to go to those places. I hope that you sister got to go to Paris. I hear that is something to see. Can you imagine all of the museums that they have there. That would be fun to see. So much to see there.
I have my Santa dishes to use during the Christmas season. They are nice because you can put them in the dish washer. I do not have many dishes that do not go into the dish washer anymore. It is so nice not to have to wash dishes by hand. Now if they just had pans that would do the cooking for you we would have it made. Maybe a robot that would put the food in the pans and do the cooking all we would have to do is tell it what needs to be done. I am dreaming again.
I gave out all gift cards last year and it was not the same as having them open their gifts. So was glad to get gifts this year. It just did not seem like there were enough presents under the tree. Everything went so quickly and they did not have anything to play with when it was over. I am so glad that we have little ones again.
Well that is about all from here. Have a great night.
Colleen

[Colleen]

in reply to: It's November-Time To Count Our Blessings. #51298

Hi Gail,
Welcome back!!!!!!!! It sounds like you had a really good time. It is fun to play board games with the kids and to beat them. They always think that they are going to show us. lol The way my nephew talks about New Mexico it must be a really pretty place. Does Brent still live near Farmington New Mexico? That is where my nephew is right now. He loves it there. So do his boys. They like that there is snow there. They use to live in California and they did not like it there. The boys are funny. They are really young so they have funny ideas right now. One of them is 6 and the other is 4. They are at the right age to enjoy things.
You were lucky that you did not do much damage to your van. I do not back in at the gas station pump either. The way I back up I would probably hit the gas pump and blow the whole place up. I hope that the couple in the RV was okay. That would be scary. Danyielle does not live right in St. Louis she lives in the county. So she does not have all that much traffic not like they have. They have enough though. I do not driving up there either. There are a lot of trucks and they do not always watch what they are doing. Ron is better at it then I am.
I bet you were glad to finally get a good nights sleep. Barking dogs and fire alarms. That would be enough noise to drive anyone crazy. That must have been an interesting hotel.Bet you were glad to get home and sleep in your own bed. That is one thing that I miss when we go on a trip. I miss my bed. One of these days we are going to make it to some of the places that we want to go to. We just have to find someone to stay here and watch after our animals. Maybe Kylie will do that for a summer job. She could just stay here and have the place to herself.
I am at a loss for what I am going to get for the kids. I really hope that we figure it out soon. I thought about giving Danyielle and Kevin a nice gift certificate to a nice restaurant. Mandy and Andy I will just give gift cards to and Melissa wants pots and pans and that is what she will get. I think that she wants the Rachel Ray pans. I am not sure though. I may just get them and if she does not like them she is just out of luck.lol No she can exchange them for what she wants.
Well that is about all from here. I need to go and start dinner. Have a good evening.
Colleen

[Colleen]

in reply to: It's November-Time To Count Our Blessings. #51296

Hi Adele,
I have quit listening to the news. It just gets everyone upset and that does no one any good. I want to be happy for the holidays and am doing everything that I can to stay happy. I listen to Christmas carols on the radio now so that really puts me in a good mood. We have a radio station here that plays Christmas carols from now until the day after Christmas. So that makes it really nice. They started it a few years ago and have continued.
I bet you were really tired after doing all of that cleaning. I do not like having to clean out the china cabinet but it has to be done once in awhile. My one daughter has my crystal. I gave it to her when my mom gave her her good china. I thought that it would go with it. So it is nice because she uses it. We eat off of paper plates on Thanks giving because everyone wants to go to bed early so they can go shopping on Friday. So we do not have a lot of dishes to do. Christmas we eat off the good china. I also have some Christmas dishes that the kids eat on. That way my china will still be around for a lot longer. lol It has worked out really well. I still have a baby dish for Aliza to eat out of. It has all the animals on it and she will like that. That has gone thru all of my grands and my youngest daughter. It has been a good set. I think that my brother and his wife gave it to me for Melissa. So it has been around for a long time.
I give the apples to my doctors office. They all really like them. They are nice because you can cut them up and more then one person can eat them. That way everyone can enjoy them. I am hoping that I ordered enough. If they would move out of the building into the new one before Christmas it would be nice. Then I would have more then enough. I have to give them to all of the girls at the front desk. Then all the people in the back where my doctor is. It is the back doctor and I have seen all of the doctors that work back there. So I feel obligated.
I hope that everything works out for Thanks giving and everyone comes. It would be so nice if they did.
Have a good evening
Colleen

[Colleen]

in reply to: It's November-Time To Count Our Blessings. #51156

Hi Barbara,
You are a good grandma. It is just that Sarah does not realize it yet. Neal knows it though and will do something more about it when he gets home. I would not do well with a dil. I just do okay with their husbands side of the family. They are trying to cut in on my holiday time with my family and that is not right. lol I really do take offense that they want my grands to be at their house on Christmas day. I know that Aliza is their grand daughter too but they need to let her come here for the holidays. I have told my daughter this and she just laughs at me. She is so mean. I am glad that you said that about them doing something for you. It is about time that they did. It does feel good to say things like that once in awhile. Glad that you got that off your chest.
I do not like going to the grocery store anymore. Ron wants to go to this store that I do not like and they never have all that I need. So then we have to go to another store to get the rest of the things. It drives me crazy. We just have to go to the drive up window to pick our prescriptions. So that is not as bad. I always wonder why when they are a pharmacy they are all the way in the back of the store instead of the front. It would just make a lot more sense. I guess though if they were in the front you would not buy as much.
It is hard to take when your mom does not recognize you. At least she thinks that he is her brother. That was nice that you fixed her room up like that for Christmas. I bet it looks really nice. The place where she is staying is really a nice place. I am glad that you and Jerry found that for her.
That would be a hard decision to make. Is there anyway that Joey could go with you? Well if he cannot figure this all out then it won’t be a problem. It would be nice if he could come home but when they are in school like that it is hard. It will all work out so do not worry about it that much. What ever happens will happen and you just have to roll with it.
Well that is about all from here. Have a good night.
Colleen

[Colleen]

in reply to: It's November-Time To Count Our Blessings. #50961

Hi Sue,
Hope that you get this fixed soon. We miss hearing from you.
Colleen

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