I'm Too Young to be This Old

FOURTH GRANDCHILD

FIRST GRANDCHILD 2004

MY PARENTS & BROTHERS & SISTERS 2000

RED SQUARE WITH THOMAS 1993

MOM & DAUGHTERS

BROWNIE LEADER 33 YEARS

DISNEY

WITH THE BOYS

WITH JENNIFER 25 YEARS OLD

PREGNANT WITH CHARLIE 20 YEARS OLD

DATING 1976

I started this blog for my grandchildren. So that they could go back and see what my life was like as they were growing up. Lately I haven't been posting much because I'm having a hard time being "entertaining". I guess I should just spit it out and say I'm a little depressed of late. I'm actually having some small anxiety attacks when thinking about the future.

So where is it all coming from? Tom. He and his doctors have decided that he can't go back to work. EVER. That means disability RETIREMENT. I'm scared and confused. This is not what we planned our 50's to be. I can't even believe I'm saying our FIFTIES. When did we get old? Aren 't we supposse to get wiser with age? I don't feel like I have. I'm still making mistakes and I don't know all the answers.

A Sleep Over with John Robert

We spent a long week end with Wyatt so we needed a little "catch up" time with our Jack so his parents let him spend the night. When Mommy dropped him off he happily waved to her and said "bye bye Mamma see you tomorrow". Of course I had to stick my head out the door to make sure his mamma heard.

What meal with Grams & Pops isn't complete without ice cream for dessert. "PaPa" made spaghetti ( he had three helpings! Tom was worried he would throw a fit when he cut him off but he just smiled and got down) He had to wash his hands after his fudgsicle so we thought it would be great to splash the water at Pops but look at MY shirt.
PILLOW FIGHT!We weren't planning on giving him a bath since he's had some ugly dry skin this winter but we had a slight accident with Grams' beer. I was watching him as he picked up my glass right next to me but I still couldn't stop him. Maybe I even caused him to dump it down his front with my loud "STOP!"We do have plenty of toys for them to play with but they all seem to like my two sets of matryoshka dolls that I got in Russia in 1993 I looked on E-bay to get the kids each their own set and can get the Russian leaders for ten bucks! I thought I had a "collectible" Oh Well.Look at the big boy walking down the steps by himself to throw away his diaper. Jen is starting to potty train him and I really do think he's ready. Mommy says he sleeps from 7:30 to 7:30 but we didn't put him to bed until 8:45 and he was up at 6:30. The plan was to go to the Waffle House for breakfast but Grams & Pops weren't quite ready that early so he had some fruit to tide him over. Then he and I played until 8 when HE insisted on getting "PaPa" out of bed too.

Believe it or not he did a pretty good job picking up his food with two spoons. Mommy said he was tired of eggs but he enjoyed sharing "PaPa's"

He wouldn't tell us what he wanted to drink so we got him chocolate milk. Who doesn't like chocolate milk? Jack didn't, this day anyway. He preferred PaPa's orange juice. I think it wouldn't have mattered what it was as long as it was PaPa's. I used the chocolate milk in my coffee and it was surprisingly good.

Then we went to play with Ella (Ella was his first word by the way). Uncle Tommy & Ella took him to meet his Mommy at the library and WE rested.

A Week in Pictures

Another busy week at Grams and Pop's house.

The highlights were visiting Ohio for my Godson's, (our great nephew, Caius) baptism

and some wonderful time with Wyatt but not enough pictures.