WHAT

There comes a time when you.....".are only you'.....either from divorce, death of a mate or all the children flown the nest and have a life of their own.....which you work all your life for....but are never ready for that day.....I have found the answer to this is ...... TO LIKE YOURSELF....... which allows you not to depend on anyone......Alone  can be a scary word....that is no fun for anyone....but happens to most sometime in their life.....Thanks to wonderful grandchildren.....many of my years have been shared with a grandchild.  Tiff for five and a half years....kennedy for three years....and now Brayden till Libby can get through school.......

I guess this is God's plan as I see it happening to many of my dear friends.  Pam mentioned DON had a heart attack......but I guess I am not in the loop as no one called to tell me and Brayden just called to see if  I'd heard from his folks....and well what do you do when ....well anyway call little sister.....my go to......for comfort.

JUST BRAGGING

Each of my grandchildren.....is part of me....and I hope they each got one of my best features.....but most of all....a love of life and a heart of gratitude....Looking back over my almost 88 years I have been there....done that.  Loved growing up with the support of wonderful parents.....family and friends.  I had a "best friend"....Janet Brown....we shared everything!  As you know...two heads are better than one.....what one didn't think of....the other one did.  So many boyfriends, popular in school...loved to dance .....and just loved getting up every morning.

Then Janet married her high school boy friend and I went on to college....I had a goal in life...to be a stewardess but you had to be 21.....so two years of college at BYU....and a year in Denver as a steno at BIRKHART STEEL CO....another best friend who liked to danced every night at Laurey Air Force Base as I also did and we had a life of fun and fancy free.  I interviewed at six airlines to be an Airline Stewardess and took the first one that offered me a job....Loved....loved flying...and after 2 and a half years met a pilot and got married.....we had three darling daughters and after 30 years he walked out...but we traveled enjoyed our many friends and raised such good girls.  Being single met ANN a travel agent  and I began seeing the world....with experiences and adventures you cannot believe....we wanted it all...by then more grandchildren...9 in all.....and life only got better watching them grow up and get married.....go off on LDS missions....go off to college and grow into wonderful people...yes like their gram ......I was a concierge at the DOUBLE TREE HOTEL for five years and did some volunteer work and kept busy with bridge,.....Mexican Train.....and loving my grandkids....and now we come to seeing the grandkids grow up to be wonderful people......I am very proud of...no one in trouble with the law.....out of wedlock babies....drug addicts....gay or leisbians....we have had a couple of divorced.....but what can say about that.....some religious.....some not.....I have also been there. I have had good health....which I hope they inharit.  Thank you GOD....

A WINNER.....

TO BRAYDEN

When God shows you the way, you don't need to see the whole staircase.... sometimes all you need is a giant leap of faith to get started....... then your way ahead will keep unfolding.......Don't let those limiting beliefs and over whelming excuses stop you to where you are destined to be.  

"FOR MY THOUGHTS ARE NOT YOUR THOUGHTS.....NEITHER ARE YOUR WAYS MY WAYS..SAITH THE LORD."  ISAIAH 55:8

NEVER GIVE UP OR LISTEN TO OTHERS...YOU AND I BELIEVE YOU CAN AND YOU WILL.....FULL FILL YOUR DREAMS.

MY GRIEF......

Grief....I have discovered.....is only another form of sadness...but there is no other side of sadness...you just absorb it...adjust and accept what you have to .....to get through it,,,,,yes you never finish grief....50 years ago my mother died of cancer.....and especially on her birthday or day she died... grief comes storming back with all the wonderful memories of that person.  A song....a smell...a memory.... can bring that person back to you and the grief of missing them.

50 YEARS AGO....YESTERDAY......

DEAR MOM......50 YEARS AGO .....YESTERDAY ON FEBRUARY 23rd GOD TOOK YOU HOME TO HIM......50 YEARS LATER I STILL MISS YOU SO MUCH......WHY DO SOME PEOPLE NOT CARE FOR THEIR MOTHER'S? ......They can live 10 minutes from them and for five years act as if they never had a mother.....am I a failure?   Yes, I still cry tears for a child who abandening her mother....but God knows how much I love her and miss her.....Also....thanks mom for picking out a grandchild to be born on your birthday...... August 16th to send me Brayden....who takes such good care of me at almost 88....if he can't get me .......texts a neighbor or his mom to see if I am ok..so nice to have someone who cares....I also have my sister, neighbors and daughters that take good care of me. No....I am not happy about getting old and needy...but thankful for so many wonderful people in my life. Happy Birthday Mother

AVOID TRASH DAY....

A new warning for all us old folks......

Seems there are a lot of jokes about "the elderly" going around lately.....Or is it as you get older you start recognizing your self more......

Finally starting to feel better....after two doctors declared I was going to live.....I don't do sick very well.  Had a nice day with the kids.....shopping at Costco and had lunch there.....then home for a nap and a few chores.    and another weekend slipping by.

A QUILT OF MANY COLORS....

Ken showing off his new quilt I made for Valentine's Day....

Ken saw a T-SHIRT quilt his mother had made for his Dad before they got married.....and gathered up a bag  of his old T-shirts and wanted a quilt made.....so Sher passed them on to me...."the quilt maker".....and it took awhile but I got Ken a quilt finally....As you can see ....Ken is into Sharks....so this could be his Shark Quilt.  Fun doing fun things for your grandkids and seems they never get too old to love...."grammie's quilts"...