END OF MONTH....OF 2021

This picure of Bernie at Bidens Innogeration has gone wild....most my family will not remember the tv program with this silly old lady who beat every one with her purse....but i do! An approprite picture for him.....Our world is in such a mess with not much hope for good news ahead.....pray....pray....pray I can be strong for my family and me to get through it.....I love my family so much and thankgoodness they are strong good people....Sherrie dropped by today to drop Bray off and said they ran into Don and Tony at Costco and he had another heart attack last month.....but still kicking....will be 92 in June.....Sooo sad.  Church tomorrow.....need to start back.....and then a new month!!!!!

 

JANUARY....A LONG HARD MONTH....

JANUARY.....has been a long hard month for me!!!  My arthritis has really kicked in......I have taken bottles of tylanol and spent hours on the heating pad as it has been a very cold month....with no snow!  Seems more like March than JANUARY.......I have a morning nap and then after lunch an after noon nap till Dr Phil time and get to bed by eight or eight-thirty....and I am still tired......or depressed or bored staying home doing nothing......thank goodness an hour or two with Libby and Brayden at dinner time...oh yes....and Khloe....the puppy.

Yestersday Pam and her neighbor Lesia wanted to bring lunch over and play cards...what a fun diversion.....and Sher dropped by on her way to their cabin......today....nada.  I have just got to realize it is not up to my kids to keep me entertained in my old age.....they have lives too! Can hardly wait till spring!!!!!

 

GREAT-GRANDKIDS

Kids....grandkids.....great-grandkids.......

Karrie's Lilly is two and we are just getting to know her.....Thanksgiving...Christmas....Richie's birthday party......She calls her grandma Karrie Nana and has come to know me as Gigi...for Great-grandma....then there is Sherrie......When Karrie ask her if she liked Sherrie she said no I like Nana Gigi?  Karrie could not figure it out at first....then we found out because Sherrie looks just like her Nana Karrie and was always with me Gigi.....she calls Sherrie....NANA GIGI!!!! AND loves her......which thrills Sherrie.  Little ones have their own vocabulary.....I called chicken....gillygaws and overalls ..hobbiehabbies......figure that out?

 

NICCI AND GRAM

My second granddaughter Nicci.......nine years ago when I went to MN to her wedding....In the past nine years she has moved down to Seattle and she works for Microsoft.....and has a darling little boy named Tucker....they just bought a new house and their baby sitter just exposed them to COVID and they are in two weeks quartine.....but Bill just came down with the viris  has moved up stairs till he gets better.....good days and bad days seem to be upon us all. .......we are still waiting for winter.....no snow or rain all month....more like March.

 

FOUR THINGS YOU CAN NEVER RECOVER

This made me stop and think of all the time I am wasting....in bed!  I can never get it back and I do not have that much time left in my life with 89 breathing down my neck......I do hurt with artheritis and bed and a heating pad certainly help the pain.....but viris and quarantine have not helped things.....we need people and projects in our lives....and to feel needed.....especially your children when they hit a bump in their lives....my good friend Shirley called today and had just got out of the hospital from a heart problem...lives alone and had to call 911 by herself.....this getting old stuff ain't no fun......Libby helped me get on a list for a viris vacination when Utah gets more vacine,,,,,which looks like the end of February....but at least I am on the list for the first shot....I figured that if our Prophet got a shot and he is a doctor that I would venture into one.

 

CUTE GRANDKIDS....

Cute grandkids Alex and Ashlyn.......now as Biden was sworn in as president yesterday our world will change in many ways and making a living for these two will not be like it was when I was their age......open boarders.....gun control....defund the police....abortion ok.....close oil fields and change our military standards......and much more.....I pray for them to be strong in mind,,,,body....and spirtually.  I just pray Biden lives out his 4 year term and that black bitch......never becomes president.......

 

SCARY

Let me tell you......every morning you wake up....can get out of bed......and enjoy another day on this earth.....thank god.

Yesterday my neighbor woke up, got up and then in the middle of the day.....was struck by Globel Amnesia....never heard of it......some how she called a friend .....but did not remember doing it.  The friend rushed over and took her to the hospital.....It seems you cannot remember anything for 12 to24 hours.....then you pop out of it and are normal again.....but you lose a couple of days of your life completely not remembering anything about it....really scarry when you live alone.  They do not know what causes it or what to do for it.

FEELING KINDA DOWN.....

This is what is left of me after 2020......physically and mentally I am a wreck.....my hair has gone grey......arthritis is taking over my body.....I don't want to eat or go anywhere.....BUT hopefully this too will pass when summer arrives......the viris is gone .......and BIDEN lives out his four year term so that black bitch and Polosie don't get into the presidency....My heart goes out to my grandchildren in raising a family and having a good life.......

We survived the house full of dogs last week.....and kinda miss them.....MIKE brought Ken to us this morning for three days....then the Christensons will pick him up in three days when they get home from St Thomas.....they have been looking for B and B property on that island.....

I say...Darren at 53 all your ducks should be in a row.....I bet you don't even know where your ducks are?"

Still clear and cold and no snow......weird winter.

HAPPY BIRTDAY LESLIE.....

77 YEARS AGO I GOT .....ANOTHER.....BABY SISTER.....I ALREADY HAD TWO OTHER LITTLE SISTERS AND WANTED A BABY BROTHER......BUT LOVED THIS LITTLE ONE AND IN THE PAST FEW YEARS WE HAVE HAD SO MUCH FUN TOGETHER.....TRAVELING THE WORLD.  LOVE THE TALKS WE HAVE AND KNOW I ALWAYS HAVE SOMEONE TO CALL WHEN I GET LONESOME....HAVE A HAPPY BIRTHDAY LES.

 

GONE TO THE DOGS....

Love this picture of the Christensons Chrstmas Eve.......Notice almost as many dogs as people....and guess what?  They are all coming in tonight to spend a few days wtith grandma Betty.....all but big RED in front....he and Lola got left home in the barn.....but Bray is bringing the other three in tonight.....our Khloe makes four......Libby offered to tend while the family vacationed.....but I am sure I will have my share of...."let the dogs out....let the dogs in"....routine......why can't I say NO.  My family are certainly dog people.....Pam has 2...Tiff 1....Nicci 1.....William 2.  Sherrie 2...Alex 3....Bray 1....Karrie 2....Richie 2.....Andrea 1! (17) in all.  Having clear cold and sunny winter weather......no snow for weeks.....not so good for my arthritis....hurt all the time....Had a very quiet weekend.

 

PERFECT FAMILY...

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It seems natural that evey MOTHER thinks she has a perfect family.....I do....Saturday Karrie had a birthday party for Richie B. with Sherrie, Ken and I invited....she entertains so beautifully and it was fun getting acquainted with Andrea's two little girls....who kept us entertained....my great-grandkids.  Sherrie and some of her family were off to ST. Thomas for a week or so. Pam came by Friday for a couple of hours....hadn't seen her since a couple of weeks before Thanksgiving....Then Mike dropped by for a visit....so nice to see family more....but still locked up and wearing masks most the time.....

 

HELP!!!!

O.K. Maybe I can stop and take another look at ME......I have come a long ways in this beautful country....I said The Pledge to the Flag.....the songs we learned about America the Beautiful ETC,  we knew the importance of the flag and had relatives that fought in the wars to keep America free....I bought stamps to put in a book for freedom each week in grade school and we got stamps in a book for one pair of shoes every six months per member...per family and gas, sugar, soap etc was rationed per family during the war....but we did it...and was glad to help out....BUT this.....the lying, sneaking, cheating,,,,has certainly got out of hand.....This President election has turned into a joke.....starting with the roten Clintons.......and the election of TRUMP.......think about the past four years.....The Democrates have been laying plans to turn our country into a lower country with Socialism!

 

I CAN NOT BELIEVE IT!

As I have been sitting here this after noon  watching the Republicans ralley round....storm.....and shoot one lady.ppo.... as they storm the Capital Building......I feel" the Constitution hanging by a thread" as forcast in the book of Mormon....but I am proud of the Republicans for finally trying to be the nice guys and let the Democrates get run out of office......It is to bad those of you hate ONE person so much    you sacrifice your country to get even......with him...  I am mad....I am Scared for my grandkids...I am disappointed....I hate Biden as much as many hate Trumph....and the black no good vice appointed president will some day be your President folks....good luck to open boarders.....defunded police....abortion the new birth control....guns control and goverment medical control etc.....SOCIALISM at its greatest.......this is indeed a dark day for many of us....Dear GOD....I will keep trying to believe you know what you are doing with this horrible thing and the viris....I know our country deserves a wake up....but we need help today.....in my almost 89 years ....this is the worsT!

 

ME.....

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I love it when people say....."I can't believe your that old".....cause I can't either!

This miserable viris pandemic shut down dying my hair,,,,now I am grey....but I think of it as a young grey....I move slower.....and like taking naps.....but all in all I am still the old me inside!

I enjoy my kids, grandkids and neighbors...I love movies and crafts and talking on the phone. Miss my bridge partys because of viris and no more groups. And especially my retail therapy....I do so love to shop.....and love clothes and jewlery......Oh yes and traveling.....I HOPE I NEVER CHANGE....

 

BEST THINGS IN LIFE.....

SO TRUE......

And the memory to keep enjoying all those memories you have made.....Being 16....so I could drive.....having three class rings around my neck at once.....school proms....and first loves....18 and high school graduation.....college and finally 21.....Being a stewardess for 2 1/2 

years......and marrying an airline pilot and traveling the world......My first baby girl Pam....only child for 11 years and THEN twins!!!! A divorce after 30 years and then work as a Concierge at hotel and wonderful years of traveling the world....six of the seven continents.....50 states.....and about 120 countries....so lucky....Childrens weddings and 9 grandchild....and almost 5 great-grandchild.....and the TEMPLE.....Good health.....wonderful family and so many wonderful friends.....and at almost 89....I can still rememlber it all.

 

I HATE WINTER.....

Of all the seasons.....I dislike WINTER most.  I grew up in Colorado where we had four seasons....and I didn't know you could go some place where it was summer or spring all year round....then I grew up and started traveling .....and yes, no snow in many places in the world..  BUT my three girls live in Utah and they are my whole life....so I live in snow country.  So far this year we have had a very light winter when it comes to shoveling the drive way...but winter isn't over yet? and no "White Christmas".......

Speaking of Christmas.....it seems like a week of blaaaa.  The 19th Karrie had a family party for the Petersons.....ROB sick so Panniers didn't come.....just Cooks and Christensons and me....it was so fun and that was my CHRISTMAS this year.  Kids invited me to join for dinner but after the Thanksgiving fight over where I went....I gave up and stayed home alone!  It will probably be like this  ......the few remaining years I have.  I am so done with 2020!!!!

 

HAPPY NEW YEAR 2021....

Made it through 2020!

One ruff year....the viris year....home bound and masks.....it has me mentally going crazy.  Also had breast cancer......so many lows.  But one good high Karrie back in the family..HUGH. I miss seeing the kids and bridge group and old friends.  I did enjoy a 3 day road trip to Colorado to see little brother with Leslie and I did spend Halloween weekend in Vernal and went through the temple and was sealed to my parents....so there was some good stuff too. I am trying to start this new year off...positive.  I go to church on the TV ZOOM....and the viris is still very bad in Utah.....Also Biden beat Trumph.....and this crushed me....but I have to trrust God knows what he is doing.......and we will not end up a communest country with the government running everything in our lives.  I am suffering from torn rotary cuffs and in pain constantly.....seems no cure with arthritis mixed in.....but happy for every day God gives me.

Happy New Year a day late.