TODAY OR TOMORROW?

This sweet girl dropped by today ....with my first great-grandchild to show off his Halloween costume......a fighter pilot......my first trick or treater of the year......This year, Halloween comes on Sunday so will we have kids tonight or tomorrow or both.....I hope I have enough candy......will turn off the lights early.....Pam was going up to tail gate ....but not the game....don't know what the other two families were doing.

The weather is unbelievable....Suzanne came over and said lets sit on the porch and enjoy this weather...sat in the warm sun for an hour....thankgoodness for good neighbers......she just got word.....she has stomach cancer......so sad.

Well, I just got a trick or treater....so guess it will be a busy night.

 

ONE YEAR AGO TODAY......

I have so much to be thankful for......

One year ago today I went through the Vernal Temple....with my immediate family. I was sealed to my parents which was the icing on it......  I can't BELIEVE a year has passed and so many changes to the family. Scottie cleared of his cancer....Sherrie in the middle of a nasty divorce.....Rob had a toe off and is working in Detroit for Amazon.....Brayden and Libby moved out....... so live alone.....Ashlyn is pregrant...due in May......and my sweet neighbor just told she has stomach cancer......that nasty word just keeps popping up.

It was a year ago while I was in Vernal that Lucille died.

What a difference a year makes.......

HOLIDAY SOON....

The mother of twins.....how blessed!

Karrie on the right is 6 minutes older than Sherrie on the left.......they are each others best friends and their six kids were raised by both and are very close to their cousins.  

Halloween comes on Sunday this year ...but Mormons are funny about what they can do on Sundays...so expect we will have some "Trick and Treaters" on Saturday nite.....plus real believers on Sunday nite....I was in Vernal for Halloween last year and we had such fun.....this year much quieter....

 

WHY?.....

WHY?

Why can't I blog every day like I use to?  Part of my excuse for this month is I was really sick for about 10 days....not the viris but the flu....about a week after my flu shot....and since maybe my life is shutting down....talk to the twins some....but don't see them.....Pam comes over once a week and we go to lunch or she takes me to an appointment....like lawyer or my finance adviser....need to get every thing in order in case I KICK THE BUCKET.....unexpectedly.....Just got word my sweet neighbor has stomach cancer and she is 72....

The bright spot of the month was Scotty's home coming at church and the the Cook's after church get together.....got to see grandkids and three great-grandchildren....the kind of days grandmas love...I try to realize every one is very busy...my kids are travelers....I tended Pam's dog three weeks while she went back to Detroit to tend Rob when they cut off his big toe.....and she and Sher spent five days in Vegas......then Rob got bitten by a spider or several and is trying to get over that.....has been off work most the month.  Oh Yes....Scott turned 20 this month and Nicci turned 36.

My faithful friend Patty usually comes over once a week and I ran over to her place today.....our weekly therapy.....I do spend quite a few hours on the heating pad each day to help the arthrits...only gets worse in this cold weather.....we have snow in the mountains.....but so far none down here.  

 

BRIGHT SPOTS.....

This cute guy ...BRAYDEN.....called today and wanted to get together tomorrow for dinner and games....will bring sweet wife ...Libby....and baby daughter....Olivia for me to love.  Get out the crockpot time.  They are so sweet to do little chores for me.....I miss them. 

AND.... this neat grandson called and invited me to his.....Homecoming.....at church.....next Sunday.  He came down with cancer in April and had only been out on his mission for six weeks. It was three months of chemo after the operation.....a month off....then another operation and now six weeks recoop.  Hard choice but not returning to mission....signed up for college the first of the year.....he has his 20th birthday this month.  Sure love my grrandsons.

 

NOT MY FAVORITE TIME OF YEAR.....

MAYBE 10 YEARS YOUNGER WOULD BE NICE.....BUT NOT IN MY 20'S AGAIN.......HAVEN'T SEEN FAMILY OR NEIGHBORS IN 3 DAYS,,,,BUT FINDING THINGS IN MY LIFE.....LIKE .....NO ONE LIKES "OLD" PEOPLE MUCH.......IT HAS RAINED ALL WEEK.....BUT DID GET A FLU SHOT AND HAVE MY NAILS DONE....ZIPPED OVER TO THE GROCERY STORE BETWEEN RAIN STORMS TODAY.....A COUPLE MORE DAYS AND BREE WILL GO HOME.  PAM SPENT TWO WEEKS WITH ROB......AND A  WEEK WITH SHERRIE AT HER TIME SHARE IN LAS VEGAS.

I was thinking back on the sad and lonesome places I have visited in my trips around the world......Places you can feel the spirits have never been set free to go home to be buried like.....the cemetary in St John island where the bodies from the Titanic were brought....such a sad grave yard....then an awful place I WILL NEVER FORGET....ASWITCH,,,,,in Poland....it was left with many reminders ....like binds of hair....or shoes....or suit cases!  The people were gased ,,,,burned,,,or corpes dumped in large holes and covered.  The feeling of their spirits are still in limbo and lost....so sad......Then Ann and I were driving through England, Scotland and Whales and stopped at Lockerbee Scotland where the airplane was  sabotaged and crashed.....killing many Americans,...we stayed at a bed and breakfast just down from the crash area....I could feel those spirits still lingering around.....in fact I slept in my clothes and could hardly wait to get away from the place next day....I think the TWIN TOWERS in NYC has some of that feeling....

 

THINKING BACK......

As your family travels off around the country...or world....you pray they will be safe ...and healthy!  I had been very lucky in my many miles around the world.....BUT one trip will always be one I will never forget.  Don and I were off to JAPAN and CHINA on a tour.....I had some cists burend off my uterus...but given pills and Dr permission to go on the trip.....Well....I bleed from the day we left the whole time in Japan......Don did the fun things ......but I barely made it to the bus each day.....THE TOUR ENDED AND WE HEADED FOR HONG GONG FOR A FEW DAYS....BUT HEADED FOR THE YWCA AND REQUESTED AN AMERICAN DR. FOR ME TO SEE....OFF WE WENT TO FIND HIS OFFICE ONLY TO FIND HE PICKED THAT DAY TO MOVE HIS OFFICE DOWN THE HALL AND I WAS TO SEE DR. K K CHOW!......BY NOW I WAS DESPERATE.....AND IN WE WENT....GUESS WHAT?  HE SPOKE ENGLISH AND HAD GRADUTED FROM 'JOHN HOPKINS' IN OUR COUNTRY...TOLD ME TO STOP TAKING THE PILLS AND HE GAVE ME A VITAMIN B SHOT AND SENT ME ON MY WAY.....BOUNCED BACK AND ENJOYED HONG GONG......MANY YEARS LATER WHEN I LIVED ON LAURI KAY DR......A NEIGHBOR.....WIFE OF A PAN AMERICAN AIRLINE PILOT.....WAS BASED IN HONG GONG.....AND DR. K K CHOW HAD DELIVERED HER FIRST BABY......IT REALLY IS A SMALL WORLD AND BAD THINGS CAN TURN OUT GOOD.  MOST OF MY TRAVELS ILLS COULD BE FIXED WITH TYLANAL OR ASPERN.

 

WEEK BY WEEK.....

I use to blog almost every day.....now it is almost every week! Old age is really showing....A very quiet weekend as usual.....Sherrie and Ken did stay all night last friday .....then Saturday and Sunday was LDS Conference....so didn't get anything done.....Monday.....the cleaning ladies and laundry.....Tuesday cleaned the back porch....Wednesday.....today.....I had my nails done and got a flu shot! I still have BREE for another week as Sherrie and Pam headed out today for Las Vegas for a few days relaxation. Guess Rob's toe is still keeping him home.....plus he  got up in the night for the bathroom and fainted and hit his chin on the tub....What next?  Did get the good news Scottie is cancer free.....he has decided not to go back to the mission and is signing up for college....move on with his life.... since April it has been all up hill with that darn cancer, He turns 20 this month.......It is really Fall in SLC.