They have everything on line...even blog anniversary clip art! So you are reading the right! This month marks one year of sharing my life for all the world to read....or at least my modest following. I want to thank all of you who visit and enjoy this site. My brother Lance who gives me praise and encouragement. Auntie Pam, Lois, Kris, Linda, Carol, Pauline, Susan...I know there are others...thank you all. I hope to be able to entertain you for another year. More snow stories, oil changing stories, gardening stories, wedding stories, train stories...and of course the Liamisms.
And I am proud...well, maybe not....to say that after one year I am as clueless about working this blog as I was on day one. David still manages things from 'down under' for me. Though when he added March he put the first day in and as you can see I did not post on the 1st. Somehow....and I will never be able to duplicate it...I was able to delete that day...or I would have had to use my Oops picture again.
I have always been an open book. It has not always been the wisest choice but as I mature I learn what is best kept to myself. I have a friend who is very very private. You really have to work to drag even the most benign news out of her. I just can't imagine that. I know others who share WAY TO MUCH! I hope I fall in the middle. I think I do.
This past year has had very very good times and a few not so good times. That is life I know. Liam is the joy of each day. Today he was such a joy..."Mom, can I have......" "mommy I want......" "will you build track with me?" I hear that a dozen times a day...."I never get to......" Momma..pleeeeeeze" I told him I was going to change my name. To what he asked....I am not going to tell you because then you would start calling me that! He went to the doctor last week. What appeared to be a cold sore broke out on the corner of his mouth..soon he had little pimply looking bumps around his mouth, chin, one cheek and beside his nose! They were painful when he ate and opened wide to have his teeth brushed. Before this happened he spent about 5 days complaining of the roof of his mouth hurting. I finally decided to check it out and he had a bunch of little red dots toward the back of his mouth. Those disappeared one day and the next the sores started appearing on the outside of his mouth. Two weeks ago he went to bed with a few hives on one wrist. The next morning he woke up to hives on both wrists, the fronts of both thighs and the tops of both feet. I am at a loss to what is going on with him. But we'll keep him. He is our precious answer to prayer!
I have struggled with trying to improve my health. And it is a struggle for me. I finally came to the realization that I have an addiction. Just like someone addicted to drugs or alcohol or cigarettes I am addicted to sugar. And breaking that addiction is no easier than the others. There have been a few times over the years where I have buckled down and managed to make huge changes and keep it up for a week or even a month. But those are short lived and few and far between. My 'drug' calls me and I cave. I walked away from my gynecologist four years ago planning on dealing with the fibroids on my own. A diet change that would shrink them. Saving my uterus was all I thought about. Last week I went back to her. I waited too long. They are too large to safely operate on now. It is up to insurance whether I can get the $6000 worth of shots that I need to shrink them to safely operate. That is part of the not so good.
So what about the good....there is of course Liam. Always Liam. My family. Every member is wonderful and dear to me. I may not understand some of them....do any of us? Craig. A wonderful man who loves me in spite of myself. Who is a wonderful father that Liam adores. He got a day shift position at my request and I am really liking it. It is nice having him home all evening. He goes to work each day without much complaint:)
Piano lessons....I am loving them! I now wish I had thought to do this for myself years ago....just today I was thinking how crazy this is. As a kid my parents paid for them, I had no interruptions while practicing and what did I do...fight it, complain about it....I truly felt abused. Well, I have grown up. I listen to Liam as he 'plays'. Thinking and wishing for the day when he can sit there and play even the simplest thing. How wonderful to have the house filled with music. Did my parents feel the same way? I let them down. But Annette didn't so I won't feel so much guilt. She had true talent. Still does.
My niece and I have had some special days together. Recently we did some ceramic painting. That post will be coming soon. She is growing up so much. Our next special day? Nails...her idea:) Mine was to tour Bush House. I still might work that in at some point. I am going to search out a tea house or something like that for afterwards. It is good to have feminine moments.
Over the summer we had chicks come here to convalesce from my sisters flock. Liam loved having them and still loves chickens. He is already asking for more this summer. None of those chicks are still alive. I told my sister that we won't give them back next time. Bocky, the tailless rooster turned into dinner a week ago. He had gotten mean. We told Liam he went to a new sweet home. He leaves a son who looks exactly like him...only with a tail.
I would love to have the chance at baby possums this year again...or baby birds or baby anything for that matter!
I will keep you apprised of the national days again this year....today is National Anthem Day. Oreo cookie day is coming up so prepare yourself!
We lost Fiona but it has been so wonderful not having to vacuum every other day. Remove cat hair from beds and furniture every time we want to lay down or sit. Watch as hair floats past me and lands in the food I am preparing and then the time spent digging it out. Nope...I do not miss that at all! But I do miss her purr. And the little way she had of 'talking' to me. The combination of the two as she cocked her head to the side pleading for me to pet her. I could never resist that. She was a wonderful companion for over 15 years and I do miss her.
So that has been bits and pieces of the past year in a nutshell. And to make my brother, especially, happy...I will give it my very best shot of being more diligent and not letting too many days pass between posts.
And now for a Liamism.....I will give you two as they are starting to back up on me:) Daddy handed Liam something he had asked for "Thanks dad, you're the goodest guy I've ever seen" And while I was building tracks with him "Where's the daughter?" 'I don't have a daughter, I have a son, you' "We need a daughter for me and you."
And I am proud...well, maybe not....to say that after one year I am as clueless about working this blog as I was on day one. David still manages things from 'down under' for me. Though when he added March he put the first day in and as you can see I did not post on the 1st. Somehow....and I will never be able to duplicate it...I was able to delete that day...or I would have had to use my Oops picture again.
I have always been an open book. It has not always been the wisest choice but as I mature I learn what is best kept to myself. I have a friend who is very very private. You really have to work to drag even the most benign news out of her. I just can't imagine that. I know others who share WAY TO MUCH! I hope I fall in the middle. I think I do.
This past year has had very very good times and a few not so good times. That is life I know. Liam is the joy of each day. Today he was such a joy..."Mom, can I have......" "mommy I want......" "will you build track with me?" I hear that a dozen times a day...."I never get to......" Momma..pleeeeeeze" I told him I was going to change my name. To what he asked....I am not going to tell you because then you would start calling me that! He went to the doctor last week. What appeared to be a cold sore broke out on the corner of his mouth..soon he had little pimply looking bumps around his mouth, chin, one cheek and beside his nose! They were painful when he ate and opened wide to have his teeth brushed. Before this happened he spent about 5 days complaining of the roof of his mouth hurting. I finally decided to check it out and he had a bunch of little red dots toward the back of his mouth. Those disappeared one day and the next the sores started appearing on the outside of his mouth. Two weeks ago he went to bed with a few hives on one wrist. The next morning he woke up to hives on both wrists, the fronts of both thighs and the tops of both feet. I am at a loss to what is going on with him. But we'll keep him. He is our precious answer to prayer!
I have struggled with trying to improve my health. And it is a struggle for me. I finally came to the realization that I have an addiction. Just like someone addicted to drugs or alcohol or cigarettes I am addicted to sugar. And breaking that addiction is no easier than the others. There have been a few times over the years where I have buckled down and managed to make huge changes and keep it up for a week or even a month. But those are short lived and few and far between. My 'drug' calls me and I cave. I walked away from my gynecologist four years ago planning on dealing with the fibroids on my own. A diet change that would shrink them. Saving my uterus was all I thought about. Last week I went back to her. I waited too long. They are too large to safely operate on now. It is up to insurance whether I can get the $6000 worth of shots that I need to shrink them to safely operate. That is part of the not so good.
So what about the good....there is of course Liam. Always Liam. My family. Every member is wonderful and dear to me. I may not understand some of them....do any of us? Craig. A wonderful man who loves me in spite of myself. Who is a wonderful father that Liam adores. He got a day shift position at my request and I am really liking it. It is nice having him home all evening. He goes to work each day without much complaint:)
Piano lessons....I am loving them! I now wish I had thought to do this for myself years ago....just today I was thinking how crazy this is. As a kid my parents paid for them, I had no interruptions while practicing and what did I do...fight it, complain about it....I truly felt abused. Well, I have grown up. I listen to Liam as he 'plays'. Thinking and wishing for the day when he can sit there and play even the simplest thing. How wonderful to have the house filled with music. Did my parents feel the same way? I let them down. But Annette didn't so I won't feel so much guilt. She had true talent. Still does.
My niece and I have had some special days together. Recently we did some ceramic painting. That post will be coming soon. She is growing up so much. Our next special day? Nails...her idea:) Mine was to tour Bush House. I still might work that in at some point. I am going to search out a tea house or something like that for afterwards. It is good to have feminine moments.
Over the summer we had chicks come here to convalesce from my sisters flock. Liam loved having them and still loves chickens. He is already asking for more this summer. None of those chicks are still alive. I told my sister that we won't give them back next time. Bocky, the tailless rooster turned into dinner a week ago. He had gotten mean. We told Liam he went to a new sweet home. He leaves a son who looks exactly like him...only with a tail.
I would love to have the chance at baby possums this year again...or baby birds or baby anything for that matter!
I will keep you apprised of the national days again this year....today is National Anthem Day. Oreo cookie day is coming up so prepare yourself!
We lost Fiona but it has been so wonderful not having to vacuum every other day. Remove cat hair from beds and furniture every time we want to lay down or sit. Watch as hair floats past me and lands in the food I am preparing and then the time spent digging it out. Nope...I do not miss that at all! But I do miss her purr. And the little way she had of 'talking' to me. The combination of the two as she cocked her head to the side pleading for me to pet her. I could never resist that. She was a wonderful companion for over 15 years and I do miss her.
So that has been bits and pieces of the past year in a nutshell. And to make my brother, especially, happy...I will give it my very best shot of being more diligent and not letting too many days pass between posts.
And now for a Liamism.....I will give you two as they are starting to back up on me:) Daddy handed Liam something he had asked for "Thanks dad, you're the goodest guy I've ever seen" And while I was building tracks with him "Where's the daughter?" 'I don't have a daughter, I have a son, you' "We need a daughter for me and you."