Jacob on his 2nd birthday this past summer. On Monday night when we were over at his house closing up the pool he wanted to go home with his "an-ma". Warmed my heart!
Gotta go start my day... it's freezing here, but I am not turning on the heat. We have an old boiler and by the time the water goes through the system and warms the house, we would be gone. I just put more clothes on. Besides it's only OCTOBER! Next week promises a return to the 70's, perfect in my book.
Have a wonderful day!
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Here I am! it's a lovely day here in the midwest after a week of hot and humid temps we are now in the 60's! Whoa! When we went to bed last night it was hot and sticky and this morning Mark said the living room curtains were sticking straight out with a very cold breeze. The sweetheart closed all the windows for me, knowing I would be cold when I got up. We are very opposite that way -- I am always cold him, hot. Except when I am having an occasional hot flash ~ JOY!
The trees are begining to show some color...I LOVE IT!
This week has gone well, with a few minor crisis, hubby's lunch box containing all his keys went flying of his semi and was "lost" for a bit, but a landscaper found it, put up a sign with our name on it (my stepson had written our last name on it, no I don't label my husband's stuff, which I probably should start doing!) and said call this number for your Keys. The keys were very important especially the shop key to his work. He was very upset when this happened, he had a major full fledged fit. But after he met up with the guy he realized he knew him from our children and all was well.
Otherwise a nice quiet week...AND I love it! I am working all day tomorrow with my am routes, doing bus evactes at layover, the rest of my routes and then a football trip about an hour away...bringing a book and a blanket...it's gonna be a long night but $$$ will it be nice! Then a three day weekend...gotta love the school calendar of holidays!
Here's another pic of my funny funny grandbaby!
got a candle burning...80's music planning on the tv...back up popcorn standing by. already in the fluffy velour pants. my time now! gonna catch up on the gazillion alerts i have and then bad tv here i come!
tracey did liz's hair today. so i played with dakota for nearly 2 glorious hours! of course i took pictures, the kid changes so fast! he now can wave bye bye and is trying to talk you know baby babble. it's so cute! we played with his cars and he showed me his new walkie thingy. it's a round plastic game that lets him stand up and has things to play with. although he would rather play with the drawers containing the dvds or pull on the radio cord. kids always love what they can't have. toys today are so, you know so modern. what happened to those thrilling walkers that kids used to tip over and bash their heads in on? or having a kid creep around the coffee table and slip and fall...oh yeah those were dangerous...modern children have it so much safer than their parents...of course they could always jump on their power wheels and escape all together...now that's danger.
the princess looked beautiful and tracey has no sisters so she was lovin' doing the hairdo...me too, i have no sisters. then it was off to homecoming with somebody's aunt doing the driving and a mom bringing her home. cool.
Mark spent the afternoon on the nextel babbling to me how awesome jeremy's new (old) car is. it's a 50's something and he took jeremy to wisconsin to buy it. all he could talk about is: "wanna an old truck" hmmmmm why do men seem to want want and more want big expensive toys. :::sigh:::
ok on to peace!
I was messing with my colors on my journal ... trying to make it look autumn-ish and all it looks like is ick! Oh well.
Tomorrow after I get Princess Liz off to the Homecoming dance I will be FREE! Tracey is doing her hair so I will be able to play with my two best buds...Jacob and Dakota! But after that she will be off to the dance.
Mark is driving up with Jeremy to Wisconsin after work so he'll be gone and then he's going to play cards with his other son, Matt...hmmmm since when did he get a social life???
No matter, I will be home all alone on a Saturday night and since I didn't take any extra sports trips for Saturday I will not be tired.
I see, comfy pj's, a big bowl of moose track ice cream and some movies in the future for this girl!
Catch you all up later!
After a long week we went over to the kids house to watch the boys. Nothing like the adoring kisses and the "I LOVE YOU!"'s of a tot to bring a smile to your face. Liz came with and playing with Dakota took her mind off the college boyfriend, at least for the night. Dakota is crawling like a madman, he thinks he's just so darn cute, which he is! He has 4 teeth on top now and kept trying to steal his brothers bowl of popcorn. They have been taught well though they are very loving to each other, and 2 year old Jacob shares with his little brother. Dakota turned 9 months old this past week so he'll be out of the baby stage and into toddlerhood soon. They grow up so fast, but I love spending time with them. I get my baby fix in just the right amount. Jacob only wanted he's grandpa to put his PJ's on, which made my husband oh so happy. This attention really helps ease his hard feelings toward his ex, who spends much more time with the boys, but as a full time babysitter.
I am going to see about some car seats, this is only the beginning of grandkids and there is so much I want to do with these guys...nothing like seeing the world through the new eyes of a kid!
Only problem with babysitting last night is the kids went to the city for a concert came home at 2 am. Mark had to be up at 4:30 and I had a tennis trip at 6:00. He napped at their house but was fretting the whole way home about waking up for work. He is a very dutiful employee, always has been. He made it up, but after working 9 hours he's in bed already. I managed a few catnaps on my 10 hour wait at the school the girls were playing at. It was 45 minutes away and on the way home it rained, a lot. Got to try out the traction control brakes on the new bus...they worked great!
When I got home at 4:00 Mark was ready for sleep, and I had promised Liz a trip to the mall for a dress for the Homecoming dance.
We looked at all the usual dresses, and I really didn't want to get an expensive dress she would only wear one time. Especially if the Prince is unable to attend. We settled on a very different sort of one, it's black with some sort of web design on it. I'll show the pictures and you can judge. She's going with a friend, and I am trying to teach her to be unique and enjoy being a 16 year old high school kid. Seems to be working. She's smiling more, moping less, nearly back to her old self. Her drama group starts in a month so she will be back with her 'amazing' friends as she calls them. God to be a kid again!
Tomorrow we are going back to Mitch's to finish up his cleaning. Mark's trying not to worry about him, I think he will be fine.
Off to clean out my email box and catch up...work really cramps my free time, but 10 hours of overtime for just sitting on a bus reading magazines and walking around a track will look good on payday!
Have a great day!
