Family

Yesterday was a very nice day. We really enjoyed having the kids over that live close, and even GR had a great time. She really enjoyed her self from helping in the kitchen to playing Phase 10 with Chris , Bruce and I in the evening. Today has been good too, we have been lazy for the most part. I went to Curves in the morning and then did some decorating in the afternoon. It has been a good day also.

We are looking forward to Jenny and Lorelai coming in on Sunday. It will be so nice to have them here. Of course Sandy comes in on Monday, and the holiday season begins.

Hope everyone had a nice Thanksgiving. Love ya

Didn't take long

Well, I knew that I was looking at a bad time with GR, but I didn't think it would be so fast. Yesterday after noon around 4:30 pm, we were visiting just she and I , (Bruce wasn't home yet )about different things, and we were having a good time I thought, when out of a conversation she started in with not wanting to be here, why did she have to be here, blaming her sisters, and Bruce , she started crying , well I must say I was proud of my self, I let her talk and didn't get upset and listened to her for a bit , and interjected when necessary. We made it through it and it was over by the time Bruce got home at 5:15pm. She struggles here, as she feels lonely in the crowd, she complained that the kids don't talk to her, which isn't true but they don't engage in long conversations with her because she is hard to talk too, any way I am expecting more of these break downs as the days and weeks go bye. And for our children who are coming home, just be prepared, it isn't any thing your doing or will do, but just know that you may see a few of these times while your here. She really can't control her self and I am seeing more of these flare ups now, closer together then I was when she first came here. Hopefully she will have a good day today, but I never know..... Love ya

First week of Curves

Okay, so my first week of going to Curves is over and I must be honest and tell you all I really did enjoy it. I didn't feel out of place or older then most in fact I felt young some days.:) all the women I met there were very nice and very much encouraging. I also felt really good at getting out for 40 min's with out GR. All in all it has been the best birthday gift. I have been trying to stick to the weight management program too, it is alittle hard to understand but I am trying to stick with it any way. I do find the weekend to be a challenge which has always been the case, but I will work with it. I will be returning to my work out tomorrow and I know this will surprise all of you, but I can't wait.....

GR has been pretty good this weekend, and most of last week. She has spent weeks working on curtains that she wants to put up in her bedroom, really quilts for the windows but any way, it has kept her busy for at least a week and a half. However she has not been working on them for the past 3 days. Her sister Sandy is coming into town on Dec. 1, and she is looking forward to that, altho I am sensing that she is alittle worked up over it. I am expecting a change this next week also because Meg and Beckham, return... hurray.... and she will have to put up with them coming and going... and my attention some where else besides on her. Then there is the holidays coming up and the business begins here at the Catanzaro home -stead. So I am bracing my self for some problems but we will handle them as they come. I hope she has a good week with her sister here, she has asked me if I am going to do things with them and my answer is always the same, I am leaving my self open for Jenny and Lorelai. She also asked if she could come see me work out at Curves some day, I didn't answer her but will try to avoid that as much as I can. I get the feeling she doesn't want to do things with Sandy with out me... but I am afraid she is going to be disappointed, because I have no intentions in doing much with them, Jenny and Lorelai and who ever else for my kids that around is my first and for most priority. Any way it should be an interesting to say the least.

I am so excited that Meggan and Beckham are coming home this week. It feels like they have been gone for ever.... so needless to say we are counting the days now... and we have only 3 left. We do hope they have had a great visit there in NH tho ...

Well, I guess this will be it for this post. Hope all is well with each of you. Love ya...

Reflections

Well, tomorrow is my 54 birthday,and our 36th Anniversary. The years have flown bye and yet there is so much that takes place in one's life. There are days when I look at Bruce and think my goodness it was just yesterday that we were in High School dating, and then married and having children. And now I look at our lovely family with all it's additions and think WOW, could I have ever imagined at the time I fell in love that we would have all this! It has been a wonderful life , full of living. I am a very blessed woman, from the love and support I received and still to do to this day from my parents, who I love , to the love of my life, to the best children in the world including our lovely daughter in laws,and wonderful son in law ,to the grandchildren that are the apples of my eye.... for the brothers and sister that I have had a pleasure to be sister to, to the mother in law who with out her I would have never had the love of my life. Needless to say I am thankful for all of you. May God Bless each of you with your desires and dreams and may he take care of each of you. I am thankful for the life I have and look forward to many more years full of living..... Love you all....

Take the Good with the Bad

Hey there, well we made it through another week, we had such a good weekend last weekend when we went up to visit Marc's family.... really did have a great time and Grammy did so well I was very proud of her. It was nice to see the new apt. of Marc's and Satcie's ,it is very nice and it was nice to see her folks. We really had a great time.

Now, to Jenny who thought my calling her little love bug a bad weed, I didn't mean a thing sweet Jen, just a saying however dear daughter.... I'll try to control my self....lol.....

I miss Meggan and Beckham alot... it has been very different not having them come in for lunch each day. I hope they are having a good time.

It has been an okay week as far as GR is concern. Today was alittle hard, it was shopping day and that is always hard, it gets harder each time we go, any way we made it through that. At lunch time she had a melt down over a conversation we had about Sisters, and got mad and went down stairs mad and stayed there all afternoon, crying and all..... I left her be and had a church thing to go to, which I left her here and Bruce came home as I was leaving, so it worked out okay. By the time I got home she was doing okay and we "made up" and went out for the evening. Oh my goodness, can I really make it through this trial? Any way she is doing ok this evening. We went out for ice cream after going to an open house that Bruce had project manage and you should of seen her, she had it all over her by the time we got home... you would have thought it was Beckham eating back there.... she laugh so hard and so did I ..... there are times when she is a 3 yr. old and then other times a teen and then other times an adult. She for the most part has a good sense of humor about her self, but of course there are those times when watch out.....
Any way another weekend is upon us.... we have things to do tomorrow and then Sunday is full.

Hope all is well with each of you. Have a geat weekend....
Love ya