Grateful For The Life I've Been Given

Friday, September 18, 2015

Weekly Visit:

Picking flowers for Mommy

Trying to hide a flower in his shirt

So enjoy these visits. I am grateful to be a grandmother.

Thursday, September 17, 2015

Mom and Dad:

This is the first year Mom and Dad have missed the Vienna parade. Our family gets together on the southwest corner of the courthouse square. Sure did miss this this year.

2014 Parade

Cash has changed alot in the past year. They seem to grow up so fast.

I'm grateful for these memories with my parents.

Friday:
I had a rough day helping Dad with Mom and was pretty much exhausted. We always go out to eat on Friday nights, but Dwayne was tired as well so we just stayed home.
Saturday:
Fair Parade Day. We always go to the the fair. This year, we didn't go at all. We don't have any small kids and the entertainment isn't so great.
But the parade, that's a different story. We will always go to the parade. As you can tell from the pictures below, we had a great time.

My nephew, Tyler and his little boy, Liam

Chad and Desmon

April and Cash came home with us for the afternoon. We went to the Salebarn Cafe but it was packed and no place to sit so we went on over to the Vichy Wye Cafe. They remodeled last year and it looks totally different from when I worked there in the seventies. It had a sagging ceiling then and I don't know how they went this long without fixing it. When I worked there, we had a pool table in the middle of the room. If you weren't busy, you could play pool. I got quite good at it. Not so much anymore. After a busy day, Cash was worn out.

We had a great afternoon with April and Cash.

Sunday:

I actually went to church. Helped with Mom and then got called out about one a.m. to come up and help out. Long night.

Monday:

I was tired from spending the night with Mom and I slept a good portion of the day. We ran into town and got a sandwich and that was the extent of our Labor Day.

I'm grateful for times like these.

Tuesday, September 15, 2015

Weekly Visit:

Cash loves to line his toys up in a straight line. He is such a neat kid. He puts his toys up every night without being told. We were reading books and he would get two at a time off the shelf and put them back and then get two more out. He even puts his dirty clothes in the hamper. Now if he'll continue this pattern throughout life.
Grandpa didn't get to come this time, as he's working nights.

Grateful for this time together.

Weekend of August 29/30th:

Friday:
We ate at Road Kill Grill just a few miles from our house. They have good barbecue (and no road kill lol).
Back home to watching TV. Such exciting lives.
Saturday:
Dwayne spent the day shuffling canoes around for our float trip the next day. I was at Mom and Dad's helping out. Mom is not doing too well and filling up on fluid again.
Sunday:
We went on what my brother-in-law, David, calls "old hippie float trip". lol I love the river. I have more respect for the water since my brother, Wayne drowned last year. I'm way more cautious.
Chad and Todd a few of their friends also joined us. (don't think David liked that too well......)
I can't believe I got to go the river two weeks in a row. When the kids were small, we bought a boat.
We spent at least one day per weekend on the river. Such fun memories. Now we don't have a boat, so float trips is our only way of being on the river.
I found out on last year's float, it's much harder getting back in the canoe in the water. It was so embarrassing! Phil and Dwayne both had to pick me up and put me back in. I felt like a huge beached whale. This year I only swam when we were pulled up to a gravel bar.
The weather was cooler and it was a great day to be on the river. Beautiful scenery.
The trip home was a little risky as we had all the canoes on our trailer (Chad, Todd's, etc.) As the boys didn't have vehicles at our pull out point, we had to overload our vehicles. Todd and Tim sat in the back of the truck. I was so nervous going down the road. And to think we used to ride in the back all the time. David also drove a group to our house.
It was a very relaxing time spent visiting friend and enjoying God's nature.

I am grateful for good friends and time spent together.

Weekly Visit:

A couple weeks ago, I picked up Cash from Susie at Day Care as April had an appointment that evening.

Nothing doing but we had to go on our walk around town. April and Mike live very close to the street. They had been having problems with Cash darting out to the street. I was afraid it was from me and Dwayne taking him on walks each time we visit. I wouldn't let him walk across the street, I carried him until we got to a sidewalk. He wasn't too happy about it but it was much safer.

We walked to the bank parking lot where he had fun playing with random rocks he found. So many toys and rocks can be substitued for trucks and cars.

He happily walked back home and reached for me to carry him across the street.

I enjoyed my time with Cash as Grandpa usually hogs him. lol

I am so grateful for this little boy in our lives.

Lennaman Reunion:

Saturday, August 22, 2015

Lennaman Reunion

When Dwayne's Grandma Rea was alive, I arranged a family reunion so we could all get together.

Somehow, I inherited this yearly event planning.

We started out at Meramac Springs every year. This continued for several years. After Rea, Dodie and Rita had all passed away, we didn't get together.

About five years ago, I decided the cousins still needed to get together. We had the reunion over at the lake in Vichy. Late August gets super hot; even with fans we were miserable. This year we decided to have it at our house. We had a good turnout and everyone enjoyed visiting and getting reacquainted.