WLS Terrific Tuesday Express

 

 

ALL ABOARD THE TERRIFIC TUESDAY WLS TRAIN.  DONT WORRY IF WE ARE NOT ON TIME..COMING A LONG WAY FROM FLORIDA.

Good Morning my WLS Family,

Another day in Florida.  Today is shopping day with my Mom and my Cousin.  Really looking forward to it.  Dont have much I really need but will love the company, and then Mexican for lunch.  Yesterday went to see my Uncle in the nursing home.  It was a little bit of a shock.  He is all skin and bones, very frail but he was cohearant and he knew who I was.  It was neat to hear him and my dad go back and forth about their childhood.  My Dad does really well about keeping my uncle ingaged in coversation.  Wish I had, had a tape recorder.  Next time maybe.  We will go back tomorrow.  After visiting my Uncle we went to Holicost museum.  Very interesting but also extreamly sad.  Got me interested in reading more about Hitler.  I always wonder what makes people like him tick.  Would love to know why he hated the Jews so badly.  After the museum it was Cracker Barrel for lunch where my Mom and I split a  Chicken BLT witch was out of this world.  Please keep my Dad in your prayers.  Go**** is hard to see our parents get old.  My dad is having a hard time, he seems dizzy a lot, and I dont think that is a good sign.  He promised me he would call the doctor today.  I know that ageing is a part of life.  Now with all of that it is Terrific Tuesay and life really is pretty terrific.  I am here with my parents, got to see my Uncle, seeing one cousin today and another on my Birthday.  Life is good.  Alissa how is your foot?  Are you healing ok?  Prayers still headed your way.  Also prayers for those spoken and unspoken needs.  Special ones for Eric and Jenn, Meggie, Gina and Liz.  Have a blessed day.  Love you guys.

MICHELLE-one of my cousins took some videos of our grandfather a few months before he died. They were like "interview tapes". He answered questions about his childhood...games he played...skipping school to go fishing...foods his mama fixed on the coal stove..how he felt when his first baby (my mom) was born...getting a Harley for his 80th birthday..just all kinds off stuff. She did it over several days, then put it all together. Later on, she played it during his funeral visitation and made all 22 grandkids, 36 greatgrandkids and 3 great-great (at the time) a copy of the DVD to keep. It is PRICELESS. If at all possible, get you a lil video camera up there to your uncle-rent one if you have toyou won't regret it. When I watch Gramps's video now, I don't cry-I just remember how much he taught me and loved us all.

I'm so glad you're able to have this time with your family.

Michelle,

I can relate about how you wake up one day and look at your parents and say "when did they get old?" I hope the following helps, A very dear friend of mine told me that I was spending too much time with "anticipated grief" over my mother instead of enjoying the time I have with her. She was right, every time I would visit mom and dad I would cry all the way home just thinking about (when they were gone) now when I go visit I enjoy sitting next to my mom's bedside and chit chatting and laughing and when I leave now instead of crying on the ride home I give a prayer of thanks for God letting us have Mom a little longer.

Your loved!

Lynnette

Good Morning Train!

WOOOHOOO for Tuesday and the fact that I made it to work again before the snow... LOL  I'm trying not to get in a pissy mood this morning and the endorphins are helping... Yesterday I brought in a plastic (should have known better) shower caddy for one of the smaller showers in the locker room and some one threw it down and broke it... guess they didn't appreciate having a shower caddy... sigh... so tomorrow I'll bring in a metal one, LOL  If I have to I'll use it and put it up every time and they can do without... I don't know why the company won't supply them for every shower stall... I know who to talk to about it.... maybe I'll get them to spring for it..... oh well...

Prayers are going up for all that need them!

It's sing-a-long time again, so how about this one?  Everyone probably knows the words, well us old foggies do, it's John Denver's "Annie's Song", so sing it loud and sing it proud!

You fill up my senses
Like a night in a forest
Like the mountains in springtime
Like a walk in the rain
Like a storm in the desert
Like a sleepy blue ocean
You fill up my senses
Come fill me again

Come let me love you
Let me give my life to you
Let me drown in your laughter
Let me die in your arms
Let me lay down beside you
Let me always be with you
Come let me love you
Come love me again

(Let me give my life to you)
(Come let me love you)
(Come love me again)

You fill up my senses
Like a night in a forest
Like the mountains in springtime
Like a walk in the rain
Like a storm in the desert
Like a sleepy blue ocean
You fill up my senses
Come fill me again

Ya'll have a great day my friends!

sing it loud and sing it proud - you always make me smile Karen

funny about the shower caddy - some people are ummm senceless - or we could be chairitalbe and say maybe the cleaning crew knocked it off on accedent?

whatever - have a great day lady and thanks for the smile

Hear those dogs howling outside???? It's cuz I'm singing at the top of my lungs...love me some JD...Thanks, KAREN!!...but...if you're waiting for the dogs to thank you, uummm...not so much....

Peeka didn't like it either.  She's sitting on the arm of the chair (beside me) and kept putting her front feet on my shoulder so she could lean over and try to look in my mouth.  Trying to figure out where that noise was coming from perhaps??? 

It will be a terrific Tuesday - go the teen up early to finish a paper he "forgot" to do over the weekend - he spent 45 mins looking for a memory stick so he could type it on his computer and carry it downstairs to print it - than another 20 looking for his notes on the words he is not allowed to use in it - Oh freaking well he is out of time - he better have some good typing done when I get back down there -Rach of course woke up with me at 4, working at having patience with her and with the teen - time for more caffeine for me and I will aim to take a nap today

oh the good side - Tim and I talked yesterday morning and I was able (OK got his dad to) find some information he wanted and now we have a starting point on him convert his EMT to Paramedic. Not a great spot due to living in Ga and planning to move home to Texas in a few years but we'll figure it out - He is so freaking smart it's not even funny - has a 97 in the class he is taking right now

Rach and I are heading to the gym as soon as everyone goes to school this morning - weights, rowing machine and maybe elliptical maybe treadmill - depends on how much more reading I have to get done today (I can read my school stuff on my touch on the E but not the treadmill)

Still waiting for the personal trainer to call me back - would like to go over what I am doing with her and see what she says -

OK I'm calmer now - time to go back to valid vs sound arguments and logical deductions - and get my homework done

be good to yourselves - you deserve to be healthy and happy!!! We all do:)

peace
Danni

Happy Terrific Tuesday, y'all.  I've been meaning to post for a few days now, but have been really busy getting a new group set up on FaceBook.  I've been enundated with emails and questions, and that takes up most of my time.

I truly need to get a better grip on menus.  It's been so hectic around here the past few weeks, it's too easy to grab something easy, rather than something healthy.  Shame on me.  I promise to do better.  I know I'll feel better if I do.

I hope everyone is making progress toward their goals in healing and finance and whatever other area has need.

Thanks for being here!

Belle