What's New - Friday - Fourth of July!!!

Good Morning OFF Sisters & Brothers, I'm up early on this day to do my 5k this morning, so I thought since I was I'd leave you all my best wishes for this celebration of our Country's birth!  Wishing you all the safest and happiest of days!  Let's keep our troops in our prayers! Have a great day!  Post away! Prayers, positive thoughts and hugs, Laureen and I will leave you with this daily reading. . . Celebrate your freedom Today in the United States; we celebrate our nation's independence. Why not take a moment to celebrate your independence as well? Whether you've found freedom from an addiction or from codependency, or you've discovered the freedom to live your life as fully as possible, take a moment to honor and acknowledge how much that freedom means to you. It's good to identify our problems. Through the awareness of what's wrong and what's broken, we learn what to repair and fix. It's good to focus on the health and the goodness in our lives, too. Becoming aware of what's right and what's working is how we discover joy. Look back along the winding road of the path of your life. See how far you've come? It looks good to me. How does it look to you? Hurray! We're finally free! God, thank You for setting me free.

    Laureen GOOD LUCK and I am so proud of you in every way. Love, Annette

Good luck, Laureen .. Boy, we have dueling threads today. Not much more to say than I've already said. I'm at work, waiting for the imager to do my photos so I can lay out my pages.

you have come a long way, baby!!! and you will have such wonderful memories of today!!! good luck to you and here's a super big hug!!!drink lots aof water!!!!!!

Good Morning and Happy 4th. I am celebrating my freedom to do nothing. Nothing at all! Baby is with the other grandma. N is in hospital again. It is nice and quiet.  We are having a gentle rain this morning. I think the weather knew I really didn't need to mow the lawn today. I may be forced to go back to bed or to read a book. Darn!  I took lp to his doctor appt yesterday. He is up to 12 lbs 5 ounces. He is ready to start eating food 3 times a day. His doc is very very happy with his progress.  I also saw the dentist. She finished the deep cleaning of my teeth by polishing them. She has to do a filling next week. I may also have to have a tooth pulled or a root canal on that tooth. I have never had a root canal. From the horror stories I have heard, I may opt for the pull. It is a back tooth and no one should notice. At least I hope the won't. Have a wonderful and safe holiday!!!

Do the root canal.  Do not give your other teeth freedom to move about the mouth...:) Holiday is great so far!! Tate and I left Euless about 9:30 yesterday morning for Austin, Texas.   We made it to the LBJ Library and they were having a lot of construction but 9 year olds could care less about too much history. We checked in to the Laquinta and had a great swim and a good dinner at Baby Acapulco's. This morning we are headed south..... not sure what direction yet.... just south... could be south or southwest.... thinking the LBJ Ranch or San Antonio... either way a great day with Tate. Be safe. Grammy

Have a great time making those wonderful memory pictures to haul out when you are 90!

Amy, I've had 2 root canals and wondered what all the fuss was about. To me the biggest annoyance was having to make 2 trips and not being able to get it done in 1 visit.

Laureen, thanks so much for sharing that informational reading to us. I got a lot out of that this morning. I am so much happier and more free than I was a year ago.  Good luck in you 5k. You go girl!! Remember to drink and drink some more. We don't want you getting dehydrated that is for sure. Take care of yourself because we don't want anything to happen to our lovely sister! We are sure proud of you! You are a role model to us here.

Good morning to all my OFF family. I hope that today keeps all us just a jumpin' with happiness.  Today is sunny but a bit cool for me. It is suppose to get to around 77 today. That is good weather I suppose. I am hoping that the wind stays down and then I won't get so cold. When that wind blows I get so cold I can't stand it. haha We are going to my cousins house today for a a get together. It is just going to be my aunt and uncle and their families so there is only going to a million of us instead of the gazillion if all the families got together. haha I remember when we were kids the whold family got together and there was a bunch of us and it was just us cousins then. How things change. What looked like so many people were really nothing when you think of it now. Most of the cousins are now grandparents and some are great grandparents too. It is strange how big things look when you are young. Back to the cook out today......I am taking hamburgers and buns with coleslaw (my cousin Bobby asked me to make it) and a sf angel food cake with sf pie filling on the top. I thought that would make it nice. It was short notice so I didn't have a lot to work with there. lol  We are going to watch the parade from right here in the front of the building. The ending is here at this intersection in the city so we usually go out front. There is so many people and I hate crowds anymore. Virginia across the hall (she is going to be 90 in a few days) goes out front with us and we watch and poor Virginia cries. Her son was a Vietnam soldier and he got Agent Orange and died several years ago and unfortunately he passed before she could get down to him since he was in Texas. Well, today would be his birthday and so most of her 4th of July is spent in tears. I always feel so sorry for her. She is just a sweetie and she is always coming over asking me to do something for her. She always tells me that she is sorry for bothering me and I tell her she is no bother. Yesterday she came knocking at my door and when I answered it she had 2 cupcakes on a plate decorated for July 4th and said "Happy 4th of July" and handed me the plate. I hugged her and told her thank you and I hope that she had a nice 4th of July too.  I suppose I should get going. I am going to send love and hugs to all with prayers going up for everyone. Special ones are going up for those in need of them today. May God grace all of you with special things today and make your day as special and wonderful as you all are to me. I also want to thank all of our vetrans and those fighting for our freedom right now. I am so thankful for all that have done and continue to do for our country, for us and for me and my family.