On The Go

For a day I didn't plan to do much, I've been busy. At 11:00AM I started to town to go to the bank, P.O. and Wal-Mart, but dad had to have lunch before I went. Then I was almost to Glaze Rd., and I remembered I needed the check book so had to turn around and go back home. Finally, I was on the road for good. I went to the bank(s), the P.O. and then to Lou's boutique to pick up a package about The Relay For Life cancer day. I have to read over the materials to see what it's about. I guess I'll need to be involved. After Lou's , I went to the mighty Wal-Mart. I wanted a sharp pair of scissors for the stampin class. I also got some stick on dots, and some Finishing Accents in blue and pink. I drolled over the paper but realized that I would be spending money at the Stamping Up party tomorrow and I didn't need to be spending anymore today. Oh, I did get a white sweat shirt for $5.00. It's cool in the house sometimes and a sweat shirt will be cozy. I saw one I liked at the Dollar Store, but it was $12.00 and I knew I could get one cheaper at Wally World and I was right. Of course, it didn't have Alabama on it!

Thursday

It was another warm day, no rain though. I went to the P.O. and then on to get my nails done. they had grown so long and I don't like them long. They get in the way of everything. They are a pail pink now instead of a deep,bright red. I like the red and go back to it often. I really love the nails. I was light headed all afternoon. Don't know why but it was a nasty feeling. Talked to Mary Kate today. I had sent her an e-mail asking her if she ever e-mailed anymore. I thought she might be too busy with Seminary, pre-school and family. She said she wasn't, she just didn't know I was on the computer every day. Trudy has made me a blogging maniac--I love it! It's a good way to journal. I don't enjoy writing in my journal, but typing is cool. Talked to Trudy. She put a good picture of Frank on my blog. She's getting it looking good.
Sat. is my Stamping Up party. I'll pay $10.00 and make 4 cards. I made a card out of the scrapbook materials I got from Big Lots with Sadie's name on it. Now to wait for a time to send it to her. I'll have to make the other grandkids a card with their name on it.
I didn't go on the temple trip. Frank has felt so bad for such a long time now that I felt I needed to stay home and take care of him. It's after 7 PM and he's starting to feel better.

Stormy Night

Last night was very stormy in the south. It had been 75 degrees all day and a cold front moved in. I heard one of the local forecasters say to put the weather radio on and I did.(wrong!) At about 3:00 AM the alarm woke me up. I got up and found Dad looking at the TV weather. Thank heavens the bad weather missed us, but I'll never put the weather radio on again. I had trouble going back to sleep after that. I slept in this morning.
Today was Karen and my play day. We decided to go shopping and ended up in town. We went to this little store in the Quizno's Pizza group of stores(I don't remember it's name) to see what all it had. I had been there once with Mary Kate and Richard but didn't remember what all it had. It has church stuff, like flannel board stories of the Old Testament, home school supplies and some scrapbook stickers and other miscellaneous things. It was interesting. Then we found the quilting store and Karen wanted to find some material that looked like stones. She has a project that she needs material for paths and rock walls. No luck there. Next on to Big Lots. I got some dry erase markers, some pencil erasers and a $5.00 scrapbook kit. I figured I would get my money's worth in the paper alone. I make a couple of cards after I got home. I'm beginning to wonder what I'm going to do with all the cards. Paper my room with them I guess. They're the only thing that is keeping me sane right now.
I've decided to go to the stamp party this Sat. Karen said I could read about the meeting in the next Ensign.
Frankie called around 5:00PM saying they had arrived in FL okay. Someone is putting them up in a hotel or motel, which is nice. I think he said the funeral is Fri. or Sat. Rachel's brother, Jason Cummings, is flying in. He said it took about 12 hrs. to get there.
That's a nice picture of my eternal companion at the front of the blog. Thank's Trudy. Now, to get Dad to look at it.

We Vote Today

Today we vote. We were going early, before lunch, but today is prednisone day and Dad is still sleeping. After I write this, I will get him up and we will go vote. We never miss voting.
A while back I found these old pictures of people I didn't know. Nanny Layton had sent them to Dad and he didn't know much about them. It bothers me to have pictures of someone and not know who it is. I found this genealogy book downstairs, I wasn't looking for it, but there it was. It was entitled The Waddells, Reed's Point and beyond. The name on the old picture was James Waddell, so I looked in this paper spiral book and found that this James Alexander Waddell was Nana Henry's father. Nana Henry was Nanny Layton's mother. Kids, Nanny Layton was your grand mother, Nana Henry was your great=grand mother and James Waddell was your great=great grand father. Five generations there. You, your parents, your grandparents , your great-grandparents and your great-great grandfather. I felt good that I figured out who was in the picture.
There was also a picture of Nana Henry's husband, Fredric Milton Henry. You remember , we used to call Nana Henry, Nanny Two Rooms, because that's how many rooms she had in Nanny Layton's house. You probably remember her better than I'm trying to describe her.
I've run the vacuum and damp mopped the floor and now Dad is getting dressed so we can go vote. The weather is unseasonably warm and it's going to rain. We got 3/4 " yesterday. Not complaining. We need the moisture.
Back from voting. the lady in front of me had voted the Democratic ticket. The Republican ticket was blue and the Democratic was white. We voted for Romney. I found I had bad feelings for the lady I didn't even know because she voted the Democratic ticket!
I'm having 2nd thoughts about missing my church meeting in H'ville this Sat. I thought I wanted to go to the stamp party instead of the church meeting, but I remember the Stake Pres. saying he wanted every adult member to be there. I guess I'll be obedient and go. I'll call the stamp lady and see when they are meeting again.

Sun., No Actually Early Mon. morning

Sat. was Pres Hinkley's funeral. It was so nice but I cried the entire day the T.V. was on . Sun. services were nice. Fast and testimony service is my favorite service. I ate a bowl of oatmeal with raisins and then a scrambled egg with cheese so I wouldn't got hungry at church. Since I ride with the Decker's, I have to wait until everyone gets through with their after church meetings before I get home, which is usually 1:30 P.M. I'm really hungry then! I hate to eat at church but sometimes during Rel. Soc. I sneak a snack. I have a snack attack! We watched the Super Bowl and by the end of the 3rd quarter, I predicted the Giants would will. Frank kept saying they would pull it off, the Patriots, that is. The Giants won. Nice game. I went to bed between 9-10:00PM but awoke at 2:30AM and couldn't go back to sleep so I made several cards. I've been looking at the Stampin' Up catalog trying to see what all they have. I'm looking forward to meeting with the other ladies at the Blackburn community center the 9th for card making. I think I'll have to choose to miss a church meeting that Sat. to go, but that's what I want to do. Frank's not been having many good days and that's hard on the both of us. I've got to go to Sam's soon and stock up on groceries. I must get some variety in the foods or I'll refuse to eat any of it. The birds need to go to Hartselle to the vet, but that's half of a day off and I've not been wanting to do it. I want to go to Sam's first. Mary Kate and family had a nice short vacation to Chattanooga this past week-end. I'd like to go with the kids to See Rock City. I think they would enjoy it. Maybe we all can plan the trip again sometime. If Frankie gets the job in Oak Ridge, he may be working all the time. Such is life.

Wow!

The slide show is great! It's amazing what can be done on/in a blog. I'm certainly impressed. I made 6 cards today. The lady brought by the Stamping Up book and said there was no smoking. Now I'll probably reak of perfume. I'll give it a try Sat. Feb.9th. It would really be nice if I liked it well enough to go every time and make some new friends. I need to find a way to mail my cards to my children. Back to the Stampin' Up--it will be an expensive hobby, but I have the basic stamps. I'll get to learn how to make cards the Stampin Up way. I'll have to be really careful with my money, but it may be lots of fun. Gray day. The weather is rainy and about 42 degrees. I'm bored, Dad's not feeling good plus we have to do bills today. That in itself is depressing! It's Friday and I usually try to vacuum. Maybe tomorrow for sure. The floors are really clean after I vacuum. Washed two loads of sheets and put them up. Spent 10 min. on the Gazelle. Now waiting to do the dread job-bills!