yardgranny6's Blog

R&R and Home Again
Sep 30, 2007 | 2:26 PM PST
Tags: R&R , 33yrs , B'day , kiddies

Will be wonderful to sleep in my own bed tonight. Much as I love to wander off for a few days, the return home is most welcome.

First thing every gardener does is look over the flower beds to make sure things are still where we left them, if they bloomed without us and what  we can do in the morning.

I still need to finish that bed in the back and get the rest of mulch off the truck in order to pick up another. Now my neighbor wants me to pick up a load for her. And then we will want a load or two for the area between our houses next. Hope they are picking up lots of good yard waste because 'we will be back'!! 

Grandson had his 10th family birthday party this afternoon. Boy is it hard to get a young boy to 1. sit still long enough for a picture  2. to get them NOT to make that funny face and   3. to actually look at you while you do take the pix. Or am I just getting too slow to capture them quick enough.  That boy racks up the cash at his birthday, his sister who is 13 says SHE never gets that much money. So now I know I don't have to shop for her this year, cash works for me. Don't even have to decide which teen store they might like a gift card. Amen.

DH and I celebrated our 33rd anniversary this weekend. That is what spurred the last minute trip to the beach. Sometimes we wonder how we did it. It was a second marriage for us both and I had three kids between age 4 and 10, he must have really been crazy. And he had a son 6 that added to our group two weekends out of the month. Thank goodness the boys got along. Almost too good, they were like a little band of indians and just as wild. Except when another child threatened one of our three. Then they fought for one another. DH had to go running one afternoon, when my boys came running that someone was fighting with their 'brother'. Nothing happened but it caused an exciting moment or two never the less.

Even way back then, in the midst of doing in-home daycare I was digging in the dirt. Had to put up a flimsy fence so the little kids wouldn't run over the veggie garden. They were allowed to go inside with me and they watched things grow. At one point we had a little kiddie pool dug into the yard. When it began to leak we through it away and I proceeded to make? a flower bed of course. Had the little kids helping carry rocks to put around the flower bed. Got kidded about child labor, but in actuality they kids liked being busy.  I think today's kids really need to be busy dong constructive things, not just keeping busy with activities. I love it when families do things for others. It can be one of the best bonding times.

Have enjoyed catching up on the few days I was not on the GG site.  More to Come Later