Wednesday, July 25, 2007
Happy Birthday Jeff!
Thursday, June 21, 2007
Welcome to Holland
Hi Everyone, I'm back. Today my daughter and two sisters and I are going to a very special golf tournament. It is called the "Tulip Tournament". It is dear to my heart because it effects my family directly. It is in honor of my special grandson Andrew and in support of the Manitoba Down Syndrome Society. I want to share what the guest speaker said at last years tournament. It was entitled "Welcome to Holland"and here's what she shared with us. Hope you enjoy it as much as I did. I think it describes it so well! I quote:
{I am often asked to describe the experience of raising a child with a disability - to try to help people who have not shared that unique experience, to understand it, to imagine how it would feel. It's like this.....
When you're going to have a baby, it's like planning a fabulous vacation trip - to Italy. You buy a bunch of guide books and make your wonderful plans. The Coliseum, Michalangelo's David, The gondolas in Venice. You may learn some handy phrases in Italian. It's all very exiting. After months of eager anticipation, the day finally arrives. You pack your bags and off you go. Several hours later, the plane lands. The stewardess comes in and says, "Welcome to Holland." "Holland??!" you say. "What do you mean Holland? I signed up for Italy! All my life I've dreamed of going to Italy." But there's been a change in the flight plan. They've landed in Holland and there you must stay. So you must go out and buy new guide books. And you must learn a whole new language. And you will meet a whole new group of people you would never have met. It's just a different place. It's slower paced than Italy, less flashy than Italy. But after you've been there for a while and your catch your breath, you look around... and you begin to notice that Holland has windmills... and Holland has tulips. Holland even has Rembrandts. But everyone you know is busy coming and going from Italy...and they're all bragging about what a wonderful time they had there. And for the rest of your life, you will say: "Yes, that's where I was supposed to go. That's what I had planned." And the pain of that will never, ever, ever, go away...because the loss of that dream is a very significant loss. But...if you spend your life mourning the fact that you didn't get to Italy, you may never be free to enjoy the very special, the very lovely things....about Holland!}
Monday, April 23, 2007
MEME
Three Things That Scare Me:
1. Loved ones dying
2. My husband's driving
3. Mammograms (always scared they'll find something)
Three People Who Make Me Laugh:
1. L. K. my former boss
2. My sisters when we start reminiscing
3. Gags Just For Laughs (TV show)
Three Things I Love: Aside from God/friends/family
1. Going to Mexico
2. Going to Grand Forks
3. Going camping
Three Things I Hate:
1. Vacumning
2. People that beat around the bush
3. Pumpkin pie
Three things I Don’t Understand:
1. Why some people go through so many hardships and others seem to have none
2. Why I keep making the same mistakes over and over again
3. Why some people have to die so young
Three Things On My Desk:
1. Calculator
2. Banana
3. Pen
Three Things I’m Doing Right Now:
1. Having a hot flash
2. Eating a banana
3. Drinking water
Three Things I Want To Do Before I Die:
1. See my grandchildren grow up and live for the Lord
2. Finish a quilt I've been working on forever
3. Go to Europe
Three Things I Can Do:
1. Blog
2. Sew
3. Crosswords
Three Things I Can’t Do:
1. Make good sour borscht
2. Fix my own car
3. Play an instrument
ThreeThings I Think You Should Listen To:
1. Holy Spirit
2. Christian music
3. Good advice
Three Things You Should Never Listen To:
1. Gossip
2. Off color jokes
3. False doctrines
Things I’d Like To Learn:
1. To speak Spanish
2. To be more disciplined in studying God's Word
3. Eat less and exercise more
Three Favorite Foods:
1. Cottage cheese perogies
2. Chinese food
3. Coconut Cream Pie
Shows I Watched As A Kid:
1. December Bride
2. Man Hunt
3. Sea Hunt (could only watch TV at the neighbors since we didn't have a TV)
Three Things I Regret:
1. Not spending more time with my kids when they were little.
2. That I didn't hire a painter to paint my house before I retired.
3. Not acting on things when I should like calling a friend when I know they're going through rough times
Crystal & Linda - I'm tagging you!!!
Wednesday, April 11, 2007
Renovations
(I did warn him it might be costly! After all, who wants to put old furniture, pictures, etc. into a new room?) Anyway, after I started tearing apart the first room I had second thoughts. What am I doing? Now I AM committed! The hardest part was actually ripping out our green and red carpets. Those two rooms have been known as the "red" room and the "green" room for so many years. How will we ever distinguish them now if both have the same carpets? And then there's the ceilings. Have any of you ever removed stippling off ceilings??? Dumb decision.
Let me tell you, working on the chain gang would be easier! I have scraped my fingers to the bone and if you see me walking around with my nose in the air, it's not because I'm stuck up or anything, it's just that I have a permanet kink in my neck from looking up.
Oh well, I keep telling myself it will be worth it in the end. Such is life.....