A post ForCousin Winnie...

My Grand Boy, Austin had his Birthday party yesterday...That is his Mama in the upper right hand corner... He had a Great Birthday..He will be 7 on the 15th..

I always tell My Grand Kids stories about when I was a kid....Two weeks Austin was complaining about having to share one bathroom with his Dad and Kimmie in their house up north..So I told Austin the 'Out house story.'

This is how we were so poor we did not have running water and we had what was called an out house...I then had to explain what an out house was and how Daddy built it...I went into great details...All was true....

I told him how sometimes there would be a snake in the hole or one of Clayton's setting hens so I would be afraid to go in there..On and on...

Austin's eyes were getting bigger and bigger..

Then I got to the part about the 'Sears and Roebuck's' catalogue....Which I had to explain what that was and how we used it for toilet paper..He could not believe all of this..


Well, this week I went into Mikes large walk in closet where we keep all of the extra toilet paper. There were 6 rolls left in the large Northern bag . I checked Mike's Bathroom and he still had 3 rolls stacked up in the corner, where he keeps his spares...I keep 3 extra rolls in each of the other two bathrooms...In Kenzie's bath I keep them in the bottom drawer ans in my bath I keep them on the bottom shelf in the bathroom closet...We were out of spares in each of the two Baths..

So I grabbed the large TP bag and went walking through Mike's bedroom. Of course Mike noticed I was taking all of the TP..He is very TIGHT!!! He said, "is that the last of the TP?' I told him yes and he said, "well, we are going..." I cut him off right there and said 'Don't even try to go there!' walked out, closed the door and left him talking, now to himself...

Mike buys, reads, and collects, thousands of trashy romance novels and the brown cheap paper would have made good TP when I was a kid..I thought if he persists on this 'using to much TP kick' I will get one of his Nora Roberts books and tear a few pages out and lay it out in the front bathroom which he uses every day as soon as he gets home from work because he can not make it all of the way back to his bathroom..

Then I had to laugh thinking of Austin coming over and seeing those brown pages in the bathroom and him asking, 'Granny, what is this?' If I were to tell him he would say...'I'm talking to Grandpa about this.' And he would be hot footing it to Mike's bedroom clicking those heals down hard with each step he took just like I used to walk....

Now Winnie, I assure you we will have TP in this house longer than we will be buying $5, Nora Roberts romance books at Wal Mart...But it did make me chuckle just thinking about Austin seeing book pages in the Bathroom to wipe with...

TP...One more little thing I am thankful for today...

Dinner Theater

Mackenzie is attending a Christmas Dinner Theater tonight in Phoenix. This is through the Girl Scout troupe. Mikes nephew's wife, Kris, is taking several of the girls in her van. Mackenzie will be riding with her and her Daughter. Grandpa bought Mackenzie a new outfit to wear tonight. You know in WA it is really to cold for a dress or skirt and Kenzie only had one or two and nothing really nice so today he bought her a new skirt, blouse, sweater and a new dress. Now she will have two new outfits for church. Tomorrow she said she is wearing her new dress and her new black sweater. She is the sweetest girl... I am so Blessed...God is so good to me.

Jamie Dawn

Rhea's middle Daughter got married last Month.
Marvin is always sending me some sort of email crap....Usually putting down Obama... but the other day he sent me something useful....these photos and these links....I loved the pictures...



I thought the wedding was just perfect for Jamie...The dress was very Marilyn Monroe...There were several good pictures of all of Rhea's Grand Kids but I chose this one because it reminded me of how awful it was to get that many Grand Kids to hold still for a good Picture...They are all moving in different directions...

The last Picture is of Jamie and her boy.

Of course my favorite is the one with Rhea..Look how happy her girl is...

Later... As soon as I made this post I decided I should not be plastering other people's Grand Kids on the net ...so I am sending the picture link to my family by e-mail....be sure and pull them up to look at how nice the wedding was...

Hurry, Hurry, Hurry!

I got up this morning around 6:00 AM. That was later than I have been getting up for the past two weeks. Some days I have been waking up at 3 and not able to get back to sleep. So it was nice to sleep a little later this morning.

When I got up this morning I did my usual nothingness...made a pot of coffee, drank that, read some on the computer, emptied the dish washer, just little things...I looked at the clock and it said 7:45...I thought that can't be correct! It was!

I ran in and shook Kenzie and said, 'We need to leave for school in 5 minutes!' She shot out of bed like a rocket....It's a good thing we always get things ready the night before. She whipped on her clothes we had laid out while I put tooth paste on her tooth brush. I garbed a wash cloth and turned on the hot water. I grabbed her lunch and a bottle of water. By now she was brushing her hair. I poured Orange juice in a cup and grabbed a bag of blue berry muffins. and we headed to the truck. I was not about to drive the convertible since I still had on my Pj's and had not even combed my hair.

We made it to school with time to spare but we sure had to rush!

Mackenzie has 4 tests today. It is the end of the semester. Missy worked with her 90 minutes last night reviewing math concepts. Hopefully she will do good on her test. All of the other subjects we have down pat, but math is not one of my strong points. I remember when Missy was in 7th grade she had all ready surpassed my knowledge in math. Now things are so much more advanced and I have slipped so much Mackenzie has surpassed my knowledge in 5th grade. I am glad I will not have to help Benjamin in kindergarten. He is all ready smarter than me on many things.

Sunny Day Here...

The Girl is at school but I have the Boy...It is sunny here today and the Boy could not stand the sun shining in his eyes..That old wagon wheel came from Arkansas. I have carted it around for 30 plus years...Well, Mike has anyway... Benjamin is taking pictures now. He loves to use my camera and it is so old I doubt if it would be a great loss if it broke. I do always make him put his hand through the strap. Yesterday I sat out some of the yard Christmas decorations......We have some lighted trees and deer also but they are too much trouble for me to put up...

I will have to take a picture of Missy's front yard...It is so full of decorations there is hardly any grass showing. Benjamin loves it....Missy says she always goes for the goddy look. She may not have the best looking yard but she definitely has the most stuff.... Last night I was afraid she would fall off that ladder it was extended up so tall...At one point she extended it up to reach the tallest part of the roof line but it was so tall and heavy we could not get it up to the house so she had to string them across the garage instead....I kept thinking if she falls off and hurts herself who would take care of that Boy...it made me really nervous...Her Brother will have to get on the roof and put some nails up for her so next year she can use a pole and hook the lights over the nails...

The Boy and I am having a good day today...