Now if I could just get back into the SWING of things, crawl around and clean my dirty house and pull up with my back, I will be as happy as these little girls!
Wednesday, October 29, 2008
Swinging
I did manage to get this one picture of Sydney last week happily swinging as was Annie and Lily Kate. It is hard to realize that Lily Kate is now crawling and just pulled up a few times too this past week.
Now if I could just get back into the SWING of things, crawl around and clean my dirty house and pull up with my back, I will be as happy as these little girls!
Now if I could just get back into the SWING of things, crawl around and clean my dirty house and pull up with my back, I will be as happy as these little girls!
Sunday, October 26, 2008
Back but not my back...
Back in town = yes
Back in the swing of things = NO!
Down in my back = yes
Why? = Because I tried too hard to be a fun grandmother with the grandkids
How? playing on the teeter totter and lifting 35 pounds of sugar and spice
Back to normal = not this week but maybe next
Back to blogging = yes with a pillow and ice at my lower back = because I want to share the pictures I got of the grandkids while we were babysitting in Montgomery!
Jessica came down with the girls to play with us on our first day in Montgomery
Lily Kate loved all the attention each of us gave her!
Annie liked playing with all their toys and grabbed this helmet and football just like a pro!
Pops grabbed a moment to hold the little ones before the older ones got home from school
The kids had a lot of fun playing with the little ones
They sang "no more monkeys jumping on the bed" in unison
But here is where I think I made my wrong move. I picked up Alex and put her in Sydney's lap to swing together. Then again it could have been when...
...when I bounced with all the girls on the teeter totter like a 6 year old!
Our first day on the job was fun but that night reality hit me at bed time when I could hardly bend over.
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Getting all 4 ready for school before 7:10 am was our biggest challenge every day! Thank goodness for velcro and older children because I could not lean over to pick up or do anything for anyone. Ugh!
Chad was our low maintenance child and was on time to wait for his bus to pick him up every day
Harrison had a new jacket that he loved except for the day he zipped his lip up in it:)
Sydney is going thru a "no pictures please" phase but helped me get lunch boxes ready every day
Alex was the sleepy head every morning but became alert when breakfast was presented!
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Bedtime was no problem. They all like to take baths and when I pulled out a "Wish List" catalog for them to browse through after they finished, this crowd got all excited!
Not sure if being on top of the table is permitted on regular occasions but you know how grandparents can get away with a few things!
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Harrison and Alex begged to decorate premade gingerbread cookies one night (I later learned the kit had been in the pantry for almost a year :) but they did not want to eat them anyway, they just wanted to decorate and eat the candy:)
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What does a grandmother do when it is raining outside after school = play table games!
They love mexican dominoes = all 4 ages can join in on this one!
...some play on top of the table..
some do not like to look at the camera lately (she is just going through a phase...)
and some love to smile at the camera!
but this one prefered to be on top of my clothes everyday!
Back in the swing of things = NO!
Down in my back = yes
Why? = Because I tried too hard to be a fun grandmother with the grandkids
How? playing on the teeter totter and lifting 35 pounds of sugar and spice
Back to normal = not this week but maybe next
Back to blogging = yes with a pillow and ice at my lower back = because I want to share the pictures I got of the grandkids while we were babysitting in Montgomery!
Jessica came down with the girls to play with us on our first day in Montgomery
Lily Kate loved all the attention each of us gave her!
Annie liked playing with all their toys and grabbed this helmet and football just like a pro!
Pops grabbed a moment to hold the little ones before the older ones got home from school
The kids had a lot of fun playing with the little ones
They sang "no more monkeys jumping on the bed" in unison
But here is where I think I made my wrong move. I picked up Alex and put her in Sydney's lap to swing together. Then again it could have been when...
...when I bounced with all the girls on the teeter totter like a 6 year old!
Our first day on the job was fun but that night reality hit me at bed time when I could hardly bend over.*************************************************************************************
Getting all 4 ready for school before 7:10 am was our biggest challenge every day! Thank goodness for velcro and older children because I could not lean over to pick up or do anything for anyone. Ugh!
Chad was our low maintenance child and was on time to wait for his bus to pick him up every day
Harrison had a new jacket that he loved except for the day he zipped his lip up in it:)
Sydney is going thru a "no pictures please" phase but helped me get lunch boxes ready every day
Alex was the sleepy head every morning but became alert when breakfast was presented!***********************************************************************************
Bedtime was no problem. They all like to take baths and when I pulled out a "Wish List" catalog for them to browse through after they finished, this crowd got all excited!
Not sure if being on top of the table is permitted on regular occasions but you know how grandparents can get away with a few things!************************************************************************************
Harrison and Alex begged to decorate premade gingerbread cookies one night (I later learned the kit had been in the pantry for almost a year :) but they did not want to eat them anyway, they just wanted to decorate and eat the candy:)
*************************************************************************************
What does a grandmother do when it is raining outside after school = play table games!
They love mexican dominoes = all 4 ages can join in on this one!
...some play on top of the table..
some do not like to look at the camera lately (she is just going through a phase...)
and some love to smile at the camera!
but this one prefered to be on top of my clothes everyday!
Saturday, October 18, 2008
Leaves, Trees, and GORGEOUS views
I am aware that most people like to see "people" pictures on a blog but I would not do justice if I did not show you these next pictures I took on our Fall Trip with our church senior adults. 41 of us went to western North Carolina for 4 days taking in God's majesty of Autumn. I'll post the trip in several segments as we traveled but this first grouping is of pictures taken right at Lake Junaluska from the Methodist retreat where we stayed. The 3 mile walking path around the lake was a photographic playground for me! (We managed to walk it several days too!)
Our God is an awesome God and an AWESOME artist!
Our God is an awesome God and an AWESOME artist!
Biltmore and more...
Going to see the Biltmore mansion was a highlight with our group from Auburn United Methodist Church but eatting at The Deerpark Restaurant on the Biltmore Estate was almost as good as it gets!
We drove through the Blue Ridge Parkway on our way home from the Biltmore and ewwwwed and ahhhhhed over all the colors of the leaves. That night a bunch of the women got together in our hotel at Lake Junaluska and pressed our leaves that we picked on our viewing stop while at the top of the Blue Ridge mountains!
Just look at those colors!
We drove through the Blue Ridge Parkway on our way home from the Biltmore and ewwwwed and ahhhhhed over all the colors of the leaves. That night a bunch of the women got together in our hotel at Lake Junaluska and pressed our leaves that we picked on our viewing stop while at the top of the Blue Ridge mountains!
Just look at those colors!
Train ride for Lolli
I had not been on a real train since I was 7 years old. What a treat it was to ride through the mountains and see an October scene of the leaves and go around the Fontana Lake where my family vacationed when I was 8 years old and then to stop at the Nantahala Gorge where I once was forced to white water raft with some crazy friends when I was single again and a mother of 2 small children (the kids were left at home on that trip)!
I most enjoyed hanging out at the open car of the train and letting the leaves blow by me and breathing that crisp mountain air as we whisked by so many gorgeous areas.
some of our church friends at the open car
I most enjoyed hanging out at the open car of the train and letting the leaves blow by me and breathing that crisp mountain air as we whisked by so many gorgeous areas.
some of our church friends at the open car
Carl Sandburg and playing with goats!
Our church group visited the Carl Sandburg Home National Historic Site in Flat Rock, North Carolina. This 260 acre farm called Connemara, nestled in the Blue Ridge Mountains, was breathtaking to say the least. Sandburg made this his home the last 22years of his life writing more poems, children's literature, fiction and nonfiction. His wife ran the farm business and raised prize winning goats. We enjoyed playing with the descendants of the original goats she bred on the farm! Everything is still in place in the house just as they left it, from slippers by the bed to zenith tv's and books by the thousands that he used and read. This tour is well worth going to if you are ever in the western North Carolina mountains!
Can you see his big white house on top of the mountain in the background of the picture overlooking the lake?
Here is where the term
"butting
heads"
came from!
which one is the ole goat here to the right? ☺
...even the ole goats like to snuggle after they butt heads!
Can you see his big white house on top of the mountain in the background of the picture overlooking the lake?
Here is where the term
"butting
heads"
came from!
which one is the ole goat here to the right? ☺
...even the ole goats like to snuggle after they butt heads!
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