Well, I am home from my son's house, where we spent Christmas, and then had a 16th birthday party for my grandson. We drove to the party in a blizzard, back to my sons house in a blizzard, and on all snow and ice home to my house. My grandkids will be here this week, having spent last week with the other grandparents and aunts and uncles. This week I get them,well along with my great daughter. I am making chicken and noodles for supper, and ham and beans tomorrow.
I got an ipod and a Nintendo DS, for Christmas, I already have some songs downloaded but lots more to go. I am so new at this, but I love having this ipod. No more carrrying around cds and my walkman.
I also got some really cool pics of me with my grandkids, and the frames talk. Awesome. My other son gave me a framed picture with the words grandkids on it, in big letters, and then in cutouts in the letters are various pics of my grandkids with their grandpa, my late husband. It is awesome.
I fell a week before Christmas, breaking a rib and bruising the muscles in both arms, I am in a great deal of pain, but have decided to ignore it until all of my family leave. then I can deal with it. I just have to outwait the broken rib and work on my arms, the muscles are bruised and they (I feel) pissed at me. LOL.
Well as my mother used to say, it is too far from my heart to kiil me, so get over it. She was a kind and wonderful woman, but also a tough lady.
Well, that is all for today. I am hoping to keep writing in this every day, and get readership up.
Be good and enjoy your day!!!

Merry Christmas

I wish everyone a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. I do not think anybody reads this much, so maybe my new years resolution is too get people to read this, and to keep it up.
I hope everybody is healthy and safe this holiday weekend. I will be spending it with my kids and grandkids. It will be a hard Christmas but I have decided to celebrate my husband life and the kids and grandkids he loved, and not treat it with sadness but with lovely memories. He will be a part of this Christmas season in wonderful memories and in the faces of his grandkids, who loved and remember him with love and laughter. love Janice (glory2001) Christian

Update on my life

I am sorry I have neglected this blog, but here goes, and I will play catch up. Tomorrow, Nov, 14 will be 5 months ago that I lost my husband. It has been hard, as I look for him every morning and see him in my mind constantly. I still have him on my phone announcing,please leave a message. It does not freak me out, I enjoy hearing his voice. My kids and grandkids are also going through this with me, each dealing with it, in their own way and needs.
The daily task of dealing with bills, things breaking down,is pain in the butt, but I am coping, again with help from friends and kids. I went to my daughters a couple of weeks ago in Maryland, it is was a great break, and I loved spending time with them. I am looking forward to thanksgiving and hopefully spending more time with my son Eric, who lives about an hour and half from me. He is a very very busy teacher and coach, and I am very proud of him. My son Gary lives next door, and has physical challenges due to an auto accident. He helps me daily with yard work, breaking things, and just the days where everything goes wrong.
My challenge these
days is too lose weight,
eat healthier,
keep trying unclutter my house,

and make my scrapbooks and photo albums,
and keep this blog up to date.
Good luck to me, ha ha.

25 random things

25 random thingsShare
Friday, January 30, 2009 at 7:41pm | Edit Note | Delete
1. Love to read, almost anything
2. Love to dance, and used to be very good
3. I had a puppy once, named Meathead
4. I live in and grew up in the valley my grandpa and my dad were born in.
5. I started turning grey at 23, by 30 was mostly grey
6. I love movies, but not violent bloody movies
7. I collect all kinds of cd's
8. I am a packrat, trying to stop
9. I love to collect cookbooks, but very seldom every follow recipe exactly
10 I have three grandkids, who I adore
11.I flew last April for the first time in 40 years
12.I was very very shy in High school
13 I was admitted to college, but did not go, because I was terrified
14.Always had a secret wish to be a singer, unfortunately can't sing my way out of a sack.at least in tune
15.I am still trying to figure out some of the things on facebook
16.I was and still am a fan of the Beatles, when a teenager, I would have given anything to go to
England and marry one of them
17. As of June 14, I am a widow
18.I have a sarcastic sense of humor, both goofy and strange.
19.I love tv, CSI, NCIS, survivor, amazing race, and country music stations.
20.I love to garden, flowers and veggies.
21.I have always wanted to live on a ranch, but I am afraid of horses.
22.I have never wanted to live in the city,and I love country life.
23.I adore coffee, all kinds Also teas
24.Christmas is my favority holiday.
25.I have great kids, and I hope they know that I think that

veggie garden

I planted my veggie garden when my husband was alive, and taking chemo, so I planted good fresh veggies for protein and vitamins for him. When the C-Dif bacterial infection took him, I was left with a large garden with just me and my son. Well, the neighbors and friends will benefit, and I may give some to the our towns food bank. I am sure some of these people would love to have some of these veggies and they won't waste.
My gas dryer in my son's house quit, so I now get to figure out what is the best way to either fix it or replace it. My husband did not replace our washer and dryer and just used the one next door, and I am not happy with that scenerio, so I am going to figure out the cheapest way to get a washer and dryer fit into my house, and out of the basement(where they used to be, and we always got water).

update on bird and cats

Well, mama Wren kicked her babies out, and they could not fly, so they hopped over to the shady area by my house,(I am trying to make a woodsy forest floor garden there) and when last seen were attempting to fly. In the meantime mama Cat heard them so I had to keep an eye on her. She was busy moving her kittens, one died, as mama was in very bad shape, skinny and hungry. She still had two kittens but the one time we located them, so moved them, so I just put food and water out for her every morning. She is very wild and not friendly to humans, but she will sit there now, so I can put food out. I will still feed her, she is a beautiful calico cat, and I do not think she has ever had human contact, but I enjoy her anyway.

baby birds and kitties

In between my house and my garage, I have a roof covered porch, we call the breezeway. It is a lovely cool spot with flowers and a table and a grill. Well, right now a wren family decided to move into my decorator birdhouse, kicked the flowers out of the birdhouse opening and moved in. I told her the house was crooked but she ignored me. Now we have baby birds, noisy baby birds, I can't see them but I hear them. If I go out and sit on the breezeway with my coffee she sits up there and chews me out.
My son lives next door, and he came for coffee before work this morning, and said "what is that noise?" Baby birds, I said, No, he says it sounds like a cat, WELL, a stray cat, we have been seeing in the neighborhood, decided to have her kittens in an old chest that I use for a little table to hold a plant. I covered it with a tablecloth and Mrs, Cat decided to have her kittens under it. Now everytime I go out I get growled at by a cat and scolded by mrs. Wren. Now , my son says, guess what, now I have a birdnest with baby birds in it, in my garage. I live by a creek, and there is all kinds of animals there, I hope they do not find out about my maternity ward. I will definitely be in trouble.
I have to admit, Mrs. Cat looks like she is starving, so I fed her!!! I know I should not have, but she is a momma and she needs her strength, and she is still hissing at me, but if I leave her alone, she may get used to us. She is eating the food I left out for her.