Then and Now.....

I was reading back through some of my old blog posts and realized something.....

I was much more open before I knew my family was reading. That doesn't mean I don't want my family to read my blog, it just makes me think more about what I'm writing.  I wonder if all great writers felt they needed to censor their words???

 I recently read on another blog this quote....

Blog like nobody's reading.....

Well......who knows what I'll do in the future.  You'll just have to stay tuned!

Anyhow, reading old posts is very sentimental and brings back both good and not so good memories.  

I can still do this....

I just did one the other night to be sure.

I started to do a "since then" post, but changed my mind.  I do that a lot....change my mind.

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So..... so much for then......let's move on to now...

.....just some really random stuff today as I'm feeling really random.

We are going to remodel our master bathroom.  We seriously are.....no, I mean it....o.k. well as soon as we can find tile we can agree on....and decide about the vanity and the mirror and the medicine cabinets and the light fixtures.....I think you get the picture.

We almost built a house together soon after we got married.  Thank goodness we thought twice and decided we were fine in our house.   Just remodeling puts a huge strain on us so building would probably send one of us to jail.  Just kidding.....sort of.

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And while I'm at it....let me say I've been reading a lot about grammar lately and I'm just not going to start stressing over whether or not I'm ending a sentence with a preposition.  O.K?  Grammar Girl agrees with me so I feel good about my decision.  I have enough to stress about without adding grammar to the mix!

Whew!  Not that that's been on my mind or anything.

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We had a very nice Valentine's Day......We don't usually do anything since it falls right in the fury of tax season and I'm determined not to be held hostage to H*llmark.......but I did send cards to my grandchildren this year and got a card for the superhero.

Someone whispered in his ear that Maybe His Baby Had the Blues......cause he came home early with flowers and cooked a wonderful meal!!!  Can't get any better than that....at least not on a G rated blog!

 Smile.

Here are the tulips he brought home and there he is slaving over the stove cooking dinner!  Isn't he cute!?

I took this picture with my camera on the tripod....AND I broke the tripod.  Whoops!
I thought it was a neat picture with Russell in the background.........going out to the outside refrigerator to get something else to cook!

Yes, yes, he is the best.  Now let's move on....

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A friend talked me into going to a painting class.  It turned out to be interesting and fun! So here are the steps we went through to get the final masterpiece product.

First, you paint your whole canvass the background color.......so that's me thinking can we move this along?

But as you can see, I was concentrating

My friend's canvass is on the right and mine is on the left in the almost done phase.

The finished Van Gohs.......I asked my husband which one he liked best and he said Sharon's!

My finished painting......and whether he likes it or not, it's hanging in the bathroom!

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It was a very busy few days for my sister and her husband, moving his mother into the same assisted living facility where our mother lives.

My other sister and I and my brother and his wife helped as much as we could, but it is a big job and if you have never had the pleasure of taking someone's life of oh......50 plus years......and trying to make it fit into 500 square feet, you don't know what you're missing.

My sisters

The table is cleaned off!

Just a few things out of cabinets getting ready for the move

I sure wish I'd taken a picture of her apartment all fixed up.  It looks just like home!
We're all praying that Mary will soon be right at home in her new apartment.

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Speaking of cell phones and not being a techie........you may remember this post where I have a hard time explaining how things work to the younger generation or maybe they had a hard time explaining to me....

Well, the other night just as I hit end after finishing a conversation, my phone went dead.....d.e.a.d.  I mean it wouldn't light up, it wouldn't do anything.  Dead.  I plugged it into the charger.....nothing.

Here is the poor dead thing

Sooooo.......I get up the next morning and go straight to the cell phone store.....walk in and tell them the problem.  The cell phone store employee takes my dead phone over to a charger, plugs it in and it comes on and starts charging........just a dead battery.

That's enough for today!