Sunday Thoughts

At my window this Sunday morning, all I have is to be grateful for all of my blessings.  Jack and I love our home, our garden, our friends here in our neighborhood.  We also have loverly friends outside of our neighborhood, more like family.  We are so grateful for all of those.

For me, I am grateful for my husband and his loving ways.  He is my rock to lean on when I am weak and tired, he is my muse, my one-man appreciation party.  Without make-up, without clothes, when I am at my meanest...my husband still sees the good me and loves me.

I am grateful for my daughters; they are my touch stones, my links to my past and the reasons for my pride.  I learn from them everyday, they love me with all my warts and pimples and enough to share the honesty that keeps me sane.

The grandkids let me get out my inner-child and feel the freedom that brings me.  They love the stories that only I can tell, and when I am with them we share my memories and their interpretations which always leads to laughter and contentment.  I am so grateful for the ideas and profound lessons I learn from them.

I am also so grateful for Jack's kids.  They share stories of  Jack's earlier life, and they carry so many of their dad's traits, tastes and emotions.  It's a pleasure to see and feel life as they do.  Their children also bring out my inner child and we share the love that only an extra grandma can bring.

The material things?  I am grateful for material things, they help to form who I am.  The thought that if I lose my material possessisons, I will be burdened with finding out who I am without them, never is far away.  BUT I  also know that I will be grateful when/if that time comes...and it may not be a burden but a new adventure for me.

Best of Christmas was in February

Yep so for Christmas, two of my boys gave me a date with them for dinner at Red Lobster.  So recently we did it.  Here's Levi above,



and here's Zak and me, Levi took the pic.

We had a really good time.  We had tons of food, first an appetizer of nachos with something weird on the top, maybe shrimp and a sauce.  Zak had some pasta with sauces, broccoli and of course the yummy bread which Levi and me wanted and Zak didn't.  Levi ordered shrimp grilled on a skewer and ate those up pretty darn quick with mashed potatoes.  Levi and I are enjoying the soft, delicious morsels of biscuits that were brought to us when Levi tells Zak to try just a tiny piece which he did...then he (Zak) polished off the rest of the biscuits--we had to get more!

So lunch took about two hours since we are never in a great rush, the three of us.  We made it over to the mall to look for clothes for Zak, apparently he needed shirts for school and Levi has plenty but he found a pillow that is awesome.  We ended up with 3 shirts and 2 pants and I don't know what else, the pillow for Levi and some kind of magical thing for Zak for which he wanted to pay me back but I said no...each kid had to get a prize with Nana.

What a great day!  The best Christmas present I have received thus far in my life.  I am a lucky Nana and a happy one...breathing awesomely as I think of that day and my loverly boys.