#grumpybabyphotos
This is truly my husband Avery and me every day, every morning,
ever since we've been married! For this, I am truly thankful!
Thursday, May 23, 2024
Tuesday, May 21, 2024
Happy Tuesday Tuesday4 and Maxine Cracks Me Up
How To Preserve Children
Take one large grassy field, 1/2 dozen children, two or three small dogs, a pinch of brook, some pebbles.
Mixed children and the dogs well together.
Put them in a field, stirring constantly.
Pour the brook over the pebbles.
Sprinkle the field with some flowers.
Spread over all a deep blue sky.
Bake in the hot sun.
When thoroughly browned, remove and set to cool in a bathtub!
This was in a cookbook my mom had and also in the Dear Abby column years ago.
BOOKS
Welcome back to Toni Taddeo's Tuesday 4.
Books are such a big part of many people's lives. Maybe we should talk about that.
1. Do you have some books in your home? If so what subjects are they? Which is your favorite? I have books! So many books. I lean toward all the Christian books I can find out there. Authors Mary Crowley, Elisabeth Elliott, Corrie ten Boom, Leslie Leyland Fields, Kevin Leman, James Dobson, Michelle Cushatt, Stephanie Thurling and more. I love good clean romance novels by Hope Holloway and RaeAnne Thayne. Historical books, children's books. I am a book fiend!
2. Do you enjoy browsing around in bookstores ? Do you have a favorite you like to go to? I shop on line as it is convenient and saves making a trip out. But I use to love going to the Tattered Cover when I worked in Denver proper. We have a Barnes and Noble close to our home so I will wander through there occasionally too.
3. Do you think real books are clutter or do you just love having them around you? I LOVE them! I love the smell and feel of a book in my hand and always have. The Denver Broncos had a player named David Bruton. He had a love of books like do and I loved that man and listening to him encourage children to read and giving them books as well. Dolly Parton's Imagination Station is great fun. Our newest grandson will receive a book a month from Dolly's foundation until he is 5 years old. Dolly created her foundation in honor of her own father who could neither read nor write. Yet Dolly said he was the smartest man she ever knew and she learned her good business sense from him.
4. What is the oldest book you've read and what is the newest book you've read or are reading. The oldest book I love is To Kill A Mockingbird and The Good Earth. My uncle Louie had an original copy of the Good Earth and he let me borrow it. He knew I did not fold pages to mark my place and I was tickled I could borrow a classic from him and he would be proud of me for returning it exactly as he gave it to me. There is a book about E.B. White who wrote Stuart Little (1945), Charlotte's Web (1952) and The Trumpet of the Swan (1970). I am hoping to add it to my collection soon.
Thank you to Annie who keep this site/blog hop in memory of her friend Toni Taddeo.
Sunday, May 19, 2024
Aw...Mondays love is....
If Heidi Klum had married Don Ho , she'd be Heidi Ho but...
If Ida Lupino had married Don Ho she'd be Ida Ho!
My friend Bea turns 94 on May 30th. She always said to me, as we got ready to leave our office, "Let's blow this pop stand".
Monday, May 6, 2024
Aw...Mondays and love is...
Wednesday, May 1, 2024
Happy Tuesday Wordless Wednesday Prayers
Tomorrow is May 1st.
Flowers and Springtime are happy things, and makes me happy. Even though I have all the hay fever I have a happiness for plants and revived a little house orchid that was looking sad. It now has several blooms on it.
My aloe plant went crazy in our bedroom window! It loves the sunshine! The left side little plant was pink when we bought it. Now it is green with pink coming in underneath it and the house orchid has sweet little blooms. H A P P Y !
Prayers are needed: Noelle has a friend in Michigan. Her dad has colon cancer and it is moving very aggressively. Her mom is having a hard time with it. So the phamily needs prayer. Noelle, being a widow nearly 17 months is going to give mom some encouragement or insight. No better person to share with you and pray for you then one who knows the grief of loss.
Take the helmet of salvation and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God. And pray in the Spirit on all occasions with all kinds of prayers and requests. With this in mind, be alert and always keep on praying for all the Lord's people. Ephesians 6
I can relate to Maxine. On Friday, I lost my phone. I thought I set it on the kitchen table as I unloaded my groceries. No, it was gone. Our son Jeremy, the keeper of all things to do with technology, like phones, internet, and such said he tracked the phone to where our bedroom is. We spent the day indoors as it was cold and messy outside. We tore the bedroom apart searching nothing. On SONday afternoon when we gave up hope of finding it, Avery went to the extra fridge we have to get chorizo for burritos. There sat my phone, how it got between two packages of chorizo, one will never know. Just happy and grateful we found it. The fridge is on a wall behind our bedroom. Laughing out loud.
Enjoy your day!
Friday, April 26, 2024
A TREMENDOUS LOSS/ FELINE FRIDAY/ SCRIPTURE
Diann Leigh LaBell-Huffaker passed away March 1, 2024. There will be a Celebration of Life when the lilac's bloom. She was the most delightful blogger (The Thrifty Groove), thrift shopper, purse and tea cup and teapot collector. She loved to travel with her husband Troy, who is a long distance truck driver. She also created many beautiful table settings with her thrift store finds.
Diann had a kind heart. I loved her shares about dinner at her dad's after her mom passed away. Her dad was a great cook and had his three children & their families over . Many of us joked with Diann that we wanted to be adopted by her dad Harvey.
Her obituary is at Martensen Family Funeral Homes. It is a great loss. She always replied to messages even when they were traveling cross country. Her obituary said, in lieu of flowers, please do an act of kindness for others in memory of Diann.
I am going to miss her as she was always so upbeat and sweet. She last posted at social media February 28, 2024. They were having dinner with friends and she always shared the places they ate and all the fun they had.
I am so saddened and shocked at her passing. She was 60 years old. But she loved her mom Janice so much and her loss was a shock for their family. I am sure Dianne in enjoying the company of her mom. My thoughts & prayers go out to Troy and her dad Harvey and her two brothers, and all who loved her.
It takes courage to be kind.
Loved you Diann and will miss you very much.
I think I am going to attempt to plat another lilac bush. Diann was a Master Gardener. So I am going to give it one more try and hope she is shining down on that beautiful, fragrant plant. Rest easy Diann, may the angels help you with your heavenly garden.
Ellen and Lorianne shared these Friendly fill In's. Ellen created the first two and Lorianne the second two. Thanks ladies.
1. I find _____________________ offensive.
2. __________________ is a good way to make some extra cash.
3. _________ makes me feel like I can accomplish anything.
4. I could see myself naming a cat or dog _________.
My answers:
1. I find people who are unkind offensive.
2. Selling her personal clothing, handbags, and shoes is a good way to make some extra cash.
3. When I spread kindness it makes me feel like I can accomplish anything.
4. I could see myself naming a cat or dog Lily or Thomas.
“Be the reason someone smiles. Be the reason someone feels loved and believes in the goodness in people.” Roy T. Bennett
Wednesday, April 24, 2024
RANDOM POST & WORDLESS WEDNESDAY
Today I had the pleasure of doing my grocery shopping with my grandson Colton and his nearly 4 year old girl, Shea. We were having fun, going up and down the aisles with our two carts at the local Walmart Marketplace. We spent lots of money there! When it came time to check out, there were no cashiers, only self check out. We had spent 30 minutes filling our carts! No, Nada, No Way, Sorry Charlie, were we going to use self check-out! First of all, it is not designed for large grocery orders! So as we watched four "old" broads, ok, I am old too but never allowed a patient to see me shooting the breeze at work, while they were waiting to be helped! As they stood there, having a morning coffee or hen party, the mean one, who wears the biggest 1963 prom queen bouffant hairdo and stands like a statues at the front of those self-check-outs with the meanest sour face I have ever seen in my lifetime! Perhaps, you think I am being very mean! No not at all. If your job is to "watch: the customers as if you work for a government agency, smile once and awhile or find a different job. She makes no attempt to help others but relies on the other three hens in her party to go help customers while she stands like a stone sculpture! She is now reading my lips as I say to my grandson, "if no one is going to help us at a regular check stand then we can leave these carts and shop elsewhere" .Another employee is coming down the main aisle with her job, which entails carrying all these pre ordered groceries to customers, sitting outside in their cars waiting. I interrupt her to ask if she knows if any regular check checkers are available to help us with our $100 plus carts filled with groceries. She yells, hey are one of you going to open a check stand to help large order customers? The prom queen tells two of them to skaddle and get a check stand opened.
The one gal, who had a stroke, I know, because she once told me as she thanked me for leaving my heavy items (i.e. 40 count bottled water) in my cart. She helps us, but you can tell, she ain't happy about it! My grandson is filling his groceries in the reusable bags we each brought to the store. Shea is cheerfully asking for more stuff at the checkout stand, you know, candy bars, gum and mints all presented there for small eyes to spy out!
It is now my turn and Colton continues to bag my groceries with my bags. She thanks us and we head to the car. An elderly gent is stopping in the middle of the road. My grandson sees another older gent on the ground. He and the other guy race to the man's aid. I am watching two carts full of groceries and our most precious cargo, Miss Shea! The man tells them he has had 9 knee surgeries and his knee gives out on him. He is a tall man, about 6'4"! As Colton and the other guy pick him up he thanks them and they help him into his car.
Life is hard, often you deal with Prom Queens and other assorted people who hate helping others. Yet seeing that older gent and my grandson scramble to aid a man on the asphalt, I was very grateful how there are still some of us, who were, "raised right"!
At home, I get all groceries put away and my sweetheart calls me. It is now the noon hour and he is at lunch. I tell him this story and he says he just read that Walmart is doing away with self check out in California and Colorado! Sad as it is that we live in a state turning into California with the notion that everything is free, no laws pertains to certain people and the rest of us can like it or lump it! My husband says, Walmart is tired of losing money because of theft! Go figure!
I can drive over to the neighborhood where our son Jeremy and his wife Brittany live. It is a brand new area and the King Soopers store is new and filled with anything your heart desires from pharmacy, clothing, groceries and bath towels and wine, oh yes, lots of wine! But the different there is that dozens of people checking you out cashiers are open and most of them manned by teenagers! These are children raised right. They know making $20 an hour to check out real live people is a blessings, so they treat us with respect. I love that store, but sometime I can not get the bargains like Walmart has. Other times Kings is the very best because they are very well stocked. Plus their producee and fresh meat and cheese departments are top of the line.
Life is hard, I hear my mothers sweet voice inside my head. She would always tell me that and say, you need to pray harder. So I try.
"But if anyone does not provide for his own, especially for those of his household, he has denied the faith and it worse than a nonbeliever. " 1 Timothy 5:8
“In spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart. I simply can’t build up my hopes on a foundation consisting of confusion, misery, and death. I see the world gradually being turned into a wilderness, I hear the ever approaching thunder, which will destroy us too, I can feel the sufferings of millions and yet, if I look up into the heavens, I think that it will all come right, that this cruelty too will end, and that peace and tranquility will return again.” Anne Frank
** If you need something good to read search for books by Fiona Volpy
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