Grandkids @ MindSay 
Hello all I'm sorry that I haven't written lately but you see I have 4 grandchildren that I have been babysitting because school is out.
They are keeping me really busy. I never felt so old as I have, in the past week.
They are fun also. The other day I had bought some cherries, so I went to get my
cherry stoner to pit the cherries. My oldest grandson Aiden and his sister Sloane stood there and
watched me pit the cherries. He was so impressed that he put his hands in the air
and said very loudly that " you are the awesomees grandmother I have, you have a cherry pitter". Well I felt pretty important to be the most awesomees grandmother that I lost my head and let them eat a good portion of the cherry's and I didn't have much to freeze.
Every month I let one of the grandkids stay all night and they get to pick what place they want to eat at and they get to go to the toy store and pick out a resonable price toy. $15.00 - $20.00. Now this Saturday is Todd's turn to stay, so I asked him a week ago to pick someplace to eat and today he informed me that he wanted to eat at
a Japanese steak house. Then went on to say," you know mamaw the place where they cook the food in front of you and they toss food at you to eat". Well I thought this kid is really on the ball about this eating out!!! But I had said OK we will go. When I told Mr. B my husband where Todd had picked for eating out Mr. B was impressed and said my kinda kid.
Now today the littest one Nickolas sounded off by talking baby talk. He is 6 months old and is just thrilled that he has so many kids to talk to him and play with him. Unless he is hungry or tired you don't here much grumbling from him. But today he sounded off loud and clear. He had a dirty diaper. Now all the children followed me into the changing table to see just how bad it was. And of course it was bad at least all the yuck's and wooo's and faning their hands away from there noses, and giggling at the sight of it. I had to agree it was bad.
But little Nickolas just laugh and giggled and just thought nothing about the dirty diaper. I myself wonder how long he had been storing such a large amount? He was a seven wiper!!!
After all the ado with Nickolas the kids settled down for a movie. And I after getting Nickolas a sleep sat down and said Whew! If only I could take a little nap.
The children were picked up by there mothers one by one and I was so glad to be able to finally rest and turn the TV onto NCSI. The kids programs are giving me a head zoneing.
If you don't know what a head zone is I will tell you that when you get one of these you just feel like your head is going to turn to mush if you watch one more kid show so instead of mushing out you zone out, you go to a place in your mind that nothing is stored in and you stay for as long as you need to, in my case about 2 hours.
Well I hope you had a good time reading this and I so much wanted to tell you all that I LOVE MY GRANDKIDS!!!!.
Have a great Saturday. We are suppose to have a sunny and warm day towmorrow. Hurray!!
That means more garderning. My broccolli is comming up. yeah
A good day at school- the kids were writing letters to a fictitious creature with a recessive trait that made him sure he was adopted- explaining the genetics behind his phenotype.... I am looking forward to reading their creative explanations and assurances to him.
Stopped on the way home to take a hike along the river trail and then into the tamarisk tangle- another FTF- two in two days! Time to place a few more caches myself - everyone is enjoying new treasures.... maybe today.
Called my daughter for an update on the impending arrival of a new grandson and found them just getting a table for dinner- wanna join us? sure, we'll be right there... off with the staff shirt, throw on my "Puff the Magic Dragon" t-shirt (because it gets such a great response from our youngest granddaughter!) and we head out for an evening of adventure. The girls were eager to go exploring so we take them and head back to the park with the night cache where they thrilled at following the trail of reflectors to the hidden treasure. A couple more park cache strolls, in light jackets (Spring is here!!!) and a stop at DQ rounded out the night. The youngest was in charge of the heavy duty flashlight- took both hands and arms as she walked- but she loved it!
A call during dinner from my other daughter dnlecrone who needed some grounding as she tried to steady her emotions on the heels of a tumultuous day in the chemistry lab. Working on her Master's defense and her final run of data collection - the results went haywire! Turned out to be a mistake made when she set up the tubes - but the emotional frustration lingered. She is too far away-I wanted to go sit in the little room on campus with her where she dutifully would spend her Friday night running the set again as the machine is only available on a sign-up basis and the competition is considerable. If I can find a way to be there on the 14th as she presents the research she is conducting... I will....I'll keep looking....
Today promises to be another fun one! The weather prediction is fantastic- 55 degrees - blue skies. Today is the due date for the new baby and I convinced J that walking and moving and being outside would be a great way to spend it- so looks like girls' day out - J, H (3 yo), M (11yo) and me - geocaching, of course~! Think I'll make up a couple caches to look for places to put - they will love that. We'll head up the highway and new territory - some fun caches I've been reading about.
Off to weigh in.... hopeful that I have made some progress this week- if not in numbers than in motivation and activity, for sure! Better get moving! Hope your Saturday is a great one, too!
So reading my home area's local newpaper on the web, I got all excited after going wow that is going to cause some trouble. I hit the Obits page!:D
Yes I chedk the Obits from home daily. My family is real good at not letting those who live out of the tri state area know someone died till after the obit is published! Plus Randy and I like to check to see if the "Bitch" or anyone associated with her has passed on so we can go dance on their graves!:D
Anyway the excitement was I thought I saw my father in law in the obits. Granted the last name was spelled wrong but the idiots up there usually do spell our last name wrong! Then my excitement got crushed! It was an older man from one of the out laying communiites that isn't really apart of our home area but is because it is on the radias break of what they consider our home area of the tri states.
I was sooooo excited I almsot called hubby and said pack the bags we are going home to dance on your fucked up dad's grave! It was such a kill joy to find out it wasn't his dad.
Now i am sure some of you are wondering why we strongly dislike my hubby's dad. A brief background. Randy's dad was a piss poor father and husband. His mom was an equally piss poor mom and wife. But she at least has admitted to it and doesn't try to tell her kids how to live. She does that to her daughter and son in laws. To me very unsuccesfully and has been kicked out of my house for a period of 2 years and learned her lesson. Randy's mom also knows that Randy knows both side of the story containing his parents. His dad is a lying theifing backstabbing doesn't know what family means pervert.
Treated his son like shit when his boy was growing up, catered to his daughter and still does.......thinks everyone in the known universe owes his freakisly tall ass something and when Randy went through his very messy divorce with his ex wife.........two faced and backstabbed his own son! And we have proof that the asshole slept with the "Bitch" while Randy was still married to her when she came home from FL while Randy was waiting to get out of the Navy officially!
Move on to me and my marriage with Randy.......Bugged my ol man terribly in highschool, through his marriage to the "Bitch" and through my pregnancy with our daughter about NOT having a grandson to carry on the family last name. I pop out my boy........10 months after the "Bitch" pops out her one and only boy also. Treats MY kids, HIS grandkids like shit. But carters to his grandkis with the "Bitch" lets the "Bitch's" son call him grandpa and invites the "Bitch" to family functions and if she declines then we are an after thought to be invited.
I would go out of my way no matter how much I disliked him and his new wife (bible thumping fundi from hell-my devout catholic mother and Randy's bible thumping lutheran mo sect mom can't stand her either because of her bible thumping ways!-it is that bad!) and ask them if they wanted MY kids for the weekend. Even giving them first choice before I would call my parents who actually love having all their grandkids at the same times even if they are rambuctious lil hell raisers! They would give us some bogus excuse and then dare to call us to ask us something and we could HEAR the "kids" (Randy's with the "Bitch") and their baby brother in the background and they would even say oh we ende dup with the kids over night so Janelle and current man ho of the year was could go out.
So we decieded if they wanted to kiss the "bitch's" ass and claim her as a daughter they dont' need to be around us or OUR kids. My kids have two great sets of grandparents. My parents who accept all step grandkids into the family but know when to step back from divorced spouses if it is going to cause a family member to get pissy.......and Randy's mom and step dad! Then the fucker DARES to say I kept MY kids from him..........Randy literally went off on his dad last time we were home in May. Meet him with out me cause I would have gone off on the asshole.......and said don't ever blame My wife for you NOT seeing MY kids again........like she said YOU made YOUR choice in cartering to my skanky ho of an ex wife over me and mine. Now that your 65 years old and neither one of YOUR kids want to be around you or your wife do NOT blame it on MY wife. So ol man you better wish to hell your fucked in the head bible thumping wife outlives ya cause if she doesn't your going to rot in the shittiest nursing home there is. You have no clue what family is and you never will. And for your information MY WIFE never bad mouths you to OUR kids ......if they dont' want anything to do with you, YOU brought it on yourself. The stupid fucker then told my husband that we could FORCE our children into seeing him......and Randy said no we can't you scared them by yelling at them for no reason. You showed them time and time again a child that isn't your flesh and blood came before them and that they mean nothign to you. Even at 7 and 6 they have more of a mind then you and Jackie will NOT force them to see someone who treats them like shit.
Thus why when my father in law dies my ass will be at the funeral and will dance on his grave cursing him to an afterlife of complete and utter torment for treating his son and his grandchildren like second class serfs. And I will do it in front of his bible thumping bitch of a wife and the entire family and fuck em all!
This farewell-to-summer entry has been in progress for the past week. . . . (mostly due to lack of internet access)....
Here I am, sitting in at Sky Harbor airport in Phoenix, waiting for a flight to Sacramento, California. Hoping I will arrive in time to catch a bus to the motel and avoid a $30 taxi ride. I has been a long day of standby and late flights on America West- a common occurance from my experience with this airline.
We arrived home from our trip across country- exhausted and butt-sore, determined that future travel to the East Coast will be by plane or we will significantly longer time for getting there and back.... a two week trip becomes one week of solid driving and a week in the middle to recover. The marathon driving portions were not fun. The times we could linger were rewarding, as always.
Some of the highlights of this past month's travels (after a week in Yellowstone) were:
Bear tooth mountains in Montana
Pennsylvania- particularly the Pine Creek Gorge area
Amish Lancaster County
Washington DC
Shenandoah National Park
The last two weeks since we returned have been filled with visitors from Texas- my son and his family.
This trip represents the symbolic end of my summer of leisure- school tasks begin again, another school year begins.
So many things I'd rather be doing!
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