Taste of Town

yesterday I had a great time with my daughter and 3 grandaughters at the Taste Of Town, we volunteered to keep count and make sure that the tasters had the proper wrist bands to be able to taste and for this we got to go around and taste after our 2 hour shift was over, we ate our way from the Carson Nugget all the way down the the Carson Mall and ended up at Schats Bakery having our dessert, a yummy cream puff. It was fun, tiring, and lots of walking. In two hours our team checked in over 360 people at our station and there was still 2 hours left to go. All in all it was lots of fun, I got a tee shirt and free foods to taste. Will I do it again next year? yes if able.

what a beautiful morning it was

today was wonderful, we sat outside and had our morning coffee, read our papers, listen to the birds singing and just enjoying the peace and quiet. What a wonderful start to a wonderful day.

A new leaf

ok, enough is enough, no more pity party for me, I have decided that I am going to feel good, I am going to find my inner self and I am going to live for me and my husband, we are going to enjoy our lives, we are going to go places, we are going to do just for us. No more drama, no more trying to be the peace keepers, what is, is what it is. I am in a good place today and I will be in a good place tomorrow and the day after that. I have a wonderful supporting husband, I have daughters that I love and I have grandchildren I adore and I have great grandchildren who light up my life, what more could I need or ask for? yep, I made the decision to let go and and be happy. Your life is what you make it, not what other people make it. Live, love, be happy.

frustrations continue

I have never had so much discord in my life as I am now experiencing in my later years. When I was younger and my husband was in the military and had to leave us months at a time I never experience the discord I now feel, I had to take care of 4 children by myself, I had a husband who at a whim would decide to move us, but in all of this I had the feeling of love, I had the feeling of togetherness, I had the feeling of family. Now in my later life I feel the disconnection of my family, I do not feel togetherness, I feel adrift in my life and I don't like it. I don't know how to fix it, I am so lost right now, no contentment, just frustrations. I have four daughters but I have to keep them in separate compartments in my heart and in my mind and that is so hard. We left Las Vegas to move to Alaska to have the family connection with our youngest daughter and her family, my oldest daughter also moved her family with us so we could continue the family togetherness but that did not happen and I don't have the answer. We returned to Nevada where we thought we would find the family togetherness and it has escaped us once again. I have to rethink my life and hope someday that all will be good again, in the meantime my one and only rock, my husband, will have to fill all the dispare I feel, all the frustrations I feel, all the lack of family togetherness I feel and he will have to be my rock, he will have to ground me, he will have to fill my heart with the love that I miss from my family, he will have to be my life.

Happy Mothers Day

I had a wonderful Mothers Day, in the early afternoon we went to Reno with Maura and Pete along with Pete's Mother and Dad, Josh, Lorraine and Dannie and I must not forget Marcus joined us, then there was Mary and her Mom, we had a really nice visit and a really nice light lunch, then this evening we went to Marina's house for dinner and it was a wonderful family gathering there, the Simpsons joined us, Brian's Mom and her friend came and he make the best lemon marauine pie, the tacos were wonderful, the kids were all there and it was so much fun to watch all the little ones playing and just having a wonderful time. I got roses from my hubby and a beautiful orchid plant from Maura and wonderful card greeting from the kids. I was wished a happy Mothers Day from Alaska from Catherine and Julia. All in All it made me feel very warm within my heart. I love my family.

sadness

Tomorrow is Mothers Day but for me it makes me sad, I have several reasons for not liking Mothers Day, the main reason is I don't have my mother to celebrate with anylonger, so if you have your mothers please let them know how special they are to you and hug them and tell them you love them unconditionaly, I know we are human and we make mistakes and sometimes we are not understood or taken the wrong way but we love and we hurt and we can be saddend.

The other reason for sadness this year is something I never thought I would experience within my family and children, I know there are spats from time to time but I never thought there would be such a big break in my family and have it split so deeply that right now I do not see any healing and that makes me so sad. I would love to be able to talk to all my children and share my thoughts and feelings and be able to talk about the funny, sad, happy, trials, gains, that each will experiance within their families and not feel like I am stepping on egg shells in case I say something to one that might make the other upset and make situations worse, I cannot nor will I try to fix it and try to set things right, I just cannot do it. I love all my children, I hurt for all my children.

I have never experienced such deep sadness in my life as I have been feeling for the past few years, I don't like this feeling, I want to be happy, I want to laugh, I want to feel great. I will just have to work at it and hope my remaining years will be good ones with great memories.

hip hip hoorah

My granddaughter Deborah is an author, her book "The Gifted" came out in published form and I bought my first one from Amazon then our friend Emmet came up from Las Vegas and he made off with my copy so what did I do? why of course what else does a grandmother does but go online and order three more copies, maybe I will be able to keep at least one of these copies. I am so proud of Deborah and her accomplishment. ps,,,all is well in this household, Del is doing just fantastic and getting back to his normal self without a stash. What a way to begin Spring. Congratulations go out to Deborah with lots of hugs and loves and kisses.