I am just popping in to say Happy Thanksgiving . Every year at this time I take time to think of my Grandma and Grandpa Hayward. For years Grandma raised Turkeys, She gave them to her children . Back then to have a 25lb turkey was unusual and to have white turkeys was unheard of. Grandpa said she liked the turkeys better than she did him. She literally hand feed them to hear him talk. She is part of the Nebraska State history for raising those turkeys. I don't remember much about those years except what I heard from Grandpa and saw in a book on Nebraska history. When my grandson Joseph was in the tenth grade, he raised turkeys for his FFA project. He lived in Fresno and I ,of course, lived up here. but I did manage to make three trips down there to see his turkeys and laugh. Because turkeys are the dumbest fowl there is .
Just a short history note from the archives.
Thursday, November 27, 2008
Sunday, November 2, 2008
WEEKENDS
When I worked at IRS , I lived for the weekends, especially when it meant a visit with my kids and grand kids. Then I started working retail and there were no sat and sun off. Then came my job at Comcast and I again had weekends off , but was too tired to do anything and the grandkids had grown up.
Now weekends are again a priority for me . This weekend Shane and Hunter came over on Sat night for Pizza. so I decided to try something I had wanted to do for many years. I found on sale a HAUNTED HOUSE gingerbread kit. Shane will be five the end of Nov and Hunter just turned two Oct 31. Being a novice at this type of project, I was chuckling to my self as I left my local Beverly's at the thought of doing this with two small children. We had fun, we had orange and black frosting on us , on the kids table, on the kitchen counters, on our clothes. but having done cookies and cupcakes as crafts for school party I said I can do this. Course I forgot that we had three adults at the table when we frosted cookies and cupcakes. I insisted that their parents take the house home. I did get pictures.
There is so much joy in having children around. I hope all of us take the time to stop and enjoy that time. I know I didn't because of my work but have been able to do this with not only the children in my family but also with the children at the school. We dressed up for our party. I wore my red hat dress, hat, braclets,purple socks, carried my queen bag and wore my purple boa .
I so enjoyed seeing the costumes on your blogs. Keep up the great work.
Hope all are well.
Now weekends are again a priority for me . This weekend Shane and Hunter came over on Sat night for Pizza. so I decided to try something I had wanted to do for many years. I found on sale a HAUNTED HOUSE gingerbread kit. Shane will be five the end of Nov and Hunter just turned two Oct 31. Being a novice at this type of project, I was chuckling to my self as I left my local Beverly's at the thought of doing this with two small children. We had fun, we had orange and black frosting on us , on the kids table, on the kitchen counters, on our clothes. but having done cookies and cupcakes as crafts for school party I said I can do this. Course I forgot that we had three adults at the table when we frosted cookies and cupcakes. I insisted that their parents take the house home. I did get pictures.
There is so much joy in having children around. I hope all of us take the time to stop and enjoy that time. I know I didn't because of my work but have been able to do this with not only the children in my family but also with the children at the school. We dressed up for our party. I wore my red hat dress, hat, braclets,purple socks, carried my queen bag and wore my purple boa .
I so enjoyed seeing the costumes on your blogs. Keep up the great work.
Hope all are well.
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