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Showing posts with label Fathers day. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Fathers day. Show all posts

Monday, June 20, 2011

It's Monday morning

 And my cup is full.

After our recent special privileges, one of the special people people in my life recently quoted this line--
"I'm drinking from my saucer because my cup has overflowed."  I loved the thought, and can certainly relate!


Sorry--I know I've posted on this before!  I love Mondays!
I'm sure that I love Mondays partly because Sunday is such a special day.  That seems to make starting a new week much easier.
I love Mondays because it's like a clean slate ahead of you, and yes, the days and hours may be full and the unexpected may happen.
I was sitting here this morning thinking about my week ahead, and I was feeling like it was a very full glass in front of me.

Incidentally the unexpected happened this morning (while I was still in my p.j.'s and drinking my coffee, and writing this.)  It led me to discovering a new blog when I googled a particular "How-to"  I won't post more on that subject this time--Lets just say that I'm sure that some people would put it in the catagory of it being "MONDAY".  Personally I don't think it really has anything to do with it.  Personally my feeling is that it's all in the attitude!


Last week was a really busy and kind of disjointed week.  When arriving home late on Sunday night from being gone for 4 1/2 days, I'm kind of bad about just getting stuff in the house and leaving it to deal with on Monday.
Last Monday was full of getting Meshayla un-packed, clothes washed, sorted, last minute errands & shopping in town, then home to get things in the suitcase and off to Lincoln to spend the night.  It was a full day with all that, and I didn't get anything else done.  In the mean-time you can imagine what happened.  At my house at least, mess breeds mess, and my house was the pitts.
We didn't get to our motel until fairly late Monday night, and Tuesday morning the alarm failed (or maybe it was us?) and we woke up an hour later than when we planned to LEAVE for the airport in Omaha.
Umm, yeah.  Probably not such a good way to start the day on top of possible traffic delays, road construction and needing to be at the airport early!

Thankfully we had no traffic or road delays, and when we walked into the airport exactly one hour before flight time, we had no lines & no waiting at the ticket counter! (yes, we'd checked in ahead of time, but they told us we had to get our tickets there)

The kids were probably happy that we didn't have time to give them a whole bunch of last minute "Mom" advice, warnings & instructions.  They got to their gate in time just fine, arrived in Newark just fine, called us to tell us they arrived, then later to tell us that they found their departure terminal & gate They had a layover in Newark, so had plenty of time and that's the last we heard of them until Laura called to tell us that they arrived in Stockholm some 12 hours later.  Some nice friends met them there, and helped them occupy their 5 hours before their flight to Vassa, Finland where Laura met them.

Luanne and I went back to Lincoln and enjoyed a day of shopping.  Scrapbook store, Bed bath and beyond & FINALLY got to make a visit to Trader Joe's.  By the time we arrived back home that evening, I was SO tired I didn't do a thing.
Wednesday we had Bible study at our house, so thankfully it HAD to be cleaned up.  We had company coming on Wed. night for a couple days, and we enjoyed having them here so much!
I had a cleaning job in town on Thursday and spent the rest of the day with Gina & her girls.
Friday morning they left and I have to admit that I really didn't get much done on Friday except recover from my "out of the ordinary" (not in a BAD way) week!

On Saturday my middle sister and I took off up to visit a special friend 3 hours away so I could do a Norwex presentation at her house.  We really did enjoy our day together.   Juli made us a lovely lunch and we enjoyed eating outside.  Thanks again Juli!


Sunday was another day of special Fellowship--both in the morning and afternoon.  At noon we had a lovely meal in honor of Father's day at my MIL & SIL's house along with our two oldest sons (and family)

 The little girls were having a hard day--Nan had a bug bite by her eye & it was all swollen up & she felt miserable.  Senny had 3-D glasses that she insisted on wearing!  Dawn & Zander are behind Derek, so they don't show in the picture.
 This cracks me up--Zander often has his tongue stuck out, or just the end of it between his teeth just like Derek did when he was his age!
 There is something about seeing your son with his son that really tugs on the heart-strings!



 Ryan's first "Fathers day-to be"--  Leon's 33rd Fathers day, and Derek's second.

Have a wonderful week!!  I plan to!
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Wednesday, June 23, 2010

Fathers day

  • Warning--This is a really LONG post!

My Sister & husband hosted a wonderful potluck on Sunday night for Fathers day & some June birthdays
It was such a lovely gathering & evening.

 
The hosts--my lovely sister & husband.  Sorry--not a great picture, but the only one I got of them.

The table spread --what a feast!

Some of the lovely guests--friends & family
Sorry--not good shots at all, I wasn't paying much attention--just shooting!


A peek out the window--Such a pretty & enjoyable setting for gatherings!

My Nephew--How did he get to be 18 so quickly?

Another one of my lovely sisters--and her husband.  It was Rod's birthday too.



My sister in law Lori came all the way from Michigan for this!

Just kidding--She and her boys spent the week here in NE, and she was busy catching up on all the family additions--babies, in-laws & friends.

When we camera happy girls get together, camera wars just seem to break out!





And then of course there's the pro--
 "The Prairie Hen" at work

--Busy documenting!

Getting up close & personal.  Wonder what she was taking this time?  More than likely you'll find out if you are a regular reader of hers!

Speaking of getting up close--I zoomed in on those  from across the room.  I'm pleased with my camera so far!




And Homemade Ice cream too!! UMM, UM!




This little guy kept us entertained with his BIG blue eyes, and climbing adventures.  He isn't wasn't quite walking all on his own yet, but it didn't stop him from climbing.  I'm wondering how my lovely niece manages to get anything done at all, with trying to keep up with him!





And we're off to the next adventure--one step at a time!  What a charmer!



I wish I was an awesome photographer, and or an interesting descriptive writer and could match some of the other creative Fathers day posts I've seen.


I'm not & that's that.  So I'll just post these--With Love to my husband & our son--Happy  Fathers day.
Leon's 33rd, and Derek's 1st.



If you haven't met him yet, This is Zander,  Derek's baby boy.  He's the newest addition to our family, and I have to say we think he's pretty cute too!  Born Apr 5, he's 2 1/2 months old now, and this was "Dad's" first solo outing with baby Z.  I think he wasn't too worried about getting plenty of "help" from the rest of us!
No lack of experience with babies in this group.




Derek & his grandmas--G'ma J and G'ma Cilla


And another 4 generation photo to add to our growing album