What can I say.......Happy Monday!

• Happy last day before the last day of June....
• I have had a wonderful summer so far.
• It's going way too fast.
• My kids have all been gone the last 4 days.
• I'm working fast & furious on my house
• My raised gardens are doing great
• I have a ton of raspberries getting ripe!
• The birds are eating my cherries & grapes :(
  
• I made & canned strawberry jam. :)
  
• I can't believe the year is 1/2 over
• I can't believe summer vacation is almost 1/2 over
• I still have a ton of things I want to accomplish before the end of July
• Leon is so busy with jobs, current & coming up, it feels like a freight train coming at us.

In conversation with some of my blogging friends, I've stated that I just don't stay in my p.j.'s in the morning. I live in town....I have family & friends here, my husband has his own business we run out of the house, UPS, FED-EX & the mailman often come to the door........

As I put on my FB page this morning,
"It's good to be prepared... alert, watching & ready".

(This is a very good thought spiritually, but a very good one in a natural sense too, especially when you have sisters like mine)

Because you never ever know who might show up at your house and walk right in unannounced at 7:30 a.m.


At least they brought me breakfast & presents!

Some scenes from our special 4 days.

Our Grandkids, Trey 2, Kyrie 4 and Jessi 2
All our kids & Grandkids except for 3 kids...Laura, Derek & Meshayla

3 weeks and counting

My "BIG-OLDEST" "sistah" Cyndie is delighting in trying to give me grief over my birthday coming up. Every so often the last month she has come up with some crazy thing or the other to TRY to torment me
Today I got a surprise visit from her, bringing me a gift, and here's what I got:

No silly, NOT the roses....they were a delivery to Relyssa from her sweetie. Probably some particular month anniversary or something. Guys tend to do things like that when their dating ya know.....(aren't they pretty?!) Since she refuses to have her picture taken, I took one of the roses by themselves.
I'm thinking that if I get coffee mugs & chocolate 3 weeks BEFORE my birthday, I should be looking for something really good ON my birthday, don't ya think? Maybe I'll get roses....HA!

*disclaimer-- I'd hate for anyone to think I was blaming Luanne or Gay...For those of you who don't know, I have two sisters, both younger than me. This one is a "sistah".... Not sure why she claims us, and she may not anymore by the time I'm done...