Just for Mither!!!

So, I know- kinda weird- Chelle posting on mom's blog, but since I'm her blog manager I think I'm allowed to do it!!!

Mither asked me do change her background and I told her I wanted to surprise her with one and here it is!!! Mither this is just for you! The blue is because blue has always been your favorite color. (If fact when I was little my favorite color was always blue simply because yours was!)

And I made sure there were no buttons! :)

Mither I love you more than I can say! You've always been such a great example to me! Thanks for all you've done for me and my family. We owe you so much more than we'll ever be able to repay!!

Love,

Chelle

Moving Day

We will have milk, chocolate milk, oj and doughnuts tomorrow for all who come. They will be upstairs on the small kitchen table so come and help yourself.

Thanks in advance,
Mither

once every ten days or so

I'm risking Michelle's firing me if I don't write a little more often. So, what's new?



Furniture. We finally have some money to buy and a place to put it all at the same time. It was fun picking it out. We did go up to Salt Lake to look at two different places but I couldn't find anything I liked as well as what I saw at RC Willey so we bought it all there. It will be nice to have the family room back and to have decent furniture to put in it. The living room furniture will go downstairs along with the two recliners from our bedroom. We will be able to seat seven people comfortably down there so we will be able to watch movies with your families when you come to visit.



I just went to the MTC for the first time since my surgery and am finally able to drive the car again. It feels so good to get back to my old routine again. I am exhausted, tonight, after being up and about so much, especially after being sedate for so long. I will be glad to give up my cane, though, as soon as I can walk without a limp. It shouldn't be too much longer, though. I have walked around the kitchen and bedroom It was a long walk from the parking lot to the building I need to go to at the MTC and my left hand got very sore before I got there. It was the same walking back to the car.



Now if I can just keep from kicking my cane with my little toe on the left foot so I can get my Sunday shoes on I will be able to go to church on Sunday. I have kicked it THREE times in five days. My toe was all black and blue from the first time I kicked it and was just getting so I could walk without it hurting when I kicked it the second time. Then a day later I kicked it again. So now it is so black and blue it looks almost dead. It has been hurting all day from walking on it in shoes that were my most comfortable. I can't even get my Sunday shoes on at all. You'd be surprised at how hard the swing of your foot is when it hits something solid like a cane. It's much worse than stubbing your toe. I am proud of myself (I know pride is a sin but I can't help it, it hurt so bad) that I didn't swear. I don't swear anyway, but if I did, I would have let out a long stream of bad words after the third time.



I hope you all got my email about helping us move furniture on Saturday after moving Adam and Stacey. I know it will be your husbands helping but a good word from you wives would help.



That's all for now.



Hugs and kisses,



Mither

Too Bad

It's almost too bad that I found out that I've lost more weight. I am making more excuses to eat sugar. Not good NOT good NOT GOOD. {-(

Turns out I do need my cane if I want to walk very far, Dang! Oh well, at least it isn't the old boring metal ones. It has an ebony handle but the cane part is various shades of color (pastel) that look like bubbles to me. They look like jelly beans to Holly. That isn't a good choice of words for someone off sugar. Bubbles are much less fattening.

My little grandson, Matthew, just turned one yesterday. I don't have any favorite memories about him except that he is exceptionally cute and he will let me hold him for a little while if his twin aunts aren't around. (which is rare) But that's better than Emma who will hardly tolerate my even looking at her unless I promise a Popsicle or fruit snacks. Eventually Ems is going to have to train her not to be rude to people. Until then I am stocking up on Popsicles and fruit snacks. lol

Now that I'm well enough, I'll have to start painting and sewing again. If I can get over the initial resistance to doing anything that comes close to work, I should make good headway as once I get started, I really enjoy doing both.

I had an interesting dream last night . I had been pondering on why I have such a hard time doing things like work, why I prefer to sit around doing nothing even though there are things I really like to do. I fell off into a doze and had the following dream. I dreamt that someone was talking to me and telling me that some people have a bad experience that then effects them the rest of their lives negatively. While others have no knowledge of the bad experience but the effects are visible the rest of their life and only eventually, when they are older, do they come to realize that they have had a bad experience early on. The latter seems to be what happened to me. I've never thought of it that way but it explains at least some of my issues in a way I can understand. I think the dream was one of those "tender mercies" Bro. Bednar talked about a while back. I am so glad that I have these little witnesses from the Spirit from time to time that let me know that Heavenly Father is aware of me personally. What a blessing.

I am doing much better on my cane now. Not quite so wobbly. I do think it won't be too much longer that I'll need it though as I have only a slight limp without it. It's so nice not to have the terrible pain that I used to have before the surgery. That's another blessing.

A third blessing and probably the greatest one is that Joe went through this whole seven week period with only slight complaint on two occasions. He literally waited on me hand and foot the whole time. What a good man he is. And what a blessing!


I hope to be well enough to make a plumb pudding for Grandma Spendlove this Thursday so I can take it to her next Friday for her lunch I have some "diet" brown sugar I will use in it so she can eat it. It's really good with a hot lemon sauce on top with whipped cream to top it off with. If anyone wants a taste and a recipe come on over Friday night and try it. I will make a big batch so everyone who comes can at least have a little taste. It is absolutely yummy.

Well, that's all for now. Wish me that I can finally go to sleep tonight. Yawwwwwn.

Lub-lubs

Mither

To Joshie

My very favorite memory of Joshie happened last spring. He was playing with all the other grand kids, roughhousing and running around when out of the blue he stopped by my chair and gave me a hug (well, my legs a hug as I was sitting down) and said "I love you Grandma." I just about melted in my chair. I should have given him extra fruit snacks for that. If you'll send him up, Stace, I'll give him one today. Have a happy birthday, Baby.

Loves and Hugs,

Grandma

Miracle of Miracles

I can hardly believe it!!!! I went to the doctor today to have my hip checked and just about feinted when I got on the scales and had LOST weight over the holidays. I have lost a total of 15 pounds since last July. WOO HOO!! And to think I got to enjoy a whole box of candy for
Christmas besides Well I have to admit that except for a few slips and that box of candy I have been off sugar for the last six months. Even so, I've hardly moved out of my bed or recliner for the last six weeks since my surgery. I seriously expected to have gained weight. WOW what a high!!!

Oh yeah... my hip is fine, too. And ta da.... I'm officially off my walker. I'm supposed to use a cane but it is more bother than it's worth. But Joe want me to use it so I'll humour him for a week or so. It is so nice to be able to walk around without that big, bulky thing. I hope to get back to my routine of going to the MTC again as soon as I can move my leg well enough to get from the gas pedal to the brake pedal in good time. I haven't tried it yet but plan to do it tomorrow. Wish me luck!

We had a great Christmas. All the kids and grand kids were here which added a great deal to the merriment (and noise :)) We had a cute nativity program with the little ones playing all the parts except for David who played the donkey. (Melissa has had an amazing effect on David's willingness to get involved in family life.... or maybe it's just the fact that he's grown older and appreciates the finer (?) things in life.) He made a great donkey. He even had ears and a tail thanks to Melissa. All the kids had costumes except for a few angels who were dressed in my tablecloths (it worked for us :) ) Seth, Adam, Michael and most of the male grand kids had a rousing wrestling match on the living room floor for about 10 minutes(nothing got hurt or broken so all is well there) There was lots of laughing as they all "dog piled" on Seth at the end. We also had a white elephant gift exchange. The best white elephant was a pair of sweat pants with the South Point Builders logo on the rear end. Jonathan was a good sport about it and we all had a good laugh. Then almost everyone stayed and played games and visited.

Melissa made up a fun activity for all the grand kids which included little gift bags that had kazoos in them. Can you imagine 15 kids with kazoos all playing at once. Someone remarked that it was interesting that after giving the kids kazoos David and Melissa left early. lol

Christmas morning we had our traditional Christmas breakfast and then opened presents. Joe got a gift card to Home Depot and a leather bound set of the History of the Church from me. I got perfume, and Ihome and a box of 12 lemon truffles. (Oh man!!! what decadent bliss.) I did share one with Emilee. (no one else asked so I got the rest to myself.... Yummmmmm) You can see the five pounds I gained from eating them by next week if you care to look. I promised myself that no matter what Joe got me for Christmas this year I wasn't going to take it back and hurt his feelings again. He meant to get me a white ihome for the kitchen but ended up getting a silver one. It looks white on the box. Anyway, Joe brought the receipt to me yesterday and said I could exchange it for a white one and he wouldn't feel bad about it. (but he didn't promise not to give me a bad time about it, so I may be in for some ribbing if I do. Hmmmmmmm. That's a dilemma.) I'll tell you in a later post what I decided to do.

We also got a whole lot of really nice presents from all the kids which really embarrasses me because we only gave them two gifts to open and we get NINE gifts to open. As this post is getting really long I won't list all the gifts but say thanks to all for a really nice Christmas.

(So Michelle and I hired again? At least if I don't post often enough, I write long posts when I do.)

LUBS, Mither