Last week....

Spring Break..... a break from what? I, for one, am exhausted. I made a 1200 mile trip with 2 kids(7&8) in 5 days.
We had a wonderful visit (too short) and tried to cram 2 weeks into 5 days. I am so glad we went since it seems that my daughter and her family will be moving 1,000 miles farther away. That means that I will see them less frequently than I do now. My granddaughter will be 9 in a few weeks. She will be grown and in college in a blink of an eye. Even though I am sure this move will be good for all concerned.....From west Texas to South Carolina is a long way.

She was in the hospital.....

My life is rarely dull. Last Friday as I was getting the girls ready for school and packing to leave for Houston my daughter decided she needed to see a doctor. Understand that she is 29 years old and had been sick off and on for a couple of weeks. After several hours of waiting and a few tests they decided to admit her. Being in a small town that meant that the nurse pushed the wheel shair that she was all ready in through the double doors and to the nurses station where they were getting a room ready for her. Two days of antibiotics and fluids and she was ready to go home and get something to eat. Hospital food is still hospital food.

I forgot....

Mother had been sick and so I have been staying near her room. That means I have been doing some small paintings

What we do....

Every Friday Makayla, Emily, my mother and I go to one of the nursing homes and sing with the residents. When the weather is better and mother can get out again we are planning to have a dress-up tea party. I am going to gather up as many hats, scarves, feather boas and jewelry as I can find and we are going to play dress up. I think the people at the nursing home will have fun and Emily and Makayla will, too.
My grand children are missing the opportunity to dress up in their grandmother's old clothes. Well, now that I think of it, I don't have a lot of dresses or skirts for them to play in and I defiantly don't have hats. I made all of the Halloween costumes. Gwynyth has a complete wardrobe of costumes and the cousins have a wonderful time playing together.

When my sister and I were young we played "army" using WWI drill rifles that belonged to my grandfather. No one driving by thought they were real or called the police. I can't tell you how many times I was "shot" off the clothes line pole. And to think, I wasn't wearing a helmet or pads. I can't count the number of times my bare foot slipped off the bike peddle and I scraped the skin off of my toes on the sidewalk. I firmly believe that my skin and blood reinforced the concrete and are the reason those sidewalks are still there 50+ years later.

Lion Or Lamb

This was the strangest February for weather I can remember, even by West Texas standards. It has been uncommonly warm for this time of year. Tuesday saw a high of 80 and a low of 36 degrees. The wind is usually the first sign of Spring bringing sandstorms in April. This year we had winds in January and February in excess of 68 miles per hour ripping of roofs, tearing down fences and knocking over semi-trucks and trailers. Anywhere else weather like that would have a name and a spot on the weather channel. I can't help but wonder what March will bring.