Buying appliances

Always check with Appliance Smart in Smyrna

Remedy for allegeries

In the spring put Neosporin in your nose day and night.  The vaseline in it will stop the allergians and the antibotic will kill them.  Might be worth a try.

Christmas ideas for 2012

Make a Beef Tenderloin roast with mushrooms and Merlot Sauce.  Keep it simple!  Make a pound cake with cranberries in it and "warm butter sauce"  (see Tastefully Simple recipes)

Ideas for gifts:  Abercrombie & Fitch Fierce cologne for guys

Put my name and Jim's in the drawing - ideas for me - a Lenten rose plant or a winter daphane plant

Happy Anniversary (32) to us! Jan. 1, 2012

Musings about our 32 years together.  I'm thankful that Jim agreed to have a second family.  I was 35 and he was 38 and already had 3 children.  Never having been pregnant, it wasn't easy to accomplish and took 2 years, but we hung in there and finally Tim was born on 10/21/82.  I guess my baby making abilities woke up after that and I got pregnant again in '84 but had a miscarriage.  But on my 42nd birthday, 9/20/86, David was born.  What a blessing and joy they have both been to me.  I am so thankful Jim allowed me to be a mom - there's no greater joy.  Altho, we have not always had the best of marriages, we have hung in there and hopefully, have not scared the boys too much by our immaturity and selfishness.  I am so thankful for the girls Tim and David have chosen, both are wonderful additions to our family. 

Christmas 2011

Christmas was wonderful this year mainly because both boys and their wives spent the night with us.  David and Lauren stayed 2 nights and Tim and MA stayed one night.  It was sooooooo good to have them both here overnight.  It was so much fun finding special gifts for Michaelanne and Lauren.  I hope I didn't overwhelm them, but I love shopping for girls!  I made bath salts for them and made a terrarium for them.  They seemed to love everything.