Showing posts with label family. Show all posts
Showing posts with label family. Show all posts

Sunday, May 8, 2011

Happy Mother's Day

Just a bunch of pictures.


Mom, Yeti and Dad


Mom, me and Yeti



Momma






Woohoo! Mom and Yeti - Jacksonville Beach



Mom, Dopey and Yeti




Yeti, me and Mom preggers with Matt




Yeti and Mom


Happy Mother's Day Mom - you were the best.


~ame



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Friday, November 6, 2009

How neat is that?

When I work on my WBW posts I usually check in on my ancestory.com family tree page to see if there are any new updates and I try to log a little bit of tree-finding time. Last night I noticed that someone was looking at my pictures there and they were copying them to their family tree which contained my Gran and my mom's sister.

So I sent the person a quick note saying I had more family pictures if they were interested and they responded. Come to find out it was my aunt's daughter-in-law who just signed up on ancestory that day. I don't recall meeting all of my aunt's sons but I do remember when we came back from the Philippines that she and one of her boys came down for Christmas. Here is a picture of Uncle Henry and I think this is Jeff but I really am not sure.


And here is a picture of me, Yeti and Matt in front of Gran's Christmas tree with our dog Molly. The year was 1976. I was 10. Apparently the BX had a sale on those snazzy striped shirts and not that you would notice but my hair really hasn't changed a ding-dang bit in 33 years.


The 'net is a wonderous thing and all I can say is 'how neat is that!"

~ame

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Monday, August 10, 2009

Happy Birthday


Today is Lil Martha's birthday, stop by and send her some birthday love!

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Sunday, June 21, 2009

Happy Father's Day



To quote Chewie after Tobey bought his new fangled grill, "Can you burn bone?" Why yes you can! You can also burn all the hairs off your forearms and singe your eyebrows too! Isn't that appetizing? But we all love you anyways.



Happy Father's Day honey. Thank you so much for being such a wonderful father to our children and for always being the perfect example of love, faith, extreme patience and kindness. Besides, who else would have worn those glasses?


Our Super Dad




When family was important.






There's one sad truth in life I've found
While journeying east and west -
The only folks we really wound
Are those we love the best.
We flatter those we scarcely know,
We please the fleeting guest,
And deal full many a thoughtless blow
To those who love us best.
~Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Happy Father's Day

~ame

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Friday, May 22, 2009

Parenting: The Job Description

I received this in an email this week from my friend Nan and I thought I would share. After the week we have had with our spawn, a warning is best issued for all those contemplating parenthood.

PARENT - Job Description

If it had been presented this way,
I don't believe any of us would have done it!



Nappy & Chewie


POSITION :
Mom, Mommy, Mama, Ma
Dad, Daddy, Dada, Pa, Pop, *Hey ATM

JOB DESCRIPTION :

Long term, team players needed, for challenging,permanent work in an often chaotic environment.

Candidates must possess excellent communication and organizational skills and be willing to work variable hours, which will include evenings and weekends and frequent 24 hour shifts on call.

Some overnight travel required, including trips to primitive camping sites on rainy weekends and endless sports tournaments in far away cities!

Travel expenses not reimbursed.

Extensive courier duties also required.


Barbie


RESPONSIBILITIES :

The rest of your life.

Must be willing to be hated, at least temporarily,until someone needs $5.

Must be willing to bite tongue repeatedly.

Also, must possess the physical stamina of a pack mule and be able to go from zero to 60 mph in three seconds flat in case, this time, the screams from the backyard are not someone just crying wolf.

Must be willing to face stimulating technical challenges, such as small gadget repair, mysteriously sluggish toilets and stuck zippers.

Must screen phone calls, maintain calendars and coordinate production of multiple homework projects.

Must have ability to plan and organize social gatherings for clients of all ages and mental outlooks.

Must be a willing to be indispensable one minute, an embarrassment the next.

Must handle assembly and product safety testing of a half million cheap, plastic toys, and battery operated devices.

Must always hope for the best but be prepared for the worst.

Must assume final, complete accountability for the quality of the end product.

Responsibilities also include floor maintenance and janitorial work throughout the facility.


Simba


POSSIBILITY FOR ADVANCEMENT & PROMOTION :

None.

Your job is to remain in the same position for years, without complaining, constantly retraining and updating your skills, so that those in your charge can ultimately surpass you.

PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE :

None required unfortunately.

On-the-job training offered on a continually exhausting basis.


Frodo


WAGES AND COMPENSATION :

Get this! You pay them!

Offering frequent raises and bonuses.

A balloon payment is due when they turn 18 because of the assumption that college will help them become financially independent.

When you die, you give them whatever is left.

The oddest thing about this reverse-salary scheme is that you actually enjoy it and wish you could only do more.

BENEFITS :

While no health or dental insurance, no pension, no tuition reimbursement, no paid holidays and no stock options are offered; this job supplies limitless opportunities for personal growth, unconditional love, and free hugs and kisses for life if you play your cards right.


One last hug, Me & Frodo at his wedding.


** AND A FOOTNOTE 'THERE IS NO RETIREMENT -- EVER!!!

Too cute.

~ame

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Friday, May 15, 2009

Flashback Friday

Since I posted the dream sequences, part 1 and 2 this week, I missed Way Back Wednesday. To make up for that I am going to have a Flashback Friday. This weeks subject is our trip to Heritage Park.













~ame

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Sunday, May 10, 2009

Happy Mother's Day

A handful of my favorite pictures of Mom.




















Happy Mother's Day Mom, I miss you so much.

I couldn't find anything appropriate for today. So I am just including my eulogy from Mom's funeral.


Several years ago Mom got sick and was hospitalized for dehydration. It was the holidays and I couldn’t come up here right away and she said not to change my plans and come the next weekend like we had planned. During her stay in the hospital I was out grocery shopping at Winn Dixie and I totally broke down on their potato chip aisle. Mom’s mortality came crashing down on me amidst the cheese curls and Doritos. If anything ever happened to her how could I ever shop again at Winn Dixie, or how could I buy saltine crackers or pop tarts without being reminded of her.

So when Mom became ill and we decided to come back home to help take care of her, I spent my time away from her thinking how will I….how will I take care of her when I am the most squeamish person in the family, how will I go to Carson’s to help pre-arrange her funeral, how will I be able to take my next breath once she passes away, how will I support my family, how can I go to her funeral, how will I be able to bury her, and how will I be able to walk away from her once this service is over. But I am finding that I have her strength and I am doing all the things that I never thought I had the power to do. One breath at a time, one small step here and there and so it will go for the second half of my life – the part I live without her. So, I decided to embrace all the things that remind me of her, to hold them close to me, to cherish them and not hide from them any more.

So I came up with a very incomplete list of All Things Mom. And while discussing what I would say here today with my family they all shared and added to this list – but I decided to just go with the ones that had meaning to me – my original list. But all of us have this list inside of us – it is specific to each one of us. Some things on the list you will understand right away and others you won’t understand until you ask, some you may never understand. And as we move forward we will share our lists, compare, remember, smile and laugh at what I like to call:

All Things Mom

Watermelon
Chili
Pool
Bowling
Rubbing your butt for luck
Elephants
Flea markets
Thrift stores
All the railroads in Monopoly
Onions or lack thereof
Burnt steaks
Saltine crackers and toaster pastries
Patsy Cline
And much to my chagrin, Rush Limbaugh
3 fingers of Milk
Coca Cola
Smiley faces
Confetti paper
Pillowcases and pantyhose
Separate
John Henry’s hammer
So help me Hannah
Wait til your father gets home
Canasta
Uno
And cards in general
Divinity Candy
Cake decorating
Yellow roses
Star Trek
Star Gate
Perry Mason
Quincy
Murder, She wrote
Vincent Price
Cooking shows, again no onions please
Ham balls and white gravy – where I didn’t hold the onions
And I never heard the end of it
Name him Paul
Wally world
Winn Dixie
And finally, don’t you dare cut his hair!




~your daughter

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Saturday, May 9, 2009

Miles for Moffitt


Well we made it!

We I woke up at 5:30 and after getting the rest of our team up we headed up to Tampa. Of course we had to stop for coffee and a nutritious quick breakfast at Burger King. We arrived right on time to see this:
This was the line up for the 5 mile race and the picture captures about half of the participants.

Tobey, Gangsta Simba, Chewie and Nappy, before the race.

I must admit I was pretty intimidated when we first arrived and I felt so out of place. I was prepared for Tobey to have to carry me across the finish line. But...


Tobey and I before the race, 5k runners in the background.

The one-mile walk was the last of the events and we lined up towards the end of all the walkers, as I didn't want to hold anyone up. There were folks of all shapes and sizes and abilities. I just wanted to make sure that I was not the last one to cross the finish line and I wasn't especially keen on the idea of being passed up by a soccer mom pushing a stroller.

Simba showing off her 'best' side.

So the race started and Nappy, Chewie and I left Tobey and Simba in the dust. A little past the half way point Nap and Chew made a break for it and Tobey caught up to me and Simba was a few steps behind. And get this: while we started at the end of the line, we finished pretty much in the middle of the line which I thought was pretty dang cool. We even finished ahead of this one 'hot' guy (Simba's words, not mine), I won't mention that he had also ran the 5 mile run, but hey, we finished ahead of him! Slacker.

I told everyone that I had a mindset for the race. I was picturing that I was at the mall, at Christmas time, and all these folks were in my way of getting a bargain! Simba said that thought wouldn't work for her because 1. She had no money and 2. there weren't any actual bargains.

It felt like the walk was over before it even began. Granted it was just a mile but for someone with all of her lumbar vertabrae in some form of herniation or another, I am awfully proud of myself even if I was looped out on pain meds before the race. We all decided to participate again next year but since the 1 mile was so easy, we are going to do the 5 k which is only 3.1 miles. I have no doubt we can do it. I told Tobey we would need to start practicing walking for the race. His response was: "we need to practice walking?" Yeah , yeah. Har har.

The fundraising aspect was great. The race had over 4,000 participants, up from 2,000 last year. And by my calculations they should have raised well over $100,000 for cancer research. The best thing is that 100% of the money raised goes straight to Moffitt. And although this year we didn't raise very much money for our team , next year will be different! Go Team Walking for Jo!

As I mentioned in an earlier post, I was worried I would cry every step of the way. And I did get a little teary eyed a few times just seeing other walkers/runners with their "Walking in memory of" shirts, it really was a touching sight to behold and I know that Mom was proud of all of us.

Sucking it all in for the camera, which worked, look how skinny I look!

So now I am off to Saturday Nappy Land, pain meds in hand. Here's to a great weekend to all!

*postscript
It seems we are getting some 'net traffic searching for Miles for Moffitt. The race results have not been posted yet and as soon as they are I will update this post. If you were at the race, please leave us a message about your experience.
~ame

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