Run, Lola, Run!!

While listening to my step-daughters podcast this morning with Amy Bernhard, it was like she slapped me upside the head!! Her craft tip to listeners was, "Going to places where she feels a little bit uncomfortable," when looking for ideas. It struck a chord inside my brain where I had to replay it multiple times, first because I didnt know why and then because I did know why!!

Recently my sister Melanie, oldest of four siblings my father had with his first wife, came to spen...

Last week Dan and I were invited by one of our neighbors to go camping for a couple of days.  Well anyone who knows me knows I'm not the ourtdoorsy type!!  When I posted it to Facebook even my grandaughter commented in shock!  I too was shocked that it was so appealing to me at the time.  That should have been my first clue that God had a hand in it I'm sure!!

I got so wrapped up in meal planning and prep cooking and shopping..........

Looking back on my Blog I can see I did not type one entry in the year of 2015 !!! I am totally shocked that I let that much time go by without typing one word in this blog.  I'm sad cause I love to write and I don't know how I let that much time get by without a single word and I'm also ahamed for my stepdaughter to know this as well.  I should be learning from her examples dammit!!  Rachael is so dilligent when it comes to writing and so openly shares all her tools for me to ...

When you look back up into your family tree........do you see names or do you really see people that you bled down from? I guess I see both! But first of all I see people.......people from my past that bled into my blood lines things that have made me loving, quirky, strange, unique, blessed, and cursed!

When I go back to the farthest branch at the top of that tree I find my great-grandmother, Rosa! In previous stories shes "town gramma"! My oldest love!!  She instilled in me...

For most I think school was a humdrum drudgery that was dreaded every morning of every week.........for me, school was my sanctuary!! It was time away from a homelife I not only dispised, I dreaded returning to every afternoon.  The bus ride home was always too fast!! I have always been like a sponge when it came to learning!! I attended mostly Catholic schools so for a long period in my life I aspired to become a Nun!! Imagine that??.......lmao God would have been dreading dealing with ...

Everyone has a demon! .........and some of us are exceptionally lucky and have several!!!  At fifty I was diagnosed with Type II Diabetes.  It has become my demon!! I think had I known my biological father before I turned sixty-one I might have known that I was destined to be a diabetic since Diabetes runs so rampid through his bloodline.  But nevertheless I didn't and I have been battling with it ever since!

You would have thought that my family, grandmother...

We all have food issues I'm sure!! For me they are mostly "comfort issues"! The other night as Dan and I sat having dinner I apologized to him for what I had made for dinner.......it was totally edible but I know his dislike for hamburger! Being raised on an Arizona cattle ranch he is totally a meat and potatoes guy!!  I had made for dinner my very favorite "comfort food" ever! Hamburger patties with onions in them fried and then a mushroom gravy made from Campbells Cream of Mushroom sou...

Last night while Dan worked on his computer on a project, in my attempt to let him work in peace I decided I would clean out my saved emails.......mostly junk and receipts that needed to put in their own files! I went so far back that I ran into emails that Dan and I exchanged when we first met!! Now, Dan has always told me......"You should write a book by just publishing our emails."  Well, one, someone did that years ago.....I don't know if she made any money at it but i...

Home from Hawaii and now on to the wedding plans!! A ton of emotions are floating inside of me..... meeting my father for the first time still has my head spinning but I know I have to concentrate on our wedding time is short!

We started with the guest lists.......OMG, what a nightmare! I sat at my computer compiling my list while Dan sat at the dining room table working on his.......once when I had first moved over here he told me when ...