Valentine's Day

I woke this morning feeling a little sad. Tomorrow will be valentine's day & that made me think of my parents. My Dad loved valentine's day or any holiday that he could give my Mom a present. He would spend hours in the store looking for the perfect gift. He would usually end up buying her a piece of costume jewelry that he knew that she would just love. She usually hated it, but she would never tell my Dad that. She would wear it with proud & tell everyone that Dad gave it to her. My sisters & I are the only ones that ever knew the truth. When Mom died I inherited her jewelry box with all the costume jewelry in it. I will never wear any of it, but I take it out every now and then just to look at it & remember the love that Mom & Dad shared.
My Mom & Dad knew each other their whole lives. Mom was 5 years old when her family moved next door to my Dad's family. Dad always said that he knew from the time he was 12 years old that he was going to marry my Mom. They never had much money, but they had awhole lot of love for each other. They were married Sept. 16, 1950 & the only time they were ever apart was when one of them was in the hospital. They had alot of good times & alot of rough & sad times. They buried two daughters & a grandson that they adored.
Dad was sick for a few years before he died, so it was no surprise when he passed away on Feb. 4, 2007. Mom was in pretty good health for being 74 years old, so it was a great shock when she passed away just 10 months later on Dec. 19, 2007.
When people ask me what my Mom died from I simply that them the truth, she died from a broken heart. She could not face life without her best friend & soul mate, so she simply gave up & now she is in heaven dancing with my Dad.
The jewelry box will be handed down to my granddaughters someday, along with the stories of their great grandparent love for each other.
I can only hope & pray that they find that kind of love one day.
I know that I can speak for my brothers & sisters when I say Happy Valentine's Day Mom & Dad. We love & miss you very much.

Happy Birthday Mom.....

Jan. 3 would have been your 77th Birthday.

It's hard to believe that you have been gone two years already. We all still miss you very much, Christmas is not the same without you & Dad.

Christmas was your favorite time of the year & you prepared for it all year. This is the last photo I took of you, & this is how I like to remember you laughing & having a good time at our family Christmas party. If I had known that you would be gone in a week, I would have kissed you one more time, I would have told you that I loved you one last time, I would have hugged you a little tighter. But I know that you, Dad, Aaron, Donna & Sue are having one big party up in heaven & we will all be together again. Until then know that we love & miss you very much.

Happy Birthday

Happy Birthday to my baby girl....
I can't believe its been 33 years since the day you were my little baby.
Now you have 5 little babies of your own.
I am so proud of the woman & mother that you have become.
I love you

My Two favorite Moms

Kel & Amy

I love you both very much, & I think you are

wonderful MOMS. I am very proud of both

of you. Thank you for my wonderful grandchildren

Happy Mothers Day

Happy Mother's Day Mom. I Love You &

Miss you

Evelyn L Abrams

01/03/33--12/19/07

Spending time with the boys

Nana & Dominic


Nana & Brendyn

Making Scratch

My five years old grandson Dominic spent the night with me on Saturday. Whenever Dominic spends the night we alway bake something on Sunday for a treat. This is the conversation we had on Saturday night....

Nana: So Nic Nic what do you want to make tomorrow?
Dominic: Nana can we make some scratch for Aunt Kelly's kids?
Nana: What!!
Dominic: Mommy said Aunt Kelly's kids can only eat scratch because they are allergic to everything else, so can we make some for them?
Nana: I think mommy means Aunt Kelly has to make everything from scratch for the kids.
Dominic: What does that mean?
Nana: It means Aunt Kelly has to make everything, she doesn't use anything that comes in a box or package. Tomorrow we can make a cake & icing from scratch so you can see what I mean.
Dominic: OK, that sounds good

So on Sunday morning I got all the ingredients together & supervised Dominic as he made a cake & icing from scratch. Once he was all done & I tasted the icing I said....
Nana: Wow Nic Nic we really did a good job, this icing is really good.
Dominic: (With his hands on his hips, looks at me with a look of discuss & says), What do you mean we? I did all the work, you didn't do anything....
Nana: Speechless, but Grampie was busting a gut in the livingroom.

Later as we cleaned up we had this conversation
Nana: we made it all from scratch not a box or package.
Dominic: No we didn't, the sugar & flour were both in packages
Nana: Yep, I guess your right. But I don't know how to make sugar & flour so this is as good as its going to get.
Dominic: Well then I guess it will have to do

I will post pictures of the cake making later

my little angels

Brendyn


Chloe

Dominic aka Batman

Rock drawing a picture

Parker just being cute

Mag & Raf

Jay, Mag & Aaron

4 of my adorable grandkids

Jerald being goofy


Princess posing

Nic Nic with his award for essay

Brendyn listening to his music

I did it

Nana & some of her babies, Jay, Rock, Aaron & Mag

On My Own

Well here it goes, my first entry without my tech support (Kelly). I just wanted to let everyone know that the castle next door to us has opened. The Black Diamond Hope House will be home to 6 adults with developmental disabilities & an around the clock staff of 4. They had a public open house today, and let me tell you the place is beautiful. If you will like to know more about the Black Diamond Hope House, you can visit thier website @ www.krysti.org

Well now that I can do a post myself, my next goal is pictures. So as soon as Kel can help me I will post pics of my beautiful grandchildren. I don't know what is taking her so long to come up & help me. After all she home schools, so its not like she has alot to do (hee hee), just kidding. I love you Kel & I am very proud of you.

However, I did figure out have to get the pics from my new digital camera on to my computer.
Now I just have to figure out how to move them into a blog.

Jay, Rock, Mag, Aaron, Park, Chloe, Dominic and Brendyn this is for you.......I love & miss you guys & I hope to see you soon.

It all started...

August 3,1999

Welcome to the world Jaybird and now my name is Nana...