The HANDFUL

It's been a good week! Finally able to go North and see the Bee; celebrated her belated birthday along with LaLa's. It was a whole birthday palooza week and no one minded. She was overjoyed with a Barbie house and a guitar! What fun if you are F.I.V.E. Great memories.

Oh, and let's not forget Birthday donuts for LaLa!

There was also sledding and a trip to our new faavorite Mexican restaurant (maybe even two visits). LOTS of Barbie playing, coloring, singing with guitar accompaniment, game playing and movie watching (current fav is Ferdinand).  And let's not forget there was cake, white cake and cupcakes, there were also cupcakes. Chocolate and vanilla! YUM! We like cake!

She's a HANDFUL today!

 F.I.V.E.

She is five...wow, just wow. She woke to a surprise unicorn table setting. After some gift opening she enjoyed her favorite Eggo waffles for breakfast. Can't get much better for a newly turned five year old. I'm sure the rest of the day will be all about her as it should be when it's your birthday!

In five short years she has added so much to our world. We are thrilled to be able to be a part of her world and watch as she continues to thrive. Her curiousity is something to observe, we love to just see what she comes up with next. Her imagination is topnotch from being a unicorn to a kitty cat (much to my chagrin). She entertains herself with Barbies, farm animals, crayons (the hours she puts into coloring is astounding), gymnastics, stuffed animals, yoga, puzzles, games and so much more! 

As of late she has been all over tackling math with her daddy. She's also spent a fair amount of time in the snow since she does love it and they've had PLENTY! The igloos she and her daddy build are pretty impressive as well. She also took a turn snowboarding off her deck as did her mamma and daddy, seriously! You know you have a lot of snow when you can snowboard off your back deck; that, and a pretty nice slope into your backyard!! In additon she's not bad help when there is scooping to do with her own snow shovel no less. All Northern girls need a snow shovel, amIright?

Well, happy, happy, happy, happy, happy birthday our little BEE! We love you.

The HANDFUL

Our granddaughter, the BEE, is turning FIVE this month. We've been telling her and her cousins she's going to be a whole handful on her next birthday for quite sometime now. So it just seems natural that it would become the name of my weekly prompt for blogging this year.  Start watching for The HANDFUL to make its appearance after her birthday as that will be my weeklyish postings from here on out for 2021.

THIRTY like B.I.G. 30...

It is unreal to me that my baby is thirty, like unbelievably real. I mean I am only 25 so how can she be 30? Right?

Oh well, it's been a memorable thirty years for sure. And now that she is a mother herself I think she undertands some of the parenting hurts and issues we hinted at as she was coming up. Parenting is not for the faint of heart. Nor might I add is aging. It is fun to see your adult child adult, it is also sometimes hard. Taking a step back is hard but necessary so they can be their own person. You pray they are honest, kind, caring people and you know you did your best to model this behavior for them. She was raised in an environment where service to others was expected, kindness was the norm and caring was a given. 

We are proud of the human she is. We hope she continues to exude truth through her words, show kindness to others and assist the less fortunate when possible. This world needs good people and we try to be the kind of people who make our world better and that is the hope we have for her and her little family. It's a big one moving into the 3's but one you can do with class. You go girl! 

Most recent photo I have :/

I hope you got to sleep in this morning, that you were treated special by the other two and that you didn't dread the BIG 30 too badly. It's just a number...ask your dad! He's facing double nickle next month!

Happy New Year 2021!

UnFOURgettably Four will be on hiatus until February when she turns FIVE, yes, you read that right, five. I will decide between now and then what will be the new postings if any at all. Until then we will make do with random post as things seem postworthy.

Our NYE was quiet, how about yours? I spent the afternoon at my folks visitng and celebrating my second mom's 79th trip around the sun. Not a lot of fanfare since we are trying to keep everyone healthy. There are some with colds and snuffy noses or sore throats  so the traffic was limited to the healthy ones. Glad I am one of the so called healthy ones and praying it remains as such. In the days ahead we will face some new roads with her as unforseen health news presented on Christmas Adam.  Speaking of Christmas Adam have you heard of it? I had not, but now that I know about it, I love it. It is the day before Christmas Eve; Adam came before Eve so it is Christmas Adam! I like it so much and we are totally calling it and celebrating it from here on out.

We are thrilled to have made it into another year. Personally, hoping 2021 is not a repeat of 2020. But as usual we will roll with whatever comes our way. MiRV is researching and doing a litle a little trip planning already. He would like to get a trip or two in the books this year. Hopefully, we will be able to take the Bee with us at least once. Of course, just holding fast to see what comes our way in the next several weeks. 

Stay safe, stay well!

UnFOURGETTABLY 4!

 Merry, Merry, Christmas from our house to yours!

It is such a joyous season and we are blessed to know we find comfort in celebrating the birth of our Savior in this chaotic world. We are happy to be living the life we have and know that we are nothing without the eternal security we hold in Jesus. This year has been challenging in unimaginable ways for so many, there has been loss, financial despair and so much sadness. And while the days have seemed gloomy we find joy in knowing this is not our forever home. Praying for the year ahead and knowing that truly our blessings are many even in bittersweet situations.

Cherish your moments, love deep and make memories...

The Grands with most of the Littles, one had already departed.

Stay safe, stay well...

This "selfie" our grand daughter took speaks for itself.

UnFOURGETTABLY 4!

After a quiet weekend we had a Tuesday guest this week, then I went North to visit the little guy on Wednesday. Thursday we made a City provisioning run and Friday we recovered! Actually, Friday I did all our in town errands, which included paying taxes. Personal property and real estate taxes are due by the 31st so I made the trek into the County Courthouse and up to the second floor to make payment. Writing that check was a BIG chunk of change. Perosnal property taxes on ROADA are severe!

While they look mighty fine, they are not!

Speaking of ROADA in the midst of our week she got new shoes. MiRV ordered them last week and they called so he made the trek to get them installed. Only they were NOT the ones we ordered so she is waiting for replacements to arrive and switch her current new shoes for the right new shoes. The originally ordered Continental shoes are evidently no longer available. However, they failed to notify us of that little tidbit of information and just installed another tire that was suitable. Well, suitable according to who? Not their own website. Tire size matters! And this one is not a good fit for ROADA. She has special needs and is a high maintenance type of girl so we had to figure out another solution. Having her speedometer off was not really acceptable to MiRV nor were the other "differences" that may or may not be within a margin of error that is acceptable even if a Continental person says it's okay. Their own website did not back up his inof!  So after A LOT of research on MiRVs part, several phone calls and moments of intense frustration we are hopeful that the new, new shoes that were ordered this time are available and will work for our girl. If you have some tire questions MiRV might be your guy. He had to become extremely tire proficient overnight because honestly you have to be your own advocate in everything nowadays or you might get screwed the wrong tires.

Quite looking forward to a quiet weekend. Then we will hopefully we welcoming the Northerns for a few days. Christmas with the family seems to be a go. Everyone is healthy and we are all excited to see each other and watch the Little ones . Looks like we will gather and enjoy a meal on Christmas Eve. We will do a small festive meal on Christmas Day and just enjoy the time together on both occasions.

Stay safe, stay well. 

Stay safe,s tay well.