Fun story

Don't you love stories like this when your kids are struggling in College.


 Must tell story:

I've been working in a Biophysics lab since June with a really cool Professor. Yesterday I gave my first presentation at our combined lab meeting and presented a scholarly paper I was assigned a few weeks ago. I put a lot of effort into understanding the concepts, putting the material together in an understandable way, and practicing the presentation (always get nervous with these). We also have a treat at Lab Meeting. I signed up to do this also.  I got some Jelly Belly Beans and mixed them up with Bertie Botts every flavor beans. I gave the presentation and folks told me I did a good job. While I walked with the Professor out of the meeting room. I still had a few jelly beans left and I offered him one and took one myself.

There were five left, two gray, a peculiar orangish one, and a couple others.
"Ugh, avoid the Gray one, it's black pepper!" I told him.
He took the orangish one, popped it in his mouth, and said,
"Alas! Earwax!"

I will keep this experience in my heart forever. :)

Smores

Have you ever watched grandkids make smores with those huge marshmellows? So much fun and so much white goo everywhere! The kids challenged grandpa to eat one so they could see the white stuff all over his beard and he ate it as clean as a whistle. Everyone was disappointed to say the least!

Spring & Summer

Wow, eventful Spring & summer! Picnics, family visits, fireworks, Lagoon with everyone for my Daddy's 80th birthday celebration and emergency hernia surgery just in time for my dear daughter and 2 grandaughters to stay an extra week to help. (Great summer fun for them!)  Feeling a wee bit sorry for myself till I saw a poster of Batman bowing his head with a sunset in the background honoring those people killed and hurt so terribly just because they wanted to see a movie with a favorite action hero. So senseless, so hard to understand. 

Solar Eclipse

Tonight is the solar eclipse being called "The Ring of Fire".  My son-in-law who loves astronomy sent the family all letters and special eclipse shades to look directly at it. It's a little cloudy even though I specifically ordered no clouds today!  It will be fun thinking of all my family looking at it (or trying to) at approximately the same time tonight. Love you guys!

What a wonderful Mother's Day! I got a call from all the kids and then all of sudden my son's family from 2 1/2 hours away popped in for the evening! What a beautiful surprise! Thanks you guys. I love being a grandma, even if I am a little mischievous, hehe!

Spring!

      It's almost the end of April! So many cute and fun things happen that I want to write down like last week my daughter in law that lives a few hours away called and asked if I could tend their kids for a week a year from now. I said sure! She said, "Aren't you even going to ask what for?" Apparently they are going on a cruise with my other son and his wife as a goal and reward for eating better and living a healthier lifestyle. I think that is a great goal to work towards and I would get to be with the grandkids!  It's too bad lots of us don't realize the importance of taking care of ourselves as young adults so we can feel good as older folks.
     Spring is here and lots of yard work! Picking up small sticks from the many trees we have, digging, planting, mowing, sneezing, coughing and more sneezing! I offered the local grandkids a penny a piece for picking up sticks and boy did that work great! We are even saving some of the sticks for art projects.
     One grandaughter was excited to tell me that they are learning about what bullying is in school and how mean and unfair it is. What a great thing to learn and be aware of. Just ask me how horrible it was to be bullied. The memories never go away.

April Fools!

A few weeks ago I posted about how my grandaughter "D-Love" (dolphin lover) asked if I had a 1943 copper penny because there was a man in her area that was offering to pay $100,000.00 for one. They are very rare from that year due to all copper being used to make weapons for WW2. Sunday she sent an e-mail that she had found one and her father was calling this man about it. We also had other family members visiting on the IPhone picture at that same time. She then wrote how her father had got a hold of him and he was on his way to their house. Half the family was connected and getting excited about her find. She got most of us good!  April Fools!  Nice One!  Gee, no one believed me when I told them I had my head shaved so it would be easier to take care of, haha!       And here's to my 13 yr old grandaughter who just got braces and had to have 6 teeth surgically removed, I've been thinking about you every second!  Get better quick!