My Sister’s Keeper

I just went to the above titled movie and while it was decent the book was by far much more interesting and better then this movie ever could be.
They don’t touch on so many things in the movie like they did in the book and the ending was changed.
WHY?
I just don’t get why they changed it.
Why couldn’t they have left it as is?
If I was the author I would have been extremely upset.

it was entertaining and Jason Patric is exceptionally handsome in it and Cameron Diaz did a great job as mom and the kids did really well in their parts too.
however the book was SOOOOOO Much better that I highly recommend everyone read the book first.

Full time not part time Nana

I always consider myself a full time Nana.
I adore my grand daughters and would lay down my life for any one of them.
However this week I am going to really be FULL TIME Nana because my son and his wife are going to Chicago this week for their anniversary (tomorrow) so I will have their daughters until Thursday evening.
I have had them both for 48 hours before but never this long without a break.
I love them dearly but I won’t lie, 48 hours is usually long enough and I am ready for a break.
My exceptionally wonderful Keira is hitting her terrible twos a bit late, she just turned three and is really starting to be defiant and sassy.

I have never spanked her but I have threatened to.

My beautiful Kayla is so sweet and generally a happy baby but she is spoiled and needs attention most of the time.
She is getting better about playing on the floor by herself but still she needs a lot of attention.

I don’t mean to come across as complaining or whining.
I love those two more then I love my own life and I know all three grand daughters are true gifts from my Heavenly Father.
I just hope and pray I have the patience for this and that it is a good week.

My daughter in law says Keira gets sick every time my husband and I go on vacation and to be honest with you, she does.
Not sure why but it does happen.
Anyway the last time she left the state to go to Colorado with her uncle, Keira got sick too so…….

They will only be in Illinois and Wisconsin, not so far away but…..I hope both girls stay healthy.

Public Enemy

My husband and I just got back from “Public Enemy” with Johnny Depp and I thought it was quite good.
My son and his wife went to it yesterday and didn’t care for it but I enjoyed it.
Like the earlier days in movies
This took place in the thirties.
And I enjoyed it.
Johnny Depp of course was handsome as always.

a quiet day

well the big 4th of July is over with and now everyone hopefully will settle down again.
I had neighbors letting off fire crackers well past ten last night.
Rather annoying.

Cinnamon our dog that just got killed a week ago hated fourth of July fireworks

Today will be a quiet day with nothing planned.
We may go to a movie later but maybe not.
I should go work in the other yard but since I pulled a muscle in my chest I think I should rest that too.
So I am sure the yard work won’t get done today.

Plan on sitting outside enjoying the pretty day and reading for part of the day.
Who knows what may come up?

Enjoy your Sunday every one
Love Marge

peace and quiet

my little angels are napping.
I lay Keira down at nine am because she was a total bear.
She has been up since five and had a very unrestful night of sleep.

she has been sleeping now for almost two and a half hours

Kayla I lay down at nine thirty and she has been sleeping for almost two hours.

The peace and quiet is nice because they both needed the nap.

Wish it would stop raining now.

no sleep, grand girls slept poorly

well here it is Saturday morning July 4th.
It has been raining lightly since about one am this morning.
I can say this because I was up at that wonderful hour.
Actually I was up every hour last night except between two and five am.
My darling grand daughters slept poorly and therefore I didn’t get much sleep.
Keira woke up at five and wanted to get up, but I managed to get her to lay there until five thirty.

We have had breakfast and she and grandpa went to read meters and buy a paper.
I want to crawl back into bed with Kayla but I don’t suppose Keira would go for that if she came back home to find me in bed.
So I will go take a bath and be Nana until her parents come later to get them.
Seems like a good day for napping and watching movies on the big screen downstairs.

thought I had the writing bug  yesterday but I never got a chance to work on it and not sure if it is there today or not.
I will probably try later.

Want to teach myself to play the guitar and once I master that then the piano

of course learning to read sheet music will help too so I need to study that.

Happy 4th of July to everyone!
Love Marge

Rest in peace Erica

The little girl I wrote about the other day passed away last night.
Actually according to my resources she never regained consciousness after she had a stroke on Sunday night of last week

and her parents took her off of life support last evening and she passed away.
It is quite sad.
4 years old.
I hope and pray that God will see these people through this difficult time.
She was a precious sweetheart.

Why are people so quick to judge?

you know since Michael Jackson has passed away I find people all around me making comments about him and most aren’t very nice.
it is sad to me because for one thing, he was never convicted of abusing children and while he may very well have been quite strange and maybe even eccentric

he doesn’t have to answer to anyone but God.

I choose to believe he wasn’t a pedophile but even if he was  it is not my business and not my problem to judge him.

He was a great performer regardless of how weird he might have been and while some people hate him, this last week has shown that so many hundreds of thousands loved him.

I hope you can rest in peace Michael

Family gathering/surprise birthday party

my sister is turning sixty on Monday July 6th so I am having a surprise birthday party/picnic for her.
My sister from northern Iowa is down and my niece from California is here so there will be four extra people here just because of that.
I was hoping my brother would stick around but he went home last week.
I can only assume that he is back to work this week.

the weather is nice and cool and I hope everyone is in happy moods and everyone gets along.
Stay tuned.

Mr Cooper

I have to say the more I see of this man, the more I think he is quite handsome.
He is 42, six years younger then I am but there is just something about him that makes me think he is quite attractive.