Nana not Grandma

Keira is talking more and more as the days go and while that is incredibly normal she said something to me the other day that I think is worth sharing.

But before I begin let me go back to something I have written before.
Since she could talk I am “Nana” and my husband is “Poppy”  well last weekend she started saying Grandma and Grandpa.
So I thought, “Okay that works too although I prefer Nana”
So a few times this past week she called me Grandma and of course I answered her.

She calls my husband Grandpa now more then she calls him “Poppy”

Well yesterday I said something to her about “Grandma wants to do this……”
And she said to me “You aren’t Grandma!” And laughed.
And I said “What do you mean I’m not Grandma? Of course I am your Grandma!”
And she laughs and gives me this goofy look and said “You not Grandma you my Nana!”

Which is extremely wonderful what ever way I look at it.

Nana and sleepless nights

I love being my children’s grandmother.
Love it more then anything else in my life.
They are truly gifts from God and I thank Him daily for them

However being their Nana usually means I don’t get a lot of sleep when they are here over night.
NEARLY every time Keira wakes up and wants to watch TV or get something to eat or drink.
I try to put her off but if she doesn’t get her way she does get a little  loud and then generally wakes her sister up.
A few times Kayla has been the one that wakes Keira up, but it generally doesn’t happen that way.
So last night I was awake and dozing from two thirty till about five this morning.
Kayla went back to sleep first and Keira did around five.

Keira got up at eight (I got up at seven thirty) and Kayla is still sleeping.

I Love these two little girls.
They are so wonderful and so very important to me.
And yes they are worth losing sleep over.
But sometimes especially during the middle of the night when I am begging Keira to let me sleep, I think, why do I do this?
But I know why.
Holding Keira and getting her hugs and her I love you’s  is worth all the gold on this earth.
Holding Kayla and having her fall asleep on my chest or for her to raise her arms up for me to hold her, OR her fantastic beautiful smile is worth a thousand nights with out sleep.

more pictures of Utah

I will be going back some day very soon!!!!
LOVED LOVED LOVED UTAH!!!

another beautiful Saturday

it is a beautiful day out.
I have my grand babies and they are sleeping but I just can’t bring myself to go outside and soak up the rays while they are in the house alone and Lord knows they don’t need to be in the sun.

so I won’t be out there today.
Maybe tomorrow but who knows how long I will have them tomorrow after they stay the night to night.

still it is great to see the sun shining and the breeze is pretty nice too.

Hope everyone has a great Saturday.

Bugs

I will have to say I am thrilled it is Friday.
The day is quite lovely out, if you don’t mind the damn gnats and even though the sun peeks out behind the clouds every now and then I can’t seem to get myself outside do to the bugs.
I HATE GNATS and flies and mosquitoes!

I love the day but just refuse to cake bug spray on to go outside.
Call me lazy but I just can’t bring myself to stick of bug spray for the rest of the day.

I have yard work to do at Matt’s place but I don’t want the dogs peeing on my newly planted flowers so I even refrain from doing that and yes again, I would have to deal with bugs!!!
Ugh

tired and ready for bed

this will say it is Friday but in all reality it is Thursday evening and almost ten o’clock at night.
I am tired and ready for bed and come tomorrow morning I will wake up tired and think to myself, why did you go to bed so late?
But sometimes it just seems against all religion to go to bed at nine pm every night.
Sometimes I just have to rebel a bit.

Happy Friday to all (because it will be Friday when you read this)
And God bless
Love Marge

stuff

I got the writing bug back and am thrilled with it.
I have written so much today, almost one hundred pages and my fingers are so cramped and painful right now…..

love writing when it flows so wonderfully.

I tired to print off the forty six pages I typed into the computer but for some reason my damn printer won’t print it.
NOT because there isn’t any ink because there is.
It just won’t do it.
I went to the troubleshooting part and did everything it said to do and it still isn’t working.
Damn how annoying.

Anyway I haven’t seen my girls for two days now.
Keira is still sick although slowly getting better

but I miss them both.
I hope I get to see them tomorrow since they don’t want me to go and see her because she cries so hard when I leave her.
So I suffer.

Anyway I bought lottery tickets with the big hope of winning.
Man would I make so many people happy if I won that huge amount.

Anyway more later

love Marge

It’s not Monday….but it felt like it…..

well tomorrow is hump day….but it felt like a Monday today.

it was very hard to get up this morning and face the job.
But I forced myself to and the day turned out alright…even though it was long and drawn out.
Seven more school days before the kids are gone and I have the summer (ten weeks) to clean the school before they are back in the fall.

I have been at the school for almost eight years but this will be my seventh summer working and in the past years I have always worried about getting it all done.
This year I am not worried.
IF we get it done great, if we don’t, there is always winter break.

no point stressing out over it.

It is raining out, a nice quiet rain, but definitely coming down at a steady pace.

thank goodness tomorrow is hump day.

hello again

okay it has been a while since I have written on this blog.
I was trying another one but no one seems to know where it is or how to get to it so I will come back to this one

hopefully from my previous entry anyone who cares to read anything I wrote in my the rear view mirror and me, blog can click on and read them.

Now that I am back from vacation and it has been over three weeks since I have been back, I am looking for what is the future????
What can I look forward to now?
I need to have something to plan for.
To have a light at the end of the day to day grind.
Does that make sense?

Any hoo….I hope everyone is doing well, and had a great three day weekend and I will write again soon.
Love
Marge

additions

February April 20092009May 2009

here are a few blogs I have written of late that never were published on Ramblings.
Enjoy