I am grateful today that I got to talk to my grandchildren and daughter and that they are planning to visit next week. ♥

The boys, Jonathan and Valente, and my granddaughter, Zaman, behind the cut.

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My soon-to-be-eight year old grandson Jonathan sent me the following:

Poem
You are like a flower in the sunshine
You look like a rose in a garden
You smell like a spring flower in spring
You twinkle like a diamond

Love, Jon

That just melts my heart!

Ramya and my oldest grandson, Jonathan, are off to Salt Lake City, Utah. They left last night just after midnight. She intended to leave sooner after stopping at our apartment but I made her sleep for a few hours. She'd been running all day on three hours of sleep, did the last morning of her paper route, packed the car, cleaned her apartment for ( Read more... )

This is the recipe for the cookies I made with my grandson on New Year's Day ( Read more... )

I cannot begin to express the bliss of being a Grandmother. Really, it's incredible. It's like taking all the best parts of parenting and distilling it ( Read more... )

Today is the fifth year I've survived after my heart bypass surgery. I feel that I ought to have something of import to say but I have had migraines for days now and my sleep cycle is all messed up, so all I feel is sluggish and depressed. It's amazing to me sometimes how migraines have completely overshadowed heart disease in terms of impacting my ( Read more... )

I have been absorbed in my new job the past few weeks and my LJ certainly reflects my distraction. It's been a very tiring process, learning my job with minimal and poor quality training. (Note to potential trainers, please go slowly enough for the trainee to take notes as these notes will be all they have when you are not there to answer questions ( Read more... )

I babysat early this morning while I was very sleepy. My grandsons were pretty good and mostly sat and watched cartoons. Jonathan is the most active and inquisative of the two, and the oldest. I had purchased a yoga instruction dvd for kids awhile back and he's learned quite a few poses, so he delighted me by showing off how he could form a bridge ( Read more... )

My office mate handles the staff birthdays, and she likes to draw scenes on the envelopes that reflect the interests of the recipient.

I was very touched and pleased when she drew this logo based on the Serenity movie logo, and I had to scan it and make an icon out of it.


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