Wednesday, August 18, 2010
Grandma, Mom and me 2010
-This years Grandma, mom and me was in Solitude. It was beautiful. We ate pizza, swan, painted nails, made homemade ice cream, made necklaces, collected flowers, played outside and in, slept in the bunk bed and the couch bed, had visitors ( dad's and grandpa) watched girl movies, hiked, rode the tram and had FUN!
Thursday, August 12, 2010
Monday, August 9, 2010
What Cancer cannot do
It cannot invade the soul
suppress memories
kill friendships
destroy peace
conquer the spirit
shatter hope
cripple love
corrode faith
steal eternal life
silence courage
Friday, August 6, 2010
A or O
As you know we were able to accumulated A LOT of points with Hilton Honors due to our recent fire. Rob has wanted to an all inclusive trip instead of a cruise so we decided to use the points and go all inclusive. We are Hilton diamond members so we had a few good options We loved Maldives but it was too much $$$$, Egypt too far, and so we decided to go with Costa Rico. I had been looking and watching it but had not booked. Finally I made it a priority to book and when I went back in there was a new hotel. It was definitely nicer! The other hotel looked like Best Western and chuck-a-rama. The new hotel was a regular hotel that was recently made all inclusive. It was NICE! I immediately wanted to go to the new one!
It was booked and I had it on my calender to check August 1. I went and checked and it did not look right. After close inspection, I found I had wanted to go to Costa Rico but had booked to COSTA RICA. Different oceans! East coast! tropic island , volcano's!
Who even knew there were two places so far away!
The lady at book club thought I was pronouning it incorrect - nope
Now it is going to be the mystery adventure to Costa Rica.
Luckily it is FREE.
It was booked and I had it on my calender to check August 1. I went and checked and it did not look right. After close inspection, I found I had wanted to go to Costa Rico but had booked to COSTA RICA. Different oceans! East coast! tropic island , volcano's!
Who even knew there were two places so far away!
The lady at book club thought I was pronouning it incorrect - nope
Now it is going to be the mystery adventure to Costa Rica.
Luckily it is FREE.
Like father, like son
My darling niece
For years this was favorite story to tease Rob:The family was at Strawberry fishing. That night the girls slept in the camper and the boys slept outside. When Rob had left that night I was on the bottom bunk. The boys got up early the next morning to go fishing and Rob snuck in to give me a kiss . He bent over and kissed the girl in the bottom bunk. But he said it did not feel right and so he called out my name" debbi?" I looked down from the top bunk and said " "what". It turns out he was kissing my sister in law , Cathy.....
Years later as fate would have it, Colby was on line "chatting" and found a hot chick in West Valley City. They are just chatting along, getting to know each other and low and behold, it hits Colby that he is talking to his cousin ( Cathy's daughter) ---- immediate disconnect.
Years later as fate would have it, Colby was on line "chatting" and found a hot chick in West Valley City. They are just chatting along, getting to know each other and low and behold, it hits Colby that he is talking to his cousin ( Cathy's daughter) ---- immediate disconnect.
Monday, August 2, 2010
Best wishes Grif
the sister The mother and friends
Although it seems like only yesterday he had a room in the attic, Grif ( who will always be 12 to us ) is getting married. We are not getting older but those around us seem to have the get older disease.
Here is the bride and her mother
Not my best parenting moments-
Although these unique parenting skills are not exactly my best, they worked and while talking with a co worker the other day, I thought maybe I should write them down.
Grounding: Who suffers more, the kids or me when they were sent to their room? Surely it was me, I had to keep working and cleaning while they laid in their rooms with all their stuff. It was not fair so I decided when things got bad that I would ground myself-- off to my room I would go, Lock the door and it was heaven. I still remember the kids trying to talk to me through the small crack at the bottom of the door. Some times I could see their lips, " Mom, come out! mom unlock the door!, mom let us in!. And even better was when Rob came home, "where is your mom", " in her room", " why" then all you could hear was the vacuum, doors opening and shutting, dishes being washed. It became a family joke and often I would tell Cameron I was being bad and he would send me to my room. Yes, I love being grounded.
The kitchen is closed: This saying belongs to Alex and me. Alex lived next door but he spent a lot of time at our house. He would never eat when we were eating and after dinner was finished, Jeri ( his other mom) would sit at the kitchen table to talk to me while I would clean the floor on my hands and knees. ( those were the days) As soon as the floor was clean, Alex would become famished and started dragging out the food and the mess. So we had to start closing the kitchen and if he did not eat when the kitchen was open he did not eat at all. Once Jeri tried to tell him her kitchen was closed and he said" no mom, that is my mom's ( debbi's) saying, not yours"
Only three questions: I loved being part of Mickelle and Baby Cameron's life. But we went through a rough stage where they asked so many questions I was pulling my hair out. To survive, I had to come up with the three question rule. When they came over they got three questions and then they could not ask any more. They could use them up in seconds, I would say there is one, two , three----- the silence was golden. Some time they went home and came back to start over. It took a while but they learned how to form sentences and to talk to me. Finally we emerged out of the endless question mode. I know many times they were frustrated when I said" that's a question" and did not have to talk to them but it was worth it to get them to talk to me. Do you think having 2 parents as lawyers that maybe the question thing was a learned behavior?
Changing my name: I think the saying goes, necessity is the mother of invention. Andrew was like a broken record, debbi, debbi, debbi, debbi, debbi, debbi, debbi. I finally told him that debbi was not my name and I had changed it. He asked what I had changed my name to but I would not tell him my new name either. He did not know what to call me and I told him that was the point, he used up my name and so I had a new one and I did not want him to use the new name up too. It stopped it.
Grounding: Who suffers more, the kids or me when they were sent to their room? Surely it was me, I had to keep working and cleaning while they laid in their rooms with all their stuff. It was not fair so I decided when things got bad that I would ground myself-- off to my room I would go, Lock the door and it was heaven. I still remember the kids trying to talk to me through the small crack at the bottom of the door. Some times I could see their lips, " Mom, come out! mom unlock the door!, mom let us in!. And even better was when Rob came home, "where is your mom", " in her room", " why" then all you could hear was the vacuum, doors opening and shutting, dishes being washed. It became a family joke and often I would tell Cameron I was being bad and he would send me to my room. Yes, I love being grounded.
The kitchen is closed: This saying belongs to Alex and me. Alex lived next door but he spent a lot of time at our house. He would never eat when we were eating and after dinner was finished, Jeri ( his other mom) would sit at the kitchen table to talk to me while I would clean the floor on my hands and knees. ( those were the days) As soon as the floor was clean, Alex would become famished and started dragging out the food and the mess. So we had to start closing the kitchen and if he did not eat when the kitchen was open he did not eat at all. Once Jeri tried to tell him her kitchen was closed and he said" no mom, that is my mom's ( debbi's) saying, not yours"
Only three questions: I loved being part of Mickelle and Baby Cameron's life. But we went through a rough stage where they asked so many questions I was pulling my hair out. To survive, I had to come up with the three question rule. When they came over they got three questions and then they could not ask any more. They could use them up in seconds, I would say there is one, two , three----- the silence was golden. Some time they went home and came back to start over. It took a while but they learned how to form sentences and to talk to me. Finally we emerged out of the endless question mode. I know many times they were frustrated when I said" that's a question" and did not have to talk to them but it was worth it to get them to talk to me. Do you think having 2 parents as lawyers that maybe the question thing was a learned behavior?
Changing my name: I think the saying goes, necessity is the mother of invention. Andrew was like a broken record, debbi, debbi, debbi, debbi, debbi, debbi, debbi. I finally told him that debbi was not my name and I had changed it. He asked what I had changed my name to but I would not tell him my new name either. He did not know what to call me and I told him that was the point, he used up my name and so I had a new one and I did not want him to use the new name up too. It stopped it.
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