I have been blessed w/many great Father’s in my life!!! My Dad
I’ll love you forever…I
You can see in his face how much he loved me and how hard it was for him to give me away !!!
Take good care of my little girl ….I’ll never forget you…Thank you for being my dad.
Then thereis the man I married…An amazing Dad to his 5 children. He did so much of the heavy lifting !!! I Love you to the moon….
My Forever. I really love this song and it reminds me of you…
The family picture 1993/94
Where has the time gone…They all grew up and have flown…Ages 34 thru 43…
Then there are my son’s who are amazing father’s and husband’s !!! They learned from the B E S T !!!
Loving the H A I R !!!
I can’t forget my daughter the nurse…Our own personal nurse. When dad was in the hospital, yes she slept there in his room. She made sure all the nurses that were assigned to him did their job right !!! She’s an amazing daughter and it’s b/c she had an amazing father !! They are so much alike, it’s scary sometime 😉 …
Nurse Lizzie
G R A D U A T I O N D A Y !!!!
Yes I have an amazing family b/c of the Leader of the band !!! He’s so awesome !!! You are loved by so many…Happy Father’s Dayto great father…
Started off the weekend with a great nights sleep, OMG !!! Always so grateful for that. Last night experienced some weather that I have never been in before. It was sooo cool. When we were driving home from dinner, my weather alarm went off which I wasn’t expecting at all. We live out incountryside, sort of. It has been very dry as of late and the farmer’s were out plowing up the fields to get them ready for planting. W/O warning the wind started blowing and the Clouds of dust just came out of nowhere !!! I got some really cool pics…Check it out.
Here’s a little bit of music to enjoy the dust storm 😉 …
I love the cross/Backyard Field across the streetLove it !!!! Sun CrossStorm winding downBlack out w/Cross from the sunTotal black outBlack out
It was a site, but I really enjoyed the cross from the sun…Never have I seen that before. I felt very blessed to experience that…
Then this morning we got all the planting done before Memorial Day !!! Woot, Woot, Woot. Really happy about that.
3 burning bushes/5 Red LiliesOur Japanese Maple5 Yellow Rose Bushes
That is a huge check off on our to do list!!!Now just getting ready for a road trip to see the new grand baby #9 Mr. Oliver out in Virginia and we will stop out to make sure the Atlantic Ocean is still there !!!!
Momma & Da to be…Hannah w/Grandbaby #9/Mr. OliverMatthew & HannahOliver’s Momma-to-be
Stay tuned b/c I have the Artist working again so I’m hoping for a Monday’s Masterpiece soon !!!
Mt. Who Knows …The Artist…
Enjoy the rest of your weekend…Thats’s all for now. Love Y’all and Blessings ..
I’ve decided to jump on today for no other reason than I’m bored. First of all, being bored is an okay thing to be !!! Whenever the kids would come by and say, “I’m bored,” I always replied with, “That’s not a bad thing at all.”
It really is a good thing, that means nothing crazy is happening either !!! Trust me, I’d rather be bored than experiencing crazy !!! In my life I have experienced so much crazy, that I’ll take bored any time…
Let’s see my life when crazy happened it was things like car accident/traumantic brain injury/hospitalization 2 months then physical therapy to walk and talk again (20 years old)…
February 7, 1981February 7, 1981February 7, 1981Car Accident
Being hospitalized in my 8th month and losing our Sean Patrick to a neurotube defect. That was crazy for about 6 days in the Labor & Delivery Floor at the hospital for everything to transpire. Then there was the aftermath of moving on from that with our life. Confronted w/the questions of how will I ever move on to grow our family. I was only 24 years old when that happened. I definitely prayed a lot about that. I finally got to the point where I just gave it to God and we ended up with 3 more babies…Thank you God for guiding me through that very sad time. We are blessed with 9 grandchildren!!!!
One of the latest crazy’s was when I fell and broke my arm, OMG the day before Christmas. Then it was how do I do A N Y T H I N G w/only one arm. Trust me, boring is sooooo much better !!!!!
Broken right Arm/WristBroken/ERDecember, 2023
When you’re bored, take a nap. Listen to music, call your mom if you lucky enough to still have her. Take a walk, bake a cake. So much to do with boredom. It’s really like a little gift of free time. Just give boredom another name. It’s really all in how you look at 🙂 … Give boring a chance.
Here’s another fun thing to do, watch some really great YouTube videos that remind you of greatness gone past. Here’s one I think you’ll like. Two of the best lines from this musical are, the first one “Forgive me all my trespasses, and take me to your glory,” and the next one is “To love another person, is to see the face of God !!!” This musical should be seen by everyone at some point in life.
Getting ready to batten down the hatches, the tornadoes and storms are a brewing. I even think Reed Timmer might be hanging around. If you don’t know who that is google him. He’s my guy 😉 !!!
Nothing gonna be boring tonight w/these storms !!!! Hang on, I think they put out a, “Small People’s Warning 😉 !!!” Below was another time it wasn’t boring for me at all, when the tornado decided my street would be a good place to touch down. It was Sunday Father’s Day, a few years ago !!!!
I want to give a shout out to 3 amazing father’s I have had in my life. The first father was my husand. He has been such an awesome father, a great leader of our family. He is the captain of our ship and always put the family first.
I know it’s SLS but I’m going to put up this song for all of the amazing father’s and father’s to be in my life…
The PainterThe PainterMom &. Dad #FrainsthenameThe PainterThe CaptainMy GuyGrandpapa, Gabriella & the Little’sGrandmama & GrandpapaGrandpapa, Gabriella & the Little’sThe lone daughter our own personal nurse !!!Little #1GabriellaLittle #2Christmas, 2023
The next amazing father I have had in my life is our youngest who just had his 2nd. He is now the father to our 2 youngest (#7 & 8) grand babies, Mz. Ruby and Mr. Samuel…He learned from the best !!!!
The 3rd amazing Father to Be is our Matthew who is expecting his 1st baby…So excited this will be our 9th grand baby !!!!Both expecting mom, Hannah & expecting dad, Matthew are retired professional Ballet Dancer’s, so one never knows…Could be in the DNA 😉 !!!
#frainsthename
There are just know words as to how wonderful a man that he is…You are the best and you are so loved … Thank you so much for all you have given to our family. Oh and we are celebrating our 45th wedding anniversary this year in August !!!
Dinner at Sullivan’s w/the husbandMom &. Dad #Frainsthename45 years ago the journey begins !!!
I’ll close with this little bit of personal information on my husband and I don’t think he’ll mind. His father use to drop him at school in in the morning. It was a warm June morning, nothing unusual about the day. His dad was dropping him off at school and he was looking forward to the summer. When school was out, his older brother came to pick him up. When he got home, his dad wasn’t there. He died suddenly from an aneurysm/stroke. My husband was only 9 years old that day when he lost his dad. My husband is an amazing man … We all love you dad, “Happy Father’s Day” to the best…
And so does Scarlet’s Summer Stories. I’m going to try to post everyday about my summer…Day to day, vaca’s, projects, yadayadayada. Should be interesting to see how it evolves. Oh yes and what the weather is doing of course, w/pictures.
Stay tuned as I’m sure the adventures will be fun…Like I said in a previous post, “Let’s get this party started 🙂 !!! ” Recipe’s, destination’s , picnics, fairs, there are literally endless possibilities on my Summer Bucket list. I finished my Summer Planner yesterday. I’m pretty happy with it.
Blessing’s to all of you too, I hope you have the best of summer’s. I switched over planner’s too. I’m now using, ” http://plannerperfect.com/ ” I like to keep my planning fresh and who doesn’t love a new journal !!! I really love this planner looking forward to all summer with it, you should go check her out…
When I was looking into my media for my, “Two for Tuesday” post, I came across some other pics that I thought would be fun for some more media for today’s post. Remember, this is My Happy Place and I get to make the rules !!!
Happy Tuesday Blogger’s…Enjoy My Life <3 …
How do you like me now…#3 & #4 Son’s…Matthew & ConnorMom & Matthew/HockeyThe Brother’s/Matthew & ConnorDad & #4 Son/MatthewMatthew & Connor/EvitaMom & ConnorMom & Paulie/White Sox @ a Blackhawk’s Hockey GameRockin Matthew w/Randy B…Mom & Dad/Headlight MaineBrother’s/Matthew & ConnorRockin Metal Momma &Randy B…Taye Diggs & Me <3Our 40th Year of Bliss <3The Brothers/#3 & #4Momma & her 2 Youngest <3Romeo & Juliet <3Connie & Missy…Together Forever <3
It’s write anything Wednesday and I just realized it’s June 30th, OMG. This is the day me and the husband always say, “Summer’s over Mr. Nightlinger,” and this year is no different. He said that to me as he was getting out of the car this morning on his way to work in Chicago 😉 . It’s from a John Wayne movie we both love to watch, from back in the day.
I guess I really haven’t been blogging lately b/c I just am not really focused. It’s kind of like I just don’t have much to say other that I’m feeling really, I guess the word is “Wonky” from how our summer is moving along. It started out as most of things do like any other summer. The weather was warm, it’s baseball again Y A Y, I have all kind of plans and I’m feeling really positive, just happy I have made it through another Chicago Winter. Oh yeah and happy for some kind of normalcy again i.e. the Vid is under control and I can see so many smiles and people are getting back to the chit/chat again. Another huge Y A Y for that 🙂 !!! Except for the fact that now they are once again trying to control us by some kind of variant …oooh we all should be scared and put our masks back on.
No Way … Not Now, Not Ever Again !!!
Unless of course I become a Doctor and need to when I operate on someone, which I’m pretty sure will never happen. Me and the husband had the Vid before it was the Vid (that’s what the daughter/covid nurse) calls it, and we are both totally vaccinated … So no way am I going there, some stupid lockdown. Sorry I digress, I just get so mad at the control that the government thinks they have over our lives. They steal our money by taxing us to death and then try and convince us it’s for infrastructure. What is it that they say, “Good intentions are paved on the road to Hell.” Or something like that.
Visit to the ER w/the Vid (before they called it the Vid)
Our Lizzie an RN
I’m taking my cues from people who know up close and personal the risks, and that would be my daughter who I have been hugging since before they locked us down. My mother who is a retired Infection Control Nurse for over 40 years and my oldest sister who is also an RN…
We just had a great time as a family being together and celebrating life, love and being a family <3 … Something that for some reason has been labeled a dangerous situation to your life…OMG really, it’s not going to go on in my world ever again. Life is dangerous. Move on, get over it !!! I love my family and I’m going to spend every moment I can with them !!!! Which brings me to the point of this post, “Father’s Day.” Yes, Father’s Day. It was a fun day even though family was not able to spend it with dad…The kiddos got us baseball tickets to our beloved White Sox. What a great gift !!! That’s where me and my husband, their dad, had our first date, 45 years ago. A nighttime, Fireworks game at the old Comiskey Park vs. the Milwaukee Brewer’s who were still in the American League. I even remember the date, July 16, 1976…
Chicago from Guranteed Rate Field/The new Comiskey Park
Gallery Wall of Fame
A Day out at the Ballpark…
The pictures above were from a couple of years ago. We did spend last Sunday out at the Ballpark, Guaranteed Rate Field. It was a beautiful day and we got to watch a lot of baseball b/c it was sort of a double header. It was the game from Saturday that they had to pause and then it was the game the kiddos got us tickets for on Father’s Day…They split it, lost the first one and then won the second game. But it’s always a great day win or lose out at the ballpark <3 It’s our happy place…
Happy Sunday at the Ballgame
Y A Y for our Chicago White Sox b/c I guess they are in 1st place and we had so much fun. I didn’t go to any games last year so I had forgotten how much fun it was. The weather was beautiful and we had great tickets <3 Thanks to the kiddos <3 . The only thing that was missing was them but that’s what kids do, they grow up and go live their lives which makes this mom & dad very happy. Thanks to iPhones they were there with us during the whole games…i.e. texting and facetiming.
Happy to get this post up and returning to my blog. That too is my Happy Place b/c of all of you out there in the the blogosphere … I hope everyone is having a great summer. I have all the tools I need for a happy summer, my grill being the most important. The Flower’s are all planted and I even got tomatoes going and they are looking pretty good. Happy Summer, Happy 4th of July…Blessings Blogger’s and thanks for stopping by.
I usually start the week with Monday’s Masterpiece. Father’s Day was great !!!! Dad and I will be going to a lot of baseball games…Y A Y <3 . Thank you to our Son’s Matthew and Connor. You made Dad’s day great !!!! Lizzie had to work but we are going to hook up later this week 😉 .
That’s where it all started at Comiskey Park which is now Cellular Field … Our first date was July 16, 1976 the Chicago White Sox vs. the Milwaukee Brewer’s before they went to the National League. Yes I’ve been with my sweets for 45 years and we will be celebrating our 42nd wedding anniversary this August <3 …
It was definitely a Father’s Day to remember. It was hot and they said it was going to be a stormy day and for anyone who knows me, knows I’m a weather geek for sure. I watched the storm all day. It hung out west all day so I was thinking it wasn’t going to be anything.
Severe Weather ConeTornado Warning !!!
They upgraded us to a Severe Thunderstorm Watch. I went outside about 10:30 pm to just see what was going on. It was coming, but I still wasn’t worried. The wind started picking up and the husband joined me in the garage and I started getting the feeling things were going to go south pretty quick. I knew they were going to blow the sirens too, b/c they always do no matter.
No sooner did I have that thought the storm hit fast & hard !!!! Sirens blowing so it’s time to go in. I don’t have a basement so me and Rosie (our chicago brown dog) went into the bathroom and prayed b/c this storm was not fooling around. I told the husband to go look and see how bad it was and he said, “What am I suppose to stop the tornado.” I said, “Of course your are, your the guy and last time I checked that was a guy job ;). ” Thank god it was over fast, and boy were we lucky. We were probably 3 houses away, literally !!! Well here is what my neighborhood looks like this morning, and it’s not pretty….It will be a long week cleaning up…
Ranchview Neighborhood/What a Mess !!!
No fatalities but a couple of people did end up in the hospital. Prayers for everyone who’s Monday has been a hard one !!! Blessings and to all <3 .
