Patti & Mike – Page 4

November 1, 2024

Let’s write a list …

I’m going to throw one of my favorite song’s in here to listen to while you read. I first heard this song watching our youngest perform on stage when he was a dancer and fell in love with it !!!

7 Cardinal Rules for my Life

1. I have made peace with my past so that it won’t disturb my present.

2. What other people think of me is none of my business. 😉

3. Time has healed almost everything. I give it time.

4. I am in charge of my happiness 🙂 .

5. I don’t compare my life to anyone and I don’t judge. I have no idea what their journey is all about.

6. I don’t think too much. It’s alright not to know all the answers. They will come to me when I least expect it.

Finally last, but not least and probably the most important to living a life of gratitude is to remember #7 everyday. Because, “If you act as if, it will become a part of you…” So always remember to ” S M I L E !!! ” 🙂

7. Smile 🙂 . You don’t own all the problems in the world

Let’s have the best November ever. Remember to say, “Thank You”. Try to always be grateful. Life is too short to be anything but happy…

October 27, 2024October 27, 2024

Happy 45th Anniversary…

Connor & Missy made this video for us when we went out to the Outerbanks to celebrate with the family. So very touching to be loved. He put it to one of our (i.e.favorite) songs. We love you both so much. Thank you for making this such a memorable vacation…

It took me awhile to figure out how to get this loaded but it was worth it. I love you both so much <3 Connor & Missy !!! Thank you for loving our family. This video brought me to tears. We are so loved…

Will have many more photograph’s as we had a professional photographer to take pictures of the most of the family by the ocean. It was a glorious vacation and it’s been the most wonderful 45 years anyone could ever hope for. Thank you so much God, we are truly blessed !!!!

October 27, 2024

Happy Beautiful Song Lyric Sunday !!!

Going to jump in on this one. Thanks, Mr. Jim for a really great prompt. Today’s prompt is, ” Parent & Child ” I’m going to use one of my fav’s. The song is, ” The Prayer ” sung by Andrea Boncelli and Celine Dion …

It seems appropriate especially b/c it is Sunday after all. This song is about God The Father who looks after us all, as we are His children.

These are the lyrics. It’s just such a beautiful song I really don’t mind listening to it a 2nd time. Blessings to all this Sunday.

October 23, 2024

So Exciting !!!!

Living well is the best…We are working on our back yard right now building an amazing sanctuary !!! I have 5 beautiful Yellow Rosebushes !!!! The landscaping architech guy Vince, said that he wasn’t sure if they would bloom this year, but they did and that just makes me smile 🙂 … A little music albeit not the greatest video, loving the song, “Our House”.

Yesterday went to one of my favorite places I had an appointment at.. 😉 You can’t win if you don’t play. Having a great day Y A Y 😉 …

I will post more pics of the final back yard project…It’s going to be beauties !!! Have a great Wednesday !!! Blessings to all.

September 22, 2024December 7, 2024

Married 45 years…

Together for 48 years…We started dating when I was in high school. I was a Junior in high school and he was a cool, (very cool and good looking college boy at Northwestern University the, “Harvard,” of the Midwest 😉 ) which is most important to a 16 year old in high school. I’ll post my graduation picture …

No one believed that I was dating a college boy but I didn’t care. I just wanted to get out of high school and get away from all the nasty meangirls which there were plenty. I knew I wanted to marry and have a family. That was my dream coming from an Italian/Irish very large family. My immediate family was 4 girls which at one point in the year our ages are 1 year apart. My oldest 2 sister’s Mary & Kay are Irish Twins which mean they were born less than a year apart. Our birth years are 55/56/58/59…I’m the youngest of course. I post pics but it’s against my better judgement to but whatever…

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-yjdi2cRlyLbya-2YJFpQRKE5cyqmdS-/view?pli=1

This is one of my favorite songs and movies and every time I want to annoy the husband I sing this…So much fun being a Sadie, Sadie 😉 …

I got married pretty young…I had just turned 20 but never looked back and have been married now for 45 years !!! I knew from a very young age that my purpose in life was to be a homemaker, wife, and the greatest role of all a mother. I counted up the years I was pregnant and it came to a stunning 9 years !!! OMG, those were some of my happiest times when I was having babies … Michael Francis Jr./Sean Patrick (RIP) Elizabeth Ryan (Our only girl) Matthew James/Connor Timothy !!! 4 boys and 1 girl…

My mom & dad had 15 grand babies and I don’t even know how many great grandchildren there are. I just know we are having our 9th grand baby this December, OMG … This makes me so very happy.

I knew this was going to be my last as the body just couldn’t take anymore and I knew it. These babies were born naturally i.e. no epidural ( I thought I would die). The last two babies I said to my OB, I can’t do this again, please help. That’s when he suggested to have an epidural. Wasn’t sure but when real labor kicked in w/Matthew I said, “Get that Dr. in here and let’s do it !!!” I did not have little babies, my 1st was 9lbs. 12oz…My OB did not believe in CSections… Not fun, I needed the drugs !!! Still loved all of it and thanked God for his grace and blessing me with all these babies !!!

September 17, 2024September 17, 2024

Happy #45th Wedding Anniversary…to us

OMG what a road it has been !!! We have actually been together for 48 years as we started dating in 1976…I laid eyes on him for the 1st time when I was just 16 years old. My older sister brought him over as he was someone who was in her peer group. I took one look at him and I said to myself (true story), “That is the guy that I’m going to marry !!!” So 48 years later, here we are celebrating us… I’m going to give you our song (just one of many) to listen to while while you look at the pic’s !!! The day we became each other’s person F O R E V E R !!!

This was one of our song’s (we’ve added so many since then 😉 … Enjoy. The video is kind of dated but so are we 😉 …

Looking back at all the pictures reminds me just how long we’ve been together so I think I’ll probably do this looking back thing in a couple of post’s …This was just the beginning of our beautiful life together … True Love, A wonderful life together !!!!

August 21, 2024August 21, 2024

Write Anything Wednesday

Summer’s over Mr. Nightlinger…Haven’t heard him say that yet (that would be The Husband) but it is coming. I thought I would just throw up a post today. Been soooo busy this summer and it’s just getting started.

I’m going to add some music that seems appropriate 🙂 for this post. “Story of a Life” sang by Harry Chapin …

We will be celebrating our 45th wedding anniversary in a couple of days and I just can‘t believe it. 5 Kids, #9 Grandbaby on the way. We have been truly blessed with God’s grace for the privilege of being part of this family. Going to have our 1st ever family reunion this fall and it should be so amazing !!!!

Getting ready for a little vaca out to the ocean to celebrate the 45th then back home for a bit to celebrate with the family !!! Going to be amazing.

We have had such an amazing life …. I can only hope for another 45 years !!! I love you #frainsthename ….

July 30, 2024July 30, 2024

Family Reunion 2024

It was the family reunion at the farm in Wisconsin last weekend. I’m so glad that I went. It is such a blessing to be part of a family. I really can’t remember how long we have been having this Reunion but I’m pretty sure it’s been since the early 70’s.

It is at the same place it always is, the Farm. Our Farm is one of the 100 year old farm’s in Wisconsin !!! A huge part of my heart and soul is up there as that is where I spent most of my summer’s growing up. All the cousin’s did and there were a lot of us. The first pic was at grandmama’s up in Greenwood and the second one was the first reunion at the farm. That wasn’t even all of us, 2 weren’t even born yet…Thank you Aunt Patti (RIP) for making us take that picture. It is an iconic picture that all the cousin’s love…

Family/Dolly Parton

The memories made up there are just the best. I can remember all of us kids going into the barn and sneaking smoking !!! OMG can’t even imagine that we could’ve lit the place on fire and we didn’t even think about that. We use to go find the cow’s and chase them all over the fields. Uncle Joe and Uncle Bub didn’t understand why they were all sketchy at times, of course they didn’t know what we were up to all day.

Most of us being city kids would come down for meals and when they gave us milk we would say, “Is this real milk (from the grocery store) or the cow’s milk ? “We didn’t like the milk from the cows as this was very thick, not pasteurized. The folks didn’t get it. At dinner time they would literally tell us to go out to the garden and get some vegetables for dinner. Can you even imagine what that was like. All I know is that the food up there was so good !!! Amazing…I have told all my kids if society breaks down, go the the farm !!!

I took a couple of pics when we went this time. I absolutely love this farm. Thank you so much cousin Sean and Michelle for keeping this tradition alive. Love you to the moon …

We went over to the horses and fed them. I’m pretty sure this is where I got my love of animals along with a healthy respect for them.

We also paid a visit out to the cemetery to just remember all of the family who came before us. There were many !!!!

Mom is buried out there but her headstone is still being made. She is laid next to my Great Aunt Alice. She use to take us out there and show us where her grave was going to be. She would say, “It’s right here in front,” so she could be the first one out when Jesus came 😉 . I think of her often and miss her every day. She was the best mom !!! Thank you so much mom for giving me the greatest gift of all…L I F E and F A M I L Y…

I’ll end with a couple of my family pics and of course I’ll have to put up the mother/son wedding dance again…I love watching that 😉 .

June 16, 2024June 16, 2024

Happy Father’s Day

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 lone daughter our own personal nurse !!!

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 😉 !!!

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 !!!

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…

May 21, 2024May 21, 2024

OMG Summer is almost here …

So you know what that means, time for my summer planner. Y A Y I love, love, love setting up my planner’s. Especially for my Summer Planner!!!! They are the coolest thing that I have.

I found a great site for planner’s and the husband gave me the okay to purchase the coolest planner ever. I’m not quite sure how I’m going to use it but I’m just happy I purchased it. I will put up post of my beautius Summer Planner when it get’s here!!! I have to at least give a shout out to one of my troll’s (my sister Liz) only b/c she got me into the planner thing a 100 years ago, and that’s all I’m going to say about that. I might as well put up a sister picture, but like a said that was a thousand years ago…So sad, thanks dad…

Finally the truth can be told…I am the cutest

This was the last picture we took together as the Sister’s. The older Sister’s found other things that were important than being a family…Thank you, again dad…

Sister Liz is next to me…This was a before picture and if you know me, you get what that means …Oh well it’s the rearview mirror and you know what they say stop looking there because your not going that way…

I found a song that I love and it reminds me of being a part of something that could’ve been so special, but it was not to be. God takes people out of your life that will not be good for what his plan is. So I just accept the way that it went. We will be together again and we will have to stand in front of our God. I’m okay with that…

Whatever, this post just went somewhere I had no idea it was going to go, so I’m going to post this as is b/c it’s a sign… It was suppose to be Two for Tuesday… Oh yeah and here’s the song, “We Are Family .” 😉 …

Boy did I get off the subject or did I even have one, a subject that is… Right the summer, so many things going on. I’ll have so much to blog about. Happy Tuesday, love ya blogger pals. Have a great day, we’re going to have severe storms so check go check their website’s out Meterologist Mark…And Reed Timmer. I’m sure they’re watching. I’ll go back and link them.