my grand daughter Bailey is due in five weeks so this is roughly what she looks like in her mama’s womb

I won’t lie I had hoped she would be a boy, because I only have one grandson but I will be perfectly happy with her too when she gets here.

I love her so much already and I haven’t even met her  yet.
🙂

 in September we are flying to Arizona to see the grand canyon and then drive up into my beloved Utah for a few days

I have yet to find a state I love more than Utah.
It was Montana and I do still love Montana, but then I saw Utah and I was over whelmed with the beauty

I can’t wait to see Utah again.

 

  God’s glory is every where!  All we have to do is look and see it.

I so love pretty pictures

even once in a blue moon I take a pretty one

the above picture I took

  and I took this one in Utah

 I didn’t take this one in Alaska, but some day I hope to be standing here and taking my own picture……………

 this picture is  in Japan I believe and I doubt I will ever make it there.

 my eldest daughter took this picture of me and my husband when we were in Utah  many years ago

   I love the beach, I really do, but the mountains call me too.

if I had to choose which place I loved more I don’t think I could

 

a while back I told my husband and my two grown sons that none of them had a clue what it meant to be romantic.
Not one of them acted like they wanted to know either.

What is wrong with men these days?
Don’t they understand that a woman needs to be romanced?
that she needs to know she is still attractive to her spouse and that she is wonderful just the way she is?

I use to work with a man who had been married forty plus years

I asked him once, “What makes marriage work?”
And his answer was “You have to make sure you let your wife know every day that she is the most important person in the world to you”
How romantic.

and I’m glad some women get to have a man who does know how to be romantic………….

I wonder if people day dream as much as I do.
I wonder if they all think of the what if………….

or am I just my mother’s daughter and like her I just like to dream of what could be?

maybe I am wasting my life away thinking and dreaming of things I would like to do but probably will never do.

Good thing dreaming is free.
I would have a bill into the millions if it wasn’t.

As I work cleaning every day I day dream about what I would do if I had the money to do it.

Here is a short list………….

and not necessarily in order……

 

Buy a boat and learn to sail

learn to fly an airplane

visit Switzerland

Visit Ireland

Visit Africa

Have a home on the beach and one in the mountains

help my siblings and children with their dept.

own land

travel travel travel…………..

 

that is just a few things.
I’m sure there is more if I had the time to sit and think of it all…………..

I would of course love to write the next great American novel, however……having the money to do it doesn’t mean it would be successful………………..

 

I wish I was this turtle making my way into the waves……………

or this dolphin playing in the ocean

I long for the beach and I know I was just there and have been there three times this year already……….I doubt there will be a fourth although in the dead of winter I will be longing for it……..

you know, I take for granted that I always feel good, until I don’t feel good and  I am miserable

today is such a day

I am sneezing and have a runny nose and have probably blown my nose a good hundred times already today

ugh.

you know, I know someone who is retiring at the end of the month and this person still is unsure if it is the right thing to do.
IF I WAS RETIRING IN 9 DAYS I WOULD BE DOING CART WHEELS EVERY WHERE I WENT!

you know sometimes it takes a mountain to move a village or just a lot of caffeine.

you know my grandchildren are incredible and I am so very thankful for them
WE took them to the demo derby the other day and my eight year old grand daughter Keira said “Nana, this is the best time I have ever had”
I SOOOOOOOOOOOOOO Love their innocence.
🙂

and I told her I was thrilled to be a part of the best time she has ever had…………to date……

I told her more good times are coming.

you know when it is all said and done, I am still very happy to go home every night and just be lazy

🙂

 

We had a full weekend with our four grandchildren

we rented a pontoon boat and spent a few hours there on that soaking up the rays and enjoying the relaxation

then we had the grandchildren at our fair yesterday

it was enjoyable but tiresome as well

My darling Kayla was a bear unless we were doing what she wanted.
I love her dearly but man is she a stubborn little cuss

 

still it was a great time and I want to make the memories while we can with the grandkids so they will think fondly of  us when we are old and gray and or when we leave this earth.
Family really is the most important thing next to God, who of course gave me this wonderful family
🙂

This is Kayla, Me, Keira, Rick and Aaron
Mirielle was busy with her mother and didn’t get to join us

 

 

since the first time I went to the beaches in Florida I thought how cool would it be to have a home on the beach?
My sister lives in Fort Myers and has to drive over a half hour to get to the beach but IF I ever lived in a state where the ocean was, I would have to be on the beach directly.

so I have been looking off and on for years, especially this last year, of owning a condo on Daytona Beach.
There are a few that would be ideal for my husband and I

I would want to be down there a lot in the winter time, and visit family every month in Iowa.
but in the summer I would only go visit once or twice in the summer time and maybe take grandkids with us home to our condo in Florida.

It is probably a pipe dream……..but man wouldn’t that be cool?
🙂