Subject: Re: Subject: Re: Motorized w/c >Sally>Vera

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Vera,

It sounds like so much fun being your grandchild. Will you adopt me?

LOL

Love ya,

Belinda

> Sally:

> I wonder what makes us the way we are? Seem no matter what we

always take on

> one more thing to do and do it with love. Along with taking care of

Fred ,

> I've been also watching my eighteen month old grand daughter.

Sometimes it's

> one day a week then other times it's five days a week and then

there are the

> over night's sometimes. This week it's been the five days plus an

over night.

> You would think that would be enough for me to take on, but no

Brett my son

> has asked me to watch his four kids for a few hours on Saturday

6am till

> 11am (ages 9,7, 5, 4 years ) that means that I not only have Fred ,

Hannah

> but my son's four to watch all at the same time. I'm not sure if

I'm foolish

> or just mad, maybe a little of both, but when my son asked if I

could watch

> them and it wouldn't be to much for me, I tolded him I'd be just

fine. Thing

> is I am. I guess with everything that has gone on in my life, I've

learned I

> can do it, God has shown me that. I've also learned how to keep all

the kids

> busy. I have the kids garden , there they can play with all the

little tike

> things, pot's and pans and they love to play that they are fixing

me dinner.

> They also like to water everything (mostly ) They planted

sunflowers

> and a tomtoes plant that will get ever little tomtoes on it. This

week I'm

> going to do eggs and hide them, so they can have an egg hunt. We've

also

> played like we've gone to the show, I get a movie , make popcorn ,

and have

> candy , drinks and make play money, I have them buy a ticket and

they have to

> pay for the candy & etc. The time goes by so fast and they have so

much fun.

> Thing is I enjoy it also. Guess I can be a kid again myself maybe.

I've also

> seen you do what you have to and still be there to do what needs to

get done.

> It's wise of you to get all the paper work done now and arrange

everything

> that needs to be. We did it a few years ago. I didn't want to do it

at first,

> but Fred pushed me into doing it. Now I'm glad that it' done. It

was the one

> thing that I said Do I have to? No one want to think about it, but

it does

> need to be done.

> We will always be hanging in there Sally, because that is just us.

Why I

> don't know, but we will never change. I guess we just care to much

about

> other's . God gave us a heart this big and I think that is a good

thing.

>

> Love Vera

> ****************************************

> Vera

>

> We are hanging on! I have both grandsons now, of course is in

> school but I get him at 3:20 and get his homework done, feed him,

and do

> anything else that needs to be taken care of while rocking and

feeding

> Andy from 8-8:30 in the morning until 7 to 8 at night, depending on

when

> Jayme can get her accounts closed and get home.

>

> Mother is sliding fast. I'm so bogged down with trying to get all

her

> papers in order. I am gaining on it. I'm trying to get all mine and

> Jim's in order at the same time. Jim wasn't too excited about

reviewing

> wills, DNR's, Power of Attorney, etc but I told him to get his butt

in

> gear because it was going to be done so I could forget about it and

not

> worry that some lose ends were flapping in the breeze. I want to get

> funeral arrangements made at the same time I get mother's done so

that's

> one more thing I can stop worrying about for the next 30 years. We

have

> several elderly friends who have no family that have named us as

> caretaker/executors so I have been working with a couple of them to

make

> sure they have everything in order also.

>

> You hang in there too, Vera. I know you don't get any more sleep

than I

> do and it's really starting to catch up with me. If we are really

only

> as old as we feel, then I'm coming up on 76 about now instead of 56.

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> Much Love

> Sally