,,,Well, almost packed anyway! Tomorrow begins my week of Grandson Care! While Mom and Dad are away, Meemaw (Abigail’s Mom, Georganne)) and I will be doing our best to keep those four boys fed, clothed, and content.
It’ll be Team Grandma x Two all the way!
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February Birthdays!
We had a couple of family birthdays this week, so it seems appropriate to wish them both a big Texas Happy Birthday!
Grandson Taran turned 10 on Sunday! Yep, another one hits the double digits!
His heart is a big as his smile – and I’m excited that we’re going to see him (and the rest of the family) this weekend!
These kids are growing up so very fast!
But today is Tammy’s birthday – and she doesn’t seem to age at all!! As I was looking for a recent picture of Tammy, I realized I couldn’t find any of ‘just’ her. Her heart is always for her family, her friends and her Jesus. We are so thankful we get to claim her as one of our beautiful Daughters-in-love.
Our other February birthday, Ellie, was back on February third – but we already talked about that!
How blessed we are!
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A Trip to town
Our little town of Lindale has just about anything you would need in the way of stores – a couple of grocery stores, several good restaurants, a Walmart, and (most importantly) Lowes. But even with all of those good options, we still usually take a weekly trip into the Big City – Tyler! Tyler has a multitude of shopping options – and today we took advantage of many of them.
- Haircut! First stop and well overdue!
- Tyler recycling where we got rid of bins and bins of glass and plastic our community has been collecting.
- Habitat for Humanity Restore – first time here and I walked out with an ironing board ($5)!
- UPS store to facilitate a return
- Joann Fabric Store – Batting for a quilt I’m working on.
- Picked up sandwiches at Jimmy Johns (ate half and finished them up for dinner. Score!)
- Stopped at Torchy’s Tacos for some take-out Queso (we had a coupon to get it free! Couldn’t pass that up!) Lunch tomorrow?
- Sam’s Club – where we spent too much but also got gas for $2.36/gal
- Aldi – short stop, but we never pass up an Aldi. (Eggs were available @5.47/doz. Thankfully we did not need any).
- Walmart – needed a cover for the ironing board and a couple of other odds and end.
- Back home by 2, just in time to put the cold stuff away and settle in for a nap!
The deep freeze is on its way (not expected to get out of the 20’s tomorrow!) – so it’s good we got all of our errands done today. Pretty sure tomorrow will be a good day to stay home! Those Tyler trips can get pretty expensive, but we’re glad we were able to check so many things off our list (and maybe a couple things that weren’t!)
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Mondays are for Memories
Last week my “Monday Memory” post was about a National Park that totally surprised me. Today I wanted to share a memory from 16 years ago when we almost missed going to one of the true jewels of our National Park system – Yellowstone National Park.
From Glaciers to Geysers – 8/28/2009
Last week we were checking out glaciers and this week we were watching boiling water bubble (or shoot!) out of the earth. Isn’t it amazing what a couple hundred miles can do?
We almost didn’t go to Yellowstone. Since the opportunity came at the end of our 5-week trip from Alaska, we were really just content to sit and be cozy at our quiet (well, except for the train nearby) resting spot outside of Sarah and Brandon’s house. In all honesty, we were a little National Parked-out. Sort of Spectacular Scenery Overload. But S&B really encouraged us to go, assuring us that Yellowstone was really “different”, and that it wouldn’t be just more beautiful landscape. They were so very right! We were given a perfect day for our excursion – blue skies, puffy white clouds – and while the park was busy, the roads weren’t too very crowded. The only really big crowd we saw was at Old Faithful, but then again, who doesn’t stop for Old Faithful?! We drove part of the Grand Loop – and were impressed with not only all of the thermal areas, but also with the great diversity in the park. We saw elk both resting and drinking along the Madison River and then later in the day a herd of them was busy sunning themselves in front of the visitor center at Mommoth Springs. Massive bison walked right by us on the road, an interesting cause for a traffic jam, and herds of them could be found in the lush valleys along Yellowstone River. On the thermal side, we saw steaming hillsides, bubbling mudpots, boiling ponds, and (of course) shooting geysers. All of it was fascinating – all of it beautiful – all of it a reminder of our Creator’s kindness it giving us such marvels to view!
So, Yellowstone? SO glad we went. (Guess what, there are more Yellowstone photos HERE!)
And today? We’re SO glad we’re nice and comfy here at Camp Utmost, about 30 miles NE of Missoula, MT. The rest of our Sower team will be arriving today and we’ll start work on Monday. Not only are the slides out and the utilities hooked up, but we even have the outside rug down and the awnings out. I’m sure I’ll have more reflections (and maybe even a couple more pictures (gasp)) about our Alaskan Adventure, but for now it’s back to “regular” life. And what a wonderful life it is! Thank-you, Lord!
