Text 1543, 120 rader
Skriven 2008-01-30 23:28:34 av Janis Kracht (1:261/38)
   Kommentar till text 1520 av Ruth Haffly (1:396/45.28)
Ärende: BlueWave                                                 [1]
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Hi Ruth!


>> > I was 25 when Rachel was born, a month short of 27 for Deborah.  I'm
>> > glad I had them young; I could never keep up with them now.

>> I had my first when I was 21 -  My daughter came around 2 1/2 years
>> later. But I agree with you... I'm glad I did have them when I was
>> young :)

> We had the energy to run after them then. (G)

Yes, indeed :)  I hear my oldest sister complaining about her teenagers now
(she's 60) and boy, I couldn't even imagine that :)


>>> want to slip out for dinner "alone".. so
>>> we'll keep the kids with us at the house.  They'll have all their toys

>> > Sounds good; are you going to do a grandma's special meal for them?

>> I was going to, but my daughter suggested we get something delivered
>> to the house - So we ordered some veggie pizza :)  Everybody was happy
>> with that.. even the little guy :)  He especially like eating all the
>> broccolli off it <g>

> He's be a good one for some of these Hidden Valley Ranch commercials
> I've seen. Maybe he needs to visit the White House too; I understand GW
> takes after his dad in not liking broccoli.

Lol :)

>>> don't expect any problems at all.

>> > Most likely.  One of these days we hope to be closer to Robert so he
>> can > visit us easier.

>> Yes, it was great when they were living upstairs, and some days we
>> miss having them "around" <grin>. But they are really happy in Ithaca,
>> so that's good :)

> Far enough away that they're not on your doorstep, close enough to visit
> easily.

Yes, it works well.  They really needed to move for work opportunities and
such.

>> I guess that makes sense as well.. people would be used to seeing it
>> that way <grin>

> Plus it gave people long enough lead time to do lay away & get it paid
> for.  I did a mix of shopping for things at the PX and in town; putting
> up the pyramid this year, I noticed the box still had a price tag on of
> DM 39.95 or about $25 at the exchange rate at the time.  It was a bit of
> a splurge but I am glad I got it.

That's neat!

>>> Asian shop, and the  Korean restaurant, etc.  but I guess you might
>>> say Ithaca is more like Woodstock, NY (the real Woodstock, not the

>> > I grew up about 45 minutes from the real thing. (G)

>> hehehe that's true :)  Well, I grew up in Warwick, in Orange County..
>> Can you believe my Dad wouldn't let me go to the festival??? <laugh>

> I couldn't go either. Looking back, I don't think I would have really
> wanted to except for some of the performances.

I would have loved to hear some of the groups that were playing that weekend..
I'd seen a few of them in other concerts in NYC, but this one sounded like the
concert to end all concerts.. and it was <grin>

> And no mountains with snowy/icy roads to go over to get to Binghamton
> either.  My younger brother was in an accident a couple of weeks ago
> because of bad road conditions.  A couple of other cars got involved but
> nobody was hurt.

I'm glad to hear that no one was hurt.. Ron's never had an accident or been in
one in his life. That always amazed me <grin>.  My mom wasn't a bad driver but
she had her share of minor crack-ups <grin>

>>> I think the most used set for me is a copper Revere ware set.. I've
>> the pan kinda tilts.. well, it won't sit flat on the burner grill. :)
>> Probably time to retire them :(  or get a new set ...

>>> had them since Ron and I got married (wow, just thinking about that
>> > Too long ago? It's been 32 years for us.

>> I think it's 36 for us :)  We are so bad with remembering our
>> anniversary :) I don't think we've remembered it once in all these
>> years <grin>.  I guess we just always knew this was it, a perfect

> We can't forget; it's engraved in our rings. (G)

No fair :) :)  But a nice way to remember :)

>> match, and the actual ceremony didn't mean that much to us :)  Ron's

> We used an old Church of England ceremony with a few of our own
> additions.  For the length of time we knew each other after we met but
> before we got married, we didn't see each other very often (college,
> work, etc), never really dated but knew we were right for each other.

It's really neat when you know it and it just clicks :) We had the wedding at
my mom's house outside in the flower garden area... just what I needed for all
my allergies :)

>> mother used to send us "happy anniversary" cards and that's how we'd
>> know, OOPS we missed it again <laugh>.

> We get them from Steve's mom--usually just before our anniversary. (G)

yes, that's when Ron's mom would send the card :)

Take care,
Janis

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