Sweet Sweet Memories ....

What a WONDERFUL weekend it was !!



Celebrating the 4th of July with Family & Friends .



Family I hadn't seen for almost 17 YEARS!! Way , WAAAY too long to without seeing family that lives less than 45 min away !!



Celebrated the 4th at cousin Trisha's place with my Aunt Jeanie & Uncle Bill I hadn't seen since our wedding in 1996 ( except they actually came to see me a couple days after my surgery on May 3rd ) , and my cousin Trisha that I hadn't seen since Jordans FIRST bday in 1993 !!



Jeanie brought a whole bunch of old pics of me & Laura & James with Grandma Burnett & with all of the Arthurs ........ all those pics are what was "frozen" in my mind ---- all those people were frozen in time in my mind & it was SOOO strange to see a current pic of my Grandma Burnett , because , to ME, she was still the Grandma in those pics -- hadn't aged in my mind-- and when I saw the pic of her taken only a month ago , I cried .



She is 91 now. The last time I saw her ...... Jordan was under a year old .



And I cry .



How did this happen?? What a FOOL I have been that I had not kept in contact with my FAMILY ?!?



So I cry .



Because I don't HAVE an answer to those questions . There IS no good reason , not REASON at ALL !!



Ever since my mother proclaimed her new-found "RELIGION" ( I SHOULD say CULT ) to the entire extended family & my sister and I followed --- that part of my Family was just........gone.......frozen in time.



And TIME is no respector of persons , it stops for no one -- no matter how HARD we may try to hold on to it......it goes by & it goes on .



The pics that my Aunt gave me I just keep looking through -- over & over again . My mind continues to recall memory after memory I hadn't had for a VERY long , long time --- there were also a bunch of letters that I had written my Grandma & reading those were a HOOT!! More of a " bitter-sweet " experience really , of course they made me cry as well !! ( but of course we all know it does not take much to make ME cry !! LOL) .



I hadn't realized how much I wrote letters to Grandma --- ALOT of them -- and Jeanie told me that she has kept every one & how much she treasured them . That really surprised me , because as I told Jeanie , I never thought she really LIKED me all that much . But that was just Grandmas way , a snooty , snobby , b****.



It was strange to read those letters , to see my handwriting & some of the things I would say .....FUNNY!!! Like one of my letters , at the end I signed it .... " well chow for now purple cow , Love , Jennifer " ----- SHEESH!!



I loved my Grandma & I LOVED when I was able to stay the night at her house , the spare room that she had was so pretty & the room was so nice , I remember feeling like I was a princess in a princess bed . She had a like silver-plated hand mirror & hairbrush set that I would use & pretend that I really WAS a princess.



And all of these memories are just "frozen" in time , I love my Grandma.

My First Blogging Experience.....

Hmmmm.......well , here I am , my first blog .
I have never blogged before so , I assume it is just like my journaling except , public . LOL
Today the kids all came back from The Salvation Army's Camp Arnold up in Eatonville & it didn't take them long to start the bickering ....ha ha ha!!
Isn't it funny how after your kids have been away for any longer than like 3 days it seems like they have gotten older or grew??
It was so awesome to hear them talk about all the things they did & hear all the crazy new camp songs . It was also VERY nice to hear that they were not scared at all & did not cry.......cuz , I know I DID !!
For those of you reading this that have seen the movie : " Lovely Bones " , you will agree with me that it most certainly is NOT a movie to watch when all of your kids are away at CAMP ....... jus' sayin'.
It was terrible , I was close to calling the camp to " check " on them. LOL
So....it is a wonderful holiday weekend as we celebrate our freedom as Americans by honoring the courageous Leaders & Soldiers that have fought to make that freedom possible .
We are planning to go to my cousin Trishs' house for a 4th of July BBQ & I am SUPER excited because we have not seen them since ... hmmm .... well , I haven't seen Trish since Jordans FIRST bday !! WOW!! .....and my Aunt Jeanie....I guess I saw them at baby Brennans funeral . Looooong time , and so its gonna be OH so sweet to see all of them again!!
I wonder if it is possible for Jeanie to bring Grandma Burnett ?? Oh how MARVELOUS that would be !!
If this blog is anything like my journaling ( which it most likely WILL be ) , I am guilty of very random thinking & prone to change subjects at any given moment!! ha ha ha ..... just an FYI.
I'm not liking the ginormous size of my font here , I can see already that I will have to change that .... maybe .
Well that will do for now I suppose ....... welcome to my blog ........ I have no "followers" so I am talking to MYSELF right now , but thats not so new (=
Having " Followers " is kinda a creepy thing to say anyways ...... but hopefully when I DO have my FOLLOWERS , I will not lead them atop some mountain and tell them all to eat poison shrooms whilst we wait for our UFO's to beam us to heaven ........or....... WILL I???
MWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH.........ahem.........not......REALLY......relax!!