tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10342356966325508122024-03-18T03:02:18.938-04:00Just Call Me Nana!About being a Nana, Faith, Family, Frugality, Cooking, Homemaking, Crafts, Sewing, Photography...emptynester3http://www.blogger.com/profile/12608459325636989055noreply@blogger.comBlogger266125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1034235696632550812.post-33226012612227440592018-02-04T16:27:00.000-05:002018-02-04T16:27:00.637-05:002017 went fast! Wow! It's been a long time and a lot of things have happened but I will try and do better on this blog now that I can use the voice typing. Some random pics...<br />
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Cleaned my oven spotless- it's the little things in life!</div>
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Still sewing!</div>
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Dad was really sick last year, but he is doing lots better!</div>
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Best thing of 2017- my newest granddaughter! </div>
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We've had a lot happen since my last post! I'll be back!<br />
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All the grands are doing well- Little Wesley is almost 6 months old!<br />
On the 19th (or before) we will welcome Prince Jacob! CAN. NOT. WAIT!<br />
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Here is the new addition to my driveway<br />
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No. 1- my little grandson, Wesley Joseph was born! He is adorable of course and the apple of all of our eyes, especially his Mama, Tiffany's! He joins my 4 other little apples, but won't be the youngest grandchild for long..<br />
No. 2 my second daughter announced she was expecting just before Wesley was born. It was pure wonderfulness to have both my girls pregnant at the same time.<br />
Of course all else that has happened since April can't compare to these 2 happenings. Everything is going along very well and we are so very happy and blessed. We have been very comfortable in The Little Cottage.We enjoyed the above ground pool that we put in last summer this year as well.<br />
I have been pretty busy in The Little Cottage Studio- I made 2 more quilts, so since last August 2014 I have made 9- I am excited about that. I also tried my hand at stuffed animals, which I was pretty happy with the results and plan on making a few for Christmas. My sister sold me her embroidery machine that is a step or two up from mine and I did a few things on there for Wesley- getting ready to make a few things for our niece who also had a baby just 3 days after Tiffany.<br />
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PS I am going to be a Nana again in October, YAY!!!!!emptynester3http://www.blogger.com/profile/12608459325636989055noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1034235696632550812.post-34240287461614059972015-01-12T17:03:00.000-05:002017-04-25T08:30:43.010-04:00Well, I am back, my computer died and then I had a ton of trouble logging on to Google, but I now have it worked out. Let's see if I can manage on my phone for awhile. I have not posted in a couple of months and I hope I can forgive myself for that!<br />
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My grandson plays a lot of baseball and my daughter and I made a little weekend out of one of his tournaments Fourth of July weekend. We had a good time. </div>
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I know all grandmas probably say this, but Steven really is.... a natural!!!<br />
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As usual we had a very blessed Christmas season. I kinda felt almost rushed through Christmas since we would be moving January 4, but I put up a tree and carried on like normal (whatever that is!!)<br />
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The way the pictures were in my file, I had the Christmas Eve pictures last. These were taken at my oldest daughter's house. She had a Christmas Breakfast theme.<br />
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Steven obviously liked what he got!!<br />
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He was doing his little happy dance.<br />
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Cute little Jaxen.<br />
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Tiffany's tree.<br />
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My kids!<br />
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My kids and their spouses.<br />
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Getting them all in one picture- hard!<br />
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Feeding the reindeer!<br />
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It was a lovely Christmas and I was sad to see it go! Hope you had a blessed day as well!<br />
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Don't ya just want to bite his cheeks?? Also he just had gotten his first haircut!!<br />
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He got a little tired!<br />
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Now it was Johnny's turn (the next day!!) and he couldn't wait to open his presents, so he and Steven opened Nana's gifts at the same time.<br />
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Steven is such a good sport for my photography!! (helps that his mom is a photographer!!)<br />
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Great Grandma Mohr just celebrated her 90th!! She is spunky and always dresses to the nines!!<br />
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Nana has the cutest grandkids, right??<br />
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I just love when I have all the grandchildren in one spot- they are my sunshine!! Love them and I feel so blessed to have them in my life!!<br />
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Check out these next few pictures- I love how little Jaxen (Bam-Bam) umm, found the pumpkin bucket!<br />
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Grampy working overtime!<br />
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Let me just say that I am aware of the evil possibilities on Halloween, but Halloween is a Christian Holiday celebrating All Hallow's Eve in preparation for All Saints Day. Admittedly, things have gotten out of hand in the Halloween scary department, but for us, it is a good family day.<br />
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Grampy really enjoyed the pool this summer!</div>
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Grampy and Gracie!</div>
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Having coffee and scoping out Shaun T's new video!</div>
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Johnny is playing with Auntie T's hair!</div>
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Gracie is really getting used to having her picture taken! (she should have been used to it before she left the hospital!)</div>
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Gracie is the "big cousin" and is 7 months older than Jaxen, but they have been the same size for awhile now.</div>
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The babies were playing "no, that is my paci..."</div>
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Jaxen 7 months old.</div>
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Gracie squints her eyes when she is "posing"!</div>
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This is such a handsome picture of my little man, Jaxen.</div>
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I just want to eat him up with a spoon!!</div>
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Here is Gracie with a totally different look!!</div>
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1. Moving
2. Grand children updates
3. weight loss efforts
4. our 35th anniversary
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Being a convert to the Catholic faith for just 10 years now, I haven't really been to many First Communions. Back in May, we were blessed to attend our Great Niece, Kaelyn's First Holy Communion. She is our niece by marriage and her Mother's family is Catholic so Kaelyn has been brought up in the Catholic tradition. I told her dad, Justin, that I am so thankful they made such a great time of this most important event. BTW- the church also became my new parish when we moved last year.<br />
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I told Justin that he would blink and she would be wearing a different white dress at the church!!</div>
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Kaelyn and her mom, Kathy.</div>
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Everything was so beautiful.</div>
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Gracie with her "other" Grandma. We lovingly call each other "Gramma".</div>
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Kaelyn was very happy to see her cousin, Johnny.</div>
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Kaelyn was a very gracious Guest of Honor. </div>
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Beautiful cake</div>
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Johnny hit the dance floor as soon as the music got going. </div>
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To God be the Glory!!<br />
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emptynester3http://www.blogger.com/profile/12608459325636989055noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1034235696632550812.post-47837291973281984612013-06-04T20:23:00.000-04:002013-06-04T20:23:03.931-04:00Like a Tourist!!!We took a little 2 mile trip to the Tarpon Springs Sponge Docks for a little family outing. Anytime we go anywhere together, it is a good time. I can just sit back and watch the kids and grandkids interact all day long. It is so fun and entertaining and at the same time so awe-inspiring to think that God chose US to be THEIR parents and grandparents. Awesome,huh??? I certainly don't deserve to be blessed like I am.<br />
Here we are just walking and enjoying the crowd and weather. (sidebar:The sign to the left is for a lovely little soap shop. Handmade soap to die for and I also bought and am in love with their moisturizer)<br />
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Just a little marina scene.</div>
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Grampy and Steven (Steven makes the best faces- his mom is a photographer, so he does a good job at cheesing it up and Nana loves it!!!</div>
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We generally go to a restaurant on the Docks (Greek of course) and share our meals. We had a delicious meal this day!!</div>
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Then we went to the little aquarium. </div>
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Steven was very engaged (his teacher said she wished she had a classroom full of Stevens- I totally understand that!!!)</div>
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I remember when I first moved to Florida as a young child, the pelicans were so interesting. Still are!)</div>
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The kids all loved watching the Pelicans too.</div>
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We really went here for Grampy, but they didn't have his "brand".</div>
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Family time is the best!!!<br />
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emptynester3http://www.blogger.com/profile/12608459325636989055noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1034235696632550812.post-71463936952683836772013-05-27T19:11:00.000-04:002013-05-28T00:05:36.202-04:00Mom's Celebration of Life ServiceWell, finally I am posting pictures of my Mom's Celebration of Life pictures. It felt kinda weird taking the pictures, but ya know- Funeral services are memory makers. All the family is there, kids are still cute and fun and in reality- Life does go on. We kept saying that Mom would have loved it. We had the service at her church where my family had gone for nearly 20 years (note: the church that we knew was torn down and a new church built in a new location- none of us had ever gone to the new location (we converted to Catholicism and my Mom had moved kinda far away), but she still kept her membership and tithed there and her friends were still there). <br />
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We just did a memory table. <br />
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Those are my two girls by the table.</div>
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My sister, Tammy and our friend, Stacey and her boyfriend.</div>
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The hubs in the blue shirt talking to my brother in law and sister in law.</div>
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My dad, sitting (he and my mom hadn't been married in over 40 years, but he gave a very sweet and funny remembrance speech). To the left is my former step-mother and step-sister. I was happy they were there. My brother in law to the right.</div>
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My daughter and her hubby's grandmother (my 2 grands' other great grandmother).</div>
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Very nice cake from Publix (they do the best in our area, I think!!)</div>
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I have always loved photography and I am so thankful for it!!</div>
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After the service, we all went back to my house for some family time. It was wonderful to have everyone there. Brother in law, Wayne, facing on the left, my sister, Kristina and my dad on the right.</div>
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My nephew, Ali with my grandson, Jaxen.</div>
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The kids had a good time playing in the yard and I was proud of my dogs- they behaved very well with all the company.</div>
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My sister, Tammy crocheting.</div>
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The Hubs on the left and Brother in law, Keith on the right.</div>
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My sister and my niece.</div>
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My nephew and great nephews.</div>
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It is incredible how much I miss my Mom- I spent a lot of time with her in her last days, and I am happy I was there when she passed. Time gets away and we all get busy. I regret terribly not seeing her more before she was sick. Mother's Day was pretty difficult this year- all the ads for weeks ahead- it was hard.<br />
Us girls and one of the boys went out for lunch the day before Mothers Day to her favorite spot that we took her to in Tarpon Springs on the Sponge Docks and had a beautiful lunch in these pics.<br />
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PS we found out that Mother was diagnosed with Stage 3 Kidney disease in 2009 and never had it treated. Mind you she was in the hospital for 6 days and we never heard any of that- my sister called the Kidney Center whose card I found in her rol-a-dex. We were just baffled by the dementia diagnosis and how fast her health declined- nothing was making much sense to us, but this explained a lot. I don't know why she never had it treated or told us for that matter, but that was Mom.<br />
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Just call him Grampy!! Gracie looks a bit tired here.<br />
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These pictures don't look like your typical Florida pictures. We are just a few miles from the beaches on the west coast, but these have a farm appeal.<br />
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The flip flops might have given him away, but ya know I think these pictures were taken early this year!! Yep, we live in Florida!!</div>
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I started to write this post about 2 days before she died, but I never got to it. Mom died peacefully in her sleep on February 2, 2013 at 10:30pm. My sister, Tammy and I were with her along with 2 of my sister's boys.
Life is funny. You never know in this world, but even knowing that you still can't grasp the concept that anything can happen until it really does. In early September, I received a call from my sister, Kristina in Alaska saying she couldn't get a hold of Mother. I then also tried calling her, unsucessfully. I decided I'd better go and check on her, so my husband and I drove the 12 miles to her house. I will admit, I was nervous about what I would find. We rang the door bell several times and finally the front porch light flickered, and there she was behind her door, looking a bit disoriented. We entered her un-airconditioned, sweltering 94 degree house. Although things were pretty much in place- no basic cleaning had been done. I went to the kitchen and started washing some dishes and straightened up a bit and got her a snack. She said she had not been eating and promptly got sick. My husband whispered to me "Honey, she needs to get some help". I was beside myself- we got her settled (it was about 9:00 pm) and we drove home, not knowing what to do. I called my sisters and apprised them of the situation. The next day, I again was not able to get a hold of her on the phone and called Tammy- who said she would check on her on her way home (she was flying in from her 2nd cancer surgery pre-op on top of all this). She called me when she left Mother's and said, "she is really bad", which of course I had determined also. We decided to take her to the Emergency Room. We went to pick her up and take her to the hospital the next day and she readily agreed she needed to go. Of course, we were in the Emergency Room for several hours and wondered whether or not she would be admitted- we felt she needed to be, but we weren't getting that opinion from the doctor. Finally, her potassium level was death threateningly low and they admitted her. This begins our, uh, what adjective can I use here, ummm- horrific- is about the only word that describes my mom's end of life journey. Of course, Our Lord and Saviour also had a horrific end of life story, which of course makes our suffering so much more bearable, knowing we have the hope of heaven as well. Her six days of hospital stay were followed by being placed in a Rehab/Nursing Home. My sister and her husband made plans to have her live with them afterwards, but we soon realized this was not going to be in the plans. She was diagnosed with dementia, which we realize she must have had for quite sometime. Sure there were little signs that we dismissed as forgetfulness,independence and perhaps loner tendencies, but talking to her on the phone- she really had us fooled. Slowly but surely, her health deteriorated in the nursing home and we came to realize she would never leave there. We did the best we could taking care of her house and keeping up with her bills and getting her insurance in order. My sister and I took turns visiting her and at one point she was so bad that I went every day. She stopped eating, which the Hospice nurse said was a conscious decision on her part to just "go". We took her to many doctors to try and figure what else was wrong with her- she suddenly couldn't walk, she got sick easily- it was basically a nightmare. I wish I could say the "professionals" we dealt with were helpful, but we had bad experience after bad experience. If I expanded on this subject, no one would believe what we have been through. There were a few of her caretakers that I do believe really did care, but other than that, to us it was a big money game, but at the same time, we did not have the ability to give her 24 hour care on our own.
In the end, Mother had a peaceful death- she was kept comfortable- we had heard that death by dementia was very hard, that her starving herself was probably "better". (Mom had a Living Will, but at one point I overrode that by agreeing to a feeding tube for extra nutrition, but she declined it at the Doctor's office, and the Hospice Nurse said she would have ripped it out anyway).
I learned many things along the way- that Mom loved us in her own way, that family is of upmost importance, that not all doctors are in it to care, that we are pretty strong and that I would not have wanted to go through any of this without faith (and the company of my sister.)
Please- get your end of life details worked out as best as you can and call your mom/kids several times a week!!!
Rest in Peace, Mom!!
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