The Kennedy's are indeed an American Icon. Yesterday, Scott, Judy and I went to John Adams and John Quincy Adams birthplace and homes. It was really wonderful and more people should visit it. We were talking about Ted Kennedy and the three of us agree that his time would be soon. Little did we know that it would be that night. Sometimes it seems that the Kennedy name was bigger then life itself because you would hear about them all the time. But as family members passes away it seemed to have quieted down to just Ted. I got to see him in the Senate in DC when the kids and I traveled around the USA in 1985. I was excited to see him and to meet the speaker of the house. The kids were not that impressed. I wonder sometimes if growing up here in New England gives one a keener touch to our nations historical sites. Living here as a child, I did not take for granite the history that was here. It was more of a special feeling the you received for seeing how your country began and all the history right here where you could visit, touch, see and feel. Moving to CAL. it seems that the people there don't have that same bond. It's like that first hand history is out of touch for them. I lived there for 50 years and the history there is so different. Even though they learn about the founding of this country, they are removed from it and it seems to be words on pages in a book. No connection. One of the best things that happen to kids there if they are lucky, is to travel with their classmates to DC for a week. But they still miss out on the history that MA has to offer. I feel more of a connection with the founding fathers and what they fought for. Ted Kennedy will be one of those icons who will be missed because he did know how to make his presence known and he did fight for the people of MA. Just my musings.

Yeah it is cooling off some. We have little rain showers which are so tempting to run out and play in. Darn there are times I wish I was a little kid again. I am afraid if I did it to day, they would surely send the paddy wagon and cart me away. I love lying on my bed because that is the coolest place in the house. With a ceiling fan and the cool air gently blowing in from the window........ahhhh it is so nice. But pretty boring as I need to get up and do other things. Got the wash done and bed made. Whoooo hoo. Scott did the wash.....LOL. I made the bed. I know, I know, don't strain myself. Tomorrow will be a busy day. We are going to go visit John Adams and his son, John Quincy Adams birthplace in Quincy. Tomorrow is the national parks birthday so you get in free. Can't beat that. Otherwise it's been another ordinary day here in Medford with me just doing digital scrapbooking and playing games with my sidekick, Hannah.

It's HOT! That is all I can say. I am melting. I am a tired of living in front of a fan. It has been a week of heat. To buy a widow air conditioner or not? HMMMMMMM? Sometimes you have to weight the options. If it is only going to be hot for 2 weeks in the summer where it is uncomfortable like this, then it is not cost effective to buy an air conditioner. But oh it would be so nice and delicious to feel the cool air blowing through the house. I take a swim in the shower when it gets too uncomfortable. LOL. Well I will just dream of cool mountain peaks and cool waters to swim in.

I absolutely hate days like this. Somehow I am being sued because someone with my name got evicted and they want me to pay.LOL on that one. I am retired on a fixed income....what $$$$$? So I have to do a lot of searching of my records to prove that it is not me they want but some other person with the same name. This is very stressful. Especially when it happened in 1998 and in a state I no longer live in. My name was different then so they really have the wrong person. But the agony of getting all those past documents together to prove who you are is exhausting. My darling daughter has gotten me access to a lawyer and if the information I sent them is not enough for them, then I will go the lawyer route with the stipulation that they pay my lawyer fees. But I now have done all I can do for the time being and so I am going to just relax and move on to more fun things........like scrapbooking. Hmmmmmm, maybe I should scrap this picture of me stressed out. LOL.
I am really an optimistic person and so things like this will affect me for the moment but give me a half hour and I am over it. There are too many things to enjoy in this world to let all these trivial things upset you. Gee I guess it really isn't so trivial but I believe that it will all get sorted out in the end. I have found tho that as I get older, the energy that one spends on issues like this really take a toll on you. It tires me out a lot. Also my patience wears thin. I always think of that cartoon where it shows the harassed person who says you are getting on my last nerve. That makes me laugh. I really believe that laughing has some magical benefits to my body. It seems that it allows me to relax and regroup. I don't ever want to lose the ability to laugh. Well on to play.

Today is one of those days when you have a million things you are trying to do and you can't decide where to start or what to start with. So I am going to step back and breathe. Just Breathe.
It makes me think of this place that Scott and I went to called World's End. It looks ideal doesn't it? Here is a place that you can sit all day and do
absolutely nothing but listen to God through the whisper of the trees. There is a beautiful view of the ocean that you can gaze at. One of the best things about being retired is that those to do lists are so unimportant sometimes. One can always put off til tomorrow. You discover that the world doesn't come to an end if you don't sweep the floor for one day. Or sweeping it in the evening works just as well as doing it in the early morn.
I love my ordinary life.

Today is Saturday and it is a little cool outside. Can't complain though because it feels good. Spent the day scrapbooking online at ScrapMatters Birthday party. I did the LO on the left of Ozzie. He tried to get into my tent and didn't open the zipper up high enough so he turned around and went in backwards. But he fell in instead. We could hear his giggles, which made all of us laugh too. All we could see were his green crocs sticking out. It reminds me how
much fun it is to have a family that you can laugh
and love with. It makes me appreciate them all very much. I also miss the ones who live far away like Bobi, Kyle and Scott. I am going off to babysit Jacqueline and Ozzie tonight while Paul and Brandeis get a night out with friends from New Zealand. Maybe the kids and I will walk up to an Ice cream store and have a treat. That sounds like fun. I also will bring one of my dvd's that they haven't seen yet. Well off I go.

August 7, 2009

I know lots of people do blogs and I have read a few peoples and thought I can't do that. Well maybe I can do that. Although I wonder who on earth would read it besides me. So I guess I can tell what I did today. I got up early and went on line like I always do. I checked out my email and then went to my digital scrapping sites. WooHooooo. I won the top prize from OScraps.com for posting the most pages for Merkee's contest. Now I get to go spend $100 on Merkee's designs. But wait before I can do that, I have to go see my grandkids, Jacqueline and Ozzie. Mommy, me and the kids went over to the swimming pool by Trader Joes. It's free and was really nice. We left and had a picnic in the park. When we got home we tried to put Ozzie to sleep and it didn't work, so we went off to Target to buy Alice (Jay's friend) a birthday gift. Jay had a complete meltdown because she also felt that she deserved to buy a gift for herself and couldn't understand that it wasn't her birthday. So all the way home she screamed, "Stop the Car" "Stop the Car". I was laughing so hard tears were coming from my eyes. I know it isn't nice to laugh at a little one having a fit but it was funny and she couldn't see me laughing because I was in the front seat. When we got to their house, I took her for a walk to calm her down. She kept saying "Why do grownups tell me to wait until my birthday, I don't want to wait." SIGH it is so hard being 4. Then we saw a dead baby bird with no feathers. That really intrigued Jay (our little scientist). She asked me a million why questions. I finally said I think the wind blew it out of it's nest. Then when we got back to her house I told her that maybe she could earn the money to buy what she wanted. So I let her unload my car. I had borrowed three of their outdoor chairs. So she took all three in three trips to her back yard. I paid her ten dimes. She put it in her piggy bank. Then I came home to my own little abode.