April 11, 2010

YEAH!  My Tulips are blooming.  They look so small.  My Daffy's are starting to whither so seeing the 

tulips is ao refreshing. 

April 10, 2010

It rained yesterday and I forgot my camera when I went to get Jay for Science Club.  Today I went for my usual walk and found these cute statues sitting in the shade.

April 8, 2010

The temps took a dip for the cool end.  But all the trees have just burst into color and the streets look so lovely.

I forget what kind of trees these are but almost all the streets here are lined with them.  Soon they will be all green.

April 7, 2010

Another beautiful day and Oz came over.  what do you do on a warm day.  We spray Grandma's car.  Oz brought his two wheeler over and we did go to the park.  He really gets the braking down perfect but the pedaling is still lost to him.  So naturally on the way home, I had to drag the bike while he walked.  Oh well, such is life.  As the day got warmer, we got the spray bottles out and washed the outside of the house and my car.  Well Oz did, I washed the windows on the house.  He loves doing this.

April 6, 2010

The garden is starting to spring up with spring flowers.  Here is one of my lovely daffy's.

April 5, 2010

It was an absolutely gorgeous day today.  I picked Jay up at school and we hung out at my house.  Then we went to pick up her brother at pre-school.  They were out in the play yard having a Red Sox party.  Oz picked up the big baseball bat and wanted his sister to pitch the ball to him.  Well her aim is not the best and his swinging is not the swiftest but lo and behold, she got the pitch in and Oz hit that ball for a home run.   YEAH OZ AND JAY.  Bostonians love there Red Sox's so much that they celebrate when they win.  Jay's school had a hot dog party for lunch and the hot dogs and rest of the food faire was provided by someone.  The whole school celebrates.  Ozzie's school was celebrating too.  This is unheard of in Cal.

LOL, I almost snapped the hit. 

April 4, 2010

Happy Easter.  Went to Brand's for brunch and to wish the kids Happy Easter and to hunt for eggs in the back yard.  Paul (The dentist to be, let the kids have chocolate for breakfast.) I got the kids Zhu Zhu pets.  They had a ball with them.

April 3, 2010

It's amazing here in New England.  I never know what I will see.  It is so different from So. Calif.  Here is a tree all decked out in plastic eggs for Easter.

Some people decorated with cloth stuffed eggs.  The school had some of those.  Here this decoration is and right on the sidewalk and not one person walking by wrecked it.  They just let it be for all to enjoy.

April 2, 2010

Zoo day.  Jay has the day off from school so I get Oz and her.  So off to the zoo we went.  We went to the Stone Zoo in Stoneham.  They have two brother bears there that we like to visit.  The kids were hilarious.  They ran all around and appeared to not even care to see the animals at all.  We went to the discovery center where Jay worked on puzzles and Oz did puppetry and puzzles.  From there we went and had ice cream and then went to the Dino dig.   Here they are digging for dinosaur bones.

This is a fun spot for them.  They get to work in the sand uncovering different parts of the dinosaur.

April 1, 2010

I tried to think up some frivolous prank I could play on Scott for April Fool's Day but I couldn't.  I didn't go to NH today and my friend, Judy could not come down.  We have to conserve on our finances.  So I ran errand.  I went and payed bills and decided to reward myself with my favorite drink.

Grande Mocha Frappichino through the blender twice with whip cream

March 31, 2010

Ozzie Day.  Ozzie put a puzzle together all by himself.  He is getting good at them.  Then he decided to sing for me.

It's raining

It's pouring

The old man is snooring

Bump his head 

went to bed

didn't get up in the

mornin

He is so funny because when he gets bored with playing at the house he tells me he has to get his energy out and needs to go to an indoor play place.  So we went off to Burger King for a few hours.

March 30, 2010

Stop Raining Please!  Hannah loves to go out only if I go out with her.  Well the weather has not been really nice enough for us to be out doors and she really doesn't like the  rain.   Here she is, just standing there, not liking the rain at all.  (Me, I am getting wet just to get her picture)  She turned around and ran back inside.

The rain has been so bad here in MA.  I am very lucky to live here in Medford because we were not flooded like many other cities.  This has been the worse rain in about 70 years.  Now we are scheduled for warm weather.  YEAH!!

March 29, 2010

Bonnie took me over to this house because she wanted to show me how unusual it was.

It is a museum with a store but it is only opened by appointment only.  It's roof is like what you see in story books that the fairies live in.  The rocks going up the side are actually part of the house's wall.  You expect to see fairies and elves walking around.  It was very interesting.   My friend had happen upon this place by accident and it was opened for her and she found a small lamp with a fairy on it.  She has it in her hall way by the stairs in her home.  Maybe someday when I come back to visit we can see if it is opened.  I would love to go inside.

March 28, 2010

Today we went to the Norman Rockwell Museum and I guess I probably should have taken a picture of the building.  I really enjoyed the museum and seeing his art work.  From there we went to visit her son and her granddaughters.  They are so cute.  But the thing that captured my attention were the ducks that were in their yard.

I kept saying they look like geese.  ONe was but the others were not.  They are a strange breed of ducks that the man across the street buys from Canada as babies and raises them to adulthood and then releases them.  None of the neighbors seem to mind except one.  They feed them.  I have never seen black long neck  ducks.  Maybe when warm weather comes and Jeff lets her little girls out to play and there is duck poo there, maybe they won't like them either.   Time will tell.  I know one of the problems we have here in the city is with the canada geese and there poo.  There is so many of them that some of the parks that the geese have taken over is terrible for the kids to play in.

March 27, 2010

Off to Great Barrington, MA.  I have been trying to hook up with my Sorority sister since I moved here 1 1/2 years ago.  It seems like every time we would set a date, something would intervene and we would have to cancel.  Seeing that she still works, her time off is limited.  So finally we found a week end that worked for both of us.  We met at the outlet stores in Lee and of course had to shop around.  Found some neat things for the kids.

We both agree that having grandkids is the best thing in the whole worlds.  From there we went to her house, unloaded the car and then went out to dinner at a lovely place in Lennox, MA.

March 20, 2010

Beautiful weather today and so I went for a ride.  I went up to Lexington and stopped to see the colonists playing on the drum and fife in the common square area.

It is so interesting here in New England because people dress up in the colonist clothing and march around the various towns and downtown Boston.  I don't know if they volunteer for this or get paid for it.  But it is nice to see.  It was so war that people were lying on the grass and just enjoying the day.

I went to Brand's to watch the kids in the evening so that they could go out on a date.  This is Jay being a rock star.

She was so funny because she was throwing her body every where and then she fell down on her bed.  She sits up and says "that is what real rock stars do"!

March 17, 2010

Wednesday.  Today Jay had off from school  so Mommy, Ozzie, Jay and I went to Chuckee Cheese for Lunch.  The kids had a blast and of course I took a million pictures.  So I picked this one of both of the kids having fun there.

We left there around 2:30 and headed for the nursery so Mommy could check out some plants.  Another place to  have an adventure when grandma is along.  Mommy needed to talk to the people there and get some information which was down right boring to the kids.  So Grandma loaded them up in a cart.

Off we went to find treasures in the garden shop.  They found some ceramic creatures and other such treasures.  Then Mommy came and got us and they got out of the cart and we went into another section of the nursery where they had some really nice trees of all varieties.  the kids had fun walking on the railroad ties that they used for borders.  

March 16, 2010

Jay's afterschool program put on a play.  Why the sky is so far Away!  It was really a lot of fun.    She had drama at the after school program and this was the play they put on.  She was a Cheetah and she did a very good job.  She was so serious about her role.

I forgot my camera and my friend came down from NH and she had her camera with her.  So the picture is not as focused as my camera would have given me but I love the pictures anyways.  

March 15, 2010

Another Monday with Jay.  I never know what project she will be working on when I get to her school.  She is always doing some creative art thing.  Today she made a head band.

She also never wants to leave right away because she loves school so much.

March 10, 2010

I have this male ferral cat named Joey.  He is the biggest fraidy cat you have ever met.  We can't help taking pictures of  him which really makes him mad.

His looks could just "kill" ya here.  He is so funny.  All we have to do is say Hi and he will run under the bed.  LOL>

March 9, 2010

Jolly ole Tuesday.  I have no kids to watch so I generally do errands on this day.  So today, I went to the post office, CVS, Starbucks, got gas and then groceries.
Here is my cute little car getting gas.

I really like my 2001 Honda.  It's one of the first cars that I went and bought on my very own.  It has over 100,000 miles and still runs beautifully.  It got me, my son and three cats across the USA two years ago and still runs great.  I do toy with the idea of getting a new one but WHY?  This baby is paid off and still runs.

March 8, 2010

Actually this is April 1st.  I am so behind on this.  I got a new camera and it is taking me awhile to figure it out.  It takes nice pictures but they are dark.  This is even with the light on.  So I have to take the time in iphoto to fix the photos.  It takes time.  Plus this camera is a little bigger then my other camera.  My other camera, I could just slip into my purse and off I would go.  This new one is a little too big for my purse and so it is an inconvenience.  Therefore, I don't always take it with me.  I also have noticed that so far the only advantage between the two is that I can take faster pictures but otherwise, I can't see much difference.  So Here is what I  have so far.  Not everyday as anticipated.  March 8 is a Monday so it is Jay's day with me after school.

Jay had wanted to learn to knit so last week I started her out on this.  she did the first inch or so of the bottom and lost interest.  She had me finish it.  she wanted ears on it so I put ears.  It was suppose to be for her stuffies but she insisted on wearing it herself.  I think she looks real cute in it.