Day 8 Ten Days of Gratefulness and more

 1. Grateful for my new heating pad. It snaps around the front so it covers your entire shoulder are and ties on the front to cover your low back. It feels wonderful...sigh!

2. Grateful the sun came up and the temps are climbing. I was able to do a few outdoor chores and cleaning our tiny garden area.

3. Grateful the hubby still gets lunch everyday and brought half a sandwich with chips home last night. I had a nice lunch. 

4. Grateful we are who we are. I read so many things about so called important celebs and dignitaries. Would not trade my life to be like them. I like my simplicity best of all.

5. Grateful I have some easy recipes to test. I follow a gal from NYC who is a professional recipe developer. She shares lots of good stuff.

6. Grateful to know most everyone I keep in contact with is happy and staying healthy.

7. Grateful my Vitamin C with Rose Hips arrived today. They are chewable and quick to take.

8. Grateful I keep learning at least one new thing each day. Did you know there was a full moon at the beginning of the month and will be another one at the end of this month? It happens every 19-20 years.

9. Grateful I can see Amanda this weekend. She is my acupuncturist. It has been too long.

10. Grateful we have flex dollars right now to help offset the expenses that insurance won't cover. They would like you to remain healthy (so they say) yet they refuse to cover so many natural remedies.

TBT - it's Jeremy. He was always such a happy baby. His two boys are too. Brody is very kind and has a good heart, Blake is a happy explosion! He is all over the place, having learned to master the art of walking and running into mischief. Thank you Martha for hosting. 

I have loved this characters since I was a kid. They are timeless and priceless too. Nothing beats the Peanuts Gang. Do you have plans for Halloween? Relatives in Ohio took their three kids trick or treating today.  They must  have a neighborhood party. Schools use to do the truck or treat. I think it is sad. We will get treats for the grands and greats but we have always had such a nice crowd of little ones. I am not sure anyone will be out and about this year.

TBT and Pink Saturday

 I simply forgot to click post yesterday. Do you have those days? The day went on forever. We played a new game called Unstable Unicorns. My hubby won the game having never played it before. Hmmmm... suspicious?! Perhaps the SIL Zach was feeding him inside info. HaHaHa

It is available wherever games are sold but amazon.com has quick delivery. We live close to a distribution center. Nick worked there at one time and they employee so many people. 

This is my nephew Brian's youngest child Alex.  The black and white photo are my dad's phamily  about 1916  .  I think the resemblance is striking. My dad had two brothers that passed away in Joseph 1906-1909 and (Frank) 1915-1918.  Frank passed away from the Influenza  outbreak. When people get sassy about this virus going on now it offends me. My grandparents lived through it. The highest mortality rate were children under the age of five.  Today the right combination of drugs are helping more survive. If a 97 year old could survive it with the drugs being prescribed before this was turned into a huge political fiasco to earn votes regardless of the loss of life, we are truly living in very dark and extremely sad times. I am sorry but these are my loved ones. Frank shared his July 3 birthday with our youngest daughter Hannah and it means a great deal to me personally so I do not need hateful comments about being angry or anything else.  I Have since removed such comments and it is why I continue to blog. The ability to delete hate is easy here. Social media, I do not even want to go there. I wanted to share this for TBT but this photo of  part of my dad's phamily bugged me. Today I was able to record all the 9 siblings birthdates and sort all this mystery out.  I apologize for those of you who are kind and caring and simply visit because we share interests and hopefully kind hearts as well.  On a very happy note, I believe this photo was taken about 1915 or 1916 as Frank was the baby. I Know my father is wearing the short pants with the belt on his shirt because he was very close to his older sister Mary (Mima). I was raised in the Catholic church and according to the First Communion rule back in my day and also my parents day, a child in the second grade was usually given the opportunity to make their First Communion. Auntie Mima was dressed in a beautiful first Communion dress. I had seen one other photo of Frank and also their brother Joseph who was the first born child and he lived 1906-1909. I am positive the baby on my grandpa's lap is Frank.  How they survived losing two young children will always baffle me. I can not even imagine that tremendous of a loss but so many lived through those difficult times and you might have them in your phamily tree too.  I know Martha at Seaside Simplicity is having a hard week so say some prayers . She did not post TBT but I did, although late. 

I am hoping to find my mother's phamily tree. She had a sister named Frances and I believe she may have passed away at birth or soon after. I do not have a year of birth for her. All I have to go on is she is buried in what is called the old cemetery so I am unsure if there are records.  This is hard work finding out info after your loved ones are gone. If you still have parents or elderly relatives sit down and get all the info you can. You will be glad you did.  

Pink skies from 2016 for Pink Saturday

 

Hannah had a tiny helper making graveyard pudding. The kids arrived safely and are enjoying their trip. Going to national parks where there are not huge crowds has been a real blessing for them.