Olivia

Dana contacted Emilie about taking some photographs of Olivia, and mentioned that they were going to be at a dance competition in Somerset on Friday night. We agreed to meet at Ruby Tuesday's for dinner. So, a group of six of us, Emilie, Matt, Samantha, Me, Dana,and Olivia met there at 7PM.

I hadn't seen Dana since last November and I can't remember the last time I saw Olivia (probably at Angela's) Look how grown up Olivia is! I will have to find out how she did in the dance competition last night. It was good to see and talk to both of them.

PS.....

Caroline said to me that I didn't explain where the bullets came from. Last fall we bought Doug's chair from a friend whose father had died. The chair had almost never been used. After I found the bullets Doug called them and said "Guess what we found tucked in the chair?" (I would have guessed money) My friend's husband said, "a pistol?" Doug said , " no, just the ammunition." My friend's grandfather was a police officer in Louieville, Kentucky and the guns were passed down from him. Mystery solved!

Wacky Wednesday

Wacky Wednesday didn't happen until approximately 10:30pm last night. I had just gotten home from dinner and Kismet with Caroline and my Dad. I was sitting in Doug's special chair (helps him to get out of chair and stand upright.......

when I reached down along the arms, down under the cushion, you know, to search for money, paper towels, cheese curls, m&m's! ,when my hand touches something solid ....did I mention that I was watching last nights taped Criminal Minds?

I pulled out this old green box. It was heavy and I looked at it. Saw high velocity on it and realized what was in the box.

OH, YES! Do you know what I found a box of in my husbands favorite chair?

a full box of old 32 Smith and Wesson bullets. OMG! "Caro, come here please I want to show you something!" "What Mom?" "Just come and Look!"
Caro said, how do you know that they are bullets (Hey! I do watch Criminal Minds and take notes)
She ran upstairs and asked Doug if they were his (He has been a little depressed about retiring and his Muscular Dystrophy). He emphatically denied that they were his - he knew nothing about them!

In the morning called my brother-in-law who is in law enforcement and asked him what to do about the discovery. At his advice we took the box of bullets to the Middlesex Police Headquarters.

Samantha and Kamryn thought it was a great adventure. All I wanted to do was get the bullets out of the house. We had towait a few minutes for an officer to take our information.

The girls had a million questions. I told them that I had found something that was not a toy and that I needed to tell the police about it and give it to them. (Police took my information, asked where I had found the bullets and how we had gotten the chair, they took the bullets, I said thank you and I hope we don't find the gun, now! and we left)

So after I took this picture we were in great need of a stress reliever, so to end a law enforcement story we went to......

Our local Dunkin Donuts for a banana, two munchkins each, an egg and cheese on a croissont, a large tea with lemon and sugar, two Boston Cremes, and two milks, oh yes and a plain bagel.

A lesson learned, a deed done, a mission accomplished! It really was a Wacky Wednesday and a Thrilling Thursday. Only in America and only to me!

Two for Tuesday

Babysat two grandaughters, cleaned two more rooms,  ate JUST two double fudge cookies (kidding!), changed two diapers (both Kamryn's), talked to two daughters, put out two garbage cans, Thought about Angela two times (40 equals  80) , watched Scooby Doo two times, ate two meals- breakfast and dinner,helped two three year old girls hold one two week old baby (hello! I was helping ,so NO pictures :( )
Stay tuned for wild wednesday!

I'm Nesting

That must mean that Angela is getting ready to have Clara! I took apart my bedroom of 37 years, broke the headboard by accident moving it around, bought a steel bed frame, Cleaned out, threw away, saved for a garage sale and went from this

To this in only ten straight hours of cleaning.

That window is the same view that is in the before picture! I know!  WOW!

Pop-Pop Meets Kellen

Kellen is the third child in the fourth generation to meet and be held by his Great Grandfather, Richard W. Gordon!

Samantha Noel Tomaro got to meet Kellen for the first time also, AND she got to hold him!

As you can see, Kellen loved all of the attention and smiled!

Kamryn Alexis Rex is holding her new brother Kellen Adam Rex.

Aunt Caroline with her two nieces and new nephew.

Aunt Emilie took time off from pohotographing Kellen to holding him.

 Look at that sweet baby face!

You gotta know the story before you judge! We had a photographer come to our house to photograph Tim as a newborn. The guy put blue glasses on him. Years later Tim gave me a mother's day card with a baby with big blue glasses on, so at Tim's suggestion we continued the tradition - now to be passed down to all the male children in this lineage :)

It's April - Fools!

It was also pajama and pancake day at Preschool ! Today's snowflakes were the largest I've ever seen. At least I didn't have to shovel. Thank God It's Monday! April Fool!