Merry Christmas part 2

Well went to our daughter's place where I cooked the turkey and daughter did the rest. This year we did not have any gifts for the grand kids. And that probably was ok cause they got enough from mom and her boyfriend to keep them busy for the whole year.
The boys both came home with us and will be here at least a week.
Now for the very part 2 of my story.
Last year just before Christmas we went to FL. to rest relax check out a community that we are hoping to move into and go see Mr. Gab's mom. Well, we got to see her and it was a very good thing we did for less than 1 month later she passed away.
Then in Sept we went up for a family dinner to say good bye to mom and the next morning we went out to the old farm where Mr. Gab grew up. I figured I would cry but surprisingly I did not. The place looked so different than the last several times we had been up there that there just wasn't anything that looked like the farm. Then that afternoon we went to an all family reunion where Mr Gab and one of his brother's made amends as well as I did. The thing is the night before at the family dinner Mr. Gab's sister - in- law who has disliked me from day 1 hugged me and treated me with respect. She also gave us 2 pictures of his parents. the first one when they were first married the second from later in life when I was part of the family.
And then about 2 weeks ago all of a sudden one of his older brothers (the one who shares the same birthday as he does only he is 4 years older than Mr Gab.) He got in touch in Mr.Gab. Shocked his so much. And in between all of this his cousin whom we used to spend so much time with when we were first married also got in touch with us. We went out to dinner with then for 3 whole hours.
And tonight Mr Gab's brother the one who share's his birthday called him. They talked for a good long time. He learned that his brother had had a heart attack and had to have stents put in. I know he would get mad for me saying this but there were tears in his eyes.
We need to figure out how to go visit his brother real soon.
so to sum up right now 2017 has been good and bad. We lost my mother in law whom I loved dearly.
We made up with several family members and got back in touch with a couple that we hadn't talked with for a long time. I'm hoping this mean 2018 means we will be spending time with these people that we "found" again. God Bless you all.

Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas

Happy Hanukkah


Happy Holidays


No matter how you celebrate or how you say it MERRY CHRISTMAS FROM GAB AND MR. GAB

Been Awhile

Been Awhile since I posted. I have been well down and yet very busy. I'm still dealing with youngest son and his kids. But I tell ya what. THOSE KIDS WON'T BE COMING HERE AGAIN! Oh and this time I'm sticking to it. Ok so 2 weeks ago those kids were here and he wasn't really watching them. He took his second  oldest son and was playing video games with him. The other 2 were playing on their own in one of the back bedrooms. All of a sudden they came out to the living room and Kaitelynn was holding her finger in her mouth and saying it tingled. I asked why and she said she put it in the socket in the wall and got a shock. I went down to the bed room and everything was blacked out meaning she had popped a circuit. I was so mad I yelled at her "what the hell I don't go to your house to break your stuff what the hell gives you the rights to come here and break mine?" OH I WAS MAD Not just because she had stuck her finger in the socket.....because 1) her dad wasn't watching her 2) she could have gotten seriously hurt or worse died! UGH
So ok I told my son they weren't coming back again.
Then 2 weeks go by and our daughter tells us her boys have Friday off from school. Grandpa said it has been so warm we should do a bon-fire before winter really sets in. SO we went and picked up her two boys on Thursday so they could spend Thursday night and do bon-fire with gpa. But of course youngest son gets pissed cause we used the excuse that his kids cant stay cause we are remodeling and don't have room for them to stay yet we have room for his sisters boys. (whom btw can care for themselves one is 15 the other is 10). Anyways so here we go Thursday we have 2 they go home on Friday afternoon and the other 3 come on Friday night and stay till Saturday afternoon then the first 2 come back Saturday afternoon and stay till Sunday. WHEW Busy weekend. Ok, so we knew Kaitelynn was playing in the bathroom. I even said something to her dad. Not only did she spend more than 1/2 hr in there for a shower (she's 7) then she kept running back into the bathroom every 5 mins and staying in there for 20 mins or more. (yup playing) I go into the bathroom Sunday night and notice my shampoo is full to the top. WHAT? Yeah water was added. DAMNIT. I just can't have those kids here any more. Then I found out that every time they each got water they got a new glass so in the bedrooms they were sleeping in were plies of glasses. I had plastic throw away one but did they use those OH NO NO NO. They used my good glasses out of the cupboard!!!!! Rant over
In the mean time we are working on repairing this house (with what little money we can squeeze out of our SS checks each month) So that we can either sell it or get a reverse mortgage so we can buy a house in FL.
I need to be in FL. My health is demands it. I've now had a second Dr tell us this. AND THIS TIME Mr. Gab Heard it with his own ears that the Doctor told me that I need to be in a warmer state. So we are fixing all that our oldest son ruined. We still need to do Floors and the Bathroom. Unless we find enough money to also make the other changes I want but that's for another blog.

So not happy

I understand when people fight and they need to separate from each other, but when there are kids involved why are they pitting those kids against the other parent? One parent has the kids while the other parent only gets the kids ever other weekend and only for 24 hrs and with our supervision. It's like now we have no life. Plus they grill those kids and grill those kids till they have no idea how confused these kids are. And any little criticism you give those kids brings them to tears. One child is so out of control that no matter how many times you say settle down they are still bouncing off the walls. Almost like you gave them nothing but sugar to eat. Speaking of eating that's another thing that makes me mad if they don't like it and some times even if they do they take one or two bites then toss it in the garbage. What a waste of money.....MY MONEY. And we are living on a limited income now. And does their father do anything about it? Nope not one damn thing. And when the kids do misbehave instead of him doing anything about it he threaten them with grandpa will spank you. NO GRANDPA WILL NOT! We tell him to stop using us as a threat but he refuses. And he just cant do a thing for himself. We just can't move forwards with this crap going on. I have so many health issues going on and this stress just is NOT helping me.

Sorry I've been missing

I've been away from blogging for awhile. We have discovered that the pain that I have is NOT always my teeth or sinus or migraines. No I have Atypical facial pain or TN. And this pain is not any thing that you can just take over the counter meds for and get rid of. NO this pain is the worst pain you could possibly have. Yes I even think it's right up there with childbirth and yes I've had 3 so I know. This TN is called the suicide pain. and I can see why. I have actually had this for years. But have put it off for many other things such as my teeth or my sinus or yes my migraines. But in the last 2 years it has gotten so bad that I was speaking to one of my friends who has TN and she is the one who told me I may have it. (symptoms were like hers) So I went to a Dr and yes I was diagnosed with Atypical facial pain. Pain that is so horrific that it robs you of your sleep. It robs you of many simple things such as smiling. You can be sitting watching T.V. and all of a sudden you will find tears rolling down your face. You don't know why and everyone will ask you why are you crying. Many times I will say I'm not and they will say then why are there tears running down your face? I don't even realize it because that half of my face is numb from the pain. This pain is something I wish for NO ONE. And I hope some day soon they find a cure.

Just plain mad but really wanna cry

So the other day I learned my older brother had passed away. Now before dad had died, if he would have passed then I would have cried my eyes out. But after dad died and both him and my older sister acted like asses took us to court cost us more than half our inheritance they turned into your not family. Now granted its not totally about the money but pisses me off that what should have been a really large amount (over 1,000.000.00) that turned into $804.00 after court and lawyer cost. and shit that should have been sold separately to make more was sold into one group for one amount for the group. So if there were 6 things in that group and it sold for $200.00 that was it not $200.00 each item like it should have been. And some of the stuff sold was worth way over $200.00. So we got screwed royally. The thing I think that totally pissed me off is dad's will said NO LAWYERS. yet that's what they did anyways.
So once everything was over and done with dad dead and buried and we all "got our inheritance" that was it everyone stopped speaking to one another. My older brother who I used to be so damn close to no longer would speak to me. My older sister who claimed she wanted to get to know me Shut me out. And my youngest sister who took all the rest of the money (all the cd's that she was suppose to share) also shut me out.
So when I learned my brother died and had already been buried (he told his son not to me till it was all over) I was so angry. And I just couldn't cry. I wanna cry but I can't. I just can't.
I love him.
And he is still my brother even though he shut me out and they did not include me in the obit. Which also made me angry.
But one day I will cry and I know once I start it will take a long time to stop.
Because there is more to cry about than just him passing away.
We never made up
I never got to tell him again that I love him and always have
I miss him
He will always be my brother no matter what.

Happy Mother's day early

Happy Mother's day early.

My mom is gone. This is my mom She was only 64 when she passed. I miss her so much.
The bottom picture is my mother-in law Lillian. My mother-in-law just passed away this Jan. 2017. She was 89. I loved her like my own mom. When she was still living here in MN we went  to garage sales all the time. Many times we were out so late that I didn't have time to make supper so she took us all out to eat. and many times we would have "a drink" after all we weren't driving any more hubby was. She shared with me one of the recipes that she made all the time that my hubby loved so I asked if she would teach me how to make it. She did. Between these two woman I learned so much. One who gave me life and one who gave me my husband. And they both loved me.  I have no one to celebrate Mother's day with. So I say to you all if your mom is still here with you GO....GO SPEND TIME WITH HER.....YOU DO NOT KNOW WHEN IT WILL BE THE LAST MOTHER'S DAY.
Love you mom and mom I miss you both. 💗💗💗💗💗

I must be crazy because I won't pay the price

I want a dog. But I want to go to the Animal Humane Society and "adopt" a dog. BUT LORD they want so much for these dogs that you would think they are made of gold. I understand they want some money back for the food and so forth while they have had the dog in their care. But $300.+ and $400+ for a dog is getting down right stupid. Yes I know that they have put chips in some of these animals and also have spade or neutered them as well but still that seems to be too high of a price to "adopt" a fur-baby. So then I hear of another place you can look for available animals to "adopt" and they are cheaper than AHS. Yeah they want to "visit your home" before agreeing to let you adopt a pet. WHAT? My home is my privet place I don't need you to come here to
see if I pass as a pet owner" I've owned pets since I was 2 yrs old and I think I know how to take care of my pets. First off they aren't "pets" they are family - Kids if you prefer. Hubby thinks they come to "case your place to rob it later" while I don't think that is true in all of the cases it could be true in some. So I really won't be going through them even though it's much cheaper than AHS. So for now I will not be getting a dog. What kind you say? Well I'm bouncing back and forth between a Yorkie and a Shih tzu.  When I find the right one (out of those 2) I will know which one I will be getting.

I guess the Beavers were right again

So our winter here in MN has been pretty darn mild. Now there will be several that will say are ya nuts? Did you forget the minus below temps we had? Well yeah because when you all had the minus degree weather here I was in Fl enjoying 87 degree weather. I was out on the beaches enjoying the sun, laughing (yes laughing) at all those back here in MN freezing their asses off. But low and behold when we came back to MN the week before Christmas the weather wasn't that cold any more and then we only had a few days that were back down below zero. So yes the beavers were right once again.
I know many farmers check the Farmer Almanac's and pretty much live by it. But my dad said the Beaver's are a good way to see what our weather will truly be like because they are here living it. So I always go check out the beavers, to see just where they have built their huts. Close to the shore mild winter. Out in the middle bad winter. and so far they have been right. My money will be on the Beavers. I have yet to see them wrong.

Happy New Year Welcome 2017 and hang on to your seats

Merry Christmas .....Happy New Year
Welcome to 2017
and everyone here in the US of A hang on to your seats because I'm not sure how this is all gonna work out for us but I see a very bumpy ride coming.
Scared? HELL YES!
Donald Trump won the election. I am glad only that it's not Hillary. He claims he will make America great again. Well baby if he can do that with out starting WW3 Then he will at least keep one of his promises. I am all for getting America great again. But some of the things that has to happen is prices have to come down, wages need to stay were they are and insurance needs to be for every one not just the ones who can buy it.
So lets all hang on to our seats and pray and hope like Hell that this is not the beginning of the end.