Part 2

 Our granddaughter was brought to us just before we were gonna take off for Florida the first time. This friend of our granddaughter's mother came to us with our granddaughter and said can you take her please? Her mom is using drugs and there is no food in the house. She said the last thing our granddaughter ate was a 5 lb bag of sugar. she had only 1 shoe and no other clothes. Well of course we would take her in. So in the course of the next few weeks we found help in getting her clothes and making sure she had a bed and her own bedroom. This friend brought some of our granddaughter's things but no clothes. But they were things she wanted. well time went by and her mom stopped by one day with some strange guys that no one seems to know. and she went into her daughter's bed room laid down on the bed and went to sleep. WHAT? ARE YOU KIDDING? Well I am upset and our granddaughter goes mom took her pills and went to sleep. SO we had to get the guys to come in our house and get her out of the house. We said she couldnt come back as long as she was still using. We had our granddaughter all summer and her mom didnt call her once to check on her to see if she was ok. Soon it was time for school to start so I had to call our granddaughter's mom and see what she wanted to do. Well she didn't have a house to even bright her daughter home so could she start school there? So again we did what we could to get clothes for her so she could go to school. Now all this time our granddaughter seemed to be happier than we had seen her in a very long time and she wasn't taking any meds like her mom had her on. and she was making friends in school. Well things probably would have been great but our son her dad moved in something we didnt approve of but thought it might help her get to know her dad a little bit. But then he started drinking heavily and then smoking pot that things went to hell fast. Soon our granddaughter's mom was here and she took her back home. We couldnt keep her even though we were the best choice. But we had to get our son out and that turned out easier said than done. We had to fight with him for 6 months or better just trying to get him out. AND oh yes we called the police trying to get them to help us but because he wasnt hurting anyone they wouldnt help us one damn bit. SO the day our granddaughter left her was the last day we ever seen or heard from her. I just pray some day she realizes that we struggled with her dad as well  and it wasn't our fault. And we love her beyond words and would love for her to come visit us in Florida. 

this grandma (gma) and Grandpa (gpa) Part1

 When I became a grandma at a very young age of 40 something, at first I was angry, our daughter so young. And then she married the baby's dad and whew we figured maybe just maybe things would work out. But they didn't. They moved into their own apartment and next thing you know they were split up and we had the baby. OH and we had our first grandson.  Our daughter talked of him going into a foster home and I said NO. I would care for him as long as he needed us. Well little did we know that from age 1 to 23 we had that baby. Change anything? HELL NO. He was a joy for us. Smart too. at 3 he was talking like a little adult and understood most everything. We asked him one time what responsibility meant. and he told us and he was 100 % correct and we had never talked to him about what it meant. At first we tried leaving him with his mom while we went out to South Dakota or up to a family reunion. But our daughter would always call us crying because he was making himself sick crying because he wanted to go with us. No matter how hard we tried to explain he couldn't come with we usually ended up taking him with just so he would stop crying. One time we were in the living room chatting about an upcoming trip out to South Dakota the next weekend. When all of a sudden I asked where is he? Well he soon came down the hallway bump bumping his way into the living room with a suitcase behind him. We asked him where he was going and he said South Dakota with gpa and gma. We laughed said we weren't going he started to cry because we had said that once before then left with out him (only to come back to get him) and his mom said what do you have packed. Well she opened up the suitcase and that kid had every single thing he needed for a weekend away from home. Even socks and underwear. No toys or blankets just the clothes he would need to be away for 3 days. Well that suitcase stayed packed till the day we left and yes of course he went with. SO many many memories. All the Monopoly games I played all the card games. All the pumpkins I carved. all the sneaking in and pulling out the tooth and leaving money, so I can hear the excitement in the morning Gma the tooth fairy came! All the dying of eggs and then playing Easter Bunny. And the best 2 of all Halloween and Christmas. And teaching him about Thanksgiving and no July 4th isn't just gma's birthday we also celebrate our countries birthday. All one of the biggest thing this gma did for 4 of her grandchildren. she taught them to use the Toilet. And since they were all 4 boys it was not an easy task. But I'd do anything for all 8 of my grandchildren if I could. our daughter's 4 boys we see quite often. Our youngest son's 3 kids we see once in awhile. Our oldest son's daughter we don't ever see now. Haven't since she left us. But that's part 2 of this post.

Little man is no longer little. And Daughter's wedding.

this is Little man Logan. His birthday is tomorrow he will be 14. This picture is already a year old. It was taken at his mom's wedding. Yes that is me. I'm getting old. But all of my grandson's are now taller than me. 

This is T.J. he is Logan's oldest brother. He is the one we raise. Look at him WOW. 

This is Jeremy he is one just before Logan. Only one missing is Aaron he wouldn't come to his mom's wedding. 

Jeremy walked me down the aisle to my seat. Look how tall he is at 18.

And me and hubby.

Our daughter.

the new family. He gained 4 boys.

We live in Fl and I love it

 We have moved to Florida and I love it. Hubby is still trying to get used to the heat but he will once he doesn't have to do so much work on the outside of the house. I've lost a few of my blogger friends in the last couple years and that has made me realize that life is way to short to not live where you want to live and how you want to. Yes I miss my family and grandkids a lot. But you know what my health has never been better since we moved here.  So with that in mind I video chat with my grand children a LOT. Yes I love living in Fl.

Another Angel AND WHOO WHOOOO

God has gained another Angel. Another blogger from Blogger land has passed away. Yesterday morning in his sleep. BTExpress as he was known here. In Facebook Land he was known to the rest of us As Tony Chliek. Tony was the most wonderful guy to get to know and he always had a kind word for everyone. He had gone though so much in his life time. He lost his first wife Barbara to Cancer. He him self was shot while in Vietnam. You can read his story here: 
https://www.wattpad.com/story/5077383-just-another-grunt-in-vietnam?fbclid=IwAR1Qm-NdJ-iqm3sVlU2Oz6G-ZHwkjR4HpXe959n4jqfdsAtbYX0x0mqq7nE

But he always had a smile and a joke and he sure made you laugh at yourself. He will be miss by many he was loved by all.



Well after much pushing.. fighting .. and crying we have finally made it to Florida. We are living in Bonita Springs till about May 1st 2020. Then hopefully we will move into our own house.
We have seen several we have also put offers in on a couple and had them accepted but then they back out on the deal. We have another one we are working on and I pray this time we get the house because I get so stressed out from getting my hopes up so high. And of course hubby and I are fighting so much because of the stress over the houses as well. The one we are working on now I really kinda hate but can live with it. WAIT WAIT WAIT this sounds familiar....I hated our house in Bloomington MN but I learned to live with it. LOL geesh only difference with this one is it has 2 bathrooms where all my other (2 homes) have had just 1 including the campers. OH AND GET THIS House in Bloomington MN was on a corner lot....House in Miller SD was on a corner lot.....House we are hoping to buy now that we have fill out all paperwork put in offer that was accepted IS ON A CORNER LOT! do we see a pattern here? YEAH . 

Whole new life

Well we have sold our home of 40+ years and let me tell you trying to empty out that house of important items only was almost impossible. But we did it. and then we bought a new camper, our last camper is 20 years old and the fridge stopped working we had no hot water heater and well there were some holes in the roof plus several spots in the floor were weak. SO it was time. We looked and looked and looked. AND then we got the wrong one. BUT we will live with it. It's a 2020 Keystone Cougar. First thing we did was move the kitchen table (something we rarely use anyways) over by the door and moved both recliners over to where the table used to be.....WHY? Well lets put it this way recliner 1 was sitting right in front of the door so if you were sitting in that chair reclining at all you were blocking the door and could barely see the tv where it is. Recliner 2 had to be moved every time you closed the slide....Now I don't know about you but we just don't need to move a recliner every single time you close the slide. So it seemed to be a better fit to move them around. Where recliner 2 was is now where the litter box for Lucky is. The table is where recliner 1 was by the door and we don't use it for much any thing except storing stuff on it. There are several other things I wanna change but we will do that soon. Up next is our daughter's wedding. Which is Saturday Oct 19th 2019. Then for us it's off to FL for the winter. We are staying in Bonita Springs at Citrus Park. Till April 2020. While in FL we will be looking for a home. Hopefully we will find one. Till then Tune in.

Well that make 3

Well Hubby's brother passed away. This is the brother who was born the same day as he was just 4 years before him. Then another brother's wife lost her sister whom I know fairly well. Now one of my very best friends since we were little her dad is very close to passing. That will be 3. I hope thats all for now.