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New Grandbaby!

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Introducing Josie, my first granddaughter. She is perfect. Josie was born on September 17th. Look how wide-eyed she is.

9-18-13

This is my youngest son holding his new baby. Josie weighed 7 lbs. 7 oz. My son Ryan weighed 10 lbs.

Dressed up and ready to go home 9-19-13

This is Josie all dressed up to go home. Hooray! Isn’t she beautiful!

After three sons and three grandsons, I finally get to shop for PINK. And that is just what I did today.

The Shine On Award

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The Crazy. Sweaty. Mommy nominated me for THE SHINE ON AWARD Please check out her amazing blog where she posts about all kinds of things but mostly about her exercise routine. I absolutely love reading her posts, even though just thinking about her routine wears me out.

THE SHINE ON AWARD
Here are the rules of the award:
1. Visit and thank the blogger who nominated you.
2. Acknowledge that blogger on your blog, and link back.
3. Share seven random, interesting things about yourself.
4. Nominate up to 15 bloggers for the Shine On Award, provide a link to their blogs in your post, and notify them on their blogs.

Seven random things about myself that you may or may not know:
1. My grandchildren are the greatest gift my children have ever given me.
2. I don’t like watching television, so I usually read while my husband watches TV.
3. I love to exercise and I work out 5-7 days a week. Mostly, I do Pilates on a reformer which I have at home, but I spend a lot of time in the pool at the gym as well.
4. I want a puppy.
5. I love strawberry shortcake and fried pickles.
6. I’m terrified of high places, and every time I go on a roller coaster, I am positive I will die of a heart attack on the way down the hill. By now, I’ve probably died at least 100 times.
7. I will NEVER jump (skydive) out of a perfectly good plane. Not ever!

My fifteen nominees for The Shine On Award (in no particular order) imgres4are:
1. Book Blather
2. Julie Valerie’s Book Blog
3. S.J. Thomas’ Book Blurbs
4. Bucket List Publications
5. Such a Novel Idea
6. Daily (w)rite
7. Book magnet’s Blog
8. True STORIES.
9. Lowcountry Book Lover
10. BOOKS FOR A DELICATE ETERNITY
11. The Novice Gardener
12. the skeptical reader
13. crafty Staci
14. Seeking Zeal
15. Cleopatra Loves Books

These are some of the blogs I enjoy following. Please check them out.
Thanks once again Crazy. Sweaty. Mommy for the nomination!

Back From a Short Break

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Grandsons with Grampa and GrammaI have been absent from my blog for a few weeks but for a good reason.  Two of my grandsons came to visit! While they were visiting, I didn’t even pick up a book, which is highly unusual for me. I take a book with me everywhere I go and read whenever I have a spare moment.

We had a fantastic time hiking at Natural Bridge State Park in Kentucky, where we took the ski lift to the top of the cliff, and riding roller coasters at Cincinnati’s Kings Island Amusement Park.  Now, I must tell you, I would never ride a ski lift or roller coaster any other time.  High places terrify me, but if it’s with my grandsons, I will try almost anything.  The amusement park took a photo of everyone on The Beast, and yes, there I am with a look of sheer terror on my face.   The time flew by, and they have returned to Boston, the house is neat and tidy, and I am missing them terribly. Now it is back to work.  I promise to blog more regularly, that is until my son and his wife have their first child in September. Then I will pack up and head out to Alexandria, VA to cuddle that new little one, and of course, to help out.

I am currently reading BELLA SUMMER TAKES A CHANCE by Michele Gorman and will have a review up shortly.