On the second day of Becky Goodness...

My true love gave to me...



Two really tightly woven perms....



Ok, so this little song I'm doing in honor of Becky Birthday month (which, Mel informed me last night that it was Ethan birthday month too so I'll have to come up with something...I got "strong-armed" into this month long Beck History month thing...hee hee) will be over after today...Yes, Beck, I will still scrounge up old pix of you and remember u on this monthlong celebration...but my creative juices just "ain't" flowing.



In this picture above, Beck (right) and I are with Gma T. (aka Legs)...I am pretty sure I was too old to be holding a teddy bear in this picture but I am, nonetheless (remember Teddy B?) yeah. not one of my classier teenaged moments. ugh. Can I just say....I am so hot?



~I do have to say though that my pink sweater with layered tanks was ahead of the times. Mom got a good deal on a two for one perm for B and I here too. Beck was loving her Cabbage Patch kid, Zara Helma. nice.



~So there you have it...my Becky memory for Wednesday, February 4, 2009. only 23 more days till she turns THIRTY-ONE. (she's just old, look at all that loose skin....)



~up next....an Ethan memory, to keep the crowds happy.



~and because I have so much free time.



~really, I do.

Oldies but goodies...fo sho

The following pix are way cool...while digging thru my mom's closet one day...I found my Grandma T's old scrapbook...

This picture right here is why I like to scrapbook and label pix...who are these people with my grams...she is the older girl on the left...we'll call her "Legs"...so from now on, when I say Legs, this is who I'm referring to..

Legs and a dog...

Here is Legs with a friend that is shaped more like me. Fun-sized, short stature...emphasis on FUN!

Legs is the gal sitting on the carriage with the ethereal white dress...how down home can we be?

Grams, aka Legs..is the second on left...lovin' the flapper dress. Beck, these legs look a lot like yours. wow! I do believe that my great-gma is the chick second from right...

Legs was alllllllllwaaaaaaaaays a water gal...loved finding this because this is one of my most vivid memories of Grandma. The Grandma with the pool (or the Gma with the Wolfie) as opposed to my dad's mom, who was the Grandma with the Lake. what I'd give for some warmth and swimming right 'bout now.

Legs, going for a drive!

Legs, in one of her peppier outfits. hee hee. I joke.

The face in this pic? so my mom. and what is significant about this? Gma was an extraordinary pianist/organist. She passed the piano gift to mom, skipped Beck and I and we pick up with Mel! Mel, this is why you MUST stick with the piano. for the Great Gma you only knew on this earth for 18 months...now I must dig up pix of Legs in her later years at the ivories.

Young Legs with her momma. Joanne and Christine.

Legs is the little gal in the middle of the group...her mom, I think, is right behind her. I'm guessing that the other older gal is an aunt??? and that little bitty baby? cute bonnet. wish I knew who you were, oldie.

Legs is the little gal on the right...couldn't tell ya who that little dark kid is...but the lady is my Great Gma.

I love walking down memory lane. It would seem I live in the past. I am an old, old soul in a lot of ways...love the big band music, love the modesty that was so important back then, love the "innocence" that came with that time in America. Christine Lorimar, my Grams, was born in Pawtucket, Rhode Island (yes, that is ONE of the nifty 50)...and from there, I'm guessing she ended up in Michigan.

I wish so much that I'd sat and pulled memories from her head...took that for granted, assumed she'd be around a lot longer than she was. Thought that stodgy Scotch woman would outlive all of us. She died rather suddenly on Sunday, November 7, 1999. She was 87. dang, I miss having a grandma.

that is it for tonight...hope this finds you warm, healthy, full of joy...and not completely snowed in. Like me.

Thursday happenings

loves to touch his beard...scratchy!
so limber

Just a few of them, anyway.

I'm sitting here waiting for the snow to show up...they are predicting 4-8" for our area...I hope they are wrong. :( I just looked at my calendar and realized that it's February 1, 2008...one month down, 11 to go!

This month holds lots of fun times for us, as E. will turn 12 on Valentine's Day (sweet li'l cupid that he is)...and then my sister turns thirty on the 27th..man, I can't even fathom that she is going to be that OLD! old, ya hear me, Beck? really, 30 isn't as bad as we all make it sound...it's a whole heckuva lot more fun that FORTY!! (not that I'm 40 but I'm halfway there)...let me know if you have a birthday.

Also this month holds a leap year, and the Groundhog will hopefully NOT see his shadow this Saturday! (thanks for reminding how that works, Sherry)

These pix were taken at my parent's house tonight. Levi kept doing somersaults and this was the best that I could take...as my cam is slower than molasses in January. (Canon Digital Rebel would be swell). Molly got some G-ma and G-pa lovin' and we ate a lovely beef stroganoff dinner! Yum, thanks Momma and Daddio. We be lovin' your grub! and you as well.

I'll let ya know if the snow shows up, take some sledding pix for those of you in warm places...you know who you are and I'm coming to visit! Make up the sofa bed!

Update: it had started snowing at 11:30 or midnight and I just checked and there is some rain coming down, making a niiiiiiiiiiiice layer of ice! Things will get messy!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, MOM!!!

circa 1971 circa 1969 1991...packed up and moved to IN
2006...with 8 of their 10 grandkids...

Mom, even though we weren't physically with you on your birthday, hope you know you are in our thoughts and prayers! Hope that your dinner out with Dad was nice and peaceful! unlike this pic immediately above.
You are a wonderful grandma...and an awesome mom! I thank the Lord for you! here's to the next 61 years!! God Bless you!
We will have a nice little party for momma dear this Sat. night...taco salad and homemade salsa! Yah!! sorry I didn't get this posted sooner...it was a hectic day! I love you! My kids love you too!