Good To Be Back

We are back...seems like a month rather than two weeks...the garden needs water, the grass needs cutting....things grow whether you are there or not!

Joe put in a bunch of resumes, went on several interviews..so we are waiting...he has one appointment tommorrow morning in Oldsmar.  Just keeping our fingers crossed.

I've been busy trying to jump start my E-Bay Store, adding alot more things to it....if anyone is looking for nice, healthy plants or collectible dolls etc. please visit my store....this is the link to it..

http://stores.ebay.com/AllAboutYouCollectibles

Okay, enough self promotion.  I really missed writing in my journal, I found that I could access AOL at my sis-in-laws but with three little ones around..."Grandma Sandi" was really busy reconnecting to the under ten age group.  All three of the kids had a ball trying to help me line up, and photograph over forty (40) Trolls that I was putting up on ebay.  They helped brush Troll hair and came up with all kinds of interesting stories about the Trolls..the other adults in the house were amazed that the kids were so quiet and diligent in getting the Trolls organized.  It actually was fun!

Mark and his cousin Emma are the same age..four...it was like they were twins....Sarah is a very mature nine year old..sort of like going on thrity!  I sort of put her to work one of the days and taught her how to make stuffed grape leaves...as I was doing that I told her stories of when I was young, about my grandfather teaching me cooking.  She did very well, turns out though she likes the inside of the leaf but not the outside...I told her it's kind of a developed taste...maybe as she gets older.

Mark and I have a "movie thing" going on.  He's into super heros and I've never outgrown them.  It's very easy for him to bring the "inner child" out in me. So we sit and discuss the different movies we have both seen and we plot how to get to see the ones that we want next.  He showed me a little statue of the Empire State Building and I asked him if he knew about King Kong climbing it? Of course, he didn't....now I have to find the old King Kong movie the one with Fay Wray...I think Markie will love it.  For Halloween, we watched "The Creature From The Black Lagoon" it's so campy it's classic....and he loved it.

Little Emma is a real girlie-girl....loves to wear dresses, and already bats her eyes at age four! She's going to be a heart breaker when she grows up.  I had a special Barbie that was dressed like a princess with her hair done up and a delicate pearl necklace on...this became Emma's best friend.....I don't think Barbie will ever go out of style!

Anyway, have to keep this short for now...stuff to catch up on in the house....I'll write more towards the end of the week....

Just wanted to say a huge "THANK YOU" to everyone that left such wonderful comments...it helped to uplift our spirits knowing that other people do care....thanks again.......Sandi