Just another day

Nothing much to blog about, just teaching those who can't sing. Grading papers, working my butt off. We are rehearsing for a play at school and it has been taking alot of my time..I will try and blog more later.

OK OK I know, I haven't blogged in awhile, well this dumb old computer took a dump and it has taken a bit to get it back and running.

It is nice to be back in Vegas, with some pitfalls

See that little white dot down there? That is me, yep me new again to Vegas. I went from sig-alerts and the PCH to Airliners in the sky and the 95, 215, and the 15. If you get directions while on the Strip and the person tells you to go down the strip, then west on DI, it simply means you will be turning left off Las Vegas Blvd onto Desert Inn Rd. If you are told we will be going through the spaghetti bowl, don't expect fast food Italian. When you hear, "What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas. Don't believe it. NBC, CBS, ABC and Fox news takes care of that. There are about 1 billion fast food places here and about the same amount of Starbucks (Yummy) You can spend anywhere between $4.95 to $495.00 for a prime rib dinner. You can also go to Lake Mead, visit Hoover Dam and have lunch at the Dam Cafe. Then go to the Dam souvenir shop and spend some more damn money.

The best thing about Vegas is that most of my Grandchildren live here and that puts me within a moments drive from them.

American Idol starts next week, sure am looking forward to that, so is my class. We won't be doing anything with it until it get to the top 12. Don't want to teach them to be to critical.

Well another day closer to Christmas

Yes, it is getting close to Christmas again. This year there is magic in my home. You see I have children in this house. Nothing like watching those eyes light up when they see what Santa has given them. Or having young ladies (Grand Daughters) to help with the Christmas baking. Or young men (Grand Sons) that eat that baking almost before it is out of the oven. Right now in Vegas it is cold, about 48 degrees and very windy about 35 mph and the house is warm, the Christmas videos have begun, tonight is Santa Clause and the Three Bears. This is where my Grand daughter Nacomi got her name. Tomorrow the Ranklin and Bass series. Every thing is good and and we are so blessed to have one another.

Above is a cut out. It has 24 pieces that can be used for the Christmas count down. On the 24th is when the baby Jesus is placed. This is what I am using for the kids this year. Santa is cool and the videos and the Tree and everything else Christmas, but they must remember that Christmas is spelled CHRISTmas.

I will get off my soap box now. Only 50 more days until the new American Idol starts. My class rooms are so excited to be using this as a teaching aid. I explained how I did it in CA and they are really looking forward to getting their 2 cent worth in.

I only have 3 more things to get and my Christmas shopping with be done. YEAH! Black Friday was a big PITA. So many people and so little room.

PS3

I am not sure how we did it, but we did. We walked into Wal-Mart today and an employee was walking back to electronics with a Playstation 3, I looked at him as we were walking by and said "I want that" and he said "Well then it is you's". $650.00 later we were walking out of Wal-Mart with a PS3 and armed security on Black Firday. I have the happiest kid in the world. What is with that? I never have that kind of luck. From what I understood, it had been returned to the store by someone that couldn't afford it (not that I could). Now I am a hero! It is not often that you get to be a hero.

I hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving. Ours was quite and nice and yummy. We will be having leftovers for dinner tonight. One of the few times I really don't mind leftovers. We put out a few of the Christmas decorations after we got home, so tonight it will be yummy dinner and pie and a couple of Christmas movies. That is if I can pry her away from the PS3. Before we got to Wal-Mart we went to the post office for stamps and to mail off the care package to my Grandson Nathan, we sent him socks, cookies, candy, a hand held game and many other things that will be useful to a corpsman in the Navy. Because he is over seas it could take up to 3 weeks for him to get it. May the Lord keep him safe!

Grandson Nathan

This is My Grandson's ship The USS Eisenhower, on the right is Nathan and his wife who is also in the Navy, Christen. Nathan is now in some undissclosed area!

Come home to us soon sweet boy.

Grandchildren

Grandparents


Grandmas are moms with lots of frosting. ~Author Unknown////

What a bargain grandchildren are! I give them my loose change,

and they give me a million dollars' worth of pleasure. ~Gene Perret////


Grandmothers are just "antique" little girls. ~Author Unknown ////


Perfect love sometimes does not come until the first grandchild.
~Welsh Proverb//////


A grandmother is a baby-sitter who watches the kids instead
of the television. ~Author Unknown //////


Never have children, only grandchildren. ~Gore Vidal ///////


Becoming a grandmother is wonderful. One moment you're just
a mother. The next you are all-wise and prehistoric. ~Pam Brown //////



Grandchildren don't stay young forever, which is good because
Pop-pops have only so many horsey rides in them. ~Gene Perret/////


When grandparents enter the door, discipline flies out the window.
~Ogden Nash ///////


Grandma always made you feel she had been waiting to see just
you all day and now the day was complete. ~ Marcy DeMaree///////


Grandmas never run out of hugs or cookies. ~Author unknown //////


Grandmas hold our tiny hands for just a little while, but our
hearts forever. ~Author Unknown////////


If I had known how wonderful it would be to have grandchildren,
I'd have had them first. ~Lois Wyse //////


My grandkids believe I'm the oldest thing in the world. And after
two or three hours with them, I believe it, too. ~Gene Perret/////


If becoming a grandmother was only a matter of choice, I should
advise every one of you straight away to become one. There is
no fun for old people like it! ~Hannah Whithall Smith ///////


It's such a grand thing to be a mother of a mother - that's why the
world calls her grandmother. ~Author Unknown ///////



Grandchildren are God's way of compensating us for growing
old. ~Mary H. Waldrip ///////

You do not really understand something unless you can explain
it to your grandmother. ~Proverb///////


An hour with your grandchildren can make you feel young again.
Anything longer than that, and you start to age quickly. ~Gene Perret//////


The best baby-sitters, of course, are the baby's grandparents. You
feel completely comfortable entrusting your baby to them for long
periods, which is why most grandparents flee to Florida. ~Dave Barry //////


I wish I had the energy that my grandchildren have - if only for
self-defense. ~Gene Perret ///////


Grandmother-grandchild relationships are simple. Grandmas
are short on criticism and long on love. ~Author Unknown /////


Nobody can do for little children what grandparents do.
Grandparents sort of sprinkle stardust over the lives of
little children. ~Alex Haley ///////


Grandmother - a wonderful mother with lots of
practice. ~Author Unknown////////


A grandparent is old on the outside but young on
the inside. ~Author Unknown ///////


One of the most powerful handclasps is that of a new
grandbaby around the finger of a grandfather. ~Joy Hargrove/////


It's amazing how grandparents seem so young once you
become one. ~Author Unknown///////



If your baby is "beautiful and perfect, never cries or fusses,
sleeps on schedule and burps on demand, an angel all the
time," you're the grandma. ~Teresa Bloomingdale ////////


Grandparents are similar to a piece of string - handy to have
around and easily wrapped around the fingers of their
grandchildren. ~Author Unknown ///////


What is it about grandparents that is so lovely? I'd like to say
that grandparents are God's gifts to children. And if they can
but see, hear and feel what these people have to give, they
can mature at a fast rate. ~Bill Cosby/////////


Grandchildren don't make a man feel old; it's the knowledge
that he's married to a grandmother. ~G. Norman Collie///////

A grandmother pretends she doesn't know who you are on Halloween///////

Grandchildren are our reward for not eating our own at birth~ Terry Richardson///////////

Angie

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This is another Grandson Chance. He is a pistol. His parents were called to the school because Chance had told his Teacher that his parents were trying to poison him..After much discussion with the principal it was discovered that Chance was talking about the green beans that he was made to eat the night before. Oh, the stories I could tell you about this one. I think he will be my topic tomorrow for Thursday Thirteen.

Seth

What a face, what a little love. This child walked at 9 months old. From that point on he ran and got into most everything. This is Seth Patrick

This morning














Friday evening after arrival

So very glad to be here. Away from the heat

A horrible Story

Well, here we are just watching it rain...HO-Hum..Let's start with the story of a young girl, she had so many dreams. The only one that came true is the one about children. Three boys, wow! What a blessing.
Drugs was the killer of the first marriage, he was so handsome and had everything going for him. Over the years drugs took there toll and he became so obsessed with them that they took over his very soul. When his drugs almost killed her first son it was time to leave. Only by this point she was again, with child, another son.
Her mother introduced one of her co-workers to this young single mother and before she knew what hit her, she was married again. Now with the third son on the way, she had no way out. You see in the seventies raising 3 sons as a single mother would have been impossible. The young woman chose to stay in a lovless relationship for the sake of her little brood. She loved them all so very much. Even though there was a father in the house he was so busy with pipe dreams and watching television that he forgot about the young woman and the three little boys that were growing up around him. This man became more and more bitter with the passing of each pipe dream. You see he expected someone to hand him his dream, he had no idea that he needed to work for it.


The young woman went to College and after a few certs., a Bacholers in Music an Associates in Fire Technology/communications and several more classes she found herself working for Barstow Fire Dept. and Barstow Police Dept. also part time for Barstow Sheriff's Dept.. It took a few jobs to raise young men. Her husband who was still sitting at home accused her of being unfaithful, her heart broke. Only one of many broken hearts this man inflicted on this woman. To list would be long and boring, to most reading this. Or maybe someday I will list them, it might be therapeutic.

In chapter. 2 you should know that the young woman is me several years ago. The years past and the children grew, they are at this point very productive young men. As the youngest turned 18 and left home, I also left. I started my own life as a single adult. Wow!! I didn't know that there really was life out there. I enjoyed every single moment of it. Don't get me wrong, I didn't turn into a wild child but I enjoyed life. I learned how to dance and became pretty good at it. Life had landed me in Lake Tahoe and before I knew it I was teaching dance on PBS television in Carson City, it was so much fun, but alas, all good things must come to an end.
All of a sudden I became a grandmother, WOW, what a joy and blessing. You would kill for your children, but you would die for your grandchildren.

Grandchildren, God's gift to us for not eating our own at birth,,,

My only hope for my grandchildren is that the all love themselves and are happy in what the choose for themselves.
I met a man that I thought I could be happy with, we moved in together. As time passed I began to see that he needed control of everyone in his life, myself included. By this time I was in so deep that leaving was almost impossible, until a beautiful spring day. I had notice my oldest grand daughter was crying. I went to her room to see what was wrong, before the words left my lips I knew what answer I would be hearing. This man even felt he needed to control all of her. There was only one thing that could be done and that was to report him. I did! Hard?,,,yes,,,need to be done? Oh yes. In June he will be meeting his fate in court, 14 counts of molestation on a child under the age of 14 and in NV. Nevada is death on that kind of business.
It took everything I had not to just kill him. Things needed to be done but in the right way.
I wish I could begin to tell you the total rage I felt. The hate, discuss, horror, anger. He is the lowest of all things. He will get his, by the hand of God, who says WOE to those who hurt a child.
I was baby-sitting at the time and had other children to protect from this fiend. Then the hard part came I had to tell my son, fortunately the pervert was already off to jail at that time.
Everybody has had time to heal and recover, but this is something that my grand daughter will carry the rest of her life, she needs to know that she is loved and that none of this was her fault.

Now all settled and raising an 12 year old Grand Daughter, I find myself teaching vocals in a So. Ca high school. I do really enjoy this much more than the Fire Dept. or the Police Dept. Teaching dance was fun and it did pay the bills, but not near as well as what I am doing now. I have to say that life is pretty good.

As for the pervert, I didn't have to go and testifiy at his court hearing. He did the right thing for once in his life and pleaded guilty..What a guy! NOT

There are days that one just feels like this. This is one of those days! The brakes went out in my car $157.50...Acting Classes $75.00. A trip to the market $119.79. Gas for a 55 chevy wagon $49.00. Gas for a 89 Nissan Sentra $29.00. Clothes for the kid $278.12. Lunch for the both of us $10.79. Cat food, litter, and a cat toy $32.52.

Heat, knats, flys, traffic, humidity=Bummer
The kids face=worth every bit of it.

Taking the lap top, kid, clothes, 55 wagon, boogie boards, more money and going to Newport for the weekend. Last weekend was tuff. We had a community play that the kid was in. She did so well, I was impressed. An Talent agent left his card to sign her. Maybe she will get rich and famous and support me. Just kidding, but he is a known talent agent and we will see what he has to say..She has an appointment with him next Tuesday.

Anyway, that picture is what some days feel like and this is that day.

Surf's Up
Got up, we will be going back to Loma Linda after Savannah wakes up and we have breakfast. What a lovely day it was here yesterday. Very enjoyable. Pretty good waves, yesterday. Well, we will be heading back to heat and humidity.

The 13 things about Baby (the cat)

1. Cleaning the cat box,,,what a treat!
2. Filling the bowl to she can eat.

3.She is a cute little thing so tiny and bitty
4.Calling out the door, here Kitty Kitty

5.Waking up with her on my chest
6.Tonight I will wear a claw proof vest

7.The way she bats and plays with her toys
8.She is spayed, so she really hates the boys

9.No food in the bowl, here she comes crying
10.A cute little thing with fir flying

11.Climbing up the couch, look how she sticks
12.Cleans herself with a tounge and some licks

13.She climbs in my lap and starts her purrs, Oh my goodness I am hers



thursday 13

This is my 2nd oldest Grandson Kenneth, talk about a surfer boy. Kenneth is 15. He is Madison's brother.

This is Madison, she is 9. She is 3 weeks younger than Nacomi. Those eyes are killer blue.

This is Savannah, she was swimming in her Uncle's pool, she is so beautiful.

This is Seth, he is my second youngest Grandson, he walked at 10 months old. He is such a doll, his older Brother Nathan will be stationed aboard the USS Enterprise in July. Very scarey thought with the world the way it is right now.

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