A Good Kid

April 14th, 2012

It looks like I’ll be seeing what I can find online by way of University of Alabama shirts to send to my nephew for his 17th birthday. He is so excited about attending the University of Alabama next year when he is all said and done with graduating high school in a short few months. In order to keep the excitement alive in him I thought that he would appreciate some Alabama apparel for him to sport as this year’s birthday gift.

It will be different around here when he leaves in the Fall, he is the last of boys in family that are still around. The remaining minor children in the family are all female, not that I have a problem with that mind you. It is just strange how things have shifted throughout the years from guys being the majority for so long and how it has gradually turned female.

He is a good kid, gave his mom, my kid sister, a hard time for a few years, but he has managed to pull it together, getting better grades and cut way back on his partying lifestyle that can really ruin a kid. So I’m so glad that he managed to turn it all around and will be heading out for college in less than 5 months.

Busy Day!

April 14th, 2012

I used to love Saturdays when the kids were little. It always meant something fun, like a trip to the beach or all those baseball games. When the weekend came, we always had someplace to go and something fun to do. I was a master at coming up with low cost or free events and adventures. Usually all I had to worry about was putting gas in the car and away we would go!

Some of my favorite memories are the days we all spent tubing down the Shenandoah River or body surfing at Chincoteague Beach. And, of course, there were many many days and nights spent at my mother’s home on the river, where the boys went fishing and swimming and boating during the day and dinners at the Dairy Queen in town.

Now my Saturdays are spent running errands and cleaning house, and if I’m not too tired, maybe a couple games of Spades on the internet before bed. But now I have my blog to add to the To-Do list, and I don’t mind making room for that at all! This blogging is pretty easy, once you get the hang of it.

Horse Back Riding Lessons and Apparel

April 9th, 2012

Now that my daughter has decided to go ahead with the horse back riding lessons that her grandmother is providing her with it looks like I will need to start looking around for some good quality, but affordable equestrian apparel for her to wear during and after her lessons. I don’t want to spend a lot of money on this right now just in case my daughter changes her mind again after just a couple of lessons or so. She has been known for changing her mind in mid stream and it has been a real struggle for her grandmother and I to organize these lessons, there is a lot on the line right now and I can only pray that there will be no kinks in these well thought out plan, but kids will be kids.

Jersey Shore

April 7th, 2012

We had to say good bye to the most recent Jersey Shore series the other week. It seems that it was a record season and the whole gang left their “beach party house” in good health, good moods and as best friends. I haven’t heard if they are going to continue the controversial TV hit series, I hope so. I’ve gotten to get to know them so well that I’d kind of like to keep in touch, so to speak.

Hot Tub Spa Covers Are Important

April 2nd, 2012

Hot tub spa covers are en extremely important aspect of having a hot tub, especially if yours is one of the popular outside spas that people are spending so much time in these days. I have always dreamed of having my own hot tub out back, water is such an important therapeutic option for me, I fear I would never want to do anything other than soak my aching body and all my troubles away and I’d become extremely anti social, preferring my hot tub over just about anyone!