Posts Tagged ‘Mother’
Friday, February 12th, 2010
What a year this has started out to be. January brought the death of my Mother. February just a month later my birthday and I was sick as a dog all week… And its just the second week of the month. We are on the East Coast luckily we are not up north.. we have no snow.. But we are in Florida and my yard looks like Lake West as we call it every spring. It has rained steady sense midnight last night. Of course as I mentioned I have been sick all week and its suppose to be very cold this weekend so my flee market store will be closed. I can’t take the chance of getting sicker. I made the grocery list and hubby went to grocery store. I did get the clothes out of dryer from Monday and put a new load of wash in washer and they made it to the dryer today and now are ready to come out. The one good thing about all this sickness I have lost 7 or 8 lbs… But the terrible thing is I got sick before we got to South Florida to have birthday celebration with grandson. I am so sorry GW… we love you very much. I did finish a book I started several weeks ago… I have been thinking about working on Mothers doll collection.. I need to find out what it or they are worth and what I want to do about it. I took one of her chairs to the flee market sense my booth is inside I can have it there.. and be more comfortable. I have decided to keep her thimble collection I did send one to a friend of Mothers who asked for one. It had her name on it.. It came that way.. I know as I bought for her. I am missing working as I had Friday all worked out in my head.. Now I have to wait for next Friday and hope the weather is better…Thanks everyone for all the kindness you have shown us in the past month..
If you have not know or noticed I have closed my on line book store..You can still get Waiting for Agnes by Joe Bullard on line at www.readerwave.ecrater.com or on ebay same book store name readerwave
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Sunday, January 10th, 2010
Mother we are so sad that you have left us. We know it was your time and God needed you for something. You did not suffer your heart gave out and you went away and never came back. You are in our hearts and always will be.. Make sure you say hi to Daddy for us.We miss you both very much. Girls are going to go though the boxes and boxes of costume jewelry you have and I will take some to the other girls..
Our family history in pictures you made is going to be put on disk. and we are going to add to it to up date it… Thanks for the list of names of who people are.. I now have the task of writing on the pictures that are not written on in other boxes many boxes… we looked at some of the wonderful things you have saved over the years and are so happy that you did.
I love you Mom and I am so glad that you knew I did. And we said it just the day before. You have left me with many memories so great and some not so great. You made sure I knew all the people who were important in my life. I had many wonderful adventures thanks to you and Dad. May God bless you. I will meet you both at the Pearly Gates some day.
Tags: adventures, Dad, Mother, Pearly Gates
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Wednesday, November 4th, 2009
There is so much going on in my life that my brain won’t shut off… I have slept l hour this evening.. Its now 5 am… I have layed in my bed almost all night.. The rest of the time I was playing games on the computer… I got so tired I thought I would go to sleep.. I just went back to bed and layed with my eyes closed and thought about everything the rest of the night.
We are working on getting medicaid for my Mother so we can place her in a very nice assisted living.. We want to be able to travel or take off if we want.. There is a very nice Christian one here and someone was nice enough to tell us about it.We went to check it out.. It looks like a very large farm house from the out side… huge front porch goes across the whole front… The rooms are semi private.. Large.. She can have her big tv mounted on the wall she can have her (computer)that is nice as she loves to get mail…The only problem I have is I know she does not want to go.. But I want to to take off on a whim and go can’t do that with her here as I have to find someone or somewhere to take her can’t leave her alone for more than a day.. She can’t see well and can’t use microwave or stove…so she would be eating cold meals.. She can’t see what’s in the ref.. as the light shins in her eyes when she opens the door.. She knows where certain things are and that is where we put the things where she knows that they are… If she can’t be placed before the holidays I am getting her signed up for a weeks stay… so we can go south for the holidays.. She now uses oxygen 24-7 and the machine is noise. She has Asama and takes three breathing treatments a day.. Yesterday I showed her how to do it herself.. I did not watch or listen for her to take them past the first one.. I asked her at night if she took her third one and she told me of course.. As I said I did not listen for her.. and I am not going to check her garbage for the little vile. She is a grown person…
I have not worked on my online store in some time.. I have not had a sale in the past two weeks… I took my one book Waiting for Agnes of eBay a while back.. Last night i put it back on.. I want to see if this makes a difference… Will give it a week if it does not pick back up I will take it off and leave it off… Prices on eBay are getting to high…
I have been working on my Flee Market store getting it ready for when the fair is over.. It starts back up the weekend of Gene’s birthday. His kids are going to be here… I am going to ask them if they mind that I go till noon on the Saturday they are here.. They would never be ready to do anything to late morning anyways.. I can do a lot of business the first day back. And people will be expecting me.. I am thinking of getting two booths… so I can carry more books… But have not decided about that yet….I may just buy another table to take with me… that would make me 5 tables and a card table…
So as you can see I have a lot on my mind.. I have a trip to one of my daughters planned and another to plan and that is with out my husband… If my mother is here so he can stay with her…
I need to get my stores but and running again as I have a new car to pay for… This is another reason to get my flee market and online stores up and running more …
Looking for Agnes is a signed book by local author Joe Bullard, you can find it at www.ebay.com or www.readerwave.ecrater.com its at two different prices because of the price they charge to sell it for me… and must pay the author his  money of course…
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Tags: asma, assisted living, flee market, Joe Bullard, Mother, online store, Waiting For Agnes
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Thursday, October 1st, 2009
Books … I promise to enter books in my eCRATER store next week… I have been lax.. lately.. very relaxed… And its showing up in my blogs also.. I am sorry to who ever might read and not comment… You are being very kind….
Next week I have several books to enter…
Brenda Novak Trust Me used
Barbara Delinsky The Secret Between Us New
Kate Wilhelm Cold Case New
Luanne Rice Last Kiss (One reader,Me)
Linda Lael Miller Bridegroom(One Reader,Me)
Emilie Richards happiness key (One Reader,Me)
Nancy Haddock Last Vampire Standing New signed
I found out that I have been advertising my books wrong… Nothing new I always find something to change… I have been writting autographed on all the books where some are signed…..Like
Waiting for Agnes is signed…. Autographed is when its personally to someone.. I have many of those… some I have put away and some I sell… I like to see an author and get two books if I want to keep one so then I have one to sell also…
Oh this last paragraph just gave me a Christmas idea for one of my daughters… sense they don’t read me often I don’t have to worry about my idea getting out…. the last time I took a great idea from here it worked …. I have to do a lot more holiday thinking… Husbands birthday is coming up… Then there is Christmas for 4 children and spouses, and 7 grandchildren and Mother, then comes the extend family and friends members… I have one idea for one child and that is it… I was always done by now when I was working out.. Well some of that was because I worked retail for 18 yrs.. Then the sit down job came along… 7 plus yrs… Now I am not working just puttering around the house and with my books. Sometimes it get boring and others its great.. Sales are down but times are looking up… Something new happens every day… Like this tick in my cheek… Have had it for a week now… comes and goes… Husband says its a muscle that is pinched somewhere and I need to move my arms around and it might stop.. Sometimes it comes at the weirdest moments.. That is like when my leg starts moving when I am sitting down with it up in my recliner… just starts moving on its own… and its not because there is music playing….
This is how I use to write letter could never write books I get off the subject and just travel…. I started out talking about books, went to holidays and then to health… you poor readers I am leaving it…
Tags: authors, books, children, Christmas, family, Friends, Grandchildren, Husbands, Mother
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Sunday, September 6th, 2009
Do you know how hard it is to open email or your blog to find no one had wrote you…. It gets harder and harder every day. And I know some of its me.. I don’t like getting all those stories and jokes… I want someone to just say hello… I am just as guilty as the next person… I don’t send hardly and of the junk. But I don’t send many notes either.. I have naglected my blog something terrible lately… I have had nothing worth writing about.. People do not want to hear of your problems.. They want to hear happiness.. I had some happiness yesterday I had two customers for my book store… Thanks to them… And four lookers from three different countries… Thanks to them…
Thanks to my husband for feeling well enough to go out with me yesterday… He is having surgery this month or next.. I hope its this month, so we can get it over with… He is such a good man that he deserves to be in a better place with his health.
I would love to be able to travel even over night and not worry about my mother… She lives with us and is going blind… And she has a new pacemaker. I would love for her to be able to take care of herself and not worry about her.. but i can’t … So even if we could we don’t go anywhere… She still does her own laundry.. makes her bed.. takes care of her med’s.. I guess what I fear is her falling.. and no one here to get her up… She does not use the microwave anymore as its hard for her to see.. so she eats cold meals… if we are not here.. That is not good… So we try to be gone only at lunch time…. and make sure she has left overs or sandwich fixings. The holidays are coming and would love to go to visit children.. but that would be a few days sense some of them are in SF and we are in NF. She was telling me yesterday that she is feeling very good lately… That’s good… So I am stuck… I want to place her but what do I tell her… What do I do to make her feel that she is not being places because she is not love… We just want our freedom… Something she gave away most of her life…. I am not her … I do not want to feel I have to because she is my mother… I have done that for 8 yrs… I have given her a good home and then when we moved here she came with us into our home… But she was well enough we could go off and leave her… Now my husband is getting older and I want to chance to do things on the spur of the moment to get up and call over to where Mom is and say we are going today will call when we get home… Am I being such a terrible person… We might not go much of anywhere… My husband has sent 20 yrs in service and has been so many places..Well I would like to see those places I never have…. Now his health is declining.. and he does not want to go more than a day away… wants to sleep in his own bed… I think if we could get a mobile home and put a mattress in it like we have at home he would be somewhat happy… I would love to go from camp ground to camp ground across the United States… from here to Alaska… that way we could travel when we wanted and stop when we want… eat what we want … stay as long as we want in some places and not in others…I would love for our friends to go with us.. But its hard going with others as they might want to stop and start as many times as we do… Well anyways this is all a pipe dream… We will never get to do this. Because of Mother and Husband.. I will go to my daughters this coming year.. I will fly by myself and go for a week or two… Leave the two of them here to take care of themselves…I have to or I will go crazy…
This little blog has taken on a life of its own…. I will be at the flee market this weekend…. come see me mention getting free Harlequin after a purchase of $4.oo That’s 6 books….
Come visit my online store ,you can find books new and used, audio books, large print books, Cd’s, movies, shot glasses just take a look….www.readerwave.ecrater.com www.shotglassheaven.ecrater.com Then I have Waiting for Agnes a new autographed book at ecrter as well as www.ebay.com and www.amazon.com three places three different prices as each place charges different … ecrater is the least amount of money…
Have a great rest of the holdiay weekend..
Tags: books, eBay, eCrater, jokes, Mother, store
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Monday, July 20th, 2009
I was a new mother a month old baby.. Living with my parents, and grandparents. My husband had not even met his daughter yet as he was in the Navy out to sea at the time.. Our daughter would be 5 months old before he saw her…I remember the day and what happened but I don’t really remember things around it.. This daughter and her family were just here visiting last month for her birthday.. What a great time. I was so old back then and knew it all… My mother still tells me that I THINK I know it all… I do don’t you…………
My two oldest granddaughters are here visiting and I was telling them that there mother was not even a twinkle at that time…
Have a good day stay day……….
Tags: 40 years ago, Grandchildren, Mother
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Tuesday, March 10th, 2009
This banner belongs to my daughter who has been helping me with all my sites.. two stores, readerwave on eBay and eCRATER and this blog.
She also has a weather application that can go on your iPhone. I will try to find that and put on here or she will – Oh, it’s already here, on the right side of the page – Hurricane for the iPhone and iPod Touch… Thanks for stopping by this morning….
I will be working on my books this morning and napping in the afternoon as I am sure I will be up with Mother tonight.. she has a test tomorrow and she has to be cleaned out so to speak… uck………had it its not fun.
I am thinking of treating my self to a pedicure.. on my feet they are such a wreck from winter… And I have no excuse my neighbors across the street have LA Nails here in town… They do a good job Mom had her feet done a few weeks ago and loved it…
I have to go pick up this weeks supply of my author books today.. And I need to go to Publix and get my strawberry boxes… and to the post office to mail some books… Busy day so might as well get started…
with a nap LOL………………….i
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Monday, March 9th, 2009
Yesterdays I worked in a department store in Hollywood, Fl. One of the ladys I worked with was a beautuful woman with the prettyest blue eyes.. Every day she took her lunch hour in front of the tv section to watch her son on One Life To Live..
I have not seen her in years since she retired to move to LA to be near her son.. Think about her often… Just regular people… I remember one time he was visiting and came in and let us take pictures and sign autographs..
Today he was on Cold Case… older but still has beautiful eyes… what a hunk… Jeff Fahey played Darren Mallory on Cold Case tonight. I was lucky to see it as I had not planned to watch. And while checking out his Bio I see he is going to be staring On LOST.
Tomorrow Have to take Mom for a check up. So guess I need to hit the sack… Oh we ate homemade chicken soup tonight.. my husbands sister made it.. Wow was it ever good… Gene does not care for chicken and he ate a bowl full and told me to hire her as cook he was tired of cooking…. I am so glad he ate that bowl full he has not eaten a good meal in three days. just picking.. I will be glad when we both feel better…
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Tuesday, February 24th, 2009
Today I did not want to get up… Had to go to post office and then to hospital to be with Mother. I forgot to call my sister.. I did track down the flowers by having my daughter who sent them call the florist… We finally got them and they were beautiful. She also got flowers yesterday.
She had more tests today, therapy and walked a little bit so that was good. I guess I will work with her a little tomorrow… put her walker in the car and let her walk a little… Sent package to NZ or Gene did for me… worked out a deal with book author… good one we are both happy… sold the last set of pillows I had for sale I am so glad they were taking up space for something else.
Well my chair and TV are calling catch you all later…
Thanks for all the prayers.
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