I recommend that you Read this Book

Sarah's Key

The Book Club's

book for May

I won't give much away about the book

It is about the Holocaust

About a part, of this sad time, that many people have not heard

We always ask at Book Club

did you like it?

Very seldom do we all like the book

That is what is great about a book club

it often puts books in front of you that you would never pick on your own

Everyone liked this book

Mother's Day 2010

This was one of my

Mother's Day presents

Emma, Abby and John Brady

gave it to me

I absolutely love it...

It reminds me of so many things

The Grandmother and Granddaughter party at Sherry Grey's

The girls setting the table for me at Christmas

Me, Kim, Emma and Abby having dinner at American Girl

and for some reason

Me, Kim, Emma, Abby and John Brady

going to see

The Wizard of OZ

I hope they always think coming to MeMe's house is special

because having them sure is special

and then there is this thing....
I can't get over my fascination with
the royalty

Stop by sometime and read my book

Happy Birthday Sue

Happy Birthday

to my buddy

SUE MOON

I know you like a book.

When I was hunting a picture to put on here

***by the way-how did you manage to stay out of all the pictures

I have made all these years?!?****

I came across this pic

and

I knew that it would

make your day

So

Here is a picture of "our" boys

holding

"their" boys Happy Birthday Sue

I Love You

Road trip to Auburn

I have kept the roads hot during the

month of May

Two days before I left for Disney World

I went to Auburn with two of my Vapor sisters

Melissa, Daphne and I went to Auburn to

attend the spring concert of

The Auburn Singers

It was great and worth the trip

Of course, we had someone special in that group

Daniel Newton

That's him in the very middle of the front row

He is a great singer

Look for him on Broadway someday

and we will be there waiting on him at the exit door

at one of those wonderful ole Broadway Theatres
Our Hotel
Gorgeous
That's us unloading

Daphne got to see her son
Fuller
He's going to be a doctor
I can tell you already
You will want to use him
He will make you laugh and be very compassionate
at the same time

Fuller said that we would not have the
complete Auburn experience
if we didn't eat at
Niffer's

I had plans to stop by

Haley Penney's store

Simply Charming

As usual we did not have enough time

I was leaving for WDW

early the next morning

and still had not packed

But...I am going next time

SENIOR SUNDAY

This past Sunday was

Senior Sunday

at Central Church of Christ

We have 3 seniors graduating from

Fayette County High School

Each Daddy or Grandaddy presented

the senior with a bible

from the church

We had a great fellowship lunch after church

in honor of the seniors

QUOTING ELEANOR

Do what you feel in your heart

to be right-

for you'll be critized

anyway

You'll be damned if you do,

and damned if you don't

Eleanor Roosevelt

I Knew It Would Happen

Yep

It happened

I dropped my

iPhone

really hard

from far up

But

Hooray

for

the Otter Box

not a scratch!

Turn Around......and he's a big boy......

A few pictures of

Lawson's 3rd Birthday

at Walt Disney World

Lawson Long 1st Birthday

Walt Disney World

Lawson Long

3rd Birthday

Lawson

1st Birthday

Ohana Character Breakfast

Lawson

3rd Birthday

Ohana Character Breakfast

On The Road Again

John and I drove to Disney World this trip

Air flight expense is up

and

we do have "the Obama"

$65.00 gas total!

We left on a Wednesday and spent the night in Ocala, Florida

We went through several toll roads getting there

as we slowed down at one of the toll booths

we saw this great car

and

the surf board hanging out the window

just made it perfect

We picked up Courtney, Dave and Lawson

at the Orlando airport

Thursday morning

Lawson has flown more times than most people my age

but

he got really excited on this trip

He was amazed at the luggage turnstile

He kept asking all kinds of questions

Mickey Mouse
Here We Come

What's a Birthday Without Cousins

Courtney and Dave had a Walt Disney World Birthday

planned for Lawson

Brady, Kim, Emma, Abby and John Brady

had just returned from WDW

I mean really just returned

They had been home 5 days

Abby's 2nd Grade class performed at WDW the week before

So....

needless to say, they would not be at WDW for the birthday party

So....

Courtney and Dave planned a mini water park

Birthday Party so that Lawson could celebrate with his cousins

and his Aunt and Unclemuch fun was had by all

even though it kept trying to rain
Lawson loves to sing
and when we all sang "Happy Birthday"
he sang the loudest

The grand kids all playing in Lawson's

"secret" clubhouse

We discovered this sweet message

on Lawson's chalk board

after

Emma had left

When Courtney and I started taking down the balloons that afternoon

Lawson started piling them on Pops

Pops slept right through it!

The Great Massacre of 09

If you read my daughters blog, www.longsatlegglofts.blogspot.com, you may have

read the post back in October with pictures of a cute little Halloween/Thanksgiving scene or err

a picture of a scene anyway

Not sure how cute

I think Courtney had been waiting on the opportunity to do this since before they moved in

You know how these things are

My thing when we moved into our first house was to put up

hanging flower pots and get a hammock

I think that even though Courtney and Dave loved their loft

they were looking forward to things that having a yard offered

Courtney asked me to bring up some bales of hay so she could do a little decoration for Halloween

Now, in Berry, a small country town

we don't have those cutesy little decorating hay bales

We have the real thing

So....

when Court asked for six bales

it was hanging over the edges of the back of the truck

Off we went to the Farmer's Market to get some pumpkins

The FM is so much fun

They had every kind of pumpkin in every size that you could imagine

About $75.00 later

we came back to Courtney's with a truck full of pumpkins

I also had brought corn stalks with me

So....

we started decorating

Let it be said that I do not have a single decorating cutesy gene

and I fear that my daughter is the same way

We worked and worked

but even we realized that it was just so so

but with the time and money put into it

the decoration stayed

and

Lawson thought it was wonderful

As we were decorating the hay

Courtney mentioned that she hoped the hay didn't hurt

the grass

Dave had that grass looking great

The first weekend of December

John and I went to Birmingham to go to a

Christmas Tree Farm

Court, Dave and Lawson went with us

We got trees for everybody

After we unloaded Courtney and Dave's tree

and Lawson's Charlie Brown tree

Courtney asked if we could take the hay back to Berry

So....

Out go Courtney and I to dismantle the famous decoration

As we were picking up the hay

we actually had to pull it up

it had rooted into the ground

Uh Oh

The surrounding grass had already turned the yellow brown color

that kind of grass does in the winter

So

it didn't look bad

Whew!

Well, when we were up at Courtney and Dave's, the first of May, for

Lawson's birthday party

I noticed this in the front yard

Yes, all the grass was green except for the memory of Courtney's

very first

yard decoration

She says

never again

Dave calls it

The Great Massacre of 2009

I've got to have a TALK with Guard Lizard!

John worked in the yard most of the afternoon. I had

ran to the post office. When I pulled up at the house John calmly asked me to walk up on the back porch. I did and then asked why he wanted me on the porch. He said 'Don't you see it?" Well no, I didn't see it.....so he said to get the camera....it was a few steps away on the kitchen counter. As I walked back out the door....I SAW IT

and this is the picture I got

Yep... that is the hose pipe on the ground

Stretched out on the bottom step on the opposite side of the porch was a really big snake

trying to get under my house

Mr. Snake was not to proud of John trying to get him away from my house

After some practical discussion about this being a chicken snake and how
they eat mice and other snakes
the decision was made to spare his life
as long as he agreed to live that life very far from ME
So.....first John tried to shovel him up with the handy little
doggy poppy scooper
Mr. Snake was much too big for this and by that time
Bama and Bailey had discovered Mr. Snake and wanted
to play
Mr. Snake was not happy!
So...here is my hero trying to be
"Billy the Exterminator"
(do you watch that show.....it will crack you up)
Here he is
Mr. Snake
gone on to live in a woods hopefully
no where close to me!

Guard Lizard
hasn't shown his face this afternoon!

QUOTING ELEANOR

Eleanor Roosevelt lived her life in the center of what many would

regard the 20th Century's most consequential events,

the Great Depression, World War II, the establishment of the

United Nations and the adoption of the Universal Declaration of

Human Rights. She confronted both opportunity and adversity with a sense

of optimism and determination.

A Former Democratic presidential candidate, Adlai Stevenson,

once said of Eleanor Roosevelt

"She would rather light a candle than curse the darkness."

When will our consciences grow so tender

that we will act to prevent human misery

rather than avenge it?

Eleanor Roosevelt

Trying New things

John is trying to start up a business

He will be mounting deer horns

and

turkey tail feathers

naturally

This is the first one

he did as a gift to a friend

Tuesdays With MeMe

As you might remember from previous

"Tuesdays With MeMe" posts

John Brady always wants to go with his Mommy

when she leaves to take the girls to dance

It would really be easier if his

Karate classes were on Tuesday nights

but alas

that is the only night that they don't have

them for his age

Kim and I try to find something to make him want to stay

home or aka stay with MeMe

Kim had the perfect distraction this past week

A helium tank with balloons

JB3 and MeMe has a ball

I blew up, tied the balloons

and then tied it to a string for over an hour

JB3 had them all on the ceiling in his

Mom and Dad's bedroom

It looked like a party

As I blew up a balloon with the last of the helium

I told JB3 to get them all together

and we would make a balloon bouquet

I was pretty proud of myself

John Brady was happy

and I felt pretty tickled myself

As I tied that last balloon to a string

John Brady yelled

come look MeMe

as I looked up from tying my last balloon

I saw JB3 on the outside porch

pointing upward

I ran outside in time to see all 14 or so balloons sailing upward

in the air

Oh Well

He was thrilled

and happy

and

that's all that mattered!

The only balloon left

The only balloon left after I ran to get my camera

Domino trying to catch the balloons