Beautiful Weather

I think and hope that the nice warm weather has finally decided to make an appearance around here. Of course leave it to mother nature to make it cold enough to have to turn on furnace one day and the very next day have to turn on the AC because it's hot enough to cook an egg on the sidewalk. Although it may sound like I am complaining I am not. I have waited for this warm weather to arrive. Today it's warm but ok enough that I turned off the AC and opened the windows to get some nice fresh air in here.

My great granddaughter Randi has been here with me this week since Tuesday and she will be going home Friday night. I have enjoyed having her here visiting. She loves spending time here with me. We have played, shopped, painted our nails and toes (well I have done the painting), gone swimming, went to my mothers and she had to smell every single flower in the garden. She kept saying MMMMM after every one while sporting a big grin on her face. She does really well for me when she is here. She sleeps all night from about 10p till about 9a. She is getting to be such a big girl. Since she has figured out how to get up on the furniture on her own now, she thinks once you get up from a chair it's her turn to sit there. The above picture is her in the rocking chair on the porch at my mothers. I was sitting there and got up to get her some juice and when I came back there she was sitting with the biggest grin on her face :)

I will be watching my grandson Noah in a few days over night while his mother works. He is only a little over 2 months old, so when he stays with me we don't do much but smile and I talk to him and he babbles back to me. He is a good baby also. I can't wait till he will be able to play and we can do some fun things together. It will be fun when both Randi and Noah get to play together. Although Randi is not really a happy camper when I am holding Noah. She puts her arms out and wants me to give him to her. I tried to hold both of them but she does not like that either. She will just have to learn to share. I received this picture of Noah yesterday. Doesn't he have the cutest smile or is it just that I am a little biased? Yeah I admit it I am one of those grandma's who is proud of her grandkids :)

Things have been a little better around here. Oh there are still a lot of things going on, but at least I feel like I can function without waiting for the other shoe to drop. I am trying my hardest to be supportive and not let others problems take over my life. But it's hard when the problems pertain to your family (children). I never thought in a million years my life would be this way at my age. Oh well I just have to take it one day at a time.

I am looking forward to summer and getting outside and enjoying the weather. We have been able to have a couple nights where we cooked out on the grill and ate outside. The summer will go by quickly and I want to enjoy as much of it as I can. We will be having out annual family 4th of July picnic and although we have lost some family members since last year, it will be nice seeing everyone.

I have been scouring blogs, books, internet looking for craft ideas to make things for my home. I have some cool things saved and look forward to making them. I also am now teaching the 3yr olds at church and they are such a fun age, but it does get a little tricky trying to get the lesson across on their level. Right now I am looking for ideas for Father's Day for something they can make. I have a couple ideas but I need to make them myself first so I can see how easy and how long it will take to make. I need to get busy because I don't have much time left.

I hope everyone has a wonderful rest of the week and wherever you live you get to enjoy the weather and take time to just relax and have some fun.

The picture at the top of the page is one I found while looking at blogs. I sent it to my sister because she has 3 cats and they are always fighting over who gets to sit on the cat window seat. I told her this would take care of the problem. She laughed and said they probably would fight over who was on top. Either way I thought it was cute.