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asg ok my the family secrets are coming out now lol - did he find them?
maya you do NOT belong in a convent!!! -your grandaunt must have been very grand for people ti be interested in her laryngitis -google earth is a great way to revisit when you can't go
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My ex grandfather in law was a priest, his son went on a trip to England and brought some of those red light ads back, and posted it around the house for his dad to find.
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Did I ever tell you about the grandaunt whose laryngitis made the society column in the newspaper? When she got her voice back, they announced it in the society page too.

I say that because the uncle who took the pictures of the hookers spent the two weeks that they were there trying to convince me to convert and become a nun. He thought a convent where everyone is silent was the ticket for me. I loved Uncle, but if you knew my family, you'd know that giving up talking would be an impossibility for me.
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If it seems like i'm a little delayed in my post I am. I started the first one and had to finish after putting her to bed. Every time I go to post something Lol, it seems like I'm answering a comment or question that happened earlier sorry.
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Maya, that is funny about your uncle - he surely got an eyeful there!!! bet ur aunt was furious!!!
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Peggd, if they do put their glasses on, they have so much Pingo smudge on them that they still can't see. he he
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Sometimes I go to Google Earth just to take a look around at the places where I've lived. I can still find restaurants we went to as a family and the best pizza joint in Germany --- Da Benito's. Since our housing area got turned back over to Germany, it's gotten much less austere. The flowers are so beautiful, it's hard to believe that it's the same balcony where I used to lie out during the two weeks of direct sun that we had in Frankfurt. About two months before we were due to PCS back to the States, my mother's sister came to visit. She came just in time for the direct sun. The woman managed to ruin those two weeks for me. She found fault with everything, but then, this is the same woman who packed half and half along with a bag of oranges when she went to Winston-Salem with my mom. Her rationale was that she didn't know if they had those in Winston-Salem. Really bright, isn't she?

I took her husband out to the first place we lived in Germany on a day trip. He didn't get it when I told him that trains leave on the minute and that we had to hurry. We ended up waiting another hour for the next one to Gelnhausen. Uncle wanted to go get a cup of coffee, so we went to the only McDonald's in Frankfurt. The only problem was that it was in the red light district located just across the street from the bahnhof. Uncle was alternately fascinated and appalled by the hookers and the live show advertisements. He took pictures of it all. My mother's sister was furious.

I still haven't lived that one down.
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Jam my mother in law was the one who had diverticulitous. The more I read about this stuff the more I am convinced that's what probably caused her death. She had so many things gone on at one time it was hard to tell. I do know she had an infection, a diverticulous thingy that they said they couldnt repair. And a week earlier she became real sick, they diagnosed her with a heart attack, they she didn't feel any pain because of her diabetes. Couldn't explain the 102.6 fever she had the whole time in the hospital(one nurse claimed it was the air bed they had her on) a Dr. came in the night before her heart cath and told her she had a blood infection, then came back in 30 min later and told her he had made a mistake,she was NOT the patient with the blood infection. She had the cath came home,for aboout a week, continued to run a fever, got weaker and weaker till we could not longer help her to the commode, she refused the hospital, said she needed some therapy,agreed to go to nh for therapy,(she was a large lady,and we were completly exahsted from trying to get her back and forth on and off the commode day and night,well it was no longer possible). That was Sunday, by Tuesday morning they transported her to the hospital with sepstis shock. FIL blames the nh for not properly caring for her surgery wound, causing infection. I have always thought she had it in the first place. Opps sorry to rant about that. It's just recently been 2 year anniver. I sure wish i had this thread back then. Everything was so cloudy, and crazy. May she rest in peace.
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Maya, I hear you - I had many great experiences overseas and would love to go back but wonder if I will ever make it again.
Salzburg sounds wonderful - I have not been to Austria
I know you had that chest pain -how is it. In women chest pain is not a common symptom for heart disease - there too we are different to men
praying for you - and some medical care
that was such a cute picture!!!
Switzerland, Florida. Texas, islands off Portugal -sure any and all
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Switzerland, Isn't there lots of cold weather and snow there? I wanna go Texas cause everything is bigger in Texas including the drought:) Jk. If I could vacation believe it or not it would be right here in my home state. Camping Pomme just a few miles from home. We purchased a Travel trailer real cheap at at the begining of summer, needs a little work. All of us can fit in it. But we have to put that trip off until our caregiving is over. Hope the kids aren't grown by then. Or, Branson. we've not been in a few years. All the kids are big enough now that we wouldn't have to lug around all the baby equipment. Quick trip back home when we are done. Or maybe FLordia. I've only been outta state like one time, my parents were not travelers. We did't go camping either. Dad said we already woke up in the country every morning, and if I wanted to go fishing when I woke up we had a pond. Ahh I love my Daddy:)
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In our dreams we are going. That's what I call a "mental vacation". I thought the same thing about my mom the other day. I thought I was going before she was. She used to say that about her mom. Guess that's where I learned it ha ha
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I'm about to put a new picture on, so keep an eye out. It's a tintype of my great, great grandparents and their kids. A cousin of mine --- she was the only one on my mother's side that I was close to --- was a dead ringer for the mother. She passed away about eight months before I lost Uncle Billy and Uncle Hamilton and nearly lost my mother.

2009 wasn't such a good year.
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I wish I could go. I wish I could have a week or two free from worries about my mother, my siblings, finances, my health. I wish I could, but it's not likely to happen. Since Friday, I've been wondering if she'll outlive me.
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Maya: let's go!!!!
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Great pic.... and your'e still cute.... hugs
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The picture? I said I was the cute one in the middle. I just enlarged it so you could all see how cute I was. It was kind of hard to see in the group photo.

LOL!
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Salzburg is nestled in the Bavarian Alps. Alt Salzburg is amazing. The architecture, the history, the quaint konditorei across from Mozart's birthplace are all reasons why I would go back. The church where Maria was married in "The Sound of Music" sits right in the square where Mozartplatz is. It's open to the public.

It doesn't really matter whether you go in the winter or in the summer, the weather's generally nice and the people are even nicer.

Want to be treated like you're a queen? Go into that konditorei and order a Coke. You sit at marble-topped tables on velvet chairs. Your drink is brought to you in a crystal glass on a silver platter. Or order a kaffe and some pastry. You get waited on like you're the most important person in the world. Then, take a carriage ride though Alt Salzburg. Go up to the fortress above the river --- Hohensalzburg. Go to the festivals that they have all summer long.

I didn't want to leave, to be honest.
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ah Maya, you have been lurking huh.... who is the new pic of????
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Wow, I have never thought of going to Salzburg. What could you tell me/us about it that might entice us to wanting to go??? (I think I will locate my passport ... sounds like we all might be going around the world together!!!)
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If I could, I'd go back to Salzburg. I spent time there as a teenager and absolutely fell in love with it. I'd go back in heartbeat if I could afford it.
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they not only don't connect the dots, they can't see the dots because the good lord knows they won't wear their glasses!!!
Thanks for the laugh!!!
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Wow, yall been busy today:) I can't even begin to reply.

Here I go again! This seemed funny to me for some reason. So on Mondays, I make a run to town for aunty to pick up things that she has been writing on a list all week(mostey stockpiles of things she already has, shes paranoid bout running out of even though we live less than a mile from the store). On Fridays and Saturday she goes on and on about me goping on monday to get her things. On Sundays she writes a check for the monday trip, and goes on and on all day about how i will be going on monday to get these things. This eveing after supper she one again shows me the check she has made out, then shows me where she has put it. Then tells me again and wants to make sure I see where she has put it because "YOU NEVER KNOW, I MIGHT DIE IN MY SLEEP TONIGHT!And I want you to know where I put it just in case." She says. So I guess if she dies in her sleep tonight, I will just get up in the morning, retrieve the check and continue on to our morning trip to the store to buy her some more Depends and Mirilax cause good lord she can't do without those even if she's dead! I just looked at her and smiled and said ok I will know exactley where it is. It's just crazy how they don't seem to connect the dots anymore.
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Nope, no fussing here on this thread. Jam, our mama hen would get her feathers ruffled and we DO NOT UPSET MAMA HEN.... Some of us here know what it is like to be on a thread than anything goes, being verbally attacked, and running people off... this thread was started so we would all have a SAFE place to go.....and almost 3,500 posts later, we are still kind, supportive, loving, silly, and all the other things that make up a safe place to lay our problems...... thanks Jam, you are a good girl, don't care what Target says about ya.......
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I want to go to Switzerland.....
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Oh as the old saying goes: if the shoe fits, wear it. So I wore it!!!! Too bad it isn't a glass slipper and Prince Charming is on his way over!!! LOL
NO apology necessary: I knew you meant you ... but then it fit me as well.
It's all good ... in this family we don't fight ... we have real siblings to do that with!
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I want to go to seeme's spa.........................
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Seeme, I meant to say 'shake their tail ENDS', and yes a contest..... and if nothing else we will have some fun....what sex are they going to be??? I know they haven't even been conceived yet, but what do you want, girl/girl, boy/ boy, girl/boy??? That will help us so two boys don't get named something prissy.... and you know my brain just exploded... ok, I won't say another word.... love ya....
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since we are going ethnic we called #1 isis and #2 aspas - norwegian sort of slang i think
yup we did need to know that jam
sdpeg -glad u r good

where WOULD I like to go - Hawaii I think - never been there -waves and surf
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SDPeg...........earlier when I said "there she goes again"......I was referring to myself.....not you or anyone else. I went back and read it over.....and realized that is what it sounded like. Nope, meant for me. Sorry!
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