It has been awhile-So what is happening?

Well needless to say, I have not blogged in quite awhile. There is no really good excuse for it. Just couldn't think of anything to blog about. So let's catch up with the changes in my life. I am not sure what I have told anyone lately but here it goes. NEW JOB:.

As of November 2011, I have started a new job.I had not been happy working for Mercy for a year or so but I was comfortable and I don't like change. I now work in Winterset (no more commuting to Des Moines). I work at Casey's General Store about three blocks from my apartment. It is amazing how the stress level has dropped considerably from my last job. Even though I miss being with children, I am enjoying working around adults again (yeah I know even adults can act like children). My boss at my new job is so much easier to work with. At least she isn't moody or bi-polar. You get complimented for the effort and the jobs you do. I am enjoying being able to leave work at work when I come home. Working in childcare or preschool you not only did your job at work, you spend many hours outside of the job to prepare the lessons, and activities. I work the overnight hours. So while most of my friends are sleeping I am working. I come home and sleep for a few hours then spend time with my daughter and son-in-law and occasionally some friends, then I take a nap and proceed to go to work. I am still adjusting to sleeping during the day CHURCH: I am no longer Primary President in our Branch. I was released at the end of November. I was having some medical issues that I needed to deal with and between the stress of my job at daycare and some personal problems I asked to be released. I miss doing it, but I also know that it was time

Children practicing for Primary Sacrament Program

Mackenzie's baptism day.

Achievement/Activity Girls learning about scrapbooking.

Flowers on Mother's Day

snowman figurine. PERSONAL LIFE: In March my daughter and her husband informed me that they are expecting a baby. So I will be a GRANDMA yes I am excited. When they told me the original due date was set at November 4th, but after her first OB/GYN appointment that was changed to October 18th (they did an ultrasound to be sure). Which is good as long as she doesn't have it a week earlier. Her and her MIL's birthdays are on October 10th. Melissa wants the baby to have its own birthday. I agree. I would like her to have a girl (but I am thrilled either way). The have picked the names already if it is a girl the name is ROSE LYNN (named after his grandma and me.) Lynn is my middle name, Melissa and Grandma Rose have a very special bond/relationship. If they have a boy they have chosen the name JASPER DAVID (David is his father's name, they just like the name Jasper) Since choosing the name Jasper they have found out that the name has been in his family for many generations. We will all find out what they are having on June 6th. Melissa and Dylan are excited and she wants it to be a girl and he just wants a healthy baby. Even though I think he really just wants Melissa to be happy and she is leaning towards the girl first. Dylan and Melissa are still living with me, so about a month ago we switched rooms, so they could have the larger room because they will need to have room for the crib and baby things. I usually just sleep in my room so having the smaller room doesn't bother me. We got a really nice crib that changes to a toddler bed from a friend of mine. She sold it to us for 30.00 dollars she mainly just wanted to be paid for the mattress. Melissa and I had priced cribs and mattresses the day before and for the style of crib we got it would have been close to 300.00 so we made quite a deal.

They have put it up and the wall it is along will be painted and basically be the babies nursery.

It is awesome to see the excitement they have. Pictures of Melissa and Dylan and some of the pregnancy pictures and baby stuff. I am not sure if it is because I know that I am going to be a grandma or what but Mother's Day and the month of May wasn't really that hard for me this year(May 4th 2002, my mother passed away and it has been hard for me during the month of may). Also even though Melissa hasn't actually had the baby yet I decided to celebrate her as a mother. After all I know the baby begins at the moment of conception. Things that I am still enjoying and participating in are of SCRAP BOOKING, READING BLOGS, READING BOOKS, enjoying the nice weather we are having it has still been springlike with and occasional summer like day.

Let's just finish out the rest of November for being grateful

Day 25: Grateful for pumpkin pies, I love them with whip creme. Mrs. Smith made mine this year. Also for having the day off, and not going out to do the Black Friday shopping, there are real crazy people out there.
Day 26: For Dylan's grandmother and her cooking dinner for us. We drove to Greenfield and had dinner with her and Dylan's mother and stepfather.
Day 27: I am grateful that I was released from my calling today. I have enjoyed being primary president for 21 months and it was time. I have grown to enjoy the scriptures and the many things I have learned from them.
Day 28: I am grateful today for the peacefulness I have felt in my life since I am not working at MCDC anymore.
Day 29: I am grateful for our beautiful Christmas tree. I love looking at it and remembering why we have Christmas.
Day 30: I am grateful for Christmas music. I love the peacefulness of it and for the memories it brings into my mind. I am also grateful that I did this so I can think about all the things I am grateful for. Some were simple but some were deeper and mean so much to me.

Being Thankful

Happy Thanksgiving, Today I am grateful for all I have,my health, a new job,a beautiful daughter and her handsome husband, playing checkers and laughing.We are watching Miracle on 34th Street on tv, one of our favorite Christmas movies. It is the one from 1947. Me at computer blogging, Melissa playing game on computer,Dylan (son-in-law)sleeping now. He works nights.

Enjoying having the front door open on the 25th of November in Iowa. We usually have cold and snow. Listening to the wind chimes. I am here with headphones on listening to Christmas music. I am off tomorrow so I will probably decorate for Christmas.

Day 23 and 24

Day 23: I am grateful for my laptop. If I didn't have it and the internet I would not be able to write about all the things I am grateful for. Of course I could write it down in my journal. But not sure I remember how to do that, I haven't done it for years. LOL
Day 24: I am grateful for the opportunity to cook on Thanksgiving. I am also grateful for food. Amazing how grateful we become for the basic living needs, when we don't have them.

Day 22

Today I am thankful for my calling at church. I am the primary president at church. I am thankful that in the last 21 months I have been able to teach the children in the branch that they are loved by a Father in Heaven. Since January we have been learning about the scriptures and how they are true and messages from him. Not only have they been blessed with this knowledge but I have learned that I too am blessed by him. I love each child I have been able to teach. I have gained a better knowledge of the scriptures. I will miss each child and I will also miss being the primary president.

Day 20 and 21

Day 20, Today I am grateful for the opportunity to hear general authorities of the church speak. Our stake presidency was changed today. So we had 2 men from the seventies speak to us today.

Day 21, Today I am grateful for the new job. I will be in the subs area, for this week. I will be trained in all areas so that I can work more areas when the store is opened for 24 hours. One thing I realized today is that the lady that trained me needs to figure out a system so she is not working on too many things at once. For instance finish setting up the sub area and then go to next area. But I will figure it out. Today was a little busy but slow enough that I didnt feel rushed or overwhelmed.

Day 19 (it is actually being done on the 19th day)

Day 19- I am thankful that even though I get frustrated with shopping, I continued to shop and found the shirts I wanted for only 4 dollars a shirt instead of having to pay 12 dollars a shirt from the men's department. I needed to find blouses with colors in white and black or red that werent to fancy. I found two in white and one in black. The white ones were 4 dollars each and the black one was 1 dollar. SCORE...
I deceided to look for Khaki pants but could only find some for 20 dollars in the women's department. I deceided to check men's department and found some for 12.96 that didnt look that much different than the 20.00 ones in the women's department. So I was able to get two pairs of pants and 3 blouses, and 4 pairs of christmas socks for 43. dollars. But don't get to excited, I still don't like shopping much. Usually during holidays I go in and know what I want to get so I don't have to spend hours looking. Working in a mall is not something I would have enjoyed.