365 Update

5-25-09 Memorial Day in Shrewsbury. Grady marched in the parade with his Cub Den. Grant did not want to march this year so he hung out with all of us and watch. It was really fun this year because we walked up from our new house to the center of town.


5-26-09 A little fun before the bus came for school today.

5-27-09 My geraniams my mom gave me for my front steps..they are so pretty.

5-28-09 This is my main reading focus latley. This one issue gave me so many really neat ideas for my new kitchen...oh I can't wait to see it.

5-28-09 Grant as Alexander Graham Bell.

5-29-09 My mom got her other eye done today. She has cateracts...and now can see without glasses. What an amazing thing.

5-30-09 So, Helen told me about going to the Worcester Telegraph and Gazette for newspring paper for wrapping my china in when I start packing. So, today I went to pick it up and I met this realy neat guy named Bernie. He took me for a tour of the newspaper and it was really cool. Also, really sad to hear that they are loosing so many jobs and folks are just not reading the paper copies of the NP anymore. What a fun experience this was. This photo is of the newsprint realls as they sit under the press and get ready to be pulled up when the paper is printed.

5-31-09 Here is Grady checking out the stamin on a flower at the botanical garden. I was one of his cheperones today for his field trip.

6-1-09 Here is Grant walking to the center of town for his field trip to the Sumner House and Shrewsbury Historical Society. Daddy went on this trip.

6-2-09 Lemonade anyone. You can tell the weather is getting better. Lots of lemonade stands are popping up. This one was at my friend Maria's house.

Well, I am done for now. Got to get the rest of Junes photos off my camera and get moving. Have a good one.

365 Update!

Two of my favorite ladies gave me a kick in the butt to get moving on uploading my 365 photos...Thanks Nicole and Carolyn!! Here goes. I need to do more then one post or I may single handedly take down blogger.

5-7-09 Grant and one of his favorite snacks...Churros. We get them at the food court at BJs.

5-10-09 This is a photo of my grandmother, Claire, and her best bud Ace. She came to visit us on Mother's day...it was so nice to see her. The kids don't get that chance very much so it was even more of a treat for them to see her on Mother's Day.

5-11-09 I love this photos of the boys playing out front in the yard. I love they way Grant is out of focus and you have got to love Grady's lazy expression.

5-12-09 One of my favorite hostas in my yard....poo poo it will not be coming with me to the new house. I think this one is about 40+ years old. It came from my mom's garden and she tells me she got the first part of it when I was a baby. This one started out with me as a 1 foot wide plant and now it is about 5 feet wide.

5-16-09 A little treat after a good game of ball.

5-17-09 One of our many trips to Home Depot. We spend lots of time there now. Grady is walking out with his new shovel over his shoulder.

5-18-09 Gregg on one of his many grass trimming nights. He has to do this at two houses now. He will be so excited when he only has to do it in one place. HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO MY OLDEST AND DEAREST FRIEND...JILL!

5-19-09 Grant catching bugs coming home from practice.

5-20-09 Two new leggos to add to the collection. These are pretty cool looking race cars.

5-21-09 Gail on opening night of her show "Oliver". What is up with the make up I say!!

5-22-09 Gail with her best buddy Lena. This was taken by the two of them at Minute Man Park when we were on thier field trip. BTW...they are both standing. See how much taller Gail is from Lena


I will be back with more posts soon. Got to get the rest of my 150 photos off my other card on my other camera.

Have a good one!

No photos but and update...

....it is better then nothing at all.

So, the electrician shows up yesterday to start on the kitchen...you know recessed lights, under cabinet lights and so forth. Well, he tells us later in the afternoon since the NONE of the kitchen wiring is up to code now he has to rewire the entire kitchen back to the breaker box....YAY. Can you all say CAAAACHINGGGG$$$$$$

But, despite this setback we are super excited and can't wait to move in. The moving trucks come two weeks from Monday. We basically have not even started packing things yet. Oh well, it will all work out when the time comes.

We are very excited about the kitchen going in and that seems to be moving along, even with the rewiring. And Gregg went and got the camper from Becky and Mike last night so our baby is home with us in its spot next to the garage.

Well, off to take a shower and head to Grant's Alexander Graham Bell presentation. Have a good one!

I am working on it

I am working on it....yes a post about what has been going on in my life. As you can see from no posts....WE ARE NUTS! We closed on our new/old house at the end of April, decided to gut the kitchen (painting the cabinets was just not going to do it for us), all the floors have been refinished and we have a signed offer on our Keyes House Rd. House....YAY us! The moving trucks come on the 22nd and then we are Holman bound.

I am so excited about the kitchen, the same guy who did our current one is going to do this one. He is amazing and just so much fun to work with. They are all custom so we pick what we want and he just makes it happen.

Well, baseball and softball are not over yet so I have to run. Got practice and a game tonight. Hope all is well and thanks for stopping by. I will have pics soon...promise. Leave me a note so I know you have not given up on me.

365 for this week!

4-29-09 Time to pick up the check for our closing on Thursday


4/30/09 Closing today. We got to meet the family that has lived in our new/old house for the last 40 years. What a wonderful time we had with them. They showed us around, told us such great stories about the memories they have in the house. Irene even game me old photos of the house and things that they found in the walls when renovating over the years. Some old newspaper clippings, old gradution programs and even an old box of Jello...lol.

5/1/09 Happy 7th Birthday to my baby today!

5/2/09 The heat has been getting to my sweet Ace. Today he just decided to go in his crate and take a nap.

5/3/09 My new back door. Yes, I have a back door and I am so freekin excited!! The curtains have got to go but just love this door and the fact it leads to my MUD ROOM!!

5/3/09 "Go Long" is what Gregg said to the boys today. And that they did, running all they way to the end of thier new back yard.

5/4/09 Lots of work to be done before we move in, whenever that will be. Who knows? We have started by ripping up the carpeting and will be refinishing all the old hardwood floors...to start!

5/6/09 Pig Tea Party Day! Gail's friend Taylor won the pig tea party with the princle at the school auction and Gail was invited. They had a blast. Mrs. Smith had a hunt and trivia game using all the pigs in her house. The girls found over 200 of them, and that is just want is not packed away in boxes. The ate pizza and pig cupcakes for dessert. And Mrs. Smith let them each take a pig home with them.

All done for this week....enjoy!

365 Update!

4-15-09 Gail's first Softball practice. Got to love the sox on this outfit!

4/16/09 Treated myself to a mani and pedi today.

4/17/09 OOPS a missed day.

4/18/09 Local town elections are coming up on May 5th. Here is the center of town on Saturday morning. We know Tom Fiore...he is a buddy of Mike and Becky's

4/19/09 Grant's first baseball game and he pitched. He struck out three in a row in the last inning. He did a wonderful job.

4/20/09 Marathon Monday and also Daddy's b-day. The camera battery went nutso today so we only have a few photos from this year.

4/21/09 Jamie our nanny came to visit tonight. We have not seen her in 3 years. She is living back near us again so we are hoping to see more of her. The kids were so excited about her visit and she was so amazed at how big the kids have gotten. Look how tall Gail is compared to her...lol.

4/22/09 We went to Grannie's today to quilt the PIG quilt for Mrs. Smith the principle at Spring Street. I had a lot of fun working on this. It was the first time I used Grannie's long arm machine and it was so cool!

4/23/09 OOPS another missed day.

4/24/09 Gail and Grant each had play dates today. So Grady had a Mommy and Daddy day. We went out for lunch to the hot dog guy and then Chuck E Cheese to play. We had a really good time and Grady enjoyed his "private time" with Mommy and Daddy.

4/25/09 This is the scene from the end of Holman Street today. The Shrewsbury School House Quilt Guild was having thier quilt show down the road and they had this table and sale set up for folks to purchase quilts from.

4/26/09 We went to Lowe's today to scope out the veggie plants. We are going to plant a new garden this year and we want to get an idea of what we will plant. So far the list includes the following: Tomatoes, peppers, radishes, corn, cucumbers (toomtumers), watermelon and pumpkins.

4/27/09 The trees in the front yard are in bloom and they look spectacular. Had to get a photo of this seeing that they only last like this for a short time. I love spring!

4/28/09 Had to pick Gail up from school today. She is sick and puked in the hallway. So, I guess this one is for real. She was horrified considering there were some kids in the hallway when it happened. I said "Be happy you didn't puke on them!"

That's it for this week. Thanks for stopping by!

365 Update....a really long one!

3-25-09 Another night out for dinner while the house is being shown. Tonight it was Moe's Mexican for burritos and nachos. One of my favs. So yummy and everything is so fresh, they have no freezers in the entire place.


3-26-09 Grady was loving having the window open in the car today as we drove around during a showing. The weather was pretty decent today so having the window open was a refreshing change for this happy New Englander.

3-27-09 Grant had his writers celebration today. He wrote a story about when we got Ace, it as so sweet and so darn good I must say. This is a big deal for Grant seeing he has been struggling with reading and writing for some time. Also, you can't really see it in this pic but today was the day we spent the morning at the ER. Grady decided to throw a pencil at Grant and got it right in the eye, just missed his cornea...thanks goodness for that.

3-28-09 Gail and one of her favorite staples....Tabasco.

3-29-09 The boys playing Bingo at the Spring Street School Fun Fair.

3-31-09 Nice weather today and Baseball season is about to start. The boys have been out practicing in the yard...what an arm on that little man!

4-1-09 This is part of the old garden up at Prospect Park. We take Ace off leash there for his walks a few times a week. The old garden belonged to the house that used to sit on top of the hill. It is a really neat place to walk around it. I always think of what is must have been like way back.

4-2-09 Ace at his perch waiting for the bus.

4-3-09 My markers ready for the SBO weekend retreat crop in Maine.

4-4-09 Here are the ladies cropping at the retreat. Helen is on the left and Kristin and Shana in the back. We had a great time cropping and enjoying a relaxing weekend...if you want to call it that.

4-5-09 Gail in another performance, RATS. She did a wonderful job as usual. Looked a little too old for Gregg and I to handle...well maybe more for Gregg to handle then me.

4-6-09 Team Ganas! Grant won a bowling party at the SS auction a week or so back and these are all the kids and teachers posing for the team photo. What a fun time. Grant's teacher is the 2nd one in from the left.

4-7-09 The planting of St. Joseph. We have been told it is good luck to bury him upside down facing the road when you are selling your house. We are hoping this helps!

4-8-09 Grady at Karate doing his cone pick up game. This game teached balance and speed.

4-09-09 Dunkin donuts today. I made a stop after dropping Gail off at school....she was late again!

4-10-09 Gillian was off work today due to Good Friday. We went to our favorite Tea Shop for lunch.

4-11-09 I bought a bed today. Can you believe I have had a king size mattress for 6 years now and no bed....ha. I treated myself and had some help picking it out by my little buddy below.

4-12-09 Have to upload Easter later. I have nt taken them off my other camera.

4-13-09 Cub Scouts tonight. Grady got his Tiger Badge.

4-14-09 It was a nice day so the kids did thier homework outside on the deck today. Gail was very cumfy.

OK, that is it for now. All cought up. I have got to begin to print these out and get them in an album. Thanks for looking....have a great one!