my nan called me a couple of days before xmas. she is adorable. she always says, in a soft voice...hello, do you know who this is? i always smile and say....NAN!!!! and she giggles, as if she is surprised that i recognized her voice. she has always been there for us in her own way, not affectionately, she has a hard time saying "i love you" and not monetarily, although, on a couple of occasions, she did send me checks for $200, if i was having hard times, like when i left tom and was living in my car etc.
she has held back a lot because of us being jw's. she has always disliked the religion, altho she has respected us and complimented my mom on how well educated and behaved us kids were. since i have been df'd, she seems to be abit more open to me, or maybe it's the other way around and i am more open to her now. we always held back a little with her, as we did with ANYONE who wasn't a JW.
last year, i sent her a litte care package and card around xmas and she called to thank me. i could tell she was tickled.
this year, when she called, i had just put a card in the mail that day to her and gary. i was able to tell her about the past year, and my miscarriage and trying for babies this next year, and stef's pregnancy. she then called my mom a couple of days later and repeated everything to her. my mom emailed me saying that she "heard" about my miscarriage and trying to have babies. she said...i would love another grandbaby, especially from my firstborn who did so well raising my kids, and i know you will keep trying and succeed."
like my sister says...you never know what reaction your gonna get from my mom. sometimes she is open and loving, other times she is closed and venomous.
anyway, i am most sidetracked....
i went out and got my FUGGS last night. stella and roger got me a sweater from kohls, which i absolutely LOVED, but it was way to small, as usual my boobs busted out of it so i exchanged it for some dark brown UGG like boots from there. the boots were on sale from $60 down to $24.99. so, thank you stella and roger! ;)
we have dave and laurie and their adorable 3 boys in town and went to river of lights last night. it was flippin. friggin, bleepin' cold! it was insane to be out there. it was like 20 degrees and with the windchill, more like 5! seriously! but man, was it beautiful! i am sooooo glad we went! i would have been bummed to have missed it another year. my favorite parts were the raindrops looking lights in the trees, the hummingbirds seemingly flying around, and the kids castle. as you walked through the castle you felt like alice in wonderland. there were labyrinths, giant carrots, mushrooms, eggs, ants etc...there was a room you could walk in that had a swinging disco ball effect so you got dizzy standing there. there was a cavelike area with fiber optic lighing hanging through netting from the ceiling and a grove of trees filled with all different colors of lights. we stood in the middle and blinked really fast and spun around, what an awesome site. the kids loved it too!
anyway, i am being ousted from the computer. michael needs on to take a test and i'm gonna go watch madmen.
peace to all.
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