Jan, I don't want to lose this weight!! I just got it!!!!! Even my 6 grade basketball coach called me 'Chicken Legs". I like this little bit of extra meat. My DH is always telling me that when I get old im going to be one of those little old ladies that a good wind can blow over. He said when I get that small no more trips to mountain tops!!!
How do you feel about getting older???
Pixie, I used to do same things as you do now, ballet for many years, also yoga, track, gymnastics, swimming, diving, skiing, skating, running, now at 79 all I do is gardening and am like...
kim, just about brush my teeth, lol
grampapa, I was 19 when my first child was born, I did not know beans, never even held or or saw an infant before, I was 31 when the last and 4th child was added to our family. They oldest is the smartest, the kindest, the most thoughtful of the bunch, she really is the joy of my life, it could be I feel thar way becuse she looks and thinks like her Dad, the other are just fine too but as I grew older I worried a lot more about them when they were babies because I learned a few things that could happen I did not know with the first one, so there you go!
Pixie: My DGD calls me 'chicken legs', too! And, to make matters worse, they ARE!!
Maria: had my first on my 19th birthday, my second two years later, and my third .... well, she was a glorious surprise 15 years after my first. A lot changed in those 15 years about EVERYTHING!! She kept me feeling young every day. And, she kept me on my toes for sure!!!
Now, it's my 'grands' that keep me young ... 'as if'!!!!!
I have just learned a lot you with you wonderful people!!! thanks for sharing your heart!!!!
some of my secrets:
I eat more ice cream than I should!
I kiss my turtles...
I love to scream with my nephews (we compete!!!)
I run inside my house and tell everyone I love them almost everyday! and I wish I weight the same as I did when I was 15!!! and at 15 I hated my body!!!! since it can't happen I am happy that at 45, overwheight I can still do the balet pose Celeste just described... and I have done Yoga and I can streach like a skinny person ... can't do the tree position!!!! too many twists!!!
and I am glad I have children around me... I can complain about the noise but I love the fact that because I didn't have children of my own, Philip, Alec and Victor are MY OWN... but I give them back!!!
My greatest joy is to know that I have changed - I am maturing and I like what I see,touch and feel! and also I know there is so much more room for improvement!!!
I am with you age is a state of mind... I am just starting a new career - no job yet! but I am not worried because I am going to San Francisco next Monday! ) and I am already back in school for a Masters in Nursing and if things goes ok I will do a Doctorate also... I feel alive in school! I love a classroom... I love to learn!
so here are some secrets!!!
Maria, I still skate, got a new pair of Ice Skates last year for Christmas even!!
Oh, Celeste! Skates!! I remember when I used to glide around on mine, when I was a teen! But since then I have become an indoor person during the winter. Waaayyy too cold for me.
I was put in a pair of skates at the age of 3....it's one of the only things that can get me outside in the winter. Well I also have to build a snowman for DGD's but thats about it.
Oh yeah ... I'll make snowmen, but only if they are no taller than the kiddos I am helping!! It's a great fun way to get the snow off the front walkway, too!!
The last two were boys, they are too busy with their own lifes, no time for anything else, am very glad to have two great daughters who care.
Here is the oldest one visiting the city of my birth, always the city of my dreams, lol. She and husband, whom I love dearly, enjoyed every moment being there, it was my present to them for her 60th birthday and 37th anniversaty. She is having a typical Viennese coffee 'mit schlag'
Ohhhhh ...... that's 'whipped cream', if I remember my German correctly. That's a lovely way to enjoy a cuppa!!!
Speaking of skating . . . it brings back a memory. When I was young I was a tomboy. I guess my two older sisters' actions turned me off, and I hung with my three younger brothers. Baseball, football, hockey, toy trucks, fort building, etc.
My godmother had 5 boys and was excited when she got me, a girl, for a godchild. Poor woman! I'm sure I broke her heart when one year she asked what I wanted for Christmas, and I said a hockey stick! Well, I got it and it was my pride and joy!
ooooh.. how could I forget my favorits sport, walking for four hours, stopping to smell the roses, look up at the stately trees and and watch our beautiful feathered friends while chasing a little white ball, did that most of my adult life.
Primrosesue...after 6 boys in a row my Mom was so excited to get me too.She had my hair all the way down to my aaa umm, butt and made me wear dresses. They bought me figure skates and i'd wear the neighbor boys hockey skates! Got stuck up a tree about 30ft once. My Mother couldn't get me out so she had to call 2 of my bro's to come get me out. Yup you guessed it....to my Mom's horror, I was up 30ft in a tree with a dress on. I broke her heart too but she let me wear jeans after that!!!
I'm with you, Maria. What's not to like about golf??? You described it beautifully!
Awesome image, Celeste!! ROFLOL
Cute story Celeste.
To be honest, with 6 older brothers I could tell you some funny/horror stories. I have seen it all.
Quick one comes to mind.
Dad USED TO wrestle with the 'boys' ....2 are under 6ft. the other 4 are 6ft or taller. Dad is 5'10" and maybe 160...they put his hiney through the wall. Thats why "used to" is capitalized....Mom put an end to that quick and Dad did a fine patch job!!
Holy Sheetrock!
Exactly!
One time the boys stole the Studebaker(sp?) out of the driveway and raced it on the interstate. They got caught @ 14,15,16 yrs old, police called Dad at 2 in the morning. He told them to keep them over night, he'd be there in the morning. They never did anything like that again.
I would do exactly the same thing. Good dad.
He was an excellent Dad...but thats a point of view from his "Princess", nic-name "Miss Muffet" and I still don't like spiders!
Victor, I would tell them to keep them there LOL
donniebrook, thanks , you know what I meant
4 mil!
Oh, Celeste! I never could get the hang of stopping on figure skates - I could only stop "hockey style"!
And speaking of wrestling - my husband was over his mom's last night and was wrestling with one of his brothers (they're both pushing 50) and he fell back, hit the coffee table, and got a nice gash on the back of his head - but, would he go have it looked at? Nooooo! I guess men don't do that, even though it looks like he could use a few stitches.
Oh my goodness, Sue!! Is he OK today? Bet he has a headache.
Now think about it . . . . could you imagine two fifty-year old women westling in the living room? No wonder he didn't want anyone to look at it lol.
2 of my daughters had what I refer to as a skag fight in the middle of the livingroom once. Both had skirts on, ages 14 &15 and are having a knock down-drag out while im on the phone in the middle of a job interview. Hair is flying, punches, kicks and alot of crying.Got the job, got off the phone and kicked some skirted butt. They took is outside and out of Mom's view after that.
Great skill to add to the resume!
If that person who was interviewing me could of seen what my eyes did......I never would of got the job. I was mortified that MY girls would act like that. Now I know all kinds of bad things can happen to good parents. Lots worse than the little sisterly fight they got in, but at the time I didn't see that.
True - even good kids occasionally do bad, stupid or dangerous things.
I agree with that. Good kids falter too. I remember beat up my little brother and years after, I remember teaching him to beat up his bullies. Got to say, I drew the line when he called me to ask about sacking a chick.. Told him, sis here can't help with that one.. He'd have to go to his friends there.. LOL.. I think that becoming a good kid is like trial and error. If you screw up and you're parents are there to tell you it's wrong, that's bad.. Not good.. You need to be told you're behaving badly and why to correct the behavoir.. After being told beating up my little brother was bad girl behavior, I stop that.. If I was never told, who knows.. **shrug** I think kids are inherantly blank and need to be taught good behaviour..
lcosden - you are well on your way to being a good parent with that approach! How are you feeling now?
Celeste - that phone interview and skag fight is so funny I'm disrupting Ken Burns' WWII epoch. My DH is trying to watch it and I'm over here snickering and making noise hitting computer keys. LOL I haven't heard the word, "skag", in an age......so funny!!! WWII soldiers are dying and I'm laughing........no class whatever!!
I'm recording it.
It's good.........I think. :(
too sad for me to watch it
The World at War series (British) is devestating . I don't know how any nation could go to war after viewing that series.
The series is 26 hour-long episodes and covers all aspects and all nations.
So if Hitler watched it....
Now that I've seen the Burns show without dividing my attention between it and DG, I have to say it is very well done. Of course, I am a fan of Burns' other series. In this series I like the way he has told the story of the impact on those at home by focusing on 4 representational families across the country.....interesting approach.
Michaela - I agree that the World at War was quite brutal and difficult to watch.
As a Canadian of my generation, I have been unusually well protected from the violence of war . . . I was stunned when I watch the documentaries and still cannot reconcile those images with further engagements in war.