Best/ worse/ ? did you learn today? #80 visit with friends..

it looks like the same couple to me.....

I think it is the same coupld based on the lady-she looks to be the same aldy to me-look at the eyebrows and the mouth....

I agree with Sharan, the eyes, nose, and ears seldom change. The ears always have the same contours, and the eyes will always be spaced the same differences apart. Of course the ears and nose always grow lengthwise, but the bones of the nose wont change unless there's been an accident!

Hi everyone.

Betty, I hope you are resting, all snuggled up under comfy comforter.

You get better.

Waving hello to all,
A long time friend has passed away.
Will talk to you on Sunday.

Take care. Sending a hug to each of you.

Betty, feel better.

Jude so sorry! Sending you hugs and comfort.

Just popping in quickly while the young kids are having a nap. We're trying to limit our screen time (both computer and tv) this year so I'll just be popping in now and then but probably won't be able to keep up with everyone. I'm so ready for the weekend. Last weekend I babysat both days so I didn't really get much of a break. This weekend I'll be helping out with a yard sale for the youth group I help with. It's not exactly a break but it will be nice to get out.

This past week our community hosted the Native Early Childhood Education conference. The guest speaker was Barbara Coloroso and on Wednesday she gave a presentation that was open to the public. I've been a huge fan of hers since before I was even married. Her book "Kids Are Worth It: Giving Your Child the Gift of Inner Discipline" has really helped me be the mother that I am (plus, it helps that my own mom is amazing). It was so cool to see her in person. I took my book to have it signed and also bought her newest one. Hearing her speak reminded me of some of the things I had forgotten so I'll be reading her book again soon. One of the things that struck a chord with me is that she said that our culture often focuses on "me, mine and more" instead of "us, ours and enough". I think it's because I've been really trying to cut down on the things we "need" and be less materialistic.

Now that I'm talking about wanting to be less mateialistic, the other awesome thing that recently happened is I was finally able to buy a Bosch mixer. I have been wanting one since before I was married but the finances were never there. So, after waiting for 11 years, we ordered it. It's wonderful, I can not say enough about what an amazing machine it is. I also ordered a grain mill so I can grind my own wheat/grains. I'm very excited. Getting the bosch is also replacing 3 other appliances (our blender, mix master and bread machine) so it will be nice to pass those along and get them out of our house.

Have a great weekend!

Our Condolences Judy....will talk to you Sunday.

Gillian we have missed you, sounds like you are keeping busy. How great that you finally got the Bosch! W e will want to hear about all the wonderful things you will be making now.

Betty, sure hope you got to the Doctor and are now resting and getting better! Have been worried about you going in to work when I know you haven't been feeling well.....hope you will stay home until you are all better....they will survive a few days without you, they may not like it, but they will get by. Take care and let us know how your doing.

No more than 2 or 3 words..pneumonia/high fever, can barely take my head of pillow..sure I'll survive..
Judy sorry about your friend...
Night/night

Oh dear.. please rest Betty..don't forget lots of fluids.
Will be praying for you.

You are definitely in our hearts and prayers Betty, take care and get well soon!!

Judy, So sorry about your friend and Betty please take care. Blessings to all. HUGS BEV
This is a Fairy Rose

Hugs for Betty and Judy..(((((((((((((( )))))))))))))))

Oh-poor sweet Betty-I hope that you take care of yourself and that someone checks in on you.....I will be worried until you are on the road to recovery-I thought about you all day as you weren't feeling well and I got your Vday pressies....((((((((((HUGS))))))))))))

Betty, Sending love and prayers. Lots of rest and liquids.

betty, hugs and prayers

judy, sorry to hear about your friend hugs to you..

Crissy gosh it sounds like my mom how she was when she used to talk to me still. How annoying is that. I was never allowed to have an opinion that disagreed with her or she'd get mad. One time I was telling her something that I thought about a crime that happened here in LA and how horrible some of the LAPD cops treated people that I personally witnessed corruption there and she said (because my brother is a cop) that I was on thin ice and needed to be careful what I say to her on the subject. Not to say that your mom is nuts like mine is, but just the resistance to your ideas and opinions being heard part.

we had rain today and it was an answered prayer for those of us in an area of severe drought and future water rationing coming.

Morning, thanks for kind words...fever broke..not alone, Noah spent the night so if I needed anything someone would be there..so lol, every 10 minutes he'd come into my room wether I was sleeping or not so ask if there was something I needed, pop, icecream, meds...on the mend..

Awww-that is sweet and I am glad you are not alone-that worries me when you don't feel well.

oh glad to hear betty you have company rest well and take care..

You rest, Betty! That's the best thing you can do, after taking your meds! Like the others said, lots of fluids! Thinking about you, all day!

On the black and white one of the couple, my mom has written "Born 1882" I don't know who was born in 1882 but that would make my years wrong lol! The old sepia picture was taken in Chicago, IL and everyone is from Oklahoma. All I know if it's not the same couple I have a very old picture in my house of two people I have no idea who they are. I think they are the same people, especially the man. The woman's chin in the picture with their brood looks different than the other two pictures, but it's hard for me to tell because she has that turtle neck thing on.

So I'm going to try to do the math. Say the woman was born 1882. If she was 20 when she had the picture taken with the children, that would have been 1902. At 50 (the sepia picture) that would have been 1932, so at 70 would have been 1952, so the math works there.

So my great grandmother was 87 when she died, I was between 8 and 10 years old. For easy math let's say I was 10, which was in 1982. That means my great-grandmother, Bessie, was born in 1895, which would make the lady in the picture with the children 13 when she started having children, which is correct from what my grandfather used to say. He said that his grandmother, full blood Cherokee, started having kids at 13 years old, as did his mother because life spans were a lot shorter then.

So the math absolutely works, but how about the clothing styles?


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Hellnzn, my mom is a retired cop, of sorts. Close enough. First she got pregnant which pissed her off. She knew she was going to have a boy but didn't, which pissed her off. Then I was going to be just like her, which I'm not and that pissed her off to this day. I was going to get straight A's in school because she did, and I didn't which pissed her off. I was going to go in the military because I needed to be 'straightened out' which I didn't and that pissed her off. I was then going to work in law enforcement because she did, and I still don't which pissed her off. A lot of these things I think she has gotten over, but I know all of this because she has told me so, numerous times. There are things a child just shouldn't know.

Betty I am so glad to hear you are on the mend! I have been worried about you also, you really shouldn't wait so long to get to a dr but I'm the same way so fooey, I'm one to talk huh! I'm also glad you're not alone.

Judy I am so sorry about your friend. (((((((((((((((((((((((HUGS)))))))))))))))))))))))

Been lurking but dropping in to tell Betty to take care. Don't push yourself as rest is by far the best. Projects can and will wait.

Betty, So glad you are feeling a bit better......and good to know you have someone with you...Rest well, take some time off and get better.
((((((((((((((((HUGS)))))))))))))))))))

Trisha

Came downstairs to lock up/feed kittities back to lay down..called hospital and there is a 7hr wait to be seen..felt great this a.m. did not overdo only got up to make neocitron/hot chocolate and by afternoon felt just as bad if not worse..chucks I look like something the cats wouldn't even drag home...so will wait till during the night maybe 1 or 2 and if I'm feeling much the same it will be off to the hospital..

Not posting for sympathy (my own fault) but I know when someone goes MIA on these threads people would like updates as not to fret..

Just did mine not off to bed...

We know, Betty! We all want to know how you're doing! Can somebody take you to the ER? As sick as you are, you should be in a room there for a few days!
PLEASE TAKE CARE!

Betty-you need sleep-LOTS of it-please if you need to go to the hospital!! CAll one of your kids to take you if you read this

I agree......please get into the hospital.....if you do check in have someone let us know how you are doing.....things like this are one of the reasons we have children and grandchildren......take care, we are worried about you.

Yes we are worried about you! I wish I was closer, I'd pay you a little visit and I think we would take a little trip.

Betty you must have a bad something and you do need attention if it continues. I just got over being sick too, but not like that.

Crissy I agree and I'm feelin ya. I did not need to know that my mom knew when I was born and she looked into my cold empty eyes that I hated her, nor did I need to hear about how my dad is a sociopath and she had been looking for signs that I was and so was my sister and low and behold around 9 or 10 she knew that we were sociopaths too and would never change.

It is a wonder that we are sane. I struggle with depression some times but I am blessed and I can shake it off at some point. I would rather love and be loved by others and forget them.

Ditto Crissyr's statement. Please don't let yourself go to long before going to a doctor!!!! This is not to be played with.

Oh My! That's really bad. The way I look at it is it just made me a stronger person. My parents didn't teach me what to do, they taught me what not to do! Oh shoot, my dad just started going to the bars, when I was around 3. They didn't divorce until I was 25. When I was 8, 9, 10, and until I got too old, she used to send me into a bar to get him out, now what's up with that? I used to get depressed and throw temper tantrums, but as I get a little older and a little older I just say, "Why?" She'd argue with a brick wall so therefore it doesn't matter.

Well, Dave's getting ready to go see a band we want to check out, so I guess I better go get ready too. Ya'll have a great night and I'll be back sometime tomorrow.

True Crissy. So true. It made me stronger too. If things go bad or are long periods of high worry or stress it is easy to feel exhausted with being strong, and i just want people to let me lean on their strength, but I would not be near the compassionate person that i am if I did not have that history. Somehow I end up being the strong person no matter what, even if I martyr it for a spell.

Poor you. Weak mom's we have ha?

Wishing you a better day today Betty. You're not the kind to seek any attention... so we take this serious.
Please rest. There's only one you.. and we love you!

Morning, Greg and Mel came about 9:30 last night,..Mel thought I might have trouble being seen if I waited till during the night with only 1 doctor on call...so ended up putting my name and got my vitals done by 10pm..then you go and register at another desk ..probably about 14 in the waiting room..brought my cozy rag quilt with me to keep me warm..there were people sitting there since 5pm..I decided to take residence on 2 chairs, put my jacket as a pillow and very uncomfortably cuddled and slept till midnight, whenI awoke there the room was full, some standing, shucks shouldn't have taken 2 chairs..so I sat up, listened to all the gabbings of those waiting, still about 4 who had come in before me wating..around 1:00 am, a young girl came in who had been injured on a snowmobile..screaming in pain, then a young pregnant girl who was bleeding..ambulance came in 2 or 3 times after that..of course they do triage and it is important that they are given medical attention first..waited until 2:30 and still the man who had been there since 5 waited..he went to speak with a nurse who said the doctor on call was doing ultra sound himself and a few who had gone in the emerge room were still waiting to be seen and that most likely it wouldn't be till morning any of us would be seen...so took my blankie and home I came..at least with meds and a comfy bed it would be better...

Sailor just woke me up..it's snowing very heavily with winds blowing .. won't be nice day..

I'm not coughing as much, all flem so that's clearing, the neuralgic part of my cold is what's bothering me..I've meds for that and Melanie will pick up more meds for muccus this morning..I'm sure another day of staying in bed, comfy, soup/hot drinks will do the trick..

I'll call Diane this morning and tell her there is not way I can attend my afternoon class in Barrie..

So I thank you all for being there, will read up on your posts tomorrow and today I'll do as you all say, in bed, rest and take care of myself..

You are so special to me...

Back to bed...

Thanks for letting us know how you are Betty.
Hopeing you will get some relief with more resting today.

Hugs,
Carol

Betty-I am glad you seem to be feeling better-just remember nothing with citric acid like OJ-it causes phloem too

glad your doing better betty stay in bed will be thinking of you today
hope tomorrow is a better day hugs..

morning all hope you have a wonderful day off to inlaws.

judy turn your phone on lol let the texting begin lol

Good Morning.

Thank you all for your kind thoughts.

Dawn and Crissy, Shaking my head here. So glad that the two of you walked away with a Learning attitude.
I walked away with the what not to do atittude as well. Being brought up with many many different ways, I took all the things that worked with me and for me. One of those things was no bashing one around, verbally or physically.

Well anyway, Betty,
I am so glad to see you are feeling a bit better. You stay in bed and get lots of rest. I am glad you went to emergency, wish you would have stayed but can understand the aggrevation. I just hope that you will try again if this doesn't go away.
Sooner much better then later. OK,OK...lecture over.
Big hugs, wrap up and get better...lol any good movies to fall asleep to?

Oh Betty, Gave the Purple Santa..OHWAH, such praise...they loved him.
thankyou again for a fun, fun workshop.

Hi ya Liz, ok getting phone on charger.

Ok...Watching several birds at the feeder this AM...Woodpeckers, finch..sparrows.

How are you doing Bev?
Waving at you too Vicki...

Think I will try giving Ruby a ringle jingle this am...lol before the house gets wild.
Tried a ouple of time so maybe third times the charm eh?

Oh...Best, I won 10 bucks!! LOL, playing a dice game of all things!
Worst...Betty being so sick.
Learned, I really enjoy the long ride. Scarey as it is, I still love to view the earth...Silently covered in the snow blanket.
It is just so pretty to look at on the road, miles and miles of white beauty.