It’s been a while

Apologies to all because life has gotten pretty busy since I have settled here. The holidays were filled with family and visitors. So, my usual place was in the kitchen cooking up a storm. I have enjoyed putting together meals that would feed up to 20 people that have come. About two Sundays a month we have Randy’s children and Marlene and Stephen for dinner. That’s 10 adults and two children right there. Thanksgiving was 17, Christmas the same, basketball party 18 attended, New Year’s Eve 17 people. I have enjoyed meeting new people and having people over. Randy and I have attended 4 funerals and two wedding receptions. My daughter Mallory and her husband Wendell came to see me after the Christmas holiday for three days. That was really nice. (Also I do have to say that shopping for Christmas for nine children and six grandchildren then relatives was quite a challenge, but a good challenge. Because I had time to shop during the day which is a huge luxury for me.)

My parents visited for a week due to my uncle (Mom’s brother) passing away. They got to see my new home and we enjoyed having them here. My father upon coming into the home inspected my refrigerator and saw that my Thanksgiving turkey needed the meat taken off so he started in on my turkey carcass right away. Then made some soup with all the Thanksgiving leftovers. We also enjoyed seeing my Utah cousins.
We have had guests since Thanksgiving-The Kenyons (Gayle’s brother’s family), my parents, Kurtis (Randy’s son from Alaska), Mallory and Wendell. We would love to have more.
Then Randy’s daughter added to the family on December 1st with a granddaughter, born 8 minutes after arriving at the hospital. So, I took care of Josh and Maia while my parents were here. Talk about double duty.

I have also had problems with my house that I am selling. Thanks to those friends who were my eyes and ears to tell me what was going on. It is not fun trying to get repairs done on the house when you are 2000 miles away.The cost was enormous and I did have to fly out for a week mainly to have a planned visit with my daughter Leah and my grandchildren, but I had to extend the visit to supervise fixing the problems that occurred when the work got done on my house. Everything has settled and it is fixed up. Does anyone want to buy a home in a really nice town in a really good school system?

I have also found that writing takes a lot of time for me to do and I haven’t had the time or should I say inspiration to write. I will try to do better.

Christmas was good, but I really missed my girls. I bought cardinals to go on my Christmas tree. Decorating the tree was great to go through all the memories of all the ornaments that were put up. My sister Rachel gave me a cardinal ornament to hang on the tree. We had two trees in the home. One to represent each of our families. We also got together with my sister and brother to have a “Christmas breakfast dinner” at my brother’s–in law’s house. We enjoyed the lobster that Aaron brought along with all the good eats I am used to. It made it feel like home.

Randy had been wonderful to me -Helpful, we enjoy conversing about almost everything, He just knows when I need him. Sometimes I think he can read my mind. But he claims he can’t. It just shows how insightful he is. We are glad to have love and joy in our lives once again. We like going to the temple together. We have gone maybe 5 times so far. I have gone twice with a new friend from my ward. It is so nice to have the temple and church resources so close now.

One thing I haven’t been good at is trying to see all my Utah family members, also keeping in touch with all my Connecticut friends and family. Randy and I sent out 150 Christmas cards between us. I still didn’t send all that I wanted to send to people because I didn’t have addresses. Gratitude is the word that I can say for all my friends and family where ever they are.
Okay—-New Year’s resolution—- to update my blog more often. Please be forgiving if it’s short and to the point.

What I am looking forward to in 2010: Ashley’s daughter due February 2 and Mallory’s daughter due March 19. I love being a busy grandma.

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