One of those moments

To drive the school bus you have to pass a list of certifications. All of these are obtained at the beginning of your training but expire periodically, and none of them at the same time. I'm finding also that some organizations certify you longer than others. It's interesting but not too anoying.
Today I needed to retake my CPR recertification. I wasn't prepared for how it would throw me.
This instructor was very young and very entertaining. Sadly I just was not able to be entertained. I had questions I'd never had before, and comments that shouldn't be voiced. I did raise my hand once but he glanced away before he saw me. I just wanted to know had he ever done CPR on a real person. I know I have an uncanny ability to think during stressful situations. It's afterward at unexpected moments like these that my feelings surface. I can drive 90 mph down Broadway, make every light green to get a finger to the hospital that a child had cut off so it can be sewn back on in time. I can remember a blanket when someone I love falls and is waiting for parametics. I can remain calm when others need to go to the hospital and carry on needed conversations while we wait in the waiting room. Sadly I know that if my bus were in an accident that I could preform CPR and break a child's ribs to save his life. But here I am with tears and a broken heart over a silly class that I've taken before. Some days I just don't want to be big, or responsible, or in charge. I just want to be a little girl who can sit on granddad's lap and get a hug and a kiss, and maybe a bandaid. This may be gone in the morning but poor Mikie is so sick and I just want to let him sleep. Tommorrow I'll get my hug and kiss and I know he knows where the bandaids are. For now I think I just sneak off to bed and see how much room he left me. It's only 11:10pm a little late for me.

Easter

1997
Most children love stuffed animals, not Ben. His favorite animal toy was this rubber rat that my grandmother gave him. They spent many happy hours on the trampoline, in the back yard, playing in the dirt, riding in small dump trucks, and the best was chasing his sisters.

Here we are again. Seems like there have been a few items that have lasted through the throngs of children that have blessed our home in one way or another. My mom gave us this trampoline when she no longer had children living with her. That was in the 1980's. Lately it has seen less and less use and the place that made the mats not longer is. It is an odd size. I've decided that this is to be the last mat. The grand children look like they are enjoying it. Isn't that what having stuff is all about? Enjoy it, use it up, and then recycle what's left.

Just Buying T-Shirts

John and Mike at the end of a long Day and at our last Cache

Sporty Looking Razor

Anybody want some beads?

Last Saturday after building a J-pole antenna for the ham radio, John and I decided we have not been to Glamis on Easter, and since we did not have anything really pressing, we loaded up in the Achieve and went. Now mind you the Acheiva won't pull a trailer so we did not have any toys with us t0 ride on, this was just a trip for the Easter t-shirt. So that the trip was not a total waste of time we did look up a couple of geocaches on the way. Upon arriving at the dunes and finding them not as nearly as inhabited as we expected, usually on Easter and Thanksgiving there are over 100,000 people there, we strolled around the 8 vendors that were there. Found a very slim selection of shirts, and customers, but found some suitable selections made our purchase and continued on to Buttercup and Yuma. Our mouths were watering for come chili tots at sonic ( one of the food vendors had some chili fries but it was very windy and sandy, and can you believe it, there is not a Sonic in Yuma!

Traveling Seven Sisters

My Great Grandmother Emma Dorinda Knudsen
(30 Jul 1890-15 Nov 1968) lived in west Phoenix when I was just a small girl. I remember going to her house and that she was kind and had a fun yard to play in. There are just places sometimes that you have good feelings about. This was one of them. When I was 8 this grandmother passed away, and my mother some time later aquired one of the rose bushes from her yard, Seven Sisters. I remember this bush at the home I lived in, in Chandler. It florished and was beautiful. Years later after I had grown and married that house was sold and my Grandmother Florence K Posey (13 Nov 1919-22 Aug 1998) went to the house and dug it up. She had an awsome green thumb and took the one plant, split it and grew three beautiful bushes in Payson. Two weeks after Julia was born this grandmother passed away. When the time came and her house sold I requested one of the rose bushes. I dug it up, brought it home and planted it next to the house. I do not have a green thumb. I struggle with most of the living things in our yard. Automatic sprinklers and the garden guy have helped me a lot. For 10 years this bush has struggled and gotten smaller and smaller as I have pruned off the dead growth and tried to help it. This year I decided maybe it needed a different location so I moved it to the front where my Lincoln Rose Bush is (Michael gave it to me on Valentine's one year). I had pruned it back to only 4 " in hopes that it would survive. Miracles do happen, here it is just 3 months later with more blooms than I have ever had in one year. Over the years for some reason a few of Great Grandma's things have come to my house. The rose bush, her rocker, and her treadle sewing machine. I hope some day my great grandchildren will be able to say, this place has a good feeling.
Just some genealogy:
Emma Dorinda Knudsen
Florence K Posey
Barbara Carol Burtcher
Ginger K Mullins

It's Time For Easter

It's time to talk FOOD!
Easter Sunday we would like to invite all of you to dinner at 4:00pm, here.
Lori said she would bring Ham,
we also are interested in having
Cheesy Potatoes
Roast
Green Vegetable? It's good for you!
Bunnie Rolls
Cheese Cake
Strawberries (plain & possibly chocolate covered)
If you are interested in bringing any of the previous please call me, I will also be calling to see how many will be coming to dinner. If there is something you would like added to the menu please let me know.
It'll be fun, I'm looking forward to seeing all of you.
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