CEDAR FAMILY SUNDAY NIGHT ACTIVITY

We had our first Sunday get-together for the Cedar Fontanos tonight.  We met for dinner and then a lesson/activity.  I felt good about it although got some complaints that it was long... too bad Grandpa!
We had some fun talking about why each person was special.  I think G-pa was just ornery about it cause he, being the oldest, was the last one in the special seat and so he had to wait awhile to hear some good comments about himself! It was fun to hear nice comments and observations made about each member of the family and how they are doing.  I also liked that the younger set found good things to say about each other!  We plan to do this once a month, on the third Sunday... I hope it works.
On another note, I heard Saturday that my New Harmony neighbor Martha Coe on 3430 passed away.  She is just a year or so older than me and was such an active woman.  I have great memories of the time that we lived by each other... we were good friends and I have missed her.  We had a lot in common at the time.  We both had children in the same age range and we had both had 8 children.  She was a great example to me of enthusiasm and hard work.  I am remembering that we served together as activity day leaders.  I know she had such a loving and giving personality and I loved being around her.  We did a lot of family things and she and Bill were always so good to our children. 
I was mentioning to Laura on the phone tonight that her passing makes three of my very best friends now have died... Ellie Grover, Shanna Reed and Martha Coe.  All three were what I would call kindred spirits.  I just loved them and they were just natural friends who I felt I could share anything with.  I haven't had a lot of friends like that in my life.  Glad for them and their influence for good.

I've been hacked!

Last week my Yahoo email was hacked.  I lost all of my contacts and it makes me sick.  Some of those addresses have gotten posted on the Little Brick House account but none on my gmail account.  My Carson City friends, my "family" group, my New Harmony friends... I just don't have anything on them.  Hope someof them will send me there addresses again so I can get them on the list.
This weekend Amy and I spent some time with Laura and Nigel and family.  We just mostly shopped and talked but it was a good time.  I just love to be with those little grandkids.  Shey is so wonderful.  I love her so much.  She treats me like I am just the best grandma ever.  Donovan had his first birthday.  He took 4 steps for his Dad but then fell down and wouldn't get up again.  He got lots of little cars and made car sounds and pushed them all over the floor and furniture.  He loves Amy and he will let me hold him.  We had a fun time at Texas Roadhouse for dinner on his birthday when he got to ride the saddle!
Got back about 8:30 Sunday night and then spent Monday with Susan in St. George.  We went to the temple and to lunch and then did a little shopping.  Today I worked in the shop and we sold some good stuff... Diane Delport's buffet to a young couple.  I could tell she loved antiques.  I am starting to move some things into the back room and was able to rent a space today and have another vendor ask me to apply the money they had made to their rent!  Yeah, I have been so sick about owing different vendors and consignors money and now these people come forward with money right when I need it!  I think my prayers are being answered!
That brings me up to tonight.  Not much happening except that Jim tried another type of fudge.  While I was gone he made Pumpkin Pecan and Butterscotch Penuche that were both delicious and tonight he tried to make some Gingerbread... I sampled a little and couldn't really taste the ginger but perhaps as it sits out overnight it will get better...
I read Liana and John's blogs tonight and they both brought tears to my eyes.  John talking about Jack and how he is progressing in school.  He had a tantrum the other day and then the next day apologized to the aide and said he would do better (that was all on his own, John didn't even know about the incident).  Liana talked about being cold in their house and using her peppermint bath stuff (I had some of that because she gave me it for Christmas and I loved it) also how she helped her mom by bringing in wood and how she loves her mom's toasted homemade bread with hot cocoa (my favorite)... I love reading both of these blogs because they bring me closer to these special people.  Both are great and entertaining writers.
So I am going to read a chapter or two in my book and then head for bed.  Seems like today was a day of getting up, getting dressed, going to work, coming home from work, getting ready for bed again...  No complaints really... I love the challenges at work, the kids make me sandwiches at work and I get to see lots of old friends and make new friends.  I also made three fun baskets today for the Apple Fest and like I said earlier I felt the Lord's hand in helping us get through some challenges at the business.  Life is good.

Keep on blogging

I've already written a blog tonight but then I read John and Liana's blogs where both talked about quitting the blogging world... I must say that I hope they do not.  I thoroughly enjoy their blogs.  I also read Laura's blogs and feel like all three keep me up on what is going on in their lives and in their thoughts.  I love to read Liana's blogs because I don't know her as well and they teach me so many things about her and about her thoughts.  I also am amazed at the things John writes.  I love to read his comments about the kids and also about how he is getting along in life.  Tonight I read about Rachel telling him how she was sorry for the way she had treated him and that he was a good man... brought tears to my eyes.  Not only because he deserved to hear that but also because I am grateful that Rachel has had her heart softened.  I enjoy Laura's blog as well.  She shares frustrations and struggles that otherwise I doubt she would mention to me... she also puts on pictures of the kids which I so enjoy.   I am just so glad for this medium of communication.  I hope all of these guys just keep on blogging!

Which witch

Last weekend a lady brought a truckload of furniture to the store.  It was actually Friday and I was off but thought I would be nice and help her unload it even though she didn't have an appointment.  After unloading, I told her that I would send her an inventory in the next couple of days.  She must have taken that to mean Saturday... After she had gone, a lady came in and wanted to buy her chairs.  Dani sold them at what I considered to be a fair price.  Well, somehow the seller called on Monday and found out the chairs had been sold before she got the inventory and they were sold without the table which she claimed I said I would sell as a set ... never said that but oh well.  Anyway, we had a day with that lady let me tell you.  She yelled first at Amy, then at Dani, then wrote me a mean email and then came in to the store and had a yelling match with me and I guess with Jim as well.  I don't know how much John got into it with her... Anyway, we all agreed she was a witch - full blown, Jim says actually a witch with a capital B.  So I was so upset I had to leave and Jim worked things out.  She wanted the chairs back... no way could we do that, we don't even know who bought them.  Well, I am dumb but Jim figured out what she really wanted was for us to buy the table so that she would n't lose money on the set.  He did that.  We also had her load up the rest of her stuff and take it back.  No way were we going to work with her on other stuff also.

It was so upsetting to me and it certainly brought out the worst in me.  I have had such an experience a few other times in my life when I got so angry with someone I just couldn't hardly handle things.  I remember one was yelling at the owner of Mcdonalds in Carson City because of something he did to one of my boys... now I don't remember which.  Anyway, I had such a stomach ache from the experience and I was so ashamed of myself.  I tossed and turned over it all night and then after praying realized what I needed to do was apologize for my behavior.  I know it was her behavior that started the whole thing but I reacted in a very rude and embarassing way.  So I ended up writing her an email saying I was sorry for being rude.  The cool thing was that every since I did that I have felt much better - I didn't want to be a witch or atleast wanted to let her know I was sorry if I had been one.

So after all that, we bought the table and put it out on the floor... without the chairs.  Interestingly, I lady came in today and was very interested in the table - without the chairs even.  Imagine that.