Posted By electricnurse on August 10, 2010
I have been incommunicado. I cannot believe how long it has been since my last post! Wow. We have been so very busy and have some news to share that I knew I would want to blog about but couldn’t just yet so was kind of “stuck” because of that too (noooooo, we aren’t pregnant….drats!).
But today is a day to celebrate my marriage. Just as with anything, there have been peaks and there have been valleys but through it all….gosh, I love this guy! Babe, I’m excited for the upcoming journey in our life. We have a lot coming up in the next couple of months and with you at my side, I know it will all be worth it! I love you forever, and ever and no matter what.
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Posted By electricnurse on July 1, 2010
True story.
Scene: Mississippi in May at Sonic. Took the nieces there at 9pm for ice cream. Parked in our car like most people usually do. An African American police officer kept walking in front of car over and over again every 5-10 minutes or so.
Shana: “Okay, this guy is really starting to give me the creeps.”
Heather: “Aunt Shana, we did park on the black side, ya know.”
Shana: “????!!!!”
Segregation is truly alive and well. Very sad. We asked the girls if we should move and park on the other side but they said no because there were no other cars there.
This goes right along with the general rule of needing to wait for at least “10 miles or so” until you have last seen bars on the gas station windows before you can stop at a gas station to use the restroom. Several times Adam has made me “hold it”!
Sad.
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Posted By electricnurse on July 1, 2010
the little tykes “cozy coupe”. NOT kidding. I read this a long long time ago and told Adam about it and we thought it was hilarious. It just came back to me because I read that it is it’s 30th Anniversary. Amazing. Truly amazing, yes? Sad thing is, the thing is probably better looking than a lot of cars most of us have driven over the years! It’s at least happier anyways.
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Posted By electricnurse on June 25, 2010
…these two cuties will be with us for AT LEAST two weeks!!! And, we are going to have sooo much fun just being together plus some other fun things Uncle Adam and Aunt Shana have planned like Worlds & Oceans of Fun, Henry Doorly Zoo, Painting pottery, chinese fire drills, shopping, getting facials, swimming, pedicures, and more and more and more….Hurry up nine days!!!
Our nieces: Brienna & Heather
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Posted By electricnurse on June 25, 2010
While in Mississippi Adam and I got to spend an entire day with his Pawpaw. We decided to go to the Carter cemetery to start with to Mawmaw’s grave~we just lost her in 2009 just like we lost my Nana. We drove 350 miles with Pawpaw that day and learned all about Adam’s family history. We knew Adam has some Native American in him but are not sure to which extent. We know there is Cherokee and Chaqueta but his mother has been working on the family genealogy and has hit a road block beyond that. He has some English and German in him. He is kind of a mutt….like we all are I suppose. Don’t worry~he finds this funny when I say that!
Everyone always is amazed at how much Adam and his Dad look a like, well throw Pawpaw in there and you can pretty much tell how these guys are gonna look as they age:
Son
Father
Pawpaw
Anyway, Pawpaw had some amazing stories to tell us and we learned so so much that I think we will need to spend an entire day with him again to re-hear these stories to be able to remember them to pass them down in the family.
One last thing that we learned from Pawpaw about Women (I’m laughing already before I even have this typed!!!!)….he looked at Adam in the most serious face ever and said (in a southern drawl with each word long and drawn out), “Adam, did you know that there are women now that own their own farms?!!!”.
Thanks for the amazing day, Pawpaw. We love you.
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Posted By electricnurse on June 20, 2010
Adam and I love chinese fire drills. We do them all the time with my sister’s kids…just to make them laugh. When we do them with my little brother it is for pure competition. I’m talkin’ who can run around the car more times and even who can run around the most cars (yeah, you read right….other people’s cars!) at a red light.
While in Mississippi we pulled up to a red light and Adam’s sister’s girls were with us and I nudged Adam like I do normally as the “it’s a go for the drill” type of warning. He about tackled me in the car right there. I guess running around your car and maybe other people’s cars in the delta might get me shot….or so Adam says.
His sister’s girls are coming in less than two weeks to stay with us for at least a couple of weeks. Yay!!!! We are counting down the hours. I, personally, cannot wait. Adam, unfortunately does not have the vacation time but I get to take off and be with them! Double Yay! And, guess what we are going to do…a chinese fire drill.
Anyways, last weekend my little brother was in town for some wedding planning and he was in the car in front of us with some of his friends and we were at a red light and he decided to do a drill. Out he comes and at the same time the light goes a’ green. In hindsight he says he heard his friend say as he was getting out of the car “hey, this is a really short light!”. Jesse decided to make this particular drill a double and was heading back to also run around our car and I was pointing at the light saying it’s green, it’s green~so what does he do? Opens my door and decided to squish in with me. All 6′4 ” 250lbs of him folding up into some odd contortion on top of me. And, imagine Adam just happened to have his camera:
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Posted By electricnurse on June 16, 2010
This is a photo of Adam’s Dad buying me a bottle of water at a gas station after Mom’s graduation. You see, they live in the Delta which is a very high-crime area. Inside was a totally normal convenience store….potato chips, cookies, sodas in coolers, etc and he had to go up to the window and point to what he wanted and she went and got it and he paid and voila!
And, here I am…taking a picutre out the side of my window…lucky I didn’t get shot! Ha!
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Posted By electricnurse on June 16, 2010
I’ve blogged before about Adam’s mom going back to school. For the past few years she’s been working so hard to become an RN and she did it! We spent some time last month in Mississippi to celebrate her. She is an amazing woman. I remember nursing school and how ridiculously tough it was….and I was 19-20ish. They try to weed people out purposely. It has been a long tough haul for her…and Adam’s Dad. I know that he has sacrificed a lot these past couple of years too. His parents are amazing people and I have more pictures to show about some things they are doing in another post.
We do not travel much anymore, therefore do not get down to see Adam’s family very often. When we do, it is a whirlwind of trying to fit in seeing as many folks as possible. Inevitably we always miss one or two and are disappointed. This trip, in particular, to me was a little different. I really wanted to focus on Mom’s graduation and the girls (our nieces) which I will blog more about too.
But I really want to share these graduation pictures. After all, this woman deserves to be bragged about:
Married almost 40 years!!!
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Posted By electricnurse on June 16, 2010
should people stop singing to you in restaurants when it is your birthday? When you have gray hair? Crows feet? Order from the senior menu? Very embarrassed or no longer give a hoot?
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Posted By electricnurse on June 14, 2010
I have a lot going on in my life right now and hope to soon be able to post about our trip to Mississippi last month but quickly want to share this photo that I came across and just say this whole situation breaks my heart. I’m sure it breaks yours as well. Did they not have a contingency plan “in case something like this ever happened”?
Reporters have said that these little guys are dying by the minute and there is nothing that they can do for them….all you can see is their eyes with their little eyelids blinking.
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