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I was feeling sorry for myself today as I woke up, all this upset with our grandson and the grief it has caused us all, then I realized it was 9-11.  I thought about all those people who died in that tragedy and their families.  I was always taught that whatever your problem, someone out there has it worse.  At least I have my daughter and grandson to worry about, they are here with me.  We are getting some better news about the situation, and for that I am grateful.  So, I’m going to try to adjust my attitude a bit and be thankful for the good things, and try to be not so negative about it.  I do have much to be thankful and grateful for and I just need to remember that .  Hope you all have a great weekend. 

But I have to tell you that the urge to hit the kitchen is becoming overwhelming.  We have a bad situation going on with our grandson, a looming custody battle between our daughter,  and Josh’s father.  She has had sole custody of Josh since they divorced when Josh was 3.  Because of some issues at his father’s house, Josh doesn’t want to go and stay there.  I won’t go into details, but the reasons are valid and not just that he’s mad at his dad over some little thing.  The dad has visitation rights every other week end and up until this past year things have gone pretty well,  both parents seemed to try to make the best of things for Josh.  His mom has always tried to be reasonable about letting Josh have extra time with his dad and encouraged the relationship.  But what do you do when your kid comes to you and says I don’t want to go back down to my dads, and he has good reasons to back it up.  In something like this no  one has anything to say—it’s all about lawyers and courts and what the judge thinks.   It is driving us all crazy, and you all know how it is, bad things going on—-hit the food.   I’m trying to do other things.   Just as it seemed like things were coming round, my mom is better, and  Josh is getting to play a lot of baseball, and is happy,  all this flares up again, we thought we had worked out a compromise that worked for everyone.  Anyway I am trying to be good and I know in my head that eating is not going to help with anything….   My scale’s battery is dead, I haven’t weighed in weeks and I’m afraid to get another battery and take a look.  I don’t feel fatter, but who knows?  Guess I’ll just have to face up to what ever damage I’ve done(if any???) and work harder.  So battery goes on the shopping list, we’ll see.

Please everyone say a prayer that this will have a good outcome for Josh.

Hey you all sorry I’ve been out of touch with everyone.  I had to make a trip to East TX to see about my Mom.  Unfortunately she has another “small” stroke and we  had to be at hospital with her for several days.  The good news is that she seems to have made a really fast and fairly complete recovery.  She is back at the place where she lives and is up and around with a  little assistance.  We are all very relieved.  My sister and I are tired.  I don’t know what it is about a hospital that wears you out so bad.   I made it home yesterday just in time to get back in the SUV and go to Josh’s first JV game.  The things  do for your kids!  I needed to do something fun and we had a good time and Josh got to go in as a relief pitcher in the first game and struck out the side.  He was  so excited and so were we.  To be chosen as a 7th grader to do that is a really good sign that the coach thinks well of him.  He has a heavy schedule of games for the next 6 weeks so it looks like we will be going to a lot of games.   The  get out of school to go to these games so the school provides after school tutors for any kid that needs help, I thought that was pretty cool and very helpful.  Of course they have that no pass no play rule at school and Josh has it at home too.  It is so good to have something to use as motivation.

Tony is making final adjustments to Reba, he won’t let me take her out until he has EVERYTHING checked out and going just right.  So I didn’t get to take her down to E TX.  I really wanted to, but I know the last thing I need is to have something go wrong and cause a big problem with her.  So I just go out and look at her every so often and tell her we’ll be out on the road soon.    Hope you all had a good weekend and got your week off to a great start.  Will be checking in with you later. 

We got her home in spite of a horrible rain and lighting storm, with winds up to 70 miles an hour.   Talk about wishing we were home!  We tried to find a place to pull over and wait the storm out, but couldn’t find a place that we’d fit with the trailer.  We made it ok and no damage to us or the stang or the truck.   The pictures don’t really do her justice, think about a candy apple at the state fair and you’ll have just the perfect ideal of the real color.  We like the felts, new tires and painting the rims to have her all finished, but I can’t wait to take her  out for a drive.  Josh and I are going to the playday tonight to help his Mom and I think we’ll take the Mustang.  By the way, after due consideration, I think I’ll name her Reba, after all, she’s red, hot and very distinctive.  I’ll see if it sticks.  Below is a picture of me and Josh,  I don’t know if you can tell, but my hair isn’t gray, sort of a brownish red, I need to touch up the color I guess. 

I must tell you that I usually look a little better, we’d been in the shop finishing up with Reba , so I’m a little worse for the wear,   besides it was windy!                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            

The first place I’m taking a drive to after we get the tires is down to Peggy Sue’s, a   50’s diner  in Denison, Tx.  I know that Reba is a little younger than the cars that usually go with that vintage place, but after all she is a classic and the food is good.  My friend told me    we’d have to find a parade to drive in, I don’t know about that, but I am going to pick Josh      up at school one day.   He gets such a kick out of the fact that he will soon have a classic of      his own–his will be black and chromy, a real chick magnet!  Thank goodness that these cars have really small back seats and the front has buckets.  Tony want to know if I’d let him           drive her sometime, he thought even he might get a date in that car!  I told him I wasn’t            sure about the date thing—but since  he WAS nice enough to fix her up for me I was sure he deserved to get to take her out every once in a while, IF he was nice.                                                    I’m looking forward to getting her out and about, let me tell you the wait was worth it.                                                            

I get my Mustang back!  We are going this afternoon to pick it up and check out the new paint job.  When we get it home we’ll have to get all the trim back on and get new tires, then off I go.  I’ve promised a lunch meeting with my neighbor and of course Josh wants a ride and maybe a quick drive.  I’ve managed to lose 3 of the 5 pounds that I regained, but I’m still working to get where I need to be.   Lots of stress this week—Josh has been with us and he’s at that age (almost 13) and at 64 Tony has a hard time remembering how it is to be that age.  Besides he (Tony) is a real old school do as I say when I say, up at dawn and get to work person, Josh is more laid back and just a tad lazy and would rather sleep late and watch TV, when he’s not playing or practicing baseball.  So I get to try to keep peace around here.  It was the same way when our daughter was growing up, it’s hard on the nerves.  Josh and T get along well as long as Josh doesn’t stay with us too long.  Tony is sure that Rachel isn’t teaching him a good enough work ethic, I tell him he’s only 12 give him sometime.  I think he just needs to be around more 12-13 year olds, then Tony would see how things are.  Oh well, I guess I’ll just have to be refree for a while.                                                                                I’ll post pictures of my car soon as we get all the trim back on.  Can you tell I’m excited about getting it home?  I have to think of a name for it, can’t just keep calling it the Mustang or it.  What do you all think?

working on my mustang, we took it to the paint shop this week and should have it back in a couple.  Then all I have to do is get the trim on it and I’ll be stylin down the road.  I’ll be posting pictures just as soon as it is done.  You all won’t know me, I’ve colored my hair, it’s a soft brown, and I cut it short.  I’ve promised Josh I’ll give him a few rides and maybe even let him try driving my car, practice for his you know.              He has grown so much this summer, he’s still working like crazy on his baseball, he wants to make the school 7-8th  grade ball team so bad.  I think he should have no problem, he can really hit the ball and he’s not a bad pitcher, and he is tuned up at the infield positions, so he is sharp.  I know I’m his Granny, but he really is pretty good.  He’s been running every morning and has talked his Papa out of the treadmill we never use, so he can run when the weather is bad.    I’m still struggling with getting motivated and exercising, I’m doing pretty well not eating too much, having a garden with fresh veggies has been a help.  But I’m still bouncing up and down from 187 to 193, seems like I’ve lost those 5-6 pounds 20 times!  I’m not giving up, and I am going to do more about getting up off my butt and moving!  I have to lose and keep some of this weight off.   

adds up to weigh gain!! Imagine that!  I still haven’t learned not to eat when I’m upset or mad.  I just had my 60th birthday, don’t you think I would have learned by now?  Guess not,  My problems are not big ones, they are pretty minor in fact.  I just need to learn how to cope with this stuff without running to the kitchen and grabbing the comfort food.  Oh well, back to the drawing board and the best I can say is thank goodness it is time for the garden to be coming on and I have lots of fresh , healthy stuff to eat.  You know I did so well while we were away from home, that is when I really thought I might gain, little did I know.  RATS!!

unfortunately the team lost their last game.  Placing 2nd in region 4 isn’t too shabby though.  The kids played hard and had fun and after all that is why they are supposed to be playing ball.  Josh only has 4 weeks until school starts and he won’t be resting, he’ll be keeping in shape for school ball.  I told you all that Silo is a baseball school!  I was so glad to get back home and my puppies really read me the riot act about being gone.  I missed you all and have been checking up on every one.  Now it’s back to work and getting my but in gear, got to get in that exercise!  

Well, the boys had a bad start to the tournament, lost their first game.  One of the players cut his foot(5 stitches) and was hobbled, and one of the kids lost his temper and threw his helmet and got ejected from the game.  A misunderstanding of a rule about designated hitter, left us with only 8 kids playing and it’s hard to win one man short.  Josh did get a hit in the game and started a rally, then  right after that was when the kid got thrown out and every thing when downhill.  But, they played last night and won that game, the kid with the cut foot played 1st (not much moving)  and we tuned up their bats and the run ruled the other team in the 4th inning.  Josh got 3 doubles and 1 ground out and 4 rbi’s and scored 2 and made one really good out in the field.  So he had a really good night!  I bought him a T-shirt he wanted really bad a while back, it has new bat $390, new glove $150, new cleats $95–seeing you move out of my way—PRICELESS,  on the back.  I told him that was a pretty big brag and he couldn’t wear it until he did something to earn it.  Well, he wore it to dinner last night!  You should have seen his eyes light up when we told him to get it out.  HA!  Have another tough game tonight at 6 and if we win we turn around and play at 8.  It has been hot, and hotter, we have one of those pop up canopies and it has been wonderful.  Any shade helps.  We came home to check on everything last night and are going back up this afternoon.  Hope we will be staying the night and playing tomorrow,  we’ll see.  I’m afraid the boys don’t have much of a chance to win the whole thing—one of the teams there is really tough, looks like all the kids are older and we know they have played 70+ games this year, and they have stayed in the winners bracket so the have the advantage there–haven’t had to use as many of their pitchers.  I hope the team gets the chance to play them anyway.    I’ve done pretty good not pigging out while we’ve been away from home, I think I’ve sweated off an extra pound or two!  Hope everyone had a great 4th and you can stay cool. 

I have to brag on my grandson and his baseball team—an undefeated season and on to Regionals!  We are so proud of them and are looking forward to some great baseball next week.  We’ll be in Shawnee, OK, for about 4 days, thank goodness for a wonderful neighbor that is willing to come and take care of all my dogs and the horses.  

If ( a GREAT BIG if) they make it through regionals-it’s on to state at Weatherford, OK the very next week.   So they could be playing ball into the third week of July.  I’m praying for some sort of freak cool front so we won’t melt down.

      This pic is of the team with their tournament bracket–Josh is last on the right,standing.

The team went the whole year without losing one game, I hope they can continue the trend.  Even with a broken wrist, Josh still had the best on base % of all the boys, now that he is all healed up and back in shape it will be fun to see what he can do!  Can you tell that I’m a doting Granny? 

Today is Tony’s birthday–Rachel and Josh will be coming up and we are going to have supper together, I’ll be celebrating my birthday next week in Shawnee, think I’ll tell the team I want a win for a present!   Going to stir up a cake for T—he wants one of those Mandarin Orange Cakes–tons of calories and guess what I love it–I guess I’ll just have to be disciplined and eat only a small portion.  (fingers crossed) 

I hope you all have a great, fun, safe 4th of July.  God Bless America,

GO XTREME!!!