All posts by CarolBailey Floyd

Paparoonio!

1.  All the kind help we’re getting in helping my Dad get set up with hospice

2.  He’s 96, and keeps saying no one should be allowed to live that long!

3.  I’ve been trying to convince him to live to 100, but he’s losing interest

4.  He has a magnet on his refrigerator that says, “I’m going to live to be 100”

5.  And he attached a little paper to it that says, “– to please Carol”

6.  When the hospice nurse came to get him registered on Friday morning

7.  He was very personable and amazing.

8.  I could tell she was falling in love with him (as most women do)

9.  He got up and started doing a little dance

10.  And she said, “you better watch out, or I will join you!”

11.  And he said, “please do!”

12.  So there was my Dad dancing with the hospice nurse on the very day he signed up to receive hospice services!

13.  He is not exactly terminal, and he will receive services in his apartment.

14.  My Paparoonio is beyond incredible!

Garden Happy!

1.  Last night I got an amazing certificate in the mail —

2.  It was a “Keep Akron Beautiful” award for our yard!

3.  My grandsons and I plant a big circle garden every year with amazing colors and  all kinds of flowers.

4.  They pick them out themselves with no advice from me.

5.  I called them up right away to thank them for their part in this award.

6.  This certificate will keep me smiling throughout the cold Winter months!

7.  Meanwhile, my Heavenly Blue Morning Glories are outdoing themselves this year.

8.  And the hot pink Mandevilla exotic flowers are still going strong.

9.  I wonder if the “Keep Akron Beautiful” judged saw the fabulous fairy garden that Nate and Andrew made?

10.  I am always garden happy, and now I am even happier!

Gratitudes — All Kinds!

1.  flip flops — the louder the sound the better!

2.  yard art

3.  singing in the shower

4.  a new magazine

5.  a great conversation

6.  our book group — seriousness and laughter, what a combination!

7.  the new little deck outside the side door

8.  getting gasoline at a low price

9.  reading WLG posts!

10.  art supplies

 

Labor Day Weekend Gratitudes!

1.  having my Paparoonio over for dinner yesterday —

2.  he loves to eat and is very appreciative

3.  he told me that when he dies, he is going to come back and make watch out for me

4.  when I asked if he would be my Guardian Angel, he said, no he would be a Colonel and tell everyone what to do to help me

5.  spending the night at his place

6.  the companionship of reading together

7.  having him over, with my brother Jeff, and daughter Maribeth (Tom was there, too!) for an inside picnic

8.  Belgrade Garden’s chicken — people come from far and wide for it!

9.  getting fresh fruit — picking out a movie on TV and eating watermelon   Oh yes!

10.  I was watching rain clouds today, too!

11.  19 blooms of Morning Glories – heavenly blue!  yippee yo yo YO!

 

A Whole Lot of Yes!

1.  a whole box of peaches!  oh my!

2.  meeting the fabulous Jean and other amazing people — Ruth and Kylia were there, too!  hooray!

3.  being at the Magical Pine Forest — unique and incredible, inside and out!

4.  seeing “Blue Jasmine” — a Woody Allen movie, weird and kind of wonderful

5.  another movie in two days!  “The Butler” — sometimes hard to watch, but a truly remarkable movie

6.  corn on the cob for dinner!!!!!  one of my top favorites, with a short growing season

7.  making a list of 40 memories for my daughter Maribeth’s 40th birthday

8.  arranging a party for Maribeth with family and friends

9.  when she was still in the crib, she used to sing every morning — “happy, happy, happy, happy . . .” until we woke up and came and got her!

10.  having lunch with my Dad and his precious friend Marlene — there definitely was happiness in the air!

Saturday Gratitudes!

1.  newspapers in the morning

2.  blueberries for breakfast

3.  big, fat, juicy black cherries

4.  large red sumptuous strawberries

5.  driving with a book on CD

6.  Glucosamine Chondroitin — takes away pain in my hips!  a miracle!

7.  Zentangle Club today — so companionable and full of creativity!

8.  delightful kids who come to Zentangle Club

9.  looking forward to teaching Zentangle to a quilting club

10.  all the choices, chances, and possibilities of each day