Author: Patricia

My Friday and it is a LONG weekend! 4 days, actually! I have 2.25 hours left and I can hardly wait! I even drove myself in this morning, instead of riding the school bus, so that was good to sleep in for a little bit.

I have plans, but nothing amazing- cleaning out my garage, LOL. That’s one thing. The rest of the days, nothing is planned, and that’s alright too. 😉

Does anyone have any plans?

TTFN,

P~

It was truly BEAUTIFUL!

Today, many, MANY students from the high school that I work at along with adults (I believe some admin) are meeting up with our cross town rivals and quite possibly another high school, at our City Hall in protest against Trump’s ending birthright citizenship and deportation.

It seemed like there were more than 400 students participating. Of course, there were those students that decided it was their chance to get out of school early, and immediately went left instead of right and participating. Some were caught and were told something by admin, but I think some got away with it.

THAT bugs me. It was no surprise, but to see all the students walking off campus together and hearing the horns honking in support was just amazing! The students that set it up were all really informative and did a great job. They posted their intentions on Social Media and to see it live really got to me. I shed a couple tears.

As I write this, I got a pop up on the Citizen’s app about an incident at City hall and I see all the kids arriving, to a LOT of cheering and support!

SO proud of these students!

THANKS SO MUCH EVERYONE!! I GREATLY APPRECIATE YOU ALL!!!

Sometimes we just need a reminder that we ARE worthy and deserve to be loved, even by ourselves.

It is hard to believe that it will be 2 years this July since my daughter’s biological father passed away.

What’s even more crazy is that there hasn’t been any movement on the house the kids inherited. It’s pretty maddening, actually. I feel for them.

My daughter has an aunt who is commandeering the whole thing, and this particular aunt was very upset with her brother prior to his passing and she doesn’t even like my daughter, whom she hasn’t really ever met. At the “Celebration of Life” for Anthony, my daughter and son bth told me that this aunt ignored my daughter.

Since Anthony’s passing, my daughter has had boots on the ground trying to get this probate stuff going, only to be met with blocks. I again told my daughter that I feel she needs to talk to someone and have them represent her because I believe this Aunt does not have her best interest in mind.

We know a few people, who know probate attorney’s so now hopefully my daughter will make an appointment with one of them and get this ball rolling on her own for her own interest.

I know Probate takes a long time, but it shouldn’t be talking THIS long to just hire someone to start the process.

It shall be interesting…

TTFN,

P~

I LOVE her! I have several books by her and am about to order another one.

I currently just started to read “The Let Them Theory.” I love it already, just after reading the intro!

Do you like her? Have you read her books? Listened to her podcast?

What’s your thoughts?

TTFN,

💜 P~

So, how y’all doing??

Thanksgiving came and went- while up to was quite stressful, for a few reasons I won’t go into, the day OF was great!!

My granddaughters paternal side of the family was here and present and it was AMAZING!! My granddaughter FINALLY met her 93 year old great grandmother! We nicknamed her “Mama OG.” She LOVED it! When she met her great granddaughter, she laughed and cried and kept calling her “little Noella” because her Daddy’s name is Noel and she looks JUST LIKE him 🥰. I got emotional just watching her go crazy over Mikhayla, clapping, laughing and crying, so of course, I started to get teary eyed, LOL. Our house was full of love, laughter, and great food!

The next day was the 19th anniversary of Keith’s passing. I wrote on my Facebook wall this status: “

Thanksgiving 2005 was on 11/24. 5 days later, Keith was gone, suddenly and unexpectedly. Most of you know the story I’ve posted/shared for several years. This year, I’ll share this: this little girl- Keith would have been so in love with her. TBH, sometimes the way she stares at me, like she’s looking into my soul, it’s like she’s telling me that her Papa is there. At times she stares at his and my mom’s pictures on the wall, like she recognizes them. When we saw she has an Angels Kiss on her eye, I said “yep, kissed by her Papa and Great Grandma.” I talk with her about her Papa and Great Grandma, though my memories of her Great Grandma Ellie are very limited ❤️

So come every 11/29, I was always be especially thankful for this beautiful baby girl sent from her Papa, watching over us ❤️”

Yesterday, my daughter and her love took Mikhayla to the doctors. Baby girl had a runny nose and was sneezing. Turns out, she just has a baby cold, and was advised to buy a humidifier. Baby girl weighed in at 15 pounds and is 22 inches long.

The kids went to Target to get the humidifier, and my daughter sent my son and I this picture:

How adorable is that?! You know, or maybe you don’t, but I do believe in signs. All day there were songs and videos that reminded me of Keith and now THIS? Keith was a mailman, so of course, I asked my son if he wanted to go halfsies with me to get it and he said Yes. In our group text, my daughter joked that even though it says 3-5 yrs old, they can teach their daughter how to drive it at 1, LOL, PLUS, they’ve never seen it before at Target during Christmas.

So without telling my daughter, my son and I bought it and had it delivered the same day. I did have to tell my son in law, because it was to be delivered between 9 and 10 pm and I didn’t think we were going to be home. FORTUNATELY, we were, my son met the delivery person outside the. Brought it in.

What’s funny as we found out later, my son in law told my daughter, “someone will buy it.” He just didn’t know it was going to be me and Thomas, LOL. There were a few at the store when I placed the order, but when the shopper got to Target, she said there was only one left and the box was a little damaged. I told her to get it anyway and I would call Target in the morning if I needed to.

My son told my daughter that she had mail she needed to look at, trying to lure her to the front room. Instead, she said, “oh, I know, I’ll check it out later.” LOL

My daughter, Sarah, asked Noel if he wanted her to make the baby’s bottle. He said he’ll get it and asked her to get something behind the dogs crate.

She walked out to the front room and was shocked! “What? Where did this come from? How did this happen??!” And started to cry, tears of joy of course. We then had to leave to go to the movies.

My kids and I went to see the movie, WICKED. I LOVED IT! I laughed, cried and cheered, and I look forward to seeing part 2 in 2025!!

All in all, it was a great end of November. ❤️

Now, December 1st. I have two full weeks of work, and one week of finals then Winter break for two weeks.

I will write more later today, after the day really starts.

I hope you all are doing well, and had a very relaxing and enjoyable Thanksgiving.

TTFN,

💜P~

In about 50 minutes, I start my Thanksgiving break. I was speaking with someone today and was saying that for 19 years, holidays were missing something.

I loved spending time with my family, but ever since Keith died, they were never the same.

THIS year though, I’m happier and I think it has everything to do with my granddaughter being born. She will be 6 months this weekend, and even though she’s teething and cries, it’s just such a blessing she’s in our lives!

Today at work we had our staff-giving. I brought dessert consisting of. 2 ingredient lemon bars (Mix lemon pie filling and Angel Food cake mix together. The Angel food cake mix is the “just add water” kind. I also made brownie chocolate chip cookies, using brownie mix and chocolate chips. Lastly, my daughter helped me make our infamous Cornbread stuffing. Everyone seemed to have loved it! People brought many different foods and it was so nice.

It was a great day today, for me. I hope you all have just an amazing day as well!

TTFN,

P~

The birthday dinner I went to last was interesting.

One thing was that when the birthday girl gave her speech, she said, “there are 3 women here who have…” basically kept her on her toes and listed a few ways how.

There were 9 adults and 1 teenager there, 5 women, 1 female teenager and 4 men. 10 in total.

After nearly 18 years of being with the family, I was not one of the women. In nearly 18 yrs, I brought nothing, or added nothing to this woman’s life. Ok, cool. Then please, don’t pretend with me then. You don’t like me, don’t hug me, stop the fake pleasantries, all that bullshit.

Another weird thing, the birthday girls friend came up, gave my date a hug and said, “Hi Baby…” and gave me a hug. She then hugged another woman and that woman’s husband, and as she’s doing so, asks the woman, “you don’t mind if I hug your husband do you? I mean it’s not like I licked him or anything.” WTF? I don’t know how the woman felt but I was like, “WTF?”

My date said, “that’s her. She’s called me that before.” I said, “for as long as I’ve been with you, she’s never called you that. “ He then said, “that’s just her…”

Whatever.

This woman like to be the center of attention. Always making comments, snide and otherwise, but “that’s just her.” She’s loud, attention seeking. It’s always been a bit much to me but I always let it slide.

Whatever.

This woman and the birthday girl were talking about something last night between them, the woman kept saying, “oh, don’t make me say something, you’re gonna make me lose control of my mouth…” so I can just imagine.

Then comes time to pay the bill. there are 6 adults paying. My date always pays cash. We figured out our portion of the bill including our portion of tax and gratuity since it was already added to the bill. My date always adds more to the tip. The server did us good from the minute we got there, the first to arrive.

We should have just paid our portion and let the rest of them figure out what they owed after that, but nope. The server was forced to print out 6 checks which made everyone’s portion a bit more it seemed since everyone had to pay their own tip. The server said it was difficult to do it this way with such a large party because of the way the system was set up. A male guest pops off with, “oh come on, it’s not difficult. You work in customer service, I’m sure this is not the first time you’ve dealt with this….” I was just embarrassed. The son of the birthday girl took issue with the guests attitude and I don’t blame him. The son even said, “if I had been the one to say what he did, everyone would have come at me.”

The son was right, people would have come at him for saying something, had he been the one to. I understood what he was saying and I agreed with him. I also felt bad for him.

The male guest didn’t have to say anything to the server at all, including telling the server how long he himself has been in the customer service line of work.

Just such drama for no reason.