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The Rest of the Story

17 Friday Jan 2014

Posted by becky6259 in Our Life and Times

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Arkansas, Basin Park Hotel, Eureka Springs Arkansas, Family, ghost, ghost tour, go carts, grandchildren, Ladd Drummand, Ree Drummond, The Pioneer Woman

There has been a lot of cold weather and snow and ice this winter in our neck of the woods, but it hasn’t dampened the togetherness, fun and activities that abound this time of year!

My last post was made two months ago from my daughter’s house (I am hanging my head in a frown of shame), and I am anxious to get back in the swing of blogging.  But the first thing I want to tell you about is the rest of the visit with my daughter and her family — it was a real hoot!

It was a big surprise to me when The Pioneer Woman and her husband Marlboro Man, Ree and Ladd Drummond, dropped into town to pay a visit!  Those of you who don’t know who they are can find out by watching Ree’s show on the Food Network or visiting her blog here.  Ree also has several cookbooks out, and they are all good!  My favorite is her most recent cookbook, A Year of Holidays, in which she covers recipes for all of the holidays throughout the year.

Pioneer Woman is also a show that my eight-year-old grandson, Michael, watches avidly (who’d have thought?), and so when I had previously bought several of Ree’s cookbooks I ended up letting him choose one of mine.  Ree has also written a children’s book, and I tried to talk Michael into letting me get that for him instead of the cookbook, but he was not interested.  He liked the pictures in the cookbook, and wouldn’t you know?  The cookbook of mine that he chose was my favorite, the holiday one.  Oh well, he’s my grandson — I can deny him nothing.

At any rate, Michael was thrilled to meet both Ree and Ladd, and he and Ladd got into a little hairstyle conversation — Ladd even took his hat off and showed his hair to Michael!  We all found both Ree and Ladd to be very friendly, real people!

Joel, my son and youngest of my children, decided he wanted to take me on a trip to Eureka Springs, Arkansas as a late birthday present for me.  I saw a lot of beautiful Fall scenery, went up into a high tower, and toured the town.  Joel wanted to tour the town’s haunted hotel, the Basin Park Hotel.  The hotel hosts a normal “ghost” tour, but since Joel had already been on it, he decided to take me on the tour himself.

Trouble is, Joel tends to forget a lot of detail.  A typical conversation during the tour was kind of like this:

Joel: “This ballroom is supposed to be haunted.”

Me: “By who?”

Joel: (shrugging) “Some girl.”

But the tour was fun, anyway, and even though we didn’t get to see any ghosts, the history is really interesting.  The elevator wasn’t put in until 1905 (using it kind of scared me), and the whole place smelled like most really old buildings smell, so it added to the nuance.  The hotel was originally a fine hotel, and I tried to imagine what it must have been like in its glory days.  They still even accommodate guests, and have some nice rooms, but the overwhelming smell alone would deter me from that, not to mention that everything in the building now creaks and pops.  If you’re in Eureka Springs sometime I would recommend a visit to the Basin Park Hotel.

Later that evening my daughter and her family, Joel and I went out for Joel’s birthday celebration at a game place called the Lokomotion.  Joel and my son-in-law Bobby enjoyed some go carts while the rest of us worked on earning lots of tickets so Mickael could get some great prizes.  Afterwards we went to a buffet to eat (my favorite thing to do), and the whole evening was a blast!

Lokomotion

As always, I had a great visit with my daughter and her family, and look forward to the next visit!

Since I am so behind and didn’t even update some of my far away family members on what everybody here has been doing, I’ll be trying to post a catch-up post this weekend.  I hope all of you are doing well and staying warm, and that you are loving life!  

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Time Away

18 Monday Nov 2013

Posted by becky6259 in Our Life and Times

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Arkansas, country life, grandchildren, grandma, nature, Ozark Mountains, ozarks, rural, rural life, visit

Cover of "To Grandmother's House We Go"

One thing about having every
single one of your children and grandchildren living a distance from you is that you can take mini excursions to their house to visit.  “Over the river and through the woods to Grandmother’s house we go” has given way to “Grandma’s coming and she gets to sleep in MY bed and I get to sleep on the air mattress!”
I have been out-of-state for a visit with my oldest daughter and her family.  My 22-year-old son lives with them, so it’s a double feature for me when I get to visit with them at their home in Arkansas!
My curly-headed seven-year-old grandson considers my visits to be an adventure, like camping out.  The inconvenience of having someone take over his room doesn’t seem to bother him at all, and it gives him chance to show Grandma all of his toys and explain to her in minute detail how each of them works.
The trouble with visiting here is that I always eat too much, way more than I am used to, and usually stuff that is not very good for me.  So then I always go home fatter and sicker, but it’s worth it to me.  I enjoy seeing my kids and both grandsons, and I do enjoy good food!

Picture of the Ozark Mountains from Missouri S...

The Ozark mountains here in the northeast part of Arkansas are beautiful, and the scenery and vistas are wonderful.  There’s a reason this old gal loves the Ozarks!
Life is slow and easy here, and that’s alright — I’m looking forward to sharing some of my adventures with you when I get back.  In the meantime, I hope you are anticipating Thanksgiving with great relish!

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A Day In the Life….

27 Thursday Jun 2013

Posted by becky6259 in Holidays/Seasons, Nature, Our Life and Times, Summer

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baby photographs, baby pictures, child photographs, children, grandchildren, Precious Baby, sunflower field, sunflowers, ten commandments

This picture of my oldest daughter was taken around 1986 or 1987.  It is my all-time favorite picture of her.  It was a clear picture back in the day — now it looks like everything in the picture has a coating of grime, but there wasn’t any at the time this picture was taken.  Down by her feet is a toy, The Little Professor — a math learning game shaped like an owl.  Remember those?

Time passes quickly and Megan is all grown up with children of her own.  She had a recent conversation with her oldest son, part of which went like this:

Mom:  “You are so cute I could just eat you up!”
Son: “Mom, eating people is against the Ten Commandments!”
Mom: “How’s that?” (Trying very hard not to laugh)
Son: “Because before you eat a person you have to kill them and that is against the Ten Commandments!”

Megan posted the above conversation on Facebook and added, “Never a dull moment in my house; however, I am overjoyed that my son is beginning to understand the Ten Commandments.” 

Meanwhile, my daughter Emily was taking her children to the lake for a nice, refreshing time away from the hubbub.

Now, kids, we're going to have fun today, right?

Now, kids, we’re going to have fun today, right?

Right!

Right!

Okie-doke!

Okie-doke!

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They seemed to have a blast!

Recently Becca and Steven took Precious Baby out to a field of sunflowers and had some fun!

Precious Baby decided to just hang out.

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Precious Baby loves hanging out with Mommy and Daddy!

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A day in the life of our children and grandchildren is something we always enjoy hearing stories about and getting pictures of — keep them coming, kids!

“While we try to teach our children all about life,
Our children teach us what life is all about.”
~Angela Schwindt

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Iowa Travelers

14 Friday Jun 2013

Posted by becky6259 in Our Life and Times

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daughter, Dog, Family, family visit, grandchildren, Iowa

Earlier this month we were treated to a nice visit from my daughter Emily and her family.  They were on a trip from Iowa and we were also able to visit with Emily’s husband Jay and their children Gianna and Brisbane.  The children hardly noticed City Boy and I were there, because they and our dog Lucy zeroed-in on each other from minute one.

Gianna and Lucy entertained each other for a while.

Even though it looks as though Gianna is tackling Lucy in this picture, she was actually giving her a friendly hug.

After Gianna wore herself out with Lucy, she went in to where City Boy was finishing up some work and decided to chat with him for a while.

And now it was Brisbane’s turn for Lucy’s attention…

Hey look -- we found some M&M's!

“Hey look — we found some M&M’s!”

"No feeding M&Ms to the dog."

“No feeding M&Ms to the dog.”

"We're done with our candy -- it's tackle Dad time!"

“We’re done with our candy — it’s tackle Dad time!”

"Lucy has some fun noisy toys!"

“Lucy has some fun noisy toys!”

"See?  I washed my shirt."

“See? I washed my shirt.”

Once they discovered how bouncy the couch was there was no going back for Gianna and Brisbane…

We always enjoy our visits with Emily, Jay, Gianna and Brisbane, and always hate to see them leave when they head home.  Seems like it’s a little too quiet afterwards!  We’re looking forward to seeing them again next time they are down this way.

The weekend is fast approaching, so everybody out there plan on having a fabulous one!

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My daddy married a city girl and put her in the country, and then I married a city boy and he put me in the city...for awhile anyway. We're now living in small-town Mid-Missouri and enjoying the best of both worlds!

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