Don’t You Hate it When you forget your passwords??

Well, I thought that was as good a title as any..As a matter of fact, I got signed out of my yahoo account and could not remember my password.  Drats.  I got ‘hacked’ a couple weeks ago, and had to change it.  I finally figured it out, but dang I hate that I even had to change it.  Stupid hackers.  Get a job.  ‘Nuff said.

How was your Thanksgiving?  We did zip, nada, zilch.  We have a wonderful neighbor who brought over an entire dinner for us about 6 tonight..he had cooked a huge meal..before you feel sorry for us, we are having our Thanksgiving tomorrow (Friday) with our son Dan, girl Netti, and the kids’ friends Eric and Jen..and my folks are invited to come over of course.  So the chicken nuggets I stuck in the oven will be good in a day or two..or be a fine treat for the doglets.

It’s been a rough week..I won’t gloss it over..my Depression is getting harder to gloss over, folks.  My doctor changed my medication about 3 weeks ago and boy, I hope this new stuff kicks in.  And as unsure I am at times about about myself and being able to cope..I am fully and so aware of many in such worse shape than we.  And today I was thinking back to when I was in my early 20’s, with not a hint of the depression that would strike me 20 years later.  I have been fighting this for at least 18 years…it struck with a vengeance in 1993 and although I have had a lot of years of doing ‘ok’, this past year for some reason has been a ‘bad one’.  But I will get through this, I have a lot to live for and that is that!

Thankful for my family.  Especially our little Grace Lily who has come into our lives this year..Oh my, and to think we will welcome another little one this upcoming May is a double blessing, as we seriously did not think grand parenting would be blessed upon us.  Ever.  The hard part of this is living over 500 miles away..tough, really tough.  Hoping we can rectify that somehow in the next few years, for now we have dependable wheels on the car and will try to make a trip up north every couple months anyway…Glad Christmas is not too far off, its been a month since we have seen Gracie and from what we are told she is crawling like a crazygirl!  Thankful for Facebook and text and picture messaging, we get frequent updates from the kids.

I am stockpiling little things for her, shopping is fun for a baby girl, I tell ya!  But  we are financially in a tighter way this year, so smarter shopping..it’s being together that counts..But this mom still needs to give a few gifts, anyway.

Our family:

Dan and his sweet girl Annette

Scott and his wife Melainie, parents of Gracie:

 

and Gracie!

My sis Cindy and her husband, Bruce, who live in Illinois:

My brother, Raymond:

My Mom and Dad:

and of course, the doglets!

India

Gracie

and Halo

 

and of course, our extended family and can’t forget our wonderful friends.  I am also thankful for my BLOG friends, a few I have met in person and all are treasured..thank you for being there for ME.