Sandi Chats

Recently I had two Facebook posts on my timeline that pointed my thoughts to my parenting skills. One of them was posted by my daughter, April, which said "Tag a mother and let her know that she's the best!!!" Another, which I can't find now that I am looking for it, said something about letting mothers everywhere know that they are doing a great job.  My child rearing years, 32 of them to be exact, are now a memory...a great memory in fact. In retrospect, we tend to remember the good stuff, the places we went, the quiet times at home, and the most precious memories of all, the times when I held them as babies. It takes a little more digging around in my memory banks to recall the tough times of parenting, the times we had to practice tough love, the spankings (I hear a gasp from modern parents), and all the blasted work that went with raising kids. Raising kids isn't easy, and I believe it's getting tougher every year! Kids have a way of worming themselve

Christmas 2017 is in the books. Actually it was done before Christmas even officially arrived as we had all our celebrations a bit early which left us home alone yesterday.  On a day that didn't even register out of the single digits, that is exactly where I was happy to be! Grandkids Taylor and Merrick are staying for a week's visit. Now that they are in school these visits have to be relegated to summer and school vacations, so I am home being Grandma this week! It's reminding me of those days when we had small children and how much chaos they can create in such a short time! I am truly beginning to feel old. The two daughters who were here for Christmas argued who got some of my dishes when I die! I haven't really felt the grim reaper breathing down my neck but maybe I need to check closer. The way things go around here I will probably break them before I die anyway. One train of thought always comes to mind after having a house full of company...we need a bi

It is now December 4th (or 5th or 6th, depending on how long it takes me to organize my thoughts), and it's always about this time of year that I pause to think, "What in the world happened to this past year?!?!?" It seems that the pages of the calendar have flown off at record speed, and the past January seems only a few weeks ago. But here we are, once again, with another year of our lives gone. Completely GONE!!! This is time we will never get back to relive or make better use of. What's gone is gone and there are no do-overs. I've heard a lot of people mention that time seems to go faster as you get older. In reality, an hour is still and hour and a day is still a day, so time is not truly going faster, it's all in the perception. In my case, I believe that time is the same, I am just moving so much slower. I'm like the rancher who told me one day "I'm so far behind I'm about to catch up." Yes, life is lapping me! So what di