Christmas 2007

I have to say that this was a most wonderful and delightful Christmas. Everyone (all three of my children plus a son-in-law and daughter-in-law and my granddaughter!) came for Christmas. What fun to have a one year old to inspect the tree, harvest candy canes and generally keep us moving for several days. The delight was back in Christmas! What a reminder that God walked (and still walks) among us as a child.

I’ve got one scrapbook page done — I’ll post the other’s on my Picasaweb account along with this one.

Lily at home - in Florida

She’s very petite and very lively…

Marie Finishes Nursing School

Last week (May 12) I spent the day in Tuscaloosa (and Northport) celebrating Marie’s completion of her RN program. While I’m not sure how much she wanted to go through it beforehand, I know from watching her smile, that she was so very glad that she did go through the ceremony — with Kevin, Jeanne, Charlie and me to cheer her on.

After graduation we retreated to their house and enjoyed lunch before returning to the school for the Pinning Ceremony. I found that to be a lovely, rather intimate event - just the nursing students, faculty and guests. The speaker talked about how important the nurses have been for his young daughter’s cancer treatment - and how important they could be.

It was well worth the late return to Auburn to have been able to stay and share in the whole day.

The rest of the pictures are out on my Picasaweb

Beach Baby

Looks like Lily is going to enjoy living in Florida…

New York

Metro fare card: $10
Museum admission: $20
Dinner for 2 at a nice place in Manhattan: $130
Hailing a cab to get back to Queens immediately upon exiting the restaurant: PRICELESS

When I landed at LaGuardia on Saturday I was pleasantly surprised to find the temperature in the 50’s. Didn’t last! Yesterday Bruce Krause and I headed out to the Met -wind chill had it down in the single digits, I do believe. Picture a couple of diehard southerners in that kind of weather trying to hail a cab on 5th Avenue at 5 pm. We did finally get one, but not before my face was stinging with cold.

There’s a wonderful exhibit of Tiffany glass on thru May 20th - so the trip was worth it.

Youtube? we’ll try it!

It must be time to post something new

I notice that most of my recent posting are pictures - pictures of Lily mostly. Amazingly, I’m really tickled to be a grandmother. Who’d a thunk it?

But, there’s been so much going on of late, that I don’t take the time to write much down. Today a tornado ripped through Enterprise AL - at this time it seems that at least 8 people are dead. How to cope with that? I know several people who live in Enterprise. How do I find out if they are ok? The power is out, I don’t have cell phone numbers, and no doubt, they aren’t able to read email either. I watch the TV and look for faces.

But, as the TV guy says, Wait! There’s more!

Yeah - more… what I don’t write about the unexpected death of a friend, what I don’t write about the frustration of knowing that another friend who was very close to her, and close to me, is having to walk through this loss, and I CAN’T FIX IT! I can only listen on the phone, and pray.

I could go on and on, but I won’t. It’s just that sometimes I have to wait before I can write.

A Saturday afternoon

Saturday afternoon: spent with David, Michelle and Lily. Got to try out the Wii, play with the baby girl and try Bison Short Ribs at Ted’s Montana Grille. Oh, and see Kevin and Marie when they came by to get the top of the wedding cake to celebrate their first anniversay with a trip to Atlanta. All good things to do…

She’s a beautiful baby

Lily brought her parents by for dinner last night — since I saw her last she’s learned to laugh a lot more!

BragBook pages

The bug really bit me on these little bragbook size scrapbook pages — The book fits in my purse so I can show off to anyone who will look. So, I’m adding more pages in hope that I’ll have enough for creating Christmas gifts.

Nicol Family

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