It's May Already??

Wow, here it is May already and we still haven't had much warm weather.  Only about one week of temperatures above 70 degrees every day.  Wow!!  It's certainly meant not having to use the air conditioner though!

I've been doing a lot of cleaning out of  "stuff" the last couple of years.  Taylor might remember living with Grandma, or maybe not - you were very little when you left.  Anyway, I know that someday soon I will need to sell the house and get an apartment so there won't be a lot of extra room for tools, and suitcases, and things that lay around on tables just to look pretty.  So I've sold some, and given a lot away, and taken some to the new condo in Florida for the future.  Even if I don't live in that one, I think I'm going to live in Florida when I stop working.  It is inexpensive and easy to find someone to care for me when I will need it.

My foot is hurt now.  Wouldn't you just know it!  Summer is just around the corner when I really like to get out a do a lot of things, and I can barely walk back and forth to work.  But I'm going to exercise it a lot, and use ice, so perhaps it will be back feeling good in a couple of months.  Hopefully before summer is over!!

Your summer vacation is probably starting pretty soon too, isn't it?  I watched a movie about Monaco the other night on television and the city is so pretty with lots to do every weekend.

Miss you, as always, and sending you my love and lots of kisses.

Grandma Nici

Is Spring Ever Coming

Well, we have certainly had a very cold spring here in the Northeast.  Not a lot of rain, just very cold temperatures that look like they are going to continue for weeks.  Even some late snow.  We went down to West Palm Beach the beginning of April, and that was the only warm weather I've had!!

So lucky to have seen a wonderful play that started in London called "Wolf Hall".  It will also be a 6 part series on television and I hope you will both get a chance to see it when you get older.  It is wonderful history about a crazy English king from a long time ago - Henry VIII (8th).  We also saw one about Peter Pan called "Finding Neverland".  You would definitely have enjoyed that one as it had two young children in it that played make-believe almost the whole show.

I wonder how you are enjoying school?  Hope you are loving it and learning lots and lots.  I know you take a lot of trips around Europe so that is almost like school on its own, isn't it?

Love you both very much and always miss you.  Kisses and kisses from

Grandma Nici

Happy Birthday Emmerson

Happy Birthday Em!  You are getting to be such a big big girl I can hardly believe it.  I hope you get something wonderful for your birthday.

My birthday is tomorrow - the 14th - and I'm not so sure I like getting older!!

Love and kisses my sweet grandbabies

Grandma Nici

Florida Way

It's January and cold cold cold in New York City.  Snow and more snow!  My friend Matt and I spent New Year's in Florida in our new condo.  I thought of you both, of course, because I know how much you like to spend time on the beach.  Someday you will visit and have fun in the pool and on the beach.

It looks like you guys had another change to go skiing which was probably really fun...but COLD!  Grandma hasn't ever been skiing because I don't like being cold.  Eventually I'll move to Florida where it will be nice and warm.

I love you both and miss you very much.

Grandma Nici

Merry Christmas

Well it has been an exciting couple of months.  Grandma set up a new website www.nicidamon.com and finished her book "Do You Believe in Always".  It has lots of stories about Grandma when she was young, about your grandfather Nick, and mommy of course.  It took a long time to do but it was fun to get finished and know that other people can read the stories.

There haven't been any new pictures of you since Shellee stopped entering new posts in her blog, but I sometimes see pictures on websites or FaceBook.  I can't wait until you are both old enough to have your own internet presence.  We will have fun talking back and forth and seeing photos of each other.

Well, it's Christmas today and I'm going to go over to the daughter's home of my friend Matt.  There are four grandchildren there, but they aren't ever as much fun as you would have been.

I love you both

Grandma Nici

Almost Thanksgiving!

My goodness, can it already be almost Thanksgiving?  It looks like you two had a wonderful vacation this year in Italy.  Grandma went to Florida again, and guess what?  She bought a new house.  It's big enough for you both to visit someday and stay for a little while.  We can enjoy the beach, drive up to Orlando for DisneyWorld and really have some fun together.

I am going back after Christmas to start getting the things that I will need - sheets, towels, dishes, all the stuff needed to make a house a home.  I won't be living there for another couple of years but at least it will be ready.

I will be spending Thanksgiving at my friend's daughters house with their family and children.  It will be really nice, but I will wish the children were you both.

As always, I miss you both and think about you almost every day.  It seems like I always say that, but I mean it so much.  Each time I see your pictures, or think of you, my heart hurts more.  But someday, somehow, we will be together again.

Love,
Grandma

Happy Birthday Taylor!!

Happy Happy birthday my precious boy!  You are getting so big - and you are getting all your new teeth at last!  What a lovely smile you have and you looked so happy with your cake in Greece.  So happy you got to have another vacation to Greece.  You and Emmerson looked like you were having so much fun.

Emmerson - how big you are getting too.  Your hair is so long, and with lovely curls in it.  I can see you are still loving your pink!  How funny.  I will tell you a story.  When you were born I bought you a lot of pretty little dresses with lace and flowers on them.  When your mom saw them, she gave them back to me because they were too "girly".  As you got older, all you wanted was to dress in pretty little dresses, and princess costumes and pink stuff.  Ha Ha Ha!!  A real girly girl just as you were meant to be.

You both looked like you had so much fun on your Greek vacation to Kos, meeting friends from all over the world.  That's the way it works, you know.  Getting to know everyone from everywhere is important in becoming a good person with broad thinking.

Keep after your schoolwork, stay active, and enjoy life while it is there for you to enjoy.  I love you both very much and miss you more than it seems possible.  Every day we don't know one another is a great loss.  Someday, somehow, you will find me and it will all come together as it is meant to.

Love and kisses

Grandma Nici