Happy Valentine February!!

Wow, February has been very strange.  Very warm one day, and terrible snow the next.  I am healing from my second foot surgery which went extremely well.  A friend of mine sent several jigsaw puzzles and I have been doing them while I am resting.  Have you ever done a puzzle now that you are older?  Taylor did a United States state puzzle when he was only 3 years old an learned the name and location of all the states.  Do you still remember them?

This one is 1000 pieces and is almost 2 feet square!!

Love and kisses
Grandma Nici

Star Wars Last Jedi

Hurrah!!!  Went to see Star Wars Last Jedi today - one day before my next foot surgery.  It was so wonderful - I wait and wait and wait for the new ones to come out. 

In 1977, when the first star wars came out, I bought all the little characters to play with (well, Shellee got some too!!)  In 2007 I sold them and got a tidy sum for all of them.  Someone in England bought them and I shipped them over.  Interesting, Star Wars is still as popular today as it was all those years. ago!!

Love you and miss you

Grandma Nici

Merry Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas my darling grandchildren!!  How much I love you both and wish I could give you lots of prezzies and tons of kisses.  These are pictures from the last two Christmases at my house when you lived with me!!

Happy Thanksgiving!!

Made some very cute gifts for Thanksgiving this year.  Will share with all my friends and the relatives who will be at Thanksgiving dinner.  Does it make you hungry?

Love you both and miss you on the Holidays more than ever.  This is your mom and me in Thanksgiving 2004 (before you were even born!!)

Grandma Nici

Back From Florida!!

Back from Florida!!  The surgery was very successful and I'm already walking in a real shoe.  It will take a while for everything to be normal, but I knew it before I started.  I will start physical therapy to work on walking in a week or so.  Going to go back to Florida again next month just to get a checkup.

Meanwhile...it's Halloween!!!   What will you be this year?  A pirate, a princess, a witch, a Jedi?  That's it....a Jedi!!  I love Star Wars and all the movies are so much fun to watch.  I am usually a sailor because I have a real sailor uniform and a hat - so it is easy to dress up!!  See the wreath I made for my door below!!  Spooky!

It is slowly starting to feel like fall although summer just got here!!  I like spring better because it is getting warmer.  I DO NOT like the cold at all....So why am I living in the north???  So silly isn't it.

Love you and miss you both like crazy

Grandma Nici

Happy Groundhog Day

It's not really Groundhog Day, but I went to see a live play, made from the Chevy Chase movie "Groundhog Day" and it was WONDERFUL!  It was so much fun.

In other news, August 31, 2017 was my official day of retirement.  I no longer have to go to work every day and it is very wonderful.  Now I can spend my time writing, playing the piano, catching up on a million different projects, visiting friends, and updating the genealogy I started a couple of years ago.  Someday you may be interested in where you came from so I hope you will let me know when you want to see it.  We had some very interesting relatives.

Since I'm not working, I am going to Florida for 4 whole weeks this time to have surgery on my left toe.  It has been giving me trouble for years and is very painful, so fixing it on the 21st of September.  I'm quite exciting about having it done so I can go dancing again.  It was been several years since I could dance because of the pain in both feet.  If this one is successful, I will have the other one done in January.

Also am fortunate to see Sir Paul McCartney in concert this evening.  I can't wait - it is the first time I've ever seen him and this may be his last tour.

School will be, or just was, starting for you both this month.  I know school can be challenging but I really hope you will take the time and energy to apply yourselves to your studies.  I'm sure you are in a very good school so you are learning important information.  It is only for a few years (although it seems like a lifetime at your age) but everything you learn will be used afterwards.  Even the math!!
Spend the time now to learn all you can because once you grow up and start working there is a lot less time until you get to my age and can retire!!

Love you both very much, and miss you as always.

Eclipse of the Sun

It was very exciting on August 21, 2017 here in New York City.  There was an almost total eclipse of the sun.  Everyone left work and stood out in the street with all the homemade devices to be able to see the eclipse without damaging your eyes (I used a long mailing tube with a pinhole in one end, and cutout to view, and white paper at the other end.  It was amazing seeing all the people on the street enjoying the experience.