A Decision Has Been Made!!!!

Since I sent my poor husband on a wild goose chase in the beginning for a famous piece of Polish Pottery (the platter in butterfly pattern), I feel that the platter is what I really want.



However, this is how I plan to present my answer to my husband...

"Honey, I love all of it. I really wish I could have it all, but I have settled for the platter. So please bring the platter home."

Now if I know my husband... he will have already bought all of them before I gave him my answer. OR he will still buy all the pieces and surprise me when he gets home. If he doesn't I won't feel bad, but something tells me I'm right!

Thank you all for helping me and participating. By the way it was a tie between the platter and the set (including emails I received) I also had three friends tell me to get them all and one friend who told me it was ugly and I would wonder why I got it in 20 years.....

Anyway, I've had fun hearing from all of you!!! Hopefully you will get to have a great meal served on my platter soon!

::HUGS::

Cyndi

Need Your FUN Advise!

If you can get me your choice back in the next few hours, it would be very helpful.

Many of you know my hubby, my love of my life, is in Poland. He found some authentic Polish Pottery for me. Only problem... I gotta choose..

I can get two small plates, two small cups and I think this unique teapot....
or I can get this huge platter....
or I can be selfish and ask for all of it....

What do you think I should do???

I hope that Bill and I last that long..

Today, January 31, 2008, my Grandfather turned 92! That's right, 92... an awesome achievement to say the least. I'm sure it's because of hard honest living and work. Not to mention being surrounded by family all the time.

He and my Grandmother now live just blocks from the nursing home my mom is in. My Grandparents did something, that I have found many people have done from the 30's and 40's, they got married on my Grandfather's birthday. Grandpa says it makes it easier to remember his anniversary and it's the best Birthday gift he's ever gotten. :-) I believe the latter, because today they have been married 68 years!!!! No joke, they were married in 1940! All my aunts and uncles are baby boomers :-).

I've heard the story of how they met at a small school in Nebraska. My Grandfather was a baseball player, on a farm team, and was good. He has his own baseball card! He gave up his dream of being a baseball player to take care of his dad and work the farm.

I remember my Grandparents 40th wedding anniversary... it was a big deal, cake, party, lots of relatives and guests. Then I remember their 50th wedding anniversary... a smaller party, but still family and lots of friends. I don't know what they did for their 60th... but 70th is just around the corner.. Can you imagine that... almost 70 years with the same man/woman. True commitment.

I laugh when I see them nit pick at each other, or when Gpa purposely taunts Gma. Their love in genuine though. You can see it. There is no one they would rather be in this world with, than each other. I think about how people are amazed that Bill and I just celebrated our 15th wedding anniversary and what an accomplishment that is these days. I just hope that Bill and I will be around long enough to enjoy each other for 68 years or more.

Ten on Tuesday 1/29/2008

My friend Bethany does a Ten on Tuesday, just kind of a little wrap up. I thought I would give it a try.... I hope she doesn't mind.

1. My rant about speeding parents took up a good amount of my energy. But I received the most blog comments ever and I only lost one friend over it.

2. I love Ryanisms!!!

3. Ryan is amazing me. He is building a castle for school (due Friday). He started on his own and hasn't needed/wanted my help. He is doing a great job & adding each piece that is required to receive extra credit. He works on it whenever he has extra time, without me telling him to.

4. I have three business orders I'm working on. 1 bracelet due before April, a business request of chocolates that I am almost done with, and an order of fudge and chocolates due in March. I am hoping for more... I have some great ideas too. I just have to find time to work on my website!!!

5. I am sick of chocolate :-) If I lick one more drop of chocolate....

6. IMs are amazing!!! Bill is in Poland and instead of being on the phone and running up a huge phone bill, we IM two times a day!!! It's great!

7. Until today I had 3 days of almost pain free bliss in a row!!!!!

8. I have great & loving friends who want to take care of me and have brought me food while Bill is gone or have agreed to later in the week!!!

9. Being in charge of a ministry can try your patience. Some people need everything drawn out for them, in detail, and in triplicate.

10. Thank God for personal time with my son. It makes me happy that he trusts me, wants to cuddle, likes to talk and expresses his love for me publicly at age 11.

Ryan and I were watching House and I had to explain what a donkey show was... oh yeah, not something I thought I would have to explain.

Anyway, that got him asking me some questions about what he learned in health class and has seen on television. He asked me why when a guy gets a girl pregnant his friends either say marry her, or get as far away from her as possible.

As I was explaining to him about shot gun weddings, he says, "Oh it's like the 'You broke it, you buy it' thing"

I have never thought of it like that!!

Correction to Blog

I am told it was not a kid who was hit by a car. It was a white pit bull. An Ambulance was on it's way, probably because it was phoned in by a passer by as a human.

Although we are sad a dog has died, and happy it wasn't a child... the principle is still the same in my blog... next time it could be a child... it could be one of our children!

Excuse My French - I'm Pissed as Hell!!!!

Okay so here goes... as I am driving Ryan to school, we are being redirected.. there are cars parked everywhere and there is a kid on the laying on the street.

As I return home there is still no police or ambulance, and they have a blanket over the kids' head. Either to warm, protect identity or because the kid passed. I didn't stop because there were tons of people already there, and I saw a motorcycle cop on his way.

Time for my rant - What the hell is wrong with the parents in Murphy Canyon! Oh yeah I am pissed! I hear every parent say, I wish people would slow down when the kids are walking to school, yet I am the only car every morning going the posted speed limit, including the decreased sign during school!!!

Don't tell me that all these parents who complain about everyone else goes the speed limit! They don't! In fact, while waiting to pick Ryan up from school I saw three parents, one with a PTA sticker, almost run kids over, because they were texting on their phones!!!

Now is it always the adults fault, YES. I have almost ran a few kids over myself, was it my fault as a driver, no. It was a kid, not crossin g in the cross walk, or not following the lights. Ryan and I saw a kid yesterday, dodging traffic. Whose fault is that... the parents!

Don't tell me you aren't responsible for what your kids do when you aren't around. That is total Bullshit! You are suppose to teach your children. Walk with them, show them how it's done. Make sure they know. And when an adult comes and tells you that your kid isn't follow traffic rules, don't shrug your shoulders and say you can't be with them 24/7. The next day you walk to school with them and teach them and if it embarrass them, then maybe they won't do it again!

I'm sure the kid who got hit today will have parents blaming the driver and the driver will be blaming the kid. What needs to happen is they need to police these people better. The cross walks need to be painted every month. Parents needs to be fined triple during school hours, and kids who don't obey the rules of traffic safety need to be put in a class and the parents fined too.

I have a lot of friends who I have seen go 50 down Santo. I've called them on it too. So, if this rant offends you, good... because maybe I'm finally getting to you.

A kid may have died today... because everyone thinks they have a right to do what they want!