We have truly been blessed in '08

In May we welcomed our 6th grand child into the family...another boy...that's 5 boys and 1 girl now.  In Nov our son who served in Iraq married and we were told at Christmas they are expecting next year August.  Our basset hound of 15yrs died this year and our 20 year old who has never not had a dog bought himself a designer mutt who is just so funny. We've had several health scares this year which have all turned out for the best.  So all in all '08 has had more positives than negatives.

We had a few nice things- my mom turned 80 in April of 2008 and we had a suprise party for her. The miracle was she never found out anything about it! My son graduated high school in June, my daughter started nursing school in Sept. John went on a business trip to Chicago and met up with Marty, Kish and Jake. Other than that, we are kissing the year goodbye, most of it sucked.

I started receiving Social Security.  I guess that was a good thing.

The Cubs had a great season.  But then came the playoffs. . .

Anything else that I found to be good had to do with politics.

Wow Marty...You have my sympathy if the only thing good that happened to you in 2008 was getting social security and your local baseball team had a good season. It is sad that the only other thing in your life you see as good is politics. I hope 2009 brings some personal happiness to you.

It's not as bad as it sounds, Jim. 

I managed to stay alive and reasonably healthy.  I still have clothing, food and shelter.

Sounds pretty basic. . .but there are a lot of folks who aren't as lucky.

Happy New Year!

First granddaughter was born. 

 

Mazel tov, "zaydie" Herb!!

Marty, thanks for reminding me what I realy am. I will have to teach the grandkids that word.

Marty, thanks for reminding me how lucky my family really is. Although things were very bad for many months, we still had food, clothing, shelter, and most important, each other.

My son Paul got married in June in Tucson where he lives.  His new wife Morgan is a lovely girl and she has a great family who are crazy about Paul.  We were all able to make it to the wedding, which means that I had my three sons together for the first time in about 6 years.  I was also able to comfortably do something that I've always wanted to do: sing karaoke!