Retirement Life at the Lakehouse

I retired June 2009 and I have spent much more time at The Lakehouse. I have enjoyed each and every day and have not had a bored moment. I stay so busy doing things I want to do that I rarely find myself idle. I guess with the major remodeling complete there has not been as much to post. This is a new phase of life at The Lakehouse and maybe I can post retirement memories.















Sunday, September 21, 2008

Brooke's Birthday Week!!!

This has been a busy week with my long hours and Brooke having a birthday. I am practicing the 12 hours this week and the outage starts on Sunday. I only worked 10 hours on Wednesday and Thursday so I could do Grandma stuff for Brooke's birthday.


Wednesday I got up earlier than normal to go get chocolate donuts for Brooke for breakfast since we would not do cake until Thursday when Chris would be home and got there to find that they did not have any... I commented gee I must be really early and they informed me NO !!! We had a mad rush thru here this morning and they are all gone. I thought to myself yep the outage has started, lol. I was able to get 8 chocolate covered logs so my efforts were not wasted. The 8 was gonna work out fine and I had it all planned out as how everyone would get 1 including Tyler and Tanner since they come by the house every morning. When I saw Tracy that afternoon I asked if Tyler enjoyed his donut... she thought I was crazy and Tanner did not get one either. I had told Blake ( because I knew he would take care of Tyler, lol) to take him one when he got here. I started investigating the missing donuts and everyone thought I was crazy.... making an issue out of the donut, lol. Well I wanted to know who ate them... did Blake forget and Chris ate them when he came in from work? Did Pat eat them? Did Blake eat them and think I would never know ? lol. I text Chris at work and he had one and only saw one. Ok so thats one, but another one missing , still to solve. I was really getting into my investigation... Tanner was really amused with me.....Pat did have a half he found after everyone had gone and Chris was in bed , lol so now I am only missing a half of a donut log, lol. Well I did find out where the other half went, lol and it was the Birthday girl...hmmmm or did she just say that to shut me up, lol. The only reason I cared was I did not want anyone to be left out or to think I left them out. Far as I know Tyler never knew a thing, lol. I cooked some of Brooke's favorite dishes for supper Mac and cheese and chicken and rice casserole. Later that evening her other Grandmother ( Nancy from N.C.) came by to visit. She came straight from the airport and had sugar cookies for all. We had a nice visit with her and her sister Judy.


Thursday I ordered pizza for all and had chocolate cake and chocolate ice cream. Nancy and Judy came back for our little birthday gathering, and again we had a nice visit with them. We let Brooke miss school on Friday and she went with Nancy for the weekend.



Friday the boys went to their Mom's after school so the weekend was quiet. Saturday I did sleep in until 8 then the walmart run til 11, then laundry and watched football.Pat and I watched the ALABAMA and Arkansas game, him in his Arkansas shirt and me in my Bama pj's lol. As you all know Bama rolled and roasted them hogs from Arkansas (sorry Arkansas family, can't help myself) then late that day we watched the Tigers, Auburn and LSU in a good close game... but dang our team lost. I can see that next week will be an exciting game for Brandon and Christy with Bama and Georgia playing. Brandon have you been converted to a Georgia fan? I must go for now so I will close with ROLL TIDE ROLL!!!!!!!