WOMEN AGES 50 + FOR NOVEMBER 2017

Great photos of your dad Allie! You look great and so YOUNG! Must be good genes. Love Taliah having fun.

Love Heather UK xxxxxxx

Allie: I agree with Heather. The photos look wonderful and you look fabulous and happy!

Alison ~ Your dad looks so young...how old is he? You look great and happy.

Healther ~ I see how proud you must be of your DnL.

I’m with you Becca I keep little journals of my day in a word doc on my laptop, including what I spend and what I’ve eaten. I even print them out monthly! Call me crazy too, but it’s working for me.

Heather thanks for the info on the ted talk, I will look it up.

This morning I heard a talk with that Facebook cfo, Sharon something, about her gried since losing her husband. She has a book out about grief call “option B”. I will have to get from library-sounded so interesting.

NYKAREN

Becca - nice to have reduced laundry! Also, it's kind of fun looking back at those notebooks/food logs. I have a program loaded on my computer called "FitDay" where I have recorded weight stats and some meals since 2006! Interesting to read the history and see where I've been and what I was eating throughout the years. I think it's still available.

Allie - what great photos! You remind me of a gal I just adore at my doc's office!! Fabulous! Loved the pic of your dad with Sen. John Warner. I wonder if he aged more rapidly when he was married to Liz Taylor??

Heather - I will look for your DIL'S TedX - hope it is broadcast over here. There's no reason for her to be nervous. I presume she's been practicing and reviewing her material a lot!

Kate - how long have you been doing the Kettlebells?

Barbie - how nice your friend will take you to line dancing so Jake won't have to rent a car. I know, it's so hard to realize that people WANT to help!

Rita - glad you are feeling better - those photos are so neat. Are those little waterways I see irrigation channels? A river? What a nice early Christmas present, by the way. Good thing DH and I aren't with you at the Rockhound Park, the RV would be loaded down with rocks like Lucy & Ricky in "The Long Long Trailer",

Joyce - those health fairs are a good idea. Isn't it amazing the information they glean from a drop of blood? Hope your weather isn't too nasty!

Machka - I think when I finish farm sitting for Wendy, I'll head over your way and hike along that beach. If only!

Kelly - I am so glad to hear your DH is feeling better! Doing the happy dance for both of you.

So I told DH this morning that my throat hurts when I talk too much or call the dogs.... so I'm not going to use my voice much today. What a bright smile!! He's all for it, lol.

Lanette
SW WA State watching the temperature drop rapidly.... maybe a few snow flurries mixed with rain today!

Watched my husband eat a couple of these this morning. I had my Ralston brand corn checks cereal, called corn hexagons! They had no taste whatsoever, but they were crunchy! Having a tomato, spinach and avocado sandwich for lunch. Dinner will be my version of ramen, using my leftover lasagna noodles! Today's totals: calories 899, fats 38, proteins 48. A bit low, but tomorrow I'm having pasta!

Becca
Oregon

To those who asked Lanette and leanerstronger (sorry I don't know your name) I've had kettlebells for about a year now (checked on Amazon) but haven't been consistent. Trying now to do regularly but I still love my cardio. Don't need BP medication now and I put that down to cardio.
I do stretches and balancing to help prevent falls

Kate UK

Machka9 – I went to a small HS (as did Carol – Peach). Homecoming is held during the HS football season. Each class picks a representative, the Senior Class picks 3; and then, the entire school picks the queen. A big parade and floats that the students decorated. Then they were driven around the field in a convertible so that they could be seen. It is an honor to be on the Homecoming Court. My DOGD was the representative of her junior year – I was in the hospital getting my medications tweaked after having a bipolar episode, so I missed it. There is a dance afterwards that the girls work ‘suits’ like they’d wear to church – not even semi-formal. Prom is a dance – in our school for the seniors and juniors and their dates. Dress-up (long gowns and tuxes); flowers and boutonnieres for the boys (usually the same color as the girl’s gown). Actually the sophomore class puts it on and sets a theme with a small play for entertainment (and a band). They aren’t the same and the only thing they have to do with graduation is the timing. Homecoming 1st; then in May, the prom, with graduation being in late May or early June. Most parents let their daughters and sons stay out late than curfew and a lot went to Macon to eat out late. We were never allowed out past 2:00am. I don’t think even Taylor got to stay out late. Some of the kids would rent motels and party – even motel rooms and hopefully they’d keep it down so the cops would not get called on them. Some of Taylor’s cheerleaders thought that DOS was ‘hot’ when they saw him walking around in his suit. Taylor’s reaction was ‘He’s my DAD’! Not very understanding of why they were so impressed with someone old enough to be her Dad. But, he is a head-turner, just like his brother. The girls got to choose their escort. They had a mum (gold) with black ribbons because that was our school’s colors. Taylor got a rose that was given to them on the sidelines by their mothers. Of course, Taylor had both her real mother and Jenn there. He real mother only ‘if’ she was ‘sober’. She was at least ‘sober’ enough that it did not embarrass Taylor and she left as soon as it was over at halftime.


Dear youngest son and wife (Will and Tami)


Dear oldest son and wife (Trey and Jenn)

Heather – I’m sorry your daughter was born stillborn. That had to be awful. I lost my first pregnancy due to a ‘Hydatidiformole pregnancy’ which is a rare complication. I went a month being 5 months – 6 months pregnant before they realized there wasn’t a fetus in my abdomen. But, once they found out, they ended the pregnancy and I had to take chemo due to the placenta breaking off and in my blood stream attaching to other organs. Thankfully my OB had researched it so much to make sure he had the proper diagnosis and that he did everything so I had a good prognosis. I now have 2 wonderful sons – 39 and 41. It occurs in 1:2000 pregnancies while naturally conceived twins occur 1:89.

I think it would be difficult to have a stillborn because even when you know it, they don’t do anything to end the pregnancy or deliver it by C-section or induce labor. I’m never understood that, for the life of me. How hard it would be for all the questions you get and know that the baby isn’t alive. My grandmother-in-law was pregnant when they moved from Shreveport, LA to Savannah (Port Wentworth) because they were building the Dixie Crystal Sugar Refinery there. The only building large enough for a fame of 5 children + adults was the recreation hall which they turned into their home. They had to wash it down with lye because of lice infestation. A month later she gave birth to a stillborn son. They decided that it was the cooking of the lye soap and her breathing in the fumes was the cause of his death. Of course, back them most people went to mid-wives and whatever was wrong or went wrong was simply a guess.

I’m sorry for your loss.

Katie – Your school had the same rules as I did – just seniors and juniors and their dates, no matter if they were younger or older, or whether they were graduates of the school. A lot of the kids were engaged by that time of the year, and, they fiancés might not have gone to school there.

Welcome to all the Newbies, congrats to all that deserve it, and {{{{{HUGS}}}}} to those who need it.

Love all the pictures posted ... always do.

Lenora

Sutherland Springs, TX --- oh my! anyone near there? I know there are a few from texas in our group...

Kim N. California

What a tragedy in Sutherland Springs. Tiny little town and so many senselessly dead.

Karen in Virginia