Nana Renanalogies

Ever have one of those days (or weeks, or months!!) when you're on edge and cranky and you don't know the exact reason(s)? Finally someone -- usually my inconveniently long-suffering husband! -- asks, "What's wrong?" There it is -- you're meant to verbalize what you can't even comprehend. My pat answer is "EVERYTHING!!!!!....and nuthin'." :-( Ten kizillion things are annoying the daylights out of me -- and yet not ONE of them "amounts to a hill of beans" as my mother would have said. Now in truth, I'm no dummy. I am the FIRST to recognize that I am blessed beyond measure. Good health, awesome husband, wonderful kids, delightful friends, happenin' church and most of all -- the Love and Friendship of my Creator!! I KNOW how fortunate I am and I do try to be grateful to Him with worship and thanksgiving every day. But that doesn't mean things don't pester and aggravate. And despite what SOME PEOPLE might think (are...

It's my BIRTHDAY!! Yesterday was Independence Day! My GrandDoll , Daughter-in-law, Sister and one of my daughter's all have birthdays this month! Never been to Michigan before, but expect to go there a few days in August. Mike and I are going on our SECOND cruise in 3 months! My first trip ANYWHERE North & East of Knoxville!! NYC. Boston. Nova Scotia . Martha's Vineyard!! I LOVE the holidays -- Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Year's, Valentine's Day! Ladies Conferences in the Spring!! ....the list goes ON and ON and ON. Sometimes I seem to be living from one EVENT to the next. Proof in point -- my oldest daughter got married two weeks ago. A simple affair -- casual, on the beach. It still took a considerable amount of planning and preparation. Some might call it trouble -- not me! I LOVE the thrill of the anticipation. No matter how tight the budget got. How frustrating the preparations got (as in having to remake half the bridal gown two nights before the weddi...