Jenson

My Granddaughter Jenson in her Glitter Girl blog at Kent State...



Jenson

CHAIN MAIL EARRINGS....

Well I found a new craft....making chain mail jewelry...this is the diamond pattern....I went to a class last night and found that my backache came back....now I know that the reason I got the backache in the first place was when I made my photo cards...sitting in the scrunched over position for  hours straight can do it... but it was all worth it...back to ADVIL....the class was fun....I really never heard of chain mail jewelry...I thought chain mail was that stuff I hate to get, but I wouldn't mind if someone wanted to send me this chain mail....LOL....did you know that this is an old craft?....I'm 71 and never knew that thats how the Armour was made back in the AGE...it saved the warrior from getting that arrow in his chest...

Sorry that I brought up the backache....it's just that I have been in pain with it for a month or so...and doctor said to take 3 advil every 8 hours...so yesterday was suppose to be the last day of taking med, and then when I sat making my chain mail earrings, this morning it popped up again...ok done whining.....going to curves today, to try and work it out....

Expecting snow tonight...light snow...we haven't had any yet...oh an inch or so....but I got use to it being sort of a spring like month....tulips are up about 3"....they think it's spring too.... have a good day, where ever you are.... judy

The Agenda: Jenson

The Agenda: Jenson

GRANDMA TIME by Lori Schuster (Vanderlende)

It's January...it's the time we take down the tree, and clean up and organize our closets, etc...well while cleaning (starting in the basement) I found a poem written by my daughter Lori for her grandma's.. The above picture is her playing with Peter and Christopher at Christmas 2002....anyway this poem is so beautiful and touching....she is such a good writer, and thats not just a mom talking....LOL
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GRANDMA TIME

It's not just a look

of a word or a smile.

It's not just a place

to escape for a while.

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It's not just the warmth

of a soft knowing hug.

It's not just a string

in the heart that is tugged.

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It's not just the memory

the scent of the spice.

It's not just the comfort

of love without price.

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It's not just a world

where small children are kings.

It's not just the glamour

or high heels and rings.

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It's not just sweet silence

or stories in bed.

It's not just a shoulder

for small weary heads.

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It's not just a tear

or a wave at the door.

It's just something 'bout Grandma's

that makes you want more...

By Lori Schuster

When Lori wrote this it was for her Grandmas, but I have to say she grew into this wonderful grandma herself...she is what you would call a FUN Grandma...just ask her grandkids...



Those Fun Snowy Days way back when....

 This is my dad Fritz and I on the sled at the top of the hill we made....our garage which was pretty ugly was the background of the snow hill...my dad and I piled the snow up so we could slide down. Now our lot where we lived was very small. But my dad always made the best of what we had...Fun.. in the summer we had veggies and flowers growing, and in the winter we made snow hills...

 The above picture is my dog Trixie and me, out on the lake that has turned to ice....and of course on top was all the snow...

 Yes that is me ice skating...I have a picture somewhere where I skated with a chair to hold me up... of course there was no one around but my family for this was out to my cottage....just me, mom, dad and hot chocolate...we would go into the cottage and it was freezing in there, but mom would turn on the stove and heat up some milk which she brought with us, so we could have hot chocolate, with marshmellows....

And there is mom pulling me on the sled...would I remember all those wonderful times with mom and dad and the hot chocolate, if it wasn't for the pictures....I don't think so....that's why I feel so fortunate to have had parents who took all those pictures.. Lake Erie at Maumee Bay was where all this took place...I go out there now, and it looks nothing like what it did back in the good old days...
Well it will be a new year Sunday, and I hope we all have NEW wonderful memories to make.... HAPPY NEW YEARS! 

A CHRISTMAS MEMORY OF SANTA'S VISIT....

When I was just a little girl

I'd wish with all my might...

That I might hear those jingle bells

Ringing in the night...

A stomping and a HO HO HO

I'd know that he was real...

Oh yes, I do believe I heard

One of the reindeer squeal...

The room in which I spent the night

Was cold and filled with apples...

While hiding under the blankets so warm

I'd sneak a bite, well, just to sample...

I finally fell a sleep that night

With dreams of what I'd find...

A bride doll, perhaps with brown hair

She was a beautiful sight...

Christmas morning I'd wake up at dawn

And creep on down the stairs...

The tree was lit with colored lights

And tinsel everywhere...

I'd hear a tinkling sound from bells

Bells hanging on the tree...

OH I do believe in Santa Claus

For my bride doll was waiting for me...

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property of judy karle schuster

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I wrote this poem back in 2008...it is a childhood memory, which is still so clear...Oh Santa, I wish you were still around...isn't it great when you have really special memories...I've never seen a tree as beautiful as that one...when I look back in my memory, I guess I was spoiled....but I never new it... just as being an only child with two devoted parents....who I always wanted to please, and it wasn't to suck up to them....I never knew what that meant...I just RESPECTED both my parents...MERRY CHRISTMAS FRITZ AND ELEANOR KARLE, JIM SCHUSTER AND ALISON HALEY CLOUD...I pray you are looking down to know how much I loved all of you...

Photo was taken in Fremont Ohio at my Grandma Bertha and Tunta Maries house...in the photo is my cousin Kaaren, Rita, Linda and me....with all our Christmas dolls....

Thanksgiving 2011

A fun day at Linda and Chris's house...I ate so much, I'm ashamed of myself....I didn't need my mom to say, "eat your food, there are kids over in China who don't have any"....yeah that is what she would say to me....65 years ago....she doesn't have to say that anymore...it was so nice to share food and laughter with part of my family...and Zola kept us in stitches...for 2 1/2 years old she is quite funny...and she thinks so too....now after left overs today....I'm back on the Weight Watcher track....but today, I'm pushing the water....hope your Thanksgiving was Thankful....

Alison's 24th birthday

A granddaughter NEVER TO FORGET...she was ONE IN A MILLION....a PRECIOUS CHILD.. WE MISS YOU ALISON HALEY CLOUD... video was made by her mom, my daughter LORI... Ali would have been 24...she passed aways when she was 17...

When the leaves come tumbling down....

About 30 years ago this picture was taken...it has my husband (shirtless) putting Dustin (neighbor boy), into a pile of leaves that he helped rake...watching on the side is Wendy (neighbor girl) and my son Joey...years ago, jims favorite saying was "real men don't need, shirts,), or shoes, or whatever...it was his favorite saying...so on his gravestone I put "Real men don't die, they live on in our memory"... that is engraved along with ivy leaves...he loved his ivy...if I had him here right now I would wind that ivy around his neck....LOL....it's fall and we always use to get together with the neighbors...in fact that is where the picture was taken...I have tons of leaves waiting to be raked up...but still lots of leaves on the tree...it is either an excuse I use (still on trees), or I'm pretty darn lazy....if I had to confess it would be the lazy one....

Halloween 2011



 It was a beautiful Halloween Night....it was cool, but not to cold...we all dressed up, even Cammie the little devil dog....and we had alot of little spookies, cuties and not many large children...ha, we did get a couple people who brought the stroller with tiny baby, a child about 2 and two bags...I said "whats that baby gonna do suck on this candy..." she said well yes, he's 9 months old....I would say the baby was 9 weeks old...but I wasn't going to argue...well maybe a bit....but the teenagers we had were just a couple groups and they were really nice kids...not scary...

After we closed up the porch we went into Mary's to first wash our faces, then have one more piece of candy, and finish with mary's pumpkin cake...it was so good....and yes yesterday was not a weight watcher day....but it was a good day...today back on track....hope you had an enjoyable safe halloween... now to get ready for Thanksgiving....yum....

HAPPY 19TH BIRTHDAY JENSON

Past Halloweens......

 Halloween is one of my favorite holidays, perhaps it's because I'm a Witch....hehehe....swallow that my little pretties....

These of some of the halloweens of the past....it includes my neighbors, my grandkids....and my friends....I am leaving a few of my grandkids out, because I would have to dig up the pictures...hehehe....and these I had in my computer....it's always fun to go to my neighbor Mary's house and hand out our candy together....three families....we also snack on our candy....while sharing some with each other....and Mary usually bakes a pumpkin spice cake....halloween....I guess I like it because I can be someone else....usually it's someone no one else wants to be....hehehe....have a booootiful spooky halloween....it is also my granddaughter Jenson's birthday...well the 30 th that is, and she will be celebrating it at collage....booo hoooo....happy birthday Jenson....