BOO!

I'm feeling festive for fall so I thought orange would be a nice color to use :o)
We are coming into my favorite time of year! I love when the leaves turn color, soups, hot chocolate, bonfires, and layering! Most of all, my favorite holidays are in the fall! It is kind of a toss up between Halloween and Thanksgiving...
Halloween in a cute kid friendly way, not the scary goblin way. I go to the Halloween parade in downtown Anoka every year! I've already gone to the apple orchard and will be going to the pumpkin patch soon! I'm doing something a little different this year too though. I am volunteering at the Zoo Boo for Como Park! I am really excited to dress up in costume and have fun with the kids and their families! I volunteered for two weekends, the first I am a polar bear, the second I am a penguin! The costumes are so cute!
Thanksgiving I love because I love getting together with family and eating amazing food! Such a great day. This year instead of spending it with my own family though, I will be with my boyfriends family. I am going to miss being with my family on this day, but will still have a lot of fun! I really enjoy his family.
Oh, before I go, just a side note.... at the costume fitting tonight for the Zoo Boo everyone really liked my Halloween socks ;o)

Here's to the Grandmas

Once again, it's been a while since I've blogged. I have had so much happen to me since my last post! What made me feel the need to write again was a woman I met yesterday. She was absolutely charming to me, and reminded me of my grandma! from her face structure, to the flushed face, right down to her eyes! It was so amazing and shocking to me I didn't know whether to laugh, stare or cry!
Let me back up and explain. Since I've been back in MN I looked for a full week for a job, and found one! With AIL, I invested in my future by going to classes and getting licensed in life insurance and also accident and health insurance. I've been training for the past 2 and a half weeks, working anywhere from 10-14 hours a day! Finally this week I've gotten back down to 8 hours. It was in one of the members homes that I found Linda.
Funny Linda has the name of one grandma and the face of my other! She even grew up in the same area as my grandma! I sat and talked to her for two hours, about family, death, marriage, injustices, and disabilities.
I miss my grandma every day, and she was such a big part of my life and played such an important part of who I am. I don't think I could ever express that to its fullest extent. So here's to the grandmas, the ones who have many or few grandkids, the ones who know or don't know how much they are loved and appreciated. I guess part of being a grandma is just knowing it all already, because grandmas give so much love I can't imagine they come up with all of it with out knowing how loved they are, even if it's not always apparent.