Uncle Jimmy we were all happier for knowing you, you will be missed by so many.

 

"You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it."
– Robin Williams

Sunday August 21st

Quote of the Day

"Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary."
– Steve Jobs

The Noah rule: Predicting rain doesn't count; building arks does." -Warren Buffet

August 8 2011

The cruelest lies are often told in silence.

since the significance of any one action cannot be seen at the moment it is done, we must learn to live by faith....

Barnstable County Fair.............earlier this week

JULY 26, 2011

Pimp Dreena's Bat Ride

Dillon, Mitchell, ReGina, Dreena, Mike

New wave Bat Cake

Dillon and Mitchell

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MY BEAUTIFUL BROWN EYED GIRL!

Happy Birthday Dreena Nicole DiMaggio!! 19 years!! 7/24/92

If I had ALOT of money this is what I would buy for you! 

 This has YOU all over it!

I guess you will have to settle for cash to go to Florida, a BATMAN cake, and a home cooked meal.

Please know money cannot buy happiness it can only buy THINGS.  My birthday wishes for you this year are that you to surround yourself with people who love you, places that bring you peace, and situations that make you laugh............IN A WORLD THAT YOU CAN BE ANYTHING..........

BE YOURSELF.

I love you with all my heart and want nothing more than for your dreams to come true, you are a blessing from God, and everyday I praise him for you.

July 18th

There is only enough room in me for joy, happiness, forgiveness, and love to rule my house. Fear, anger, resentment,hate live in the wilderness out back. In my house I have many rooms, but no room for the wilderness to live inside; those must live in a shack outback and only be visited once in awhile. THEY are not welcome inside. ReGina

July 15, 2011 FLAT ROCK BRIDGE IT'S NOT JUST FOR KIDS!!

July 9, 2011

Off for camping in Maine, 39ft. a/c, full bath, sleeps six, I guess you could call it "ReGina" style, I am sure we will have visitors, to this resort, equipped with water slides, mini golf, hot tub, arcade, I did say camping right?  So I have been packing all week, and decided that smores would not be the same for the kids created on a stove.  I went to Walmart and John said "get match lite" charcoal, which I did with chairs, Starbucks instant coffee, lighter you know the basics, 1st of many camping mistakes I bought a gas grill!!!  Ok so who knew table top grills came in a gas style?  We need to stick to basic camping with a charcoal grill NOT STICKS as Dillon suggested. So, today we will be returning to Walmart to exchange the grill and get the charcoal one, let me just say that it will be safer for all if I am not in the wilderness with a gas can...............I could blog about some instances in the kitchen with a microwave, but that will be for another day.  I hope they have wi fi because I will also be taking  kindle, my laptop, my phone, and CABLE yes the ad said cable "BIG BROTHER" started this week and don't forget the WROUNG AND THE BESTLESS.
Will it be lions and tigers and bears...........or ants, worms and snakes?
Will I make it all seven days, or by Wednesday will I be crying like a little baby girl?

Strangely...................I am excited............couldn't even sleep, I don't know which is more fun, Laughing at myself for attempting this or the dress !!  I put out to wear today. LMAO

July 7, 2011

"The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity."
– Amelia Earhart

July 2, 2011

"Only by acceptance of the past can you alter it."
– T.S. Eliot

Accept, alter, learn, improve, move forward, smile, take one day at a time.....in a world where you can be anything BE YOURSELF .........................YOUR WHOLE SELF, COMPLETELY.

April and Gary's Wedding

John and I, April and Gary, Patty and I.  Nothing like seeing young love and hugging one of your friends you haven't seen in years.  I so miss my Cape days with the Fab four, Angela, Donnella, Patty and ME!!

June 26th

Aerodynamically the bumblebee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumblebee doesn't know that so it goes on flying anyway."
– Mary Kay Ash

June 22, 2001

Dillon is moving to middle school, and football~ we celebrated with Wendy's lunch, a hair cut and a movie, oh how I am blessed to have such a special person belong to me, like the penguins, love forever.

SUPER DAD CAKE

Dillon's idea for John, Mom's creative baking skills...............this yummy number is a  French Vanilla two layer, Hersey bar middle, edible sugar sheet decals,  circled in chocolate whoppers tasty snack  treat!! 

 AT last another way to display our creations!

Happy Super Dad's day to all my family and friends if time allowed you'd each get one, look at it as saving calories????????

BLOG YOU Later!!

"Ashes to Ashes Dust to Dust if you drink good booze your pipes won't rust" Robert H McDaniel

Good Bye Daddy I love you!this is a picture of my

 father's grave, I love the guitar flower arrangement, he loved to play and I believe my son Mitchell has the same gift, being able to play by ear, without lessons.  Every time I hear my son play I am filled with etion, now I know why. From April on we have lost three people, my father, John's uncle Bobby and this past week Nannie Rose, I know they are in a better place without tears or suffering and I know I am a better person for having known them all, it is amazing the mark we leave on each other, some good, some bad.  I hope I leave a loving positive place in all the people's lives I know and I can only hope that when I go I go quick and my life is celebrated.  

....though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death I will fear no evil for thou art with me........

June 7th 2011

............."Whatever our struggles and triumphs, however we may suffer them, all too soon they bleed into a wash, just like watery ink on paper."

June 4th THIS YOU WILL NOT BELIEVE

This morning in church the sermon was titled NOT for sale, I really enjoyed it, a gentle reminder that most of what drives the working world is possessions of material things, hey I like nice things don't get me wrong, but I also know that which doesn't come with a price is for more important, you can't put a price on the little face Emery makes when she looks at you, having not traveled I wouldn't have seen it, you can't put a price on that in a middle of a tornado with sirens ringing out, I wouldn't have chosen to be anywhere else but where I was, these moments of no monetary value, mean everything in the world to me.  Please watch the attached video of my husband, I am a very lucky girl...............almost 7 years ago John said to me, on Cape, "I DON'T DO WHAT I DON'T DO WELL!" ......my response?

 "THAT MIGHT BE A PROBLEM.......................we most certainly have had our share of ups and downs, and moments when I just wanted to throw up a white flag, but today in church, with my son Dillon videoing him, watching his mother in tears, no white flag, I am not done, I have only just begun.

June 3 2011

WE WILL MISS YOU NANNIE ROSE!!  She passed gently yesterday in her sleep, the services will be on Friday next week, she will have people coming in from all over the US, Florida, California, she was something else in her day so I am told.  My favorite memory is when all the girls went to a play she was so happy, large sun glasses, boa, looking like Jackie O!! 

Yesterdays picnic was good, It was freezing though!!  We had soup and sandwich from Subway and took a blanket, good family times, YES I am still doing this and doing this well!!  I love my family.

Let's see pretty typical day, laundry, dishes, dinner, reading, blogging, applying for jobs.....texting....

Hoping to have a nice relaxing weekend, who knows when these days will get all messy again.

So it is day three of my "healthy living" eating decision, I will be curious to see if the different name will fake my body out and this time it will corporate! 

blog you later.................

June 2 2011

Blog blog blog..........so today I sent the email to CLASS that I have been sitting on for days, and it was SO nice to put some closure on that little note, they didn't even pay me for the last two days of work, I don't feel bad about posting this, it is a fact however they will be sending me a check today.  I am feeling better everyday but miss my beautiful daughter so much my heart aches above is her at the graduation party we had for her, little did I know how much our lives would change from that day forward, hey baby girl Mom read something today and thought of you

AT THAT MOMENT BEAUTY ITSELF STRUCK  ME AS A KIND OF PAINFUL MELANCHOLY.  memoirs of a GEISHA

So now we  - John Dillon and I are off to the annual Memorial Family Pic nic, I CANNOT believe I am still doing these things!

blog you later

June 1st 2011

Ok so we returned from Memphis on Saturday and I think I am recovering, it was so sad to leave and I miss everyone already.  John says the "BOYS" will be coming in September, hey the GIRLS should too!!  I started a diet again today oh CHEESE AND CRACKERS, NOT a diet, no way a decade of dieting and surprise I haven't lost any weight, so I think this time I will call it "healthy living" do over.

Whatever I call it, I need to get serious I hear my one cousins lost 80, one 218!!  and the HUBBY 60lbs!!

AND LET'S not forget that TODAY there was a tornado in Springfield Ma, and a Warning issued for Middlesex county.

AND John and I visited Nanny Rose today, she is not doing well.  We sat with Mom Carole and Aunt June and talked about some of the happier times.

I miss Mom and Reed, and Nicole and Taylor and Ethan, Wesley, and Sam, and Lulu an Gregg, and Linley, and Craig and Jenny and Max and Emery and Mitch and DREENA, and my DAD.
love to ya'll

blog you later.............