30 Day Blog - Day 18

Another Picture of Yourself

I just came across this picture while looking for a picture that I wanted to use.

What a treasure.

In this picture-Grandmother Merrill, Great-Grandmother Smith,

mom, me and my sisters.

I have fond memories of going to Tooele to visit great-grandma.

I always loved her name - Edith Elsie Iona Day Smith.

It just rolls off the tongue.

Grandma Merrill is my roll model.

I'm not sure I will ever measure up, but I hope to be like her when I grow up.

This is also a good picture of my mom. Guessing from the ages of us girls,

I think this was taken about the time she was diagnosed of MS.

30 Day Blog - Day 17

Something You Crave

(I've now gone 16 days without caffeine per my goal for this month. Augh!!)

30 Day Blog - Day 16

A Picture of Something that Makes you Happy

30 Day Blog - Day 15

Nicknames You Have and Why You Have Them

I don't have any that are used a lot. My sisters and Dad call me Annie and that is pretty self explanatory but it was also my Dad's grandmothers name so he likes it for that reason.

Nettie Andretti - is another one I picked up while living in California. The race car driver, Mario Andretti, was very popular then and there was a point in time about then that I almost had my drivers licence suspended. I think you can figure out the correlation.

Nettie or Nettiepie is mostly used by close friends.

30 Day Blog - Day 14

A Childhood Picture

Me and my sister, Janeen.

My mother usually made our clothes so I'm guessing she probably made these cute little dresses and my matching hand bag. It's fun to imagine what kind of treasures I would have put in it

30 Day Blog - Day 13

Another Picture of Your Friends

"The better part on one's life consists of his friendships"

Abraham Lincoln

Sig and Carol, Christmas 2010

I love and admire these two ladies a lot. They have both enriched my life in so many ways.

Sig and I are different in so many ways and yet we have clicked. We don't get to see each other a lot but we always meet with fondness and great memories of the times we've spent with each other. Sig and her sister came and visited us in Holland and it was one of the highlights of our time there. We had so much fun. She always share yummy recipes and makes yummy food that I would never think to try. Her yard is a little bit of paradise and is so fun to walk through.

Carol and I are about like sisters. We have been next door neighbors for 18 years and walking partners for about 16 of those years. We've been through a lot of ups and downs together and I can only hope that I have been as great a support and friend to her as she has been to me. She is currently battling stage 4 breast cancer. She has lost all her hair including her eyebrows and eyelashes but today was her final chemo treatment. Yeah!! Her bone scan that was done right before Christmas showed no signs of cancer. What a miracle.

30 Day Blog - Day 12

Someone you Would Switch Lives with for a Day and Why

This is a subject that has made me think a lot since I read Mindy and Lindsay's 30 day blogs. There are really a lot of people that I would to trade places with for a day - but I would also have to have their knowledge.

I think it would be interesting to be in a woman in a very public position, such as Hillary Clinton or Michelle Obama. I would want to see how they balance busy public lives with their personal lives and what stresses they have. I would like to see the people they associate with and how they use their personal time.

Or,

I would like to trade places with a person in a tent city or refugee camp. I would want to see how well I would cope and what I would do to help improve my life and the lives of those around me.

Or,

A bus driver, a waitress, a librarian, a newborn ICU nurse, an event planner, a tech genius. All kinds of things that I've never done or will never be.

Actually, for most of these, I would really just like to shadow them for a day because I'm pretty happy to just be me.