Can't Sleep

Can't Sleep...Clay Walker
I've been up all night long

just waitin' on the sun
I've given up, damn the dawn
it ain't never gonna come
somethin's wrong as long as you're gone... (this is the part of the song that fit...)

Once again I sit here wide awake when I should be sleeping. Why you ask? Tony is working and overnight..overtime shift.  He is a wonderful, loving, supportive, father, best friend, husband, daddy, you get my point; HE IS AWESOME!  When things are tight he helps out picking up a shift of overtime when it is available and tonight is one of those nights.  So until he is home in my arms, I wont be able to go to sleep.  Ever since we met, his job has been a night shift job with occasional day shifts. And our patience paid off when RWECC finally went to the 3-2-3 schedule and Tony went on the day shift only as a floater working 3-2-3 from 9a-9p. YEAH we were all soooooo excited.  So the only night shifts he picks up, are the ones where he chooses to pick them up and they are for overtime.  So tonight, Payton is having her first slumber party/sleepover ever wit hher buddy Grace and they are having a blast and I am inthe den watching (saying this very pathetically) Disney channel because it is background noise and because I am antsy since Tony is not home and will stay thatr way until her arrives home in 8 more hours....so I am back to my sleeplessness.


Twinkle Twinkle little star how I wonder what you are.

Bless You...Bless You...(again and again..7 plus times)

Bless You...Bless You...(again and again..7 plus times)

Eva

Charlie and Eva Jordan

 OK. So if you have read my post about my grandfather Charlie, then now you will hear about his Other half, my grandmother Eva.  I had to post this little cuteness and it gave me a smile and shows you what kids pick up.

My grandmother Eva could sneeze. When she would sneeze, it was not once and not twice. It was normally 7, 8 or maybe 9 times.  Then became the running joke that when someone in the family would sneeze numerous times, we would say EVA.  Well my mom tends to get it honestly...she sneezes and sneezes and it tends to be usually a large number of times and my mom normally says "Momma Im comin'" or "Allright Eva."  When my allergies are going strong I get to sneezing and think or say ok MaMa which is what we called her or ok now I sound like Eva.  Well we had been in Poquoson and Payton with the weather changes and temperature changes and I guess dust as wel las being around friends pets and the animal dander, Payton became my little sneezy.

Payton after a bunch of her sneezes said "Mommy aren't you going say what your suppose to say." I said "Bless you" and reminded her that I had already said it a ton of times.   She said "I know I heard you but the other thing that you tell grandmother (my mom Linda). I said "Oh ok. You mean "À tes souhaits". She said "No the other thing."  I then asked her you mean when Grandmother sneezes a bunch and I say "Ok Eva." She said "yes." So I then told her she was "Little Eva."  She then went on her way to play and do but it really made me think.

Eva would of loved Payton so much.  She would of taught her all kinds of stuff. Hopefully My mommy learned it ALL from her so she can pass it on... now that she is retired.  Miss you MaMa.

OK Charlie,,,Yep I get it Honestly.

OK Charlie...YEP I get it Honestly.

Charlie and Eva Jordan
( I love and miss you both.)

For many many...ok for 34 years I have listened to folks pick about how my grandfather (Charlie Jordan)saved EVERYTHING.I know I have made my own comments.
Charlie I think must of had in his mind a need for them already but who really knows.  He always said he would find a use for it somewhere or how. Bolts, screws, lightbulbs, boxes, etc.  And then he had his collection of hats as well.  For those of you who knew him and those of you who did not, he had a lot of hats and some just your basic hats for a business and then some cute or even funny.

( I Will post a pic if i can ever find one of the hats on the ceiling....I know there is one or two out there. Imagine wood beam ceilings and 50 hats per beam..if I am remembering correctly)

Well over the years, As we have cleaned up in the farm house or buildings or been out and about and found something that many would trash I have found myself just laughing and saying ok Charlie... I get it honestly.  The random jokes and  comments have been said when my mom or my aunt or any other person on that side of the family has saved something that should of just been tossed.

There is a phrase.. "One mans junk is a another mans treasure."  I guess this still stands true and I keep finding that I say ughhh not me but then Tony or Payton will ask where something is or only if weh ad something to put this in or seperate this into and I say "oh yeah, I saved this or that , I knew I would need it sometime I just didnt know when."  and then I hear myself saying ok Charlie....or Tony will beat me to it and say it.

Thanks PA (Charlie Jordan) for leaving us a legacy for collecting, smiling, and remembering.  We love you and miss you and I wish my daughter Payton had had the chance to meet you. You two would have gotten into alot of trouble together I am sure. 

Footprints

This is my Favorite Poem

I have several I like which I will also share but this one Says it All.

Oh How the Years Go by...

Oh How the Years Go by...

Payton keeps reminding me her birthday is getting closer and she will be older..A whole 5 years old.  Wow is she really that old ALREADY?!

Payton and her Piano Beginnings

Payton is 4 years old and loves and has always loved music.  She is always singing, playing notes on the piano, or banging on something to make some form of music.  She has found a new love for piano.  Grandmother showed her some basic fingering and how to play "Jesus Loves Me" which is also the song Bear use to play way back when he was so new to her as a baby.  She began to play this song over and over to where she now has it memorized and was interested in more songs.  So while we were working on some daily homeschool activities I printed out some basic sheet music from Free Printable 1st Pieces Piano Music and put them on the piano. In a very short amount of days...make that 2 she was playing songs such as "Ode to Joy" and "Aura Lee (Love Me Tender)" and "Chopsticks" and eager for more.
She has been so excited about her piano playing that she can't walk by the piano without playing a song or a note or showing us her new discoveries.  Then on Wednesday, August 11th, 2010, Grandmother came to visit to play a duet with Payton.  Payton was so excited she waited by the window because she had been practicing for this moment and couldn't wait to show off her work.  At bedtime, she was ready to go back to see Grandmother for more piano lessons so she can be great and then Daddys will teach her to play the guitar too.

Just a note... This Piano was once my Great Grandmother Della Johnson's Piano and now my daughter is playing on it. Special Special Special. :)
I will now share some of her musical soundings....

Payton playing "Chopsticks" for the first time on her own.

Payton playing "Ode to Joy"

Payton playing "Aura Lee (Love Me Tender)

Payton and Grandmother playing their first Duet "Chopstick"

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