Staying At Our Draper Home

The holidays are over.  I’m finally able to stay at our Draper home for a few days.  Stacy and Chad and her family all went skiing yesterday and packed up and headed out for their drive back to California last night.  They had to get back tomorrow for the kids school and dance for Farrah. We only got to see them a short time Sunday night and Monday night while they were in town.   We are planning on baby sitting for them the middle of January so we will see them in a couple of weeks again.   We will get to spend some one on one time with the kids while their parent’s are in Cancun, Mexico.  Craig had to head back to the lake this afternoon for young men and young women’s.  They are having a special evening welcoming the new youth coming in this year.  Craig was in-charge of getting the refreshments.  They also have a temple outing this Friday.  So I’m not sure when he is coming back to Draper.  I have lots to do to clean up from our family Christmas party on the 25th. I wasn’t able to leave things as clean as I wanted and I need to tidy up from the Towner family staying here the past 6 days.  So I have plenty to do.  I’m still going thru the clothes from my mother, I brought back with me.  I’ve taken the morning to try things on and see what fits and put some outfits together for our trip to California- the middle of this month- only two weeks away.  My mom had lots of fun clothes.  I just need to keep losing weight.  I want to lose another 20 lbs .  I’m feeling better since I have lost 20 lbs, but still need to keep going.  It will feel so much nicer to get 20 more off.  The first 20 was water weight from being sick with Covid. I’ve been drinking apple cider with "mother" in it the past two months- morning and night.  It has greatly helped to shed those 20 lbs now I’ve got to work to get the next 20 off.   We baby say baby Cora yesterday for Natasha while she worked yesterday.  We took her with us to the funeral.  She was such a good little girl.  She is very attached to her grandpa-  she didn’t want to go to me - only her Papa!! It was so cute at the funeral she was looking for him- she went  up to each man in the room touching their pants and look up.  When she saw it was not Craig she went to the next man in the room each time  she finally found her Papa standing by Louise casket visiting.  It was so fun to see her response when -she found her Papa.  She was such a good girl the entire time.  We picked her up at 9am and dropped her off at her home by 3:30 pm.  It was a full day for us all.  I’m really tired today.  I thought I would go shopping for a bit today but I’m just to tired.  Craig left and all I want to do is take a nap.  It feels nice to have some quite time to myself. 

Cute Photo of us at the funeral with our Coco Bear.  She wasn't up to smiling.  She was so attached to Craig.  When we went to lunch at Olive Garden, Craig had to go to the bathroom.  He left her crying huge tears.  She would have nothing to do with me.  She stood there crying until Craig came back to pick her up.  She instantly stopped crying.  She is so attached to her Papa Symes.  It was funny in the Car driving she would not look at me.  She would peek her eyes at me and when she saw I was looking at her she would turn her head quickly.  She did enjoy having a movie to watch in our Car driving there and back.  It was special to have some time with our little 2year old granddaughter.  The past two years have gone all to quickly for us as grandparents, stop growing I want her to slow down, this is most likely our last grandchild in the family.  She is so precious!