Isn't This Just Too Cute?
Hello,
I have been trying to get over to post for a while now and it looks like I finally made it over. I have been lazy I guess. By the time that I am ready to blog, I have been far too tired and think... I will rest for just a little while and then I will post.
2 things usually happen. I fall asleep or I fall asleep... LOL. It is no wonder really. I have just been really tired and In March I had a series of doctors appointments that carried on into April. By the time they winded down I was hit with strep throat. Yuck!
I was going to post for Mother's Day, but Karyn came by and brought me some wonderful Raspberry Chocolate and a really pretty card, My Mother's Day started the day before. Jonathan ordered me a club sandwich and Fries from Jim's Restaurant and said "Happy Mother's Day Early Mama" and I was so happy to have it. I love club sandwiches.
Celeste had gone with her daddy to work. He is working in Lake Tahoe and he surprised her by letting her go with him and then taking her to breakfast at McDonald's, and she called me to tell me that she was spending the day with her daddy and he surprised her with Breakfast out.
The next morning about 7:00am I got a call from my girl wishing me a Happy Mother's Day. I heard from all of my kids in one way or the other, except for Nathan. His phone broke but he found Jon's number and used his roommate's phone to call him to tell me a Happy Mother's Day because his phone broke. Then Laurie and Damien called me to wish me a Happy Mother's Day and Damien said it first as when I answered the phone, he said NaNa and it was a great call.
Laurie's Birthday fell on Mother's Day this year. Yesterday I was able to go and visit them and I had a great time. I was crunched on the couch with 4 kiddos. Adrian finally was able to use all the gems that I had managed to save on our Cue game and 1.3 million coins. He also showed me how to trade! With Damien,, he and I played a game and Dante and Cathy sat on the other side of Adrian and I explained a dream that I had where I had won the Lottery Power Ball.
It is the second time I have dreamed this, and it is like I keep picking up where I left off, and it was all so vivid! I dreamed that I got everyone together, told them just to get their identification and birth certificates and meet an Uber which took them downtown Austin and a huge, chartered bus pulled up. I had Matthew, Courtney and Nathan just go to the airport and fly into Austin where an Uber picked them up and brought us all together. I gave everyone a brand new phone, laptop and electronic games for the kids as well as a envelope that contained credit cards for a Million dollars each, except for the kids and they each had a hundred thousand dollars and of course the questions flew but I told them that the questions could wait, and they couldn't open the envelopes until I told them that they could. and none of them was having it but Jonathan already knew the secret. He was my partner in crime so to speak lol and we took off for Dallas to go to a grand Shopping Mall and gave them permission to open the envelopes and told them to buy luggage and just enough clothes to get them through a few days and to the hotel and to meet at this restaurant for dinner then the next day we headed off to the airport to head to the Ranch in the Taos Mountains in New Mexico that I had bought as a home base.
I had bought this ranch called The Black Stallion. This house was gorgeous. It was a 3-story house, and the first floor had a main area at the back of the house that housed a large Kitchen, dining room, living room, library and study and entry hall leading to the front of the house. Off the entry hall was a large staircase and elevator. Off to the west of that was an entire wing with stairs leading to the basement which I had turned into a huge family and game room. going down another set of stairs led to a art Studio for Cathy and to the back yard, swimming pool, spa and gated of course with cabana's grill station/outdoor kitchen and sitting areas. (If I am going to dream winning LOTS of MONEY, I need to DREAM BIG lol.
This first floor wing held 6 bedrooms complete with a sitting room as well as with private baths and French doors that led to a patio on the first floor with Balcony's on the 2nd and 3rd floors. Jonathan, Karyn and Nathan chose the first floor, the West wing for the boys and Karyn chose the East wing.
Laurie and David chose the 2nd floor West wing while Matthew and Courtney chose the 2nd floor East wing. The North and South wing were guest suites with a large family kitchen and dining room in the middle. Along with a laundry area.
My 3rd floor East wing was to all to myself! This monstrous house also had 3 other wings and kitchen and laundry area as well as my private office and guests' suites with private bathrooms and balcony's.
So many beautiful decorations and colors and whoever says that dreams lasts seconds and are not in color do not have my dreams. I have always dreamed in color and it seems like when I do go into a dream state, I pick up where I left off.
Maybe because I think about the dream throughout the day and it is on my mind and that is why I am having this particular dream, but as far as dreams go, this one is pretty darn great.
Seriously I know that I would have to play to win, and I have never really played before. Not even when I lived in Las Vegas, I was never hit by gambling fever. I worked too hard to give my money away. I did play, but I only played a few dollars. If I won back what I spent on dinner, then I was done.
The entire time I did play, I only won $217.00 once. I did hit $100.00 here and there but I just never was into it and could never understand a friend of mine who would stick a week's pay into a machine and lose it all, swearing the machine was going to hit. No, it wasn't, and he bummed food and gas for the next week and instead of paying back what he borrowed, the next week he would once again cash his paycheck and it would be gone in a hour or two later, swallowed by a machine.
He lost his girlfriend over his gambling addiction. He lost more money than he ever made back. He was lucky to gain enough money to get enough gas to get home. He ended up losing his house, almost his truck and when he left Vegas and moved back to Arkansas he would head to Shreveport Louisiana or Mississippi all the time. He just traded one casino for a riverboat or another casino. I just never understood it, and it was not just him. It was so many people that I worked with or knew.
But who knows. If I have a few dollars left, I might just play the Powerball. I could win.... ha-ha... not that I would expect to do so, but Oh Gosh, it would be so nice to have a chance to donate to the charities that I want to, to buy my grandkids and children a really nice gift, for Christmas or go to the store and not have to pinch every penny. But I live life like a zillion other people, and I am nothing special, but it would be nice and at least it is nice to live a little in my dreams.
Back to my dream....
A tree house and fort for the boys, a huge trampoline and guard for the kids, to bounce away during the day and to lay on and stargaze at night, a padded splash area and a halfpipe for skateboarding, biking and hiking trails. Stuff for the kids and their friends. Lots of animals, dog and kitties, horses as well as wildlife and just a childhood to where kids can be kids. A babbling creek to go fishing, some cabins to hang out in, fully furnished and nice ones.
During the bad cold and rainy and windy days, a place to sit and play games or watch a movie, listen to music and enjoy a real fireplace to stay warm. A home. One for entire families and a place to really call home while deciding on a home of their own. A place to go to, a place to gather, a place to be. Home to where they have a functional family kitchen and dining area if they want to cook their own meals and have a family meal together, to cook their own holiday dinners, to teach their children how to cook and experience and experiment with ingredients that they enjoy. So, this house is more than a house to me. It is a dream house, a real home to the ones that need or want one to where family means family.
So No Harm in Dreaming BIG....
If I have a continuation of this dream, I will update! Be Blessed Everyone. Forgive any errors. I will have to take care of them later as I don't have time to proofread right now....
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