When you go out with Nana.......

She tries to take a selfie of you and fails miserably:

Then irritates you when she tickles you on the cheek with this:

Then insists on telling you, you have to eat all your lunch when all you want to do is go for a nap;

And she is back again today, as Granddad is helping mummy and daddy install fans in our bathrooms.  

You know when you don't think you have anything interesting to say?

Well that's what it feels like at the moment.  Life is just plodding along, nice and quietly.  The weather is just too hot and humid at the moment so I have been hibernating.  It has helped me finish off all twelve gnomes though.

I am going to give knitting gnomes a break for now!!  These are all take home gifts for Our Little Man's 1st birthday party on September 12th.  That year has just flown by.

Via Facebook this photo was posted of dh's dad back in the late 60's early 70's:

He is taking explosives down the mine.  He worked for a company called British Gypsum and he was a general worker in the mine.  As far as we know he didn't set up the explosives in the mine itself.   At one time or another the majority of dh's family worked there, though dh was never down the mines.  My dad and my granddad also worked for British Gypsum and my nana was one of the cooks in the canteen.  My granddad and nana worked at a different plant.  It was a major employer in our area.

Back to the photo.  Do you think today's Health and Safety might have something to say about the way the explosives were being moved????  OF COURSE THEY WOULD.......LOL

Look what I got for Mother's Day from dd and hubby:

Yep, they're expecting their first baby at the end of November.  Honestly I was, and I think I still am in total shock.  I just wasn't expecting it, so it came as a complete surprise for for dh and I.  She goes for her first ultrasound tomorrow and she will find out the sex of the baby at 21 weeks.  My bet is on it being a boy; then I always say that!!!  This baby will also be the first great-grandchild on my side of the family.  Also Our little Princess  and dd's little one will both being going to school at the same time, despite Our little Princess  being born in January and the new little one in November.

Dd is well and hasn't had much in the way of morning sickness; mind you that is a blessing as when she has had it, she burst a blood vessel in her eye from vomiting that hard.  I had pretty easy pregnancies, so I would expect the same with dd.  When dd told Our little Princess  parents, they drove up to congratulate them and brought up the baby's first outfit.  Our little Princess  is 4 months old today.

Our little Princess , her parents and grandparents are heading to Mexico next week on vacation.  Our little Princess  even has a bikini!! I can't wait to see the photos of her in her bikini!!

So now I have another baby shower to organize this year!!!  Luckily I will have the capable help of dd best friend "K," who is a Martha Stewart wannabe.......yes you are "K!"  I am going to be a pro at organizing baby showers and sewing baby quilts before long!!!

So to all the mother's out there and you don't have to be a mother of a human, animals apply as children also, a Happy Mother's Day to you all.

Dd sent me this survey to fill out and it is really interesting and pretty quick:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/humanbody/mind/surveys/smiles/

What you have to do is say whether or not each person is smiling genuinely or its a fake smile.  I ended up getting 16 out of 20 right.  Let me know if you do it.

How did you get your Blog Name and grandparents?

I read a post over at Strawberry Jam Anne's about how she got her Blogger name and thought it was a lovely story and well worth the read, so pop over and read it if you get a moment.

Mine is pretty simple, I'm British born, a woman, and thought the word "THAT" in front of it was sort of catchy??? I'm not very creative with that sort of thing.

What about your Blog name is there a story behind it?

On a sort of similar thread, both my parents have been married twice, so when the kids were small, we had numerous "Nana's, both Nana's and Great Grandmothers," we were a bit short on Granddad's in fact there were only ever two, so one was called Pop and the other one was called Granddad, and both are still thankfully alive. So how did we figure out how to tell the Nana's apart.......luckily all but one of them had dogs, so we tagged on the dogs name, for example Nana with Terry, Nana with Barney. One Nana, my mam's mam didn't have a dog, but she did have a flock of geese living in the field behind her, so we called her Nana with the geese.......

Over the years we have unfortunately lost many of the Nana's and are now down to just two, and neither have dogs. So if I am talking to the kids about a Nana, its either Nana in England or Nana in Georgetown, or Nana with Granddad or Nana with Pop.

When I was a child, my two Nana's were called, Top Nana and Botty Nana, as one lived at the top of a hill and one at the bottom...........I don't remember having different names for my Pop's, I must ask my mam and dad when I talk to them next. I have no recollection of any great grandparents, though I am assuming some were probably alive when I was small, I just don't remember.