Goodbye to Sunday Six and more Thanksgiving Smiles

For several years I’ve made a Sunday post called “Staffy’s Sunday Six Smiles” and used this picture as my title page.

I’ve enjoyed thinking about the things each week that I am thankful for and sharing my smiles with you in pictures….. However, thinking of six different things and putting in pictures made my posts long.

  Sometimes I’ve had a hard time coming up with 6 things to post….. sometimes I’ve had more than 6 things I wanted to share. Sometimes writing my post seems like an assignment rather than a pleasure. Sometimes it seems like a lot of work considering that Mindy is my only family member that reads my blog and very few blog friends stop by anymore.

So…… for these reasons… I am retiring “Staffy’s Sunday Six” and replacing it with:

This way I am not obligated to…. or limited by…. 6 smiles.  I can keep posting on Sunday… or pick another day…. or forget it not. I think this will get me off the hook  work better for me. What do you think?

As you know if you read my last post, all 22 of our kids and grandkids came for Thanksgiving. What a wonderful time we had. I shared our Thanksgiving  dinner with you last week. Today I would like to share some of the other things that made me smile throughout the week they were with us.

Erin and Patrick were the first to arrive and Erin didn’t let any time go to waste before she started in helping me. She decided to help me by cleaning out all of my kitchen drawers….(not that they needed it… as you can see from all she pulled out of my spices drawer …lol)….. but she did it anyway.  I so appreciate all of her work. My heart smiles now every time I open one of my kitchen drawers. Not only am I enjoying having all my drawers so nicely organized…. I am enjoying the love that pours out of them as I think of Erin’s kind service.

Dathan helped John fix our kitchen faucet that has had a leak for a long time.

Patrick did some outside cleaning up for us. Even Cal got into the spirit of helping. I didn’t get pictures of Patrick and Dathan to show you but picturing them in my mind  makes me smile. I am thankful for sweet family that were so helpful.

Our kitchen that was so full of people and food

is clean and quiet now.

Our home seems big and empty now with just John and me here.

But if I listen closely I can still hear the laughter and voices that filled each room Thanksgiving week.

We were wall to wall family. All the bedrooms were full and so were the living room and family room floors.

And we were stylish.

Aunt Lynell bought all the girls crazy stylish socks….so…

They traded them around and we had a sock fashion show.

What sweet memories. My heart is full of smiles and thankfulness.

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I’ve not been well this past week. I spent 7 hours in urgent care Tuesday. They thought I was having trouble with my heart because I was having bad pain in my chest, neck, jaw and arm…. and my heart enzyme troponin 1 level kept going up which is an indicator of heart damage. However, my EKG was just slightly abnormal and after a full day of tests I came home.

I’ve had 4 more attacks since Tuesday. I feel like I am having a “Charlie horse” in my chest, neck and jaw.  It may be caused by esophageal spasms. It is very painful, but not scary like it was Tuesday since they ruled out heart attack. I just wish it would go away.

I go back to the doctors next week for more tests. Wish me luck. This is not fun.

I hope you are doing well.  Hugs and best wishes, Grammy Lura