Spanky's Clubhouse

No blogging since December 2007-wow-a lot has happened since that time. Another winter, another spring, another half year birthday. Now we have a new grandson, Noah Wilson Rogers, who was born on Thursday, February 26th at 8:39 a.m. in Silver Cross Hospital in Joliet, IL. I found out that my Grandpa Olson died on that same day exactly 50 years ago and it was a Thursday. How bizarre is that! What a wonderful thing to be a grandparent! We traveled to Mexico last summer with Noah's parents, Joel and Beth. Lori, our daughter went to Australia for three weeks last July. Lori has been doing wonderful work with Catholic youth and retreats at LaSalle Manor near Plano, IL. Mark, our son, has published some books on exercise and fitness and now has one on Amazon.com. His book is called Trim, Tighten and Tone. My mom fell and then had to go to a nursing home where she is adjusting and likes it as well as she can. She has Alzheimers Disease and has forgotten where her house is or if she has a house. Thank goodness she still knows who we are. She doesn't understand why she has to be in a nursing home. What a sad disease but there are worse. She can still carry on a conversation and take care of her needs to an extent. We have a new president, the first African-American to hold that office-Barack Obama from Illinois. He was born in Hawaii-his mother was white, his father black. Now there is swine flue in Mexico and a few cases in the United States. The media is going crazy already and there are only twenty cases in the United States. Whoooooooooa! We are now on Facebook along with millions of others and people are twittering - what a crazzzzzzzzzzzzy world. Our Shannon Cafe closed suddenly over a month ago and our little town is missing its gathering place. In a short time, Fast Eddie's, a new restaurant is suppose to open here in Shannon. I am going to be out of high school 40 years next month-time does not slow down and if you think it does you are crazzzzzzzzzzzzzy. We still have to enjoy the time we have no matter how much time that is. We are in the beautiful Easter season-so many people think it is only for one day but we celebrate for fifty days-how great to celebrate for that long -but most people don't do that. The economy is not good - big companies going bankrupt because of greed. Gas prices went to $4.19 last summer. Who would have thought that!