Rainy days and Monday’s …

Lisa April 20, 2009 0Comments

Dear Mom and Dad,

Today  is rainy and it is Monday but unlike the song… that says, “rainy days and Mondays always get me down, (according to Nana) I am not down, as a matter of fact… I was sitting in my swing today and I WAS LAUGHING OUT LOUD at Barney and Friends… the more they sang and danced the more I laughed.    I am getting so grown up…  It was so funny.   

I had a good day.   I slept for six hours last night, and have been eating like a champ.  I am so sad that Mimi has caught the once Texas bug, then the new version making it a Texigan cold… and from what I hear it is now a Texigania cold….hopefully she will be back to herself soon…. sorry Mimi!  

I know daddy is leaving on FRIDAY, so I send him extra hugs and kisses every day… I hope you can read my love letters when you reach Kuwait… I love you daddy.

I am dreaming about when we are all back together in our own place, and there is no more Kuwait and no more camp… but either you are going to have to plump up a bit, so you are soft and squishy like Nana… or… maybe Nana needs to go to boot camp so she can be strong and muscles….

What ever it is, it will be okay, by the time you return I will be ready to sleep in your arms … even if you aren’t squishy like Nana… she says… being in Daddy and Mommys arms again is the best feeling ever no matter what… and Nana NEVER lies.  Love and kisses from Little Miss Adorable, your daughter,

Guillianna!  (P.S.   Nana says, thisis what TUCKERED OUT LOOKS LIKE!)

Saturday & Sunday but guess what today is….

Lisa April 19, 2009 1Comments

Dear Mom and Dad…

I know Nana did not get my love letter to you on line Saturday, but she and I were SO busy.  Poppy even had to get me into my jammers and put me to bed last night.   It was so much fun,  I spent time at Poppy’s office and he pushed me all over the place in my stroller, Nana had been putting off some things while you and Dad were here, and then Mimi and Poppa came so before you knew it, she had 10 days worth of stuff to do and let’s just say… I keep her busy too.  But last night she got done at about 1:00 am…and is so sorry she didn’t hit the internet before midnight.   Here we are… me in my Tigers tee … and Poppy a bit tired.  He and I are both feeling better from our colds, but he had one heck of a day.   He had double duty since he had taken part of last Saturday’s patients and scheduled it a bit lighter.  But all is well.  

I heard that you and daddy are moved out of our house, and ready to deploy.  Daddy is leaving before you and I hope you both are going to just think of me and how great it will be when we are all back together again.

GUESS WHAT TODAY IS…. today is special because it is my Mimi’s birthday.   Happy Birthday Mimi…  I love you, and was so happy to be with you last weekend.  Hard to believe it was a week ago already.   I hope you have a very HAPPY BIRTHDAY, and that your year is full of all the things a Mimi wants.   You and my Nana are born the same year… so you and she have something in common BESIDES ME!   I am glad you were born, because just like Nana, without your mommy having you, and you having Tucker, there would be no ME!   If you really want a treat… I bet I can get Nana to sing HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO MIMI, HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO MIMI… or maybe on second thought – that as a good idea- hmmmm not so much… just know everyone here at camp… wishes you the happiest birthday ever… and well I think… this day calls for cake…. at least that is what the Aunt’s here think… any excuse for dessert.  

  Hey dad, I think you are lucky that your mom was born for all the obvious reasons… but add to it that you have her smile… you have her dimples…. and me… well I am gettin’  in on that action… we ARE really lucky aren’t we and I think it is sooooo cool.   Hey- Gramonster Nelson, thanks for making it all possible…. my mom says, she now knows all about that labor stuff, and carrying me for all those months… kudos to you from my mommy and daddy and me… we are the lucky ones who  reaped the benefit of your having my Mimi… and TO BE COMPLETELY HONEST…. I never get enough of being everyone’s little princess, especially those Mimi types, they kiss and cuddle like CRAZY.

Today was Sunday at Camp, and there is other big news…   FOR MIMI’s BIRTHDAY,   I GAVE NANA AND POPPY A PRESENT… silly huh…but it’s true… I slept for six hours straight.   Nana almost called the press… she was so proud of me! 

I am thinking about you both, and hoping you had a nice Sunday together since it will be the last one for a while.   I will always be your Little Miss Adorable, love your daughter,

Guillianna!

1929… 80 YEARS OLD….

Lisa April 17, 2009 1Comments

Dear Mom and Dad,

Today is April 17th, 2009, and on this date 80 years ago, my Great Grandma Sally was born. 

She was born the year the US Stock exchange crashed…. the first ten years of her life were to survive what history books call THE GREAT DEPRESSION.   I tell you this because we all have stories and we all have things that we have to endure to enjoy the nicer things of life…. We have to endure being separated for a short while… and when we are togetehr again, it will be HAPPY DAYS ARE HERE AGAIN…After the depression, and so many things in her life,  Great Grandma Sally has done far more than survive… she adopted Nana, who adopted you, and now… THERE IS A GUILLIANNA…. for everyone to love and adopt into their hearts. 

In Grandma Sally’s 80 years so much has happened.   The world is a different place.   Herbert Hoover was president in 1929 and he was the very first president to have a telephone on his desk…. prior to this it was in a booth outside the president’s office.   Communication in the past eighty years has really changed.   Now I am able to communicate with you on the World Wide Web, and send you love letters to keep us close even while you work hard in Iraq.   In 1963, the president put the first hot line between the US and Russia in his office (following the missile crisis), now I have a hot line to you… and I am not even a president.   And cameras…. well take a good look at the photos Nana keeps taking… Grandma Sally saw the first hand held cameras in 1948… and now Nana can’t seem to get one out of her hand.   YOU WOULD THINK THAT TODAY WHEN I WAS LOOKING QUITE ADORABLE, AT GG-ma Sharyns house Nana would have had her camera… but no … she didn’t get even on picture… what is up with that…

Grandma Sally has seen the development of many things that make my world possible… x-rays… well they help Poppy help people and make it so he can give me CAMP NANA.   In 1953 television, which I love to watch baby Einstein on… and while hairspray in 1955 is not something I currently need, it seems something a princess will eventually use… and nylons, and radio, and transistor radios, microwaves, LP records in 1948, to music CD’s downloaded from iTunes… and cell phones, text messaging and a bazillion other things.   Since the 1920’s we now have bandaids, and insulin…( THANK GOODNESS since Nana uses her fair share of the stuff)  We have seen all kinds of new transportation and invented helicoptors in 1939  gone from propeller planes to  jets… a most important toy the SLINKY  came in 1945… AND E-MAIL in 1972… right after pocket calculators and the micro processor of 1971…  well… enough history I guess, I was just making the point that there are so many wonderful things Great Grandma Sally has seen, but THE MOST WONDERFUL OF ALL WILL SURELY BE THE DAY YOU COME HOME FROM IRAQ AND HOLD ME IN YOUR ARMS, AND NANA SNAPS A PICTURE WITH HER ‘HAND HELD CAMERA’ AND PUTS IT UP ON THE ‘WORLD WIDE WEB’.  

Happy 80th Birthday Great Grandma Sally, I cannot wait to meet you and until I do please remember… the greatest day ever was the day you adopted my Nana… because of that, she found my mom and I now I have born to a country they serve and protect for my future.   I don’t know what I will do when I grow up, or how many children I may have, but I do know that the labor of your love, made my life possible.    HAPPY HEALTHY BIRTHDAY… LOVE YOUR LITTLE GUGU BUG!

Today was spent visiting Great Grandma Sharyn, or my GG-ma as I like to call her.   I got all dressed and ready to go… made the trip there, and not a single photo… not a single one… when we got home Nana tried  to slip in a few pics, but it’s clear, I am tired, it is late, and not the best photo op… who did she think she was kidding… I say… write … protest and let her know you won’t put up with such silliness… I mean if she expects me to put on a smile and act like it is – all the middle of the dayand stuff.., as if… not…. or that it is my happy time, and for me to ACT like the princess that I am, well then she better not try to pull the wool over everyone’s eyes and slip in some late night photo THAT CLEARLY SHOWS I AM EXHAUSTED FROM MY DAY OF PRINCESS VISITING …. shame on Nana…. you are busted!   I told my mom on you, and I will not hesitate to tattle on you in the future… 

I think I set her straight though now mom…   until tomorrow, I love you , and and I miss you, and I hope you can still have sweet dreams of me, even if Nana didn’t get my smiles and cuteness on the web from earlier today…. I am always your Little Miss Adorable, your daughter,

Guillianna!

Mrs. Pat and Brett

Lisa April 16, 2009 4Comments

Dear Mom and Dad,

How are you doing today?   I am doing great.   I was a bundle of energy today despite the fact that I only slept from about 3am to 5am…

I was up and ready to go… ready for formation, PT, and anything else you could imagine, other than sleep.    I fell asleep for a nap this afternoon which lasted all of 15 minutes… my cold is better, but still not gone… it’s a keeper I guess… and now Poppy is sick with the CRUD, that makes people cough… and cough and cough… 

Today Mrs. Pat brought her son Brett over to meet the puppies…. they already saw me the other day, but Brett, well he is a lover of dogs, and he came to say hi to ours.   Mr. Griff greeted them both with such adoration… barking so loud he scares himself.   After a few minutes of canine chaos… they settled in and all was okay.   Thank you Mrs.  Pat for bringing Brett by the house… to meet MR. GRIFF in real life… AND I DO MEAN REAL LIFE… anyone who has been to visit CAMP NANA, knows the pooches rule the roost here…

Here I am today, just hanging out with my boppy and loving being upright, as it makes me cough less.

I am wearing an outfit, my great Aunt Pam gave me, and Nana says it makes me look even more Adorable than I already am.

Just one small tidbit Aunt Pam, the phrase on the shirt…”my sunshine”  only HELPS NANA BREAK INTO SONG… YOU ARE MY SUNSHINE, MY ONLY SUNSHINE…. YOU MAKE ME HAPPY WHEN SKIES ARE GRAY… BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH…. one more verse of it, and I may just jump right out of the outfit, and my skin….ewww… gross… note to self –  keep skin, tape Nana’s mouth…

I love you both very much, as Little Miss Adorable… prepares for bed, I hope you have sweet dreams of me, and know how much you are loved.

Your daughter,

Guillianna…