Day 12

What I believe

I believe children are a gift from God.
I believe never go to bed angry. Tomorrow is not guaranteed.
I believe in always telling my loved ones that I love them.
I believe that I have a mansion just over the hilltop waiting for me when my days on this earth are through.
I believe friends are treasures.
I believe that Our God is an Awesome God.













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Day 11

Favorite Television Show(s)-
Oh boy this is just like asking my favorite movie..
-Doctor Who
-Criminal Minds
-Army Wives
-Kitchen Nightmares
-Mike and Molly
-Little House on the Prairie
-The Waltons
-Emergency
-Trauma Life in the ER
-Deadliest Catch
-Sons of Anarchy
-NCIS
-19 Kids and Counting
-Hoarding Buried Alive
-Intervention

These are the ones I can think of off the top of my head...






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Day 10

Something I am afraid of...


Flying. I HATE flying. It scares the bajeebers out of me.. I used to love to fly. Flew many times. Ever since I had children I liked it less and less until I finally hated it...

Days 6, 7, 8, 9 of 30 Day Blog challenege.

I was sidetracked all weekend and unable to post so I will try to post the last four days of blogs in one..

Day 6 Picture of something that make me happy.

Cross stitching is a love of mine. I enjoy working on the patterns. I take my time. I am known to have many projects in process at once. Sometimes the colors get to me so I have to switch projects. Right now I have 3 going. One for my grandson, a tropical one for us and the poem Footprints.


Quilting is something I got into just before leaving Massachusetts. This is a lap quilt I made that The Monkey "stole" from me. This is just the top. This was before it was finished. I have one in the works that I have been working on for almost 2 years. I had put it aside but am now getting back into the groove.



Day 7 Favorite Movies


Breakfast At Tiffany's


The Breakfast Club



Gone With The Wind


It's A Wonderful Life


Jesus of Nazareth


Blown Away

These are just some of my favorite movies... The list could go on and on and on... The Wizard of Oz, Bright Eyes, The Little Princess, Harvey, etc... LOL

Day 8 A Place I have traveled
Niagara Falls Canada



Baseball Hall Of Fame- Cooperstown, NY






DAy 9 Picture of Friends

Well, unfortunately I have no pictures of me and my friends. When I moved to Orlando in 2008 I lost 99% of my belongings. But some of my friends I will mention-
Amy- we were together in our Senior year of high school. She is the only person from High School that I really talk to. She is also Godmother to The Boy.
Kris- My "sister". She and i have been friends since we were 11/12 years old. We met in Jr. High.
Mel- I met at a brief stint in a Jr. High in NY. We had lost touch once I moved but thanks to the miracle of Facebook we reconnected.
TT- She is my "hoochie". We met when The Monkey was just under 1. My favorite memory of her is the time she bought a bunch of balloons for Monkey's first birthday and it was wicked windy. She almost blew away...
Christine- We met when her son, Z, and the Monkey rode the bus to 1st grade. She is a great person.
Nicole- We went through a lot together in the short time we were together. We met 2007. Her children (human and furry) were allowed to just walk in to my home (as was she) and The Monkey and I were allowed to walk into hers. We spent many hours talking, doing things together, watching Army Wives, Madea movies, quilting. She is the one that turned me onto quilting. She bought me my first (and only) quilting bag (I still use it to this day!).

I miss my girlfriends so much. Four live in Massachusetts, one in New York and one in California.










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Day Five of Thirty Day Challenge

Today's blog is Siblings.

I have 5 (kinda funny day 5 and I will be talking about 5 siblings.) younger brothers.

JJ- married w/3 children. Lives in Florida. His oldest graduates high school in June.
JE-married w/9 children. Lives in KY.
RL- married w/3 children. Lives in GA and VA.
JB- married w/2 children. Lives in NH.
JA- single. 1 child. Lives in NH.

We are made up from different marriages. JJ and I have the same mom and dad. JE and JB have the same mom and dad. When my father and JE and JB's mother were married he adopted them. My father and his second wife had a son and he is JA.
RL is my half brother. We share the same mother.

In our home there was 5 of us at one time. Me, JJ, JE, JB, and JA. After my father and his wife divorced JE, JB and JA went to live with their mother. JJ and I remained with our father.

Unfortunately because of the divorces and such our family did not grow up close. JJ and I are really close with our father. JE, JB and JA are close with their mother. RL is close to his father.








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Day 4 of the 30 Day Blog Challenge

My parents.

My parents had two children in their short marriage. Me and 13 months later my brother.
I am sad to admit that I don't really know my mother. She is alive and lives in the panhandle of Florida. But that is all I have to say about her.

My father. He was a single parent from the time I was in mid 8th grade on. He did the best he could as a single father who was a full time military man. My father is now retired from the military and works as a bus driver in the Orange County School District of Florida. He is the type of person you either hate or love. There is no in between with him. He is old school. Our sense of humor is the same and many outside of our family don't get it.





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Day 3 of 30 Day Blog Challenge

First Love

My first love. Most would think that it would be an ex or my husband or my children or grandchildren but no. My first love is


I can remember as a teen I had pictures of Elvis stapled (YUP stapled!) to my bedroom walls. There is just something about his voice that still makes me weak kneed.

On a side note- I knew my husband was the one for me because his mother collects Elvis memorabilia too.






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Day two of the blogging challenge-

is talking about the meaning of your blog name.

Lola's Place was named because my nickname is Lola and it's my blog.. :-) Just a simple reason to the name of my blog...





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Introduction

I was reading Ich liess mein Herz in Deutschland's blog. I "met" her in a Christian online group I am on. I liked what she was doing on her blog and thought I would do the same thing on mine. Thanks Rena for sharing the 30 day blog challenge!

Day 1

Introduce Yourself


I go by Lola. This is a special name between my husband and I. Frankie and Lola is the name of a Jimmy Buffet song. He is Frankie and I am Lola. Jimmy Buffett "brought" us together.
I am a 30 something newlywed. Mother of two. I have a wonderful 16.5 month old grandson that I refer to as "Little Man." I also have an angel grandson "Lima Bean" who was born and went home to his Heavenly Father this past November. I have a furry daughter named Gemma aka The Pup (or affectionately called Satan.) and a furry grandson named Tiger aka Professor Sebastian.

15 Random Facts about Me-
1) I am a vegetarian
2) I used to be a big meat and potatoes type of girl
3) I am part Irish, German, French Canadian and Blackfoot Indian
4) I am the oldest of six children
5) I am the only girl out of six children
6) I am left handed
7) I am a beginner quilter. I have completed one quilt and working on another (have been working on this one for 2 years. LOL)
8) I home-schooled my daughter from 2nd grade all the way to couple months into 6th grade. Then from two months after the beginning of 7th grade until January 2011.
9) I LOVE Country Music
10) I collect Elvis Presley mementos
11) MY bestest friend has been my friend for over 25 years.
12) I attended high school in Hawaii
13) I love cooking and baking
14) I LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE the BBC America channel and spend hours watching/listening to it.
15) I am addicted to the Sims game

I hope you will join me in this 30 Day Blogging Challenge.








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