November Highlights

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November Highlights

Hi, welcome to Gma’sPhoto November Highlights!

The huge highlight for November was making a career change. It’s Official is the post I explained my fears and wonderful moments.

Becoming an official student delivery specialist.

The new career perk:

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The company vehicle parked at the farm!

Lunch Date with my grand girls.

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My new work family.

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A group of my co-workers.

Having a meal with Brynlee at the school luncheon.

school lunch with Brynlee
School hosted a holiday meal with your student.

Watching Brynlee (the one wearing pink shoes) play basketball. This is her first year.

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Coach called the team to a huddle.

Take Care. Best wishes, Debra
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October Highlights

October Highlights

Hi, welcome to Gma’sPhoto! I am changing my One Sentence a Day to the month’s Highlights. October is probably my most favorite month of the year. I’m eager to share these moments with you!

Now that I have passed the general Commercial Drivers License (CDL) test and have my CDL permit, I actually get to drive the bus.

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Sitting in the driver’s seat!

Sharing same no school days with the grand girls. Many of our days off match up and I am so excited. October 17 and 18 were such days! We went to the zoo, picked up Brynlee’s eyeglasses and went rock hunting.

Take Care. Best wishes, Debra
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Fall Leaves

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Fall Leaves | My Sunday Snapshot #34

Hi, welcome to My Sunday Snapshot 34! This week has been beautiful. The weather feels very fall like 🙂 Even though I work for a different school district than where my grand girls attend, each had Thursday and Friday as parent teacher conference days. I spent both days with the girls!

The featured image is from the tree across the road from us. It’s huge, bigger than a banana! I sure enjoy nature’s beauty this time of year. While walking with Brynlee, I asked her to pause on the trail. This is the image I got. Priceless.

fall leaves with Bryn
Taken on our afternoon walk.

Have a wonderful week!

Take Care. Best wishes, Debra
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my Sunday snapshot
Pictures can produce so many different emotions and feelings. As they say, a picture is worth a thousand words! Share your fun and interesting image from the past week.

My Sunday Snapshot 34

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September | One Line a Day

September one line a day

September | One Line a Day

Hi, it’s September. Just 3 months until Christmas. But first Autumn!

01. Sunday. I really enjoy this season. The first sign of Autumn was just this morning, the fog. This image was taken while I was on my way to the grocery store. Erika and her family will be coming over to spend the day with me and Kevin!

autumn fog

02. Monday. I delivered the senior session images to Cresinda.

03. Tuesday. Worked my last day with the Kansas child support services.

04. Wednesday. My first day working for the school district! What a day it was. The bus would not start in the morning. Jumped the bus and still did not start. Ended up the bus needed a new battery.

school bus first day

05. Thursday. Getting up at 4:30 am comes pretty quick!

06. Friday. Getting up at 4:30 am is not the best part of this new job.

07. Saturday. Slept in till 7:00 am. Took a nap, much needed.

08. Sunday. Kevin surprised me once again. Went to morning mass!

09. Monday. This is my first full week working at the school district.

10. Tuesday. Went to my brother in law’s mother’s service. Living in a small town, everyone knows everyone. Her service was packed with many of her family and dear friends.

11. Wednesday. Stayed up much too late last evening. Overslept, not good. Had to rush to work. All good, but still got my heart racing.

12. Thursday. Still settling into my new daily routine, I came home and did some housework. Now that I am working part time, there should be no reason for my house not to be clean. 🙂

13. Friday. Oh boy, Friday the thirteenth. A high schooler ran into the bus I was riding on this morning’s route. The student was fine. Car a bit dinged. Bus ok, nothing.

14. Saturday. Spent the afternoon with my parents. Erika and her family was there too. Kentucky Fried Chicken was on the menu for dinner!

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15. Sunday. On the drive home, stopped by the Grinter’s Sunflower Farm. This is really growing. Not so much the fields of flowers but the farmer’s wife opened a general store a couple years ago and the place was a hoppin’ place today.

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16. Monday. The library was having an Adult Crafting Night. I went and painted some rocks!

painted rock

17. Tuesday. Returned to the library to fax some paperwork needed for Adam’s insurance.

18. Wednesday. Drove into Lawrence for Bible Study and to fill Adam’s pillbox. Wednesday is early release for the school kids. Needed to get back to the bus so the Lawrence trip was a quickie.

19. Thursday. Finally, some rain. Craved ice cream. So I made myself a frozen cherry smoothie!

frozen cherry smoothie

20. Friday. At the school there is a large transportation break room. Nice. Spent the time between morning route and afternoon route there.

21. Saturday. Kevin took me to Ashli’s Family Diner for breakfast. Pancakes sounded good. The only option on the menu was the ‘giant pancake’. The waitress asked me if I wanted the ‘giant’ pancake. Sure!

giant pancake
The menu did say giant pancake!

22. Sunday. Kevin and I went to church, early mass. Went to Lawrence to fill Adam’s pillbox. Bought groceries. Spent the afternoon at home. Watched the Chiefs play football in the evening. Go Chiefs!! Chiefs won.

23. Monday. A fellow bus driver called in sick. Her route was split between two other buses. I was on one of those and was able to get in some additional hours.

24. Tuesday. Studying for the written CDL test. Getting anxious.

25. Wednesday. Attended a defensive driving class. Was shown how to park in a parking space correctly. Learned other useful tips/information.

26. Thursday. Completed the defensive driving class and received my certificate. Supposedly I can provide this to my insurance company and possibly get a discount on the rate. We will see.

27. Friday. I passed the written CDL test. Next I will be training on a real bus, the driving part 🙂

28. Saturday. I was tired. Passing the CDL test was really stressful. More stressful than I had realized.

29. Sunday. Kevin and I went to Sunday Mass. This is becoming our new Sunday norm! Watched the Chiefs play.

30. Monday. Between the morning route and afternoon run, I went into Lawrence to visit with my folks. Also filled Adam’s pillbox. On my drive thru Lawrence, I had happened to see this wreck. Pretty scary. All involved seemed to be okay, out of vehicles and standing waiting for the emergency personnel.

wreck

September went way too quick. Looking forward to October. The leaves will be changing colors and the weather getting cooler. Sweater weather 🙂

Take Care. Best wishes, Debra
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Yesterday, today’s memory

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Today’s image was inspired by the autumn leaves that had fallen onto the driveway. While at my daughter’s home, she was blowing the leaves off the pavement. Stating she did not like the stains the leaves make. The stained pavement picture.

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Yesterday, today’s memory

Take Care. Best wishes, Debra
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Practicing Gratitude 22 of 31 | 101 in 1001

Practicing Gratitude 22 of 31 | 101 in 1001

Practicing Gratitude 22 of 31 | 101 in 1001

Hi, this was a wonderful weekend. Simply perfect weather, family time and good food! I am grateful for the time spent with my husband, son, daughter, son n law and grand girls.

Shaune (son n law) will be going pheasant hunting opening weekend and wanted to get Hazel (German short hair) some training/practice in prior to the hunting weekend. So they came out to work Hazel. Of course Kevin and I was happy to have them out. I called Adam to invite him over and he also joined us.

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Erika and her family went down to the pond/cabin before we ate dinner. She shared the above images with me. After they finished working Hazel they came back to the house and we ate the roast lunch Kevin made. Yesterday we had green bean casserole left over from his work’s picnic. We finished that up with the roast. Good food today and yesterday!

pink daisy bebe gun

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Not often do we get Kevin in photos. Erika had taken the below image as well. I appreciate any time and any image taken of Kevin.

grandpa bought pink red Ryder bebe gun for grand girls
Grandpa bought the grand girls a Daisy Pink BB Gun.

Take Care. Best wishes, Debra
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October in review: