My son is 16 today

Wow ...its hard to believe Tommy is 16 today. I AM OLD. We are going to dinner for his birthday tonight ( got off work early today) he is bringing his girlfriend Kelsey too. I will be bringing my camera and will update later if I have time. It is pouring so they will be indoor pics. Good thing is the water barrel we got at SAMS to hook up to a gutter and recycle water for watering our veggies will be getting full...yeah. We are doing a patio garden this year....I have tomatoes, red peppers, jalapenos, cilantro, yellow squash, and zucchini planted in large pots and containers on our back patio.... it gets full sun, we don't use the patio for anything else, the rain barrel sits right there, I DONT HAVE TO WEED IT.... and it is easy for Sydney to water too. She has her own watering can and shovel, rake combo with the "Wonder Pets" on them. Also planting some garlic in the yard....I thought I would not fool w/ a garden this year...but as soon as the sun started shining and all of the trees filled in and bloomed, I got sucked in at Lowes and caved. Its fun and I love being outside, minus the weeding. A little is okay...but it seems to get overwhelming. Next yr I am going to try some Straw Bale gardening ...seems interesting. Will try to get some pics of my rain barrel and plants tomorrow. Well off to dinner.

working on uploading

trying different ways to upload

Im back

Trying out blogspot again...not as thrilled w/ my apple site as I thought I would be..testing out the upload of photos now that r computer is new.

Trying a new website/blog

Hello, I am attempting to my blog to a website through apple because it takes soooo long to upload pics on here....so I will put my new website address here.  Hope it works. 

Ruth

http://web.me.com/thomasrally/Site/Welcome.html

New Addition

                                                                         Tongchai 

No, we have not adopted again, however,  we have sponsored a child from Thailand.  His name is Tongchai and is eleven years old.  This year for Christmas the boys decided it would be a great idea to sponsor a child instead of a ton of gifts from us.  (with encouragement from us ).  They still did get some gifts but we all agreed that this was a much better gift to help a child be able to eat and get medical attention.  We all decided on Thailand and then the boys picked the age range, (so they will be able write each other).  That narrowed it down to 9 boys and then we wrote each name on a piece of paper and let Sydney pick one.  We sponsored through www.compassion.com .  They are a Christian based organization which I researched thouroughly and use 83%  towards the child and the rest is obviously used to run the site.  100% of additional donation goes directly to the child and  family.  If you are interested in sponsoring a child I highly recommend Compassion...the site is very organized and informational.  

DAD

 

                                                  Anthony Salvatore Tamburo, Sr.                                                        

                                                        August 17, 1930-Jan 2, 2009

I have been a terrible blogger lately .  I have a lot of  catching up to do.  It has not been a good start to the new year. My Dad passed away due to complications from a fall and brain injury.  I am thankful I was able to see him before he died and there to say goodbye .  Although,  he was in a coma and did not know we were even there.   My relationship with my Dad has not been very close since my parents were divorced when I was 6.  We did not spend a lot of time together and even went for several years without speaking.  However, the last year and a half we kept in contact and he even came to visit us with my sister in June.  We had a great time and I think he enjoyed himself and enjoyed being with the kids.  He also apologized to me for the past and thanked me for having him here and said he never expected me to treat him so well.  It must have took a lot for him to say that because he was never good with that. He also said he could not change the past and he wished he could.  Those words meant so much and I am struggling with the fact that I could have done more as a daughter also.  But it is what it is and as he said you can't change the past.  Death is such a final reminder of what is important in life....not hanging on to the past, not clinging to anger and frustration,  learning to forgive one another and learning to forgive yourself....reaching out even when you thought you have reached out all you could and loving each other through good and bad.   In the end,  that is really all that is important.  My prayer is that my Dad is at peace.