Golf carts – hot chocolate – cookies and sheet music – it’s that time to once again sing Christmas songs in the community!
This is the season to be festive – we all met in our driveway – Solo Stove ablaze – music from the garage – this actually is the second year gathering together – and it has grown to around 15 souls!
Hot chocolate and cookies – and it was not too chilly!
Sherry – Kathy our neighbor and Diane – our other neighbor.
People mingled about before starting out to sing – three golf carts to help carry people – the rest walked.
I volunteered to stay behind and tend to the fire in the SOLO STOVE! They wouldn’t want me to sing – like an old hound dog! They were gone about an hour before they came back – regrouped and went to another part of the neighborhood.
We hope to make this an annual event – meeting at the community center when it is opened and finished.
Even the golf cart was decorated! It was a nice way to talk to friends and neighbors
and there were so many happy neighbors who came outside and even joined in – taking pictures – CAMERON WOODS COMMUNITY – OCEAN ISLE BEACH – NORTH CAROLINA – traditions being started!
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PAPA’S WORLD – It’s the most wonderful time of the year –
Family from WPA – far away but close to our hearts – MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR!
While they live far away – they are always near our hearts – love them and hope they come back down again!
Back in NVA – the little ones as I call them – MORMOR and PAPA we are to them – they always want us to come home! It was hard leaving them as they were with us constantly – but so far the three little ones have been down twice for a week to two weeks being with us – memories – fun times and “WHAT ARE WE DOING NEXT”?
Before there was Bode – now they are mostly grown up or about to be teenagers – memories – memories – not forgotten – loving
life.
Back just north of Winchester, Va. the oldest now – two in college – one in H.S. where has the time gone?
Two oldest played soccer in college – one her senior year this year – one a sophomore – the youngest a sophomore in H.S.
PAPA and SHERRY – family means a lot to us – memories of times gone past and memories of times to come!
CHRISTMAS DAY at our home – our first we have been here to celebrate – soon the young ones will come – MEMORIES!
CHRISTMAS – FAMILY – MEMORIES!
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Our three oldest granddaughters – Maddy ( 22) Sarah ( 16) Ella ( 19 ) – we have watched them grow up – two in college – one in H.S. – it seems like only yesterday there they were at the top of the stairs – giggling – waiting for their parents to get up on Christmas morning – we lived life one day at a time back then and today we also still live life one day at a time!
Our life is to give what we can – one day at a time.
The dawn of a new day with the picture of Sherry – my life – forty years married – forty-two years together – living our life one day at a time – living life to the plus each and every day!
Together we walk – together we explore and together we live our lives to the plus one day at a time.
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We traveled back to NVA to have Thanksgiving with the Myers family – as we will not see them for Christmas.
We stopped and saw the Krohn family on our way north and spent a night and day with them as they will come down after Christmas for a few days and be with us.
Our three oldest granddaughters – Sarah – Maddy and Ella in the sunroom – working on some crafts and laughing!
Debby – Mike and Sherry getting the dinner ready. It was the best-tasting turkey I have had in a long time and the stuffing was even better!
The three granddaughters set the table – the Tower Garden in the background – growing year around indoors!
Chef Mike prepared the turkey and then cut it up! I do not know what he stuffed it with – but it was really juicy!
Ella – home from Randolph College – Sarah – A Sophomore in H.S. and Maddy – A Senior at The University of Lynchburg.
Debby lighting candles at the table for Thanksgiving dinner. Time for giving family thanks.
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PAPA’S WORLD – THANKSGIVING WITH FAMILY AT LAKE HOLIDAY, VA. THE MYERS FAMILY!
We have now lived here for 17 months – where did that go? Our home is most likely ( hoping) our last major move.
We decided on moving here – near the borders of N.C and S.C. because it was still within 61/2 hours and 8 hours of our families in NVA.
We have close friends who live about 33 miles away and more close friends who are building in that same area.
We enjoy our location for the close access to the beaches and major shopping and golf while still having that country feel.
While we do have the threat of Hurricanes – we are not in a flood zone. Having gone through category one – we have decided on anything past an category two – we most likely will leave.
We enjoy the 30- minute drives to shopping at the outlet mall and the many offerings of shows and entertainment of Alabama Theater and Carolin Opera!
Sunrise on OIB with boats racing for a fishing tournament – warm weather – ocean breezes in summer-time
lead to what locals call down here “THE SALT LIFE”!
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Tough choice – made easier by the drop back in 2020 for our 401K –
but also the increase in the value of the housing market!
We decided to sell – our daughter and family had moved – not far away – about thirty minutes on a good day of traffic!
But – before they were a mile away – we would pick up the little ones from school and have the youngest sometimes also.
It was an easy walk to their home and we spent a lot of time with them.
But it was the 401K – losing 30 plus % – yet the house gained more than that!
Another door had opened – an adventure awaited – we disclosed our plans – and we said we would be within an easy days drive
6 to 8 hours – but someplace warm and near a beach!
We also wanted to golf – for far less expensive than it was in NVA!
After a couple months of searching – we found our beaches – Ocean Isle Beach and Sunset Beach – one four miles and the other six miles away – we wanted to stay on the mainland – and not in a flood zone – we found Cameron Woods Community.
We built our home – six to eight hours from our NVA families – they have come to visit numerous times and we have been back the same.
We live right across the street from four 18-hole golf courses and are within 30 minutes of another twenty-five!
We have new friends and neighbors – and are close to dear friends we have had for 35 years.
Our life had changed – we went through that door – it was not easy –
now we are in the twilight of our years – but every day brings new adventures and experiences.
A new day begins – another day to explore and live the Carolina life – thanks for reading PAPA’S WORLD – OUR LIFE!
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We had 13 peole who made it – good time – was very loud with the music – hard to hear – and we were spread out!
The music was country western and very good – I would go again to just listen and watch them.
The venue here is impressive – but if we come back I would want to eat in the back room where we could talk and visit – and maybe in smaller groups where we could see everyone and hear them.
But – for dancing and or just listening to the band – AONE in my book!
Our little neighborhood group – plus several could not make it – good times – good company –
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PAPA’S WORLD – A little neighbors get together at Local on the Water – in North Myrtle Beach, S.C.
The parents – Mike and Debby – held a birthday party with a Halloween theme for their daughter’s sixteen birthday!
Sarah has always wanted to have a birthday party such as this and being so close to Halloween – they decided to do it!
THE SKELTON WAS THE FOCAL POINT FOR THE FOOD AND ALL OF THIS WAS SARAH’S IDEAS!
It was a hit and everyone loved it! The food was almost all gone by the end of the party and over in the kitchen were meatballs – mac-cheese – salads and rolls!
DECORATIONS THROUGHOUT THE HOUSE AND OUTSIDE – Sarah worked for two days!
STAIRWAY TO THE DANCE FLOOR IN THE CELLER – BOOKCASE IN THE LIVING ROOM!
OUTDOORS IN THE FRONT YARD AND THE BACKYARD – THE FORTUNE TELLERS BALL OWL AND RAVEN!
The birthday party – Sarah – SWEET 16 – and Sarah 1-year-old – thanks for reading Papa’s World- livinglifedoingitmyway.blog
Our daughter Debby is a QMND for the Juice Plus Company
For almost fifteen years she has lived a healthy lifestyle – and guided her family to eat healthily.
Her mission is to help families and their children eat healthily.
With two daughters in college and both playing soccer – making sure they get the Fruits – Veggies and Berries their young bodies need to maintain that active life they lead in college.
Debby with Maddy ( University of Lynchburg – Ella ( Randolph College) and husband – Mike.
Feed your plants – feed your children – health – nutrition – care – love and gratitude.
The effect of whole food nutrition – nutrients in capsule form – Debby – QMND – The Juice Plus Company.
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What seems like only yesterday – has been 22 years in the making!
Early family picture before Bode and the twins not walking yet.
The three oldest are on the left with their parents – Maddy – Ella and Sarah – on the right – Taylor and Cassidy- the twins.
Maddy – now 22 – Sarah – now 16 and Ella – now 19
I remember all three – on Christmas day – early – sitting at the top of the stairs – giggling – waiting for their parents to wake up and go down for their stockings!
This picture would have been about that time!
Now today – Ella – Maddy, and Sarah.
Ella and Sarah are tall like their grandma – Sherry who is 5’9″ – both Ella and Sarah are as tall or taller.
Maddy is 5’6″ – like her mom.
Maddy is a senior in college – Ella a Sophomore in College and Sarah is a Sophomore in H.S.
The time has gone by so quick – the little ones are all grown up and now are SISTERS!
By that, I mean confining with one another – all there for each other –
although years separate them – bonding keeps them close.
Sarah Maddy Ella SISTERS
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The reason why for the granddaughters – Sherry – grandmother.
From LITTLE ones to YOUNG LADIES – OUR GRANDDAUGHTERS – now grown up!
Never the selfish one – always the one who gives – both in life and college and on the pitch in soccer.
She works hard – her degree will be in Engineering Science – a 3.85 GPA.
Maddy is on the right with her teammates and roommate.
She is up early before sunrise to hike and run – when she visited us this last spring – she was on the beach for sunrise – capturing pictures and filming – her minor is Photography.
She runs – she hikes mountains – and most of all – a team player.
Maddy – not celebrating her own goal – but that of a teammate – that is Maddy!
This is her and her life.
She distributes the soccer ball from the left wing position – pinpoints passing and so fast in doing so.
She loves to score – but she loves to see others do the same.
Number 13 Maddy – celebrating teammate’s score.
Dedication for four years straight – a team award for going above the recommended physical fitness regimen for her team. The BELL AWARD was given to those players pictured here and for four straight years, Maddy has achieved that award from her coach.
Maddy was second from left – four years straight given this award from the coach and team captain her senior year.
The four years have gone by so fast – she has done this on her own since she was a sophomore in H.S.
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