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Carolyn Niebruegge May Michael L. May 
Vol. 3, Is. 25 Jan.
3, 2014
From the
Editor
Mom and Dad are off to work
(written on New Year’s Eve) for a short day and the kids are “Home Alone” with
Nana and PaPa. Breakfast is over and Nana
tried to fool Raegan into eating some potatoes “hidden” in her scrambled
eggs--no luck. However, she’s learning
that she likes bacon--a good thing. You
ask, “What about Parker?” He likes
anything that will stand still long enough for him to shove it in his
mouth. Kevin grilled strip steaks last
night and PaPa fed him little pieces of medium rare steak right off of my
fork. He loved it! That makes two of the three Grandkids that
eat meat which is properly cooked (to medium rare)--Paige and Parker. Nana and Raegan have plans to make Oatmeal
Craisin Cookies this afternoon and I’m sure that Parker probably also has plans
to “help.”
We had a 30 or 40 minute
conversation with Karen back in
As we move into the area of
being a Grandparent and attempting to assist our children and their
parenting--again only if they seek our help, we find that the greatest
assistance we may be is by simply listening and possibility gently moving them
a little right or left as we feel necessary.
The discussion from yesterday that we had with our daughter was focused
on her attempting to help one of her friends--a single parent trying to raise
two little ones and carry on a professional career. The friend is having extreme difficulty in
dealing with giving equal time to the two because of behavioral problems with
one of them requiring more than her share of Mom’s time--making the other child
feel neglected. It’s not hard to
understand the pressure that the friend’s issues are putting Karen under--the
fact that the friend is having issues along with Karen’s feelings of what can I
do to help. Fortunately, I think just
being able to vent to Mom and Dad helped Karen.
Hopefully, as Karen walks this sticky path she will be able to convey
some of her thoughts to the friend that may be of assistance. I would love to tell the friend what a good
Mother we think Karen is (which she most likely already knows) and that she
should most certainly consider the advice that Karen offers.
I hope you don’t think I’ve
just rambled and brought no thought provoking information to the table. I see parenting as such a challenge and so important
in providing the structure in a child’s life that will prepare them to be
thoughtful, caring, responsible adults.
You do understand, our children are our future.
mlm
Content
Contributors for the Week
Kate
(Roberts)
Jim
Whitson, Class of 1957
All
those who sent messages to the Email “Bag”
Thank
you all!
Remembering…
THERE AIN’T NUTHIN LIKE THE SHAG!!!!!
This is kind of nostalgia to
watch as it takes us back to the "Good Old Days," the
50’s, when dancing was fun.
The guy is more fun to watch
than the gal as he is "loose as a goose."
This couple is great
together and I can see why they won the 2012 Junior II Champs - National
Shag Dance
Usually the female is
featured, but here the young man steals the show - his legs are like liquid
magic. And, bless her heart, she lets
him shine.
He's 17 and she's only
15. But together, they won the 2012 Junior Division National Carolina
Shag Dancing Championships.
They're dancing to Joe
Turner's "Flip, Flop and Fly."
http://www.youtube.com/embed/NF80SbicjBE?rel=0
Thoughts from
the Squirrel Lair
Stress Management for Women
This is absolutely wonderful!!!!
A young lady confidently
walked around the room while leading and explaining stress management to an
audience with a raised glass of water.
Everyone knew she was going to ask the ultimate question, 'half empty or
half full?'...
She fooled them all. "How heavy is this glass of water?"
she inquired with a smile. Answers
called out ranged from 8 oz. to 20 oz.
She replied, "The
absolute weight doesn't matter. It
depends on how long I hold it. If I hold
it for a minute, that's not a problem. If I hold it for an hour, I'll have an ache in
my right arm. If I hold it for a day,
you'll have to call an ambulance. In
each case it's the same weight, but the longer I hold it, the heavier it
becomes."
She continued, And that's
the way it is with stress. If we carry
our burdens all the time, sooner or later, as the burden becomes increasingly
heavy, we won't be able to carry on."
"As with the glass of
water, you have to put it down for a while and rest before holding it
again. When we're refreshed, we can
carry on with the burden – holding stress longer and better each time
practiced. So, as early in the evening
as you can, put all your burdens down.
Don't carry them through the evening and into the night...Pick them up
tomorrow.
1. Accept the fact that some days you're
the pigeon, and some days you're the statue!
2. Always keep your words soft and sweet, just
in case you have to eat them.
3. Always read stuff that will make you look
good if you die in the middle of it.
4. Drive carefully... It's not only cars
that can be recalled by their Maker.
5. If you can't be kind, at least have the
decency to be vague.
6. If you lend someone $20 and never see that
person again, it was probably worth it.
7. It may be that your sole purpose in life
is simply to serve as a warning to others.
8. Never buy a car you can't push.
9. Never put both feet in your mouth at the same
time, because then you won't have a leg to stand on.
10. Nobody cares if you can't dance
well. Just get up and dance.
11. Since it's the early worm that gets eaten by
the bird, sleep late.
12. The second mouse gets the cheese.
13 * When everything's
coming your way, you're in the wrong lane.
14. Birthdays are good for you. The more you have, the longer you live.
15. Some mistakes are too much fun to make only
once.
16. We could learn a lot from
crayons. Some are sharp, some are pretty
and some are dull. Some have weird names
and all are different colors, but they all have to live in the same box.
17. A truly happy person is one who can
enjoy the scenery on a detour.
18. Have an awesome day and know that someone has
thought about you today.
AND MOST IMPORTANTLY
20. Save the earth..... It's the only planet with
chocolate!*
Be the kind of woman that when your feet hit the floor each morning the devil
says~~ "Oh Crap, She's up!"
Alumni Website
We have renewed the account that Wanda
Jackson had set up at the photo sharing website, picturetrail.com for the
Roosevelt Alumni: http://www.picturetrail.com/rooseveltalumni. She had posted many pictures from past
reunions, class panels, and old schools buildings along with write ups about
them. We thought you might find these
interesting if you haven’t visited this site in the past.
Cooperton Valley Picture Trail
The “
Interesting
Tidbits
How It All Began
In ancient
Abraham Com did take unto himself a young wife by the name of
Dorothy. And Dot Com was a comely woman,
broad of shoulder and long
of leg. Indeed, she was often called
Amazon Dot Com. And she said
unto Abraham, her husband, "Why dost thou travel so far from town to
town with thy goods when thou canst trade without ever leaving thy
tent?"
And Abraham did look at her as though she were several saddle bags
short of a camel load, but simply said, "How, dear?"
And Dot replied, "I will place drums in all the towns and drums in
between to send messages saying what you have for sale, and they
will reply telling you who hath the best price.
The sale can be made
on the drums and delivery made by Uriah's Pony Stable (UPS)."
Abraham thought long and decided he would let Dot have her way with
the drums. And the drums rang out and
were an immediate success.
Abraham sold all the goods he had at the top price, without ever
having to move from his tent.
To prevent neighboring countries from overhearing what the drums
were saying, Dot devised a system that only she and the drummers
knew. It was known as Must Send Drum
Over Sound (MSDOS), and she
also developed a language to transmit ideas and pictures - Hebrew To
The People (HTTP).
And the young men did take to Dot Com's trading as doth the greedy
horsefly take to camel dung. They were
called Nomadic Ecclesiastical
Rich Dominican Sybarites, or NERDS.
And lo, the land was so feverish with joy at the new riches and the
deafening sound of drums that no one noticed that the real riches
were going to that enterprising drum dealer, Brother William of
Gates, who bought off every drum maker in the land. Indeed he did
insist on drums to be made that would work only with Brother Gates'
drumheads and drumsticks.
And Dot did say, "Oh, Abraham, what we have started is being taken
over by others."
And Abraham looked out over the
to be known. He said, "We need a
name that reflects what we are."
And Dot replied, "Young Ambitious Hebrew Owner Operators."
"YAHOO," said Abraham. And
because it was Dot's idea, they named it
YAHOO Dot Com.
Abraham's cousin, Joshua, being the young Gregarious Energetic
Educated Kid (GEEK) that he was, soon started using Dot's drums to
locate things around the countryside. It
soon became known as God's
Own Official Guide to Locating Everything (GOOGLE).
That is how it all began.
********
Poem of the Year
The computer swallowed
grandma.
Yes, honestly it’s true!
She pressed 'control and
'enter'
And disappeared from view.
It devoured her completely,
The thought just makes me
squirm.
She must have caught a virus
Or been eaten by a worm.
I've searched through the recycle bin
And files of every kind;
I've even used the Internet,
But nothing did I find.
In desperation, I asked Mr. Google
My searches to refine.
The reply from him was negative,
Not a thing was found
'online.'
So, if inside your 'Inbox,'
My Grandma you should see,
Please 'Copy, Scan' and
'Paste' her
And send her back to me.
This is a tribute to all the
Grandmas and Grandpas who have been fearless and learned to use the Computer.........They
are the greatest!!!
We do not stop playing
because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing …NEVER Be The First To
Get Old!
News
The
Roosevelt Senior Citizens has reopened from the summer break. Lunch is served from 11:30 a.m. to 1:00
p.m. Lunch for Seniors is $4 and for the
younger generation is $5.
The
menu for next week is as follows:
Tuesday,
Jan. 7: Ham and Beans, Corn Bread, Salad
Bar, Dessert
Thursday,
Jan. 9: Baked Chicken, Rice, Corn,
Rolls, Salad Bar, Dessert
********
Cooperton
Community Dinner
The Cooperton Community Dinner will be
Friday, January 3 at 6:30 p.m. at the Cooperton Community Dinner. Food will be beans and chili. Everyone is asked to bring either beans or
chili or a covered dish that compliments the meal.
Birthdays and
Anniversaries
We
have compiled all of the birthday and anniversary information we could from
Wanda’s files. We are sure we are
missing some. Please send us the
birthdays and anniversaries for your family and friends so that we can have as
complete as list as possible. We are
going to start with what we have from Wanda’s files so if we miss you, please
send us the information so we have it for the news next year. In addition, should any of the birthdays we
list be wrong, also please let us know.
Happy Birthday
To:
January 3 – Virginia
(Simmons)
January 6 – Dolores (Eaton)
Earley, Class of 1959
January 7 – Brenda Saville
January 7 – Mijo Chard,
Class of 1988
January 9 – Heath Thompson
January 9 – Darian Thompson
Humor
At the Beach
A woman went to the beach with her children. Her 4 year old ran up to her, grabbed her
hand and led her to the shore where a dead seagull lay in the
sand.
“Mommy, what happened to him?” the little boy asked.
"He died and went to heaven," she replied.
The child thought for a moment and said, "And God threw him
back down?"
From the Email
“Bag”
December
29, 2013
I thought my father in law would have sent out an update by now
after the doctor’s appointment in OKC (
We were all impressed with the visit. They were on time, he saw and spent time
needed with two doctors, and I think four nurses. They closely reviewed his medical history and
discussed it with him twice to confirm things. Neither doctor felt, manually, anything of
concern, but also stated there could be something far enough in they could not
feel it. The best thoughts were that
what the scans were seeing which were so bright, could be inflammation from
other procedures that had been done recently.
They recommended doing a biopsy with a needle to see what they
could find and exactly what it is. The
nurse in charge of setting that up thought they would get him in about the 30th,
but not having received a phone call by last Friday it looks like it will be
later. Following the biopsy a panel of
several doctors will again review everything and the group will make a decision
to recommend to Phil. This was all
encouraging especially since the
More as we know. While we
were talking between medical staff visits he did talk about the people in the
Church he pastors having prayed for him and his belief that having made a difference
in him being in such good condition after all his old body has been through. He turned 79 the 27th of this
month. I told him about the lists I send
information to and had been told some friends send this on to their friends
around the world and that he had hundreds if not more praying for him. He had a
lack of words, for a bit. 
He
thanks everyone for their previous prayers and for continued prayers. He is not afraid of death. He is prepared and sort of looking forward to
it as a Christian would, but if he has a say he is not ready to leave yet.
Thanks again for your prayers, he is quite the character!
Geary McDowell
Food for
Thought
A Picture Is Worth a Thousand Words
Remember the old saying,
"A picture is worth a thousand words?". Well, here is a perfect
example!
http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=LPjzfGChGlE&feature=player_embedded
Obituaries
Ada
Aileen Brewer Shrum, 90, former
http://amarillo.com/obituaries/2013-12-26/ada-aileen-brewer-shrum
Darrell Lanig, 58, former
http://www.mcclainhays.com/fh/obituaries/obituary.cfm?o_id=2364350&fh_id=12103
Jerry Lester, 74, former
Cooperton resident
http://www.beckerfuneral.com/sitemaker/sites/becker0/obit.cgi?user=1203861Lester
Useful
Links:
Becker
Funeral Home of Snyder, OK
http://www.beckerfuneral.com/?page=snyder
Peoples
Cooperative Funeral
http://www.peoplescooperativefuneralhome.com/who-we-are/history
Ray
and Martha’s Funeral Home of Hobart,
http://www.234enterprises.com/Roosevelt%20Cemetery%20Layout.htm
http://www.picturetrail.com/sfx/album/listing/user/rooseveltcemetery
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=cr&CRid=2176228
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?=cr&CRid=99577&CScn=Springhill+Cemetery&CScntry=4&CSst=38&
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=cr&CRid=98525
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=cr&CRid=99399&CScn=Hobart+Rose&CScntry=4&CSst=38
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=cr&CRid=2246374&CScn=Resurrection&CScntry=4&CSst=38
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=cr&CRid=99042&CScn=Mountain+Park&CScntry=4&CSst=38
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=cr&CRid=99397&CScn=roosevelt&CScntry=4&CSst=38
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=cr&CRid=99439
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