Groneman Family

To anyone who thinks that they will be home buying soon. Everytime you live somewhere you expand your parameters of what you would like in a future home. After having been alive for 55 years, this is what I think I would like. I welcome anything else you people think is important too. -Location, location, location. The schools and church that your children will attend is very important. The church is the same everywhere you go, but the devotion of the people isn't. Schools are easier to detect as you can seek out where the best districts and schools scores are online. By location I do not mean fancy. Fancy matters not. But you need to find good neighbors in a clean and well cared for neighborhoods. Run down neighborhoods don't usuallly produce the best neighbors either. -A west facing house so that you have afternoon and evening shade in the backyard for BBQ's and the like. -A large kitchen with lots of cupboards. -If you are having a home built upgrade the heater, AC,...

You are all likely to think that I should have made this decision about 15 years ago, but I couldn't because I was raisin' kids. As Kim mentioned, yesterday I spent most of the day canning Spagetti Sauce and basil/garlic tomatoe juice. I had lots of time to think. I am always trying to figure out ways that I will have more time to do Family History and geneology, which is always calling me to come do it. It is why I have taken out 2 of my flowerbeds in my front yard, so that I will have more time for Family History. Well, yesterday, I decided that I can "Can" most of my canning! All except for the stuff that I can't buy something reasonably close at the store. That means that I won't have things all be exactly how I prefer them, but we will survive that, probably. I am glad I did it for all of those years you kids were home. It saved us a lot of money and helped teach my children to work, which is one of the most valuable things you can teach them, (righ...

There's this one place on our walk that always grows mushrooms.  It varies from a couple of them to a couple of pockets full.  A couple of days ago it had more mushrooms there than I had ever seen.  Must be about 10 pounds of mushrooms we picked, chopped up, and put in the freezer.  They are nummy in spagetti sauce (which your mom bottled yesterday...along with some spicy tomato juice.....she was tuckered out at the end of the day).

Most of you already know this, but for historical purposes we're putting this here: The winds of change are blowing around the C&E Gronemans. We've got some big changes coming up: I'll be changing my job, and we'll be moving. After trying to work things out with my current company (they are severely under-paying me -- I found out directly from HR that brand new people out of school are hired for more than what they were paying me), I've been looking around for a new employer. I've had several successful interviews. I got an offer from a company in downtown SLC. It wasn't quite as much as we were hoping for, and it would have been a bit of a drive, so we turned it down. Then they offered more $$$. The money was right, and everything with the company seemed right - but we didn't feel good about it, and felt that the Lord didn't want us to take it. Then, on Thursday, I got another interview with a different company, based in Ore...

I'm baffled.  In our playroom in the basement yer mother found a sack containing a small child's bunny costume, a little girl's outfit, and little girl's shoes.  I called Chad and he said it's not Emmy's.   ?????  Anyone have a clue?

I was looking at the gift wish list (hint, hint) and realized that I'm not the only Groneman in town with the initials KG anymore.  Katie, don't tell me your middle name is Louise or something like that.....

Well, our baby is looking really good - according to the Dr. who was in the room for about 3 min. to do a 1 min. ultrasound today. He got a page from labor and delivery right when he squirted that cold gel on my belly and had to go to the hospital right away. But he did a quick check and the baby is at 7.5cm with a heart beat in the upper 150's. He said it was "big" and I blame Brett. He said that a good ultrasound like this one at 13 and a half weeks is usually a good sign for less probability for miscarriage. So we're pretty happy! And we're crossing our fingers (and you know... praying), for all the other baby hopefuls in the fam. Love ya'all!