Grandma Abbie's 70th birthday (2000)

Happy 70th Birthday ABBIE!

Presented to Abbie Geertz

Octoberfest Party

October 20, 2000

Held at David and Deby's house

With Love from your family

Fahrts Austria trip (1980)

Fahrts in Austria, 

Just another post that's just a tad bit inappropriate   

Elsie Lou, Buffy, Abbie and Aunt Lou took a trip to Austria and Germany --  In Austria we went to the train station and there were signs aus fahrt and en fahrt for departures and arrivals. Aunt Lou said, "Better aus than en." OHHHH MYYYYY the laughs Mom got from that quote from Aunt Lou! Ridiculousness!!!!! 

Barefoot at the Zoo

Our family met at the Pittsburgh Zoo to celebrate Mother's Day together one year. Before we even got in the gate, Kerry's flip flop broke. She was upset and she wanted to go home. But instead I helped her out. I gave her my Nike sneakers. She threw the flip flops in the garbage can and we started hiking around the zoo. I hiked the entire zoo in my brand new, ultra-thin socks. We enjoyed all the animals and many animals were becoming mothers. The baby gorilla clung to his mom and the baby tigers were growing. Of course my feet hurt from the tiny stones and the hard pavement along the path, but I felt good sacrificing my comfort for my daughter. It was Mother's Day and I was just being a mom like any other day. My socks were ruined  and my feet were sore, but I was happy celebrating all we moms do for our children. Happy Mother's Day!

schtuffle

"If you do duncy, stupid things, you are a schtuffle." Mom has been using this word for years, but she's never seen it written, only said. So we don't know how to spell it. She made a lot of guschlups (a lot of foods thrown together in a pot or bowl), but we don't know how to spell that word either. If things are super annoying and just CRAP, we say that it's a "guschiss" (guh SHISS). We don't know how to spell that either, which, in itself, is a guschiss.