This is such a different kind of thing for me. I love reading all kinds of things on the internet, but I rarely leave any comments or share my ideas. I am probably not alone when it comes to these matters so I know that i have to learn how to crawl before I can take off running. The Christmas tree finally made it from the concrete patio into the house this morning and I am sure that by the time I get home from work this afternoon, it will be looking completely decorated. We are full swing into Christmas just like you and your family is. While I am typing this I know that Dawn is pouring herself into this years version of our Christmas letter. I tried to tell her that she should just write the letter as a post on this blog and then tell everyone to just read the whole thing if they are interested and they don't have to if they aren't. that way she can write as much as she wants and will not have to worry that it is just too long. I'm sure that you all realize that she puts a lot of work into that letter, and I am sure that this year it will be sent out just like every other. I do hope that by learning how to post on this blog we can all stay a little more up to date on what is going on in our loved ones lives.
I am headed off to work and then am coming home to watch the SEC Championship football game. Go Gators!
Saturday, December 6, 2008
Thursday, December 4, 2008
About us...The Moss Family
For those of you who don't read my blog, I just wanted to give you guys a little update on us. We're in Johnson City, TN, which is about 1 hour north of Asheville, NC and 1.5 hours east of Gatlinburg, TN. We are at the edge of the Great Smokies and our house has a really nice view of them. We moved up here in September of '06, shortly after Mallory was born in April '06. We moved from Charlotte, NC mainly because we wanted to. Patrick was able to transfer laterally within his company, though he got a promotion shortly after we arrived in TN.
Ethan was born in Nov '07 and life has been busy now that we're a family of four. He's a big boy and he's just now starting to walk, which I'm really happy about because my arms and back couldn't take luggin' around a 29 pounder.
We love to have company and hope that if anyone is travelling down I-81 or I-26 that you'll stop by. Or if you want to just make our house a destination, that's fine, too.
What are you all up to?
Sunday, November 30, 2008
Grandpa Lahman
From Jerry:
I have been thinking quite a bit about dad these last few days and just wanted to share some thoughts and a little trivia. He attended Northwestern University in Chicago but I don't know if he ever got a degree. He enlisted in the army during WW 2 and he was a lieutenant serving on the island of New Guinea, just north of Australia. I don't remember him talking that much about his time in the service, but I know that he was responsible for military transportation on the island. I believe that there was army hospital close by. When the movie and later when the TV show M.A.S.H. came out in the 1970's, he talked about the show as if he had experienced that first hand. According to Wikipedia, MASH units began in 1945, but were not used extensively until the Korean war. Dad loved that TV show. Dad was not really a big TV fan. He would watch sports and loved watching all of the Chicago teams, but other than that he would much rather read. He always had a paperback novel(or two) sitting on the table next to his chair. Mom would watch TV and dad would read.
He was always employed in some kind of sales. He sold bakery displays to markets all over the Midwest. I believe before that he was a salesman for Scott Paper Company. You know Scotties vs Kleenex was big talk in the Lahman house way before Burger King vs McDonalds, Publix vs Winn Dixie, or Papa's Pizza To-Go vs Dominos! He began selling life insurance with Northwestern Mutual and that is the only employment that I remember. He always wanted to do his own thing, and selling was the way that he was able to accomplish that. Shortly before I was born, he had a great idea that he and mom should buy a egg farm in Mundelein, a very small town in Illinois. He hired a man to live on the farm with us to help take care of things while he was working through the week. His sales positions always required over night travel so he was only home on weekends. As hard as he tried, he was never able to make a profit selling eggs, so that business only lasted a couple of years. I remember that before we moved to Florida he tried to market a couple of things from home with a friend of his. One was a jewelry box or maybe it was some kind of jewelry tree. The other was a toy scuba outfit for kids. Neither of those worked out either.
When Dawn and I decided to get into the calf raising business with our friend Skip, Dad told me that he always wanted to have his own business and encouraged us to go for it. Raising calves was not our best idea ever, but dad thought it was neat that we threw caution to the wind and went for it. He was always very interested in whatever work we were involved with and liked for us to talk to him about "how it was going". He was full of ideas and like to tell you what he thought. He was very logical and wanted to help you think things through.
Enough for now.
I have been thinking quite a bit about dad these last few days and just wanted to share some thoughts and a little trivia. He attended Northwestern University in Chicago but I don't know if he ever got a degree. He enlisted in the army during WW 2 and he was a lieutenant serving on the island of New Guinea, just north of Australia. I don't remember him talking that much about his time in the service, but I know that he was responsible for military transportation on the island. I believe that there was army hospital close by. When the movie and later when the TV show M.A.S.H. came out in the 1970's, he talked about the show as if he had experienced that first hand. According to Wikipedia, MASH units began in 1945, but were not used extensively until the Korean war. Dad loved that TV show. Dad was not really a big TV fan. He would watch sports and loved watching all of the Chicago teams, but other than that he would much rather read. He always had a paperback novel(or two) sitting on the table next to his chair. Mom would watch TV and dad would read.
He was always employed in some kind of sales. He sold bakery displays to markets all over the Midwest. I believe before that he was a salesman for Scott Paper Company. You know Scotties vs Kleenex was big talk in the Lahman house way before Burger King vs McDonalds, Publix vs Winn Dixie, or Papa's Pizza To-Go vs Dominos! He began selling life insurance with Northwestern Mutual and that is the only employment that I remember. He always wanted to do his own thing, and selling was the way that he was able to accomplish that. Shortly before I was born, he had a great idea that he and mom should buy a egg farm in Mundelein, a very small town in Illinois. He hired a man to live on the farm with us to help take care of things while he was working through the week. His sales positions always required over night travel so he was only home on weekends. As hard as he tried, he was never able to make a profit selling eggs, so that business only lasted a couple of years. I remember that before we moved to Florida he tried to market a couple of things from home with a friend of his. One was a jewelry box or maybe it was some kind of jewelry tree. The other was a toy scuba outfit for kids. Neither of those worked out either.
When Dawn and I decided to get into the calf raising business with our friend Skip, Dad told me that he always wanted to have his own business and encouraged us to go for it. Raising calves was not our best idea ever, but dad thought it was neat that we threw caution to the wind and went for it. He was always very interested in whatever work we were involved with and liked for us to talk to him about "how it was going". He was full of ideas and like to tell you what he thought. He was very logical and wanted to help you think things through.
Enough for now.
Welcome to the Lahman Family Blog!
This blog was created in hopes that we can continue the reminiscing from this post on Melanie's blog. Please contact me if you would like to be an author to this blog, meaning you can make posts. It's MUCH easier to organize information through posts rather than comments!!!
I will create new posts with the comments from Mel's blog so those memories will be recorded here.
Please share!!!
Melanie
I will create new posts with the comments from Mel's blog so those memories will be recorded here.
Please share!!!
Melanie
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