Wednesday, July 29, 2009

~ Dogs are expensive ~

Are they really worth it?????? Well, yes I guess they are!



Maggie's vet trip last week - $129.00

Payton's vet trip - $179.00
Two down, one to go. We have to space them out between paydays ... couldn't afford them all at one time!
Plus we have to squeeze the cat in somewhere ...


Monday, July 20, 2009

~ An afternoon spent with women ... ~

I had the absolute delight to spend Sunday afternoon sitting at my mother’s kitchen table, sipping iced tea and visiting with five women (six, if you include myself); ages ranging from 48 (me) to 80 (my mom). I can’t remember when I have so enjoyed just sitting and talking and laughing with women in such a long time. (Well there was Red Rooster weekend.) We sat there for hours and carried our conversations from our children and grandchildren, to talking about the church, to talking about our relatives, our ailments, our surgeries, our husbands, funny stories, sad stories, all old times and new. We were all laughing so much Dad’s home health nurse even came in and joined in on the fun for a while.

Of course, Dad was at the height of an almost perfect Sunday afternoon himself; he had a living room full of men; all there just to spend time with him and swap stories, some true and some untrue I’m sure …

As I sat there enjoying myself; I knew I had to leave, I still had too many things I had to accomplish before the day was over; but hating to leave this group of awesome women and ending this “moment”; because it truly was a “moment” in time for me, something special and out of the ordinary for me to be able to sit there with these women, these wonderful awesome beautiful amazing strong courageous funny witty intelligent fabulous spiritual and loving women; I wanted to suspend time and make it go on just a while longer, I hadn’t absorbed enough of them.

Sadly, our time was over, but it was a truly wonderful afternoon; one that I am still hugging to myself today.

I hope you all have these experiences too. I, obviously, don't have enough of them.



Wednesday, July 15, 2009

~ Goodbye Blonde ~



Decided it was time for a change.

~ A quote ~

"It does not matter how small the sins are, provided that their cumulative effect is to edge the man away from the Light and out into the Nothing."

You know how on Facebook, the posting about go to page 56, 5th sentence and post it ...

The above was posted on a friend of mine's Facebook, it is from the Screwtape Letters, which I have attempted to read and put it aside several times ... until I finally just gave up, but this is such a strong quote.

Worth repeating here I thought.

Personally, I have repeated it over and over in my head already ...

Monday, July 13, 2009

~ Time for a color job ~

My 4 year old great niece told me she wanted hair like mine, so it can be brown and blond at the same time ... yep, it's Clairol time ... (roots are at least 3 inches long ...)

Don't you just love the honesty of little children?

Thursday, July 09, 2009

~ Blessings ~

Wow, isn't God wonderful! Since most of you who read this either got an email from me or is on Facebook and saw my post, so I won't reiterate what I have already said on those. I will only say that Dad is still doing well, in ICU, breathing tube out, sitting up and talking. PTL!

Of course, what is a tense and stressful situation without a little humor ... so here it is ...

I stayed the night with Mom at the hospital last night, we stayed in the ICU waiting room, which is actually pretty nice, it has recliners, big screen TVs, computers with Internet access (for email only though), a break room, nice bathroom, and showers (they provided towels, shampoo, bath jel, blow dryers), plus they give you blankets and pillows to stay they night (you actually can't bring your own, they have to be theirs because they are fire retardant), so that is all nice. For overnight you are assigned a recliner, in case they have to come get you for any reason, they will know exactly which recliner to go to.

My recliner wouldn't stay reclined, but oh well, at least it wasn't a straight back uncomfortable chair. The unfortunate and embarrassing part of this story is that at some point I after I fell asleep, I woke myself up "breaking wind" (and unfortunate for me it was rather loud - that is probably what woke me up... ) in a room full of people ... and yes, I heard snickers ... I had to fake sleep forever before I could even move! Talk about embarrassment ... Argghhh!



Oh well, we were a room full of exhausted people with loved ones in ICU, I hope it gave them something to smile about and take their minds off of their troubles even if only for a few minutes.

Thank you for for the love and prayers. Thank you God for the answered prayers!

Sunday, July 05, 2009

~ Family Photos ~

My son and his family came over a week or so ago for a cookout; my mom was here too:



We bought a little kiddie pool for my grandkids, Molly and Ian, to play in; they loved; and so did Maggie (the boxer) she ate it the next day ....