I'm Back, DAY 1

Well so much to talk about on the trip. I guess I will start with day 1.

Last Saturday we all woke up around 5am. We did all of the last minute packing, ie toothbrushes, hairbrushes, deodorant and tossed all the suitcases into the bag that we borrowed to go put in the back of the pick-up.

Have I mentioned how much i hate mornings! lol

Anyhoo, we drove to the Blue Water bridge in Port Huron and crossed over to Canada without any problems. Drove the 4 hours to get to Niagra Falls. I love the falls, so much to look at and the the views are just so breath taking.

First thing we did was head over to the Burger King to get a bite to eat since we all chose to skip breakfast and make our first destination. We arrived around 10:30ish.

This Burger King was attached to a haunted house hense the Frankenstein eating a whopper.

So after all of our belly's were full we heading right across the street to Ripley's Believe it or Not!

I totally recommend it! So much to see and do

Back end of the building

front end

Frank, Darin and Amber waiting in line.

I took alot of pictures inside but I won't bore you all with those right now. I'm sure i will use some in future.

After Ripley's we walked down to the falls.

Horseshoe falls

Canadian side

New York falls

Amber by the horseshoe falls

Amber, Me and Darin in between the 2 falls.

After checking out the falls on the outside we went behind the falls!

Frank in the tunnel

Darin and Amber in the tunnel

one of the portholes behind the falls. wish you could hear the thundering water. It is breath taking.

Darin and Amber in the porthole...yeh, the picture is dark.

picture of the tunnel behind the falls.

So after all of that, we headed back to our car and it was about 5:00pm ish...(yes i like using ish alot, lol) We got back on the road and crossed the canadian bridge to New York without any problems. Started our long drive thru New York and stopped a couple times, pee breaks and a dinner break, around 9:30pm (ish) we looked for a hotel and ended up somewhere in (Castonova?) New York on the thruway, we found a Days Inn and got a great room, relaxed and watched a little T.V. and went to bed. It was a good thing because about then I could barely see I was so tired!

Well this was the first day, I will write more later.

After a couple bad days here, i needed this laugh!

Anyhoo..

Today I got up with the list in my hands of everything that i needed to get done before i could think about leaving! Everything went well until i went to pick up my rent-a-car. It's a long story and I am not even going to try and explain it today. So we had to change some plans. We are driving our own vehicle. I went and had an oil change done, all fluids topped off and ready to go. Pray that we make it there and back! It's a good truck but my biggest fear is breaking down!

Hopefully things will go smoothe sailing from here on.

So I guess this is goodbye for a week! I hope that you all have a wonderful Easter, and a wonderful week!

SOMETHING SO COOL!

http://s291.photobucket.com/albums/ll305/yowhatsup5/?action=view&current=HAPPY.flv

This was so neat!! You have to see it. This lady designs pictures out of sand.




Today after I visited my mother I got pulled over by the police for a stupid, stupid mistake! Not speeding, not anything like that. I got a ticket for going straight when I should have made a right. But if you saw this intersection you would have gotten confused too! The officer did not give me a ticket that is going to cause any points but the city will get some money out of me. I surely did not need it! I told the officer that it was a simple mistake and would never happen again, that i did not see the signs because my mind was on my sick mother-in-law and my mother that is in the hospital. He had some pity on me...but man, it would be nice if one cop gave me a break!! I made a mistake, an honest mistake! I wish i had listened to myself and just made that right instead of going straight. It seems like another round of bad luck is on me, and I am almost afraid to go on this trip.

I was so excited at 3:30 when my vacation officially started and by 6:00 pm I was in tears and hating life! So now on Monday when I am in Vermont I have to make a phone call to the police station to see how much this ticket is or set up a court date.

Anyhoo lots to do...later

WHAT'S DOIN?

Amber's side is healing nicely, she is taking her meds faithfully. She said she did not need her pain meds today which is a good thing because she went back to school and Amber gets really high off of tylenol with codeine.

Mom is still in the hospital, she got cut on Sunday and then again got cut on Monday some more. The infection is pretty bad that she is going yet again to be cut today. It starts in the front of her belly and it runs almost to her back with infection. We still have not heard much else about her kidneys. The first day that she was there they said something was wrong with her kidneys but that's all that has been said.

I'm so worried to go on this trip with her in the hospital. I told her that she is not allowed to get worse while I am gone! She just tells me not to worry and to go. We'll see, but if things get worse by Friday i may just send frank and the kids by themselves.

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Anyhoo...

At work i have been told many, many times that i will be missed. It's nice to know that your not just an employee and they care.

Amber got her report card and she is still living! Omg she got A's and B's not one D and not even one C! I knew she could do it if she put her mind to it. What i think is great now is we receive a phone call every week if Amber has not turned in every assignment, which in turn makes me get on her back! It's simply a recorded message that states "your child has late and missing assignments and is due on such and such date" They have only just started this the last few weeks, and I think it's fabulous!


Darin got an A on his Shakespeare report! (alot of it thanks to me) Is it me, or does school seem alot easier to do when your older? lol All the reports i did when i was younger were b's and c's and these days reports seems easier to do when your older. I think your more focused when your older, when your younger all you think about is going outside to play. So folks if there is anything about Shakespeare that your curious about...I bet i have the answer *grin*.

Well if you have a second, could you drop a prayer on my mom so that she doesn't get any worse. I have to go and get ready to help my father with a few things right now.

BOILS ANYONE?

This is one of those weeks I would just love to forget.

Last week Amber shaved her armpits and shortly after that she broke out into little pimples well one of the little pimples. I started treating it with triple antibiotic cream...That wasn't doing anything. Then a girlfriend suggested that it looked like a yeast infection so a few days with some yeast infection medicine...it did look like it was getting better. But one pimple became very gross...i won't describe it because that's how gross it was. Amber spent the whole weekend with her girlfriend because the girlfriend was having a sleepover birthday party and Amber is her BFF, I figured that when she got home it would be almost all cleared up. So when I got off work and finally saw Amber's armpit, saw that it was still very gross and very inflamed I said let's go back to my work and have it taken care of. So I am a happy little camper!

And to make things even better my mother went to Emergency this morning to have yet another boil lanced and she is spending a few days in the hospital with I. V. antibiotics. Tomorrow I will be visiting her .I thought Amber would be doing that also, but she has to take an antibiotic 4 times a day and she gets pain meds! Amber and G-Ma will be able to compare scars..lol

Amber cried and screamed a little when the doctor gave her the shot to numb it and then she lanced it. It was really sad, but needed to be done.
Hopefully nothing else will go wrong.

We are on vacation as of Friday and we leave on our trip on Saturday.

TMI THURSDAY

Lilu over at Live It, Love It has a thing called TMI Thursday's. If you have never read her blog before I totally recommend it. Her boyfriend and her are hysterical! I thought I would join in.

***Alright, folks, you know the rules. Join us all in humiliating the crap out of yourself every Thursday by sharing some completely tasteless, wholly unclassy, "how many readers can I estrange THIS week??" TMI story about your life. Or hell, about someone else's!

Here it goes-


I don't drink very often, but a couple of summers ago my neighbors was having a little party and I decided that I was going to drink, and drink, and drink some more.

About 2 in the morning we are outside and at that point I decided I was tired so I got on my hands and knees and put my hands up on the porch, this is now what everyone calls me praying to the porch. But in all honesty folks I have fallen asleep many times like this in front of my couch, especially if my back is hurting.

After everyone told my husband to put me to bed, he slowly tried to get me to go home across the street(no easy feat) He gets me into bed and goes back to the party that is now winding down. After a few minutes I must have woke up and threw up all over my bed. The kids went running across the street and informed my husband that I had puked all over the bed and was sleeping in it. He comes home and gets me cleaned up and cleans the sheets and lays me back in bed. He goes back across the street and is making plans to go fishing later in the morning. I apparently was not done. I woke up again and totally threw up all over the bed again. Now the kids are scared and this time call their dad back over to inform him that i had done it again. He comes back over and somehow gets me in the shower clothes and all (yet again, not an easy feat) and cleans up my mess yet again!!! Thank God he loves me right?

When I woke up later in the day, I was soaked, my bedroom smelled horrible and all my neighbors had a good laugh about me praying to the porch.

Not one of my better moments in life. But that is one of my TMI moments.

MORE FROM THE TALENTED DARIN

What's sad is that he is throwing away alot of what he is drawing because he is not satisfied on how they come out.


I don't see anything wrong with alot of them but he does.

We did not do much this weekend because Darin had a major project that had to be done on this weekend. Let's just say that I know more about William Shakespeare than I ever cared to know. I watched a 4 hour show about him with Darin. Darin choce to write a 2 page summary of one aspect of Shakespeare life. From what projects he had to chose from that was the easiest.

Otherwise the list of projects were rediculous! For example: make clothes for dolls on that period, or make a song about Romeo and Juliet and sing it to the class with the words on a poster board for the class to be able to follow. Just alot of stuff that a 14 year old boy is not going to do. Some of these projects require money...a thing alot of these kids (including this family) have none of. Stupid!

I just looked outside and it's started snowing....just like Michigan!

WHO KNEW

For the last few years my son has become a huge anime book fan...he always knows when the next one is coming out and makes sure he earns enough money to go to Border's and purchase the next book. He has quite a collection now! But just recently he started opening up the books and drawing the characters, he never shown an interest in drawing before. Here's a couple of the drawings he's started...as my mom scan's them and sends them to us I thought i would share his talent.










I can't get over how talented he is!














A chip off the old grandmother...I can't even draw a stick figure right! I'm so proud!
















In other news 17 more days till VACATION!! *doing the happy dance*
My boss looked at me yesterday and said that she could tell by my face that I need the vacation.
I could not believe it was that obvious. She also told me that " I would be missed' while I was gone. Awwwww that made me feel good!
HAVE A GREAT WEEK!

POTPOURI OF THINGS

Let's see what i can come up with here.

Mom has a great story that she is sharing about removing ink stains off of carpeting. Her wonderful, loving, caring, intelligent daughter (ME) suggested to go ONLINE for a remedy to her predicament and from what i hear it worked!

In other news my son has survived yet another card marking! Couple A's couple B's and one C+.
Yahhhhhhhhhhh! I mean i never doubted it for a minute!

Amber is spending the weekend over at a friends house, at least I like this friend. Her friend Jordan makes her act a little more girlie, she does her hair and make-up and wears more girlie clothes.

I can't wait for my vacation, I'm not counting or anything (21 days) but it's really close.
Niagra Falls for a day and then on to Vermont to see Frank's family. We all are really excited about seeing them all again it's been 7 years since our last visit. Rent-a-car is booked and the hotel in Vermont is booked, it's only 25 minutes away from his mother's house. Why a rent-a-car??? Well, my pick up does not have a cover in the back for the bags, and more importantly...if my truck breaks down for any reason I am stuck wherever i am until i find a place to fix it and there goes the vacation, with a rent a car they come and give me another car and i am on my way again. "smart" *wink* not to mention i'm not putting all those miles on my truck. :)


Well, that's all i got for now folks...pretty boring when all you do is work. I guess i need the vacation for more blogging material.

Amber has her say

A look into a 13 year old girl's answers.


AMBER, WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT YOUR MOM?

loving, caring

WHAT DO YOU THINK OF YOUR DAD?

weird, old

ANYTHING YOU WOULD CHANGE ABOUT YOUR MOM?

i don't know.

ANYTHING YOU WOULD CHANGE ABOUT YOUR DAD?

change his temper he yells too much....and his talking to the t.v.

WHAT WOULD BE YOUR PERFECT BOYFRIEND?

someone that listens

WHAT DO YOU WANT TO BE WHEN YOU GROW UP?

animal cop or work in the zoo.

WHAT DO YOU THINK PEOPLE THINK ABOUT YOU?

they think i am fat(mom rolls eyes and says typical teenage girl)
my friends think i am popular because i know everyone!

WHAT DO LIKE ABOUT SCHOOL?

my friends

WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE SUBJECT IN SCHOOL?

language arts

WHY DO YOU LIKE IT?

my teacher is awesome.

WHAT DO YOU LEAST LIKE ABOUT SCHOOL?

gym, classes.

WHAT DO YOU THINK IS THE MOST IMPORTANT THING THAT YOU LEARN IN SCHOOL?

I don't know...today we learned that 10 % of kids my age are having sex.

WHAT DO YOU LIKE THE MOST THAT MOM MAKES?

sloppy joe's or pumpkin cookies.

WHAT DO YOU LIKE ABOUT YOUR BROTHER?

he reminds me of a teddy bear.

WHAT DO YOU NOT LIKE ABOUT YOUR BROTHER?

he borrows my stuff without asking all the time.

WHAT DO YOU LIKE ABOUT YOURSELF?

eyes, hair and my booty! my badonkadonk

WHAT DO YOU DISLIKE ABOUT YOURSELF?

i get mad easy.

WHAT DO YOU NOTICE FIRST ABOUT PEOPLE?

what they wear...if they are wearing old people stuff i'm not talking to them. (mom rolls eyes again)

DO YOU THINK THAT YOU WOULD WANT TO BE A MOTHER ONE DAY?

yeh

HOW MANY CHILDREN WOULD YOU LIKE TO HAVE?

2, boy and girl.

DO YOU PLAN ON BEING A VIRGIN UNTIL YOUR WEDDING DAY? (a mother can only hope right?)

yes, sure..*runs away*....*mom sigh's*


she got bored after this...so i think this interview is over.

Darin's Interview

A look into a 14 year old boys life.
I have seen this on a few other blogs and thought it would be interesting to see what my kids would say....Next I will do Amber.


DARIN WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT YOUR MOM?

Nice, loving, caring.

IS THERE ANYTHING YOU WOULD CHANGE ABOUT YOUR MOTHER?

no comment.

WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT YOUR DAD?

Mean, hot headed and awesome.

WHAT WOULD YOU CHANGE ABOUT YOUR DAD?

nothing.

WHAT WOULD BE YOUR PERFECT GIRLFRIEND?

personality, looks, humorous, smart.

WHAT DO YOU WANT TO BE WHEN YOU GROW UP?

computer technician, design games, one of the two.

WHAT DO YOU THINK PEOPLE THINK ABOUT YOU?

I'm funny!! with man boobs like these who wouldn't be.

WHAT DO LIKE ABOUT SCHOOL?

I don't like school...but i like math and science the most.

DARIN WITH MATH AND SCIENCE BEING THE HARDEST CLASSES..WHY DO YOU LIKE THOSE?

It's not hard people make it seem harder than it is.

WHAT DO YOU LEAST LIKE ABOUT SCHOOL?

Teachers, i wish we could learn by ourselves. Teachers ruin it.

WHY DO YOU SAY THAT?

Cuz they write us up for not doing our work.

WHY AREN'T YOU DOING YOUR WORK?

I work, but i work and talk.

WHAT DO YOU THINK IS THE MOST IMPORTANT THING THAT YOU LEARN IN SCHOOL?

I don't know...responsibility?

WHAT DO YOU LIKE THE MOST THAT MOM MAKES?

meatloaf, and your pineapple cookies.

WHAT DO ABOUT YOUR SISTER?

should have planned to never have her.

WHAT DO YOU HATE ABOUT YOUR SISTER?

everything.

WHAT DO YOU LIKE ABOUT YOUR SISTER?

nothing

WHAT DO YOU LIKE ABOUT YOURSELF?

everything.

WHAT DO YOU HATE ABOUT YOURSELF?

nothing, i'm fat and awesome....I make fat look good.

WHAT DO YOU NOTICE THE MOST ABOUT PEOPLE?

Thier attitude.

So Tired!

I am so tired, in this week alone I have 18 hours of overtime! I believe i have a couple hours the week before, so on the check coming on friday i am looking at roughly 20 hours of overtime.

So lets just figure out how much that is going to mean to me....

20 hours at $what i make (times) time & a half (plus) 80 hours of regular pay (plus) weekend rate and night premiums, carry the 2 (plus) E=MCsquared...lol...I just thru that in there.
*insert drum roll here* EQUALS= CHING$, CHING$ = I can't wait to see on Friday ...LMAO!

Have I said I am really tired?

Also I think I am coming down with something...in fact i know i am...you ask how do i know? ...well it could be because I just vomited everything i ate out about one hour ago...yuck!!!
And I still feel like I could do it again...

Anyhoo...I'm off too bed!

SAD, BUT TRUE!

I got this off of Momma's Corner, she asked to share it, I read it and cried.




*_SOMETHING WE ALL SHOULD REMEMBER_*
/Crabby Old Man
When an old man died in the geriatric ward of a nursing home in North Platte, Nebraska, it was believed that he had nothing left of any value./ /Later, when the nurses were going through his meager possessions, they found this poem. Its quality and content so impressed the staff that copies were made and distributed to every nurse in the hospital
One nurse took her copy to Missouri . The old man’s sole bequest to posterity has since appeared in the Christmas edition of the News Magazine of the St. Louis Association for Mental Health.
A slide presentation has also been made based on his simple, but eloquent, poem.
And this little old man, with nothing left to give to the world, is now the author of this ‘anonymous’ poem winging across the Internet.
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Crabby Old Man

What do you see nurses? . . What do you see?
What are you thinking . . . . when you’re looking at me?
A crabby old man, . . not very wise,
Uncertain of habit . . . . . with faraway eyes?


Who dribbles his food . . . . . . and makes no reply
When you say in a loud voice . . ‘I do wish you’d try!’
Who seems not to notice . . . the things that you do.
And forever is losing . . . . . . . A sock or shoe?

Who, resisting or not . . . . . . . . . lets you do as you will,
With bathing and feeding . . . . . . The long day to fill?
Is that what you’re thinking? . . . Is that what you see?
Then open your eyes, nurse . . . . you’re not looking at me.


I’ll tell you who I am, . . .. . . as I sit here so still,
As I do at your bidding, . . . . as I eat at your will
I’m a small child of Ten . . . . with a father and mother,
Brothers and sisters . . . . . . . who love one another

A young boy of Sixteen . . with wings on his feet
Dreaming that soon now . . . . a lover he’ll meet.
A groom soon at Twenty. . . . . .My heart gives a leap.
Remembering the vows . . . . . that I promised to keep.


At Twenty-Five, now . . . . . . . I have young of my own.
Who need me to guide . . . And a secure happy home.
A man of Thirty . . . . . . My young now grown fast,
Bound to each other . . . . . . With ties that should last.


At Forty, my young sons . . have grown and are gone,
But my woman’s beside me . . .. . . . to see I don’t mourn.
At Fifty, once more, . Babies play ‘round my knee,
Again, we know children . . . . . . My loved one and me .

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Dark days are upon me . . My wife is now dead.
I look at the future . . . . . . . . .. . I shudder with dread.
For my young are all rearing . . . . . . young of their own.
And I think of the years . . And the love that I’ve known.

I’m now an old man . . . . . and nature is cruel.
Tis jest to make old age. . . . . look like a fool.
The body, it crumbles . . . . . . . . . . grace and vigor depart.
There is now a stone . . . . . . where I once had a heart.


But inside this old carcass . . A young guy still dwells,
And now and again . . . . . my battered heart swells
I remember the joys . . . . . . . . . . I remember the pain.
And I’m loving and living . . . . . . . . . . . life over again.


I think of the years . all too few . . . . . gone too fast.
And accept the stark fact . . . . . . . that nothing can last.
So open your eyes, people . . . . . open and see..
Not a crabby old man Look closer . . see . . . . ME!!

Remember this poem when you next meet an older person who you might brush aside without looking at the young soul within . .
We will all, one day, be there, too!/ /PLEASE SHARE THIS POEM

Got Pics!

So this past weekend i had off...it was wonderful!!! Saturday i did not do much of anything until my bestest friend in the whole world came down from hickville(lupton) michigan 3 hours away for her kids to wrestle in a city right next door to me. It was great seeing her.

Sunday we all got up and went to the local school and i got to watch all of her kids wrestle for the first time...they tried so hard!!!

Barb and I have been friends for like 27 years! She is wonderful...I miss her madly! But her love of animals and wanting lots of them sent her to a place with plenty of acres for all sorts of animals...from the outside and on to the inside. She should charge admission to her property...it's a zoo!

These pics are going to be so random because i don't have the energy to fix them...

This is her daughter Jaycee, She is 17 and she enjoys wrestling!

Jaycee is wrestling an adult about 35 years old. She gave him a battle!! But he was very experienced ...I was so proud of her, she did give him a fight.

another pic of her

and yet another.

she took second place

Here is her son Masen.

he took second place

Masen again. Aka...the "stick"

another

and yet another

this is her neice Anna

Anna again

Her son Jorden he took 5th

Jorden again.

and yet again.

This is her neice Anna before her match

This is Masen and his long hair! If i had a pair of scissors he would have gotten a hair cut..lol

This is Jaycee and her boyfriend Josh. They make a cute couple. He is also into wrestling and from what i hear very good at it...but because he has ringworm he could not wrestle this day.

Jorden...typical!

I have a very special place in my heart for this girl Jaycee. Her first year of her life i practically

raised her, due to bad circumstances with her mother I helped alot.

God I love her like she was my own.














Jaycee after her defeat...She felt so bad...but she shouldn't she gave a great fight.

In other news.....Yesterday 3/03 Torro here got another year older! He is 6 now! He was born on 3/3/03 not hard to remember that birthday...I was there when he came into this world...He has made a special place in my daughters heart...they adore each other!

Who could not love this puppy?

Things have just been looking alot brighter...I got a letter from the IRS, at first I thought i was getting audited, but apparently they found a mistake in my favor for some more refund to come back to me. That was great news!!! Next time mom and me will have to have all the right forms and plenty of sleep so we don't make stupid mistakes like that one.

On Monday when i went back to work at 6 in the morning I had no idea that i would end up staying until 9:30 pm 15 and 1/2 hours...they were 4 people short for the night shift...I really like our night manager and could not see doing that to her... so I volunteered, I was going to leave at 7:15 pm but she really needed the help in the dishroom after the dinner rush. That was painful to be working that much, but what made it worse was that i had to be back at 7 the next morning. Needless to say I was exhaused! I caught up on some sleep today, because Frank was home, so he took the kids to school..Thank God! The great news is that all of Friday and Saturday will be overtime!! wooohooo...

We are really getting excited about our trip. I've been looking up things online..hotels, sites and things like that. Just getting away from work and day to day drama is well worth it.

Well that's all that's been going on.

Thanks Stacie

You are Judgement

Happiness, Content, Joy.

Judgment is related to the Hebrew letter Shin, which is fiery and spiritual. A break from the past, going forward.

With Fire as its ruling element, Judgement is about rebirth or ressurection. The idea of Judgement day is that the dead rise, their sins are forgiven, and they move onto heaven. The Judgement card is similar, it asks the resurrection to summon the past, forgive it, and let it go. There are wounds from the past that we never let heal, sins we've committed that we refuse to forgive, bad habits we haven't the courage to lose. Judgement advises us to finally face these, recognize that the past is past, and put them to rest, absolutely and irrevocably. This is also a card of healing, quite literally from an accident or illness, as well as a card signaling great transformation, renewal, change.

What Tarot Card are You?
Take the Test to Find Out.

Just Because

Due to lack of interesting things to post about. I had to resort to stealing a meme from Michelle over at Rediscovering Me:

1. Do you like Bleu Cheese? I like the dressing, but don't care for the cheese to much

2. Have you ever been drunk? Yes!!! So drunk I vomited all over my bed 3 times.

3. Do you own a gun? apparently i own a rifle for my son.

4. What flavor of Kool Aid was your favorite? was and is! Tropical flavor!

5. Do you get nervous before doctor appointments? Nope!!! I am so used to them now that it don't effect me in the least!

6. What do you think of hot dogs? Good for a quick and easy meal! I could not eat them all the time tho!

7. Favorite Christmas movie? Rudolph is always going to be my favorite!

.8. What do you prefer to drink in the morning? water, or orange juice.

9. Can you do push ups? I couldn't even tell you what one is. lol...but I can it push-ups all day :)

10. What's your favorite piece of jewelry? My wedding ring..I've worn it faithfully for 14 years now :)

11. Favorite hobby? bingo

12. Do you have A.D.D.? what? no..lol

13. What's your favorite shoe? currently airwalks

14. Middle name? Jean

15. Name 3 thoughts at this exact moment? 1. this ice cream is good...2. my next answer...3. why are the dogs barking?

16. What are 3 drinks you normally drink? water, pop, ice tea

17. Current worry? Not going there!!!!

18. Current hate right now? Nothing

19. Favorite smell? lilacs!

20. How did you bring in the New Year? At a neighbors house playing dominoes.

21. Where would you like to go right now? Florida,,,actually anywhere other than work.

22. Name three people who will complete this? not going to ask anyone too

23. Do you own slippers? Yes.

24. What color shirt are you wearing right now? maroon

25. Do you like sleeping on Satin sheets? Not really

26. Can you whistle? Yes, very loud with 2 fingers

27. Favorite color? black

28. Would you be a pirate? nah, i'm a landlover!

29. What songs do you sing in the shower? lately, Single ladies by Beyonce

30. Favorite Girl's Name? This changes all the time...tiffany, sela, jesse, savanna,

31. Favorite boy's name? Leland

32. What's in your pocket right now? notta

33. Last thing that made you laugh? my son, cracking jokes

34. Best bed sheets as a child? don't recall any

35. Worst injury you've ever had as a child? my father got in a car wreck, and i ended up with a cut on my forehead, most pain was tearing my all my ligaments in my left arm, jumping one of those gym horses.

36. Do you love where you live? Yes.

37. Favorite day of the week? any day that i don't have to work.

38. Who is your loudest friend? May

39. How many dogs do you have? 2 chihuahua's "torro" "hershey"

40. Does someone have a crush on you? of course...my husband.

41. What is your favorite book? don't have any

42. What is your favorite candy? OMG, SNICKERS!

43. Favorite Sports Team? Red wings, only when i know they are on the verge of winning the stanley cup.

44. What song do you want played at your funeral? party music, dance y'all!

Quiet!

Quiet is a good thing these days. Nothing to report as far as bad or good. I did pull up a horoscope that said "rough times are at an end". Which I am taking as a sign from all of my prayers asking when it was going to end.

We got new uniforms at work, one word "awful". long sleeves, all black. I'm not looking forward to summer at all being a "sun magnet". They do look nice but long sleeves! good god! The material is not very comfortable either!

Other than that it is pretty quiet on the home front. I can except that!

Thanks

Thank You to everyone!

Needless to say Frank and I have not slept a whole lot. We have been talking alot. Despite what happens with his mother (we are getting different messages) we have made the decision to cancel the Florida trip and go to Vermont to visit her. It has been 7 years since our last trip out to see her, we feel this is the right thing to do. Florida will always be there, we can go another time.

Frank and I feel very strongly about going to see her, and for her to see how her grandchildren has really grown up. We still make a nice vacation of it. We will be passing thru Niagra Falls, we can do something there and there are things in Vermont that we can do, not to mention the scenery there, mountains galour! Michigan is such a flat state, I was truly mesmerized by the mountains and scenery in Vermont. The important thing is that on Easter Sunday we will be with Family, Frank will be with those he loves, the kids will get to know their grandmother better and see things that they don't see here.

Mom (in Vermont) we will see you probably on Easter Sunday. We are looking forward to seeing you.

why?

My husband got the phone call that he certainly did not expect. I was just told that he got a phone call from the daughter of the man that his mother has been living with. The news is not good.



From what Frank told me, the doctor told my MIL 3-4 months maybe a year if she is lucky.



I just want to crawl under a rock and take many drugs to make everything go away!



My mind is running a million miles an hour. So much to think about. Right now, I don't know what to say or do.



*Ann, if you are still reading my blog. I'm so sorry that you are going thru this, wish there was something i could do or say to make you feel better. My thoughts and my prayers are always with you. You are a great mother-in-law, and we LOVE YOU!*




To my readers, I thank you for listening, i appreciate your comments, prayers and support. Sorry that it's been a downer of a blog. But this is my live diary and this is my life at the moment. Thanks for your understanding.

Life

Even tho life seems to be throwing my family and I some not so fair moments I am trying to see a silver lining at the end of a rainbow.

Frank just called his mother and she is home, she has already received 3 chemo treatments and the rest she is going to have as an outpatient, she will also have 3 more chemo treatments and then they are going to start her on radiation also. She is going to know more tomorrow when she see's her doctor, he did a scan of her whole body and will talk about the results. My continued prayers and good thoughts go out to her. This is all I know that is going on at the moment. I want to thank everyone that has given her a thought and a prayer.

I can't imagine the pain that Frank is in, he is trying to be brave. Losing his grandmother and not being able to say goodbye and now this with his mother. I know what it was like when I was faced with maybe losing my mother at one point in time. It was hard to do anything, work, take care of the kids, the house, my thoughts were always about my mother.

Hopefully and God willing she will be alright.

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Some updates:

My back is about 95% better than it was. I will always have some pain because of my degenerated discs. I am still wearing a brace when I work until I am fairly certain my back can take it.

Darin actually begged me for a haircut, so I got that taken care of today. I could cut it if he would just let me buzz cut it. But noooooo he is not having that, it would have saved me $15.00.

Amber spent Friday thru Tuesday at her grandparent's house because school was out for a little break.

The kids went to the dentist on Monday, Darin had a couple of his fillings filled. Amber had one tooth pulled and a couple fillings put in...Did i tell you that she had to have 2 teeth pulled but just before her appointment she pulled one of them on her own.

*YOU HAVE GOT TO BE KIDDING ME HERE!*

Amber just came out of her room with her guinea pig in her hands, and it has passed away! It was alive this morning before work, when Frank gave it water and food.

I don't know why we are having such a dark cloud over this family. It's making it hard to keep our chins up with one bad thing after another going on.

I'm going to go and pray...It is all that I can think to do at the moment, other than console my poor daughter's broken heart.