As much as I enjoy helping family -- it has been nice to get home and actually have my privacy again. Since it has been a long time since I lived in a house with a small child and others around all the time, it was an adjustment at times. Especially when you are in the bathroom which has no door and the little 5 year old comes in to TALK because ( Read more... )

Sometimes being kidnapped can be a lot of fun. Mike and Amy, church friends, kidnapped my Mom and I today. They took us to a new (at least to me) restaurant with several other neighbors. It was a very good seafood restaurant and the company was wonderful. Of course, Dad wondered where Mom was when he got up from his nap!! The old saying of "you ( Read more... )

Yes, I am so excited that I can't sleep. Of course, I am also too tired to be productive. Why so excited you ask?? My niece should have arrived late tonight-- tomorrow morning I get to actually hold my 6 month old great niece for the first time. Of course ( Read more... )

I went to the doctor for what I thought was tendonitis in my wrist today - well, I have something that is very common. I can't tell you the name of it even though the doctor told me how it got named after some french doctor who saw it so often in the 1800's that he wrote a description of it and it became named after him. Now all I wanted was a ( Read more... )

Does anyone want to add a fluffy multi-colored cat to their outdoor menagerie? This lady cat has been hanging around the neighborhood for about a year now. She has a pitiful meow and is as sly as they come. She can slink onto the porch in more ways than I can count. She is the reason we had to replace the front screen door. With the door ( Read more... )

Okay, we all have them - you know who I mean - that one cousin who always looks better, has more, is better liked,etc! We also know we would all cheerfully direct them to the nearest quicksand if we thought we could get away with it. My cousin nemesis has risen in my life like a spectre from a good horror movie of late ( Read more... )

well I have been on a real roll of complaining tonight. I just emailed Wendy's and complained about them not filling their frosty's to the top of the cup. I got tired of hearing my family complain that they were being cheated, so I complained for them. Then, I thought while I was at it I might as well tell Macy's what I thought of their stupid ( Read more... )

I can't sleep -- I have the bedroom window open and the deep quiet has settled around me. It is such an expectant silence, broken only by the distant sound of trucks on the highway. It is as if the whole world took a deep breath and is waiting to exhale the morning. God is about to give birth to a new day full of hope and beauty. Somehow these ( Read more... )

As usual, I can't sleep - I have been thinking a lot over the past two weeks about how people view the older generation. It seems like the more educated the person is, the less tolerance they have for the elderly. We fired a doctor not once but twice last week for being rude and uncooperative with us. He got us to give him another chance after ( Read more... )

Yesterday was a very sad time for me. I received news that a good friend of Steve's had taken his life. He had a wife and an 8 month old little girl who will never know her father now. I remember when he came to Steve's funeral, he told me how he could never understand how Steve could do such a terrible thing to the people who loved him - - how ( Read more... )