Meg and Baby just left after coming up for the weekend, their car packed solidly of stuff that is now theirs and out of our barn..yay!! We had storms, lost power for a bit and ended up having a wonderful time on the boat and catching the nice hot sun and then a beautiful sunset. Life is twice as sweet since Meg took Lulu, her German Shepard a few ( Read more... )

the holiday weekend begins! What are my plans? Boating with family and taking my new rug hooking frame (the portable Puritan!!!), working in the Lasanga garden and visiting with my daughter. I don't think I mentioned she moved to Chicago a month ago and so I had to hire a new secretary. First off, let me just say, distance makes the heart grow ( Read more... )

Getting up and at 'em and giving in to the inevitable...Everyone have a wonderful day!

Ugh, I've been up since 2:00a, have to be in at 8:30a, I am considering just giving up the ghost now and going to do some prep work...I forsee an early bedtime in my future.

hate my job even more everyday. No details necessary.

There is NO COFFEE, I repeat, NO COFFEE. There is no way I am going to the office at 5:30a in the morning just because there are two cans there. However, I will be leaving a bit early as Bri will hit the roof when he discovers there is none and I imagine a call coming in about 8:45a with the accusatory tone "Did you KNOW we are out of coffee (as ( Read more... )

and will use that icon to get all my angst out tonight before my 9am hearing tomorrow where we decide if the children should be returned and when and how and so on. My clients aged 6, 4,almost 3 years old and 9 months are in two different foster homes ( Read more... )

May I just say how much I miss my Ma!! If you were here, given all I know now...you'd be treated like a queen, I am so sorry I learned this lesson too late in life. Same goes for my other Mother, Kathleen, my MIL, she was so wonderful and I could not have had a better one. How much I miss you both and only hope your great-grandchildren are as

We launched the boat yesterday and the sheer joy of Lake Michigan stuns me anew. It is kind of like an old/new suprise each time we go out. Taking the furniture and stopping to buy plants for the containers and getting it all set up for a wonderous summer...plus fishing tonight at dusk, yippee!

to sound a bit redundant but it is snowing again...we JUST got rid of the past week's snow yesterday.