Family

Unfortunately, I only have 2 pictures of my daughter on my computer. I'm going to have to start going crazy with the camera every time I see her. Anyway, these 2 pictures were made at Christmas when she was holding her niece, Shelly.


This is my son Doug and his wife Rose, made on Christmas.

My son Doug again looking pitiful with his niece, Rebecca.

This is my husband, Doug, with his girlfriend.

A close up shot of his girlfriend.

This is Doug sharing an apple with grandson, Nicholas.

My mom, aka, Granny.

Doug with a beard. I think it makes him look old. What do you think?

This is me and my mom at the Easter banquet at church.

Finally, you should not put your kids in the dryer after they've had a bath.

Billy and Shelly

This is Shelly at my house on Mother's Day.

She already has her own car!

And she knows how to work on it.

Even Big Bad Troy loves her.

Shelly and her mom, Rose, at my house.

Billy enjoys playing hot wheels with his dad's old toy.

Shelly has a sweet smile.

And she laughs all the time.

As you can see, Billy is right at home at our house.

Shelly likes to play peek a boo.

They like to play on my bed.

Billy likes to color. He takes it very seriously.

Shelly turns off my computer while I'm using it.

After a hard day, she goes fast asleep.

Billy likes to see how fast the cars can go.

He likes to get in the swing sometimes just to keep Shelly out of it.

Sometimes he refuses to turn around to have his picture taken.

Doesn't he make a cute computer nerd?

He plays possum sometimes to keep Shelly from bothering him.

But Shelly gets him up anyway.

Rebecca and Nicholas

This is Nicholas sitting outside with his PaPaw.

Rebecca likes to play the Sponge Bob game on my computer.

And she also likes to win.

She also like to look like a chipmunk.

She loves to play soccer.

But she can also be quite the little lady.

Nicholas tries to be shy at times but we all know better.

But he won't sit still long.

They love each other more than any brother and sister I've ever seen. They are so close.

Swimming

Today Mary and Bucky brought Tori and Ryan up to play in the pool. I think they had a good time. At first Ryan didn't want to get in the water, he wanted to stay on the ladder. But eventually, he got in and didn't want to leave when it came time for them to go to Mary's grandparent's apartment. I really enjoyed them coming up and look forward to them coming back.

Mary

My friend Mary is back in the hospital with her leg again. I certainly hope they find out what is causing the cellulitis and infection. For anybody who doesn't know Mary, she is a very sweet and loving person and doesn't need all the health problems she is encountering with this. Please join me in wishing her a speedy recovery and good health in the future. Mary, I love you and wish you only the best.

New Profession

I think I have found a new profession. Last week I had to mow with a push mower because the belt on the riding mower broke. I single handedly put a new belt on it. Of course, we won't go into how many bolts I took out and how many carter pins I removed and replaced, which really wasn't necessary. But you learn from your mistakes. I was mowing today and the blades wouldn't engage. I thought the belt had come off. It hadn't. So here I was on the ground looking underneath the mower. I found a metal thing that had another thing sticking out on it. Coming down from the top was another metal thing with a hole in it. Hmmmm...Interesting. I connected the two metal things by sticking the thing sticking out into the hole in the other metal thing. But how would I make it stay?? I found a carter pin in the garage. There was a hole but the pin wouldn't go all the way through. So I put it in as far as I could and wrapped it around using a pair of pliers. IT WORKED!!! Think I'll take up lawn mower repair. Think they'll like my terminology of parts?

My horoscope

I got this horoscope thing as a free gift for my birthday from my birthday calender. I don't usually put much belief in this stuff, but it hit the nail on the head. I think it fits me, what do you think?

Section 1: How You Approach Life and How You Appear To Others
You are a natural diplomat, reasonable, tolerant, fair, always willing to listen to varying viewpoints, and ready to see the other side of an issue. Even if you strongly disagree with someone, you will try to find points of similarity and agreement rather than emphasizing the differences. You often avoid taking an extreme or one-sided stance on anything. You have a strong desire for harmonious and pleasant relationships, and express a spirit of cooperation, compromise, friendship, and fairness. You very much want to be liked and because of your need for approval and acceptance, you are easily influenced by others' opinions, especially when young. You so much want to please that often you will suppress your own intense or unpleasant feelings in order not to offend others. Sometimes your politeness is interpreted as phoniness or wishy-washiness. Find out more with your full-length reading...

Section 2: The Inner You: Your Real Motivation
You are, in many ways, an eternal child. Your mind is bright, alert, curious, flexible, playful, and always eager for new experiences - and your attention span is often quite brief. You grasp ideas quickly and once your initial curiosity has been satisfied, you want to go on to something else. You crave frequent change, variety, meeting new situations and people. Find out more with your full-length

Mama

Well, we got home from Washington and I got sick. So I laid around for awhile and finally went to the doctor on Thursday, the day I was supposed to go back to work. He told me to stay off work 4 more days. So I went home and went back to bed. My mother called me that night and told me she was having chest pain. I went to her place and called 911. We went to the ER and she was admitted to the hospital. On the floor I work, no less. So I ended up staying at the hospital anyway. But my illness had mysteriously disappeared. I guess she scared it out of me. The next morning the doctor came in and told her she needed to have a heart catheterization. I asked her about her dog, who also had severe heart problems, and she gave me permission to have her put to sleep. So I came home and fed her dog and gave her some treats, then made the trip to the vet. I hated to do it, but she had suffered long enough. Shortly after I got back to the hospital, they came and got Mama for the cath. When they finished, they called me and my sister to come down there, instead of coming to the room like they were supposed to. Needless to say, we were scared. They had to do a baloon procedure on her and then put a stent in one of her arteries in her heart. If you're not familiar with this procedure, you have a large tube (a sheath) in your groin going into an artery. After they take out the sheath, you have to lie flat for 6 hours. Her procedure ended about 3pm. They weren't able to remove the sheath until about 8pm. So she couldn't even turn over for 6 more hours. She has arthritis in her back and legs and she was in alot of pain. Nothing they gave her stopped the pain. And they gave her lots of stuff. So when her bedrest was up, she couldn't get up because she was so loopy. Then her blood pressure took a nose dive. It got as low as 65/31. She couldn't move her left side and was talking to people who weren't there. I thought she had a stroke. Thank God I was wrong. They gave her alot of IV fluid and she got better. She came home on Sunday (mother's day). I brought her to my house so I could keep a close eye on her. She isn't recovering as fast as she should, but she's 77 years old and doesn't do anything fast anymore. Her blood count dropped drastically as if she was bleeding somewhere. I took her to Thompson Cancer Survival Center today to be checked there. She has a problem with her blood count anyway so they checked her blood and gave her a shot to help build it up. So hopefully she'll be back on the mend soon. One good thing that happened during all this is that she was approached by a nurse who told her about a study that was being done with a new drug. Plavix is the drug they put people on to prevent platelet formation which helps the blood to clot. Stents tend to attract blood cells that will stick to it if the blood has alot of platelets in it. This prevents the stent from keeping the artery open. A drug company has made a new drug which has to pass tests on patients before it can be approved by the FDA for marketing. So she is participating in the study and gets her medicine for free. She may be taking Plavix, she may be taking the new drug. We don't know. Not even the doctor knows. But she can stop the study any time she wants to. She isn't required to stay in it. She also gets free physicals while she's in it. So I feel pretty safe that the care she's getting is the best because they really monitor her closely. So that is what has been going on in my life. Exciting, huh? I'm tired of excitement! I just want to get back to my normal, humdrum life! But I love my mom and I'll take care of her forever, if I need to. Maybe next time I'll post something a little more interesting. Take care and everybody have a good day.