Gayle, I'm glad there were no big blow-ups at the wedding! I'm sure the bride and groom are thankful for that too!

That is so exciting to take your granddaughter to Disney World! I'm sure she will be ecstatic! I never got to go when I was younger, even though my parents promised we could go as soon as I was big enough to walk around all day lol. Apparently I never got big enough for that! So I'm excited that we're having our own family now and will be able to take our kids there someday, and it will be my first time too!

I just went shoe shopping for an HOUR, and came back empty-handed :( That never happens with me! I need to get new shoes for the wedding in New Orleans, and I'm just having no luck. My feet are wide, so it's hard to find shoes that fit in the first place. Every pair I tried on today didn't work. I have one pair of short heels at home and I'll see if my cousin likes them tonight. I can't wear high heels (not sure if I'll want to anyway!) because her future husband is only about 5'5, and I am 5'8, she is 5'9, and Scott is 6'4 lol! I know we are already all towering over the groom, but I don't want to make it way more obvious (and since she is wearing flats, she doesn't want herself and her groom to look tiny compared to the bridal party lol).

I hope it cools off some before you get here for the wedding, Lindsey. It's still so hot, and New Orleans is extra humid. Bring your shorts, you'll need them!

I hope so too! I have been checking the weather there and I'm pretty sure I'm going to die lol.

Ok........my life has definitely taken a strange turn! I got a call from our Pastor this evening and he asked me if we would care for four kids who have been removed from their home. Well, you can figure out that we now have them. They are ages 9, 7, 5, and 4. Three girls and one boy. They are very polite and Glen and I have been very impressed with them. They were removed from their home because of it not being clean, nor were they clean. Of course they have come with head lice so I have spent the evening washing and combing out hair. At least their hair is all fairly short......especially the youngest..........she's taken the scissors to the back of her head and whacked it off! It's pretty noticeable too!

If the agency in charge of them can get into court tomorrow they may leave or it could be on Monday........we'll see.

I can honestly say that I never expected my day to end like this! BTW.....this probably puts our name on a list to be called again. Sigh...........however the police were extremely thankful that we were there to help.

Diana, that is a great thing you are doing! My great-aunt takes in foster kids all the time, and I think she is the most wonderful person I know. Most people in my family talk about her behind her back, saying she is too old to be caring for those kids, blah blah blah... but if she didn't, who would? She gives them a loving and stable home until things get figured out. Most of them have FAS or are born addicted to drugs because of their moms. It's heartbreaking. I saw her a few weeks ago and she had this little newborn who only weighed 5 lbs. My aunt had to give her morphine throughout the day to wean her off a heroin addiction from the womb. She was the tiniest, skinniest little baby I've ever seen. It's so sad when parents can not be responsible.

Anyways, I think you are doing a wonderful thing by helping out these kids when they need someone. I'm sure they will always remember you!

Thank you, Lindsey! Today they are trying my patience over the little Gator of Dean's. In just a little bit I am taking them to a kids party with the church so I'll get a little break. They are good kids it's just that there are four of them! I need to pick up some clothes for the little one at the thrift store. They were excited that they were staying a little longer.

Good for you, Diana! What a blessing you and your family are to them, and hopefully they will be to you. Good luck!

You and your family are the best......now when are you coming to take me in? ;)

Come on, Janet!

We got home from the party, baths are taken, pajamas on, prayers said, tucked in, lights out.........and the littlest one has been out of bed three times now! What a day!

Ahhh god love them..... they must be wondering what is happening to them, poor darlings.

Diana you and Glen are such lovely people to do this, it cant be easy to take on, not everyone could or would do it. I hope they settle down and are happy for the short time they will be with your family.

It is so sad when parents neglect their children, it breaks my heart, poor little souls deserve to be loved and cherished by their parents........ it saddens me that there are a lot of people with children in this world that really shouldnt have them - they dont deserve them:(

You're doing a good thing Diana!

Today...I didn't do a whole lot. Still a little weak from being sick all week. I came down with it last Friday...didn't work all week, tried to Wednesday, but only lasted 45 min. came home and then was able to go back in on Friday. My voice still isn't back to what it should be, but some would say that's great....lol. We went out to eat this evening but all I had was a tenderloin, wasn't that hungry I guess. Sure wish I was back to feeling normal.

I'm just glad that you're better, Janet!

Well, we've gone another day with the kids. Glen took over for most of the day because he knows that I'm getting tired.

We got around for church this morning.........after church we just picked up some chicken and came home to eat...... Glen took the kids on a short hay rack ride when he put the wagons in a shed............then at 2:00 we went to Feyn's house for Jed's first birthday party........we then took the kids to ride in the combine.........Glen took them on a hike to work out some of the sugar that they had eaten.......It DIDN'T work! They wew so wound up before supper! After supper we did a head lice treatment on ALL of us and baths........watched Glen's scuba video while I combed out nits! Finally bed time! What a day!

Here's a picture of them.

Oh my.....they are such beautiful children. I hope someday they will look back and see how blessed they were to be able to spend time with you.

Ok.......I still have them and May until Thursday. I'm not happy because nobody is calling me!

They should be in constant contact with you to make sure if you need anything or not. Then they wonder why more people are not interested in foster care.

Diana, this is a really wonderful thing you are doing! The picture of them is so cute. They are adorable. It's unimaginable that they would be in such a bad situation they had to go into foster care.

The kids ended up leaving last Monday. The kids were split up into two homes and went to Topeka, so far away. Glen and I have really struggled with them being gone and have considered getting them back but we have to look at things realistically and four kids are a lot of work and we're not young. You just don't decide to do this sort of thing because you were thrown into it for four days. Who knows maybe some day in the future.

I'm home today as usual with Dean. He has quite the swollen lip! He fell and cut his upper lip yesterday with his front teeth. It probably could have used a stitch or two but it's so traumatic to have stitches on a child's face that we decided to let it just heal on it's own. I think that his buck teeth from sucking his thumb probably made the injury worse than it should have been but he'll be fine in a couple of days.

Just housework to do today. I have sheets to get back on the guest beds and laundry to do.

Poor Dean! I hope he heals up quickly!

I had quite a busy weekend... Future sister-in-law's bridal shower, cousin's wedding supper, visiting with family, and too many opinions on my body and pregnancy and baby things. I held it all together in front of people but ifnally yesterday morning just sat down and had a good long cry. I seriously don't want to have to be around anyone anymore without my husband right there to defend me! My emotions are all over the place and eventually it just gets to be too much. I'm doing the best I can!

It's winter again here! We started getting a bunch of snow last night and it's still snowing. We didn't even get our leaves raked up. Oops! I guess that will now wait until spring.

Had a busy weekend here. Cleaned house, well mostly just dusted and swept the floor. Needed it so bad. Then Saturday evening went to a class get together at Main St. Pub &Eatery here in town. We had more people this time so it was so fun. Hopefully more people will start attending.

Sunday I went to my friend Linda's house. Took in 4 plastic tubs of her things and we went through those. Putting away the things she wants to keep and taking back to my garage the things she wants to sell. Rearranged her closet from summer to winter, cleaned out her storage room and made more room for her and then cleaned out the linen closet. One tub I brought in had her knic knacs in it so I cleaned those and put them in her curio cabinet. We had a good a productive day.

Spent part of the morning alone until Ricky brought his skank out. The watched a movie and then he took her back to town. Told him no more unexpected visits....I need to know when she is coming so I can prepare myself mentally. She just drives me insane. Enough of her.

This evening we (the guys and me) went to Pepe's in town to eat. It was really good, but I just wasn't in the mood. I love being with Ricky, but well...you know the rest.

Tomorrow after church I'm planning on taking some of the totes we've emptied out back to my friend Linda's daughters house. Then taking some of her Christmas items to her so she can see what she wants to use this year.

Would like to go shopping, but don't know if I'll have time. Can any of you make the weekends longer for me? With working two jobs now, there just doesn't seem to be enough time. I use to be able to get things done in between routes, but not now...lol. Maybe I should find me a smaller place for only me to take care of. I can dream can't I? :)

I love your new profile picture Janet!!

Today I stayed home ~~ felt pretty good too. Been working 9 hour days 6 days a week for the last 3 weeks... today was a catch-up day.
Did laundry.
Scrubbed kitchen down - stove - sinks- the norm.
Made pot of chili.
Put in individual containers for lunch and dinner for the next few days..
leftovers.. yum!!!
Got caught up on taped shows from my DVR.. lots more to go!!!
Now time to do dishes and get ready for my Sunday evening TV programs.. The Amazing Race and then Revenge...



Still trying to find home for one kitten. A few have shown interest then nothing.. scared to think I might have 4 cats in the end!!!
I do not want to become towns next Cat Lady. :(

All of you sound so busy! Janet, did Linda move out on her own? You're such a good friend to help her. How is she feeling?

Lindsey, I'm so sorry for the drama. Was this the shower that you were worried about earlier? This woman obviously has a problem so I would just keep my distance. I'll be happy for you when this wedding is over. You don't need all of this.

Shada, you are such a good person to find a home for a little kitten! You are working some long hours! What kind of a job do you have that requires you to work so long?

I've been finally getting my house in order. It's been a mess most of the summer! I worked so much on the yard and just enjoyed being outside. I'm still bringing plants inside! It's going to end tomorrow because we're suppose to have a hard freeze so anything left outside will be done.

Yes Diana, it was that shower! I'm glad the wedding is over and we can all just relax now lol!

I need to get busy cleaning today. My blood sugar is causing me problems because the doctor changed my meds when they really didn't need changed. I'm not sure what she's thinking. Talk to you later!

Oh no, can you ask for them to be changed back?

I am painting today! Hopefully by the end of this weekend I'll have most of the painting done for the renovation. Scott needs to fill in holes and cracks in the plywood floor and then he can lay our new flooring! It's all coming along!

I'm also priming and painting the antique dresser we got for the baby's room. The drawers are painted a robin's egg blue right now, but we want to go with neutral colors so I'm going to paint it all white (the rest is white now, but needs a fresh coat!)

I'm not sure what is going to happen with the meds. For one they are really, really expensive and we have nothing to help with that.......and she knows that. Two.....I'm suppose to double my dose but I'm having problems with going low so I've actually cut the dose in half. I'm not too happy with her at.the moment!

Glen cut his hand pretty bad on Friday and had several stitches. On Saturday his thumb will pull in but won't straighten back out. He contacted the doctor and now we have an appointment at Wichita this afternoon. I'll let you know how things go .

When it rains, it pours!!

Diana, I'd go to another doctor for another opinion! She doesn't seem to be doing what works for you!

I hope everything is okay with Glen's hand!

Speaking of Wichita, I was just in a meeting about a half hour ago and one guy was talking about someone who used to work here and he would pronounce Wichita as "wi-cheetah" and he had to be corrected every time, but never said it right. Then our new American import started talking about Wichita and whenever he said the name (correctly), people in the meeting kept saying 'You mean, wi-cheetah" lololol it's been a silly morning around here. Our CFL (Canada's NFL) team won the Grey Cup last night and those of us who are even at work today are not really at the top of our game haha

Over the weekend, I managed to get most of the painting done, and Scott started laying the new flooring. My body is paying for it now and my hips and back are aching quite badly. We went to Scott's boss's house last night on the far end of the city to watch the big game, and I drove us home later. We didn't get home until after 11 pm, and I had been awake at 5 am that morning because of hip pain, so it was a loooooong day for me! I could barely get out of bed for work this morning! It will be an early night tonight!

You're right....when it rains, it does pour it seems. I sure hope you can get your meds straightened out or like Lindsey said...maybe another Dr. Poor Glen, stitches can't be fun. Keep us posted.

We're at the a special surgery place for hands and Glen's about to go into surgery. He cut two tendons and they have to be reattached. His thumb quit moving back and was numb......so here we are. It's out patient so we'll be home later.

Today we had a 2-hour delay for....are ya ready?.....it was so cold. It was like -4 and not a whole lot better 2 hours later. When I was in grade school and jr/sr high, we didn't have 2-hour delays. I'll probably sound like my mom and dad, but I remember walking knee deep in snow across the ice house property to get to the jr high and it was about 2 miles from my house. We only missed school if there was a blizzard and the description back then was much different from what it is today. These kids today have it so easy it's unbelievable. They'll just go home and play outside.

Didn't go in to the office today either. With a 2-hour delay and being a Thursday (courthouse closes at noon) I would get there around 11 and leave at 12 so my boss said it was fine for me to stay home and stay warm so....I did.

That's nice to be able to just relax and stay warm!!

Yikes!!! If I was lucky, my mom would drive me to school when it was -40. I still walked to school when it was -30 lol. Buses generally don't run here past -40 though, so kids either miss a day of school or their parents have to drive them in at that point.

It has been FREAKING COLD here for the past week or two. Windchills have been around -45 to -48 in the mornings. This week warmed up slightly to about -35 in the mornings. It's ridiculous! I had to walk to the dentist and back(5 minutes from my office) twice in the last two weeks, and I could not feel my face or ears! Next week I have to walk to my Obstetrician's office, so hopefully it's a little warmer! This is the sort of weather we normally get in January, and this has been going on since November!

That is very cold Janet, wow ! But you are right today everyone is babied big time, I remember as a little girl walking in knee high school to get to school which was about a 10 min walk. Back then if you remember we had to wear dresses no pants but they did make an exception when you got to school you had to remove pants.

Glad you got the day off I didn't know that you work in an office to. Lindsey why do you have to walk ? It's very cold by you to. When is your due date ? Well ladies stay warm it's cold here to.


I had dental surgery today long story short I needed implants done back in Oct but bone still not ready so I had bone grafted in another area. Never a dull moment.

You're right Gina....I do remember wearing long pants under my dresses and taking them and my boots off at school. We had these compartments in grade school called cubbies that we put our things in and we hung our coats above the cubbie. Wow...haven't thought of that in forever. We always walked to school. From our house to the elementary was about a 15 minute walk if you didn't slack and to the jr high it was about a 20 minute walk or more. We learned where to walk so that the wind didn't hit us quite as bad. Now in Senior high, we had to ride the bus, until I got my license.

I can't believe the cold weather we've been having! We got a little snow........a little. Bummer!

We lived too far from the school to walk when it was bad. My Mom or a neighbor would take turns driving us but when it was nice we walked.

We've got quite a bit of snow and well...I don't like it as you do...lol Don't like driving in the stuff or shoveling my driveway. Oh well....spring is coming.....soon I hope :)

Jaci came over today and helped me get the tree decorated. It was hard to get much done because Ali is grumpy getting in teeth. I just don't seem in the mood to get much done. Jaci also carried so many boxes of stuff up and now I have them all over everywhere as well.

I'm not in the mood either Diana. I went to Lafayette yesterday in hopes of getting some shopping done after having a manicure, but didn't happen. Enjoyed the manicure, but then afterwards I went and picked up some dog food for Joey and then went home. Too many people out.

After I got home Rick and I went to Frankfort and bought Ricky a couple of things and well...I guess we're done shopping. Still haven't gotten a tree up or any decorations other than Christmas cards we've received. At this late date, don't think we'll get any decorating done...to much work for just a few days.

We've had so much rain that the snow is gone now and we have flooding all over Indiana. Some places worse than others of course. This weather is crazy because we also had thunderstorm warnings and tornado warning in southern Indiana.

Maybe next year will be better.

Today is another frigid cold day. It's 1:00 PM and the temp is 2. Heat wave....lol. We had a two hour delay for school this morning. At 7 it was -10, at 9 it was -14 so the delay wasn't a big help. It does help to be able to have daylight, but either way it's no big deal to me. I can see the drifts just as well with the headlights.

The cold is to continue through next week with more snow. If you all check my FB page I posted weather info for what is forecast for the next couple weeks. We'll see how accurate it will be. Hope it's totally wrong...lol. I'm so ready for warm sunshine and warm temps.