Hi Everyone!

[Janet]

LOLOL...I'm sure no one will be looking at your feet. I use to not like anything pink...it always made me think of Pepto Bismol. Now I'm beginning to like pink and not black so much...LOL. I know...I go through weird stages...LOL You're going to look beautiful!

[Blueyes]

Hi Everybody! I've been busy spending time with my kids and grandkids. Caleb stayed with us last week and Mikey is with us this week. They like to come separately so they have my undivided attention, lol! We'll go to church in Dallas with them this weekend, then have lunch at my dil's parents house. I am so thankful that we all get along. We have spent lots of holidays together over the years You know, it dawned on me the other day that I have NEVER had a cross word with either of my dils. I've only had Joy for 2 1/2 years, but I've had Rachel almost 14 years!! They are so very precious to me, and wonderful wives for my sons.

[judy]

That is so wonderful Betsi! I'm sure your DIL's love you so much! It sounds like such fun, having the grandchildren one at a time.

Enjoy!

Diana, those shoes are really nice! You are going to look so beautiful!

[paula1961]

Awww Betsi..I'm so glad you are having such a good time with your family. It is wonderful that you all get along so well.
Glad you are spending time with the kids separately too. You really do get more quality time when they don't come together. They are more apt to fuss when they come at the same time........mine do anyway lol!

[Janet]

This so far has been a long weekend...lol. I can't really go anywhere in case Gidget goes into labor, she is due today. She hasn't had a significant temperature drop, but she sure is carrying lower this morning than she was yesterday. I'm guessing sometime overnight or tomorrow. Thank goodness Ricky doesn't have classes on Monday so he'll be home during my bus route. He's an old pro at whelping so I have no worries with him.

Can't go to church today either. I've been thinking of going back to the church I grew up in and a member of. The little country church near us I've been attending is nice and close, but I don't feel I'm getting much out of the service. It's great to be with friends and neighbors, but I need more than that.

Ricky has to work today from noon until 8:30 this evening. Even though I wish he could stay home with me on Mother's Day..I am very thankful he has a job.

Hope everyone has a great Mother's Day!!

[paula1961]

Hope you have a great Mother's Day too Janet!! I won't get to see my kids until this next weekend so today isn't going to be very special to me this year. They will call me but that just isn't the same.

I hope Gidget does well during whelping. How many is she expecting? Can't wait to hear all about the new babies!!

[gja1000]

I know what you mean Janet, I hate being stuck at home - I feel trapped! LOL! Now, mind you, if I am tired and I WANT to stay home, it's just peachy keen. But if I CAN'T leave for some reason, then that is exactly what I want to do!!! LOL!

I hope Gidget has a great delivery. I can't wait to find out what she has and watch them grow up!!!

[lynne b]

Been a pretty good day today, i got the nicest present. I had taken my Serena to the breeders to be evaluated for the show ring, as sad as i am that she won't be shown i am thrilled to death to have brought her back home today, now everything is back to normal. I got phone calls from my girl's, they both had to work, i seen mom yesterday but still need to call her yet today. So it has been a good Mothers Day here.
Hope everyone else's day turns out nice also. Happy Mothers Day!

[paula1961]

Happy Mother's Day Lynne!! I'm glad Serena is back home. Sorry you won't be able to show her.
Glad you have talked to your girls. I'm glad you're having a nice day

[Janet]

So far...no babies. Today is her 2nd due date and Wednesday will be her 3rd. Just have to wait and see.

Had to take Mom to the ER in Lafayette again. My younger brother and his wife were at Mom's house and Mom started having really bad stomach pains. She didn't have any more fluid in her belly and yet she was so swollen. She has peritonitis again. They had to give her a bag of the solution with antibiotics in it to keep in her belly overnight. Then my brother took her to the dialysis center this morning. She's feeling much better today. She is starting to get a little sloppy with the dialysis and that is why she got the infection. One day last week it was leaking and she just tightened it up. That can't happen...she needed to call the center immediately. Hopefully she'll do better.

I wish more were posting here more frequently, it seems like so many are gone now...

[gja1000]

I'm sorry Janet, I haven't been posting much lately - been so busy. I read everyday and LOVE reading everyone's posts, but then I get busy and don't make my posts. I'm negligent.

My school was over last Friday, so that means that I'm reading papers like mad right now. I think I finally finished most of them today. I have HUGE ones to read though, one this week and one next week. They are both about 100 pages long, and I'm NOT looking forward to them!

Gary and I are getting ready to go on our trip to Arkansas - fishing and camping in our trailer - on the White river in northwest Arkansas. We'll be gone a couple of weeks. I'll have my phone to check in but the connections are slooooow, so I'll likely not post too much!

We'll be home 4 days and then gone to Alaska a couple of weeks. I'm getting so excited - I need a break from the madhouse of school!!! I will be teaching in July/Aug for 5 weeks, and so I don't have the whole summer off, but I'll make the most of the time I do have off.

I'll try to do better with my posting before I leave!

[DianaB]

Wow, Gayle!! You have some nice trips planned for this summer. They sound like fun! I wish that my husband liked to travel like that......I'd love it!!

I've been so busy!! I have laundry stacked up in the laundry room, things that I need to get priced and into the flea market, flowers that need to get planted, and rooms that need to be straightened. I've been watching Karlie and Dean a couple of times a week and Dae Lynn's been out here a lot so I don't get much done. Kera came over and cleaned for me the other day trying to earn money for church camp. I think that she's going to come over every week and help out!!!

Yesterday was crazy! I had the kids in the morning, took Jazzi to the vet, had to take Glen to a farm on the other side of town, had a really bad storm coming so I moved all 20 of the ferns for the wedding into the garage plus some other bedding plants, then I covered up some other flowers with sheets to protect them in case of hail, then Dae Lynn and the kids, Amy and her girls, Jaci and Nate came and stayed at the house during the storm so I didn't get anything else done. The storm was really bad. We have a lot of limbs down at the shop and I'm sure that we'll hear of more damages, but thank goodness, we didn't have tornadoes!!!

[DIANE W]

Oh wow Diana.... That must have been very worrying, with the storm and making sure everyone was safe, and the plants too.

Me....... well i have not posted much either, but i do read every day, i like to know what everyone is upto and that i am not missing too much. My daughter says i am nosy... me i say i am just very interested in my environment

I have been at work today and am looking forward to Thursday.. as i will be finishing then for 5 whole days - whoopeeee. I work long days Mon-Thurs normally 8am until 6.30pm, but then i am off for 3 days, but i am taking extra leave days making it 5.

I am going to take the time to chill out, relax and get some sorting out done at home, our garage needs a real good sort out and de-clutter.
When we moved we tried to do it then and only keep things we really really needed, I though we had but now want to get rid of some more and organise it properly. I am going to costco to buy some shelving, i have some, but am thinking the more i have the easier organisation will be. I am quite organised at home and work, and seem to function better with order around me.

My husband is not very tidy or organised - this way hopefully he will do better (he better had or he is in big trouble). He always has a reason for putting something not where it should be.....

I am also going to be seeing one of my very good friends, we met when my husband and i bought our first little house from them, 26 years ago. We have been friends ever since and are godparents for each others children. We dont see each other as much as we used to when the kids were little - you just get so busy with life, but we are there for each other when needed.

Ok i am going to go water my plants and hanging baskets, i am determined for them to be blooming this year. Then i am going to watch some TV and relax.

[paula1961]

Enjoy your days off Diane. Do you get off work for the summer? Good luck getting everything organized. But it will be so nice after it's done.


Diana....sounds like you have been a very busy girl. I figured you had been busy with graduation and wedding plans. But sounds like you've been busy with more than just that. Glad there were no tornadoes where you live.

[DIANE W]

Paula, no i wont be off in the summer as such.

The way it works for me is i work 4 days per week and have Fri, Sat and Sunday's off. Any extra i need to take as leave/holiday, this is paid leave, and i get 35 days plus all the Bank Holidays off too - I think things like this may work differently over here though.

I get to decide when and how much of my leave to take. It runs from April - March, which is our tax year. I am going to be off for 3 weeks in August-September as we are going on holiday to Scotland, we are taking my Mother and Father in law too. It is going to be our silver wedding anniversary (25years), whilst we are away so we are really looking forward to it. We are renting a gorgeous house right on the beach practically - Harvey will love to play on the beach.

Of course Harvey is coming too.... though my daughter is not (she is looking forward to staying home alone).