I Smell A Trip

Well I am off and running again!!  So much gloom and doom and for me, so I got to run it off!!  Yup, a trip is in the forcast.  I am leaving in a few days.  I will be driving across country to Nebraska of all places!!  What country is that in???  haha 

 

MY sisters live there.  I will make one or two little stops along the way in Kentucky.  No, not to play the horses, silly.  Though that would be fun.  Maybe have to stop and think about that.  I have a long time friend that I want to visit there.  Then another just up the road in Ohio.  I do have a few friends.  I haven’t seen them since we left the school we worked at 3 years ago.  I miss me girls!! 

 

Then off to the prairie!  I will spend 2 lovely weeks with the sisters arguing, fussing and fighting….lol.  Nah, that is just with one.  I get along with the other one.  You all know her as C. She is me favorite. 

So, anyhoo than I am off to my brothers.  He is my favorite of brothers too.  My only one.  hee hee  He is sooo cute.  He always makes me feel so special.  They all do.  I am the baby of the family.  But I am the one that always travels to all the far corners of the world to see everyone.  So they treat me good. 

Then it is off to my daughters to finish the trip that I started this month when we got the call about my mom-in-law.  Bless her.  She was a good woman. 

 

Anyway, I have unfinished nibbling to do, and Molly cuddling to also.  Oh, and then there is my daughter.  I keep forgetting her!!  LOL  She is soooo cute….I can’t forget the one that gave me all these cute babies!!  Well, there were two!

Of course, there are many recent ones, but this has all of them in it.  Here is one of the most recent of me lil Lilah loo and her sister Molly moo! 

Yes, they are soooo edible aren’t they?  I could eat them for breakfast, lunch and dinner!!!  And there is enough for snacks too!!!  LOL  So that is my agenda folks.  In case your looking for me.  I will be poking along at a fine speed of lolly gaggying cuz I ain’t in any hurry!!  If your in the fast lane, just get your panties all hitched up and mozy on by me.  I will be taking me lil ole time.  I’m on southern vacation time. 

So if you see this lil cutie, don’t hit it, don’t park near it, don’t breathe on it, don’t spit on it, don’t fling boogers or ashes on it.  Don’t even smell it….cuz it has that new car smell and you will suck it all out!!!  LOL  It will be me having my vacation….at a snails pace.  That’s how I roll!!

FIRES THAT RAGED FOR DAYS

THIS IS WHAT THE SMOKE LOOKED LIKE ACROSS THE SOUND LOOKING OUT TOWARD THE BEACH.  YOU COULD NOT SEE THE WATER.  IT LASTED FOR 4 DAYS BEFORE WE GOT RAIN.  THANK GOD WE DID.  I AM NOT SURE WHAT ACREAGE WAS DAMAGED TOTAL, BUT IT WAS A GREAT AMOUNT.  THE SMOKE WAS BAD ENOUGH. 

 

My Littlest Angel

In all this gloomy news and debbie downer drearyness, I thought I would update some photos of my newest baby Delilah.  Here, eat till your lil tummy’s are full!!!

 

a few days after i left

last week, after she gained all her weight plus another pound! piggy!

taken this morning with sister molly, so happy!

 

On another serious note, we have been battling wild fires here in our area.  They are totally out of control at the moment.  Our precious national forests are being eaten up because of lack of rain.  They were started from a lightning strike.  We have such hazy fog from the burns that we can’t see across the road.  We have people with breathing problems, my hubby is one of them, who are suffering so badly with their health because of the smoke.  We don’t know how long it will go on.  They have called it a state of emergency.  Please keep this situation in your prayers.  I know that with the heat index and humidity it is pretty bad.  Add in the smoke and those with breathing problems have it so much worse.  I have allergies but nothing like my husband.  There are many who have it so much worse and on oxygen.  Anyway, please keep this in your prayers and thoughts.  We appreciate it. 

 

We have been doing a lot better this week as we are dealing with the reality of how people handle the death of your beloved.  In other words….they just don’t give a crap!!  It is just another day to them.  Life goes on.  When dealing with insurance or lawyers or anything of that matter…you can just bend over and let them give it to you good.  The only people we have found to have any compassion or mercy were the Hospice people and the funeral home people.  They deal with death all the time and know how to cope with it.  All the others are uncaring and heartless.  They just want their money and want it yesterday.  Sorry, just giving a few words of warning and advice to those of you in case you should need it in the near future.  But it may not all be like that, it may just be this one place, and your lawyers and insurance peeps may be fine.  And if your in the business?  So sorry, don’t mean to drag your profession in the tubes.  One bad apple shouldn’t have to spoil the whole bunch.  They do get a bad rap all around after all.  We just have had a terrible week, and on top of it all bad service.  So, just venting.  And you don’t want me to get started on government people, that is a WHOLE other blog…..stupid social security people and government people…..don’t get me started down that path!!!!  k, I am leaving that alone. 

 

Well, peeps. I will go check my blood pressure now….cuz I think on that last note, it started to creep back up!!  lmao   Take care, God bless, and remember, go get your physicals and check ups.  Never know when something creepy is lurking around.  K?  xxxxxxx ooooooooo

Bringing Momma Home

This sweet lady has been a part of my life for the last 30 years.  I can’t imagine life without her.  She is such a wonderful and selfless woman.  Only two months ago she lost her beloved husband of 56 years.  Today we brought her home from the hospital after being diagnosed with acute promyelocytic leukemia about a week ago.  This cancer is so aggressive, it came on and was not even treatable.  How freaky bad is that?? 

This is the happy couple on their last anniversary.  Today, they are together.  We brought Momma home this afternoon around 4pm.  At 5:30, she was gone.  That quick.  I was gone to the pharmacy for the Hospice nurse to get her comfort meds….while I was gone, she passed away.  My hubby was here alone.  He called my cell all hysterical.  It was at the bottom of my purse.  I didn’t hear it.  I had to wait on a medicine that they had to call the Dr. for.  I was very upset I wasn’t here.  He needed me.  He was sitting on the floor beside her bed sobbing when I got here, inconsolable.  My poor baby hasn’t even mourned his dad’s death hardly and now his mom is gone in a matter of two months.  We knew she would not last  very long, but this really shocked us both.  I told him after the nurse left, I didn’t like the way she was breathing.  It reminded me of the way his dad looked just before he died.  He agreed.  I never thought…..

Well, we brought her home so she could go home to be with the Lord.  And that she did.  Now she is with her husband.  No more pain, no more arthritis, and no more DAMN LEUKEMIA!!!  Bye Momma, we will miss you! 

My Lil Peanut

Here is my lil peanut with her mommy doing the every day stuff of life….eating and sleeping and just being cute.  What else is there….oh, yeah…hanging out with my sister….and my Nonna.  Ok, not much else.

check out my dimples, yup i got ‘em… (in the “peanut wrap”)

this is what i call “the peanut wrap” and i’m staring at my Nonna

 

I love my girls….they are the sweetest things.

DELILAH ROSE IS HERE!!

Boy have I been a busy Nonna!! It hasn’t stopped since I stepped off the plane!! I wouldn’t change a thing!  Anyway….fast forward to Thursday’s appointment when my daughter went in for her check up.  The dr. told her today is the day they were going to induce her.  They were not expecting that!!  It was good news though, they were soooo ready.  You all don’t want all the details, so I’ll get to the good stuff, here she is:  oh, mom and baby are coming home in just about an hour from now, so got to get this done quick.

before all the screaming and writhing in pain….and miss delilah’s arrival

fresh from you know where….of course, not too happy about it! poor baby.

momma has her now…sorry about the goop they put in her eyes….love the lip!!

the beaming daddy with his baby girl…he’s in big trouble years from now with his two girls!

the lil family, first photo of all 4 together

we had a fashion show, unfortunately nothing fit except this one. lol

the proud nonna….i could eat her up!

wide eyed and bushy tailed, probably keep her momma up all night!!

another close up shot….she looks like her sister here at the same age. lil peanut nose.

her coming home picture, waiting for the doctor to sign her out….molly is waiting in the front window for her mommy and daddy and her sister “yiya” to arrive.  too cute.

 

Our lil Delilah was born on Friday, June 3 at 1:15 pm.  She weighed 6lbs.  She was 18 and 1/4 in. long.  A very tiny lil pumpkin.  She is healthy though.  No problems whatsoever.  We thought at first that she would arrive by c section but my daughter stuck it out and was very good through it all.  Her idiot anesthesiologist gave her epidural wrong and she only got numb in one leg.  So basically she had natural child birth.  She did wonderful.  So enjoy, and of course, there will be more pics, they are on their way home now.  Got to run!!