10 years ago today...

Today is a sad day for me. My wonderful Mawmaw passed away after a tough battle with cancer on November 24, 1998. It has been 1o years and I still miss her like crazy. I think about her every day. I wish that my husband could have meet her and I know that she would have my children so spoiled I wouldn't be able to stand it :) Sometime when I am playing with them I find myself thinking about how she would have enjoyed them. She was a wonderful lady & a faithful Christian. This Thanksgiving will be really hard for my family. My Pawpaw passed away suddenly from a heart attack on August 13. I feel so blessed to have had such wonderful Godly grandparents. I am am thankful for all the love and support that they always gave me.

Thanks for the advanced notice..

Well, it looks like my plans to have a somewhat relaxing Friday evening have been scratched. I asked my dad on Tuesday if he wanted to check with my uncle & if the had any plans for tomorrow & we could all get together at my house if they wanted to. My Pawpaw passed away in August & my Mawmaw passed away 10 years ago on the 24th. My Uncle has decided to take a break & go to the beach & I never seem to have time to spend with my dad on Thanksgiving so I thought it would be nice for us to get together tomorrow while no one was too busy. Well, like I said I asked my dad Tuesday & heard nothing else about it so I never really made any plans. Well I called my dad to see if hubby could borrow his drill to hang some blinds. During the conversation he informs me that he has talked to my uncle & they have no plans for tomorrow so they can all come over. WHAT?! Thanks for the notice! So now I am going home to finish painting my living room, clean my enitre house.....bathrooms, dust, vac, mop...the works. It also looks like I will be making a trip to the grocery store as well. In my dads defense he has been on midnights (11p-7a) all week so he's been tired & he said that he had forgotten about it until this morning.

Guardian Angel?

Brayden, like most kids, has a wonderful imagination. He usually "plays" with my nephew - he lives in North AL. He pushes the clothes hamper around & says he's pushing Andrew in it;) He started talking about "Jessiny" about a month or so ago. I never thought much about it because we have a girl a church named Chasity so I thought he was talking about her. Well yesterday at his Pawpaw & Nana's he was talking about her. The conversation went somewhat as follows:
Nana: "Brayden, who is Jessiny?"
Brayden: "She's my friend"
Pawpaw: "Is it a she or he?"
Brayden: "She's a girl"
Nana: " Do you know her from church?"
Brayden: "No, I know her from Heaven......when I'm at your house she watches me in the kitchen and when I'm at my house she watches me in my bedroom"
Does he have a Guardian Angel?
I just talked to him on the phone & asked about her....
Mommy: "Have you played with Jessiny today?
Brayden: "No, she's at school"
Mommy: "Oh, she had to go to big school"
Brayden: "Yeah, she's little like me, but she had to go to school"
Now, Keep in mind that we don't know anyone named "Jessiny". I have never even heard that name on tv or anywhere else.....

Someone needs a good old fashion butt whippin'!

And I want to be the 1 to give it to 'em!!! Ok, so I walk out my front door yesterday morning to take the kids to my dads so that I can go back to the hospital with hubby. I glance over at my car at & see what appears to be a dent. I think to my self.....'You have got to be kidding me! Its must just be a shadow or reflection or something'......Oh no my friends, it is a for real dent! It appears that someone has hit my car with a brick! Seriously!!! I don't know if they were trying to break out my window, missed & instead hit the car & then just left or if this person/persons just felt like chunking a brick at something. Did someones mamma not teach them how to behave? Did she not teach them that you don't vandalize someone elses property?? Did she not whip them enough?? too much? Well, if she whipped them at all it apparently did no good! If I ever, by some small miracle, find out who did it.....Woohoo, look out!!!! It isn't fair to me to have to spend my money that hubby & I work to earn to have it repaired because someone didn't want to do their job as a parent & teach their child to respect other peoples things!

Week didn't start out so well..

We did not have a good start to our week. Sunday night when Patrick got home from work he started complaing of chest pain. He did not want to go to the ER so he waited until Monday morning & went to Med Express....where they sent him to the ER. I left work around 12:00 Monday & off the the DCH we went. We got back in a room pretty quick, but waited forever to see a doctor. Long story short...she came in & said that 1 of the test came back & she was worried that he may have a blood clot in his lung. Then we learned that he would get to spend a the night. O what joy! Just what he's always wanted.....a night in a germy hospital on those o so comfy beds with gormet meals & all the jello you can eat! Patrick has needlephobia (fear of needles) & it was interesting to watch a grown man make those faces anytime a nurse came in with a needle in hand. The doctor came back in yesterday around 12:00 & told us that all additional tests looked fine & he could go home shortly. That was at 12:00 & he did not leave until 5:00!!! Should it really take 5 HOURS to check someone out of the hospital??? Oh, & we still don't know why his chest has been hurting....... Don't you just love hopsitals??? You don't know anymore when you leave than you did when you got there.....Thank goodness for Blue Cross/Blue Shield!

Caution: Obama supporters may be offended

I received the following in an e-mail today. It made me giggle so I though I'd pass it along. I am definitely one of the 56 million!!!

Barrack Obama, Michelle Obama and Oprah Winfrey were flying on Obama's private plane. Obama looked at Oprah, chuckled and said, 'You know, I could throw a $1,000 bill out of the window right now and make somebody very happy.' Oprah shrugged her shoulders and replied, 'I could throw ten $100 bills out of the window and make ten people very happy. Michelle added, 'That being the case, I could throw one hundred $10 bills out of the window and make a hundred people very happy.' Hearing their exchange, the pilot rolled his eyes and said to his> co-pilot, 'Such big-shots back there. I could throw all of them out of the window and make 56 million people very happy. 'If you're one of those 56 million, pass this on!!!

Sharing the cooties...

Will everyone at my house ever get well? Brayden has been sick for about 2 weeks. Emma has been sick for about a week & now......I have a cold! Usually when I catch cooties along with the kids we will all swap it around for the next 2 months! Seriously.....I still have boxes to unpack, rooms to organize, a living room to paint, pictures to hang & 2 sick kids to take care of...I don't have time to be sick! I have family coming over for Thnksgiving dinner (which in only 3 weeks away! Where has the time gone???) & I really want to have my house looking like a home by then.... Hopefully this germ episode wont last long.
On a side note:
Please pray for my brother-in-law, Ronnie. He has cancer (lymphoma) & now is in the hospital with pneumonia.

Thank goodness yesterday is over....

We had a very eventful day yesterday! I took little miss Emma to the pediatrician yesterday morning while Patrick & Brayden satyed home to await the arrival of of the service man to install our Direct TV. I called Patrick when we got done at the peds office to tell him that Emma has a sinus infection & strep throat. It's not very common for children her age to get strep, but Brayden had it last week, so the ped said thats probably where she got it. I told Patrick I was going by CVS to drop off her prescription. Then he told me about his morning while Emma & I were gone. Patrick said that he was in the house & heard the service man scream. He said the he ran outside & the the man was coming down out of the attic with blood pouring down his arm. He had somehow cut his arm pretty deep. He told Patrick to call an ambulance. The paramedices came & took the man to the hospital. the only update that we had was that he was having surgery to repair the muscle in his upper arm. The sent another guy (very brave) to finish our installation. He arrived at our house around 12:30 & finished around 5:30 or so with no injuries.
I guess I should be a sign to post in my fron yard that says "Danger Zone"......