DO YOU GET IT?

IF YOU DON'T I WILL GIVE YOU A CLUE... CHECK OUT THE BABY BOOTS IN THE MIDDLE OF THE BUS.  WE ARE SO EXCITED BECAUSE BEN AND MICHELLE ARE EXPECTING A BABY IN JUNE.  THAT MAKES TWO BABIES NEXT YEAR.   YEAH!  WE COULDN'T BE HAPPIER FOR OUR KIDS.

A TRIBUTE TO MY MOTHER

 Have I ever said how great my mother is. Well she is great and has been a wonderful example to me my whole life.  I only wish that I was half the mother to my kids that I feel she is to me. Through all her ups and downs she never focuses on her downs, she is always so positive  and supportive when I have my downs.  Example...I have had some issues with my ears and my Dr. has not been able to get a handle on what is wrong so he wanted me to go have and MRI on my head.  Jeff said they just want to be sure that I really do in fact have a brain.  Ha Ha.  Anyways,  the last time I went for an MRI I had a bout of clausterphobia and I was a little nervous, so nervous that this time I had to take a valium before I went.  Just knowing that I was going into a tube and had to be perfectly still was bad enough but when I got there they informed me that I would have to put this helmet thing on my head to be sure that I didn't move, that was not so cool with me.  Begin the Mini meltdown.  At this point I started telling myself that if my 91 year old mother can have shots in her eye I could and  would not complain about this... I could do this.  She is my inspiration, and my MRI was completed. 

Back to my mother.  She has been going through a major transition in her life and decided that for her safety and well being it was time to leave her home of 60+ years.  She has done so well for the last 5 years since my dad passed away, taking care of her home and the that huge yard and everything else, but this year she decided that it was finally to much.  My sister Marilyn has a basement apartment that mom could move into and within just a matter of a couple of weeks we started cleaning out her house and moving her into her new apartment.  Look at this woman, she doesnt  look like a woman with worries, especially one with her house being turned upside down.  No, this is a woman who is so content with her decision to move on in a new direction.                    

I on the other hand was an emotional wreck.  I had such a hard time knowing that these last couple weeks that we spent working and cleaning out the house would be the last days that I would spend in my childhood home with my mother and my silblings.  Oh the memories...thank goodness that we get to take them with us, that they don't go away even if the house does.

THE BEST NEWS EVER!

I'M GOING TO BE A GRANDMA AGAIN.  HAILEY ANNOUNCED IT TO US VIA SKYPE SUNDAY NIGHT WITH HER CUTE SHIRT.  WE ARE SO EXCITED FOR GRANDBABY #2 WHO IS DUE JUNE 11, 2013.  AND DAYNA THINKS NINE MONTHS IS A LONG TIME FOR HER?  ITS GOING TO BE EVEN LONGER FOR THIS GRANDMA, BUT IT'S OK  THIS EVENT WILL BE WELL WORTH THE WAIT.