4th of July was extended to the next weekend for us. On Friday, Deana, Andy and the girls came for another visit and we spent the day hanging out, and being together. It was so much fun! Activities included home made facials complete with egg/yogurt masks and cucumber eye treatments! It really did feel good! Also much time snuggling little puppies!! They miss the girls now that they are gone. They got lots of people training!! And, to finish it off, the dads and kids shot off the fireworks that were left from the 4th. Both days, the girls came ready to DOODLE!! They had found their Mom's doodle books and we had so much fun sitting in the new green chairs in the craftroom doodling away!! Just an amazingly restful, enjoyable weekend!!
Monday, July 11, 2011
Today is HOT! 11 am and its already 92 with a heat index of 1oo. It is projected to get close to 100 with a heat index of 110+. Hello Summer!
Our Baby Liam is in the NICU again. Rising bili count, hard to control body temp., projectile pooping. So hard to be so far away. Not that I could do a thing. Johna and Jeff have everything covered so well. I am so proud of their strength and patience with everything. Thank the good Lord for giving them great Dr's. and medical staff to take care of him. My wish is that all tests will come back great and he will be ready to go home for good by Thursday. Realistically, I bet he will do just that by his due date. Tomorrow he will be one week old!!! Another 3 weeks and he should be good to go!! It's hard to describe loving someone so much that you have never seen or touched. But, it is there. Today the kids sent a video of him pooping. So you couldn't really see the pooping part. Just the tiny little face. So precious.
This morning was day 2 in our walking routine. Up at 5:40 - out the door at 6:01! Such a beautiful morning. Now Haley would have awesome pictures of the sunrise. I didn't remember my camera. Deana was suppose to be walking with us (in Gardner) but didn't hear from her. It is hard to get up! While we were walking, it RAINED on us! So refreshing! It has all turned into mug now but what a pleasant feeling while it was going on!
I have scrubbed the dog house, played with the puppies, watered all the flowers, and freshened all the dog waters. Have done 0 house work. Well, the first load of laundry is started. Guess I better get with it. It will be time for our amazing protein smoothies before you know it! Oh, by the way, yesterday we bought this amazing blender called the Ninja! Emily was telling me that Jeremy had gotten one for his protein shakes and since our old B & D blender would only run for a mimimum amount of time before dying, we decided we better get something else. I was actually surprised that Dean wanted to get the top of the line blender. Usually, it is the low end we go for but this one rocks!! Has 3 levels of blades!! We should have smoothies in the blink of an eye! I'm anxious to try it. I am also going to make some of Elizabeth's Salsa so we can have it with dinner. It is SO good and again should be a snap with all the new power we have!
After lunch, I AM going to cut the words for my Grandkid wall! I have pondered it for a long time and now it is time to do it! I have a new picture of Haley and Elizabeth to change, a picture of Liam to add and it will soon be time for Addy's 11 year old picture!! Kate will soon follow!! It is very fitting to honor them! They are the joy of my life!!
Have a great Monday!
Our Baby Liam is in the NICU again. Rising bili count, hard to control body temp., projectile pooping. So hard to be so far away. Not that I could do a thing. Johna and Jeff have everything covered so well. I am so proud of their strength and patience with everything. Thank the good Lord for giving them great Dr's. and medical staff to take care of him. My wish is that all tests will come back great and he will be ready to go home for good by Thursday. Realistically, I bet he will do just that by his due date. Tomorrow he will be one week old!!! Another 3 weeks and he should be good to go!! It's hard to describe loving someone so much that you have never seen or touched. But, it is there. Today the kids sent a video of him pooping. So you couldn't really see the pooping part. Just the tiny little face. So precious.
This morning was day 2 in our walking routine. Up at 5:40 - out the door at 6:01! Such a beautiful morning. Now Haley would have awesome pictures of the sunrise. I didn't remember my camera. Deana was suppose to be walking with us (in Gardner) but didn't hear from her. It is hard to get up! While we were walking, it RAINED on us! So refreshing! It has all turned into mug now but what a pleasant feeling while it was going on!
I have scrubbed the dog house, played with the puppies, watered all the flowers, and freshened all the dog waters. Have done 0 house work. Well, the first load of laundry is started. Guess I better get with it. It will be time for our amazing protein smoothies before you know it! Oh, by the way, yesterday we bought this amazing blender called the Ninja! Emily was telling me that Jeremy had gotten one for his protein shakes and since our old B & D blender would only run for a mimimum amount of time before dying, we decided we better get something else. I was actually surprised that Dean wanted to get the top of the line blender. Usually, it is the low end we go for but this one rocks!! Has 3 levels of blades!! We should have smoothies in the blink of an eye! I'm anxious to try it. I am also going to make some of Elizabeth's Salsa so we can have it with dinner. It is SO good and again should be a snap with all the new power we have!
After lunch, I AM going to cut the words for my Grandkid wall! I have pondered it for a long time and now it is time to do it! I have a new picture of Haley and Elizabeth to change, a picture of Liam to add and it will soon be time for Addy's 11 year old picture!! Kate will soon follow!! It is very fitting to honor them! They are the joy of my life!!
Have a great Monday!
Wednesday, July 6, 2011
First Posting
This is quite a leap for me. It is through the inspiration of my precious Granddaughter Haley, that I dare to venture here!! I love her blog! She is such a great photographer and has such a gift at sharing both the exciting and the everyday things in her life. I want to be able to do that too! Not that my life is very exciting, but I love my life! I love the people in my life and I truely enjoy the life I live. By sharing it in a blog, I hope to save the memories of so many special times that I experience and this old memory tends to forget! So much is too good to lose!! Thank you Haley for encouraging me to try!!
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