Hospitalized again

Well, my Dad got himself a weekend stay at the hospital this morning. I guess he woke up about three a.m. vomiting and had a high fever. He was also talking "out of his mind". So my Mom took him to emergency. They think he once again has an infection in one of the sores on his leg that has yet to heal totally. So he's getting antibiotics. He also has a touch of pneumonia. So hopefully he gets to come home soon, but they have guaranteed he will be there at least until Monday. We'll see.

On a good note....I saw the first Robin of the season today. A sure sign Spring is here! YAY!!!

Taste of Spring

Yesterday was a beautiful day as far as weather goes. Sunny and warm! We got to 73 degrees. A taste of Spring just enough to get everybody into Spring fever mode. Dylan got to ride his new bike and swing. we were out side for most of the day. It was nice to not have to wear the bulky winter coats. Unfortunately though we are cloudy and at 55 right now, and they are saying snow for tomorrow! YUCK!! Oh well, I knew it wouldn't last. Just have to wait a little bit longer.

I got a sympathy card in the mail a couple days ago for my Grandma's passing and I want to share the verse that is in it....

"She is Just Away"

She is just away, in a land of light and peace,
Where warmth and love abound and worldly
difficulties cease.......

She is just away, but her memory remains and the
love she left within your heart will help ease your pain.

Then is goes on to say....May her memory live on and on as your sorrow fades away.

I love that sooooooo much. It is so true! Thank you so much Uncle Les and Aunt Margaret fro sending that card! It has helped me soooo much!

Sick again

I don't know what it is about this year, but I have been sick about five times so far. I never usually get sick! I think I have ANOTHER sinus infection! It started last night with a headache and today one side of my nose is stuffed up and the other is running! When I went to clean for my Grandpa today he sounded stuffy too. I hope I didn't give it to him. It seems we may have gotten it at the same time.

I heard today on the news that Spring is on its way here. We may reach 50 degrees this weekend! Dylan will be so happy! He's been dying to ride his bike that Santa brought for him outside! He's been riding it in the house, but with our dinky house there's only one path he can take. Of course its in the way of everything and of course he wants to ride when I am trying to get things done! So we are constantly in each others way. LOL Hopefully the weather man is right!!

Feels weird

Yesterday I went to visit with my Grandpa and to clean for him. It feels really weird that my Grandma is not there asking if I want something to drink or soemthing to eat. Or that she's not there sitting and talking with us. Monday night was the first night that my Grandpa had to stay in the house alone. I said he didn't get much sleep and what he did get was in his recliner. He couldn't sleep in bed. I can totally understand that. It was feel extra strange for him not having my Grandma next to him. They were married for 54 years and were praobably apart at night only a handfull of times. I'm not sure if it was becasue he was so tired or just because he was feeling depressed, but he was super quiet. Yesterday was a week since my Grandma has been gone. :>( Tomorrow I'm going to clean again. I have been hired as the cleaning lady. Next week I'm going to start doing it on Monday's and Thursdays. Everybody thought it was a good idea for me to do it since I am home all day. We both will benefit for it. He insists on paying me, so I will have some extra "play money" and he will have company from us. Plus the rest of the family will know his laundry ect. is getting done. One less worry for them. Today I ran a couple errands and cleaned our house and did laundry. Fun Fun!

A sad few days

It has been a very difficult time for the past few days. My Grandma collapsed on Tuesday evening and paramedics were not able to revive her. It just seems so crazy to me. Tuesday was "Fat Tuesday", so that morning my Grandma had a group of people to her house for a Pazcki party.(sp) After everybody had left and she cleaned up from that my Grandpa said she tried to lay down for a rest and could not get comfortable. So finally she gave up trying to sleep and vacuumed the house. Then a few hours after that she was leaving to go to her sister-in-laws house for dinner. On the way she figured she's put a bag of garbage in the can at the end of the driveway. Well, she went to turn around and grab the bag out of her van and she had a Terrible pain go up and down her back. She told someone that she had to sit in the van to catch her breath it hurt so much. She just thought that she had twisted wrong. Then later after dinner she went into the bathroom and didn't come out for a while. My great aunt went to check on her and did not get any response so she went in and my grandma had collapsed onto the bathroom floor. I guess the paramedics tried every drug and thing possible, but she never came back. It was decided that she would not have a autopsy to find out the real cause, but her doctor figured it was a massive heart attack. BUT, my Grandma get a journal and we read some of the recent entries and on February 5th she wrote that she was having pain in her back and didn't remember twisting it or anything. So when we told the doctor that, he said that maybe she had and aortic aneurysm.

My Grandma was the most loving, sweetest lady that you could have ever known. She never put herself first at all. Everything was always about everybody else. Everybody keeps telling me how she's in a better place now, but I think she would be better off here!!!! I miss her dearly! Thank you to everybody who emailed me with your condolences!!!

Valentine's Day

Happy Valentine's Day!!! We celebrated ours last night when Alton got home from work. He said he didn't want to have to wait all day today to give me flowers since he won't be home until late tonight. By then Valentine's Day is pretty much over. He got me a beautiful bouquet of mixed flowers. So pretty! Dylan and I got him some candy. Nothing outrageous. Just enough to show we remembered each other on this "day of love". LOL In addition we are having a Valentine's Day snow storm too! Last night they were saying 6-10 inches. I think we got about 6. It's still snowing a little, but at least the sun is out.

Moving on to other news.....I couldn't believe this one.....I received an email on my classmates.com message center this morning. For those who don't know what that is, it's a website you can sign up to and read about people that you went to high school ect. with. Well, this girl who used to be my next door neighbor and VERY good friend sent me a message telling me all about herself. We haven't spoken in about 10-12 years. The reason we haven't spoken is because she got involved with gangs and drugs ect. Plus to top it off; while my parents were on vacation about 7 years ago, her and her buddies decided to break into my parents house and clean them out and trash the house. We know for sure it was her that did it, because we watched from my parents bedroom window while they took my Dad's hunting rifles out of her house WRAPPED UP IN THE AFGHAN THAT MY MOM MADE THAT WAS ON THE BACK OF THEIR COUCH. Now how in the world after all that is she going to try to act like nothing ever happened and send an chatty email about herself and how she misses everybody. COME ON!!!! Now, I want to ask you what should I do??? Should I write her back and say How could you expect me to act nice toward you & let out all the aggression I feel towards her.....should I just ignore her.....or should I just send an email saying please don't try to contact me again?? So ridiculous!!!!

The Deep Freeze

Well, Michigan is in a deep freeze and I am ready to get out of it. All of the Arctic air is coming in from Canada, and it's just hovering around us! Right now it's 11 degrees. Supposedly it's supposed to get to 25 by Friday...Whoo Hoo!! LOL They even closed all the schools in our area for the past two days. I was surprised they cancelled the Pontiac district! Other then that I have no news! Try to stay warm!!!

It's been a while.....

Hi all! I know it's been quite a while since my last blog entry. Since then, we had Dylan's 3rd birthday party. It went really good! It was like Christmas all over again for him! Last night we went and picked up Alton's "new toy". We got a 2007 GMC Sierra pick-up. It is so nice! He got Fire Engine Red. Very sharp. Hopefully I can get a picture of it this weekend and get in on here. Last time I tried putting pics on here though I couldn't get it to work. Other then that not a whole lot has been happening. Oh ya, we're in the process of trying to make vacation plans for the summer too. We will be going to South Carolina for my sister-in-laws wedding. She having it on Hilton Head Island, so while we're there we'll vacation and hang out on the beach for a few days. I really wish we were flying, but Alton insists on driving the new truck. I can only imagine how it will be with Dylan setting in a car seat for long periods of time! I mean we are comparing a 14 hour drive or more to a less then two hour flight. Yes, we will probably break it into two days to get there and back, but it is still going to be long for Dylan. If it was just the two of us I'd say heck ya, I'm up for a road trip. LOL It's not until July, so I do have a few months to plan. I've been trying to think of new things to get for Dylan to help keep him occupied. If anybody has any ideas I'd love to hear them. Anyway, it's time to wash the dye out of my hair. I've been finding WAY too many grays lately, so I got color today while I was at the grocery store. I'm trying a reddish color for the first time. Wish me luck!!

1-11-07

Hard to believe that my little baby Dylan is 3 years old today! He is growing up way too fast! We are celebrating with cupcakes tonight and then Sunday we are having a birthday party. He picked the Cars movie theme. Should be lots of fun!

Today we went to Walmart to get Dylan three year pictures taken. Well, I checked when we first got there to see if there was much of a wait. The photographer was having technical difficulties and said come back in a half hour to see if he was able to fix things. So I said OK. Well, last year when we had pictures taken I was LUCKY to get anything worth keeping, so I told Dylan that if he smiled really good for me then he could pick out a toy. Well, since we couldn't get right in to get the pictures done, I made the mistake of letting him pick a toy first. So we payed for our things and then went back to see if we could get the pictures taken. It was fixed thank goodness! So I let Dylan pick a couple of the backgrounds that he liked. He seemed really excited about everything. Well, we get in the little room and I sit him on the table and he lets the guy get one picture that wasn't very good, and he wanted to get down. He refused to let him get anymore. He was putting his head on the floor. I tried bribing him with everything...Happy Meal, returning the toy he picked out ect. Nothing worked. Then the photographer pulled out a background of Thomas the Train. THAT DID IT!! Hooray for Thomas! Once Dylan saw that he was all for getting the pictures done. Of course we did the rest of the backgrounds BEFORE we did Thomas. LOL So I did get some half way decent pictures. The smiles look a little un-natural, but I was happy to get what I got!

Also, I couldn't believe it....the first gas station I passed on the way to Walmart was priced at $1.99!!! I couldn't believe it. FINALLY under $2 a gallon. Then when I went a little further past Meijer's they had gas for $1.94!! Wonder how long this will last?

1st blog entry of 2007

Happy New Year all! Hope your holiday season was as nice as ours although we did have a couple bumps along the way. The first "bump" happened on Christmas Eve day. My brother-in-law called Alton and was in tears I guess because he was being evicted from his apartment. He had to be out by 3pm on Christmas Eve! So all that day Alton and Bobby moved his stuff into our garage. We set him up a room in our basement for the time being. It's not been too bad having him here because he pretty much has everything he needs down there....bathroom, ect. When my other brother-in-law lived with us he was in what is now Dylan's room, and he had to use our bathroom. I did not like that one bit! The only bad thing we've had to deal with throughout the whole thing is that EVERYTHING he owns smelled like cat urine! He lived with two other guys, and one guy has 9 cats living int he apartment and none were spayed!!!! It's not that the cats actually peed on his stuff, just the stench from the nasty apartment got on everything! So he's washed all of his clothes and put Frebreeze on everything so the smell is pretty much gone--Thank goodness! I just hope that he is able to get on his feet and get his own place very soon! We'll see. He has many problems.

The other bump we had is that one week later on New Year's Eve Alton, Dylan and I all woke up with nasty colds. So needless to say we stayed home on New Years and watched the ball drop in Times Square. I think that was the first time we stayed home and didn't have anybody over for New Years. But we are all pretty much over the colds. Dylan got over his very quick! So that was a blessing. so if you're praying one night and you think of me, send a prayer my way that our guest can get up and on his feet in the next few months! Thank you!!!!

The Polar Express

For those of you who have never seen The Polar Express movie I totally recommend that you do! It is so cute! Especially at this time of the year! I watched it for the first time a few days ago. Dylan loves it, so when they aired it again I recorded it for him. If you have a "non-believer" of Santa Claus definitely let him/her watch this movie! It may just change their mind!

Alton's Work Christmas Party

Yesterday was Alton's work Christmas party. And as usual we went to a comedy club for dinner and a show. But before we go to the show we always go to Alton's bosses house for horduerves and a gift exchange. Well, this year I lucked out a got a good gift...a box of chocolate pralines. But Alton on the other hand was ambushed. These people that he works with are sooooooo raunchy. This is what they did. They know Alton is totally against gay marriage ect. ect. So they made sure that he got a certain gift. This gift included condoms, a bar of soap, and the movie Broke Back Mountain. These people are so dumb!!! I don't know why they can't just buy a normal gift. And some of the other gifts that people received were a porn DVD, and a blow up female doll!!! SO SICK!!! Just so they can get a laugh! I dread this party every year, because it's always the same ol' thing. Of course we are talking about a group of guys, but come on! Be civil for one day of the year when your wives are with you! At least the food and show were good!

Our visit to Santa

Yesterday was our annual visit to Santa at the O.P.C. (Older Persons Center--A place for people 50 and up) with my in-laws. They have an awesome Christmas set up each year for the public. This was our third year going and I think it was the best so far. You would not believe the work they do with the decorations and all the set up. There must have been close to 50 Christmas trees all decorated differently! Not to mention tons of poinsettia plants, Santa Clauses, and other decor. This year to my surprise Dylan would not sit on Santa's lap. So I had to sit in Mrs. Claus's chair with Dylan on my lap in order to get a picture. The previous two years he went right up and got on his lap with no problem. Then after the picture I tried to get Dylan to get his face painted. There was a whole sheet of pictures to choose from, but he wouldn't do it. I even did it thinking once he saw me do it then he would. No such luck! I got a really cute snowman painted on my cheek. They also had a craft table where you could make a picture frame for the pic with Santa. He didn't want anything to do with that either. So I made one. One thing that he was VERY interested in was a train that they had set up. There was a model train club who brought that in. They had a ticket booth where you got a ticket and a conductor's hat. You should have seen this train. It was the length of the whole room, and it was a big room. It had a whole city built around the train tracks too. Complete with a police car that had a corvette pulled over to a farm scene with lots of little chickens all over. It was the neatest thing! Then one of the trains had a camera on the front of it and at a certain point on the track you could stand there and see yourself on a little TV screen. So neat! Trying to get Dylan away from there so that we could go eat lunch was like pulling teeth. He DID NOT want to leave the room. Of course he threw a tantrum and embarrassed me, but once we got into where lunch was he saw there was a high school choir singing Christmas carols so he was interested in that a little. They had brought in food from a Wendy's restaurant that had donated and also had their own food. So after we ate Dylan and my father-in-law went back to the trains while my mother-in-law and I checked out the baked goods that were being sold. I bought some Christmas cookies and a chocolate chip loaf. YUM!! Everything sold goes to charity! I wish everybody could see this! It's such an awesome event.

Hello

Hope you all had a nice Thanksgiving. We did. We were able to spend quite a bit of time with my brother and sister in law, that came from Georgia, so that was nice. We learned how to play a new game that they brought with them called Apples to Apples, so that was fun.

We finally got our Indian summer this week. The weather has been beautiful. Today we are supposed to have record breaking temps. Close to 70. Today the sun isn't out though unfortunately. Then by Friday they are talking snow. Lovely! LOL Yesterday I raked up four bags of leaves, but you can't even tell. Alton has been telling me that he was going to get our lawnmower out and mulch them all up, but he never has. I just wanted to get the stuff around our drive way and in front of our deck up, because the leaves keep getting dragged into the house on our shoes. Then they wind up in the kitchen!

Woes of the holiday season!

Isn't the holiday season supposed to be a happy time of year? This year is already giving me a headache! We are having a hard time dividing our time between Alton's and my sides of the family. I know a lot of people alternate holidays between families, but I am trying to avoid doing that. The hard part is that for each holiday--Thanksgiving and Christmas--we have family coming in from out of town that we want to be able to see. It just seems that on the holiday we are constantly running from place to place that we hardly have a chance to enjoy anywhere that we go. And if we don't go to certain places it just doesn't seem like the holidays. So if anybody reads this and has any suggestions I would definitely like to hear what you do if you have the same situation. LOL

Haircut

Today I got my hair cut. It's been over a year since the last time it was cut. I decided to go to a new girl that my friend is friends with. She did an EXCELLENT job! I love my hair!! I told her how I wasn't quite sure of what I wanted done, so she let me look through a style book. There really wasn't anything that jumped out at me. So she suggested some long layers. So I said go for it. I was pretty much up for anything except short. Now the whole thing is getting it to look like how she did it!!! She blew it all dry and flipped it up in certain places. I hope I can do it. The best part is that she only charged me $20!! Awesome!!

November Already

Can't believe it's November already!! Hope everybody had a fun Halloween last night. We went trick-or treating in our neighborhood. There weren't many people handing out candy, but that didn't matter because Dylan was ready to quit after about two blocks! All he wanted to do was go home. I have no idea why! At the last house that we tried to get him to go to all he would do is sit in their front yard. LOL The people were sitting on their front porch even! All he had to do was walk up and get the candy. He wouldn't do it. So that was the end for us. Maybe next year he'll be more into it. Alton and I were kind of bummed, me especially because Halloween is my favorite holiday. Oh well.

A sickly week

Tuesday morning I woke up to Dylan being sick. He had thrown up in his bed. YUCK!! This is the first time he's ever been sick since he's been born. By Wednesday the throwing up was gone, but it was coming out of the other end very badly! And then come Wednesday night I got the privilege to start the whole process. Today I am felling much better. My body seems to be a little sore from all the dry heaving I've done though. I'm waiting and dreading when Alton gets it. Hopefully he's lucky enough not to get it. We had been at a birthday party last Sunday and I think that's where we got the sickness. My cousin who's birthday party it was is also sick. Thank goodness it's behind us now and we're feeling much better!

Our Weekend

Alton had the weekend off, so that was nice. Friday night we surprised my Mom with a new dryer. Theirs wasn't working and was like 30 years old so we got her a new one. They were going to try and repair it. My Dad thought he knew what was wrong with it, but he's not really in the shape to be trying to fix a dryer. She was really surprised! We got them to go to my grandparents house for dinner so that's when we got it in the basement and hooked up.

On Saturday morning we had to take Alton's parents to the airport and then
Saturday evening we had some family and friends over to watch the Tiger's game. Alton cooked ham and ribs on the grill.

Then Sunday we went to my cousin's birthday party. He turned 2. So that was interesting with a bunch of little kids running around. For the evening we ordered pizza and watched the Tiger's beat the Cardinal's! So we had a very nice weekend!

Amazed

Once again my son Dylan amazed me. Last night it was close to bed time and he was playing with an old cell phone that is now his. We were just sitting on our bed waiting for Daddy and all of a sudden he punches out OUR phone number and says it at the same time!!! I think we've talked about our phone number a couple of times, but not to an extent that he would remember it! So I told him to say it again and sure enough he knows it!!! I couldn't believe it. So today I asked him to say it again and once again he remembered it. Then I called my parents to ask them if they had been working with him on our phone number and they said no. So I don't know.....Maybe the kid just has a REALLY good and fast memory! He sure made me proud!!