I must be a better blogger..... but I still suck

Well, I must be a better blogger then my lovely sister, since I post more then her lately. Haha.... that makes the score like me 1, her 1001.

It's been a busy few months this spring. G had her 3rd birthday, how is that even possible? She's become a very opinionated little princess, must get that from me. She insisted on wearing her princess dress to daycare this week. Was no big deal other then when it was pick up time. According to her preschool teacher, when it was pick up time she announced that "princesses don't pick up". Her dress was changed promptly so she could pick up.

I planted a garden again this year, or at least started to. I'm trying a new location in the yard since it didn't get enough sun last year. I've got potatoes and onions in so far. Planning to put in peppers, corn and pumpkins as well. Who would have thought I enjoy growing stuff so much.

I've also been reading a lot lately. Some of my latest reads and their reviews:

• "I, Alex Cross" James Patterson..... very good book, sucked me in and I couldn't put it down. But James Patterson is pretty good at doing that to me.
• "Witch and Wizard" James Patterson..... also a very good book, although the ending left me hanging and I didn't like that part. I hope he hurries with the next one in the series, I don't like it when I have to re-read the book just to know what's going on.
• "My Horizonal Life" Chelsea Handler..... I loved this book, laughed until I cried. And I thought living vicariously through my friends was fun!

A rather uneventful week

Well, it's been a quiet week, that's a plus. B has his first loose tooth, there is a lot of excitement around that. Since they are with their Dad this weekend, I hope he doesn't loose it, I want him to loose it at home. I know, who cares.
G's excitement is that she is now officially potty trained. She only needs pull ups when she sleeps and when we go somewhere. Little stinker is very proud of the panties, guess I'll have to go buy some more, I think my washer eats them.
Last weekend we had a nice time in SF with the fam at a Stampede hockey game. It was B's first big hockey game. I'd like to say he was really into the game, but I think the truth is that he pretty excited about just being there. He got to skate with the players and get autographs afterwards, lots of fun. The weekend was cut short by an unexpected snow storm. I would have liked to hang out in SF longer, but was glad I didn't.
Not much else to report here. Possibly a road trip this weekend, how exciting is my life.... oh wait, it's not.
Oh and to my friends in Cali, my deepest sympathies about Charles, we touched so many lives.

My very own hockey star

Yep it's true.... B had his very first hockey game tonight. It was very impressive, see the pics. I'd like to give you a play by play but there wasn't actually much play. Lets see what I can do. The coach put the puck down, somewhere between 2 and 4 boys swug at it, most missed the puck and landed on their butts. The puck slide to the left, everyone followed. One boy fell, then another and another. One made it to the puck and hit it in no particular direction, then fell down. Everyone got back up and headed in the direction the puck was last seen, someone tripped over the puck moving it a different direction, more people fell. That's pretty much the general idea of the whole game. I think one goal was made, but no one can be sure who actually made it. All in all it was very entertaining. I'm very proud of my big man, he did very well and had fun.

So.... lets try this again

Alrighty, I've proven I'm a terrible blogger, but lets try this again. Maybe it's because there really isn't anything exciting going on in my life, or at least nothing I'd admit to.

B had his 6th birthday last week. I can not believe he is 6. Feels like yesterday I was laboring watching Shrek. He spent most of his birthday weekend out of town with his Dad, but I did get to have him for the evening of his birthday. He got lots of great gifts, that boy is truely spoiled. However, it seems that I'm the only one that though far enough ahead to go to the dollar store and grab something for G. Thank you to my Mom for that brilliant thought! I broke down and bought B a small aquarium and a couple of goldfish for his birthday. Ever since I killed his betta last summer, he's been bugging me for a fish. At least this way I don't have to clean the water every week. One of the fish only managed to last 2 days, we got to have a burial at sea. If I keep killing these $2 fish, this could turn out to be an expensive hobbie.

I've been woking like crazy since I got a wok for Christmas.... who knew, I can actually cook.

I'm gonna try and stick notes on here as I think of them.... if anyone reads it, that's another story.

Not much has changed....

I need to work harder at this, it's been 2 weeks since my last post. I'd like to say it's cuz I've been so darn busy, but I'm probably just lazy. And I really don't know what to write about.

The 4th weekend was very nice. T's brother came up with 2 of his boys. We spent way way too much money on fireworks. We went out to a farm near here to shot off the fireworks. I believe a good time was had by all. BMO loved it. Thank you to the friends for having us, your place is beautiful. The weekend was very full for all of us. In addition to spending one night out at the farm shotting off fireworks, we also took the kids swimming, went bowling, watched the professional fireworks after the races (we didn't actually go to the races) and the boys got to go fishing for several hours. It was a full weekend. And although it wore us all out, we had fun.

This last weekend was my Mom's birthday I took the kids and went back for the weekend. T had to work Friday and Saturday night so figured it would be better for him to get some sleep. We had a very enjoyable time. Saturday Papa took BMO in the roadster to a car show in Hull. Mom, GIO and I followed a little while later. They had a small kiddy carnival and a parade. BMO had fun at the carnival and in the jump houses. The parade was excellent. Tons of entries and more candy then we could ever have asked for. We came home with about 1/2 of a plastic grocery bag full of candy. He pry could have gotten a lot more too, but we stopped encouraging him so much about halfway through when we realized how much we had. It was an enjoyable day. Other memorible items from the weekend. Papa and BMO caught lightning bugs in the backyard and were putting them into a jar. They were so thick that they practically flew into your hands. And a shout out to my sister, who likes to refer to me as middle aged now. Thanks Princess, just remember your turn will come. I think I'll send BMO to your house for a week next.

Things haven't been going too well with Grandma Grace. After the surgery she was recovering well and surprising everyone. They moved her out of ICU last week and we all had pretty high hopes that she'd pull through this. However, it appears that her body is just getting tired. They will be transferring her back to the home in IA, where she has been for the last few years, today. Once she gets there, they will do their best to make her comfortable. Hospice has been called and will be helping with her care. I saw her this weekend when we were back. She was rather pale and very tired. However, she knew who I was and talked a little. I am praying for the Lord to comfort her.

Things with all of us are good. BMO started swimming lessons this morning and a new daycare. Hopefully this one will work well for him. It's a larger daycare with a preschool in it. He was pretty excited. GIO is still staying at home until school starts in the fall. We have a nice gal that comes in and watches her while T sleeps. It's been working well. T has been working a lot out at the plant as a foreman. He goes in late in the afternoon and gets home in the middle of the night. His room has really good production and he seems to like it okay. I think the hours are getting to him, I'm not sure how long he will last on nights. I'm doing okay at work. Getting settled and familiar with the way things are done. I like some of the challenges I've gotten to work on. And i get to be the demanding pushy chick that I so enjoy. LOL

Hope all is well with all of my friends. Been thinking a lot about my CA friends and the fires out there. Send me an email or a text sometime, I'm trying to respond to all of them.

Oh and I forgot.......

Because of all the stuff going on, I haven't had a chance to let some of you know, we got new cell phones with SD numbers. We still have our CA phones, and will for a month or so. But, since I can't remember who I told and who I didn't, if I haven't told you and you don't have the new number, send me a note and I'll get it to you.

I'm tired

So, lots have happened since my last blog. I'm really bad at this, I'll have to work on getting better. Let's see. Last weekend, we met up with Tracy's family in SF. Tracy and I had joked about sending BMO home with Grandma for the week. Things fell into place and we actually ended up doing it. We sent him home with Grandma with little more then the close on his back, good thing he and his cousin are almost the same size. About 10 minutes out of SF I woke up and couldn't beleive I'd just given my baby away. What were we thinking? It was all I could do not to make T turn the car around.
It was a pretty quite week. Tracy started his job at the turkey plant. He's a foreman on a slicing line on second shift. He seems to like it, other then the the second shift thing. He has high hopes that we will get moved to days eventually. GIO and I got to spend some quality time together just the girls. It was kind of nice, got a little routine down. BMO had a good week at Grandma's. He got sick one day, either a little bug or just overly tired, but it didn't last long. He had a good week and never got too homesick.
Friday afternoon we had a company golf tournament. It was a very good time. Got to know a lot of the people i work with. Unfortunately, we were unable to stay for the dinner. We didn't have a sitter and we wanted to get to IA to see BMO and the fam.
So, that brings us to the very exhausting weekend we just had. Friday night we loaded up the van and drove to IA. GIO slept most of the way but was fussy for about an hour of it. BMO had spent Friday with his Aunt and Uncle. I'm sure it was quite the experience for everyone involved. We got to IA about 11, and even though I went in and kissed him like 20 times, BMO didn't wake up to greet us.
Saturday was a nice day. We spent the day hanging out at the fam's place and Shirley's. Saturday night after we got the kids in bed, Leah and Brad went out for a couple drinks with T and I. I was really sad to see how very sad things are there. We went out to the bar we used to go to alot. When we walked in, there were like 4 people sitting at the bar, that's it. We had a drink there and decided to go to a different bar. It isn't one we would normally go to, but our options were pretty limited and we wanted to play darts. We had a few drinks there and played some darts. After a bit, L and B decided to call it a night, so T and I went out to a birthday party of a friend. We got home about 12, I had stopped drinking around 10:30 and was pretty sober again. That's when everything fell apart.
So, it's around 1, we just got home, and we're trying to be quite and get ready for bed. And the phone rings. My first thought, was if that's T's best friend, I'm gonna kill him, what was he thinking. So T goes and gets the phone. On no, it's for his Mom, a call in the middle of the night, that's not a good sign. Shirley comes out and tells us that it's the hospital, and T's Grandma is being admitted, she's throwing up blood. Now I'm completely sober so I get dressed and Shirley and I head to the hospital.
We got there and I was a little surprised to find how bad it was. She was throwing up a lot of blood. The nurses were doing the best they could to make Grandma comfortable and take care of her, but where was the Doctor? As we sat and waited, my blood pressure went up. About an hour after we got to the hospital, the Doctor showed up. I was a little cranky, especially when I was told that she only lived a few blocks away. The Doctor came in and took a look at her chart, said that they were going to move her to a room, admit her and give her some blood and something to help her stop throwing up. She wanted to take a wait and see approach, she was pretty sure that it was from the meds they had put her on this last week. Fine, how long are we going to wait and see? Well, they'd reassess in the morning. So we got Grandma settled and we went home to bed.
Sunday morning Shirley was up at the crack of dawn and back to the hospital. Grandma was throwing up again. So they called the surgeon. He came down and they decided to do a scope. He did the scope and thought that there was a hianle hernia (sorry, I can't spell) that was bleeding. He thought he might be able to do something, but said that since they didn't have an ICU, we may want to consider moving her to SF for the procedure. So, they air lifted her to SF, and everyone in the family packed up and piled into our cars and headed to SF. Once they got her there, they did the same scope that they had done in IA. They were able to see a little better and determined that she had a tear in her stomach. By this point it was getting pretty serious, they had already given her 4 or 5 pints of blood. It was determined that the only option was surgery. The surgery itself was pretty straight forward, but at Grandma's age (she's 90) and with everything else, it was a risk. The Doctor told that more of a risk would be after surgery, during the recovery. Grandma would be on a ventilator after surgery and depending on how things go, she did run the risk that she would never come off it. Our options were limited. Before the surgery, Grandma was awake, and if fairly good spirits. We all got to see her, and tell her that we loved her. The best line ever was when Shirley told her that she was going to have surgery, because she had a tear in her stomach, Grandma looked at her and with a straight face said, 'oh is that my problem?'
So, Sunday night, around 9, they took Grandma away to surgery, T, the kids and I headed home, and Shirley, Spencer and Brady stayed to wait. Surgery took just over an hour. Everything went well. They were able to repair the tear in her stomach. So Grandma was moved back to ICU.

That brings us to Monday. I just spoke with Shirley. She spent the night at the hospital, on a couch in the waiting room. The nurses told her that Grandma is doing well. They think she has taken a couple of breathes on her own. She will remain on the ventilator for a while so they can keep her heavily sedated. We're pretty much in a wait and see patern now. This has been very hard on the whole family. I just thank God that we were there when it happened.

I'll try to be better with the blog and keep everyone up to date. Please keep Grandma and Shirley in your prayers, it looks like it could be a very long week.