I’m busy crafting things and soon I’ll be cleaning up more in the yard and planting flowers (not until May though). I’ll be posting updated photos soon on my cross stitched pieces and crafty items.
My poor mom was terribly sick yesterday with a tummy bug. She is better today, but it was a day long ordeal. I’m glad she had all of us calling and checking up on her. If she had to catch it, glad it was on a Sunday.
I believe this is so. Our lives are simmering well for our existence and someone comes along and clamps a lid down on our world and the pressure starts to build up. You’ve got that little valve though, and if you are lucky, you can open it and things calm down a bit.
Someone in my life, not under this roof, has turned the heat up indirectly, though I have to feel it too. I have to hear my mom sobbing and being upset when she has enough to deal with everyday.
I won’t go into it in case that person reads here and has something to say to everyone else about it, even exaggerating it.
The temps dropped and last time I looked it was in the upper 40s. 70 was so nice! I took the cat for a walk without having to wear a coat. Debating about going to the grocery store. It’s different with just the two of us. I can go longer between trips-I don’t like grocery shopping that much. I am low on meat mainly. I could just go for a meat run.
Wish me (us) luck with the above!
Sean called about 11:15 this morning and said he was in a long line to see Barack Obama-said that he was about #8k! Hope he gets better photos this time around. It’s an exciting time to be a college student!
Update-Sean got there too late as it was a huge crowd of 20K or more and couldn’t seen Obama at all. I found some great shots on flickr and forwarded the link to Sean.
Not much new. Bri and I went to Value City and QVC last night. I needed to pick up a few birthday gifts for my niece’s upcoming 9th birthday. I can’t believe she is getting so big! She’s wearing glasses now. Yeah, people say she looks a bit like her auntie, especially with the specs! I don’t want to say what I bought in case a family member is reading.
Speaking of family, my second brother will be trekking his way back to PA tomorrow to live. The one I have had issues with. He’s staying at my uncle’s house until he finds a place that takes a dog and cat. I heard he had to sell a lot of his possessions to make the move.
Watch for photos of my new orchids and begonias. My mom decided not to come out today and I guess I won’t be going to Longwood Gardens again tomorrow. I’d like someone to go with me to the eye doctor on Thursday which is 16 miles one way and an office I’ve never been to before. I have to have my corneas measured. I hope they do the pressure test first. Please keep me in your thoughts and prayers that the pressure has gone down.
Off to finally make our corned beef dinner! Better late than never.
Only a few pals are blogging regularly this week. I know one had company and others are waiting for their long winter to end so they can go out in their yards and blog about flowers, etc.
I was going to try and get to Longwood Gardens today if the rain holds out. I’m mainly interested in the orchids in the conservatories, but it’s a little walk to that area. Now my mom wants to come out too, but I bet I won’t see her for at least 3 or more hours. She’s anxious to print out her flower show pictures as I just bought her two ink cartridges for her new printer for Easter. She also wants to use her camera more. Sean used his new camera at the Clinton rally, though he wasn’t that close (8k were there!). He also took a little video. I guess he will upload them sometime today. I also have to proof a couple of his papers over the weekend.
I really feel like I need to get out of the house today, so I’m hoping I can at least chase a few raindrops to see something different.
It’s been a long day. We didn’t get moving until 1 to get my mom and grab the 2:17 train to the city. I know, it’s a late start. Daylight savings messed with our sleep a bit. The flower show was on until 6 anyway. I think if the four of us go on a Sunday again, we should eat a big lunch and then go. We ate a big breakfast, grabbed a pretzel and nachos at the adjoining mall as a snack and then walked the walk, though mom was in a rented wheelchair. We always manage to miss something. I heard a woman say she loved the bayou with the steam. Well, we didn’t see that, yet Brian saw a photo of the exhibit on flickr. I shouldn’t complain as I took over 100 photos and did a video too! I haven’t uploaded or edited the video yet, but will tomorrow. However, here are some of my favorite people and some broad in beat up pink sneakers. : )
It was nice to have my guys along. Here’s the inside of the train on the 35 minute trip to the city. It takes us 45-55 minutes just to get to mom’s house first.
The guys took turns pushing mom around and helping her take photos. At the end, she ditched the wheelchair and walked around to see if she got to see everything!
Did I mention the theme was New Orleans?
I don’t wear sneaks a lot, but I had to today with all the walking we did. I know my ankle boots would look so much better, but it was comfort over looks here! I saw a young woman go in the show in about 3″ spike heels-she’s crazy! I am at least wearing my new glasses. This exhibit had lights pointing down (see the foot marks) so you could stand under the exhibit. Bri didn’t get he was suppose to take a shot of what was over my head along with me! But I am standing in the wrong direction too!
And for Zoey, our friendly blogger tablescaper:
This was a hot pink mylar like rug!
and this too:
Plastic or paper lights and tons of orchids. The other tablescape will be on my slideshow that I’ll put together later.
We went to Carrabbas Italian restaurant when we got back to mom’s area and enjoyed a nice dinner there. I guess I’m glad I went. I just love using that camera so much, but I like spending time with my family the best!
…yet.
Mom and I just weren’t up to trying to find a parking spot at the train station and fighting the crowds (bus day on Wed.). I had gotten down to her hometown at 10 to get my hair done at my sister-in-law’s house. I went over to mom’s house at 11:30 and she was still in her nightclothes. We are looking to go the last day-Sunday. That day there are more parking spaces! Maybe I can get Sean or Brian to go too. I don’t know how my mom is going to walk at least 1/2 mile from the train stop. We’ll see. She’s a bit slower this year but she will say she isn’t.
Mom came home with me in her car as my brother will inspect my van tomorrow. We stopped at Border’s Books and then I drove the rest of the way home. We did have a lovely lunch up the street from her house. It wasn’t a completely shot day. Border’s has a kit that I had to get- Reader’s Digest, The Antique Sampler set (how to design and cross stitch your own vintage samplers) by Alison Jenkins. I haven’t opened it, but it was only $5 ( has a price 0f $30 on it) and if it’s too amateurish, I can resell it.
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This is my mom’s birthday last year and my youngest brother is giving her the cupcakes that I made to blow out the candles. I like the way he is looking at her here.
My brother is a master mechanic and has permanently stained arms, not really dirty ones. ; )
and for the 23rds hunt Wooden (I am late, didn’t feel much like doing it as I heard my estranged father had passed on).
This is my son’s clipboard with beautiful inlaid wood that he doesn’t use. I was looking through papers in his room and came across this a few weeks ago. He had received it as a gift.
I opened my email a few hours ago to see a note from my cousin in Oregon entitled Dad. I had a feeling what it was going to be about and I was correct, my father had passed away on February 16th, a little over a month past his 77th birthday. He was a sad man who lived alone and bothered with none of his four children and had never met his 5 grandchildren. I hadn’t seen him since about 1972-in divorce court. I had spoken to him a few times on the phone over the years, nothing memorable. Ann only found out as a friend of hers who read about his passing in the paper. Said he had a Catholic mass said for him. That was a surprise to us! So if he had just turned Catholic, maybe it helped him pass away in peace at the end. I called my mom and she did cry. She said it was so sad that his life turned out the way it did. He was her only spouse. I then called my two brothers and they were not too surprised. I have another brother who is acting just like our dad, so I will not be phoning him, I’ll let my younger brother take care of that.
I see him in Sean, but Sean can look like him, just don’t act like him.
This little guy was down the basement, covered with dust and grime! Even though he’s under glass, the fabric is showing signs of foxing. Though dirty, he made me smile. I probably stitched him back in 1980 when the Phillies won the World Series. I brought him up and cleaned him up, but I guess I should wash the fabric too. This is one of my earliest cross stitches.
And the ‘what is the world was my mom thinking’ department:
Jeepers! She bought this for herself-the squares of paper are only about 2″! I have trouble with the larger sheets of paper! I got ‘stuck’ with this, but I don’t know, I may pull my hair out if it’s too hard.
Did some cleaning as earlier mentioned (sorta), but my post nasal was miserable (I was wearing a dust mask). I also managed to disturb a large spider too! Not thrilled. I did stuff a bunch of stuff in the giveaway bag. I am finding I have too many plastic things for the kitchen (left over from the remodel almost 2 yrs ago!) like storage containers, cups with straws. Too many metal tins and Easter baskets.
Doing the above killed my back, but Tylenol, Icy Hot and finally the heating pad did their magic.
By the way, I tried to sell these on eBay, no takers-anyone need rubber stampers of animals skeletons?
These were Sean’s and he hardly used them. Let me know.
And for the ‘oh no, I thought I was through with the dentist for another 6 months’ dept-I chipped a tooth on the top right with a Necco wafer-darn! I hope I can get it fixed soon and it’s diagonal toward the gum like a sliver and I hope it won’t start to hurt.
Wish me luck. : )
Well, maybe it’s because some of the weight of the world is off her little shoulders. It still irks me to see the dumpster there and know some things could have been rescued, but seeing her more like her old sense warms my heart. I hadn’t been down to her house for almost a month. In that time the furniture got moved around in her living room and it looks much larger. The kitchen is staying nice. Ken bought mom some nice metal shelves (on wheels) and her microwave is on it and lots of canned goods. I didn’t help her sort things today, we went to JoAnn’s so I could use the 40% off coupon and buy myself some goodies in the form of papers, stampers and stickers. I want to redo my mantel’s garland and found pretty pink, maybe dogwood blossoms to use. We bought some Five Guys burgers and fries and off I went. I was almost home when my low fuel light came on and I had to stop in the brutal wind and get gas. I will help her next Wednesday after I get my hair done.
We are suppose to have wacky weather in the afternoon. I guess I will do a small ‘Wipe it Clean Wednesday’ to make up for not doing ‘Toss it Tuesday’ yesterday.
Don’t waste your time renting Knocked Up. I was surprised at Katherine Heigl and all the ‘f’ bombs and just everything! I don’t really think middle class people drop it like they did in the movie. And the guys and all their references to their little pals-you get my drift. Since my mom (!) bought it, I thought Bri and I would watch it as I like Katherine in Gray’s Anatomy. She heard it was good, but I think the name of the movie would make me put it back on the shelf.
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