I'm a auntie....

I can't believe it. I finally have a nephew. My sister, who is several years younger than I am, has been trying to adopt for several years.

She found out the end of August that she was going to become a mother and it was going to happen soon. And it did. Long story, and a bit disturbing but my little nephew Caleb came into the world on September 11, at 11:19 PM, 7 lbs, 9oz, 20 inches long and seems to be perfect even though he had a traumatic entrance into this world. Due to his circumstances he has had to remain in the hospital and be monitored, and initially my sister was told that she would get to bring him home on Monday, but the doctors came in last night and said he was doing exceptional so they will discharge him today. My sister is so pleased, and can't wait to get her little bundle of joy home. Please keep my sister in your prayers and this is a new venture for her as well as baby Caleb. I just praise God that he has taken care of them through all this.

Wow, what a productive Saturday I had. I puttered around in the house all morning, just doing the basic picking up and cleaning up. Loads of laundry was washed, dried and folded. Just need to put it away. Michael also worked on framing our bedroom windows, so after he finished those, we moved everything out of our bedroom and cleaned the baseboards, dusted, and vacuumed and then put everything back. With the exception of our bed. We bought a new bed, a big brushed brass bed at a auction last weekend. It looks so nice in there. Once I get the laundry off the bed, I will have to take some pics. I still need to get some new rods for my curtains, but Michael would like to replace those because he isn't crazy about the ones that I have now. I like them, but he doesn't.

I also quite abit of web work to do and now I think I am all caught up...well at least for now, but I realized I really should organize my computer files. It's rather confusing because I use two computers, and so I have to do it double.

Yesterday we watched Hurricane Ike's damage. All Michael's family live in the suburb of Houston in Friendswood. Other than losing their power they made out fine. Praise God! I am still a bit concerned for his folks though, as his mother is on oxygen and they have enough fuel for several more days to run her oxygen. After that, not sure what will happen.

Needless to say it was a busy day, couldn't wait to soak in the tub and hit the bed. Just so I could get up and start again today.

Let's see today is going to be full of football. Wesley has several friends coming over and they plan to watch all the games and grill out. Wesley's kind of tailgating.

My chore list for today:

1. clean kids bath


2. mow lawn (Michael's doing this)
   
3. get garage back in order (Michael made a big mess yesterday while working on the framing)


4. Read
   
5. Nap (girls gotta do what a girl's gotta do)


6. Finish decorating for fall, several more boxes in the garage
   

   So as you can see, I should get a move on. Hope you have a blessed day.

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Where has the time gone?

(Sorry no pictures this post, I have to download them from the camera)

Boy, time has gotten away from me again.  So much has been going on, I don't know where to start.  Let start with the fish pond.  :)  Those pictures were of the fishpond at Michael's folks house.  We flew out to Houston during Labor Day and we had a great trip but it was terribly emotional.  His mom is so weak, she has to have oxygen all the time now, and also one of her girls comes over ever day to drain the fluid off her lungs.  She has lost all her hair so they have to treat her scalp too.  It was hard seeing her that way.  Also, she sat Michael and I both down and told us she wanted us to go out and spent a certain amount of money on something that we wouldn't normally by for ourselves.  She wants that to be our Christmas present from her because she knows she will not be here for the holidays.  While we were there, she went through all her jewelry and started dispersing it.  I have never experienced anything quite like that before, and it made me uncomfortable, but I know Betty wants her things to go to the people she wants to have it.  So she was happy that she got to enjoy seeing people receive her jewelry.  So as you can see it was a emotional trip, and it was hard to leave because we felt like it was probably the last time we would see her.  She is on large doses of morphine and she has a hard time staying awake.  It was just sad.

Let's see, Tori has started her senior year.  They had their first football game on Friday night.  We lost, but it was great seeing her cheer.  Again, it was sad when I realized that this was going to be the last year I would be going to watch her.  I do love watching her.

The last several weeks we have been busy trying to get on a schedule in place.  We are doing pretty good I guess.  Seems like everyone has different schedules. I haven't seen much of my boys because of their working schedules but hoping as fall gets into full swing, I will see more of them.  Usually they are here on Sunday's for football and we have a great day together. 

Speaking of fall, I did get my harvest decorations out this weekend.  I think the time has come to get rid of some of my stuff.  I don't need all the stuff I have.  I only put about half of it out.  I am really limited to space these days.  Michael and I have been doing alot of auctions lately.  I will have to share some of my finds.  As most of you know, when Tori graduates from high school  Michael and I plan to move away from here, and one of our goals is to take some wonderful antiques  with us.  We both love them. And they are much more reasonable here than in most places in the country.  Not to mention, plentiful. 

.....well I need to scoot, got to do a couple of things and then get myself ready for bed.  Hope you have a wonderful week.

Hugs!

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This is where I plan to be

early Saturday morning having my coffee.

This is the fish pond in the back yard at Michael's folks house.  I love to sit out here in the early morning before the day gets started.  We are heading to Houston Friday afternoon after I get off work for the labor Day weekend.  Woo Hoo! Texas here we come!

Hope you have a wonderful Labor Day!

The Rascals and Taylor

I can't believe that the weekend is almost over and I didn't do anything this weekend.  I feel like I just wasted my weekend....but I haven't felt like doing much.  I guess sometimes you need to do nothing.  It isn't because I didn't have things to do cause I did... You wouldn't believe my project list. 

Today I have just sat around and visited with my boys.  It has been awhile since they have both been here at the same time, and it was so nice.  Although Derek and Nikki just left to go to Hershey Pa., they are going to see Rascal Flatts and Taylor Swift tonight. I know I will see more of them now  that Football season is starting because they come here to watch the games. That makes me very happy.  I love my Sunday's in the fall.

This is going to be a busy week at work this week, and then on Friday Michael and I are heading off to Houston to visit with his family.  Primary reason is going to see his mom and check on her, but also Michael's sister has her 50th birthday, plus Michael will get a chance to celebrate his with his family.  His is actually on the 12th so he will be just a little early.  It will be nice for him, since he will get a chance to see his kids.

Just thought I would check in and say hi.  Hopefully I will get some blog visits in soon.  Thanks everybody that has stopped by, it means alot of know that I am not forgotten, and I haven't gotten you all either....just real life has been kinda chaotic for me lately.

Hope you had a wonderful blessed Sunday and the same for Monday.

Hugs!

One of my favorite places

This morning I woke early and since I didn't have anything scheduled that I had to do, I have been kinda taking it easy. I piddled in the house for a little bit just mainly light maintenance work, but really don't feel up to getting into anything major today. In saying that, Michael is outside in the garage working on the molding to go around my bathroom and bedroom windows. A job that has been needing to be done almost a year.

Thought since I don't really have anything at the moment to show you, I thought I would share some wonderful pictures of Lancaster Pa. You know how I love Amish Country and I also love covered bridges and Fall so thought you might want to see one of reasons I am longing for Fall now. And yes Danna, there is a Intercourse Pa.

Enjoy your tour of the awesome covered bridges of Lancaster.

A little blog fun

I saw this at Kathy's blog and thought it would be fun to play....let me know if you do this so I can check out your answers.

1. Where is your cell phone? sitting next to me

2. Where is your significant other? on the couch reading the paper

3. Your hair? naturally brown, bottled blonde

4. Your mother? getting ready for surgery tomorrow

5. Your father? not sitting still...he doesn't know how

6. Your favorite thing? not sure, I have alot of favorite things...but couldn't live without books, so will say that. 7. Your dream last night? who knows....

8. Your dream/goal? having a big cozy home in country with some land and a place for future grandchildren to roam and play.

9. The room you're in? family room

10. Your hobby? to many to mention

11. Your fear? creepy crawly things

12. Where do you want to be in 6 years? living in the south

13. Where were you last night? at the church

14. What you're not? energetic at the moment

15. One of your wish list items? a houseful of happy healthy family and friends

16. Where you grew up? Kentucky

17. The last thing you did? surfed the net

18. What are you wearing? pj's

19. Your TV? on

20. Your pet? one sweet adorable poochie, Mocha Bear

21. Your computer? addiction

22. Your mood? tired

23. Missing someone? yes

24. Your car? Kentucky Blue

25. Something you're not wearing? bra

26. Favorite store? Antique malls

27. Your summer? humid

28. Love someone? yes

29. Your favorite color? red

30. When is the last time you laughed? today

31. Last time you cried? not sure, but it hasn't been that long ago

It's my Monday!

Wow what a weekend! I know it's Tuesday but today is my Monday! I took a extra day this weekend so that I could have a three day weekend. I wanted some much needed "Me" time. So yesterday I just spent at home accomplishing things on my to do list. I had numerous little decorating projects that had been calling for me to tackle but just finding the time to do them was unreal.

Anyway, let me backtrack. Friday when I got off from work, Michael and I went out to dinner with some friends and got AUCE Maryland crabs, king crab legs, and steamed shrimp. Can you say YUM! It was so good. We try to go there at least once a year and it was so worth it this time. We all enjoyed it so much. The evening was perfect as the temps have been somewhat cooler for this time of year. Outside it was a light sweater night. PERFECT!

On Saturday morning, we headed out to some yard sales, but really didn't find much. We eventually wondered over to a auction. What a auction it was for me. NOt that I got alot of great things, (although I did get a few things that were on my mental list of decorating helps!) :) But what I got was in great condition and old. The estate being sold off was from a 90 year old woman who passed away in February. She had oodles and oodles of stuff. I came home with one hugh box of cookbooks. Yes I know, I must be crazy, but these are so much fun. She has little notes wrote the margins, and tons of newspaper cutouts from years ago. In the collection as well was several scrapbooks of what our area looked like in the early 1900's. Amazing! Did I say a TON? These were pulled out of a pile of junk that Michael bought for $1.

What else can I tell you about.... I also got a 12 placesetting of Christmas dishes for $2. I think they are very pretty and I do like them, just not sure yet how I will use them because I tend to decorate a little more country than most. But might just have to decorate using them this year.

I took a picture off of all my goodies after we unloaded it into the garage, but haven't uploaded the pictures from the camera. Maybe I can do that tonight.

Sunday I spent at home basically playing catch up from the last week and the auction day. Saturday we also went to the grocery store but when I got home was to tired to put the stuff away, only the cold got taken care of....so I had all that to put away, cleaned out the fridge, unloaded and reloaded the dishwasher, washed new glassware from the auction, did laundry(washed, dryed, folded and put away), helped Michael in the yard with a new shed, and all those things that we have to stop for because we get sidetracked. I don't know if you ever do that, but I certainly do. I am constantly starting something just to get sidetracked and reminded whilst I am working on one thing that I need to do this or that and then I scoot along to something else, not completely finishing up what I started. :) For me it is best if I stick to list. I have a hard time staying focused when I am in the house working on decorating.

Yesterday was spent working on my little list of projects. I've had a increasing list of items that I have wanted to update with some black spray paint, so I finally got that taken care of. That was a a great feeling, and a load off my shoulders, I had also picked up some lovely little prints at a yard sale weeks ago, but HATED the frames they were in, so I painted them black and distressed them weeks ago, but never got them hung. Well I did yesterday too. Love them! Now I am thinking that I have several more old frames that I don't like the look of, that I most likely will paint too. I went through six cans of spray paint yesterday and still didn't have enough of the projects that I did. I need at least a few more. I have a metal lamp that I want to spray so that it matches the rest of the a lamps in my family room. So most likely I will be working on that this weekend. I will try to post some of finished projects soon. Believe me there are many.

Yesterday I decided to start a sourdough bread starter. The recipe I used for the starter was super easy. Michael loves sourdough bread so thought this would be a good way to keep in him the dough. :) Keep your fingers crossed it turns out.

Well ladies, I need to scoot, have a blessed Tuesday!
Hugs!