Jeez. A maggot. That wasn't supposed to cheer me up now was it?

Not to worry. George and Sugar and on the job.

Bagz, is that the baby picture that won her the scholarship? This girl is SO BEAUTIFUL that if she were a celebrity, she'd be called "The Most Beautiful Woman in the World."

I know I've told this before but it sticks with me as an example of motherhood. When I visited Bagz, this dd wanted to go to the mall to meet friends. She couldn't drive so Bagz took her out there. As she got out of the car, she instructed Bagz to be back at a certain time .. not to be late. Bagz agreed then, after the girl was gone, said to me, "Like I'd leave her here by herself." That girlie and many of our kids don't realize how precious they are to us. We don't need reminding to take care of them and they take it for granted so easily.

Well, Kiwi, my DD has been throwing up due to pregnancy. We're having a wedding on June 23rd. I didn't tell her to - that didn't work out so well the last time I told someone they should get married......... but I am sure that your DD just has cramps..... don't want to freak you out........I'm freaked out enough........she's 27, you'd think she'd have things figured out by now......

Peachez, what a trial you've been through...... hope DS recovers quickly and has no other problems....

Hi Leenie, thanks for the

Sugar's gonna pose more often. She said so. What are you posing for m'dear? Home remodelers weekly? Expat daily? Bi-lingual ladies home journal? Canadian-German Gourmet?

Trainwreck signing off here..............

Oh, on the Gpa Jim front ---- my sil has picked him up from the nursing home and has moved him in w/ her ----- she's called to say that "this is way more complicated than I thought it was going to be" He needs diabetic care -- testing, insulin injection, feeding him within 30 minutes of injection, other meds at certain times of day....... and he still can't walk by himself...... I don't know what it was that she expected-- I tried to talk him into going on medicaid and moving into an assisted living apartment, but he'd have none of it.... He did feel good enough to tell me his physical therapist at the nursing home was "absolutely gorgeous" and "built like a million bucks"........ at least his eyes are still working. I think his care will be too much for DH's sister in AZ to handle. I'm trying to step back and let the sil's work it out.

Okay, I know who was called a maggot, I was taking it personally for fun. Of course a maggot is after all a dead-flesh-eating larvae, so that might be slander. In any case, here's a good read that I just happened on in the NYT (but you have to subscribe to read it there; this is a free link). Some of you will enjoy it, I think.

You could do what my mother in law does and take everything given you back to the store. It's not that she dislikes the things we give her, she just "doesn't need them" so she returns them. Then she gives the money to her grandchildren or buys them something, and sometimes she just gives us wads of money in a birthday or Christmas card. It is a bit trying, but she's a love so what can you do?

Nobody ever asks me what I want for my birthday, except for my mother. And she makes me go through catalogs over the phone until I find something she can buy me. Family - what can you do? If I were you I would ask for flowers specifically (as opposed to "Oh flowers or a card or something"). I love it when people give me flowers.

We now have 3 inches of slush and it's raining. You wouldn't think that slush would hold up, particularly on an incline, but our driveway is covered with slush too. I almost slipped and landed right in it while coming down the driveway from the mailbox. And there is a lovely layer of mud under the slush. Fortunately I managed not to fall, but I sure got wet out there playing with the dog. What a mess. Crappy day for a marathon, I should say. Usually it's pretty nice for the race, it seems.

Oh my!! Just what you needed, more turmoil! I hope they aren't marrying just because, y'know? Hope it's more of a good idea they just needed a reason for. Yeah, I know, wishful thinking, but .

No, I'm not worried about that with my DD, but I am worried about cramps getting so bad as to lead to throwing up. And not once, but half the night. I'm making her a gyno appt for when she gets out of school next month.

Must go. Need more coffee

Kiwi

WELL,!!! EVEN IF IT'S A DRAG HAVING MORNING SICKNESS,I AM EXCITED THAT WABBY IS GETTING ANOTHER GRANDBABY!!!!! i was in my late twenties having the dd's so it's good timing!!! i am sorry she is feeling like crap though,cause i do remember that---AND i am glad someone else is getting a taste of gpa jim and his care issues--maybe some appreciation will waft over to you wabs!!!! ----unfortunately i turned on the tv a little earlier and i am in shock about the Virginia university massacre----it is impossible to imagine---all those students and their parents are in some kind of **** today----if we can pray----let us manage to.

I have been up all night barfing from a migraine. Am only posting to say that Ella is full of it.

Precious moment at work that's sticking with me. Read a book called "Do Pirates Take Baths" to the kids. Each page poses a question and answers it with a 6-line poem. They enjoyed answering the question before I read the answer but one page asked "How to pirates sleep?" They sleep, it said, in hammocks in the bottom of the ship and dream of their mothers. Pictures showed rough old pirates dreaming of round-faced mommies. They kids stared it this like it was a real live puppy. I held it up especially long and two of them could not contain themselves ..... they had to jump up and hug me.

I'm kinda excited about the grandbaby, too. Grandbabies who get Wabby are lucky lucky lucky. I watched an adorable movie this weekend called, "The Castle," about these Australian rednecky sort of people who lived in an "eyesore" that the government wasnted to take so they could expand the airport. It's all sweet and all the family members love each other and everything is expressed in endearing terms. (Even when the dad call an attorney "You dickhead" in court, he's attempting to console on a loss.) Anyway, the narrator, a 14-year-old boy mentions that a new addition came to the family when his brother's baby was born. "They had a nice wedding four weeks later." I don't know why I'm repeating them. Am delusional from migraine.

My new avatar is a Wabby "before" picture.

wabby!!! you like like a child star from the sixties!!! how adorable-----my newest pic is from when dd was on the johnson and johnson baby calendar.

I cannot compete with cutie patootie baby pics. All my baby pics are on the other side of the Atlantic, or Pacific, or whatever. I am keeping my puffy hamster for now.

What happened at Virginia Tech is simply shocking.

That is beautiful!! You look a lot like my DD in that photo. See?
Wow. Don't you love the emotional honesty of little kids? I love those picture books that really have something lovely to say. It's almost too bad that we put them aside after a few years, isn't it?

Is there going to be a duel? Peachie, I thought you had kicked migraines with herbs or vitamins or something. What gives?

I got some cheapo kitty litter recently and it is very heavy on the perfumy dust when you pour it in the pan. So now I can't get that smell out of my nose, and worse, apparently I smell of it all over because DH commented on it. I'm going to sneeze.

I finished my Easter Candy. Somebody make me stop eating.

Kiwi

I know, I can't get my head around it