I am cutting and pasting what I posted on my thread from yesterday as my hands and arms ache from the accident. This all happend about 11:50 am yesterday and I feel like I went 4 rounds with Mike Tyson this morning. Hope everyone is well as no one posted yesterday, which is amazing! Here is from yesterday:

Sorry I didn't get back in here earlier, but dd called and wanted me to go out shopping etc with her and we were involved in a car accident. Some noodleheaded lady pulled out of a side street in busy traffic and broadsided us and then pushed us across traffic and rearended us and pushed us up into someone's yard. I am pretty sore from being jostled and dd bruised her leg and strained her back. I told her if she is worse tomorrow to go to the dr so the nut cases insurance has to pay. The woman was really nasty and wouldn't let dd see her insurance info and when the police got there, they made her give it to my dd. On top of that, my dd called her mil to come and get us and they lived across town and we ended up with everything from my dd's car and my poor grandson sitting on the grass while they took her car to the wrecker lot. It is freezing today and my dgs gets pneumonia every year so I took my coat off and bundled him up in it and told him to keep warm. Anyway, he is fine and the two of us are sore but ok. The car is a mess and may be totaled because it looks like the frame may have gotten bent. On top of all this, the woman had an 18 month old in a newborn infant car carrrier and not a carseat and dd told the police and get this, he said, "I hate the carseat laws here." He refused to ticket her for it and dd raised the roof and told him off saying, he had no right to make judgements of his own, we had carseat laws and they are supposed to be inforced! The lady's insurance agent warned dd not to tell anyone else that the baby was in the wrong car seat, can you believe it? I told her, to blab it to everyone including her insurance company as the woman needs to get that little one in a carseat and be protected.

Have a good day ladies

Faye

Jean: So sorry your friend passed, but I know she must have been truly miserable with everything that has happened to her in such a short period of time. As for you MIL, she needs a really good ambulance chaser. We have a bundle here and all of them go for the throat! Insurance companies try everything they can to keep from paying. My dd, dgs and I are all fine. I feel much less sore today. We are keeping an eye on me developing headaches and or neck aches since after broadsiding us she rearended us. My dd is a huge advocate of car seats so I am sure she won't let this rest.

Maggie: It is too cold for shakes here! That does sound yummy though. I love Baskin Robbins eggnog ice cream. Jack has a fondness for egg custard. His friend told him that was like eating melted ice cream and Jack said, "So what's wrong with that?"

It rained really hard this morning and they are predicting snow flakes this afternoon so of course the whole town panics. They has us on a winter watch though we are not expected to get more than an inch. These people are crazy here!

Everyone have a good day and try not to eat too many goodies!

Faye

Morning ladies. Wanted to peek in quick before we leave. We won't be back until Sunday so wanted to be sure and wish everyone a MERRY CHRISTMAS

The weather turned bad here yesterday. After the heavy downpours, it started to sleet and we got 4 inches of sleet. Took me an hour to go and pick up Jack (usually takes 15 minutes) and took us 85 minutes to get home. Took Jack an hour to get to work this morning too. It is just plain nasty on the roads and the temp is in the low teens so it won't melt.

I need to go and finish packing and get ready. Jack gets out early today from work and then we are off. Luckily, it is only 40 miles away. Make take us 2 hours to get there though!

EVERYONE HAVE A GREAT HOLIDAY AND NOT TOO MUCH FOOD NOW! HOPE YOU ALL GET A GREAT PRESENT FROM SANTA AND TIME WITH YOUR FAMILY IS WELL SPENT!

Faye

Good Morning Ladies! I am back from the casinos. It wasn't as fun as we had hoped, a big part being the weather was so bad. The roads were a sheet of glass and very treacherous, so we stayed at our hotel/casino and didn't venture to the others. We did go to dinner on Friday night with dd, sil and dgs and they came back to the hotel and we had Christmas. Thomas loved his gifts, but he said to me, "Nonny. you gave me everything I asked Santa for, maybe he won't bring me any presents." I assured him he would get more presents. We bought him this thing called Robosapien. It was this remote controlled robot and it was a hoot. It was about a foot tall with claws for hand. It could pick things up, high five you, it did karate demonstations and danced to music it played. If you bumped into it, it said, "Ouch!" We took it out into the hallway of the hotel and had a blast with it.

Jean: I will keep you in my prayers today knowing you have to face what you do. I know it will be hard for you.

Maggie, Gloria hope you both had a great holiday!

Faye

Well, we got through Christmas alright but it was that day after that was a doozy. Started snowing early Sunday morning and kept at it til this morning....about 12" in all. The plow came about 12:30AM and I heard him and noticed the bright lights outside of our bedroom window (overlooks the driveway). He came again this AM so we are able to get out and about.

Christmas was great, especially Christmas Eve when we celebrated Sean's 13th BD. Got him a hand held Texas Hold'Em game and he was in heaven....loves to play poker. We also brought all the Christmas gifts with us to the BD party and the kids open them before we left. Kerri, 10 1/2, loved her Emeril cookbook, chef's had and apron. Got Sean everything baseball, Red Sox, of course. PJ's, baseball, penanant, hat...thought we had given him the mint he was so happy. Later we stopped at DD#1's and gave them their gifts. Cam, 11, got another themed gift but this time it was the Patriots. Mike, got a gift certificate to his favorite music store and was happy.

We received calls from NC on Christmas Day and could hear a lot of commotion down there. Cat, 3, yelled at her father that it was her turn on the phone and she took it and proceeded to ask if we were coming over. Boy, it was hard to say no but maybe next year.

DD3# called and they, too, had a great Christmas and the Art Kit, Detective Kit and Ballerina outfit were well received.

Makes all that running around worth while. We are waiting for after Christmas sales and I am getting a new chair for my computer table and DH is getting a new 12' step ladder....I won't let him use the one he has as the metal is all fatigued and it is unsafe. These are not very romantic gifts but it is what each of us wants.

JEAN: I'll bet Ian & Maddy loved the wagon and as spring arrives they will be scrambling to see who gets it next.

FAYE: Yes, our grandkids do get spoiled but why have them if we can't spoil them. When the kids were little we used to put away some of the toys after Christmas and pull them out when the ones they were playing with got boring.

MAGGIE: Hope you and Cowboy and Turn had a wonderful Christmas.

Gloria in MA....wishing all Magnolias a Happy and Healthy New Year!!!

Good morning girls!

I was up at 1 AM this morning not being able to sleep. Got up and did some chores downstairs until around 3:30 AM then went back to bed until 6:30. My back and shoulders have been bothering me (muscle cramping) and I am guessing it is probably from the accident. I get up and move around and they seem a lot better. It does mess with your sleep though.

Gloria: Sounds like you had a fun Christmas. We have such a tiny family with just our son and dil then our dd, sil and dgs and since they don't live close to each other, we usually have Thanksgiving with ds and Christmas Eve with dd and family. She has Christmas day with his parents and they always will. His mother made it quite clear when they married that nothing else would be acceptable so we swallowed it and have Christmas Eve with them every year. We had Christmas with ds and dil when we were up there for Thanksgiving. My dil doesn't buy cheap and I knew that so asked her for towels this year! Got 6 of the most scrumptious thick big towels you ever saw and we are thoroughly enjoying them. I got really nice towels 3 years ago from dd for Christmas and even picked them out. Goldsmith's here had a huge white sale before Christmas and I got $12 towels for $3 apiece so she bought me like 15 towels. They are still good but starting to show their wear and tear a little. I am hard to buy for as I have everything I want so buying home things make me perfectly happy.

Jean: I have long felt that funerals should be for the most part celebrations. I worked at a Christian school as a secretary to the principal years and years ago when my son was 2 years old. We had a man that taught history who was a retired Weslyan Methodist minister. He was this lovely Godly man, reminded me of Jimmy Stewart, and he said that when his mother died, they threw a huge party instead of a funeral and that everyone sang great hymns and talked about her life and even her death as a wonderful part. I want to be remembered that way not all shadowed in sadness but in light. I mean, I will be where there are no worries, no pain, no sickness and would not want others to grieve for me.

We stowed all the Christmas stuff yesterday and I cleaned the downstairs while Jack went and had the car checked out. The check engine light has come on and it does this bucking thing like it isn't getting gas when you try and speed up. We thought it was another sensor gone out, something called a MAP sensor, but it was our plugs and wires. They are supposed to last to 100,000 miles, but we use the car so much, they have worn out so we have to get it in the shop this week. Like you, Jean, I always forget some decoration, usually something on a door etc that isn't visual and I am still 100 percent as I forgot this macrame angel hanging where our car keys are. I just put it in the kitchen desk drawer and will put it away next year. The stuff is already in the attic and I don't go up there! We then decided to move my computer down to the living room so that it will be within reach when I start making candles. We were pretty tuckered out when it was all said and done, but it is nice a quiet and still this morning. I am going out later after the temp gets up and the sun out and scrap some more ice off the sidewalks. I couldn't even go and get the mail yesterday because it was too slippery for me to walk. I am sick of this stuff and want it all melted and gone. I don't mind snow, but ice keeps me totally in the house as I am deathly afraid of walking on it with my knee the way it is. We are supposed to be in the 60's by Thur though with rain so it should all wash away. Temps are going to be above freezing at night too, which will help.

Well, I need to go I guess. Everyone have a great day and week.

Faye