Thursday, December 13, 2007

One More Sleep!

Tomorrow morning at 5:00AM, Stella and I are leaving for Boston! I'm dreading the flying experience with a dog in tow. I did take her to the vet for tranquilizers but don't know if I should give them to her or take them myself!
Three weeks with Alex and David! Can't wait!

Tuesday, December 11, 2007

Bad Boys, Bad Boys, Whatcha Gonna Do?


After supper tonight, Karter, Allison and the boys were in the living room while I was finishing up in the kitchen. Gage came racing out to the entry way and frantically put on his hat, mittens and a pair of red sunglasses. Then he ran back into the living room singing, "Bad boys, bad boys, whatcha gonna do?" He proceeded to take Jameson down, hollaring, "Get down, get down, put your hands behind your back!"

Uncle Paul would be proud! I think he watches "Cops" too much :)

Sunday, December 9, 2007

Lunch with Grandma

I took Grandma to the cafeteria for lunch this afternoon. She always eats so well when I take food to her or take her downstairs. I go every other day and am really going to miss her while I'm in Boston. I hope she doesn't lose any of the weight she's managed to put on.
I'm going to ask Joe if he'll start going over more often and take her downstairs while I'm gone so she gets off the floor once in awhile. Poor thing, she gets tired of eating with the same women three times a day. I don't blame her. From what I can tell, none of them are all that with it anymore. Must be hard to try to carry on a conversation and they all seem to be hard of hearing too :(

Sunday Dinner at Grandma's

I had Bruce, Mom, Allison, Karter, Jameson and Gage over for dinner tonight.
We had fried chicken, mashed potatoes and gravy, buttered corn and Mom's homemade buns. Dessert was ice cream.
I love cooking for my family. I hope when I'm gone that my boys will always remember the love I cooked into all the meals they ate at my house.

Bon Jovi!!

At 9:55AM yesterday, I sat with my fingers poised over the keyboard, hitting refresh every few minutes. At 10:05 AM, I had eight tickets to the Bon Jovi concert at the Fargodome in April :) And they're pretty damn good seats too :)
Five hundred and sixty-eight dollars later, the Homemakers are going on a road trip!!! :)

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Saturday, December 8, 2007

Caramels

I usually make around 2,000 caramels during the Christmas season, package them and give them as gifties to my friends. This year because I'm going to Sarah's so early, I decided to forget the caramels.
Until Allison called and asked for some to give as teachers gifts. And Kathy said Jeff was asking whether I had given her any yet.
Soooooo, I made two batches yesterday afternoon. I cut and wrapped 200 of them last night. This morning, I bagged and ribboned them and now have 9 bags of caramels sitting on my counter.
It takes almost an hour of cooking and stirring per batch. Another hour and a half to cut up and wrap both batches and approximately an hour to bag and ribbon them. So, 4-1/2 hours into it, I'm done! :)

Thursday, December 6, 2007

From the Mouth of Gage

Yesterday I had to pick the boys up and babyst them after school as their Day Care gal had a dentist appointment. I brought along a hot dish, deviled eggs and biscuits so that Allison wouldn't have to make supper when she got home.
As I was getting the biscuits in the oven, I asked Gage to go see what his Daddy was doing. He came racing up the stairs hollaring, "Grandma, he's downstairs and his butt crack is open!"
Seems Karter was naked and getting ready to get into the shower :)
He was dressed again and I assume his butt crack was closed when he came up for supper a little later :)

Monday, December 3, 2007

Rainy Days and Mondays

I had lunch with Grandma at the nursing home today. When I left I told her I'd be back on Wednesday. She said, "Well, at least I know you eat good when you're here."
Yeah, right! Like it's a treat to eat that awful food. But I guess she needs to think that she's the one being good to me :)
Whatever gets you through the night. I love you, Grandma!

Saturday, December 1, 2007

Nothing Could be Further from the Truth!

So, the girls were here last night. Patty had had drinks with Paul's sister, Kim the night before. Seems Kim told Patty that she was surprised I broke up with Paul. And that she thinks that I loved him so much that I felt I was betraying Jim. She said she thinks by Feb I will be changing my mind about Paul.
UHHHH, NO!!!! The problem was I DIDN'T love Paul and never will.