"It will get Better"

This year has started out as a bummer & we are only into the 1st 2 months.....things have to get better....right? I've already told you about my gallbladder so we won't go there again....let's just say I use my condition when hubby mentions outside work....and I say ..I'm not sure if I'm up to it yet, I wonder how long I can get away with it.  Now it's time for me to take care of hubby, he had surgery on his hand last Friday and o my goodness I'm about to go crazy.....this is a man that doesn't know how to take it easy & recover....every 5 mins he's hungery or he wants to know what I'm doing.. & we are only into the 3rd day of a possible 2 weeks of no work....#sayalittleprayerforme....

Lesson Learned

Well I have been forced to slow down for a while thanks to a gallbladder that decided to cause me a stay in the hospital..I am always the 1st one in the family to pave the way for others who may get sick after me.. I am so thankful that I didn't get sick during the holiday's visting my brother, that would have been the pits to end up in a hospital far from home & it would have spoiled everything...OK , on with the story.....We came back home on Dec.31, on Jan.1 I wasn't even thinkin about tradition, you know..black eye peas, greens, didn't even enter my mind.....there's a lesson to be learned, trust me....Jan.2 wake up in middle of night with bad pain, must have been that handful of pecans I ate at mom's .....thought I had the flu, stayed in bed, night time rolls around .bad pain again, moan & groan is what I did...not feeling any better....oh by the way I do have a tolerence for pain but after the 2nd night of rolling all over the floor I decided that something was wrong & it wasn't getting any better..We went to the ER & after 7hrs. I was in a room...you see, I had a bladder infection, dehydrated, pancreatitis & gall stones, now do you see why I should have eaten my peas & greens!!  Happy New Year!!!!!

"1st Grade"

I had a recent conversation with my sister about 1st grade....My # 1 grandaughter is starting 1st grade in a couple of weeks & she's so excited....I was thinking back to when I started 1st grade well over 50 yrs.ago & was wondering out loud if 50 yrs. from now will E remember her 1st day...I'm pretty sure she will, it's a big deal....I remember standing in front of our house smiling while dad took my picture, I had a lavender dress on, white socks, black shoes.(I think) or maybe I just remember cause I came across the picture recently but there's something else you don't know about me....I enjoyed 1st grade so much I decided to do it all over again at another school a year later...but I have no idea what I was wearing that day...& that my friends is all I have to say on the subject.....

"Laugh with Me"

I've had people tell me that I should write a book about all the crazy things that happen to me or all the funny things my grand kids say to me....I should at least write it down so I don't forget. So let's go back a couple of days ago....I spent the night over at Angie's .....the girls wanted me to "camp" out in their bedroom ....I'm glad it was inside & not out...A couple of people in my family know I DON'T like to sleep in a tent out side but thats a whole different story....anyway the girls had it all figured out how we were going to sleep...all on the floor...hard floor which isn't too kind on my hip or back but I can never say no to them... after all I'm the best "Oma" in the whole wide world...So we told stories, and a few minutes later they were sound asleep....and then I got up & slept in E's bed, around 2:30 A.M 1 twinkie made her way into the bed.....a while later the other twinkie showed up.....& then E made her way into the bed...so there we were all four of us together in that tiny bed....& Angie's right... these girls do not sleep late at all...they were up at 6:00 A.M with books for me to read.....& all I could think of was I needed COFFEE & lots of it if I was going to make it through the day....and thank goodness Chris came to the rescue when he came upstairs & said Oma a pot of coffee is brewing now .(.your a good son-in-law)....Let me leave you now with this ....I locked my self in the bath room so I could get dressed , doorknob turning....Oma let me in...no I say ...I'm getting dressed, I'll be out in a min...."..Oma, I promise I will not laugh.."

" 1 FLEA = 10,000 or MORE"

My world has been taken over by flea's. Where they came from or how they got into my house is beyond me,but the last month has been a nightmare. I have tried just about everything. Today I'm going to set off one of those bombs but in order to do that I must get up now & leave the house for a few hours. Today of all days when I had no where to go but it's 11:30 & I'm still sitting ....get up Jane & just leave already....ok, I'm going now...wish me luck that I finally get rid of them for good or I may have to call some one who knows what they are doing cause I sure don't....

"CHANGING"

Never say never cause sooner or later you will eat your words.....what I mean is ..it's never too late to change and that is exactly whats been happing to me..After 30 + yrs. my house has looked the same but somewhere along the line I just got tired of it..I've been watching to many home improvement shows & somewhere in my brain I wanted something fresh, bright & in the 21st century....no wonder every one is in shock, it's not me, every one who knows me knows I don't like change, I will kick & scream before that happens.....maybe some one came in the middle of the night & took me & left a pod that looks like me ....ok now thats just plain weird...my point is... my house is in one big fat mess right now and day by day I see what I had in mind what I wanted my house to look like and I love it....why oh why did I wait so long........

"BIRTHDAY'S"

I was sitting here reflecting on another Birthday & wondering why this ONE happens to bother me more...I'm not 50 or 55....but happen to be 57 right at this very moment....so why is it making me crazy you ask...heck if I know, I really couldn't come up with anything that made sence...Some one once told me that as you get older the years go by faster and it's true, the last 7yr's flew by me so fast it's a blur....So if anyone is turning 50 soon youv'e been warned...I will embrace 57 with everything she has coming my way this year,the good, the bad & the ugly...& be thankful for  it all...and to my parents when I said it was just another day, nothing special..I was wrong....my dad let me know that it was special to him. Another lesson learned in my ripe old age..:)