June 20, 2009

• Plans are Brewing

  With Father’s Day on the horizon, we have plans brewing here at home.  JoAnn, my secret shopper, is amassing gifts for Father’s Day from the girls and I.  The girls will be back this afternoon from Stephanie’s house and will be here Sunday to wish their Daddy a Happy Father’s Day.

  I can’t put down any of the gifts we’ve purchased, because it’s entirely possible DADDY will read my blog before tomorrow.  So, for now, MUM’s the word!

                                
  Yesterday I took a two hour nap.  RARE, RARE, RARE!!!! for me.  I felt sleepy and kind of out of touch with things all day yesterday.  I made a chart to keep track of what medicine I take at what time.  I’ve never done one before (a chart or a spread sheet – just filled in a template of what someone had started) and was pleased that I actually was able to accomplish something basic and simple – but hey!! . . . it was “something big” for me!

  Jesse came home earlier than usual last night and when he came home, JoAnn left with Abreeana to shop.  She was gone until late.  I had begun to have some acheyness in the numb spot around my knee and Jesse tried to help me.   His answer for everything is “take a pill” and my answer to pain pills is that I first must define uncomfortable or irritating from “pain” – either mild or moderate.  I don’t take pain pills without questioning the pain to begin with.  I’m not a drug abuser – even with prescription drugs.

  Abreeana was missing from her bed this morning.  I look and looked through the rumpled sheets, but she was no where to be found.
    

  I found her sitting at the table eating breakfast.  She’s just the cutest thing and tiny as a bug.  I’ve taken to calling her “Itty Bitty” and that makes her giggle!
                                    

  I looked around my “fake greenery house” this morning and am amazed at all the silk greenery I’ve amassed.  I have used trees to fill out bare or empty corners, and I’ve used tress and small bush-like trees as room dividers.

  Here is how my formal dining room is distinguished from the formal living room – by using a jungle!
    
  The black rug under the coffee table also hleps suggest this is a separate room from the dining room.

  I wish I was as good at landscaping as I am inside.  We have lots of weeds in our planters and I haven’t a bit of strength to pull them this year.  I can’t even see to it that the bird bath is filled with water – God has to do that by bringing rain!  Among the weeds, I found some sunny, yellow flowrs (um . . .weeds?) growing around the bird bath.

                                            
                                                      I think we’ll just call these yellow flowers,
                                               as they are the most cheerful thing in my planters!

  One of the ladies that brought food from church brought us an adorable cupcake dessert.  Imagine that!  Cupcake desserts twice in 7 days!!!  Anyway, I put the whole thing in the refrigerator to keep them fresh and will share them with the girls when they arrive home later this afternoon.  It’s too cute to not take a picture!
  
  All of the cupcakes form a ladybug, and then the cupcakes frosted with white have ladybugs stuck in them.  SOOO cute!  The cupcake cake is a vanilla and chocolate variety.

  Jesse called and wants us to get dressed so we can go out for lunch.  Mexican food is probably the food of choice.  He mentioned Golden Coral, but I don’t feel strong enough to walk around and get my own food through a buffet line.

  So, that’s it for today.

  Be Blessed  ~    

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