January 13, 2010

• Running Behind

  I feel so far behind, posting pictures, and writing something for today.  It's almost time for sleepy-bye-land and I'm just sitting down at the computer!!!

  Tonight, I'll share pictures from the Christmas get together Stephanie had at her place for the littles and me.

  (Tina, this may be the only pictures I have of the girls' dresses!  But, I will take some soon!)

                

  The minute I got to Stephanie's apartment, JanaLyn insisted I see her new bedroom decor.  It's not really new, but new to me.  "Hello Kitty" everywhere and VERY pink and VERY girl-like!  The girls were silly and posed on her bed!

                                          Thanks so much, Mrs. K, for teaching my girls everything they know!!! LOL

  I took pictures of the silly girls and forgot to take pictures of the room's decor (rolling my eyes!).

   

  The party table had veggie tray, cheese ball with crackers, sandwich makings tray, shrimp with cocktail sauce, and cookies from me.  Yum!  Yum!  Aren't these girls cute?  They're getting to be so grown up!

   

                   

  The gifts almost covered up the tree.  A pretty one with all sorts of ornaments Stephanie has collected over the years.

   

   

  I tried to get a single shot of each child with her gift.

      

  Stephanie - our oldest daughter.

                  

  Stephanie's main gift from me was a photo album of pictures of our family, dating back to my Grandpa's picture from World War I.   I tried to write a bit of history in the book, as far as who was related to who, and named and dated each photo.  She can hand the album down to JanaLyn in the future.

    

  I don't think she was sure what it was when she first opened it.  There were two albums in the box.  One large book of family and another smaller one with pictures of her as a child at each birthday party, vacations we took, pets she had, etc.  I also wrote little "quotes" I had collected on various pages in the smaller book and decorated those pages with little hand drawn flowers, etc.

             

  She decided the whole idea was pretty cool and laughed at pictures of herself in the 1980's with big, high bangs, and her dressed in the current fashion!!!!

         

  Her exhusband, JanaLyn's daddy, was there and she showed him the book and talked about all her ancient relatives!

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  Someone asked (yesterday???) about Annamarie having short hair.  I guess I forgot to mention that she had an accident with a round brush.  She had rolled the hair (on the side of her head) around the brush, then pulled it tight.  The hair that was caught was over and behind her right ear.  There was no way to cut out the brush and leave the rest of her hair long - it would have been VERY obvious!  So, I cut it off to make it even.  Her hair was down to her rear end and now it's curled around her chin.  A dramatic change for her.  I will have to make a point of taking some pictures of her new hair cut.  Since we don't cut our hair in our family, it was very traumatic for her.  I've saved the ponytail to send and donate to "Locks of Love." 

  Jesse said he bought the brush not knowing long hair was hazardous and he felt bad that the brush had to be cut out of her hair.  She grows hair quickly, so maybe by summer she will be able to pull it back in a short ponytail.

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  Speaking of hair . . . Thanks for the compliments on my hair.  I'd prefer it to be long again, but ANY hair is better than being bald!  LIke I said yesterday, in person, my hair is platinum and no where near as dark as the photos reflect.  In fact, my hair has photographed dark for a few years, despite the fact it has turned lighter and lighter!

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  We went to Wal-Mart today.  We did our shopping a little early this week.  Bought a lot of fresh produce - many things to make salads with, and some fresh fruit to snack on.  It was odd, the shelves didn't have a good variety at all - maybe Wednesday is a bad day to shop.  I also bought some whipped cream cheese to make "California Sandwiches."  Cream cheese with thin cucumber slices, sliced black olive, diced tomato, and a bit of lettuce piled on top.

  Lest I give the impression I am ALL GOOD . . .  I must confess, I also bought two boxes of bakery donuts for tomorrow morning!

  I was glad to find (and bought) a CD for "2009 Turbo Tax" and will load that, in the next few days, to begin work on our tax return.  I'm probably more excited about that than I am the donuts.  Weird - I know!

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  We have various medical appointments Thursday and Friday.  Luci is to be tested on Friday (I suspect some type of reading disability) and I will find out (the same day) the results of my PET Scan (brain and organs) and MRI (the whole spine) that were done last December. 

  I'm thinking the news won't be bad, or they would have called me immediately to start some type of treatment.  I'm hoping the news is really GOOD news and not just, "Things look about the same."  I'd really like to hear the cancer tumors in my vertebrae have significantly shrunk.

  I'll also have to have my monthly bone IV medication.  That will be a LONG day for me.  I'll have to bring my book and maybe I'll be able to finish it while I sit and sit and sit.

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  Speaking of books, due to the fact "Cousin Monica and Cousin Lori" have decided to log the books they read this year AND rate them, I have succumbed to self applied pressure and decided to do the same!!!  I bought a small spiral notepad today to start my recording.  I'm getting a thrill from the prospect of looking back at the end of this year to see all the books I've read.

  Like the Turbo Tax purchase, I get a thrill from odd things!

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  I should go.  I've have an ache between my shoulders and up into my neck all day.  It feels like someone whacked me with a board.  The heating pad helped ease the ache when I got home, but it would be wise for me to get ready for bed and use the heating pad, again, while I read.

   

  Be Blessed  ~

   

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