Fun Day With Robbie

I'm waiting for my little Robbie to come over. I'm watching him this afternoon while his mom goes to an Attorneys office with her mom. They are trying to probate the Gramma's will but one of the daughter's of Gramma, sold some property to help her drug problem and forged her mom's name. The property had to be given back to the Estate and now they are getting a handwriting expert to prove the Document was forged.  Its a real mess. But I get to have Robbie for the afternoon which is good!! They are to be in Charleston at 11am...but...here it is 10;30 am and they are not here...which is par for the course with my DIL. Very sweet, but she can't be on time to save her soul....im sure the attorney will not be so thrilled.

Guess what the temperature was HERE yesterday!?? It will freak you out! Freaked me out!! It was 78 degrees. BEAUTIFUL DAY!!! Imagine that...78...it was unreal. But....today it is 56, raining and by this evening it will have dropped to 20 and the rain will turn to blasted snow...jeez...I'm so sick of snow.

Madison started soccer practice last evening. Guess we'll be off to games shortly!! I don't mind as long as it's not raining or snowing. lol Madison started playing Goalie last season and did a pretty good job. Have a good day, and take care!

Just Stuff...

Today I went to my best friend's Daddy's funeral about an hour and a half away. We went to High School together and is one of the gals I go have lunch with about once a month.  I've known them for 50 years.  What a great dad he was. What a great person he was. He was 89 and in extremely poor health. Thankfully he has gone on to a much better place. He was laid to rest pretty close to my Dad, so I took the time to go say hello and tell him how mom was. I hadn't been to see him since August.

Yesterday I went to what I thought might be my last visit for my knee but he said it was not ready for the final X`rays as it was still warm...I go back in 3 more months. I've been going to Rehab on my own since it was officially over. It's only $30 a month to use it. Pretty cheap. I will be truthful and say I'm really tired of going...but I will. It will help me get further extension in the bend. It's 123 degrees now. My other knee isn't that good. lol

Sunday Kelly, Madison, Brien, Robbie and myself went to a Brunch to see our friends who flew in from Denver and their baby Henry alias Hank, who was born 6 hours after Robbie!! We all thought that was amazing. Hank came 2 weeks early. His momma is tiny and he had no where to go & grow so they had to take him early. He weighed 4 lbs, Robbie weighed 8 - We put them on the blanket together and they kicked one another, not really realizing there was another person beside them...I guess they are too young. things will be different the next time they come in!!

Last Friday, the  my nephew and his family came to visit for the weekend. They live in Winston-Salem, NC. 5.5 hours away. It was great having them. They have 2 kiddos. Andi (girl) 4 and Tyson who is 5 and can read like no body's business. He is one smart little dude!!!  Andi got sick Sat. night and threw up in the bed and had diarrhea, but we cured that with Imodium I had just bought it for our grandkids in case of emergency! Good Timing!! My sister and Brother in law came Sunday at noon and they and their son & family went to see mom for 2 hours before heading home. I didn't get to see her because they were gone by the time we got back. 

Well, that's about all that is new around here! Will be back soon!! Have a good week!

Update on the Girls

I thought I update you on our girls as you haven't seen them for a year or more. Reilly on the left is now 7 years old and is getting so TALL. She remains thin and is great at gymnastics and in love with her Kindle. Seems like all she does is play games on that thing. I'll take it away sometimes and tell her to do something else for awhile. She likes to make up crazy silly dances which are so funny and remains my junk food junkie. I think when she get a little more serious, she could become very good at Gymnastics. She makes straight A's in school and at times she gets a little less grade in "paying attention" for too much talking. (Sorta' reminds me of myself at her age.)  She is a very sweet kiddo and a GREAT big sister to her brother Robbie.

 

Madison on the other hand, looks older than her 9 years and certainly acts older. It's scary sometimes how smart she is. She is our social butterfly and goes non stop to birthday parties, ball games, on a shuffleboard team, loves to dance and sing. Madison gets mostly all A's. Reading and math give her trouble sometimes and she'll get a B.  I guess just a typical 9 year old. Madison eats more normal good food, just eats a little too much and is a tad overweight. She is a take charge type of person and knows everyone and everybody, in part due to her mom. They are on the go constantly. Madison playes soccer both indoors and out and is on a traveling team that does really well. She is the Goalie.

 

Just seems like the other day when they were little like Robbie. Where in the WORLD does the time go? Does this mean I'm getting Older? Jeez. hope not....Doesn't feel like I am till I look in the mirror.

 

Yesterday little Robbie turned 4 months old already and sitting up a lot better. He is babbling more and smiles all the time. He is also a great drinker and loves his bottle!! He is getting a cute little belly. Just perfect for squeezing  and rubbing!



Storm to Arrive

Last night we watched Reilly and Robbie while mom and dad went to listen to one of their friends play guitar and sing at a bookstore in town. Next Tuesday Robbie will be 4 months old ALL READY!! hard to believe. Both he and Reilly were very good all evening. Nary a cry from Robbie, just a bunch of gargles and smiles. Their parents came home around 12:15 am and decided instead of waking the kids they'd spend the night. And...usually I couldn't care less, only this time we are having overnight guests this coming weekend and now I've got to change the beds in both bedrooms....grrrrr.
I had them all ready....perhaps I'm being unkind....but....more work for me.

I am doing up the laundry this morning because the storm is suppose to knock out electric in certain areas. This storm they are referring to as a "Major Storm". It's starting now with a little rain, which will turn to sleet then ice that will measure 1/2 inch and take out the electric and trees. I hate ice storms. They are so destructive. After the ice storm it will return to sleet and then turn to snow. We are expected to get 6-8 inches of heavy wet snow. So, we are not looking forward to this at all. Son
Brien has our generator. We have the gas fireplaces and they will keep us warm if the electric should go out.

I'm off to change Mom's bandage. I'm sure I won't be able to get over there until Tuesday afternoon.
If her electric goes off, we'll have to try and get her here somehow. She won't want to go because of her kitty - she might have to come too. Just have to wait and see how it goes. I doubt there will be school, which means Madison will be coming over, if her mom goes to work. Not sure how she'll get here... we have 2 steep hills between the road and our house. She might have to trudge thru the snow!If you don't hear from me for  a few days - I have no electric.

Update ~ Mom

I went to Mom's this morning at 9 to change her dressing and see how she was doing and to bring her some Advil to help with the pain. I found her to be looking better, not so frail, and walking around a little bit better, although she is terribly sore today! Her wound looked a little better but still grisly. The upper part had started to form a clot, sort of a scab only soft. The bottom part was gooey and red.
But on the whole: better.  I redressed it  and made her take 2 Advil for soreness. I called at 3 to remind her to take 2 more pills and stopped in to see her at again at 4:30 and she looked much better. Not so pale and she was getting around a bit better although she is hurtin' for certain'. Hung around about 30 minutes and went home. Will change her bandage again in the morning. Poor Mama'.

Poor Mom, Fell

I got a call from my sister last night who lives in Virginia. She had just called mom and mom told her she had fallen and had a  cut on her arm and couldn't get it to stop and that she was pretty shaken up. She told my sister not to call me because she was afraid I'd take her to the hospital. This was about 9:40. I got my First Aid kit and hopped in the car and went to her house which is about 1/10 of a mile from our house. When I arrived I found her in the bathroom, shaking like a leaf with a HUGE

open wound that was bleeding. It was about 4 x 2 and the entire top layer of her tissue thin skin had been rubbed off where she landed on her right side. She also hurt her upper thigh and the middle part of her back was sore. She had put her heel on the cat's scratch board and it got her off balance and she just toppled over. I set her down in the kitchen and cleaned the wound with peroxide real good and then put antibacterial ointment on it and put a large bandage with some paper like gauze that is stretchy and I could make a pretty good pressure bandage. I sat her in the living room and put ice on her forearm as it was getting REALLY blue and puffy. Did that for 20 minutes. She was feeling much better and said if she had a cupcake and milk she would be even better! The 2 grand girls had come over earlier that afternoon to bring her mail and cupcakes.  It was a snow day so I had both girls. We went out to lunch, took Mom's taxes to our accountant then went to see her. Had a nice visit. They enjoyed playing with mom's kitty. Who, seems to love kids! I stayed there for about 2 hours to make sure she wasn't going to get shockey. I helped her get into her PJ's and I left at 11 pm.  She is going to be ONE SORE COOKIE this morning.

 

I am going to go over and change her bandage around 9:45 and make sure she is ok, then I am headed to a luncheon about an hour and half away. We have a group of about 13 ladies who were all friends in our graduating class of 66 and we meet about once a month. We bought a commercial microwave for the Woman's Shelter and one of the girls delivered it yesterday. We try and do something for the community.  We also give blankets and coats in the winter to the Homeless Shelter. It's not much but at least we can help a few.

 

Better hurry and get ready. Time is flying by. Will give an update on mom later this evening.

"HAPPY DAYS"

 

What happened to "Happy Days"?  Well, it's something I still don't understand. You probably don't remember that at one point I was having trouble loading my photos, and as time went by I was having to delete other posts with photos to be able to download more.  Then they got rid of my header photo and I couldn't get a new one uploaded to save my soul and was getting quite frustrated. I tried notifying Blogger - no response. Pretty soon I had no header and no photos. Then one day a drop down came and said my blog was going to be taken down because I was under aged.  I didn't understand that and continued to blog. Then one day I went in to post and it said Access was denied and that Happy Days was no longer aloud up and that I could not start another blog because of my under age and that my email address was blocked from making a new one....and from there I was no longer able to comment on your blogs or make a new Blog. A very strange happening, that I don't understand. I missed Happy Days something awful and felt like I'd lost a whole family of friends. 

 

Then it came to me just the other day, if I got a new email address I could maybe make a new Blog. I tried numerous times and couldn't get it to work and finally got this up and running but there is a problem. I don't have any gadgets to move around to finish the Blog. There is a drop down that I finally took a photo with my phone, because it never stayed up long enough to read. It said they were sorry but were unable to complete your request, which was for the gadgets. Tell me to report to Blogger Help Group and to describe what I was doing when I got this error, and it provided me with an error code. It goes on telling me this info will help them track down your specific problem and fix it. And apologizes for my inconvenience. To be honest, I'm afraid to ask them for fear I'll have to start all over.  Maybe some day I'll get brave and ask...I'm just not sure yet what I'll do. For now I have been able to write posts, get photos, can't make a header photo, but I'm ok with that, and can get a few of my favorite Blogs back!! I fear everytime I write a post it will disappear or go flooey. If that happens, I'll try again for another Blog and get you back. I've put you 4 in "My Favorites" so I won't lose you again.

 

The photo is of me and little Madison when she was just born nearly 9 1/2 years ago. I was 54 yrs old...phew...makes me feel old to look at this photo!! But that was a Happy Day for our family!!