It's Friday!

Good morning, everyone.  Can't believe it's Friday already.

I slept like a roc****il the alarm went off at 6 a.m. to wake me so I could give our dog his morning meds.  He's refusing to eat and I think his IBD is in full flare up mode.  I'm going to email our vet right after I finish this post.

It was warm here yesterday and this morning it's cool and quite foggy.  We have a saying here that if you don't like the weather, wait 5 minutes and it will change.  It's the truth!!

I hope you have a good day today.  I keep you in my thoughts and prayers.

Hugs and kisses.

Cindy P.

Hi Cindy?

Im in car clean out mode! I'll be in the road again to be playing mama and Grammy again on the 19th again!

Its Vinnie time! Carl and I are going up for ten days to have some time with her before the new baby comes in June.

I hope we don't run into any bad weather going up I-95. I hope the snow disapayes. I know it's still snowing!

Hope all is well, carla

Carla, I see you are ready to be on the road again, visiting the family again.

I wish I could travel as much as you do. But your daughter and granddaughter are up in Chicago and you have the ability to travel, so I am happy for you.

Do you plan on being there around the time the baby is due? Safe travels, dear.

Take care of yourself.

Good afternoon Cindy P, Carla, and all my sistas,

Celebrate with me!  I have officially lost 10 pounds on the doctor's scales!  Whoop! And I broke 199 on my scale this morning.  I was exactly 200 on the doctor's scales, but I'm still claiming to be back in ONEDERLAND today!

So, I've got all the bottles washed and sterilized, and I just fixed 4 bottles of formula in the frig.  Caralee is napping and Carrie will be leaving soon.  Wish me luck.  I think I'm ready to do this.  The only part that worries me are the nighttime feedings.  I don't know why that part scares me.  I've been up for every nighttime feeding since this child was born.  I might not have been the one feeding her, but since Carrie and I have been sleeping in the same room, I've certainly been up.  I guess it's just the added responsibility.

Well, I knew this was going to happen and it did.  Chris just texted me this morning asking if I could babysit the boys all day tomorrow.  I've told her and told her that I just canno****ch the boys and Caralee, too.  It's just more than this old Mimi can handle.  I might could manage a couple of hours, or even a half day at a stretch, but not a whole day.  So I wrote her back "no" and she wrote me back, "I don't know what to do then."  I just wrote back one word:  "Babysitter?"

I hate it when she puts me in impossible situations!  

I doubt that it is over.  She'll probably come back on me again later today.  This is why one of them (either her or Michael) needs to get a non-retail, non-weekend hours job! I can't understand why they don't just face this reality and do something about it.

I was going through the pictures on my phone earlier today and deleting a BUNCH of them!  I don't know how many hundreds of photos I have on my phone, but a lot of them are from texts from my kids.  Whenever we are shopping, we tend to take pics and send them asking what do you think about this? or is this the right one?  That sort of thing.  Well, anyway, I ran across some pictures of Carrie and Leo (the baby's daddy) from last year.  And in some of them, Leo's other little daughter, Nicole (who is 3 yrs old and he is also not married to THAT baby's mama either!), was featured.  It suddenly struck me that Caralee has a half-sister!  Oh, what a mess.  I foresee a lot of heartache for my precious little granddaughter and I don't know how to prevent it.  Carrie is getting ready to contact Leo about legally surrendering all his parental rights to Caralee (or he can man up, acknowledge his child, and pay child support).  But even if he does that, it still doesn't change the fact that Caralee has a sister!  Such a mess.  

oops, my baby is up!  Love you all!

Vicki,

You will do fine watching Ms. Caralee. I understand your other daughter needs a sitter, but I do think you have your hands full right now. They asked, knowing that mom is taking care of an infant? You only have 2 hands.

Regarding Caralee's father, she is better off without him in her life, so it is a wise choice that Carrie has him sign over parental rights.

Caralee may have heartache in her life later on, right now she is an innocent little baby, so enjoy her. I am sure she will ask about her dad when she gets older but not now.

Take care of yourself, don't work too hard.

Hi Cindy, Carla and Vickie and my OFF family to come:

We are having rain again today and so I hurt again. Bit of a headache, backache, knees hurt. Have to work again tonight; we should get the actual news about the new company ... all of us will get "packets." Oh joy, I'm not looking forward to that.

I didn't get out of wor****il after 11:30 p.m. because the guy who does the scoreboard was late getting done. I was the last one out. I didn't feel like stopping to get eggs, so I didn't make my cake. Maybe when I get back from vacation, I'll make it. Just not in the mood to get out today either. 

The cat sitter came by today to get the key so Juliette is all set for next week. I've used this person before so I know she's reliable (and fairly cheap). She's $16 per day. Much cheaper than some of the other in town. 

Well, I need to get some lunch. Gary is off today. He's having peanut butter and crackers. 

Have a good day.

Hi Eileen,

I noticed on FB that a new company took over the newspaper you work with. Best of luck there. Hope all will be OK with your position.

Juliette has been with this pet sitter before so I assume the sitter is not a stranger to your kitty. It is so difficult leaving our furbabies with a sitter.

I still have my daughter's dog Jake. He will be 17 years old on May 3rd. He can see a little bit, has terrible teeth, and we take it day to day with him. As my daughter said, he is living on borrowed time. She got a sitter for him because I am going up to her wedding in 3 weeks. I baby that dog. I do. Because he is so old and can't see all that well, I do baby him. He is like a very elderly person. I am concerned about the sitter but there is nothing I can do. I am just thankful for every day he is around. And when it is his time I will know he had a wonderful life.

Take care of yourself.

I hope your pup is OK and that you have taken him to the vet. Hopefully it is nothing serious.

Glad the weather is better. I hate Florida this time of year; from April to the end of October. While we brag about our warm weather in the winter, this state is a virtual steam bath from June till end of Sept. And it is hotter than usual right now; only the beginning of April.

Take care.

Hello to all the fine ladies of OFF,

Dropping by to say hello.

Prayers for all that need them, and hugs for everyone. I do keep up with the boards, but today is another day of CRS. My knee has been bothering me for the last 2 days, I had a Synvisc type injection in my knee for arthritis and I think the doctor injected the same knee twice. I can't prove it. I know I had the left knee done in March, he never injects both at once. I wanted the left knee injected because I had that major dental working coming up in March and I figured that I would be able to at least walk amidst the pain of the dental work. When I went to him this past week, he injected the same knee.

I got an xray today and it shows osteoarthritis...well, that is why I get these injections..and loose cartilage. My knee wants to buckle sometimes. It was fine up until yesterday. Florida and doctors. That is a story for another day.

Daughter's wedding is 3 weeks away. Very excited. I will get to see her get married and will get to see people I haven't seen in years and years. That includes husband number 2 and his family. I do like his family. I will be happy to see them and all her friends I have not seen for eons. I will finally get to meet her very good friend Rachel's dad. He is a cutie. Lisa Facetimed Rachel at Christmas and she was at her dad's house along with her husband, brother, SIL and the dad. They were saying, ooh look at the palm trees....and they are no country bumpkins. I asked the dad if he was going to Lisa's wedding. He said he would go if I was going. LOL, OK. Take care everyone. Have a great weekend.

Ladies,

I hope you are all doing well.  DH is finally getting around a little better. He has an appointment next week to talk over the liver biopsy and we are optimistic. 

I have spent the last week working my buttock off trying to get a new writing class developed for our graduate students. Just when I think I have met all of the assurance of learning for our college and have set measurable objectives, someone comes along and says, not really measurable...crap. 

My BFF and I have been spending a lot of time looking for her some material to make her some cute tops for summer. She sews too but much better than I. Plus, she can sew with all that really delicate material so yesterday, she and I went to this huge fabric store and she bought some of the most beautiful silk fabric...I kid you not and all I could think about was trying to sew with that very flimsy material. Then we found some Parisian looking fabric that just killed me to not buy it but it was also made from some really delicate material.  

I did buy some white cotton to make me a sundress...I like a nice comfy sundress.

Well, that's about it for me.  I hope you all have a fantastic weekend....