Good Morning. Tom and Jerry

Well, today "Tom" is coming to the house to try to catch "Jerry". He's going to give the whole house a check and set bait and traps. If the cartoons were right, Tom has little chance of catching Jerry but we gotta try. {sigh} Son#2's boxes from his nasty apartment are still stacked up in our basement so there are lots of places for Jerry to hide and I do not want to be going through those boxes and have Jerry surprise me. Eeeek! lol

Another busy day at work today and HOT outside. I'll try to get a couple of walks in early. What's on your list?

--gina

Just another day of scavenging oxygen for me. Getting ready for the trip Liz, me, and a friend of ours will be taking to New Jersey and New York. I have my 7 month, 6 month follow up appointment with Dr. Pomp and his NUT next Monday.

Heading to my daughters today for a few days.

She had a dead mouse in her car yesterday.  She smelled something stinky, thought it was a dirty diaper, then found the mouse.  It was on the floor on the drivers side, and she thinks she stepped on it the night before when she got out of work.  Let's just say she was totally disgusted.

Hope you find your critters.  I know she has had them in her basement too, AND she has a cat...

 EEEEEKKKK!  


its strange, i work closely with animals, the wild ones, and i work with blood and death and dying critters each day (unfortunately it's been a hard year so far at the wildlife rehab).  i can give love to a dying animal, but if i FIND an already dead thing, i turn into a '50's sitcom housewife every time!  that, or a ninja  ;-)

 a big pre-op day for me.  tests and x-rays.  then to the wildlife rehab and help feed and clean all the babies.  it's pretty humid here, in mass and i dont enjoy having to 'chew my air' to breathe.  

it's also a difficult week for me.  it's been 13 years since my son drown- thursday.  he was 14, so it's been almost his whole lifetime that he's been gone.  thats been a hard one for me to grasp.  so... yeah, trying to keep busy and not over-think things.  since his death, i have gained so much spirituality and depth as a person.  i understand that i dont understand it all, and wont until i join him.  too many 'coincedences' for me to believe that this was just a horrible thing that happened.  

when winter- my son- was an infant, i used to call him pooh bear.  there were two friends that drown that day, together.  winter, and his friend christopher robin g.   there were other things that impressed on me that this was how is was supposed to be, but knowing 'winnie the pooh' and christopher robin went to heaven together was the ultimate sign to me.  as a mother, i have to believe in 'something' after death.  the thought of my son in the ground isnt one i enjoy.  but, feeling that i will meet up with him again, now that is exciting!

well, this post sucks!  sorry.  i cant make myself delete it though.  sorry again ;-)

(((((Jenny))))), my heart goes out to you on your journey without your son. That is something no parent should do...go before their child. A very good friend of mine lost her 14 year old three years ago this past April....he went to sleep for a nap one afternoon and never woke up. I am amazed at her inner strength, yet I know she is very fragile these days. All any of us can do is keep y'all in our prayers cause nothing we say truly helps.

My prayers are with you.

Liz

 thank you so much, liz.  your words do help.  because you care and your words come from your heart.  i appreciate your words.

as a friend, it must be pretty difficult to be on the outside, knowing that she is in deep soul-wrenching pain and your words must not be able to touch such a pain.  but, it's those little words that my true friends, or people who understood, said that really stand out.  people who avoided me in grocery stores hurt a lot.  they didnt know what to say so they chose to turn around than to possibly make my pain worse with clumsy words.  then, there were the ones *****ally should have shut up before they spoke, because the platitudes or crazy thoughts did make it worse.  people who said "i couldnt lose a child, because i only had three"  like any child is expendable.  i had three of my own, and three stepchildren, so therefore i could lose one without pain?  yeah, she should have turned away from me, lol.

so, your words, coming from the heart, and from a truly compassionate place in you, they do help.  

Jenny, if you write something and it brings you any comfort at all, please don't delete it.  Allow yourself the luxury of posting it and leaving it up.  We all have the option to read, or not read, as we choose.  I can't even begin to imagine what you go through daily but my heart goes out to you and I pray for daily healing for you.  Swinging lizards that something makes you smile today.

 LOL well, those lizards helped!  thanks lee!

 Jenny  ((((()))))))