" This , That and the Other "

I'll tell you it's been some wild times around here the past few weeks. Everyone's been sick but I do believe that has all passed now. Thank God ! I do love my family but two solid weeks with no alone time was starting to get to me. Today will be my first day alone since September 11 th and I do have plans !

The photo above and below shows the storm clouds that floated by our home on Saturday afternoon.




It all turned out fine though as all we had was some rain.
That evening my husband and I saw a beautiful sunset on our way to church and of coarse unlike clever Jackie, I left my camera at home. I was not pleased with myself !
But our service was very pleasing and as usual my husband thanked me mid-service for making him go. It is not that he doesn't want to go , he just hates leaving the house once he's home. You see he lives in his truck two weeks at a time and just does not want to leave the house once he's there . I totally understand this but I do have to remind him from time to time that he has a wife that likes to go places with her husband as most of the time I am alone !

This is his home away from home.





So I am sure you can understand him not wanting to leave his house. He is truly a very hard worker. He works about seventy hours a week for his family. However he did have the whole week off. He was over his virus in about three days and I'll tell you he got into a cooking mood and I loved it ! He made dinner three nights in a row . My husband is a good cook. Not so hot at cleaning up after himself , but a good cook !


I had talked with my son Frank , on the phone yesterday morning. It was such a beautiful day here that I was wondering what he and his family were up to. We chatted a bit and he told me that he was going out to my mother's house that afternoon to help her with some work on her house. My son works even when he's not at work ! Can't imagine where he got that from !

Any way I heard his wife Amy , say something in the background and Frank said "Did you hear Amy ?". I told that I didn't hear her and he said , " She wants to know about those decorations." I told him that I had decided that they could use them. I said use but I probably will just let them keep them . They have a lot of years of decorating ahead of them !

I heard relief in his voice as he said " Mom you can come and help if you want.".
Truthfully , I don't want to. I just can't keep up with things anymore like I used to. And the idea of one less time consuming job to do does sounds good to me.

Besides I think that this house will look super fabulous all decked out !




Ever single one of you had great ideas and good points. I could redirect people to their house but they live almost fifteen miles away . Most of the people that go by our house live in town where we live.

And while I am still feeling ever so slightly apprehensive about it, sometimes we just have to let things go. I can do that for all of the excitement that it will give my grandchildren . And my daughter-in-law is very creative so I know she will do it up right! You can be sure that I will go out there and take photos to post !

Now Christmas is another story . I have three times as many decorations for that then Halloween. I don't do the outside of the house anymore but I , for the most , part decorate every room in the house . Those I won't be giving up for a long, long time.

However I have had to stop myself the past two years from buying more as I don't even use all that I have anymore ! But you can find the neatest Christmas stuff at the second hand stores . And most of it is very old. So I have a problem controlling that urge !

I don't have as many fall decorations as I would like to have especially since Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday. Maybe I can start to focus on that now that I will have more storage space !


One last thing about the last two weeks. I don't know if I had mentioned that our little Roxy wasn't feeling well either. She was lethargic and throwing up for three days. So Jake and I took her to the vet. Two doctor visits and one vet visit in two weeks ! Our vet who is super fantastic and truly loving with all animals checked her out thoroughly. He asked if anyone in the house had been sick recently and well you all know the answer to that !

He told us that they had taught him in veterinary school that dogs can't get sick from humans and vice versa , but that after eighteen years of practice he has seen it happen enough times that he believes that it can. So he gave her a shot of antibiotics and something else for her stomach. Also a tube of something to give her twice a day for three days.

She seems to be doing just fine now. I am starting to feel relieved as I just don't think that I could handle losing another animal . I was very upset about the whole thing. Katie asked me why I didn't act that way when she was sick and I explained to her that she could tell me what hurt her but Roxy couldn't. She was cool with that!

So here is the little orphan dog that we took in and she is so well behaved and loving.
I have to say that she is honestly the best dog I've ever had . Ruby is also one of my favorites but she is a spoiled little princess and very jealous. But she too loves Roxy !


This is sweet little Roxy.


And this is the spoiled little drama queen, Ruby !


Today it is sunny , breezy , dry and about 70 degrees outside ! I am loving it, and I am praying that you all are having the same wherever you may be !