My Road Thru Life

January 24th Catching Up

2012-01-24T13:42:00.003-05:00

Well it's been a while since I've written. Terry is doing fine and so is the puppy who is now almost 9 mos old. She's still a little stinker and keeps us hopping but we love her to death. She's a sweetheart. Terry was still having some pain in his upper stomach after his surgery so they did and upper GI and they found a small
poplip or growth and he is having that removed on Feb. 9th. They say it's no big deal. Will be just like the upper GI was. They said it was not cancer but the thought is still in the back of my mind and will be until the surgery is over. Once it is over, I will feel better when they tell me for sure it is not cancer.

We went to a dentist which we haven't done in many years. Well I have a full upper denture and I only had on cavity but Terry had a mouth full of problems and they were talking like $7,000.00 to fix it all. WOW. He hadn't be in probably over 15-20 years, but still, we couldn't believe it. They were talking crowns and partials plates and fillings a bunch of cavities I don't know what all. He did say he'd work with us and and that he would give us a 20% discount if we paid cash as I told him we were on a fixed income and he said maybe he could work with Terry in other ways to bring the cost down to. Terry is still deciding on what to do. He may just go somewhere like 1-800-Denture and get some pulled and get a partial there instead as it would be allot cheaper. We just haven't decided. I think he wants to wait until after his surgery to decide. So for right now the dental work is on hold.

As far as the kids are concerned they are all doing well. Christmas was great. We had a really nice one with all the grand kids and all the family. Our one grandson Jake who is a senior, is having surgery on his knee tomorrow, for 2 torn minces which he tore during football season. So he's having that fixed. I hate that he's having that done during school season but I guess he'll get around OK. I'm not sure if it's his left or right. If it's his left maybe he'll still be able to drive maybe. Have to see. He usually drives our old van, so we'll just have to see which leg it is and what the doc says anyway.

I'm doing good. Got a new cell phone for Christmas and I can now take pictures and can also text and I really like that. It's taking me awhile to get use to texting, but slow but sure I'm catching on. Well that's about it for now. Take care all.

What's been going on

2011-10-18T12:32:00.002-04:00

Well Terry had his surgery on Sept 21st and they took out 2ft of his colon. He was in the hospital 5 days. When he came home it was really hard and I was really overwhelmed. Having to take care of him and the puppy really was a strain on me and I had a bad time with it. I was ready to get rid of the puppy. She was almost too much for me to handle. Before, Terry did everything for her. He's the one that got up early in the morning and took her outside and also took her for a walk and did everything for her and now I had to take care of her and Terry and she is a very demanding puppy and was really having a hard time with it all. I lost it a few times and we were on the brink of giving her away. Anyway Terry is coming along pretty well now from the surgery but we went to our family doctor yesterday as he's been lightheaded and passed out a couple of times. He has no appetite and nothing tastes good to him and he's still losing weight. Well I've got him on Gator Aid now and since that he's been doing much better, so he thinks he's been dehydrated and also having problems with his sinus and drainage and that also could be causing part of his problems. He put him on a food stimulate to see if it will make food taste better and make him want to eat and also some stuff for his sinus problems and we'll go from there. Hopefully he will get better and start gaining some weight and want to eat. By the way Patti is now doing pretty good with her knee replacement and she and her family have been helping me some which is great and the puppy is doing OK too and Terry is now able to help me with her too, but she is still a handful, but I guess all puppies are. She is now 6 mos old and gets fixed on November 1st. We've missed allot of football games this year with Terry having surgery and all. I've made it to a couple but I sure hope the grand kids understand and hopefully we'll be able to see more next year.

Saturday Sept. 17th

2011-09-17T12:10:00.001-04:00

Have been quite busy lately helping out Patti (daughter) since she had surgery, a total knee replacement, her second, driving her here and there to her physical therapy and also back and forth to her work once in a while also too. Also been busy with Terry taking him to doctors or I should say going with him to doctors regarding his stomach. His diverticulitis has finally gotten the best of him and he's now going to have surgery next Wednesday. They go in laprosaically and remove part of his colon that is bad. He will then be in the hospital 3-5 days. So I will be keeping busy for the next week or so. Just want to up date you all on what has been going on with me. Lois I hope you get your surgery soon. Hugs to you all. Judy

Tuesday, September 6th

2011-09-06T13:04:00.002-04:00

Had a very nice Labor Day. We spent it over our Son's home. It was a last minute throw together thing and it was very nice. We hadn't seen them in awhile and it was so nice to see them all. We even took Rosie along and the kids enjoyed playing with her.

Well Terry is still having trouble with his stomach. His diverticulitis. He has been to the doctor and to the surgeon and has had cat scans and a lower GI and goes back to the surgeon on Thursday and I'm sure they are going to talk about setting up a date for him to have surgery where they will take out part of his colon that is bad. He's really been miserable and is ready to have something done. He's lost
30 lbs and his stomach is sore to the touch. He just doesn't feel like doing much or eating much.

Well Rosie is getting bigger and is doing much better. She is learning to behave and is barking when she wants to go outside for the potty. She still has mistakes once in awhile, but most of the time she's doing pretty good. She is turning into a very loveable puppy.

Patti, had her surgery and now has a total knee replacement in both knees. It's been over two weeks and she's doing really well. I have to take her to therapy today. The first week was he__ but now she is doing really good. They couldn't get her pain under control at first and that was really bad.

Well I think I've caught you up on everything, so see you next time. Hugs.

Still worn out!!

2011-07-16T15:10:00.002-04:00

Lil Rosie is still wearing us out. We can't take our eyes off her and we've got to take our naps when she does or we don't get one. She doesn't like my cane and loves to chew on it and I keep trying to tell her no no but she is not listening and I'm afraid on of these times she going to make me fall when I try to move forward and she's got hold of the cane and it won't move. I've even gone to using an aluminum one so he doesn't ruin my wooden one. You'd think after so many no no's and getting pulled away from something, she'd learn to stay away from it. I guess she finally will in time.

Went and saw Josh Groban in concert last night and Patti went with me. Terry dropped us off and Greg, Patti's hubby picked us up, which turned out great. The concert was wonderful. Josh was great! Wow what a voice. I love listening to him sing and not only can he sing but he has a great personality and a great sense of humor too. I had never been to a concert before but this one sure was a wonderful one to go too. It was just great. I'm sure glad I went and Patti loved it too!!! Hugs.

Rosie

2011-07-08T13:33:00.002-04:00

Am I worn out or what? This taking on of a puppy is really a job. My knees and back are really sore from picking her up and cleaning up after her and there is probably no end in sight. We can't turn our backs on her. With her being so young it's going to take awhile to train her. I think we are the ones who are going to be trained in the beginning. We just keeping taking her out and trying to catch her. I really think she is too young at this point to understand but we won't give up if it kills us. Which it might. lol. She is so darn cute and sweet though. She looks just like little piglet in Winnie the Pooh. I'm not sure what she's going to look like as she gets older. Time will tell. I love her little dip stick of a tail which is and inch of brown and inch of black and then and inch of white. Winnie, never had any tail at all. She was born without any. Anyway little Rosie, sure keeps us busy and I guess she will for awhile. Hugs.

Tuesday July 5th

2011-07-05T12:08:00.002-04:00

Well we just got a new puppy, Rosie an 9 wk old English Bulldog. She is such a sweetie. She sure is keeping us hopping. Right now though she is asleep at the foot of my compute chair. We've really missed Winnie since she passed away in May and
decided it was time for another dog and we looked around and finally decided to get another bulldog. She looks so different than Winnie so I think it will be hard to compare them. When we got Winnie she was already 7 mos. old so we didn't get to see her as a puppy and we're looking forward to this puppy stage, all except the potty training stage. I'm already a bit sore from squatting to clean carpet from her mistakes. It seems like we're taking her out an awfully lot but I guess puppies got allot. Well she just woke up so I'd better take her out. Have a good day.

June 13th

2011-06-13T11:41:00.002-04:00

Things have been going very good. Terry has been feeling really good. The headaches are under control and his stomach isn't bothering him when he watches what he eats and right now he's wearing a 30day heart monitor and he's into his third week and has not had any episodes so is that good or bad. If he doesn't have any of the episodes while he's wearing it, we'll never find out what it was. I think I did tell you that he had a stress test and had no problems and all his blood test came back OK. He has been getting up and walking for about 2-3 miles every other morning for about a month now so maybe he's just built himself up and is now in better shape than he was and that's why he's not having any episodes with his heart fluttering or whatever it was doing. All I know is that he had a couple of times when he almost passed out from it and he's tried to push himself to get it to happen again since he got the monitor on and it hasn't happened. I'm just glad he's feeling so much better than he was. He's like a different person.

Tuesday May 24th

2011-05-24T13:38:00.002-04:00

Well Terry had his stress test and passed with flying colors. He also passed the neurological part of the test too. He seems to be feeling much better lately and is able to control the headaches to and is having less of them which is great. The doctor still would like him to get a 30 day heart monitor and wear that so they can figure out what it is going on when his heart flutters. So that where that stands. I'm just so glad that he's feeling better and seems to have more energy lately. He just seems to be more like himself now so I don't know what to think. He's lost over 30 lbs., without trying and none of the blood tests show anything nor any of the other tests, so I don't know what to think. Could it have just been nerves or the winter blahs? I for sure don't know and the doctor is trying not to miss anything. I'm just glad he's feeling better.

Monday 23

2011-05-23T11:03:00.000-04:00

Will post tomorrow. Got too much going on today.

Monday May 16th

2011-05-16T13:31:00.002-04:00

Hi, if anyone is still out there reading this. I'd like to ask for prayers for a
few things.

First of all please pray for my husband. He's been having headaches all winter long
and he's lost allot of weight and he's had stomach problems too. He does have
diverticulitis so that's allot of the stomach pain. He watches what he eats He's had and MRI,a CAT Scan, blood tests and a glucose tolerance tests and he goes
to the doctor tomorrow to get the results of all this. So we're hoping that something showed up and we'll know what is causing his problems. Please pray we
find something out.

Secondly please pray for my daughter and her husband. They are having marital
problems. She was ready to call it quits and actually did. She told him it was over, but he finally talked her into giving it one more try. He finally made an appointment with a counselor and he also went and talked to a priest. These are
things that she had been trying to get him to do for 18 years but he wouldn't.
But he finally did it on his own, so that's a start. Needless to say they will
need prayers as they try to work on their marriage. I sure would appreciate you
prayers for them. Thanks.

Next I'd like to ask for prayers for a friend of mine that has been having problems
with her eye's for a long time. Please pray that her eye problems go away.

Monday April 4th

2011-04-04T12:43:00.002-04:00

Monday again and once again I have nothing to write about. So I'm not going to write. I have not a thing I can think of to tell you about so this is the last Monday that I will be writing. It's just too hard to think of something each week to write about each week. We are just not that social a people most of the time and I'm not a deep thinker so this is it. The End.

Monday March 28th

2011-03-28T12:58:00.002-04:00

Hello again! Surprise surprise the sun is shining, but it is still a bit cold outside. I am really so ready for Spring. I am so sick of this cold weather. I don't think it was very nice of us getting a little taste of nice weather and then getting this cold back again. Not nice at all. Oh well, on another front, Terry is still getting the headaches. The new medication is helping some but not enough. I don't know what he will do next.

On a lighter note we went to a dinner last night for one of our grandson's who was picked to go to Valley Forge, Pa., because of an essay he wrote and then they had a dinner for the students and parents last night and we were able to go too. It was very nice and the meal was delicious. Jake is very into history and I think he would like to go into ROTC in college and then into the military from there maybe even into something like Annapolis or one of those. I have always said I hope I live long enough to see what Jake makes of his life as I have very high hopes for Jake.

On another but a bit different note we toke our oldest grandson Jonathan out to dinner for his birthday. He turned 20. We don't get to see our grandchildren enough anymore in a one on one situation so we decided that from now on we are going to take them each out to dinner on their birthdays so we have them one on one to talk to and be with each one. We really enjoyed our dinner with Jonathan and little Olivia came along too. She didn't want Jonathan to leave when he was getting ready so he called and asked if she could come along to, and of course we couldn't say no to our youngest granddaughter. It was nice having her along too. We had a great evening and I'm looking forward to taking the next grandchild out to dinner. With having 11 grandchildren will be kept busy most every month sometimes, twice a month.

Monday March 21st

2011-03-21T12:10:00.004-04:00

Well things are looking up a bit. Terry's MRI didn't show anything, so that was nice. So the doc put him on some other new medication and it seems to be working to the point that he can control the headaches so they are not to to bad, which is good. He hasn't had one that was a screamer since the doctor put him on these meds. Now he's got a sinus infection, so I called this morning and asked if they would call in an antibiotic for him for that. Maybe if he get rid of that, he'll be OK. We can only hope. Meanwhile I have caught a cold and have been miserable the past three days. I do feel a bit better today, so I'm hoping it's on it's way to feeling better. We're going to go out with our friends tonight which we haven't done in awhile. Terry's headaches have really been ruling our life's and keeping us from doing much of anything, so we are going to try going out tonight. We have to grab our times out when we can. When he's feeling good and hope a headache doesn't come on.

Monday March 14th

2011-03-14T12:39:00.001-04:00

Good Morning. Haven't done much again because of Terry's headaches. He did finally go have an MRI and we'll get the results of that on Wednesday. I really feel bad for him. It seem like he's having one all the time. One bad one after the other and I am really worried. I'm trying to get him to go to the ER, but he won't go, he says to wait and see what the MRI shows, but he's in so much pain most of the time. It's just hard to watch. He can only take the medicine twice a day so it depends on how long he has relief in between. I sure hope we find something out on Wednesday. Please keep him in your prayers.

Monday March 7th

2011-03-07T11:15:00.003-05:00

Here it is Monday again and I am at a loss as to what to write about. We have done nothing this past week. Terry has been plagued with headaches for about the last 2 months or so and I finally got him to go to the doctor and he put him on some migraine medicines but they don't seem to be helping. I called this morning to let him know they are not helping and to see where we go from here. He also gave him a script for a MRI and I wanted to see if he wants him to go ahead and have that done now or still wait till he tries something else as he said there are more things he could try. So I guess right now it's a wait and see game. I just hate to see Terry go through so much pain almost every day. He's had headaches off and on ever since I've known him but never this bad and never almost every day and it really has me worried.
Well that's it for today.

Tuesday March 1st

2011-03-01T12:49:00.002-05:00

Yes, I forgot to post yesterday. I'm trying to think if I even got on the computer yesterday, but yes I think I did but only for a short time. It seems like I'm getting on the computer for less and less time lately. I get on to check my e-mails and then got to Facebook and see what is going on and what everyone has to say and then I get off. Sometimes but not very often I play some games on facebook, but only to keep my mind going, otherwise I find things to do around the house or read a book or something. I don't watch TV till around 4:00 unless it's the noon news.

Not much went on this past week. In fact I can't think of a thing we did, oh, I did go visit my ladies at the nursing home and I visited an extra lady. She is the aunt of an old friend of mine that is at the same nursing home that I go to, so I stopped to see her while I was there to. It seem to make her day and my old friend sent me a note on facebook telling she appreciated it, so I'm glad I stopped to see her. I usually try to go once a month to visit these ladies. My old neighbor from years ago is one of them and the other 2 are women from our church. I think they enjoy my visits, anyway I hope they do. I enjoy visiting them.

Well see you next week.

Monday Feburary 21st

2011-02-21T12:53:00.003-05:00

Monday again, and it's a rainy day around here. President's day too. Kids are off of school and here they are stuck in the house on this rainy day. Guess they will all be playing their play stations or whatever they have. Just what they need to be doing more of. They wouldn't think of picking up a book or playing a regular game with their brother and sisters now would they. It's got to be a computer game. What's going to become of all these kids, that, that is all they do is play computer games. I really worry about them. I'm not there, but I'd like to bet that my grand kids play way too many computer games and watch too much TV and way to many movies than I think are good for them, of course who am I but only a grandma. I don't know what got me started on this. Anyway have a good day.

Monday Februaru 14th

2011-02-14T12:55:00.002-05:00

Here I sit with my dog by my side and my hubby down in the basement putting bars up on the window so no one can ever get into our basement through the window and how much nicer could life be. We already went out just the two of us for Valentine's day and now we're going to go out to Olive Garden for and early dinner, late lunch at 3:00pm to so we can take our friend with us that just had surgery on her breast and has to be back home by 5;00pm as a nurse is coming to change her dressing. So we're going to pick her up and get her back home in time.

Not much of anything going on. Glad to see it getting warmer outside. Just hope it stays that way. No more snow please. I've had enough of that please. Would love to get my car washed now that the temperature is finally above freezing a bit and might stay there a few daus. It's really dirty and I hate having a new car and having it that dirty. Maybe I can do that today. We'll see. Happy Valentine's day all.

Monday Feb 7, 11

2011-02-07T21:39:00.002-05:00

Monday again and like everyone else we watched the Super Bowl. Terry and I were for opposing teams and my team won. I was really only watching for the commercials more than anything. I really enjoy them mostly, but I don't think they were as good this year as in past years. I really liked the VW one with Darth Vader when the car started and I liked the one with the Pug and I liked the one with the Bears and the McDonald's, folks in the car eating. I think those were my favorite.

Before the game we went to lunch with Patti and her family and In Laws to celebrate Patti's birthday. There were 9 of us and we really enjoyed ourselves and I had made a cake and we took it along and had it for dessert and the kids didn't want a piece and then they tasted it and loved it and all wanted a piece. It was a lemon cake with drizzle icing and they'd never tasted one before. Well that's whats been happening at our house.

Monday January 31st

2011-01-31T12:36:00.003-05:00

Monday again. It does seem to roll around fast even though we don't do much. We did sign up for Netflix this past week. We can not get movies on our one big TV, streaming so they say any time we want. We just pick one that's being offered and watch it. It's really sort of nice. They usually offer pretty many at a time to pick from 24/7 and it's only $7.99 a month.

Yesterday we went over and watched our granddaughter play volleyball. She is in the 7th grade and I really expected to see a pretty good game, but was sort of disappointed at the level and the quality at which they played. I remember how Patti played at that age and she was allot better. They have mothers coaching who have never played volleyball which is a shame. They need someone coaching that has some experience. These girls need some help or they will never be able to make it in the High School level. I loved watching Patti play volleyball in High School. She was really good and could have gone on to play in college. She was offered a scholarship but she was not a good student and would have only been going to play volleyball and not for school so she turned it down. It was a wise decision on her's and our part. She played allot of volleyball for fun after high school until she hurt her knee.

Also read the best book this past week. You have to read it, it's called "Heaven is for Real" by Todd Burpo with Lynn Vincent. It was the best book I've ever read. Real short read about a little 4 year old boy who died on the operating table and nobody knew it and he starts talking about Jesus and heaven and the things he saw. Please get this book Lois and anybody else that reads this. You won't regret it. It's a wonderful read, that you will want to tell everyone about and pass on to all your friends. Enjoy. I hope you read it. Hugs.

January 24th

2011-01-24T20:43:00.002-05:00

Almost forgot it was Monday. Was busy all day. Got up late like I usually do and then went up to church for adoration to pray to stop abortions and then had to go to the grocery, which took me a long time as I had a long list, and by the time I got home it was time to get ready to go out for dinner with our friends. We were going to meet them over in Ohio tonight so I didn't have much time. We had a nice time and because I'd busy all day is why I'm getting on the computer this evening instead of late morning like I usually do. We didn't do much of anything that I can think of this past week to tell you about. Just stayed home all week. My life is not very exciting but it's very nice. See ya next week.

January 17,2011

2011-01-17T12:36:00.002-05:00

Well here it is Monday and I don't have much to talk about as we didn't do much this past week except celebrate one of our grandsons 16th birthdays. Now once he learns to drive I'll have one more to start worrying about once he's out on the road. His other grandpa has promised him his old pickup truck once he learns to drive so he's got wheel's already, he just has to learn how to drive. He's been promised this truck since he's been 3 years old. He'll just have to learn how to drive it too as it's a stick shift. Nice old truck, but still in pretty good shape. Nice starting car for a kid if you ask me. Not good in snow though, so I hope he's slow in learning and the snow is gone by the time he gets his license. Other than that not much going on. Terry is putting the finishing touches on the basement and it's really looking nice. He finally put an extra railing going down the stairs and it sure makes it easier for me to get up and down now. So I have been going down and using my exercise bike now, which is good, but not for my knees. They've been hurting, but I'm hoping with more use they will ease up. Well, have a good week. Hugs.

Monday January 10th

2011-01-10T12:19:00.002-05:00

What a week. We had a friend come over and help us with our computer. We had to buy a new hard drive as our computer was just too, too slow. Well Terry got everything off the computer before they did whatever it is that they did and then they put in the new hard drive and well I had lost everything. So, I've had to reinstall everything. It's not been fun. But I have to say, my computer is much faster. I'm still putting in things and adding things that I find missing. This has taken up our whole week as we did the same thing with our old computer that we put in the basement too. Terry is going to use that computer to play old computer games on, but it's and old Microsoft ME, and was really, really slow so we did the same thing and now it finally working great. He's not going to get on the internet with that one, just play games. So that's what we've been up to this whole past week. Computering!!! I don't think that's a word. Sorry. Hugs.

Monday January 3rd

2011-01-03T14:56:00.002-05:00

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! We went out shopping on New Years Eve and then stopped to eat and then came home and spent the evening here. We were going to meet up with Michael and his family but it just didn't work out and we didn't like where they were going to eat so we went on our own. Saturday evening Terry had a group of friends over to view the UFC fighting matches on TV pay per view. Usually they go over our neighbors but since Terry has the basement finished he decided to invite them to our house this month. Our son and his wife came too and so did Patti and Greg and the kids. I'm not into it so I stayed upstairs but I could tell they were all having a good time by the amount of noise they were making. I guess they were cheering on the fighters. At one time though, I did put on my PJ's and went down and teasingly told them I couldn't sleep cause they were making too much noise, and they thought that was funny. I then stayed downstairs for awhile and enjoyed myself with them all. It was pretty late by the time they all left. Terry had made pulled pork and it was all gone and my cheese ball was all gone too and so was all the other stuff we had. They must have been a hungry group. Sunday night we stayed up late watching "Sara Paylin's Alaska" till 3:00 am. It was really interesting. I didn't get up this morning till 11AM. I love being retired. Hugs.

Monday December 27th

2010-12-27T12:38:00.002-05:00

What a wonderful Christmas we had. Spending it with family and friends. We have been so blessed and so has our entire family. Christmas Eve our son sat there and read and e-mail that was so touching I thought everyone was going to cry. It sure made everyone remember the true meaning of Christmas. It was wonderful to see all the kids and all listening and taking it all in. It just touched my heart to see us all sitting around the fire listening to him reading this touching story and everyone just listening so intently. It was just so heart warming. I felt so blessed. Then Christmas day we spent time with my sister and her family and friends and it was a nice time too. We always have fun especially when her daughter's family stops by. It's always good for some laughs. Yesterday we went to Mass and then spend the day just relaxing. Today it's back to normal, doing laundry and catching up on things. Terry went to pick up our grandson Jack whose going to help him with something. Tomorrow I need to run the sweeper. Hope you all had a nice Christmas too. Happy New Years to All!

Monday Dec. 20

2010-12-20T12:46:00.002-05:00

I know I'm supposed to write my blog today but I really have nothing to write about. We really have not been doing anything. We have been staying home. Yesterday one of our grandsons did come over and spend the day with us rather than have to go with his parents to his younger brothers basketball tournament which lasted all day and I mean all day, and it was the day before too. They didn't get home till 10pm. He was a joy to have. He and Terry were down in the basement playing Play Station most of the day and evening. I made some fudge and it was a bummer so I have to make more. It seems like everything I make lately turns out bad. Maybe I should just quit. That would be fine with me. lol. Today I have my yearly appointment with my heart doctor and then we're meeting our friends for dinner. That has become the bright spot in my week. Hugs.

Monday Dec 13

2010-12-13T20:37:00.002-05:00

Wow is it cold outside. We got about 3-4 inches of snow and it's been really cold and windy too. Friday I met an old friend for lunch and it was so nice to see her and talk about old times and then catch up on things that are going on with her and her family now. We hadn't seen each other in about 10 or more years. I had talked to her but not seen her and she still looked the same. After lunch I stopped by to see another good friend and again that was such a nice visit. It was so nice catching up with her too. I only wish her husband had been home so I could have met him. Hopefully there will be a next time.

Since then it has only gotten colder and colder it seems but we did go out for dinner tonight but I almost wish we hadn't as it was really too cold for this old body to go out there. I can't handle this cold weather any more, not when it's this cold. This is just too cold for me. I can't handle it too cold and I can't handle it when it gets too hot either. That's the MS thing. I don't know if the too cold thing is MS or not, all I know is I sure don't like it too cold. Take care all and stay warm.

Monday Dec 6th

2010-12-06T11:01:00.003-05:00

Here it is Monday again and I really don't have much to tell you you. We have been in the house where it's been nice and warm since it turned cold. We did go out to dinner on Friday evening with my sister and brother and their spouse's. We went to Smokey Bones and everyone's meal was great and then we came back to our house for dessert where I had made a cherry pie. So we had cherry pie with ice cream and coffee. It was a very nice evening. We usually get together every year around the holidays to see each other and we usually do it early in the month so we don't get lost in the holiday goings on. Other than that we haven't been doing anything other than going to Mass on Sunday. Tonight we are going out with our usual group of friends and they are coming back to our house for dessert also. Sort of a little extra Christmas get together too. Tonight we're just having cookies and ice cream, no pie. Well that's about it for today's blog. Hope your all staying warm. I've had to get out my flannel PJ's and I'm using my heated throw at night while I'm watching TV to keep me warm, so I'm staying warm. Hope you are too!!! Hugs.

Monday November 28th

2010-11-29T11:02:00.002-05:00

Well here it is Monday again. Our Thanksgiving was really nice but it was very exhausting. I was doing really good and all of sudden it was like I hit a brick wall and I had to sit down. Thank goodness my daughter was there and she did most of the cleaning up with the help of the kids bringing all the dishes over to her. The basement is finally finished too and that really made it nice for the kids too. Terry has got a big screen TV down there and a Play Station for them to play and they were also having Checkers tournaments and they really enjoyed themselves down there. It was all worth his hard work down there and it made it nice up stairs. Not so crowded is our little space up stairs.

Grandson Jake came over yesterday and helped Terry wire up some more of the electrical stuff. We have some old record players with the old big 78 records that we'd like to hook up and some other stuff too and he's pretty knowledgeable about all this stuff and he got it all hooked up for us last night. Terry is pretty excited that he was able to get it all fixed up. I have a feeling he'll be spending allot of time down there listening to music and watching TV down there, watching movies I don't like to watch. That's OK with me, then I can watch more of the chick things that I like to watch up stairs. Have a good day all.

November 22nd

2010-11-22T13:51:00.002-05:00

Monday and what a pretty one. It's near 70 again an oh so nice out. Terry and I went walking yesterday and today went shopping for all our Thanksgiving needs. Yes I am cooking or I should say we, cause Terry will help and everyone is bringing something. There will be about 10 of us, which won't be bad at all, and Terry has the basement all finished up with a large TV all connected up and with a Playstation 360 hooked up to it too. So the kids can play that if they want. Not much going on other than that. Haven't done anything this past week, it was pretty cold until Sunday and today, and is suppose to get cold and rainy again. Suppose to rain on Thanksgiving too. That's doesn't sound to nice though. Oh well, not much we can do about it. Hope you all have a nice Thanksgiving. Love and Hugs. God Bless Too!!

Monday November 15th

2010-11-15T11:23:00.003-05:00

Well what can I tell you about today. I sure have been loving the nice weather that we've been having up until Saturday. Terry and I were getting our walks in down by a walking track down by the Ohio river and yesterday was the first time I finally was able to finish the whole thing. Usually I go half way and stop and Terry finishes it and gets the car and comes and picks me up, but I was determined to make it yesterday and I did, even with a fall and boy were we walking slow by the end but I made it, and I wasn't hurt. It's a little more than a mile.

Saturday we went to a football game at Thomas Moore Collage to watch our grandson who is a freshman. He didn't get to play too much, but the last play of the game he had an interception and ran it for about 40 yards. That make it all worth it. They did win the game and by the time the game was getting over the wind was blowing and it was starting to get really cold and we were glad it was over. I was getting really cold.

I'm loving my new car by the way. Never had one with all the accessories like this one has. It sure is sweet. It will last me a long long time.

Tuesday November 8th

2010-11-09T10:28:00.002-05:00

Sorry I didn't write yesterday but we were busy looking for a car. I am so excited I could burst. I test drove Toyota's and Nissan's and Hyundai's and I really liked the Hyundai's the best. I liked the way they drove and I like the style of them so we ended up buying a Hyundai Sonata. It's white with a like pearl in the finish with a black pin strip, with black leather seats and the one thing I've always dreamed of, it has a sun roof. I just love it. I can't believe that we got all the things on it that I always wanted. It's like a dream, and it's so much easier for me to get in and out of than the van. I don't have to lift my leg to get in, I can just sit down and turn around and get in. Well that is my news for today. Can't think of much else. Hugs.

Monday November 1st

2010-11-01T18:29:00.002-04:00

Can't believe it's already November. That means it could snow and that's a bad, bad, word. Not ready for snow.

We had fun last night on Halloween. We went over our neighbor's again and we all sat around a campfire and lined up all our bowl's of candy for kiddies to crab from and we sat and chatted and had fun with the kiddies and ourselves. Terry made us some Apple Cider with rum and cinnamon and other spices in it and warmed it up cause it really got cold out there. I was freezing. I almost didn't last the two hours. But I did, but I went home as soon as the two hours was over as I was too cold.

Today we got up early and went to mass for All Saints day and then we went out to breakfast and then went to the grocery and I've working on the computer and bills the rest of the day. I was hoping to get out and go for a walk but I was too tired by the time I got finished so I guess I'll try to do that tomorrow. I've been having trouble getting my check book to match the statement from the bank, so I finally gave up. Hugs to all.

Monday October 25th

2010-10-25T13:02:00.002-04:00

Not much going on again and not much to say. We didn't do much last week and did nothing over the weekend. The only thing we did do was when we went out to dinner on Monday night with our usual group. We all met at our place and then all got in our van and went down to General Butler State Park, which is about an hour's drive south of us and we all had dinner down at their State Lodge. It was a nice drive and a nice dinner. Tonight we are all getting together again and going Chinese. There is usually 3 couples and 1 single who's husband passed away last year and we make sure she keeps coming with us each Monday. We enjoy her company and she's allot of fun too. It won't be long and the one couple will be leaving to go back to Florida for the winter. They have a small place down in Ft. Meyer's where they stay every winter, then we will only be the 5 of us, but we will still go every Monday. One Monday on our side of the river and the next Monday on their side of the river. Sometimes that's the only time we go out for the week, and I think last week that was our only night out.

We did do some walking done by the river at the walking track and when we didn't do that I walked the neighborhood. This is great walking weather. I dread when it gets really too cold to walk outside. Have a nice week all.

Monday October 18th

2010-10-18T13:01:00.002-04:00

Last week one day it was just too nice to stay home so we drove down to Ft. Knox, KY, and saw the George Patton museum which was very interesting. They were in process of moving things all around, so we didn't get to see some parts of it. They have a movie which we didn't get to see, but we've both seen the movie about Patton but it probably would have been a documentary. Anyway we both enjoyed what we did get to see. They had allot of old World War I stuff including his old car and uniforms and weapons and much more, really interesting things. The ride down and back was beautiful with the trees turning all the different colors made it really nice and of course we stopped and ate dinner someplace nice too, so that made my day.

Friday night we went to one of the grandsons football games and it was terrible. They got clobbered. It was really bad. Something like 45 to 6. But at least we were there and showed our support. The rest of the weekend we did nothing.

My leg brace is working out real well. Terry even made me a heavy leather inner sole so that I can wear it with almost all my shoes and that makes it nice. I've even been walking the neighborhood again which makes me really happy. I can even walk and look around a bit and not be totally looking down like I use to have to do so it must be working. It's making me pick up my foot. I still use my cane as my balance is still off but at least it's doing what it's supposed to do. I can't ask for miracles.

Monday October 11

2010-10-11T11:44:00.002-04:00

Monday again and not much to talk about again. One day last week Terry and I went for a ride just because it was too pretty to stay home. We stopped at a Kentucky state park for lunch which was really nice. Other then that not much going on. Went to a flag football game on Saturday but that's about it. Going today to see about my leg brace. Tell you more when I know more. Hugs.

Monday October 4th

2010-10-04T12:26:00.002-04:00

Well here it is Monday again and I don't know what to write about. We have done nothing exciting to write about at all. In fact we haven't done anything much at all in the past week. We've been home just doing things around the house and I can't even think of what things they were. We've watched some movies that we've gotten from the library and now I'm getting ready to work on the bills. So much for the exciting things in my life. Hugs.

Monday Sept. 27th

2010-09-27T12:00:00.002-04:00

I really don't know what to write about expect for the fact that I have shingles and it's no fun. I have them on my right waist or rib area and they burn and itch badly but sort of from the inside out. I may have some new spots on my legs also but not sure. Hopefully the are just red welts and will not turn into pimples, but I'm afraid it's looking more like shingles every day. None of my grand kids from across the street have had chicken pox so they are staying away as they are from the chicken pox so they are staying away from me until this completely dries up and I'm not sure how long that's going to take. Just when I started going to the Y and now I can't go there either.

Monday Sept 20th

2010-09-20T11:48:00.002-04:00

Here it is Monday again and since my family has banned me from walking outside I have pushed myself to go to the YMCA twice last week. The first time I went , Patti went with me to show me where everything was. She is off on Tuesday's and will go with me every Tuesday, which will make me go. I love being in the pool but I hate getting out and using there shower's. Their shower's are not near as nice as the one's we had up at the Lebanon YMCA. This one you have to take your shower and then come out and get dressed in front of everyone. I don't like that. I was proud of myself for going the second time on my own though. I need to push myself more to exercise more weather it be here at home or to go to the Y more. I did pull a muscle in my side by my waist and it really hurts but I hope it just needs to be loosen up a bit and it will feel better the next time I get in the pool. Nothing else going on. Hugs.

Monday September 13th

2010-09-13T13:25:00.002-04:00

Not much going on. My son turned 43 yesterday and that made me feel old, oh well I guess we are getting there. Anyway, Terry is gone up to see his cousin in Pennsylvania for a few days. He had been wanting to go and Alan wasn't doing well so he didn't go and then he called and said he was doing better so Terry went. But he called me last night and now he is having some sort of breathing problem and they ended up taking him to the hospital, so I don't know if thay will keep him or what. If that do, Terry will be coming home. He has other cousins up there that will watch over him. Meanwhile back here I have been doing just little things like going to a football game and an open house for a friend that just moved into a new place and tonight am going out to dinner with a friend. Tomorrow Patti is off for the day so she is going to take me up to the YMCA and show me around and we'll go swimming and then from then on I be able to go on my own cause I'll know where things are.

Tuesday Sept. 7th

2010-09-07T15:07:00.002-04:00

A day late I know, but I've been busy and not feeling to well and have been off the computer for two days. Then once you get back on it takes a while to catch up. Thank heaven for my lap top cause my desk computer is running so so slow that half the time I don't even use it any more. I don't know what the problem is. I wish I knew someone that could tell me. Oh well, anyway we went out for Terry's birthday to a Mexican place and both of us got sick and were up all night. I was so bad that I didn't even go to church on Sunday and I spent the whole day in bed. I felt horrible. I think it was partly the food and partly the beer too. Shame on me. I don't know though cause I still didn't fell to good on Monday either but I had to meet with our friends for early dinner because of the holiday and then they even came back to our house. I so didn't feel like company, but I have to admit it was nice. Now tonight we are going out to eat with my sister and her hubby and I know we will enjoy that. We haven't seen them in a while. I can't wait till when we have nothing planned, but then I'll have to cook and I do hate to cook. Oh well one of the fellow's brought us some tomato's so maybe we'll get some bacon and have BLT's. Haven't had them in awhile.

Monday August 30th

2010-08-30T21:41:00.003-04:00

We've been pretty busy lately. We finally got new furniture for our living room after more than 20 years. We moved our old stuff downstairs as it's still got plenty of use in it. Our new stuff is brown leather. A big sofa with two recliners on each end and a big recliner chair for Terry too. We still have one chair that needs to be moved downstairs but the basement isn't completely finished yet so there's no room for it yet. Once it goes downstairs we'll have more room in the living room, which is not that big because as it's all attached to the dining room and kitchen. It's all on big open space.

We also attended at football game on Friday and a 90th birthday party on Saturday and on Sunday we had the kids over for breakfast after church and then in the evening we went over our son's for dinner to celebrate all the birthdays in August and September. That was fun, we hadn't seen them in awhile. Then on Monday I finally felt motivated to go to the Y so my daughter said she'd go with me, so we went up and I renewed my membership and would you believe the swimming pool was closed till next Tuesday for cleaning. By next Tuesday Patti will be starting her new job and I don't know if I will have the motivation to go by myself. Time will tell. I've got to do something to get this 5 pounds off that I've gained, and since my family won't let me walk outside anymore since I fall too much, I've got to do something. Well tomorrow I think I'm going to do nothing as I'm really bushed. Hope you have a good week. Hugs.

Monday August 23

2010-08-23T15:08:00.002-04:00

Can't believe the summer is almost gone. It doesn't seem like we had much of a summer because we were basically housebound all summer because of the heat. Usually we get to get outside and sit on the patio and read and have dinner out when we grill out, but this year when we grilled we just ran it inside and ate it inside because of the heat. It's just been to hot to do most everything this summer. The only thing we've done is go to a graduation party and go to our MS retreat up in Mansfield. Other than that we haven't done much of anything. We did take the grand kid's down to the Omnimax theater, we enjoyed that. I sure am looking forward to fall. The few times I tried to get out and walk I fell, so I've given up on walking outside unless Terry is with me. I've hurt myself pretty bad the last couple of times, so I think someone is trying to tell me something. So I'm listening, and I using my treadmill a bit, not as much as I should and I can tell by my weight. I've gained 5lbs and am having a hard time getting it off cause I'm not active enough. I guess I'm going to have to start using it more to get that weight off, and maybe the exercise bike too. Gotta do something, don't want to gain any more.

Monday August 16th

2010-08-16T12:58:00.002-04:00

I had a birthday in the past week and am I getting old. But I don't want to think of the alternative, so I'm very happy and I had a very nice birthday. On my birthday Terry and I went up to the actual Ester Price Candy store and bought some boxes of candy and then went out to "Outback" for dinner. Just the two of us. I had a coupon, so one of our dinner's was free and then I got their dessert that I love so much "thunder from down under." It's a yummy brownie with ice cream and fudge and a cherry and whip cream on top and boy is it good. On Sunday Patti and the family came over and we grilled out, and had corn on the cob, and Patti made me a cake and that was really nice too. It's always nice when we get together with family. So I had a great weekend and a great birthday. Hugs.

Monday August 9th

2010-08-09T12:41:00.002-04:00

Not much going on this week. Only thing I can is that I took another fall when I was out taking my walk. All I can say is damn this MS. I am so sick of falling. Enough is enough. I am tired of getting so banged up. I think I have finally fallen enough on my walks that I'm going to stop taking walks and start using my treadmill in the house. Isn't that going to be fun. I've already gained 5 pounds so I've got to do something to get it off. Once the basement is finished the treadmill will go downstairs and will be next to my bike which has the movable handles and then I will feel like I have an exercise room of sorts and maybe I'll use them. When I had them in the other house I had them both in my computer room together and I used them everyday, but the computer room in this house is way to small to hold them both. It's too crowded with just the treadmill and I guess that's why I don't like to use it in there, but I guess I'm going to have to start using it there until we can put it together downstairs with the bike. Once it's downstairs, then I can do so many minutes on the treadmill and so many minutes on the bike and it won't be so boring. Well that all my news for today. Have a good week. Hugs.

Monday August 2

2010-08-02T13:01:00.002-04:00

We had a great weekend. Went up to Mansfield, Ohio for a get together with my online MS Buddies and had a great time. I hadn't seen some of them since 2003 so it was really great to see them and catch up and it was great meeting some that I hadn't meet before. It's always nice putting a face with someone you've talked to online all the time. We had a good time. We drove the Mustang and it was really pretty comfortable. This it first trip we've taken with it. Anyway, we really enjoyed seeing every one and seeing how they've changed and just catching up with them on things and seeing them in person for a change. It was great, we really enjoyed it.

Sunday we went to church and then did nothing for the rest of the day. Just plain played lazy all day. It was nice. Hugs.

Monday July 26

2010-07-26T12:21:00.002-04:00

Here I am, I'm remembering. Last week we took 5 of the grand kids down to the Omnimax theater to see the "Legends of Flight" and then we all went and had pizza afterwards. The week before we took one of the grandson's and went and saw the "Great Lakes" down there and it was good too but not quit as good as the one about flight. It was more interesting. Anyway, I think they all had a good time seeing the movie and I know they had a good time with each other. They always have fun interacting with their cousins.

Saturday our son and his wife finally had a graduation party on Alex who graduated from high school this past June. It was a last minute decision as they had an open Saturday and figured they better get on with having it before he starts college. lol. It turned out very nice, but it sure was a hot evening, thank goodness for the breeze. It was fun watching all the kids young and old playing corn hole. The food was great and the company was good too. We had a very nice time.

Wednesday July 21st

2010-07-21T16:50:00.004-04:00

Guess I forgot again on Monday so here I am on Wednesday. Can't even remember if we did anything special over this past weekend. I don't thing so. Monday evening we went out with our friends that we usually go out with and on Tuesday evening I talked Terry into going to Larosa's for their spaghetti a plenty where you get a salad and all the spaghetti you can eat for 4.99. Well when we came out, we had a flat tire, and I mean flat. Well Terry started to change it and some nice younger fella that was going in came over and offered to help. Well he did the whole thing for Terry and was Terry every glad as his back was really really hurting him bad. So he told the guy that he was and angel from God and thanked him very much. We had to put on one of those little dohnut tires and when we got home we checked the tire to see if it could be fixed and realized how dry rooted it was and then checked all the other ones too and they all looked bad, so now we have to buy all new tires for the car. This is for the Mustang that we bought not to long ago. The tires looked fine at first glance but at farther inspection you can see where they are all dry rotted from being in the sun and not being used. We knew the car had not been used for quite a few months. So I've been calling all around trying to find the cheapest price on these tires which are quite big and we have an appointment to get some tomorrow. Isn't it always something.

Monday 7/12

2010-07-12T12:07:00.002-04:00

I remembered. I'm so proud of myself. We had a very nice weekend. We had my oldest friend that was my next door neighbor, and her hubby over and then we went out for dinner and then came back to our place for dessert. We use to go to the trouble of fixing dinner for each other, but as we've gotten older we've started going out to dinner and then just having dessert. So much more relaxing. It was a nice evening when we go home, so we sat out on the patio. Patti and Greg came home from somewhere just to change clothes so they stopped over for a few minutes to say hello as they know these friends because we've known them so long that she even know their kids. We've done things together for years as family's together and had lots of fun. Now with all of our kids being married it's hard to get the kids together anymore. Usually we just get to see pictures of the kids and grand kids anymore, so it was nice for them to be able to see Patti. It's a same they didn't have any of the kids with them. It's was a nice evening.

Sunday we went to a 95th birthday party to our old neighbor back in our first house. She's one of the ladies that I visit in the nursing home but it was nice to be able to see her and her whole family once again. We hadn't seen most of her family in probably 30 years of more and we had watched her kids grow up. It was really nice seeing them and there kids that we only little tots the last time we saw them and now they are married with children of their own. That really made us feel old. But it sure was great seeing them all.

So all in all we had a pretty special weekend. Hope yours was nice too. Hugs.

Monday July 5th

2010-07-05T12:07:00.002-04:00

Well we've had a very quiet weekend. All we've done is sat around and watched movies that we got from the library. Old movies. It was nice and quiet and relaxing, like our life is most of the time. Oh by the way, I didn't get to go to the baseball game last Tuesday night. Something came up with my daughter Patti at the last minute and we didn't go. Oh well maybe this week, but I won't count on it till the last minute. I'm not sure I want to go this week, it's really too hot out now. Last week it was nice. This week it is really too hot and I really can't take this hot weather, so I really don't think I want to go, so I don't think we'll go. Terry and I went for a walk about 10am early one morning and when we got home I was a sweating mess, and here we thought we went early enough to beat the heat. Wow it was even too hot then. That's all I've got to tell you. Have a great week. Hugs.

Tuesday

2010-06-29T12:07:00.002-04:00

Well I forgot again to write in this blog on Monday so here I am again writing on Tuesday, and once again I have nothing much to write about. We really live a boring life I guess. Today I'm in the process of changing bed clothes and I going to hard boil some eggs and make a cherry pie. Tonight Patti and I might go and watch some of my old friends that are still playing softball, play. These are are some of the girls or I guess I should say woman that I used to play softball with and one of the girls that Patti used to play with too. I can't believe that they are still playing. And they are still winning and beating girls half their age. That just shows you how good we always were years ago and they are still good. Anyway it should be fun seeing them all and probably going to the local beer and sandwich place afterwards with them all and talking over old times. I played softball till I was in my late 40's and until I kept falling all the time and that's when I discovered I had MS and had to quit playing. I always love softball and all the fun times that came with it. I still miss it, so I'm looking forward to being able to go tonight. I just hope my daughter Patti can go, cause I won't go without her. Hugs.

Monday 6/21/10

2010-06-21T11:53:00.003-04:00

Well here I am on Monday. Yes I remembered. But I really don't have anything exciting to tell you. Terry has not been feeling well for the past few days. Some sort of flu type thing I guess. I'm keeping my distance as I don't want it.

It's been very hot outside, but there has been a breeze blowing most of the time so I have been able to get a walk in here and there. I've been doing allot of reading. Terry and I have been switching books back and forth. I never thought I'd be reading the same books as him but I'm really getting into them. They are sort of terror type stuff.

Wow, as I'm sitting here it is getting darker and darker outside. I guess we are going to be getting a storm. The wind is really blowing now and I'm hearing thunder too so I guess we're in for a good storm. Well, I'm going to be getting off here now. Catch ya later. Have a nice week. Hugs.

Saturday

2010-06-19T12:22:00.003-04:00

I could blog today and tell you all of the exciting things that have be going on in my life, but no, I think, I'll make you wait till Monday when I'm supposed to write in my blog. I know the suspense will kill you. lol

Friday 6/11

2010-06-11T15:32:00.003-04:00

Well it looks like I forgot to blog last Monday so I'll do it now. We've had two graduations this year. One grandson graduated from grade school and another from Elder High school. They both have done very well. Nick the one from grade school is constantly getting 1st honors and we hope he keeps it up in high school. Alex won a partial scholorship to St. Thomas Moore here in Kentucky for football which will be nice. The night of his graduation or I should say the day of it I fell out on the patio and took quit a tumble. I got my feet hooked up with the patio chair and fell and hit my back and my head on the step hard. Almost knocked me out. Thank goodness I happened to have my cell phone on me because I was expecting a call from my daughter Patti, so after I laid there for a few minutes I called her and she came over. Terry never would have heard me as he was in the basement. She went in and got some ice for on my head and then after awhile she helped me up. I was really sore and my head is still sensative and my back is all black and blue, but I did go to the graduation. I wasn't going to miss my grandson's graduation. Hugs.

Tuesday

2010-06-01T12:11:00.002-04:00

Forgot to post yesterday so here I am today. Not much going on. We went to a party at our daughters on Sunday and we got to meet all of their friends that she is always talking about. Nice folks. We had a nice time but when they started to play the music we left. It was too loud for us old folks. Trouble is we could still hear it when we got home which of course is just across the street. At least they had the good sense to stop it at 11pm.

On Memorial day we went shopping and finally got a new mattress. Ours is old and worn out and we've been talking about getting a new one for a long time and finally did it. Will get it on Thursday. Can't wait. Well that's all my news. Hugs till next time. Gotta go.

Monday 5/24/10

2010-05-24T14:01:00.003-04:00

OK so it wouldn't upload a picture, so no picture today. This past week has really gone fast. I don't have much to talk about. My Uncle passed away and we went to his funeral last Friday. It was sad but yet it wasn't. He was 93 years old and I and everyone else knew that he was ready to meet our Lord. He was tired and having a hard time breathing and he was just ready and we all knew it. It was great seeing the whole family. It had been awhile since we'd seen some of the cousins and it was nice seeing them all. I worry about my aunt and how she will be without my uncle, but I'm sure all her kid's and friends will keep in close touch with her, including me.

Nothing else going on so see you next Monday. Hugs.

Tuesday

2010-05-18T16:56:00.005-04:00

I forgot to blog yesterday so I'm doing it today a day late. Sunday we had a family reunion on Terry's side of the family. Not a big one, just the immediate family but we never get us all together. I can't remember that we've every done that or if we did it's been so long ago that we don't remember it. Well anyway we held it over at our son's home and we supplied all the drinks and meat and desserts and everyone brought a side dish and our daughter-law made quit a lot of extras also. She was a real trouper. It really worked out nice. Everyone came and it was great seeing the cousins that hadn't seen each other in years and their kids too. It wasn't a very nice day, as it keep spitting rain off and on so thank goodness we had it a our son's as they have a large home and we could keep going in and out. It never did really start pouring so we were very lucky that way. I think a good time was had by all and the food was all great. By 7PM I was worn out and we were the first to leave. Seems like us old folks are always the first to leave anymore. Oh well MS and a husband with a bad back will do that to you every time.

Monday night we had dinner with out normal group of friends plus 2 as the one couple is now home from Florida for the summer and they all came back to our home for dessert as we had some cheese cake and cookies left over from Sunday and Terry was going to do some gun work for one of the fellows. So the men went downstairs and we woman stayed upstairs and had fun laughing and telling stories. It was a fun evening. After they left I got a phone call telling me my only living Uncle died. That ended my day on a very sad note. My uncle was a great and a wonderful man and I shall miss him very much.

Monday

2010-05-10T11:36:00.003-04:00

Well here it is Monday again so I'm writing in my blog for the week. I had a wonderful Mothers Day. Spent it with my family, so nothing is better than that. Terry's cousin Alan has been staying with us this past week and he left this morning so we are back to normal with just us. We had a nice visit and if was good to see him after his bout with cancer last year. He's looking and doing good. He's on his way up to Pennsylvania for the summer. He would like us to come up there to visit him but I don't know if I want to or not. We'll see.

The only other thing going on is that Patti had surgery on her foot last Friday. Her right foot. Her big toe. Had a bone fixed or something, so she's on crutches for about 3 weeks of more and can't drive. We also went to my sister and brother-in-law's 50th wedding anniversary celebration on Saturday. They had a mass first and then had a dinner at a nice restaurant in a private room for the family and very close friends and neighbors . It was really nice and we had a good time. Well I think that's about it for us. Our neighbor told us the humming birds are back but I have yet to see them. He said he's seen them go back and forth from his house to ours so I guess we have them and I just haven't been watching at the right time. Guess I'll have to watch more often. Hugs.

Tuesday

2010-05-04T13:01:00.002-04:00

We had us a busy weekend so busy that I was worn out. First on Friday we met some dear friends who spent the winter in Florida for a late lunch and that was nice since we hadn't seen them since before Christmas and we had allot to catch up on. Then on Saturday just by chance we ended up going out to dinner with our son and some of his family which was totally unexpectedly but a very nice surprise. Michael had stopped over in the afternoon and then went home and got more of the family and came back and met us for dinner. Afterwards they stopped over the house and Patti and Greg even stopped over. So that made for and even more surprising evening. Oh I forgot to tell you that Terry's cousin Alan is also here from Florida and is staying with us for about a week too. So it's nice that he got to see all of them. That's probably why they all came over. Then on Sunday we had Patti and her family over for dinner. Well by the time I had all the dinner dishes cleaned up I was totally exhausted. I said good night and went in the bedroom and got my pj's on and watched TV until I fell asleep which was after the news was over. I had to watch my shows, but at least I was laying down doing it. That weekend wore me out totally. I'm not use to all that goings on. Hugs.

Monday April 26th

2010-04-26T12:38:00.002-04:00

Another week has past and not much to tell. I took Winnie to the Vet and she got her check up and yearly shots and she's A OK. The Vet said she is the bet looking English Bulldog he's seen. Her weight is right on and she's got a nice shape with a waist she just really looks good even her teeth look good and that's from Terry brushing them. Winnie is so good about letting him do that too and the Vet said good dental work can add 2 years of life to a dogs life, so we're going to make sure we keep that up. Anyway is was nice to hear a Vet tell us our dog was a good specimen . Other than that we didn't do much this past week as Terry wasn't feeling well. His stomach was bothering him. His diverticulitis was bothering him. Bothering him to the point that he had me call the doctor and the doc sent to RX's but it took almost 3 day's before he started feeling better that then he felt like he was going to loose he cookies. He's finally feeling pretty good now. He sure has to watch what he eats though. This sure has come up on him this past year or so. Well that's about it. See ya next week. Hugs.

Monday April 19 Weeekly Post

2010-04-19T11:51:00.004-04:00

.Not much going on and not much to tell about. We really haven't been doing much. Went to the doctor the other day about a sore on my leg that I've had for two months that doesn't seem to want to go away. He said I need to wash it with something like Dawn every day and then put antibiotic cream on it. I would never have thought of washing it. I've been putting the antibiotic cream on it and keeping it clean but not with soap and water, just with water. I've had this stupid sore for over two month and it's all red so I thought I'd better finally go get it checked out. I've been embarrassed to wear capris and shorts. I also have a lump on my leg which he said was a hematoma that had calcified and that it will go away, but it will take a long time. So I'm still a mess and will be for awhile.

Terry is still working on the basement. He's putting the tile down on the floor and it's starting to look really nice, but it's slow going, because he gets tired and hurting and has to quit. But what he has done really looks nice. We're beginning to be able to see and end in sight and that sure is nice. Well that's all for today. Hugs.

Wednesday

2010-04-07T11:01:00.002-04:00

Well I forgot to write on Monday so here I am on Wednesday. I think Terry and I are going through menopause or something as we just bought as 2001 Ford Mustang GT, Candi Apple Red. It's the prettiest thing with only 30,000 miles on it so it practically still pretty new with that few miles on it. We've never had a sports car before and we really fell into a great deal on it and we love it. Terry is selling his truck to our son for our grandsons for their grass cutting business they've started. They need a truck to carry all their stuff in. Any way we really love this Mustang and it really goes. We'll have to watch ourselves so we don't get a ticket.

Only other thing going on is that I've been working on in the yard is cutting back my plants from last year and cleaning out my flower beds and getting them ready for this year. I did the garden in the back yesterday and today I'm going to try and tackle the ones in the front. I'm a bit sore from yesterday so I don't know how far I'll get, plus my right leg was giving out on me yesterday so I don't know how long it will last today. Time will tell. Hugs.

Monday

2010-03-29T10:45:00.003-04:00

Not much going on lately. We've been having so much rain, but on the nice days I have been getting out and going for a walk and getting that in. I've been noticing that my legs, especially my right leg is not a strong as it was last year and I know it's from lack of exercise. I didn't do much during the winter, so now I'm having to build them up again. I just hope I can. My right one is pretty wobbly especially on hills and steps. It's a bit scary. Something else that's a bit scary is that I've noticed that I'm not remembering things like I should. Terry and the kids have all noticed it and have mentioned it to me. Now that is really scary as my Dad had Alzheimer's and I guess it's repeating it's self in me. The next time I go to the doctor, we are going to talk to him about it. Meanwhile I'm going to work some games that they have on AARP to help with memory and do some sudoku games too. Those are very hard for me. The other thing I'm worried about is Terry. His stomach is still bothering him. His diverticulitis is flaring up again, but he won't go to the doctor till after Easter. So I guess after Easter we'll both go. See you next Monday. Hugs.

Tuesday

2010-03-23T13:43:00.003-04:00

Not much going on lately, that's why I haven't blogged. Terry has been working on the basement and he's making amazing progress. The dry wall is all finished and ready for painting which he's been doing. The walls are mostly painted and the ceilingis finished and now he's working on the doors and doorways and the light fixtures and putting on the little things like electric plate covers and making door plate sills and once all of that is done we are going to lay ceramic tile down on the floor. I can help with that. I can hand him the tile. whop ee !! Then we will be pretty well be finished. That's hard to believe. I'm sure I'm letting something out and that there must be something I'm missing. Oh yes he has to get another railing as I have a hard time with just one railing. I do much better with two railings going down the steps.. I'm still slow, but at least I can go up and down with two railings, so he's going to put another one for me. I'm sure there will be other things like decorating and stuff. That will be the fun part though. Well that's what's been going on in our life's. Hugs to all.

Monday

2010-02-15T12:54:00.004-05:00

Snow, snow, snow. I sure wish I was a kid again. I'd be loving this. I'd be loving this as an adult too if I could go out in it and not fall down, but my balance problems would not let me stay up for long and I be down on my butt. Thank goodness we have Patti and Greg to shovel our snow as Terry and I can't do. The only part we do anyway is the part on the driveway where our van goes in and out. Terry doesn't drive the truck in the cold weather. It's a only driven in warm weather. The check engine light comes on and he's tried to fix it and get it fixed and can't so he only drives it in warmer weather.

We had a nice Valentines day. Terry took me out to my favorite place for dinner. We also went to see one of the grand kids play basketball. It was a nice day. I'm glad it was yesterday and not today with all the snow. Today I'm going to work on updating my picture collage. I tried last week and we needed new ink cartridge. We got it and now I'm all ready to go and make it with the new updated pictures, so I'm anxious to update them. I'm also having a big sirloin tip roast for dinner and Patti and family are coming over for dinner. Hugs.

Monday

2010-02-08T12:53:00.002-05:00

Well we have 8" of snow on the ground now and we're supposed to get that much or more tonight and tomorrow. Isn't that just dandy. I have to admit that when you ride around which you can as the roads are cleared, it is beautiful out. It's like a winter wonder land with snow all over the trees and all. Its really a sight to behold. But I'm afraid when we get more snow the branches won't be able to hold the weight of all the snow and we're going to have big problem with breaking branches falling on electric wires. Time will tell.

Saturday night we had a dinner party for Patti for her birthday and invited some of our neighbors also. It was so much fun. We had too many people to fit a our dinning room table as we didn't open it up so we had the kids sit on stools around the island cabinets which worked out just fine. We had more fun and then around 10 pm those that wanted to. went over the one neighbors to watch the fights like they usually do once a month. I stayed home like I always do and cleaned up and went to be and read. All and all it was a great evening. On Sunday we stayed home and had chili and watched the Super Bowl. The End. Hugs.

Wednesday

2010-01-27T14:32:00.002-05:00

Good Afternoon! I really don't know what I'm going to blog about, but since I told Lois I would I'm going to. Not much is going on though. I've been using my lap top computer at night mostly to play games on or just to look around on. I'm having a big problem getting use to the built in mouse. When I first start using it, it seems to work fine and then if seems to have a mind of it's own and wants to go all over the place. I hate it. Some have suggested plugging in a regular mouse but to me that defeats the purpose of a laptop so I'm really trying to get use to it. I've talked to other that have a problem with them too so I'm sticking with it, but I'm afraid one of these nights I'm going to get so mad at it that I'm going to throw the whole computer across the room. It's very frustrating.

Wednesday

2010-01-20T12:04:00.002-05:00

Well I spent the last two days holding on the phone trying to get a hold of McAfee so they could run a virus removal. The first day I ran out of time and couldn't get my computer to do what they wanted after holding for so long and then I had to get off because we had to go somewhere. The second day I held long enough and we finally had success. What a pain in the a__. I don't know why our everyday virus protection doesn't work but it didn't and we ended up having to pay an extra $90.00. Isn't that just lovely. Apparently there are some new viruses out there that don't respond to the regular everyday protection. Just my luck. Terry had been on the computer and looking for something and was on UTube and I think that's were we got it from. So no more UTube, for sure. Hugs.

Friday

2010-01-15T21:25:00.004-05:00

Last few days have been busy. On Wednesday I met with two of my girlfriends that I went all through grade school and high school with for for lunch. It was so nice and we really had a fun day. It had been awhile since we'd seen each other and with just the three of us it made talking so much easier than when we've met with a larger group. The one friend has a hearing problem so she finds it much better to met with a smaller group. This same friend has lost her husband in the past year and we have been wanting to get together since he died. She dated him in high school and we all knew him as he went to our same grade school, so we all knew him pretty well. We've lost a couple of good friends this past year. It makes you realize that we are getting older and I guess we have to expect such things, but and that's I big but I don't like it.

Thursday Terry and I both went to the doctor. He is still having problems with his back but not quite as bad as before. But a little manipulaption might help plus he had some little spots of cancer that needed to be burned off. I needed to talk to him about my back and also about my shoulder and a few other things. Thank goodness my shoulder is not rotary cuff. I was worried I'd need surgery like Terry had and and I wasn't ready for that. But he checked it and say it wasn't. I must have just banged it up a few to many times when I loose my balance and fell and also when I bump into the wall, especially the cornors, which I do pretty often. Terry keeps telling me to slow down and I don't realize I'm going fast. To me I'm not. Just my normal walk down the hall. Oh well.

Today we had no plans and got a call from our old neighbors about 10am saying that they were off work today and could we meet them for lunch, so we did. That ended up turning out great. We have been trying to get together for some time now and every time we tried someone of us was sick, but today we made it. Met them at 1 and sat there till 4:30 talking. We really miss them. Sometimes I wish we hadn't moved because of them. We love those folks. Well I've gone on enough for today. Hugs.

Sunday

2010-01-10T19:57:00.002-05:00

Well we did it or I should say Terry did it. But he really did get frustrated a lot while doing it, but we finally got my lap top and our regular computer now running on wireless. It wasn't easy to set up when you don't know what your doing. We got the wireless router and started from there but then my old computer needed some kind of card that it didn't have. So we ended up having to take the old computer up to Best Buy and the Geek Squad checked it and told us it wasn't compatiable and told us what we'd needed to intsall so it would be. So we bought that and took it home and worked on installing that. Once that was installed then things began to come together slow but sure and I do mean slow. The is so much wire running in and out and behind everywhere and crawling around. Anyway as of Saturday night I was able to use my new lap top, but it wasn't until today that I really was able to get on and play around and explore a bit. I'm having trouble getting used to that mouse thingy, but I guess that will take a little time getting use to. It sure is nice being able to sit in my recliner and playing on my lap to. That's cool. Hugs to you all.

2010-01-10T19:56:00.003-05:00

2010-01-10T19:56:00.001-05:00

Tuesday

2010-01-05T13:17:00.003-05:00

Happy New Year to you all. I can't believe it's 2010! I can remember when all the commotion was about 2000. That seems like it was only yesterday. It seems the older I get the faster the years go by. It's been really cold since the new year started and they say there's no end in sight. Don't like that. I don't mind cold but I don't like this really cold where it's stay in the 20's during the day and goes in the teen's at night or maybe lower. When it gets like that we don't even go out at all. Terry might got out if we really need something bad but usually Patti will call and see if we need anything and she'll get it for us, which sure is nice. Well hopefully this cold spell won't last too long.

I sure miss my friends on this blog. Everyone use to blog daily or almost and now we're lucky if they do it at all. They are all too busy now and I miss them. Some really are busy but some are busy playing games on Facebook and don't take time to keep up with friends and let us know what's going on in their lives anymore and I miss them. I wish we'd all start writing more, I know I'm going to try and write more often. Hugs.

Wednesday

2009-12-30T12:07:00.002-05:00

Saturday, The Day after Christmas

2009-12-26T12:45:00.002-05:00

We had a wonderful Christmas! Christmas Eve we went over our son's home and had dinner and the whole family was there and it was so much fun and everyone had such a great time it was just wonderful and all I could do is sit back and count my blessing. We had such fun just being together. The kids didn't even ruch to open presents, they were content having fun with each other. It was great and our daughter in law really put out a wonderful meal too. It just couldn't have been any better. On Christmas day we got up and went to Mass and then went over Terry's nephew's and got to see all of his side of the family and that was really nice. Having them all there was special too. Then we went over my sisters and spent the rest of the day with her and her hubby and her daughter and their family which is always a fun day. So all in all we had a very wonderful Christmas. We sit back and count all our blessings. The Lord sure has been good to us. I wish you God's Blessings too.

Christmas Eve

2009-12-24T12:23:00.002-05:00

Saturday

2009-12-05T13:56:00.002-05:00

This year has gone so fast that I can't believe it. Seems like it just flew by. I guess as you get older they do that, I don't know. Anyway, last night we had our Christmas dinner out with my sister and brother and their spouses and then went back to my sister's for dessert. It was very nice and nice having us all together and it was nice getting updates on everyone kids and grand kids. Today we're going over Patti's to celebrate Adam's and Greg's birthday's that are both on the 9th. Father and son both on the same day. She's making my chili recipe as that's what they both wanted. I'm looking forward to that.

This past week we lost a good friend. One of the fellas that we go to dinner with every week passed away. Joe Celenza. We've only known Joe and Doris for about 2 years but we have really gotten close to them in that short time, having dinner with them every Tuesday night and we will miss him terribly. Joe's been through allot in his life and now he's out of pain. Joe was all stooped over in pain from his back pain and had dialysis 3 times a week and he was having stomach pain and they found a bleeding ulcer and fixed that and he was still having pain and they were going to do a another test last Saturday and he passed away during the night. He was a great guy and he and Terry had so much in common and they could just talk on and on about different wars and history stuff and his brother and his wife are the other couple that we go out with and he's really broken up about it. If you could would you please keep all these folks in your prayers. Thank you so much. Joe and Doris were married for 58 years and I know Doris is going to be very lonley without Joe by her side. Hugs.

2009-11-25T19:45:00.000-05:00

Sunday

Spent the weekend watching a baseball tournament. Came down to the final game and it was a good one but they lost and came in second place. It was Patti's youngest son Adam who was picked up and asked to play in the tournament. None of her kids played summer baseball but he was called and asked to play just in this tourney and it was fun watching just the finals. It has been too hot all week to watch them play but since they made it to the finals we went and watched. Sure felt good when we came home to take a shower and then sit in a comfortable chair and relax.

Tonight our friends are home from California so we will get to see them. We've missed them. There daughter is doing better but they still don't have any final diagnosis on her.

Tomorrow we are going out to see our friends that live out in the country and spend the day with them. Terry and the hubby will probably shoot most of the day and the wife and I will find something to do I'm sure. They have about 30 acres and a country home that they build back in the woods. Got away from the city about 8 years ago. They live there and in the winter they have a trailer that take and go to Florida for 4 months. Nice life, and they always have their grand kids somewhere close by, even when they go to Florida they fly down sometimes. Also very active in their church too. Great folks and good friends. Husband used to be a policeman when Terry was, so we've known them a long time. Most of our friends are from Terry's police years. Well, I guess, I'd better get off her and get out of my PJ's. Hugs.