• Uncategorized

    Surprise Birthday Outing, Plus Weekly Update

    Well, the day was so much fun. I’m sharing with you a simple way that I planned a day for my Husband’s birthday. I included things that he liked to do, and things we enjoyed doing together. We managed to fill the day. He had to choose between “door number 1 through 5” for some of the places and so even I did not know where all we would be going. I had made the possible selections based on things I knew he liked but he had to pick a door number first. In some cases the decision was solid – like the donut stop where he used to get…

  • Health,  Illness

    Sharing With You…The Week of the Surprise Surgery

    Here’s the video to the past week or so leading up to the surprise appendectomy. You can watch it here. All is going well. It’s been a pretty good week of recovery. I’m sandwiched between 1) trying to catch up at work (from year end and from having this issue) and 2) trying to get things done before we head out to Texas. It’s odd living in limbo. And then there is Mom hanging over there in “left wing” giving me long lists of everything she wants to do (I’m her taxi) as if she is afraid we are going to forget about her. She is trying to make me…

  • Family

    Baby Gender Reveal by Cake and Weekly Update

    Well, this was so cute. It was revealed to me what the gender of my 2nd grandchild would be by my first grandchild’s tongue. His Mom had cut the cake and he had partaken and the results were on his tongue. So. A cute reveal for me! But this video was priceless! So cute. In March we’ll be getting a __________! (?) I’ll let you discover for yourself. The video is only a minute long. WE are so excited. In other news….my tummy continues to heal but I’m making a few different choices as to quantity and types of food. I have a different strategy at work to drink more…