Last night my sister and I were sitting in the den and I said to her, “I never want to live in a vegetative state, dependent on some machine and fluids from a bottle to keep me alive. That would be no quality of life at all! If that ever happens, just pull the plug.”
So she got up, unplugged the computer, and, … threw out my wine.
She’s such a bitch.
Claire Maxine Vaughn
Last week I had the honor of going to Justin and Jessica’s ultrasound. (Justin’s my son)
I of course cried like baby in there. I kept hugging Jessica and patting Justin on the shoulder.
She is so beautiful. She’s still due on Oct. 30th of this year.
They did the original scan then flipped on the 3D scan. It was simply amazing seeing her moving around in there. You could see all of her little features so well.
I am one super excited Grandma to be! They asked me what I want to be called and I want something different.
I was thinking maybe Grammy. But Justin thinks that sounds to much like Granny. Sighs….So i’m off to search all the different languages to see what Grandmas are called.
If you have any ideas please tell me!
Here is something I came across in my e-mail. It really spoke volumes to me. I’ve been going through some hard times lately and thought this came to me at the perfect time. Funny how that happens.
However these are really rules to live by everyday no matter what is going on your life.
So….without further ado I share with you.
Take one a day… and feel great all week!!
Day 1
Positive thinking works better than worrying.
Day 2
See yourself as you truly are: amazing!
Day 3
Joy fills open hearts first.
Day 4
You are good enough, and you deserve to succeed!
Day 5
The less you stress, the smaller problems get!
Day 6
Give yourself permission to dream!
Day 7
Every day is a new journey. Enjoy the ride!
Have you ever had one of those days where everything that could go wrong did?
Phew, for a minute there I thought I was the only one for a second.
It stats off with some trippy dream where I found myself waking up Brian and saying that he needed to get Sarah’s white shirt on the back of the cart. I came to while saying this aloud and thought what in the world. So I roll over and go back to sleep.
6 in the morning comes and it’s time to get up as I need to take Justin and Jessica to their Ultrasound appt. I open my eyes and think ok it’s time to get up. The next thing I know it’s almost 6:30! So here I am 30 minutes behind. I rush to the bathroom and took the fastest shower in history. (Trust me, I bet you can’t beat my time.)
I got Sarah’s lunch ready. Still in my bathrobe and towel in hair. I finally make it to my room where I get dressed and go wake the baby. I feed her and things are going well. Next thing I know I’m getting a phone call from Jessica asking where I was. Apparently my baby is so darn cute I lost track of time playing with her. So here I am 15 minutes behind. Second time I’ve been behind in one day. And not even the good being behind. (wink)
We get to the ultrasound it all went well. Well, except I cried like a baby when I saw my Grandchild on the screen. But, I announced to the room that I was about to have a moment. So you can’t really say much on that.
Then we’ve got to run to the insurance company so they can pay their insurance for their car so they can start driving it again. ( Did I mention this was gonna be a long blog? NO? well, it’s gonna be a long one (winks).)
So while waiting for them to do their thing I call my Mom’s work to tell her all about the ultrasound. Uhhh, Yea. Her bosses reply was “OMG! Didn’t they make it to CA?) Yea, I forgot they were on vacation. No that alone is not that a big of a deal except they’ve been gone almost two weeks and they have my oldest daughter with them! Sighs………….
So we go and make copies of the ultrasound pics and run to Gordmans so I can buy a few things for the baby. Alright, I spent $50 bucks. But it was all on sale! I got a good deal!
We are starving by this point and went to a local restaurant. That went well until it was time to leave. Ok the service sucked but other then that…..
We are all in the van ready to go. I’ve put the car in reverse and notice the oil light on. I was thinking, shoot gonna have to get some oil. As I’m backing out I can barley turn the wheel. I was thinking fuck now the power steering fluid too. Now before I write the rest of this ya’ll have to promise to not laugh to hard. So I backed up and put it in drive. We aren’t moving. Justin said “Mom, you have to take your foot off of the break and put it on the gas.” I was like oh yea. Duh, lol. So I did and we are still not moving. So we put it in reverse and it’s still going backwards. Alright, long story short. We were on an incline so of course we were moving backwards. Oh, and the car hadn’t been turned on yet.
I come home and think I better take a nap. So I took a short nap and then it was time to take Emma to her little league game. Got there fine. Game was good. They lost by a small margin. Then it’s time to leave. As we are leaving all these cars coming at me are looking at me with funny looks. Then I see it. The going wrong way sign. I was driving down a one way the wrong way.
We manage to get home just fine. The girls came into the house first and I was checking out the kittens. They came out to see what was taking me so long to come in. Well, we ended up locked out of the house. I know you all are thinking well, get a spare key. Oh we have one. It was IN the house. Sighs……. One hour later we get rescued by Brian who had to leave work to unlock the door. Thank goodness for cell phones! Emma goes into complete survival mode. Ticking off what we have to eat and drink left over from the game. (eyeroll) Sophie thought for sure we were all gonna starve to death.
As you can see from the pic no one is happy. This was taken after about an hour of “being in the wild” The baby is crying because she wasn’t being pushed anymore.
Then we get in and settled. Get the baby to bed and log on to talk to a friend. This friend has flipped out. Just not the same person they used to be and I told them that I thought it best we don’t speak anymore. Now don’t get me wrong, I’m not blameless in all of this. There is a whole story on that it’s self. But anyway…..
Here I am a little bewildered a little sad and planning on relaxing for just a bit before heading off to bed.
If you all made it to the end I command you!!!
Remember, Jamie says never take anything for granted and always keep your spare key outside of the house!
As my day comes to an end. I set here at my pc to relax for a few before bed. Listening to music when I came across and oldish song (Live Like You Were Dying).
Instant memories came flooding to me.Come sept. of this year I will have been internet savvy for 4 years. A real life friend of mine introduced me to yahoo chat and his friends. One of this friends was an older gentlemen we all lovingly called Papa.Papa and I had an instant father/daughter connection. His wife had just been diagnosed with stage 4 lung cancer.
Papa and I spent many hours in private chat or instant messaging talking about all he was going through. I sent thinking of you cards to him and his wife. Sent messages all the time to cheer him up.One of our favorite things to do was to get our little group together and sit in private chat and listen to music and sometimes someone would sing.By the time this song came out Papa was on the booze pretty bad. He would sit up late at night singing songs (he had a wonderful voice). We all would sit there and just “be” with him. What else was there to do.
We all lived so many miles away from him that the best we could do was sit and be there in this room with him.When Tim McGraw released his newest album in 2004 there was a song that just hit a little to close to home for Papa. However he grabbed a hold of that song and sang it over and over.Anyway…Hearing this tonight just made me a little melancholy.
So I dedicate this blog to Tony “Papa” and his wife Patty may she Rest In Peace.
Hello from Iowa! It looks like we’ve managed to survive the flood. I’m so very thankful that we live on an incline. However even at that we almost didn’t escape water damage. The water made it all the way up to about 20 feet from the house. Our basement has been getting water in it for the first time since we’ve lived here. We now have our very own mushroom patch growing down there. I would go down and snap a pic for you guys but the basement is creepy and well, just not gonna go down there. LOL!
I have plenty of pics to share with all of you. Most I will share through my Kodak gallery but will give you all a virtual peek through here.
Here is the bridge by Sherri and Dave’s house. The second pic is the other side of the bridge. The next day after I snapped those pics the entire bridge was under water.
This is the bridge at the park. You can see how close the water was to the bridge. Just 10 hours later the water was over the bridge and in town.
As you can see by this pic how far it came into town. How deep it was. After this pic was snapped it got even deeper by nightfall.
Thankfully the river has crested and it’s starting to slowly reced.
The flooding we experienced was of historical proportions not only for the state of Iowa but for myself as well. I hope to never have to see another flood this bad again. So many lost so much. I really don’t think that isn’t a person around who hasn’t been touched by this in some shape way or form.
I leave you guys with this. Be thankful for what you have. It can all be gone in a second.
Emma is in her first year of little league. For some reason I thought it was co/ed. I was wrong it’s all girls and they are playing softball. Shows how much I know about baseball/softball.
They won their first game. Emma was so excited. She only struck out one time and was able to make it through all the bases the rest of the times.
She’s had two games since then and unfortunately they are not playing as well as the first game. I told her it was for the fun not for the win. Not sure if she bought it that since she just kinda gave me a look that said whatever.
Thankfully her games are only through the month of June as it’s been so hot that I feel like I’m melting out there and Sarah isn’t the happiest baby being in the hot weather either. Though we do look for some shade and spread out a blanket so I guess it’s really not that bad. LOL!
It’s been super hot here so we thought it would be the perfect opportunity to get out the little pool and let the girls have some fun.
While it was warm enough outside for Sarah to play in the pool the water was not. So she watched from afar in the shade.
What a chunker!!!!!
Sarah had her first play date. The baby is exactly two weeks younger then her. Let me tell you there is a huge difference between the two. Sarah is a little on the big side and Izzy is a little on the small side. When you see them together Sarah looks like a giant. LOL!
They didn’t really do to much. They are to young to interact with each other. I think I had more fun seeing them together then they had “playing” with each other.
Last week we were having dinner at a local restaurant. It was completely spontaneous and I just happened to have my camera with me. Which is a good thing as we ran into some friends of ours we hadn’t seen in a long time.
Ayla had just graduated from highschool and they were having a family dinner at the same place. How convenient right?
They all look so grown up!
So there is Ayla on the left in the graduation cap. Her sister Alisha in the middle.
And on the end in blue is Alanna and she happens be Emma’s half sister too. The little one in the dress is Katie and is the girl’s niece.
They’ve all grown up so much. It seems like yesterday that they were all in grade school. Sighs…How time flies.
I took a pic of Alanna and Emma together. You can see some resemblance between the two of them. Well truthfully the one thing they both have in common are their “ghetto booties” which of course can not be seen from this pic. LOL!
So not the best pic of Emma, but it will have to due. I will say I dragged Emma from her dinner to snap the pic. Probalby a good thing we were the only ones in the restaurant. LOL!
