a funny

OK, so I found this from someone else in blog land...it's so funny!!
I love the delayed reaction from the girl that was stomping with her. Then the slo-mo! Funny!!! I love You Tube!

Have a funny day, but don't get hurt!

my dad

My dad has been diagnosed with Lung Cancer. While the pulmonologist thinks he is a good candidate for surgery, we need to know if the cancer has spread at all. I have a sinking feeling that it has spread. We'll know more soon. He is going to get a pet scan tomorrow and then we'll wait to get the results. The pet scan will tell us if it has spread and where it is. I just hope that it's contained. Fortunately, since his biopsy on Thursday we have been moving on all this fairly quickly. He will be 77 this year in October, I'm just upset that I lived so far away and that I didn't play a more active role in his health/doctor visits before now. I think it was only a matter of time since he's been a smoker forever, but perhaps if I lived in town I would have been able to go with him to help identify this sooner. We'll see how it goes. In the meantime I had my uncle fly in to cheer him up a bit. He has no appetite and he's always lying down. He likes playing dominoes with his brother and let's face it, if something happens, I just want them to spend time together so that we'll appreciate the memories.

Please pray for my father. Thank you!

my girls...

I love them so very much!!

Everyday Luisa amazes me. She is simply a character. She doesn't let anything get past her, she is very much like me. She wants things done the "right way" which usually means whatever I have taught her to be the right way. For example, whenever she eats corn on the cob, she uses corn ears. So yesterday when we went to Sea Island, they just use one stick, well when my sister tried to get her to eat it with just the one stick, she wouldn't go for it. I got her a second stick and therefore she was able to chow down using the sticks as handles for her corn. Perhaps not the best example or perhaps I didn't tell the story as well, but she's just funny in her communicating and telling Rosie, that it just wasn't possible for her to have corn with just one stick.

As for Mia, she is just chewing on anything she can get her hands on. She even "chews" on her tongue. She is constantly sticking her tongue out. She'll bite my finger if I leave it near her mouth. She is drinking about 4 to 6 ounces at a time and she is only eating rice cereal. I think she is anxious to get her hands on some other foods, but she'll just have to wait until her 6 month appointment. The only reason we're anxious to try something new is that her BM's are a bit stiff and I hate to think she's having trouble with the poops!

Wharhol

I downloaded this software to turn my pictures into "Warhol" Prints. :)
What do you think? :)

Rodeo!

HOWDY everyone! It's rodeo time here in our fare city. So on Saturday of last weekend, we took Luisa to the rodeo. She had the best time, she even rode a real live pony. I thought maybe she would shy away from it, but she enjoyed it. Then we sat and listened to a band and she just danced the night away. So at preschool it was Rodeo day today and this is the outfit she wore. I forgot to take the hat to school, but otherwise she looked adorable if I do say so myself.

post script

I just have to say, it pays to read your post after you've posted it. I posted my blog entry and then read it and well of course I had a couple of mistakes. It's funny how something that takes so little time can save you a so much embarrassment. Are you listening Internet? I care so much about what you think of me, I'm willing to proof read my blog entries for you! :)

I'll get off my soap box now, I have to go watch some commercials.

Work, exercise and the Super Bowl!

This week is close, for those who aren't aware that's the first five business days of the new month. Fun stuff! Lots of work. I really enjoy it, but I'm a little worn out since I just finished putting in way more hours than I ever anticipated for a part timer! It's OK though, because when that big paycheck rolls in the complaining will cease! :) Anyway, I have some work I should be looking at right now, but whatever I don't want to! So there!

I was thinking today I should really start exercising. I guess the weather has been the biggest motivation. I want to stay small and get a little smaller, so if I'm going to be buying new shorts and capris then I should probably start trying to lose a little more so that I can look decent for the summer. Especially since I will really be single! I anticipate getting the paperwork for the divorce finalized within the next couple of weeks.

Finally, the superbowl. Normally I could care less, I'm not a football fan nor have I really made any effort to change that. I usually watch the superbowl for the commercials! Anyway before the game I told my brother in law that New York would win. He offered a bet of $10, I should have taken it!! I called him when there was only 30 seconds left on the clock, he proceeded to ask me about a 2 point conversion. I had to remind him who he was talking to and he replied, I have to go, I have to call Gus. Which of course translates to, don't rub my nose in it, let me call someone who can intelligently discuss football. :) I wasn't insulted, I was really just lucky!

Okay, I'm going to bed now. Only to turn the TV back on and watch the NBC affiliate that promises to show the new commercials. Since I was at my sister's house for the Superbowl and I truly a single parent, I couldn't watch the commercials. Too many interruptions! Fortunately, my sisters tag team and handle one of my children while I handle the other. I'm so lucky. Lastly, I'm going to kick off the air conditioner again. Sheesh, so much for winter!!

Check out my weather: zip: 78247

One day...

I hope that one day I will be motivated to writing thank you notes like I used to be. It's terrible, I don't want to seem unappreciative, I just don't make the time. I have been bad about a lot lately. I wish I had sent out invitations to Mia's baptism. Instead I relied on word of mouth and I did it without making a real effort. I really wish my best girl friend was there, but I mentioned it to her and yet I don't think I actively invited her. She's not Catholic and perhaps she didn't realize I was really inviting her, or that it was open to friends despite being a different faith. Regardless, I don't blame her, I blame myself. Perhaps one day I will be better. Any free time I have now I spend on the computer, it's some sort of relaxation, it's "me" time. Right now I'm in the middle of a sudoku game and I should get back to it.

In the meantime if you haven't received a thank you note from me... please forgive me. Just so you know, Luisa too has been after me about sending them out if you can believe that. Today mom watched her for me, while I met with the lawyer and she pulled out some paper and pencils and told mom she had to write notes for all the gifts she got for Christmas. Sweet girl! :) She's quite a stinker though.