Playing Catch Up

I keep getting behind on this blogging stuff. Life is keeping me extremely busy. I forgot till now what "Coming upon finals" use to mean. It's been so long since I was last having to worry about Finals!

First off, Big Shout Out to my greatest friend Charlotte and Her husband Jon on their 2 Job Offers! (You know where I'm crossing my fingers for...) And HAPPY BIRTHDAY (Though I'm late) to my "other mother" Veda! Love you and thanks for all you have always done for me.

We just found out this week that Aspen has to go in for Oral Surgery and be put out, because aparently she didn't develop enamel on her back teeth and they are just holes, and the poor little one's mouth is always hurting her when she eats. She just cries, and it breaks my heart. So she has to go have all her back teeth capped adn fixed. Scary to have a child put out...hopefully it all goes well. What's another medical bill...since we just finally paid all ours off, guess it was time for more.

We finally got a kitchen table!!! Wahoo!!! No more eating on the floor!

A BIG HUGE THANK YOU to Lacy, Steve, Ivy, and to Lyndi for letting me take their pictures!! You guys are real troopers to put up with me being as slow as I am. I had a TON of fun though. I was going to post some pics, but I didn't ask their permission, so I don't want to do that without...

There are STILL openings for more photo models!! Email or call me to set it up. Or leave a message here and I will contact you. Trust me, at least you will leave here laughing a little...I think...

The other day (wed I think) I went to a funeral in Newton...maybe it was Thursday...er Tuesday...ahhh!! My week was a jumble. IT was sometime the "other day" It's been a while since I was out to Newton. It was nice to go home and see familiar faces. (Newton will always be home to me) I got to see one of the people I have admired all my life, and LOVE LOVE LOVE so much. She use to babysit me and watch after me a LOT when I was a child. She lived two houses down from me, and her granddaughter was one of my very best friends. She would always feed me yummy strawberry jam on toast (My favorite) instead of making me eat the greenbeans my mom would send with me to her house to eat for breakfast. Yuck! She was so great, and she'd throw those green beans out and give me the good stuff, since I'd always say "Grandma Charlotte, do I HAVE to eat these greenbeans?" And she'd say "No way" and then I got the good stuff! Well, she is aging as we all do, and I saw her at the funeral and she came up to me and gave me a big hug, and then she said "Remind me who you are." Now you have to understand how big of a role this gentle lady played in my life as a child. My mom would often not be home and she'd forget to leave a message, or make sure I had a sitter to come home to, and I'd go home as a kindergartner to an empty house and I'd be scared, and Grandma Charlotte always took me into her house and let me stay with her. She was my angel. When she asked me that question, I just started crying, I haven't really cried since my dad died, but the tears just came. Then she started shedding tears too while she just hugged me and told me how much she loved me and reminded me of the "Strawberry Jam on Toast" Story (So then I KNEW she knew who I was). I realized how much I dont' like the whole aging process. I dont' like losing people I love, and I definetely don't like the forgetting process. It breaks my heart. I hope that she knows how much I love her and what a big difference she made in my life growing up. I hate getting sentimental, and I hate feeling vernerable when I tell stories like this (I dont' know why...I'm strange like that...) but I wanted the world to know that Angels come in every shape and form, and how thankful I am for the one I had as a Child.