Winter, yuck.

  

I don't know why it is, but winter is so depressing. So, for this entry I am filling it with flowers and pretending it's Spring, lol. I love these first graphic. Not only is it just beautiful, but the flowers happen to be my favorites. So, thank you Cab for the beautiful work you put into this.

Well, let's see where do I start? Yesterday morning I was downstairs sitting with Mommom I, while Joe ran to do some errands. He had to go to the bank, Walgreens and HomeDepot. He didn't want to leave his Mom alone for a very good reason. It seems wednesday morning she blacked out and fell on the kitchen floor while making pancakes. Joe was in the shower and never knew about it. His Mom had come too before he was done showering. She never told him what happened. He didn't find out until later wednesday evening when his Mom announced she had a lump on the back of her head. He asked how it happened, if she had bumped her head, and she says maybe it happened when I woke up on the floor this morning. Oh my was Joe upset. He told his Mom from now on if anything like that happens, she has to promise to tell him or anyone else. She promised to tell him, but will she? I don't think she will, because this lady does not like anyone fussing over her, she is so stubborn. Now I know where Joe gets his stubborness from, lol. So, Joe leaves for his errands yesterday morning and right away Mommom wants to go take laundry from washer and put in dryer. Hellooooooo, I don't think so. I made her butt stay put on that couch, and I went down to the basement and put her clothes in the dryer. I also folded the ones that were in the dryer, so she had no excuse to go down there. She mentioned her sugar was high, 184. Yep definately too high for her. Joe said his Mom had Raspberry cheesecake wednesday when he took her to visit her SIL. So thats where the high sugar level came from. So, while I was caring for her while Joe was running his errands, her doctor called. Seems Joe told his sister about their Mom's blacking out, and she was worried and called Mommom's doctor. He wanted her in his office at 2:30. Mommom tried to make excuses, her son was doing errands had a busy day planned, she didn't know if she could make it. Well, thank goodness I carry my cell with me. I called Joe, told him doctor wants his Mom in his office at 2:3o today, he said she'll be there. So with a loud voice I said tell your doctor you'll be there, lol. The doctor heard me too, cause mommom said ok see you at 2:30, heehee aren't I a stinker? Mommom says, it's gonna be a long day since I have to go to doctor's. She was mad I think. I told her well you got 2 choices, go to doctor's and make sure your ok, or sit here and deal with your 4 children and me, lol. She says, I think I will go see the doc, lol. I know her kids, Mike, Joe, Lucy and Tony would not leave her alone if she didn't go. All 4 of them are just as stubborn as she is, lol. Plus her grand daughter is in her 3rd year of nursing school and she would of been all over Mommom if she didn't go. They didn't get home til late, so I don't know yet what happened or what doctor said. I will find out later and let you know.

Well, I got a call from my sister Helen in New Jersey. Her second son Brian was arrested and put into jail with no bail. She was upset but she agree's with me that maybe it will change his ways. You see he got caught in school 2 yrs ago with marijuana. He was expelled and had to do 500 hours community service, pay 1000.00 fine and be put on probation for 5 years. Well, he never went to probation meetings the past few times, and when he finally did call and go, the probation officer had the cops there waiting for him, and he was arrested. Now he is crying help mommy. She told him judge said no bail, your in here til court Jan 19th and then he might even make him finish his time on probation in jail, according to the lawyer. It just makes me so mad, that these teenagers nowadays think they know everything and can get away with it, that the grownups are stupid or something. Guess Brian learned the hard way who the stupid one is. Helen has 4 son's, 19, 18, 16, 14. Beings Brian got in trouble, it scared the 16yr old who was trying to follow Brian, right into going to school everyday, doing his homework and listening to his parents. I am so glad he changed his ways. Helen works 2 jobs and her husband works full time for the city, so they don't need to be at work and worry about what the kids are doing. Those kids are old enough to know better.

Well, as for today, woke up at 6:30 with horrible ripping pains in my stomach. Went to use bathroom and got me a bad case of diareha. Always happenswhen I diet. Been in that bathroom 3 times already this morning. Hope it doesn't last all day, because Rebecca and I have alot to do today. We are going to laundry mat, bank, grocery shopping. Jim carried all the baskets and laundry bags of laundry down stairs and put them in the van for me before he left for work this morning and took out the trash too. He's such a good hubby, I am so blessed having him for my husband, even though every once in a while I could just smack him, lol. But I don't smack him, cause he says he might like it, the perv, lol. But I love him.

Well, it's cloudy and cold today. No sunshine, grrrrrrr. I hate winter month's. And now there saying we may get snow on tuesday. Noooooooooooo, I don't want it. I don't like winter, snow, ice, cold arctic winds. I need to live in a warmer state, lol. I'd better get my butt in gear and get my day started or I'll never get it all done. So take care all and have a wonderful day.

Woke up this morning with a headache, and with me it's a sign for a bad day ahead. I hope not, cause my day is kind of full today. This morning I have to go downstairs and sit with Joes Mom. He has some errands to do, should take about an hour or two he said. Joe only found out last night that his Mom had fallen yesterday when he walked down to the deli for milk. She didn't tell him all day. So, while he is out running errands I will go downstairs and take care of Mommom I. Joe and his 2 brothers and 1 sister really worry about their Mom. She has very poor health. A bad heart, diabetic, high blood pressure, and gallbladder should be removed but since her heart is so bad they said she wouldn't survive having her gallbladder removed. So last year they inserted a tube into her to drain the fluid that build up and causes her to get sick. The tube was clogged and not draining properly, so she had to have it replaced 2 days ago. I think they should of kept her over night at least but instead they released her. Insurance company said it wasn't an emergency for them to keep her at the hospital. Ummmm, hello this is a 78 yr old woman in very poor health and a high risk and it's not an emergency? I swear the president needs to worry about our insurance companies and not about sending 20,000 more troops to Iraq like he wants too. I see no end to this war in the near future. To any of you with husbands, brothers, sons, uncles, sisters, daughters who are serving in the military right now, my thoughts and prayers are with you all.

Well, I got my kitchen cleaned and organized yesterday. The pantry closet was a total disaster, but not anymore. I threw alot of things out. I have this thing now, where if it ain't being used and I haven't used it in a while, trash it goes. I filled up a 39 gallon trash bag with trash. I did find a couple things I haven't been able to find lately.

Well, I'd better go now. Joe will be calling within the hour to say he wants to go on his errands, so I better get Rebecca and I dressed and fed before he calls. Have a great day all.

INFORMATION

HI EVERYONE. PLEASE HELP A VERY SPECIAL JLAND LADY. HER NAME IS LISA, ALSO KNOWN AS SERAPHOFLOVE. SHE IS IN NEED OF HAVING HER HOME WHEELCHAIR ACESSIBLE AND THINGS LOWERED IN HER HOME TO HELP HER ON A DAILY BASIS. LET'S SHOW LISA AND THE PEOPLE OVER AT EXTREME MAKEOVERS JUST HOW MUCH WE CARE.

 

What You have?

WHat you have Fibromyalgia, Osteoporosis, Oseoathritis, Degenerative spine with spures, possible multiple sclerosis, and stii man sydrome. Bursitis on both hips, Heart palpitations, I kind of forget really what all I do have.

 

 

What YOu Can't do?  walk for very far with my walker or cane, I get out of breath, or to walk up the stairs as well. To write, it's very hard. Sit on certain chairs, hurts if I do it anyway, Stretch my arms out all the way, Actually, it would be easier to tell you what I can do. That list would be so much shorter.

 

What you NEED to live a comfortable life?  Space to get around in my wheel chair, things lower for me to reach as well. A Sleep number bed, my living room furniture to be softer and comfortable for me as well so I can sit in there with my family. The hot tub that my doctor is throwing a fit over. And ramps both front and back.

 

Please copy and paste in an entry to spread the word. Lisa needs our help, lets join in together and help her.

Copy this entry and mail it to the address enclosed. On the back of the envelope write JLand Angels in big bold black letters. Angie and I both sent in our letter to them, and so is Nancy, my soon to be sis in law. Lets show them how very important this is and also show them how much Lisa needs this.

 

Lisa's email address to give them is Seraphoflove9001@aol.com

 

Send to: Extreme Makeovers (Region05)

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THANK YOU EVERYONE.

Good Morning

Good morning. And what a cold morning it is too, brrrrrr. I guess winter is showing it's ugly head finally. I was really loving the warm weather until the rain came in and chased it away. Today the high here in Philadelphia will be about 36 degree's. Cold and very windy the weatherman said. I have to venture out this morning and go get some laundry done, otherwise we'll be going around naked, lol. Hmmmm, that won't be a pretty site at all, lol. Jim just left for work. He walks because it is only 2 blocks away. He was all dressed warm, and had his lunch bag in hand. Rebecca is watching NOGGIN. She'll be asking for her breakfast soon, always does when I start something on the computer. Kids, grrrrrrrrrr, lol.

Mommom I had surgery yesterday and when she got home she didn't look well at all. Her color was white as a ghost, her hands were blue and she was shivering so bad she couldn't talk. Joe made her some hot soup and she got sick all over herself. He came running up here for me to help. I told him to stay up here with Rebecca and I would take care of everything and Mommom. So, I went downstairs got her all cleaned up and into a set of warm pajamas, got her settled on the couch, laying down and covered her with 2 blankets. Made her a big mug of iced water, to get her veins pumping that blood and to make those blue hands a normal color again. Made her a cup of Candy Cane herbal tea to settle her stomach and it worked. She fell asleep and slept for 4 hours, Joe said. I cleaned up the mess where she had gotten sick and put her things into the washer she was wearing. Joe was so worried about her, but I told him she will be fine. Her pulse was normal and she had no fever, incision in her stomach for the drain bag from her gallbladder drainage looked fine. I changed the bandage for her. This morning before I go to laundry mat I will go downstairs and help her shower, change the bandage again and get her dressed. Joe knows I love his mom dearly and I would do anything to help her. She is such a sweet  lady. 

Well, yesterday I took some silly pictures of Rebecca. She was modeling she said, lol. Also took one of all her nick nacks on her dresser to show you her collection. This child swears she needs more and can fit them on her dresser, yea right it looks full to me. Well let me get the pics in this entry for you. Hope you all have a great day.

Sooooooo tired

      Wow, what a busy night last night and day today I had. My grand daughter Marissa spent the night last night. I put the girls to bed at 9. Did they go to sleep? Nope, cause hubby did a lil too much partying watching Eagles game and had to keep the girls up, grrrrrrrrrr. I had to threaten to do bodily harm to him twice if he didn't stop keeping the girls awake with his silly stories, lol. So he finally goes into kitchen to grab a snack, in the mean time I got into pajamas and went to bed. He comes in room turns on light, I yell, off goes the light. I was just about ready to doze off he sneaks up behind me and says BOO, scares the hell out of me, I almost jumped out of the bed, but instead I told him I will punch you in your fricken head if you don't knock it off and get into this bed and go to sleep. I guess he knew I was mad, cause I don't even know what time he came to bed, I was asleep. I woke up at 6:30 he was still asleep, so I made the coffee and watched the morning news. He got up around 7am, said he was tired, lol. I told him that'll teach him for trying to keep us all awake. Tonight he was in bed at 8pm, old fart, lol. The 2 girls were a big handful today. My god they worked my nerves. They have trashed the house, again. Tomorrow I will clean it before I go out for a walk with Rebecca. Tonight I spent the evening going through emails. I had 195 emails tonight when I signed on. It's showing I have 15 now, whew.

I went to the post office today. Mailed my SIL to be Nancy a big envelope. I found some really pretty stationary at Target on clearance from christmas, and I know she would love it, so I sent it to her. Nancy said I am getting the first letter written with it. Cool. After the post office I took Rebeca and Marissa to McDonalds to get them a Happy Meal. They chose chicken nugget meals with apple juice. Then we went to Emma's for a while. After about an hour Rebecca and I left and we went to the dollar store. Mommom I needed a new magnifying glass so she could read. I got her 3 of them, small, medium and large. Three in a pack for 1.00, can't beat that deal. She loved them. Rebecca seen some nick nacks she just had to have for her dresser. One is a lizzard, a giraffe and a fish. I will take pics of her dresser tomorrow and show you her assortment of nick nacks, she is worse then me when it comes to them, lol.

As I was getting Rebecca strapped into her car seat today, I stood up too quick not realizing how low the van is and banged my head. Talk about hurt, wow I saw stars, I actually had to hold on. Got myself a lump on top my head and a major headache too. I took some tylenol, and I am going to bed in a few minutes. Well, guess that is about it. Hope you all had a great day.

                      

                              CINDY

Happy Birthday to Emma

HERE'S A FEW PICS OF EMMAS BIRTHDAY YESTERDAY. WE HAD A GREAT TIME, AND I KNOW EMMA DID TOO. THERE'S ALSO A FEW MORE I ADDED THAT I NEVER PUT IN ENTRIES. REBECCA WORE THE MINNIE MOUSE EARS MOST OF THE DAY YESTERDAY. SHE SAID THAT WAS HER PARTY HAT, LOL. DINNER WAS FABULOUS, EVERYONE ENJOYED, CHEESE TORTELLINI, MEATBALLS, SAUSAGE, SALAD, GARLIC BREAD STICKS, AND A BANANA CREAM CAKE AND ICECREAM AFTERWARDS. ALSO HAD STEAMED SHRIMP. DAN OF COURSE SMASHED THE EDGE OF THE CAKE IN EMMAS FACE WHEN SHE PRETENDED TO TAKE A BITE, LOL. WE ALL HAD SUCH A LAUGH. IT'S SO HARD TO BELIEVE MY FIRST BORN IS NOW 27 YEARS OLD. TIME SURE DOES GO BY. I WAS ONLY 18 YEARS OLD WHEN SHE WAS BORN. JIM AND I WERE MARRIED WHEN I WAS 17 AND HE WAS 23. AND 10 MONTHS LATER WE WERE BLESSED WITH EMMA. SHE IS SUCH A WONDERFUL DAUGHTER. SHE IS ALWAYS THERE WHEN WE NEED HER. I DON'T KNOW HOW I COULD OF GOTTEN THROUGH MY SURGERIES AND CANCER TREATMENTS IF IT WERE'NT FOR HER. SHE WAS MY RIGHT ARM.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY EMMA, WE LOVE YOU VERY MUCH.

A first grandchild for Uncle Joe

GOOD MORNING!!!!!!!!!!! I AM SO BEHIND IN EVERYTHING I WANTED TO DO TODAY. BUT I WILL GET THERE, I HOPE. I WANTED TO SHARE THESE VERY SPECIAL PICTURES WITH YOU ALL. IT IS OF OUR GOOD FRIEND JOE AND HIS WONDERFUL FAMILY, AND OF HIS FIRST GRAND CHILD. YESTERDAY WAS THE FIRST DAY JOE EVER MET HIS GRANDSON, AND WOW WHAT A HAPPY SPECIAL DAY IT WAS. JOE DID NOT STOP SMILING. I WENT DOWNSTAIRS WITH MY CAMERA AND TOOK THESE PICTURES, JIM LOADED THEM IN THE COMPUTER SO WE COULD EMAIL THEM TO JOES OLDER BROTHER MIKE IN PITTSBURGH, PA AND HE THEN COPIED THEM ALL TO A CD SO JOE COULD GO GET THEM DEVELOPED AT THE STORE.  I HAVE PUT WHO THEY ARE UNDER EACH PICTURE. HOPE YOU ENJOY THE PICS.

 

CINDY