April:

 

My baby is having a baby.  A natural occurrence but sometimes hard to wrap your mind around.

We are almost to the twenty week mark and all seems to be going well.

This is such an exciting time in our lives.  We love children and have wanted grand kids for years.

Will this baby be spoiled?  Yep, afraid so!!  lol  But I am a stickler for kids being made to mind and not get into stuff.  I've been that way with my kids, the nieces, nephews and the great nieces and nephews.  My niece, Lizzy told me recently when she has kids she's going to be strict like me.  Uh, gee, am I that strict?  Apparently not so much as they all want to come over all the time.  I will love this baby tremendously and I may eat my words and let it get into things.  But I don't think so.  We shall see.

 

I am so grateful for the opportunity to be a grandma.  Other than having my children, having grandchildren is my second biggest dream in life.

Weekend:

Friday:
Dwayne is working four ten hour days and off on Friday.  Unfortunately, he has not been feeling well and spent the morning at the doctor's office.  His blood pressure is running high (and he's already on bp medicine) and he may have broken his wrist-about three weeks ago but he's just now going to the doctor with it.
Dwayne wanted pizza for supper so I picked up one at Quik Spot on the way home.  We ate on the front porch and it was a beautiful evening out.  Lizzy called to see if her and Nathan could come over and wait for their Mom to pick them up at nine.  Nathan went to the basement to watch TV and Liz and I went through some of the baby items I have at the house.  I had bought a crib bumper set for April if it's a girl and April thought it looked too girly.  Lizzy thought the same thing.  So, I guess if it's a girl, I will have a girly crib set.  That's okay, I love it and think it's exceptionally pretty.
Zach came over and spent the night.  We had missed him, hadn't seen him in several weeks.
Saturday:
Dwayne fixed us breakfast and then him and Zach went to the lake to clean up and get ready for our pig roast on Memorial Day.
I had a graduation party to go to for my cousin's daughter, Samantha.  I must be getting older as I was thinking-hey, it's not been that long since Sam was born!!  I got to visit with aunts and uncle and a couple of cousins I hadn't seen in years.  I was hoping my cousin, Beverly would be there but she was helping an elderly neighbor of hers on Saturday.
Left there and went to a double birthday party at the lake.  Dusin's little boy, Xander had turned six on the sixteenth and Andy's girlfriend's little boy had just turned two.  I had a good time and held Andy's baby Braxton for quite awhile.  He's such a good baby and just jabbers and laughs at himself all the time.
Dwayne fixed kabobs and they were very good along with all the other dishes people brought.  A nice relaxing afternoon.
That evening, Dwayne, Zach and I went to Sput's for a fish fry.  Our friends, Mike and Susan came over and we visited quite awhile.  I saw several friends I hadn't seen in quite some time.  Dwayne and Zach left to go fish for cat fish and I stayed for awhile.  A very good time.
Sunday:
Zach and I left for church.  I started to not feel very well on the way over.  After I dropped Zach off I turned around and went home.  I slept for a couple of hours.  (and no, I did not drink the night before.  My drink of choice is Sun Drop).  Dwayne and I were really tired and lazy.  We spent the afternoon watching movies.  We had planned to work in the yard but that didn't happen.  We needed to go buy groceries and we went to Wal-Mart.  Seemed like we were zombies walking through the store as we were both so tired.  Went thought the drive-thru at Wendy's and got a sandwich.  This is unusual as Dwayne doesn't like drive-thrus, he'd rather go in.  Goes to show how tired he was.
We planned on going to bed early but we started watching a movie and seven and thought it would go off at nine.  Nope, it was a four hour movie and didn't get over until eleven o'clock!!  Poor Dwayne, he had to get up at two thirty to leave for work.  We will both be glad when this job ends and he can work closer to home.  He works so hard.
Overall, this was a nice weekend.

I am grateful for times spent with family and friends.  Please pray for my husband to get to feeling better. 

Friday:

I wanted to post today but couldn't think of anything to talk about.  (Unusual for me...........)

I hope everyone has a nice end to their work week and a great weekend with this beautiful weather we are having.

I am grateful for the change in the weather and the sun shining.

Thankful Thursday:

Wordless Wednesday:

Gold Fish:

My brother got married (for the first time........) in 1971.  I was in the wedding and spent the night with my cousin, Beverly at their farm.  The next day we went to her other grandma's in Freeburg and from there we took a drive down a gravel road.  There was a huge clear (at that time) lake in a lime quarry that had huge gold fish.  They were beautiful and we watched them for quite some time. I had always wanted to go back and see the gold fish.  Forty-two years later-and I finally get back there.
Dwayne and I had gone to the bank in Freeburg and took a drive down that same road.  I was a little disappointed to see the "lake" is no longer there but a more dried up version of it.  There were some gold fish there but you could barely see them and there was a lot of moss.  I was glad to go back but when you build up this vision in your head that something will still look the same years later, it's kind of disappointing.

I am grateful for the beautiful scenery God has provided.

Weekend:

Friday:

We have started a new summer schedule at work and get every other Friday afternoon off.

I had a doctor's appt. in Jeff City so that worked great for that.  While in Jeff, I treated myself to a Pedicure for Mother's Day.  I've only had two done my entire life.

I picked out a light shimmery apricot color and the guy said, "Did you pick this out?"  Uh, yeah.  He says, "No, I will not do.  Too light of a color, pick something else"  Okay.  I'm not into polish that much and usually go with a safe lighter color.  I branched out and picked a pretty orange polish.  I take it back to the table and once again, "Did you pick this out?"  Uh, duh, who do you think just walked over to the shelf to pick out another color?  Superman or something?  "Yes, will it not work?"  He says, "No, no this is fine."  Another guy does the pedicure and when it comes time to do the polish, he picks up the bottle and says, "Did you pick this color out?"  "Uh, Yeah, won't it work?"   "Yeah, it will work."  Whew, who knew picking out a color was such a dilemma.  My toe nails look rather stylish now.

What is a Friday evening without going to Wal-Marts to buy groceries.  We finished the evening by eating at Arby's and making it an early night.

 

Saturday:

April and I went to Chesterfield shopping.  We had a great day and found a new favorite store, Buy, Buy Baby.  Very nice baby items and reasonably priced.  We might have got a little carried aways buying baby clothes.  We had to buy both boy and girl-but it was all on clearance so we didn't go overboard on price.

We ate at The Cheesecake Factory.  I had always wanted to eat at one.  I was surprised at all the different menu options.  We ate so much we didn't have room for what they are famous for-cheesecake.  The food was good.

We got home in time to look over what all we had bought plus I went "shopping" upstairs with my stash of baby clothes I've bought through the years.  Oh, my gosh!!  I had tons of baby shoes (my secret baby passion) and several outfits.

We then went to Vienna for Sandy's 50th Birthday Party.  There were alot of people there and we had a good time.

 

Sunday:

We had planned on all of us going out for breakfast for Mother's Day.  Instead, Dwayne cooked a huge breakfast for us.  It turned out great and I think a better idea than going out.

I rented the movie, Guilt Trip as I thought Chad and Todd would like it as I may or may not have tendencies to be in their life too much..........  It was a funny movie and we all enjoyed it.

While watching the movie, Desmon started reading the wording I have on the living room wall.
Family is one of life's greatest blessings.  Desmon looked around the room and said, yes, the whole family is here.  For some reason, he always talks about family and respects each of us.  We love that little guy.

My beautiful flowers from Chad.

I didn't get any pictures of the tulips April and Mike bought or the ones from Todd.  I will have to get a picture of them after they were set out.  Such pretty colors.

 

I had a wonderful Mother's Day with our kids.

 

I am grateful for being a mother and spending time with them.