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Great photos, Lisa!  And I love your new avatar. Time for one from me, too. I keep complaining that my work ID has such an old photo they might not let me in the builiding, lol. Well, at least the avatar is something I can take care of myself. I'm going to try and get something up there this week.

My son made it safely to CA and is now ensconced in an efficiency motel in Palmdale about a mile from where he will be working. I think today was his first day at the new job. He sent a picture and it's really dry and arrid there, and not much around. But he sounds happy to be working and on his own.

Great news! The PET/CT scan I had 10 days ago is clear! So, I can get my port out and start looking into reconstruction.

Lisa love the pic's,  Thanks for the Komen info also - did not know that .

Ladies I am have a horribble stress level day today,  loving -  yet HATING my houseful if that makes sense. Everything is bugging me the past couple days,  I put on the happy face but  - UGH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Guess I just need to take a chill pill. Sorry for the rant.

Thanks Mary,  Ed says it's just the generation gap,  but I just don't recall being so oblivious when I was a young mom,  Amanda and I are working on restoring the past strained relationship and all is going well,  so I am treading lightly,  but geeeeeeeez,  some of the stuff she does with the baby drives me nuts.  Ed tells me to relax,  they will soon have their own plce and will be visiting,  says no sense in me getting upset if she plans on constantly holding a 1  year old and trying to breast feed a newborn etc -  just crazy stupid ;little stuff I guess. Landen is a great little guy but gosh I swear if there was a loaded gun on the table and he cried because he could not have it they would give it to hhim and say be careful Landen,  just because they didn't want to say no or hear him cry for a few minutes.

We watched him the other evening for a few hours when they went shopping - not a problem at all,,  they don't get it.   I actually see Amanda trying to use the bathroom holding him on her lap because he does not want to get down -  DRIVES ME NUTS.

Nancy and Lisa - great news with your mammos & scans! Lisa - love the photos - it must have been such fun. Prayers for your cousin and for Dennis and I hope your meeting with Wayne is a great success and that you both hit it off. The dvd workout sounds good. I really need to start doing some weights and tummy exercises. Low carbs seems to be the way to go to lose weight but, if I lose all the weight I need to, I hope I can keep it off on some sort of maintenance plan. Time will tell...

Leesa - my best wishes for your final surgery.

Cathi - you are doing a wonderful thing to open your house to your family - it must be tough! And hard to find some 'me' time and to know when to give advice and when not to!

Hi Judie! Come back soon!

Blossom (my dear little cat) has disappeared. I let her have time outside two days ago and she hasn't returned. We have searched, letterboxed the area, placed notices everywhere, put an ad in the paper but still no sign of her. I miss her - she was such a loving little thing.

Now I'm having trouble remembering what everyone has said so will just send my love to you all, including UB & AE, Linda, Elaine, Sue, Karen (woohoo for the house under construction!), Mary and everyone.

Jane oxoxoxo

Lisa you hit the nail on the head, Amanda and SIL are of the "now generation" NO is taboo -  where for some reason Jaclyn is the complete opposite,  I don't know if it is because she has always had the kids closer here to me and Ed or what it is,  but Alexcis and Brandt know what they can and can not do,  not to say they are perfect by any means they are kids after all and do try and push the envelope now and again,  I do have to be honest and say that Amanda and SIL have respected mine and Ed's no's that we direct towards Landen and at least when we are in the same room -   they do a little hush NO-NO,  I  am very appreciative of being able to have them all close and my entire family near me,  so it's the good with the bad,  and once they have a place of their own and the kids come  and just visit for a day I am sure they will adjust more to our ground rules. 

Jane sure hope Blossom finds her way back home,  cats are usually very good at that.

LOVE TO ALL --- XOXOXOXOXOXO

Hello ladies, today was my first day back to work. A week of fun inservice days.

Prayers for all.

I'm baaaaack! Had computer problems getting fixed while I was at my sons' wedding. Everything went well, but I was still so weak from my jaunt in the hospital that I felt like a poop. Left around 9:30, their last dance was 3 hours later....I don't know how people do it! I literally stumbled down the stairs of the hall to get out. Didn't think I'd make it gracefully to the bottom but I did. Of course, if I'd had a NAP in the afternoon instead of attending the wedding....

Now it's time for me to get back to work! Two weeks off! Unheard of!

Welcome back Barb!! We've missed you! 

Welcome home Barbe -  you know what they say - "what you used to be able to do all night - now takes you all night to do!"

XOXOXOXOXOXO

Hi everyone!  I still don't have my new laptop, and I'm very frustrated!!!  Portia has a new computer (birthday gift from her dad), but getting on it is a challenge.  She's on it every waking moment except for when she's at the theater for rehearsals. 

It's been crazy around here.  We've actually started building our house!  It's exciting, but stressful at the same time. 

Portia is doing a Broadway Musical production and I spend a lot of time shuffling her to and from the theater.  Chase has been spending a lot of time with his best friend, Carl.  It's about 90 degrees today, and they're out in the pool.  How convenient that I can sit here at the computer and watch them through the window.  Rhuel has been out of town a LOT.  They are doing a job in Cle Elum, which is a few hours away, and they work at night.  I feel like a single mom again.  I know he hates being away, and luckily, the job will be done in a couple of months.  As for me, I've started a new exercise routine.  It's called The Wave by The Firm.  It's tough, and I sweat my butt off, but hopefully, it will do some good.  I'm such a fat tub of lard these days!

Anyway, I just wanted to pop in to say hi.  I have to take Carl home soon and run out to our property to make sure they actually did some work on the house today!

Lisa, your pictures are great!  You are so pretty!  I love the new avatar.

I hope sweet little Blossom comes home, Jane!

Love and hugs to all,

Karen

Oh Karen, that is sooooo sad! For your daughter to have to deal with the death of a peer is very scary.

Why aren't you using Portia's old computer????? Hmmmm?

Landen says I need to buy some dam BOY TOYS - LOL

Oh Cathi! That is too sweet! Kind of kinky in a way too, hmmmm...

Thanks Mary!

Geez.  I just read my last post.  You can tell I was in a hurry.  Chris was actually a good friend of Portia's, not a friend of a friend.  It has hit her really hard.  She went to a memorial for him and sobbed through the whole thing.  It's so sad.  Yes, he was a teenager--only 16.  It makes me sick thinking about it.

Barbe, I guess I could use Portia's old computer, but it's kind of a piece of sh#t and I'd have to have the computer guys out to hook it up to our wireless internet.  Since I have to have them out when I get the laptop, I might as well wait.  Can't afford to pay them twice.

Cathi, that picture of Landen is priceless!!!! 

Hugs,

Karen