Have A Great Rest of Your Day

Our visit went really well today. Great Grandma Harmon seems to be holding up fairly well. Her skin is more yellow than I thought it would be, that’s from the bile buildup. Her spirits were good though and she was laughing and telling stories as usual.

We got to go over to her house and take the things we wanted and it was so strange. I felt somewhat uncomfortable, but was glad to be able to do it. I got some bread pans, I don’t have any, but have always wanted some and I remember hot bread cooling in those same pans. I also got a hand knitted poncho, a baby blanket for Kathryn, some yarn, a bunch of flannel material to make blankets with, some barbie dolls again for Kathryn, Some raffia and thread. I think that is everything, oh and a toaster oven.

It was also hard to see her looking like that, she has always seemed so vibrant. The doctor said this week that she is 3 months ahead of were he thought she would be at this point. We are on a accelerated time frame now. I don’t think she will make it until Kathryn’s first birthday. I didn’t want to say goodbye when it was time to leave.

I’m glad that we got to go and we did have a really nice visit. Grandma got to hold Kathryn for a while, and she was all smiles. The hardest thing for me is that Katy won’t get to know her, because she won’t remember ever being around her. I’ve always been so blessed to have my grandparents and I wish the same for her.

We did get a really wonderful 5 generation picture and I’m so glad for that. I can’t wait to see how it turns out!

Tomorrow we are going to visit Great Grandma. I’m really looking forward to it and we are going to take a 5 generation picture. That will be such a priceless keepsake!! I’m going to have a 8×10 made and hang it on the wall.

Grandma asked us all to write down some memories of her for a little book she is putting together. It was one of the hardest things I’ve ever tried to put into words. I pretty much bawled the whole time I was working on it. I tried to think about how I would feel if I knew that I would be dying soon and how I would want to be remember. Lucky for Grandma, she has always been such a sweet lady there was nothing bad to write about. Regardless it was so hard, and made the situation seem so final. Usually you sit and recall your memories AFTER someone has passed on, not BEFORE. I just hope and pray that these are helpful for her and something she can reflect on in the quiet moments.

I can’t believe that I forgot about this. I mean I didn’t forget about this, I just forgot to write about it.

On Thursday the doctor cleared Kathryn to go back to the daycare center. Yippee!! She is officially over the chicken pox. Now if we could just all get back to our normal sleep schedules I’d be a happy camper.

Thirteen Things about JENN 1.) I don’t really like ice cream. If I do eat it, I only eat a little bit and it’s only a couple of times a year. If I buy a carton of ice cream, I will eat 1 scoop and then the rest sits there for 6 months before I throw it out. Most people think this is weird. 2.) My family always tell me I’m funny. I like to do impressions and make funny faces and tell jokes. My friends tell me I’m a nerd for doing these things. So now I only do it around my family. 3.) When I was a kid I was going to be a marine biologist and live in California on the beach. 4.) I like to mix certain foods together, I think they taste better that way. The best combination is mashed potatoes, gravy, corn and stuffing. Stir it all together and take a big bite. 5.) I used to think that a toilet monster lived in the basement drain in my childhood home. This was because my older brother would flush the upstairs toilet when I went down there making the drain gurgle and churn. 6.) Sometimes I’m not sure if the things I say are true or if I just made them up. I read a lot and sometimes when I’m talking I’ll spout off some random bit of information and then later I think “wow, is that really true. That’s kind of cool.” And I don’t ever remember where I got it from. 7.) I’m addicted to talk radio, but no one knows. I love Dr. Laura and want to meet her some day. I try to listen to her every night when I get home from work. 8.) I used to have a crush on a boy, until I heard a rumor that he was gay. Then I found out it wasn’t true and I couldn’t deny that even if he had been gay I still would have loved him. 9.) I once pretended I was sick on a date, just so I could go and see my dates friend. That friend is now my husband and my date is now married to someone else. 10.) When I was little my dad told me that if I didn’t cover my ears at night a vampire would come and bite them off. I believed him and to this day cover my ears before I go to sleep. 11.) I’m afraid of the dark, really I am. However I love scary movies and don’t watch them anymore because I have recurring nightmares for months at a time. 12.) I have an overactive imagination and often times hear and/or see things that aren’t really there. 13.) I’m very gullible and unless it’s WAY out there, I will believe most anything anyone tells me. This makes my husband nervous and he says that some day I will loose all my money to some scam.


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Oh my heck. I just got off the phone with my sister and we talked for 2 hours 41 minutes and 33 seconds. For most sisters this is probably a normal thing, but for us it is not.

Usually our conversations go something like this:
Me: hey, how’s it going
Her: good, how are you
Me: good thanks. So are you coming this weekend or next.
Her: this weekend, guess we’ll see you on Saturday at moms
Me: okay, sounds good. luv you bye.
Her: luv you too, bye.

Not this time though, we talked and talked and talked and talked. We talked so long that both of our husbands gave up and went to bed, believing that we had forgotten about them.

When we were younger, excluding our teenage years of course, we got along really well. Then I got obnoxious and thought I new everything and by the time I got past that, she was in the same stage.
By the time she got out of that stage I had moved away from home, and was engaged. Then I got too involved in my own life and got too wrapped up with myself. I kind of pushed her away, because I felt like we couldn’t relate anymore. She was still in high school and I was out on my own, working full time experiencing life. After I got married I really felt like we didn’t have anyway to relate and that we were just too different, or some dumb excuse like that. The real problem was that I was selfish and too involved in my own stuff to make a better effort.

Then she got engaged and I thought she was too young, and didn’t know what she was doing and was rushing into things. She probably thought I was the biggest witch and that I was so pushy. I can be pretty pushy when I think I’m right, which is pretty much all the time, so I guess she would have been right.

Anyway, long story short, now that I’ve been married a few years and have a kid and she has been married almost a year, I think we are doing much better. I understand now that she relates to me more than I give her credit for. Also she is more intelligent and observant than I give her credit for. She is happily married and doing great.

I’m glad that we are getting along better and that we had such a good talk tonight. I hope that we can keep that up. I’ve decided that I will make more time for long phone calls with her, even if it means my husband going to bed without me!!

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Katy and John spent the day together, since little Miss Chicken Pox hasn’t cleared up quite yet. The day went really well for them both. John said he really enjoyed it and that for the most part she was really good. He even ventured a trip to the mall with her. She ate really good for him and took a 2 hour morning nap. He had a bit of trouble getting her down this afternoon though and she was having a hard time when I got home.

I think she might be teething again. John said she was really chewing on stuff today and she has a runny nose again.

She was happy to see me when I got home, which really made my day. I also realized how much I missed her. Especially after having all these days at home with her last week.

All in all she seems to be much better and I hope tomorrow will be the last day that we need to stay home.

I’m so glad that John not only could, but WOULD stay home with her. Not many fathers would, at least the ones I’ve known. He not only stayed home with her, he also watched her favorite movie, crawled around on the floor with her, took her to the mall, and for a walk. He even cleaned up the front room a bit and made dinner for us. He is so great, I just don’t know what I would do without him.

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For those of you that don’t know, I married a man who is a SERIOUS GAMER. Just ask him! He has been counting down the day to the ‘E Three’ show coming up in 14 days. This is when Xbox, PlayStation, Nintendo and all the other gaming companies get together to showcase their products. The reason my husband has been anxiously awaiting this event is for one reason and one reason only! Nintendo will be announcing it’s release date and other specifics for it’s new gaming console, code name: revolution.

Yippeee!!! This is all that has been talked about in our house for the last 4 months or so. Our evenings usually proceed as such:
DH – you’ll never believe what I heard today about the ‘revolution.’
ME – what
DH – they are saying now that you will be able to use your controller to…. blah, blah, blah, blah.

No, really some it sounds cool and like it would be fun. For sure it sounds innoventive and interesting. Video games are just not really my thing. Since we’ve been married, which is just over 3 years, we’ve had a PlayStation 2, an Xbox, a Nintendo GameCube (we still have that one) and a Nintendo DS, which is like an upgraded Gameboy. Now I will admit that the DS is pretty cool. It has a touch screen that you use a stylus on to do different things and is quite addicting depending on the game, but regardless of how fun they are, I truly feel that they are a waste of time and money.

The bad thing is that I can’t stop playing the dumb thing. I’m not into shooting games or weird role playing games, but I love EVERY game we have for the DS. There is Tetris, (which is my all time favorite,) WarioWare, Nintendogs (which is so realistic looking,) TraumaCenter (you use the stylus like a scalpel and perform surgery,) Mario Kart (which is a kiddie level racing game, at least I can win,) BrainAge (which tests and strengthens your brain by doing simple mental exercises.) Anyway I’m so addicted to this machine that we have been fighting over who gets to play it and who has played it longer that day. Again proving my point that games are a waste of time and money.

Now my Dear Husband wants to buy me one for Christmas. I just can’t agree with this for 2 reasons.
1.) the money, the unit itself it upwards of $170.00 Then you have to buy the games which are $20.00 to $30.00 a piece.
2.) I would NEVER get anything done ever again. I would just sit on my butt all day and play the dang thing.