Time for more baby pictures…

Elizabeth is now 4 months old. She is so cute! I miss her. My dd went out to visit them and took a bunch of pictures. Here are some of my favorites.

What a week…

The events of this week are numerous. Between the killings in Virginia at Virginia Tech and our own troubles with Jacob, I am worn out and it’s only Thursday! Tonight we go see Jake’s counselor again. We haven’t been there in a year and now we need help to turn this boy around. I know the Lord is at work but we need an extra oomph! as well. We are trying everything we can to help him. We continue to talk to both boys about puberty and changing bodies. They are getting it. Jake saw a maturation video in school and that brought up a lot of questions. We are doing our best to answer them. His main issue is how to handle his anger and solve problems. He doesn’t have the skills to solve personal problems and we don’t have the tools as parents to teach him. We are trying out the Total Transformation program to see if it helps us gain those tools. So far it seems to be a balanced program. It’s basis is just about Biblical without saying so. I think that is good.
Anyway, I miss my granddaughter and daughter. I want to see them soon. I might try and go out and have lunch with them next week or the week after. Hopefully they will send me a new picture or two soon! I will post them when I get some.

More sickness

Caleb is sick again with a sinus infection. This is the 2nd one in a month. Poor kid. He is on Amoxicillian again. Last night Phil and I got into an argument. We didn’t even go to house church. We got as far as Lynn’s driveway then pulled out. We needed time to talk over whats been going on around here. After we talked, cried and said our peace, we prayed. It was good. We needed that more than the Soaking Prayer time at house church.

Back to the old grindstone

Phil is finally back to work and I am home alone. That’s good and bad. I miss him already. The boys are back in school. The main topic of conversation around our house the last few days have been puberty and the boys’ body changes and all matter of things that go along with it. There are some subjects I am not ready for them to learn. I don’t want to shield them but I don’t want them to lose their innocence either. It’s hard being a parent.

Easter went well. Our afternoon with Ryan and Charlie(female) went well. She drank a lot as usual but wasn’t rude. Her friend that was there as well was ok. She has some strange ideas of how to make her husband happy. Since he has been in Iraq for 10 months, she wants to take him to a strip club when he gets back?@!!! What??? Weird. No way will I ever share my hubby or want him to look at other women like that. That is so off the wall. I see nothing but bad things for them if she does this. I mentioned my thoughts but didn’t go heavy on them. Just enough to let them know where I stood. That was about it.

My back still hurts. My mammogram results are fine. My meds are keeping me stable and my counselor will be back in a few weeks. Everything is going fine for now. I hope it stays that way.

Change of plans…

Brit and Elizabeth are sick. They will be staying home. I will miss them. I am still making sauce and meatballs and spaghetti only we will have a change of venue. My brother-in-law Ryan and his wife have invited us to join them and their friends. I will bring the food there. We haven’t had a gathering with them in years, their choice. Charlie doesn’t like kids. She was offended by something my adult kids did in 2003 and decided to cut off contact with us. Too bad Ryan has no backbone and went along with her choices. But then about 2 weeks back, my father-in-law was in town. He visited with us and with Ryan and Charlie. On Phil’s birthday, Ryan called him to wish him happy birthday and to invite he and the boys over for some target shooting. They all were so excited for today. They are over there now, shooting and playing video games while I am home cooking.
Since I was making all this food, I thought we should ask them over but they said they already planned to have a bunch of friends over and we could join them. The only problem areas I see are 1. Lauren can be immature and Charlie will be all over her, and 2. Charlie will be drinking. I guess we will just leave if it gets bad. I am praying it doesn’t. Their friends drink too but I hear they have some new friends who are not greedy boozers like some of their past friends. I sure hope so. So I will update tomorrow with how it all turned out.

Italian food

That is what I am serving for Easter dinner. Brit and Jonathan and Elizabeth are coming in for the day. We will all go to church then come home and munch on veggies while I get things ready. I wish they could come in earlier cause Brit wanted to learn how to make sauce, meatballs and bracciole. Well another time. The only thing I think I am doing different from my dad and grandparents is that I am not making homemade pasta. Too much work and no machine. Shortly before my dad passed away in June 2004, he wrote down the family recipe for sauce and meatballs. The bracciole is something I learned from him while I lived with him many years ago. I hope it all works out.
I guess I will have to wait til at least Monday for the results from the second mammogram. There was some dense tissue that the radiologist wanted to get better shots of. I hope after 3 more pictures he can determine it’s nothing at all. That’s all I have.

Gosh, has it been a week???

I guess so. I didn’t have much, or so I thought, to blog. Maybe I do. Last Friday, Lauren took the boys to Brit’s for about 4 days. While they were gone, Phil and I went for lunch at the Great Lakes Brewery in Cleveland. It was fun. We enjoyed lots of alone time and lots of good talking. We needed it badly! Then yesterday we met Brit half way to her house and got the boys. We all had lunch at Bob Evan’s. The baby is filling out and when I picked her up, I could feel that she is heavier than 2 weeks ago! She is getting to be so cute! She smiles, makes faces, laughs, etc.. All so much fun for this Grandma…I love this part of life.

Now for the other news. I have to get another mammogram done on the right side because my screening last week showed the lump I found as a shadow. My doctor is thorough and wants to get another shot of it. I am glad he wants to be sure but I had getting that thing done to me again. I might as well lay naked under the garage door and open and close a few times to get used to it! ugh….