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Hi Adele,
We are getting snow and sleet here right now. We are supposed to get 3 to 4 inches. Gail must have sent her bad weather our way also. .lol. Well maybe it will go up her way after it is done here. Who knows.
It has been a long three or four days. Read what I wrote to Gail that has most of everything written there. The baby is just so cute. It will be nice to get to have a day to spend with the baby when no one else is there. Then I can rock her and spoil her a little. There were too many people there today to hold her for very long.
How is Gary doing? Has he been having anymore trouble with his shoulder. It will be nice when he has the surgery and does not have to deal with all the pain. Any kind of arm or foot pain is really hard to deal with. I do not see how Christine has put up with that foot pain for so long. I would be ready to bang some doctors head on a wall.
That is a shame that they did not get to come over and visit for awhile. He may have to bring them over before he goes to work one day and they can spend the day with you. That would be nice. Give you sometime with Steph also. You two could use some time together.
I need to start cooking stews and soups now it is so cold. I have not baked anything usually do not. We could use some fresh baked bread. It makes the house smell so good. I sometimes boil vanilla and water on top of the stove to give the house a better scent. It smells like your baking but your not. I do cheat instead of baking I come up with scents that make people think that I have been baking.
Have you been watching the Chew? It has been pretty good. They had a viewer that made a dip that I want to try. I have to find the recipe. It had spinach in it and cream cheese. Cannot remember what else have to look it up. It just looked really good. The other viewer that made her dip used hot peppers in it so do not want that one.
Well that is about all from here. There is another Quacker show on tomorrow on qvc plus. It is chics night in so will watch it. Did you find a channel on your cable that carries it or do you have to watch it on the internet? That show is just so laid back and they seem to have a lot more fun on that show.
Well that is about all from here. Will talk to you later.
ColleenHi Gail,
I would wear the coats if they closed or not. He has such pretty coats. One day I will get one of those. Right now I want to get a kitchen aid mixer so I can make cream puffs again. It is hard to mix the dough for the puffs so would like to have something that I can use to do it for me.
I do not care for the lime color tops in Quacker. Well in any line of clothing. It makes me look really washed out. I like the bright colors that give a little more color to your face. I really need it. I do like the melon color also. They usually put that color with the dull colors. I should not say that their probably a lot of people that look really good in that color. I do not look good in that new blue that they have now either. Have you ever ordered anything in that new color? I think that it is blue bonnet. I wore the brown fleece pine cone shirt today. I really like that top it is really comfortable. If it is supposed to be a Christmas shirt it doesn’t matter to me. You can wear that shirt all winter as far as I am concerned.
Ron will never get me one of the walk in tubs. He thinks that it would take too much water to fill them. it cannot take that much or people would not order one. The jets would really make a persons back and knees feel really good, If he goes first I can always get me one then. That was horrible thing to say. Shame on me.lol
The baby is just so tiny. When you hold her she just fits so good in your arms. I was holding the baby and sitting on the couch Kevin’s mom was sitting in the rocking chair. I could have asked her to change places with me but do not know her well enough to ask her to do that. We got some good pictures of the baby and Owen. Did not get too many because we were taking pictures and so was his mom and my other daughter Mandy. I kind of figured that they were all getting tired of all of that.
Well that is about all from here. Will talk to you later.
ColleenHello All,
The baby is here and we have a name.It is Aliza Mae. It is cute but hard to get use to. I do not know where she got the name but it took her a long time to pick it out. They would not tell us any other name that they had picked out. We accepted this name so do not know why they would not talk about it. lol
Needless to say the baby is beautiful. She weighed 6pd. and was born at 11:44pm on the 18th. She was 20 inches long. She had a head full of hair and it is dark. She is just so pretty.
Just wanted to let everyone know at one time. Danyielle is doing fine and they will come home tomorrow.
ColleenHi Barbara,
It is good that Jerry has stepped in to help his mom. Their is not telling what they would have done with his mom if he did not do something. I cannot believe that they tried to say that she was mentally incompetent. Do they really need her money that bad? At least with you and Jerry she knows that you do not want anything from her. Just hope that Jerry realizes that he has to take sometime to stay at home and take care of himself and be with you. We are all lucky to have the caring husbands that we have.
It is really cold here also. It is sleeting now and we are supposed to have 3 to 6 inches of snow. I hope that they are wrong just in case I have to go back to St. Louis tomorrow. At least I do not have to go to my moms to help her right now. Will do that again next week if the weather is better. She needs help cleaning the house and she cannot do it herself. It is just hard to get everything done at one time. So we have to go back and fourth.
Glad to hear that Sarah is feeling better. It is hard when you get sick and you are pregnant because you cannot take the medicine that you can take when not pregnant. Is she starting to show at all? I started to show early but my daughter does not. She watches her weight while she is pregnant. Never did that when I was expecting. That was a good time to be able to eat what you wanted. I did too. Really enjoyed myself and ate a lot of fatty and sugary food. Kids just do not know how to take advantage of situations like that.
You and Adele always are making such good food. If there is any chicken and dumplings left I will be right over. I have not made them for awhile. Will do that next time the kids are here. We cannot eat a lot of them and that is one dish that I do not know how to cut down for two people.
Sounds like you had a nice visit with your neighbors. It is fun to talk with old friends. It is nice that your kids grew up together. You had a lot of things to talk about.
Well that is about all from here. Will talk to you later.
ColleenHi Gail,
Danyielle is in the hospital. They decided to induce labor because she was losing some of the fluids around the baby. So she thought that it would not be wise to wait. So the baby will be here sometime probably early morning. They induced labor when I had my youngest and it took forever. Would never have wanted to go thru that again. So I feel really bad for her. Hope it goes faster for her. Owen is excited about his little sister. Right now it all sounds really cool. Just waiting when he finds out the baby takes a lot of his mom’s time and cries a lot. He may not like her as much. Owen is still 7 will be eight in March. So he will be almost 8 when she is born.
Mom will not give in to anything. She just amazes me. She is getting around really well and not having that much trouble. She is still taking therapy. They come twice a week and a nurse comes three times a week. So she will be getting tired of them coming around so much. She is funny.
Do you have one of the Dennis Basso coats that are all fur? I would love to have one of them. I can imagine that they are really warm. They just look really warm. I have one of the puffer coats. It is long because the jacket coats are not as warm. The older I get the colder I get. If I live to be 90 I will have to wear two or three coats and wrap in a blanket. That will be hard to get around in. lol
You liked the same tops that I liked on the show. I am thinking of getting the turquoise and yellow. I like those two colors. They are really cute. I have a lot of black tops not many white but we all had to wear white uniforms when we worked at the nursing home. So really got tired of the white. Those colors will go with the jeans that I have.
Maybe if you have to you can get one of those chair lifts that take you up and down the steps. They say that they will run even when you have a power failure. That would be nice. That would take you up and down and you would not have to worry. They have so many new gadgets to help people stay in their homes. One thing that I would love to have is that walk in tub. Those are so nice. They have the jets that relax you. Just hope that they have straps to hold you up when you fall asleep you are so relaxed. lol I guess that never happens or at least you never hear about it.
Ron did not watch football this week-end. I guess he is just not interested in foot ball right now because of the Rams. They really took St. Louis for all they could get. I cannot believer that they gave them all of that and have no way to recoup their loses. They must have the worse lawyers in the country.
Well that is about all from here. We are just sitting here waiting for the call saying the baby is here. Hope it come soon.
ColleenHI Adele,
Danyielle is in the hospital right now. They induced labor and so it will take awhile for the baby to come. I have been thru that and it is worse then natural labor. So we will have a baby any time now. Just waiting for the call. We did not go to the hospital we are at home. I know that she did not want us to come there and sit around and come in the room and see her in pain. I did not want anyone around except Ron when I went into labor. We usually did not call anyone until the baby was born. My mom always came early and took care of the kids that were at home. So it just really worked out well.
I hope that Steph and Johnny will be able to come over tomorrow. Aizen is really going to love his stocking. It is really cute. Hope that JJ will be able to come with them also. Maybe they will come when JJ is out of school.
Thank you for the tip on exercises to strengthen my legs. I will try them tomorrow. I am peddling every night to help with my legs also. It also burns up some calories. That always sounds good when you tell the doctor that. They think that you are really trying to lose weight. It is just that thing that I have to use when I go to the back doctor to help my legs and back. Ron found one and got it for me.
That must be it. You have a big brain and that hurts your neck when you turn it. I like that one. lol It is aggravating when you cannot move because of hurting your back and neck. It is hard to make it thru it. I do not remember having that problem before I hurt my back. Getting old is not for the weak.
We are supposed to get some snow Wednesday. It is supposed to be about 3 or 4 inches. That is not too bad. It would be nice to get some snow. Do not want like what you had last year. That was way too much snow.
Mom is doing really good. She will never let anything get her down if she can help it. She does not think that she ever wants to give up living alone. One of the therapist at the hospital wanted to put mom in a home. So she called my brother and her told her no. My mom and all of us said that same thing. Her doctor agreed with us. So that was over with in a hurry. I do not know what the doctor said to that woman but I bet it was not pleasant.
Well that is about all from here. Will talk to you later.
ColleenHI Everybody,
I am finally back. Mom is doing really good now and spent her first night alone last night. I will call her later today and see how she did. My brother and his wife are there today. There still is no baby and she could go until the 23rd before they induce labor. So we will see what happens. This baby is going to be stubborn. They are going to do an ultrasound Monday just to be sure that the baby is okay.
I am not sure that I will ever get caught up with all that has been going on for the last three day. Gail I think that you are right about Piper. She is going to be a good story teller. Maybe she will be a writer and write stories for television and movies. She is going to be a real character when she gets older. She will keep her teachers on their toes when she is in school. She will be really smart.
Sounds like both of you had more snow then we did. We had a light dusting and that was about it. The sun is out now but it is really cold. Have not heard the weather report yet so do not know if we will get more snow or not. Hope that we do not get more snow until after the baby is born. We either call her ittiy bitty or Danny jr. I figure if we keep calling her that eventually she will tell me her name. This has been a long wait for all of us. She does not seem to let her bother her though. She is just taking it in her stride. She is funny.
Adele you stoking that you are making for Azien sounds really cute. My mom use to make Christmas stocking for all of us and then for all of our kids. She did not make any for our spouses though. She said she had too many grand kids to make them for. You make a lot of them. It is nice that they are all different. They will never get them confused with someone elses. You are so talented.
Sorry to hear that you did not get to go out to lunch with your friend. Is your back better today? That is terrible when you try to sleep and do something to your back and neck and then cannot sleep. My go to place is the recliner. It is comfortable and my neck will be okay and back in that chair. It is weird that it is more comfortable then my bed. We are still talking about getting one of the beds that are adjustable. It would be nice to be able to raise the head of the bed at night if I need to.
I do believe that some people can see things that are going to happen. Your hair dresser just happens to be one. I do not want to know bad things but the good things are nice to know ahead of time. I hope that she is right about Brent. I hope that he finds the right person for him there and will be happy. Finally have a family that he wants.
That is funny that your dog has his own heat. It would be funny to dress him up like Hugh Hefner. Do not know if he would keep the pipe in his mouth though. That is good that you have a heater for Rocky. He needs the heat. The poor guy.
Ron has not been watching any of the foot ball games. He may have watched things when I was gone but not since I have been home. Unless he did watch while I was sleeping yesterday evening. I was so tired. I have been so sore. My mom has steps to her basement ( what a shock) and we had to take all of her Christmas things down there. So I am sore from doing all that walking up and down steps. We do not have steps at our house at all. Just the ones going up to the deck. I am getting to be a real mess. Cannot even walk up and down steps. We had to carry things down with us when we went down the steps. So that made a difference also. Okay I am just getting old and have not used those muscles for a long time.
Well that is about all from here. Will write more tomorrow. I am not going anywhere now until the baby is born. It will be nice to be at home.
ColleenHi Gail and Adele,
Well there is not baby yet. Danyielle is really getting tired of waiting. I do not know how long they will let her go before they induce labor.Hope that she does not have to go thru that. It is a pain. Mom is getting stronger everyday. I have to go over there tomorrow and stay with her. I am not sure how this is going to all work out but we have to do something to help her. They are getting her all set up with some type of life alert system and doing things to the house to help fix it so she can get around better. She said that she is getting stronger by the day and is not using the walker anymore. She does keep it handy just in case. She is not being that stubborn.
Sorry to hear that the two of you are having such bad weather. We are suppose to get some snow over the week-end. We will see what will happen. We sure do not need it right now. I saw on the weather that you were getting snow around Chicago but did not know if that storm hit where you live or not.
A lot of people are cheering that they are going. They wanted this big expensive stadium and wanted us to pay for it. Everyone felt that they are not good enough team to make all these demands. The owner has been wanting to get out of here for a long time. So he has not been putting the money in the team to make it better. So we wish him luck and good riddens. We have the Kansas city Chiefs to cheer for. They are not that far from here. I hope that if they get another team here it will be one that wants to stay here.
I think that Itty Bitty is taking her time deciding when to make her appearance. She is going to be stubborn like her mom. I just hope that she comes soon so we can quit jumping every time that phones rings. Kaylee thinks that Danyielle needs to stop playing around and have that baby. She is tired of waiting. I am sure that Danyiellle did not need not hear that she is more frustrated then anyone. You know how five year olds are though. They say what they are thinking.
Well that is about all from here. Have a good night and Adele I hope that you get to go out to lunch before the snow falls again.
Colleenin reply to: What Books Are You Reading and Recommending Now? #23556Thanks for the heads up on that book. I will be looking for it on Amazon. I love to read new books and new authors. I will pray for him during this really tough time he is going thru. That is just so sad.
Thanks for telling us about the book.
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