What to write about today?

here it is Saturday afternoon and while I don’t have any plans yet I feel like I should be doing something

we haven’t been asked to watch the girls tonight and we usually do because  they bowl on Saturday nights but they haven’t asked.

so I don’t know if we are going to get them or not.

so as far as I know now the rest of the day is open to whatever….

there isn’t a whole heck of a lot to watch on TV so maybe I will go rent a movie and buy a lottery ticket.

Did I mention I bought five tickets last Wednesday and I got ONE number out of  thirty?
Talk about good luck huh?

At any rate….I am rambling and this is probably boring.

It was frightening

it was frightening and I felt hopeless and my little grand daughter was in major pain and I was helpless to make her better.

I think she had a nightmare but I can’t be sure.
or it could have been a tummy ache?

She is not quite four months old and unable to tell me what was wrong.

She woke up fussy and I lay down with her on my bed and she just starting wailing and sobbing and acting like she was in horrible pain.

and the thing of it was, her eyes were wide open.

Her mother tells  me this has happened before.
She appears to be awake but can’t be consoled as she sobs and cries and screams like she is suffering so much.

I hated it and felt so helpless.
I finally had to call her mother to come and see if she could make her better.
She did.

But she told me this morning that Kayla woke up two other times in the night doing the same thing, screaming and crying and acting like something was horribly wrong.

What can a little almost four year old baby have nightmares about?
I don’t understand.

Or the only other thing I can think of is she had a really bad tummy ache and was unable to tell us???

I saw her this morning and she acted just fine and happy as can be.

it was definitely horrible to feel so helpless ……

money woes

It is always fun to sit down and try to figure out what we are going to do with certain situations.
My youngest son has been living in our other house for almost a year now with what we thought was the intention of buying it before the summer’s end.
Now however we learn that they are going to go look at another house today so it puts it all up in the air again.
This paying two house payments is killing us, even though he has started to help pay for the house we live in now….it still is a strain on the budget not to mention constantly on our minds.

if we put that house up for sale, we have to fix the air conditioning and get a new furnace before we do that.
Roughly $4,000 dollars worth

well we don’t have four thousand dollars laying around.
I wish we did so we could just do it and sell the house.

Then we think, should we just move back there?
it will be paid for in twelve years.
So does it make sense to just move there and get rid of this place?
Even though we both love this place and prefer it.
We don’t need a four bedroom house and I like the neighborhood here much more then I do over there on the highway.

So we have decisions to make.

My husband said we are in this situation because we let our kids run our lives.
And I suppose he is right in a lot of ways.

still it doesn’t make things easier now.

Oh and have I mentioned because I worked at Casey’s most of last year it put us in a higher tax bracket and therefore we have to PAY IN to Federal instead of getting any money back.
Just goes to show you, you can’t win for losing.

Friday finally

here it is Friday evening and while I don’t have a lot of plans for the weekend I am happy I have two days off of work.
I have the girls tonight so nothing will be done besides that.
We are going to Iowa City tomorrow and then maybe helping our youngest move on Sunday but other then that there really isn’t any plans

I hope everyone has a great weekend.

my little bella girl

Keira is here spending some time with us.
I am thrilled to say she is feeling so much better.
She is back to her old self again

we have been singing songs, she has been dancing a little and coloring and trying to use scissors

right now Barney is on but she is sitting here playing with her doll more then she is watching Barney.

Her father will be here to get her shortly and then we will probably have her over the weekend at least one night along with her sister.

I so love being this child’s Nana.

one down one to go

well I had a root canal done today.
It wasn’t as bad as I feared and not nearly as bad as the one I had six or seven years ago.
I think this dentist just had a lot of compassion compared to the one I had a few years ago.
Any way, this cost me $560 to have this one done

I have another one to do and I think this is a bit more expensive because it has four roots to it instead of one.

ugh.

At any rate I am sitting here with a numb mouth and nose and can not eat anything solid for the rest of the day.
They say I shouldn’t have steak or beef jerky or anything much like that for three to four days and to expect pain off and on for the next week.

so much fun
But I am happy to say it wasn’t nearly as bad as I thought it would be.
Which is great.

Keira still sick

my angel is still sick, coughing up a storm and complaining about her tummy hurting.
I ache for her because she isn’t feeling well.
I hate that she isn’t.
It is painful for me to watch her cough so hard she is choking.
Her mother went and got her some cough medicine and it did help but it is still painful to watch her be sick.
I am told by her parents that she is better then she was yesterday or Monday.

If she still is running a fever in the morning Crystal will take her to the doctor’s.

Anyway it is the first I have seen both girls since Sunday so it was great to see them
Love love love being their grand mother.

Happy Birthday son

my oldest son is 28 today and although he is working I am not.

We are having supper tonight, I am cooking at his request.
Chicken gravy over biscuits.
One of his favorites.
All the kids will be here except Tonyia, Brian’s wife and Paula our oldest child.

we are just giving him money because that is what he has asked for.

Happy Birthday Brian.

ooops

well I am wrong again.
Amazing to me how often this happens of late.
I was able to get on my email from the school today which was a first since last Friday, so I emailed my sisters and a friend of mine and told them, you don’t have to write me at yahoo because this email is working again from home!!!
Well I just tried to get on again and it was doing the same thing it has done the last four days, saying a connection failure has occurred

drat!

so now I have to email everyone back and say don’t email me there!!
It won’t work.
Ugh, sometimes computers are a pain in the butt!!!

Vacation day

I am happy to say I have a vacation day tomorrow.
It is great to know i can sleep late and not have to be back to work until Thursday morning.

I plan to write and maybe watch a movie or two.
Other then that it is just going to be a bum day.

Which since I have had grand children,  are very few and far between.