It's Shannon and Oscar's Anniversary!

Today is Shannon and Oscar's Anniversary! I can't hardly believe it has been 12 years! I called to wish them Happy Anniversary, because she has been known to confuse her Anniversary with Kariann's from her first marraige. In fact, the first year that Kariann was married, Shannon called Kariann and wished her Happy Anniversary, and her next phone call was to me to remind me it was Kariann's Anniversary. After we got off the phone, I kept thinking, this isn't Kariann's Anniversary, it's Shannon and Oscar's Anniversary! So I called Oscar and I said: "It's your anniversary dude!" and he said: "No it's not, Shannon would have told me it was our Anniversary, she said it was "Kay Kay's Anniversary." I reminded him that he got married on May 24th, my late grandfather's birthday, it was Labor Day weekend, and Kariann got married on June 26th, my neices birthday. The funny thing is when Shannon called Kay Kay to wish her Happy Anniversary she didn't realize it was the wrong date either. It's not any wonder there was some confusion, we had five weddings in a 15 month period. We had one in March (my nephew Aaron ), one in May ( Shannon and Oscar), one in August ( Jennifer and Kraig ), one in November ( Leslie and Shane ), and one the next June ( Kariann and Donnie.) It was a wild year, full of fun and excitement, hard work, and sometimes tears, but mostly Tons of love! I wouldn't have missed it for the world!

Shannon's my Life Saver!

I haveto say, Shannon is my Life Saver when it comes to this Blogging thing. Everytime I have a problem with my blog site, all I have to do is call her,and she can usually walk me through it. Even if she's building a huge Jungle Gym in the backyard. Anyway, at some point last night I managed to wipe the playlist out of my Mp3 player. I don't know how I did it, but I did it! I looked on my mixpod edit page and the Mp3 player was still there, the playlist was still there, and it played just fine on that page, but whin Iwould try to play it on my Blog Page it wouldn't play because there wasn't a playlist. I worked till late in the evening, and finally gave up in defeat. I called her this afternoon, and she waved her Magic Wand, and fixed it. Now, if she could just get Zander to wear something besides pajamas to church. Well, better go, Papa just dropped his cell phone in the potty!

Rainy Days

I just love Rainy Saturdays. They take me back to when the kids were little and we would all snuggle up in my big 'ole king size bed and take turns reading "chapter books" to each other, actually, it was usually whatever I was reading that week. And sometimes, we might get an "accidental nap" out of the deal. How I would love to have those days back!

Swine Flu

Okay, so hears the deal. When I worked in the E.R. twenty something years ago, I was told by one of the Infectious Diseases Dr.that there are aproximately 13,000 deaths a year in the U. S. from the regular flu, but typically people don't know it. It's when they give it a name, "Asian Flu, Hong Kong Flu, etc" that people freak out. Now typically, I'm not one that freaks out about these things, but when my new son-in-law was sent home with fever and vomiting, I totally freaked! I was on the phone every hour trying to get updates on him. I even made Kariann get a surgical mask for him to wear, from the vet's office, when they went to pick Shannon's dog that had been poisoned up. (That's a whole nother story!) Maybe, they shouldn't name these Flu's.