Today would have been my father's 84th birthday. Though he is gone, he is still in our hearts and memories. I know that he is in heaven smiling down on all of us. Especially his precious great granddaughter. Happy Birthday Daddy!!

Last night was a wonderful evening for me. I was in my bedroom around 8 when I thought I heard my doorbell ring. I figured it was on television but then I heard it again. I peaked around the corner at my front door and there was Serif looking in the window at me. I was so surprised. I have a dutch door so I opened the top part and those little arms came right out for me. I was good and let her parents in too.

She just needed some Grammy time. We had such a nice visit. They stayed for about an hour before having to go home and put her to bed. It was a wonderful surprise.

Work has been very busy. I am in charge of coordinating the conferences for the company and there are a lot of conferences going on right now. I love being busy. It definitely helps make the days go by fast.

I also have the pleasure of having a busy weekend ahead of me. The Divas have always been so sweet to include me in their plans. Saturday night MotoDiva is having a birthday party and they have invited me. I am so excited. It will be so good to see everyone again. I'm always up for a good party. Then, of course, Sunday is church and shopping. What a nice weekend I have ahead of me.

My weight news is good. I have made my first goal by lossing 20.5 pounds. Now I am on to the next goal of 10 pounds. Slowly but surely I am getting this weight off.

That's the news for now. Guess it's time to get back to work.

More later...

Well we made it to another Friday. I am so ready for the weekend. Not having to wake up to the alarm clock is so exciting. I only get that one day a week and I cherish it. Plus Friday night is when I get to see the family. Tonight I am going to the store and picking up dinner so that we can all sit around and have a nice family dinner together. Patti's been having a hard time and hopefully we will be able to cheer her up a little. Plus everyone enjoys having some Serif time. I have no idea what we did for entertainment before she came along.

Saturday is supposed to be a rainy day. With the drought we've been having, a nice rainy day has been rare. I'm hoping tomorrow will be the kind of rainy day that makes you want to curl up with a good book or sit and knit and watch TV. I love days like that.

Sunday is the usual church and shopping. I've been so good about going to church for Lent. Trust me, there have been a couple of Sunday mornings that I've been tempted to crawl back into bed but I haven't. The thing is that once I'm at church I enjoy it. It's just getting out of bed that's the hard part.

So that's my plans for the weekend. Exciting isn't it?

More later...

I know I haven't posted for awhile. I'm really bad about this. Trust me, Missy points this out to me all the time.

Writing a blog is hard. I never know what to write about. I have a very boring life and I can't imagine anything that I could say that would be interesting to anyone. Except for seeing my family a couple of time a week, all I do is go to work and go home. Not very exciting is it?

It's funny because I read other people's blogs and they seem to have so much to say. I know that part of my problem is that it's hard for me to talk about me and my feelings. I am just not good at expressing my feelings in public. I'm more of the quiet type. (My kids can stop laughing now.) That combination doesn't make for a very good blogger. Plus I never want to hurt anyone's feelings. Missy might actually take it the wrong way if I referred to her as a brat in a blog. You never know.

There is one piece of good news and that is that I am finally getting some of this weight off. I only have one more pound to go and I will have made my first goal of 20 pounds. It has been coming off slowly but that's fine as long as it comes off. I really haven't started exercising yet but I know I'm going to have to. The problem is that I just hate to exercise. I really do. Why can't knitting be considered an exercise? That's something I can do. I know I've got to get up and start moving around but I'm tired when I get home and my sofa is so comfortable. See? I can come up with lots of excuses about not exercising. Of course I have had years of experience.

More later...

I was just looking at the picture on my blog. My goodness who is that little girl that I am holding? It can't be my precious granddaughter. I'm holding a baby and Serif is a big girl. Just ask her. She can do so many things now. It's hard to remember her way back in September when that picture was taken. She's still my girl though. She still has to be in my lap when we eat. What I eat she will at least try. I so love spending time with her.

Last Sunday her mommy and daddy went bowling with some friends so I got to babysit. We had so much fun. I got her the cutest scooter. It's a little bug scooter and she just loves it. She was scooting all over the house. Sunday the scooter and Bosco were her favorite toys. She loves the fact that Bosco will lay there and let her love all over him. He will let her hug and kiss him all she wants. He'll even let her crawl on him and not move. They love each other so much.

Earlier on Sunday Missy and I went to her sister-in-law's sewing party. Nova is getting married in July and she has gathered Missy, her mother Kathy, her soon to be mother-in-law Martha, Missy and myself to help sew beads on her dress and work on the veil. This is such an exciting time for Nova. I don't envy her all the work involved in not only planning her wedding and honeymoon but also preparing to move into her new house.


The weather has been beautiful around here. The temperature is in the low 70's and the sun is shining. Yesterday, when I got home from work, I found Bosco laying out in the back yard basking in the sunlight. Oh the life of a dog.