Not a lot going on around here. I just wanted wish everyone a Happy Thanksgiving. It looks like Christy and the boys will be with me since Chad is going to do a side job on that day. Not much on the menu just something simple. Christy and I may hit a few store that are opened on Thanksgiving but other than that not much around here.

We are planning on going to see my aunt on Saturday. I haven't seen her in awhile since she has been in Texas with my uncle. It will be good to see her.

This is just short and sweet, I have to go get ready for work so have a great day.

I am doing some catch up on Alan's computer. I can't get mine to get on line and I have no idea what to do to fix it. I am going to get Alan or Chad to check it out over the holidays.

I got up this morning and had to check out my shed to make sure that it didn't get wet on the inside and everything looked fine. I will have to get a lockfor it to keep my nephew out. He likes to get into things that don't belong to him.

Then after I did that I came in and fixed four pecan pies. They are for Thanksgiving and a couple are for our church dinner on Wednesday. They smell Great. Dennis, Can you smell them? You make it in this area and I will be sure to make you one.

There isn't much going on around here. My sinus are driving me crazy but other than that the same old thing. Work, work, work. I am off on Thursday but I will work on Friday. It looks like I will be working all day on Friday. I will work in the office for three hours and that will be a breeze becxause all I have to do is answer the phone. Then in the afternoon I will be in a class with just a few children because our numbers will be low.

I will be crusing in a little over two weeks. I am really looking forward to spending time with my mom. I will be sure to take lots of pictures. I may be limitied to what I can do because of moms health but that is fine because it will be great to just be able to be togehter.

I am going to go for now and I will update when I get a chance. I haven't forgotten about you it is just hard to get to Alan's computer sometimes.

Have a wornderful Thanksgiving and God Bless You.

This is going to be short and sweet as I need to get ready for work. YEA!!! It is Friday. Not a lot going on today. We will stay in today due to the wind chill. If it is to cold for me then I keep my kids in.

Maybe I have the problem with my sick time fixed. I had to sign to let them send the information to my boss. Maybe they will get it worked out. Time will tell.

Mom is coming tomorrow to see the new baby. It will be good to see them. They will only spend three or four hours over because they don't like to drive after dark and I do understand that. There is some crazy people out there and they have some country roads to drive on.

I have to go see the doctor today. I am having some minor problems that he wants to check out after my surgery. Nothing to worry about. It probably is nothing but I want to make sure for my own piece of mind.

Not much going on after work today. I will probably come home and just stay warm. Then yet I may decide to go do some Christmas shopping. I will have to see how I feel after the doctors appointment and work.

Everyone have a great weekend and I will write more later.

Now I get to start over with this note since I lost the last one. I hit the wrong button and lost everything. Good thing life isn't like that or I would be in trouble. I would be zapped out of this world. GRIN!

There ism't much going on around here other than work. I think I might go see Christy and her bunch tomorrow after I get off work. I haven't seen them in a week. That is what happens when you have to work for a living.

I also have to get in touch with the hospital in Birmingham to get some information from them to give to my boss. There always seem to be something else they need. It would be nice it I could get all this done at one time but that would be to easy.

Sorry this is so short and sweet but I need to get some things done before heading out the door for work. Have a great day!!!!!!!

Good morning on this beautiful, cold morning. It is in the thirties this morning and I am not looking forward to going outside to go to work.

Not much going on around here other than working. I got up and washed a load of clothes andwashed dishes.

Mom is coming over to see us on Saturday. Really she is coming over to see the baby. It will be good to see her even if it is only to see the baby.

Thanksgiving around her is going to be different. We are not all going to be together. It looks like it will be just be Alan, Riley, and me for dinner unless we decide to do something different. Christy and her bunch are just going to go out and eat and Jason is going to work. But that is okay. Things happen like this when you have a broken family and I am just fine with that. I am better off anyway not being in the situtation I was in before.

Enough rambling. I am going to go hit the shower and get ready for another day of work. What joy. Have a good day.

I am going to try to up date one more time this morning. my computer is being difficult this morning. The thing keep shutting down on me.

Work went well yesterday. I was a little tired and my back hurt a little but over all it was good. Everone was glad to see me back. I think the adults were just as happy to see me back as the children were. The girl that was working for me had to be told everyday what needed to be done and you would think that after five weeks she would get the hang of it.

I went to the dentist yesterday and had my partial replaced. It will be nice not to have to worry about putting that thing in my mouth or forgetting to put it in. Yes, I have forgotten my tooth and would have to go back home and get it. Now I don't have to worry about that. That is what I was working on, Dennis. I also had my teeth whitened. That is why I told you that I would get you a picture later. I will get my permenant bridge December 1st. Then I will work on that picture. Maybe one from Mexico.

Well, I am going to go. I have some things to get done before heading to work. You guys have a wonderful day and I will write more later.

I think that maybe I can slow down for a minute and fill everyone in on what has been going on. We have a new addition. Benjamin Job came into this world on Thursday November 13th at 1:27pm. He weighed in at 9lbs 6 ozs. and is 21 1/2 in. He is one healthy boy. Everone has teased Chad that he is almost as big as his dad. He was being feed very well while he was in his mommies tummy and he still at it. He can put down two ounces in no time. I told Christy that she was going to have to get a part time job to feed that boy.

Christopher is very, very proud of his new brother. He really doesn't want to share him with no one. He has held him more than anyone, I think. He makes sure that he knows where his brother is at all times when he is at the hospital. When Benjamin is not in the room he wants to know where he is and what they are doing to him. We made three trips to the nurses station yesterday to find out when his baby was coming back to the room. Hopefully he will continue being such a great big brother. I know the newness will wear off but is so cute to watch him. Only a Nana would say things like that.

Jonathan wants to know the more serious things about him like why is he so red and where did those spots on his face come from. He hadto take pictures to school this morning to show everyone his new brother.

Mason wants to trade in Savannah for a brother. He told his mom that he didn't want her anymore that he wanted a brother like Benjamin. He wanted to trade with Christopher and Christopher said, "NO WAY". So now he keeps asking for a brother.

I am not looking forwand to Monday as my time off comes to an end. I guess it will be good because I can get back into a routine again. It has been a great break but all good things must come to an end.

I decided that after this morning of getting kids up and getting them out the door for school and heading to the hospital there is a reason that women are to have children while they are young. I am glad all mine are grown and that I can enjoy my grand children and then send them back home. We did okay this morning but it was a lot different then just getting me ready. I only have one tonight. The other one went home with his Papa.

Christy gets to go home tomorrow and on that note I am going to ball it a might myself. Have a great weekend....I am going to get things caught up over the weekend.

I haven't forgotten all of you guys out there. It has been a busy couple of days. We will be having a baby tomorrow. We have to be at the hospital at 5:30 in the morning. The doctor is going to induce and then when he comes in they are going to break her water. So maybe by noon we will have a little one here.

I will update tomorrow and hopefully have pictures by Saturday.

I am going to go for now since 4:45 will be early. Later ya'll.

What a beautiful day it has been. The leaves on the way up and back from Birmingham are just beautiful. The colors are just so vivid. I think this one of my favorite times of the year. I really love seeing the different colors. I think next year I may have to take a trip to the mountains for a couple of days.

The doctor appt. went well. Everything looked good and he want to follow up with me in six months. I was released to go back to work but I told him that I needed off until Monday because of Christy having a baby and he told me then I could go back on Monday. So, she has a week.

I am going to go for now. I need to be some where at 5:45 and I still need to get something to eat.

I will write more later.

This is only going to be a short and sweet note due to the fact that it is getting a little late and I have to be up by five to get ready to head to Birmingham. I will let you know what the doctor says when I get home tomorrow evening. I am sure that it will all be good news. I hope that he will let me stay out of work until the 17th of this month. We will see.

No baby yet. It looks like it may end up being Thursday but only God knows. He will be her when he is ready.

Dennis, I hoped you enjoyed the races. I misssed them today because I was helping Alan with my shed. It is going to be big enough. Alan keeps teasing me about making it my home. He said it was big enough to have my bed. a dresser and a pot belly stove to stay warm with. I really feel the love from all the men folk in my life. HA!!HA!!

Gotta go and get in the bed. Later....

I started my day out by going to Christy's and helping the boys pick up pecans. They are both saving for a big toy and we told them that if they wanted it bad enough they would have to help. We picked up three five gallon buckets in about two hours. They sold some the end of the week and they ended up with almost twenty dollars. They were so excited. They will probably end up with fifty or sixty dollars. The two of them worked right along witht the adults. They did an awesome job today.

After helping the boys pick up pecans I headed home and had some lunch and got ready for the BAMA football game. It was an exciting game. We were ahead 7-0 fot the first quarter but at half time it was tied at 14. In the fiurth quarted we we tied again at 21 and in ovewr time Bama came out with a victory witht he score of 27-21. They are undefeated and are ranked #1. They have two more games for this season before playoff. GO BAMA!!!!!!!!!

I talked to Christy around seven and she said that she was having contractions but that she did the same thing last night and they stopped, so we will see if I get a phone call during the night.

I called the doctor in Birmingham yesterday and had my appointment changed to Monday so that if they put Christy in on Thursday I could be with her. The lady I talked to told me that if we had a baby this weekend to call her on Monday and that she would move me back to Thursday. She was so willing to work with me and that really means a lot today because there aren't many people that would do that now.

I am going to call it a night. I am beat from picking up pecans. Have a great evening.

I am beginning to wonder if Christy is pregnant or not. Christopher told her that she was just fat. The words of a young one. Jonathan just wants the baby to hurry up and get here so that he can go spend the night with is best friend.

The doctor told her unless she has him before next week that he was not going to induce labor yet because the baby is not ready. Just everyone else. If she doesn't have him before Wednesday then he is going to put her in on Thursday which means I probably want be there. I have a doctors appointment in Birmingham on that day. I told her that would be my luck. She would have him on Thursday and I will have to go back to work on Monday.

If she has not had him by the time I go up I think I am going to ask the doctor for another week off before returning to work. He may not let me go back yet any way. I will have to wait until Thursday to see.

The weather has been beautiful this week. Tomorrow it is going to be in the high seventies and we are expecting rain Friday night and then clear again on Saturday. We will have cooler weather next week. Low seventies. The weather is great this time of the year and the leaves are turning and are pretty.

Not much going on with me right now. Just kind of taking it easy adn doing very little. It is going to kill me when I have to go back to work. Part of me is ready to get back to it and then there is also a part that likes not working.

I am going to gfet off of here and call it a night. Have a great Friday.

We still have no baby...I don't think he is ready to arrive in this world. He really likes the comfort of where he is. His mom has a different idea on that. She goes back to the doctor tomorrow and they will decide then if they are going to put here in the hospital on Friday. And here we go again....maybe Benjamin will make an appearance on Friday. The story continues and it is all up to Benjamin. I told Christy he needed to hurry up and get here so that I can spend some time with him before I have to go back to work.

I talked to Michael this morning and it was the first time that I have talked to him since before having my surgery. I have not spoken to him since he made me mad. He explained that he needed to make his meeting the day that I had surgery because it may have meant that he did not have a job and I told him then that was what he should have told me but there was still no reason for him not to come by after he finished up with his meeting. We cleared the air this morning. I was not going to make the first move so I am glad that he did.

I am still working on the picture....Just hang in there. I promise there is one coming in the near future.

I think everyone is ready for me to come back to work. Part of me is ready to go back, but it is nice to get paid and not have to work. I will have to enjoy my last week because I probably we will be going back on the 17th unless the doctor says other wise.

I am going to go for now. I have some things to get done this afternoon. Have a great day..................

We may have a baby tomorrow...Christy called the doctor today because she is having problems with her feet swelling and her blood pressure being up some. The doctor want tosee her in the morning. I hope they put her in the hospital because she is miserable. I will let you know if we end up with a new addition.

There isn't much going on around here. Alan has been working on the shed that I bought before he had his skin cancer removed. It had to be put on hold for awhile but he said that he would have it finished in time for me to get the stuff out of storage by the end on November. Just in time to get all the Christmas presents out and see what all I have in there.

Dennis, I know that you want a new picture and I am working on that. I working on a project the next couple of weeks and when I get it done I promise you a new picture. Until then you will just have to wait. I told you that I am working on it and I am. Just take a chill pill.

It looks like that I will be taking the boys to the fair on Saturday afternoon. I don't think Christy is going to fill up to it. I am sure that we will have a great time. I am going to take them during the day instead of at night.

I am going to call it a night. Have a great election day tomorrow. More later.

I didn't get to sit around and do nothing today. I headed to Christy's house to make fall cookies with her and the boys. We made sugar cookies and used leaf cookie cutters to make the cookies. The boys had a good time rolling the dough and cutting the cookies. After baking them we made fall color frosting and they decorated the cookies. We worked on them for over two hours. They were able to mix the food color in with the frosting and they thought that was neat.

I had a friend call me the other day to ask me how I was doing and she told me that the fore closure on the house was listed in the paper. The auction on the house is going to be on November 11th. They asked me if I was going to be responsible for any balance that was left over and I told them that I did not know at this point. I will worry about that when the time comes. Who knows I may end up filing bankruptcy before it is all over with, but I hope not. Time will tell. I am not going to worry about that right now.

I have the boys for a couple of hours because Chad and Christy had an activity at church for the young married class and the boys wanted to stay with me instead of staying with Robert. They have had a bath and they are now watching cartoons. They aren't any trouble at all.

Well, I am going to go and see if I can find them something to eat for supper. You guys have a great afternoon and take care.