DDA chapter 21

[my3princes]

Good Morning DDA!

Chanon, great pics of Disneyland! We really need to get there someday!

Deb, poor Riley!

I know some of you know this already, if you are on FaceBook. Leighanna's stray cat "fluffy" that she found after we returned from WDW in Feb. gave birth to EIGHT kittens the day before Mother's day. All eight are growing, and their eyes are starting to open. Now, I have to find homes for all these kitties! I know we will NOT have 11 cats in this house!

Time to get Leighanna up and ready for school. Three more weeks and I won't have to do this anymore! And more free time to do some fun stuff during the week!

Have a great day!

Wow, good luck getting families for the kitties

My 2nd workout is behind me!!! Slow and steady wins the race, right? I think that tomorrow morning I am going to get up and either power walk or start running. The high school is close by, but T/Th Eric leaves by 5:20am. I would need to get up at 4am.

I can call you at 4 if it helps

I'm on a roll!

I went to the post office (Tammi & Robyn - watch your mail), returned a shirt to Marshall's, dropped off DS's outgrown uniforms at the elementary, loaded all the service project donations into the car. Now I am off to the bank, Nordstrom, Sam's, and the Dr's office.

Hoping to make the shoe repair & the dry cleaners before I get Princess.

Roll on Elizabeth, Roll On

 

[my3princes]

Chris and I just took Riley to the Vet. She agrees with me in that we believe he has a brain tumor. She thinks it may have started as a nasal tumor and has now grown. There is no good way to confirm this without discomfort for Riley and a huge bill for us. We discussed our options which boiled down to giving him a long lasting antibiotic and a long acting steriod shot or having him put down. We just aren't ready to say good bye yet so he got the shots. We should know by tomorrow if it is helping at all and within a week we'll see how much it actually helps. She said it could buy him a couple of weeks to six months or more. Since he isn't in any obvious pain we are hoping this will help immensely If it doesn't work then we know that we have no other recourse than to say goodbye For now he is resting comfortable between my feet. He doesn't seem to want to let me out of sight today which is very unusual.

 

[mommykds]

Deb,

 

[bethbuchall]

Chris and I just took Riley to the Vet. She agrees with me in that we believe he has a brain tumor. She thinks it may have started as a nasal tumor and has now grown. There is no good way to confirm this without discomfort for Riley and a huge bill for us. We discussed our options which boiled down to giving him a long lasting antibiotic and a long acting steriod shot or having him put down. We just aren't ready to say good bye yet so he got the shots. We should know by tomorrow if it is helping at all and within a week we'll see how much it actually helps. She said it could buy him a couple of weeks to six months or more. Since he isn't in any obvious pain we are hoping this will help immensely If it doesn't work then we know that we have no other recourse than to say goodbye For now he is resting comfortable between my feet. He doesn't seem to want to let me out of sight today which is very unusual.

Deb, I am so sorry. As many little complaints I make about my kitties, I know how hard it would be to have to say good-bye.

 

[bethbuchall]

Tia,,,I am sorry I missed your birthday. Sounds like you had a great day.

Bernadette,,your pictures were really fantastic.

Tia, I missed your birthday, too!

Happy belated Birthday!!!

 

[bethbuchall]

the party was deemed and success and I had no idea 4 girls could eat that much bacon

it was supposed to be overcast today....it's beautiful...but I still see a nap in my future

Josh came over for just a smidge last night...in that time I found out that the damage his parents did to their house last weekend was enough to send them to a hotel (which there aren't any really locally) and he doesn't have proper pants for graduation.... this kid just doesn't seem to be able to catch a break.

We had bacon on Saturday, too. I make it about twice a year, so I'm done for the year now.

Poor Josh! What size pants does he wear? He's probably taller than both my "men", since they are on the short side. Our principal made an announcement: no dress pants = no walking at graduation. I don't have a problem with that requirement for my son, but I know that there may be kids who have no dress pants and no way to get dress pants. I guess where there is a will, there's a way.

 

[bethbuchall]

I'm home from work. It kind of sucked, lot of Canadians and they did not tip well at all oh well.

It's too bad that they don't always realize how tipping works here in the US. Canadian servers are paid better, so tips aren't as important.

 

[babytrees]

Deb-I am so sorry that Riley does seem to have the tumor.

 

[bethbuchall]

Good Morning,

Today is my last day off before we leave Friday afternoon, so if you see me on here too much send me on my way.

There's house cleaning, laundry, and packing to do. I also need to make another shopping list. I really want to get a hair cut and color, and the grandchildren are coming over this afternoon, days off are way too short.

I hope your trip is magical!

 

[bethbuchall]

Sooo...

I am nearing completion of the laundry. DS has 32 pairs of shorts. There are 4 more pairs in a Nordstrom bag that I think I will take back to Nordstrom. They were expensive, and it now appears that we do not NEED 4 more pairs of shorts. They will be on clearance by the end of July so I can buy them then if I think he needs them.

I also ran across a shirt I bought at Ross for myself that I think I will return. And I have a shirt from DS that needs to go back to Marshall's because it was too small. Good thing Ross and Marshall's are next door to each other.

Speaking of Marshall's, we found some "Life Is Good" T-shirts for DH. One was marked down to $5! The others were $10 and $13. Very nice quality, great for WDW.

WOW! I love to read all your trip preparations, though. I hope next year, I'm making my own.

 

[babytrees]

We had bacon on Saturday, too. I make it about twice a year, so I'm done for the year now.

Poor Josh! What size pants does he wear? He's probably taller than both my "men", since they are on the short side. Our principal made an announcement: no dress pants = no walking at graduation. I don't have a problem with that requirement for my son, but I know that there may be kids who have no dress pants and no way to get dress pants. I guess where there is a will, there's a way.

the only place that jeans aren't allowed is prom....but even his jeans were/are ratty...we found light colored khakis and will take him one Saturday to ARC and get some other bottoms.

Cassidy was so proud, she bought him dressy shorts with her own money.

 

[bethbuchall]

HOW MEN AND WOMEN SHOWER DIFFERENTLY . . .

I agree!

 

[bethbuchall]

Good! Because we are going to see it this afternoon.

I have a family who gives me Premiere Movie Packs for Christmas and End of the Year gifts and I hardly ever go to the movies (last one was the latest Indiana Jones flick and I went by myself and the one before that was HP). Anyway, my actor-daughter who hates movies really wanted to see Star Trek and Angels and Demons so I am striking while the iron is hot. We will go see HP and The Time Traveler's Wife this summer too. Then I think I will be out of tickets and we will have to pay for anything else we see.

I loved The Time Traveler's Wife until a certain point about 2/3 or 3/4 of the way through. I'm sure you know where I mean. Then I had to struggle to finish. It was just too sad for me. I am looking forward to the HP movie. Miles and Laura want to see Night at the Museum II and UP, so I will probably be seeing those. Matthew wants to see Star Trek, but he'll probably go with friends. Dh will want to wait for it on DVD, because he hates spending money on going to the movies (or just about anything ).

 

[jackskellingtonsgirl]

Deb-I am so sorry that Riley does seem to have the tumor.

Deb, I hope today's treatment has extended the time you will have with your kitty.

WOW! I love to read all your trip preparations, though. I hope next year, I'm making my own.

The girl at Nordstrom didn't look very happy that I was returning 4 pairs of shorts. Oh, well!

As Amy pointed out, now I can pay for the retainer.

I finished ALL of those errands, AND I managed to return the shirt to Ross, too! Now I just need to pick up Princess, pick up DS, and drive over to the agency to drop off all of our goodies or the service project. I e-mailed the Development Director to remind her we are coming, and she said the Executive Director will be there to pose for pics with DS. It will be good to see everyone. I kind of miss them.

 

[PNO4TE]

$119 to replace the retainer, and two trips to the ortho office to do it.

Ouch!

 

[PNO4TE]

I'm on a roll!

I went to the post office (Tammi & Robyn - watch your mail), returned a shirt to Marshall's, dropped off DS's outgrown uniforms at the elementary, loaded all the service project donations into the car. Now I am off to the bank, Nordstrom, Sam's, and the Dr's office.

Hoping to make the shoe repair & the dry cleaners before I get Princess.

Well done!

 

[PNO4TE]

Deb - I hope the treatments work for a while.

 

[bethbuchall]

Just to let everyone know, the dryer doesn't work if yo don't turn it on , I hope that's my last dumb*** move for today anyway!

I hate to admit it, but I can't even count the number of times I've done that!

 

[bethbuchall]

We stayed overnight with Chuck's mom Friday night. I put a filing system together for her. It was totally disorganized. We were supposed to come home after dinner last night. Instead we took her to the emergency room at dinner time. She couldn't put any weight on her left foot. She was diagnosed with cellulitis (infection of the tissue or something like that) and gout in her foot. She is totally bruised on her ENTIRE right side from the catheter when she had her pacemaker installed. I mean ENTIRE. I sure hope that she turns a corner soon. We came home this morning. We got here a little after noon. I'm going to get up at 4am and head to Lansing. I'll be there by noon.

for Chuck's mom.

 

[bethbuchall]

View from our room (we stayed at Paradise Pier Hotel, standard view - upgrated to theme park view, 12th floor)

I love the pictures!