These Are The MAYS of our Lives- The MAYers, Part VI

[JoBird]

Lake--- that was so sweet and special, Thanks so much for sharing it with us.

Canada is such a beautiful country. I hope to one day make it up there to visit.
Loved seeing all of Canada's children waving their flags and their mittens.

So sweet.

 

[lakehead92]

Lake--- that was so sweet and special, Thanks so much for sharing it with us.

Canada is such a beautiful country. I hope to one day make it up there to visit.
Loved seeing all of Canada's children waving their flags and their mittens.

So sweet.

I'm glad you liked it. I thought it was worth sharing today.
Makes me a little teary.

I am very hopeful for our olympic team.
and our nation for a successful Olympic Games.

Though we can never compete with the number of medals you receive. If I can't cheer on a canadian, I'll be cheering for Team USA.
We don't have nearly the same number of atheletes as you do. But that is just the way it is when we only have a population of 32 million, and you have over 304 million. We have less atheletes to choose from...hahaha

 

[seacrestpromo]

Hello Mayers!

Well we had a really nasty scare yesterday.

We went to Buca di Beppo to celebrate my sister's birthday for lunch.

Everything was going fine, good food, etc. Then Chris said "OUCH!!" and he spit out this:

A freaking brass crate staple!!!

It was in his salad!

I was just floored and freaked out. I got up and showed the manager and she wanted to take it. I said "no way". I was so upset because if he had swallowed it, we would have had a horrendous situation on our hands.

I lost my appetite and couldn't eat anything more.

My brother's girl friend, Vicki is a dental hygienist and she checked him over to see if he had broke a tooth or cut himself, but the lighting was bad and she said to see our dentist. So we have an appointment today to have him checked out at the dentist to make sure he doesn't have any broken or cracked teeth. Last night he said his jaw was hurting.

This is lame.

Can you imagine if he had swallowed this thing? This was crazy. I got a headache and had to sleep it off in the afternoon. The day was shot.

Anyway, that was my day yesterday - Sea

 

[Momof2Disneyboys]

Good Morning!!!!!


4 days till the opening ceremonies, and the olympic flame reaches Vancouver today!!!!!! I am so excited!!!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7v0o27BPIIk

This is a little video of Canada's torch relay. It's very heart warming for me, and very Canadian. Check out everyone's red mittens, we all have many pairs here.

That's awesome Lake!

Okay I have good reason to be a tortilla party pooper and I wasn't gonna tell the story.... but you know me and stories-- we go hand in hand. Y'all may have heard it once before----

Close your ears NC.....

When we went to Cabo San Lucas in 2005 we went to dinner at a local restaurant that is very well known there. It's whre the locals dine and is a big draw for tourists b/c it is the real deal.
So we ate dinner and it was pretty good- I had some tortilla something another. Afterwards I had to go to the bathroom- Mark walked me to the bathroom and waited on me. When I went in, of course the whole city has very little water and awful septic systems and posts on the bathroom doors- "If it's mellow, let it yellow, if it's brown, flush it down."

And of course they had a trash can for you to throw your TP into instead of flushing it.

I was, of course, grossed out beyond comprehension, and went to wash my hands. No soap. It looked like soap had never even been placed in that dispenser. Ever.
I came out completely grossed out and of course when I walked out, there was Mama Tortilla hand making the tortillas right next to the old poopy spot. I'm sure she'd been to the bathroom once or twice on her shift without washing her hands.

I had to have a shot of tequilla to kill the germs in my gut.





So no--- NC, I won't be eating Mama's poopy tortillas with you. I am indeed the Party POOPER.

I should have known there was a story!!

Hello Mayers!

Well we had a really nasty scare yesterday.

We went to Buca di Beppo to celebrate my sister's birthday for lunch.

Everything was going fine, good food, etc. Then Chris said "OUCH!!" and he spit out this:

A freaking brass crate staple!!!

It was in his salad!

I was just floored and freaked out. I got up and showed the manager and she wanted to take it. I said "no way". I was so upset because if he had swallowed it, we would have had a horrendous situation on our hands.

I lost my appetite and couldn't eat anything more.

My brother's girl friend, Vicki is a dental hygienist and she checked him over to see if he had broke a tooth or cut himself, but the lighting was bad and she said to see our dentist. So we have an appointment today to have him checked out at the dentist to make sure he doesn't have any broken or cracked teeth. Last night he said his jaw was hurting.

This is lame.

Can you imagine if he had swallowed this thing? This was crazy. I got a headache and had to sleep it off in the afternoon. The day was shot.

Anyway, that was my day yesterday - Sea

OMG Sea! That's crazy. I hope Chris is alright.

 

[Monny2AE]

Sea- What a terrible day! I'm glad he didn't swallow it though. I can't imagine what kind of damage that could have done. I hope all goes well at the dentist. Be sure to stop at the lawyers office on the way home.

Jo- What a gross story. On our way home from Disney we stopped at a Subway and ended up walking out. We used the bathrooms before ordering and one of the ladies that makes the subs didn't wash her hands. I was washing DD's hands and she just walked right past us and back into the kitchen and starting slapping subs together. Granted they wear gloves but still! I'm sure it happens all the time but I couldn't eat there since I saw it with my own eyes.

Lake- I love the video...was that a marriage proposal around 2:30 into it? So sweet!

 

[lakehead92]

OH My GOODNESS SEA!

I Hope Chris is okay.
As a parent I can imagine how shocked and afraid you would be, not to mention angry,

 

[Momof2Disneyboys]

Saturday morning trying to dig out the driveway ~

Sunday ~

 

[seacrestpromo]

WOW! What a load of snow you got Shelly. Did your boys shovel out your driveway or do you hire a service to do that? Looks like they had a lot of fun sledding.

 

[rusafee1183]

Hi all.

It's been crazy around here. We've been losing power a lot and they are expecting another 10 inches tonight.

My company is putting anyone that volunteered to stay at the Omni William Penn hotel downtown.

http://www.omnihotels.com/FindAHotel/PittsburghWilliamPenn.aspx

Fancy, fancy.....

So, since Bob and I both work in town I volunteered and we are staying down here tonight. I am hoping that they're overexaggerating. I really don't know where anymore snow can go.

 

[Momof2Disneyboys]

WOW! What a load of snow you got Shelly. Did your boys shovel out your driveway or do you hire a service to do that? Looks like they had a lot of fun sledding.

Usually DH shovels out the driveway. Him and DS10 went out Saturday morning to take a look and then one of the neighbors came over and plowed us out with his blade on his 4-wheeler. He knew DH had knee surgery and wanted to help!

 

[seacrestpromo]

Hey RF - that is a nice place! Great deal too!

Hi all.

It's been crazy around here. We've been losing power a lot and they are expecting another 10 inches tonight.

My company is putting anyone that volunteered to stay at the Omni William Penn hotel downtown.

http://www.omnihotels.com/FindAHotel/PittsburghWilliamPenn.aspx

Fancy, fancy.....

So, since Bob and I both work in town I volunteered and we are staying down here tonight. I am hoping that they're overexaggerating. I really don't know where anymore snow can go.

 

[seacrestpromo]

That was cool. I couldn't imagine shoveling all that snow.

Usually DH shovels out the driveway. Him and DS10 went out Saturday morning to take a look and then one of the neighbors came over and plowed us out with his blade on his 4-wheeler. He knew DH had knee surgery and wanted to help!

 

[Momof2Disneyboys]

That was cool. I couldn't imagine shoveling all that snow.

Yeah, it was really nice of him to help. Usually it's not too bad to shovel, when it's under 6 inches or so, it just slides right across the driveway. But when it gets to be a foot of snow it gets heavy!

 

[JoBird]

Afternoon MAYers!

Shelly--- whoa--- tons of snow! Yikes! So very ready for Spring aren't you? Thanks for sharing the pics- glad your neighbor plowed for you guys.

RF---- The William Penn is one of my favorite hotels ever-- we stayed there when we were house hunting. Very very swanky-- you won't want to get out of your robe. It's very peaceful. Did you know it has a ghost???
http://theshadowlands.net/places/pennsylvania.htm <---- scroll to Pittsburgh, then The William Penn .



No school again today- the kids and I have been out shopping.

C'mon spring! Where for art thou, Spring???

 

[lakehead92]

The snow is falling, the snow is falling! ( said like chicken little)... hahaha


We've waited a long time for this... not a single snow day here yet, or last year for that matter. I think it's time.

 

[mari360]

Hey all....

Shelly - WOW that was a lot of snow.... we are suppose to get something like 11 inches tonight.

Rf - enjoy your hotel stay on the company.... LOL

Sea - Holy.... i would have been so upset if i found something like that in my food. Did they at least comp your meal? they better have....

We were suppose to get this HUGE storm on saturday and we got NOTHING... so let's see if this storm actually happens tongiht... we'll see.... boo i'm so jealous of my DH.... he's going on a mans vacation... one of his friends invited him to his house... i really couldn't say no considereing I went to NC not too long ago... but guess where his friend lives in ORLANDO.... i'm gonna have my DH go to DTD and pick me up some things.... boo me i tried getting a weekend trip for me and marissa but that didn't work out.... i'll see if i can do something... should be too expensive it only for like 3 nights.... we'll see....

 

[lakehead92]

Well I got some snow. Enough for the school buses to not be running. But school is still open. So I guess I'll drive the kids today. Time to go start shovelling.

 

[Monny2AE]

RF- Hope your power stays on and you are staying warm! Enjoy that hotel stay! It's snowing here again too. Time to make more cookies.

Lake- What crazy weather! Shouldn't Canada be getting all of this instead of me? I could host the Olympics in my front yard at this point.

Mari- Hope your DH enjoys his mini vacation. If you can't go, at least send him shopping for you!

Snow day here today. Couldn't ask for better timing though.

Yesterday was an all around bad day. Em started with a high fever yesterday and was complaining her ears hurt. By the time we got to the pediatrician in the afternoon, Andrew had started with a fever. Two copays later- cold virus for Andrew and cold virus with double ear infection for Em. Spent 45 minutes waiting for the prescription to be filled and another hour driving home in the snow that had started falling.

The worst part of the day was the phone call from Jason telling me that his mom called him at work- wish she would have waited until he was home. They diagnosed my father in law with cancer and it's pretty advanced. It looks like it started in his esophagus and had spread to his stomach. Both biopsies came back positive. They also saw masses on his liver and pancreas when they did the MRI. He goes Friday for more answers but at this point it looks like he has up to a year at most. I'm petrified that he will be in pain. We lost my grandfather a few years back to liver cancer and he was in such pain for months.
Jason seems to be doing okay for now. He visited his Dad last night and came home and took some time to himself to let it sink in a little. We're just not ready for this phase of our lives. It was hard enough to say goodbye to grandparents. I'm not ready to say goodbye to parents yet. Not that anyone is ever ready. This is going to be hard.
Sorry for bringing the sadness to the MAYer thread today but I'm having a rough one and we could use some prayers if you've got any to spare.

 

[Momof2Disneyboys]

Good morning MAYers!

We got a bunch more snow last night. Not sure how much at this point and it is still snowing. And get this -- they actually cancelled school! The kids were to have Fri & Mon off for "winter break", but will now make up today on Monday. We'll see what happens if they cancel tomorrow. . .

Hey Mari good to hear from you! I hope your DH buys you something nice at DTD.

Sorry the kids are sick Kim. And so sorry to hear about your FIL. That stinks that it wasn't caught sooner. We're here for you and definitely sending prayers your way.

 

[mari360]

Kim - I am so sorry for what you are going through right now. Your whole family will be in my prayers. I'll be praying your family has the strength to get through this rough time to come ahead.

Shelly - thanks... I was actually looking into it and the time he is going i'm in school so there goes my plans. But i told him not to get me anything for Vday now but to get it for me in DTD.... believe me i'm sending a list with him... but he know what i like so... we'll see...

So we got snow last night.... it's still snowing now the weatherman said something like 11 inches before it's finished..... and this afternoon it's going to be Blizzard conditions... my DH laughed at me this morning when we were watching the news when they said Blizzard i shouted out "i would Love to go to Blizzard beach" he tells me that i relate everything to WDW.... which i do....