Mama On The Move

So, it all came down this way: Kerry called me back in March and said, "Don't kill me.  They want me to go to a conference in Hawaii from May 10th to the 12th." "Aw man!  You get to go to Hawaii?  That is so not fair!"  I pulled out my calendar to write down the dates.  It wasn't until I was actually looking at the calendar that it hit me.  "You're going to be in Hawaii on May 11th?  Our 25th anniversary?  Are you kidding me??" Neither of us had even realized it!  We both heard "10th" and "12th" but didn't make the connection of it also including the 11th which is our anniversary.  When Kerry first left for Korea, he had planned to save his R&R to come home for our anniversary.  Then Ben set his wedding date for June and we realized Kerry would have to save his R&R for that.  We would miss spending our anniversary together.   It's definitely not the first time that's happened but we had ...

Poor Katie can not catch a break lately.  On top of having all her foot issues, her dentist found a growth on her lip which needed to be removed.  Katie said she thought it was just a little flap of skin and she hadn't really thought much about it. Other than gnawing on when she was bored. I had to take her to an ENT who cut it out and cauterized her lip.  The look Katie gave me when they brought out a huge needle was priceless.  I wish I had gotten a picture of that but it might have incinerated the insides of my camera. After a few days, the area turned into a really icky scab.  Luckily it wasn't visible unless she pulled her lip down specifically to show it off. Now she has healed completely and the biopsy showed that it was benign.  Thank goodness!  I don't think we could have handled any more medical needs around here!

 Life just hasn't been exciting enough for me lately.  So, I decided I would almost back my van into a ditch while leaving the home of Katie's harp teacher.  Her driveway is very steep and I was asking Katie about her lesson so I didn't realize that the driveway not only curves a little bit at the bottom, it also has a deep drainage ditch on either side of it.   I realized it when my left rear wheel hit the ditch.  I tried to pull forward and was able to make it a little way up the steep hill but after a few moments I was completely off the driveway and was stuck in the mud and wet grass.  I tried going forward, backward, and sideways to no avail. I left Katie sitting in the front seat as I trudged back up to the house to tell Katie's harp teacher, "Hi, I'm a moron and I think I'm al little teensy bit stuck."  I knocked on her door and then turned to look back at Katie and realized I was not so stuck after all as my van was at that exact mom...

I just took all three dogs out at once for their last walk of the night.  It's usually not difficult to control them all.  They are usually very well behaved. Tonight on our way back to the house, we saw a black cat sitting on the side of the street carefully observing us.  Of course, all three dogs lost their minds wanting to get closer to it.  We live on a very narrow street so I crossed as far to the left as I could, trying to keep the dogs as far away from the cat as I could.   They stretched as far as their leashes would allow, until they were only a foot from the cat's face, all of them barking hysterically.   The cat never blinked. I dragged the dogs the rest of the way down the street and the cat decided it would saunter along behind us juuuuuuuust out of reach.   I think I heard him giggle. Leo and Gus were so enraged at not being able to reach the cat, they decided to just attack each other.  I'm sure this was high enterta...

19 years of beauty and brains in my life!