It's been a very busy weekend starting Thursday evening. I spent the night at the hospital with a friend who'd had major surgery. She was quite entertaining since she was pretty doped up on pain killers and nausea meds. She was telling me all sorts of crazy stuff that made absolutely no sence at all, but it was funny. She is at home now and doing much better. I may have to have that same surgery, so I want to see how she recovers for more than one reason. Our backs are about the same.

Anyway, Friday night, my Mom, our friend, Brett, and Tom and I went to see Cirque Dreams. It was FANTASTIC! I just loved every minute of it. Here are some pictures that I have found around the 'net to show you.












I want to go see another one of the Cirque shows. The colors are so beautiful and the black light effects. You can see from the pictures that the characters are also very colorful. There are a lot of acrobats, dancing, ballet moves, etc. etc. It was wonderful! Tom really liked it too. He kept talking about it after we left, so I know he enjoyed the whole show. The strength and agility of all the characters was phenomenal!
I am so glad we went. So if you have to opportunity to go see one or any of the Cirque de Soliel shows, GO SEE IT. YOU WILL BE AMAZED and TOTALLY ENTERTAINED!!!!!!

Enjoy your day!

This is Lucy. She is my son's dog. Such a sweet little thing. I enjoy being her grandma and babysitting her when he needs me to. Just thought I would show you her picture. She is playing with Cosby in this picture but you can hardly see him because he blends in with the sofa, but he is at Lucy's feet.

Today I watched movies on Lifetime most of the day while sitting here crocheting. One of them was a movie called 'In a Private Garden'. I want the sound track to that movie. It was some very nice music. The movie was fair too.

Tom worked out in the yard and finished what he wanted to do outside this weekend. Tonight we watched 'TROY' with Brad Pitt. Really good movie.

Work tomorrow......YUCK! I am hoping to find out something about the Retirement proposal this week. Nothing else to report today.

Just because I was talking about how late I can sleep on Saturdays, I woke up at 7:15 this morning and couldn't go back to sleep. I got out of my toasty warm bed and put the dogs out. It was so magnificently quiet outside. I sat down on the porch and just listened to the sounds of the early morning.

There was a couple of birds singing quietly like they understood that they should be gentle with their morning songs, so as not to waken the world. There was a dog barking way off in the distance and a rooster crowing somewhere. There were no cars running up and down the street, nor gravel trucks making there way to and from the gravel pits. The kids in the area were still sleeping instead of riding their 4 wheelers around their yards. So very quiet. I enjoyed sitting there listening to not much of anything. Maybe I will get up early again tomorrow morning to enjoy the silence.

My family (well some of us) met in Hammond this evening to have dinner together for a late celebration of Mom's birthday. My brother, Frank and his wife, my niece, Allison with her husband Tres and baby Ainsley, my nephew, Patrick and Heather and Allen, Tom and I and Mom. Ainsley is 4 1/2 months old. She is alert and so sweet. I got to hold her for a little while and she immediately fell asleep. Here is her picture.
Isn't she sweet?!

Today is my Mom's 71st birthday. She is the one on the left in this picture. My Aunt Peg (now deceased is on the right and the baby belongs to her daughter, I think) Mom says she never thought she would still be here, but of course, I am glad she is.

Mom is pretty special to me as all Moms should be. I don't think some of us realize what our mothers have done for us and how much they love us.

I know that my Mom loved me when I didn't love myself. She took good care of me when I was sick, tried to control me when I being a typical juvenile, and always loved me unconditionally.

Approximately 20 years ago, my Mom had a heart attack and had to have emergency bypass surgery. I have never been so terrified in my life. She had called me at work and said she needed me to come get her and take her to the doctor because she thought she was having a heart attack. I really don't think she totally believed that was what was wrong because she didn't want to go to the hospital, just to what I call a 'Doc n a box'. You know, the little 24 hour corner doctors. I raced from work to her home, picked her up and barreled my way back through traffic, and through red lights and past stop signs to take her there. It was a total of 8 minutes from the time I left work till we got to the doctor's office.

Well, this particular doctor was a very good one. He gave her nitro to see if it subsided the pain, which it did. Therefore, he sent her to the hospital by ambulance immediately.

They checked her out for a couple of days and then on the 3rd day of the hospital visit, she crashed and went into complete respiratory and cardiac arrest. That's when the emergency surgery happened. To make a long story shorter.....She came through the surgery just fine, after we thought we would definitely loose her, and she and I have repaired a lot of the hurt and disappointment that happened before that. I am happy to have my Mom still in my life today.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MOM! I hope your day was nice.