Checking In

Good morning! It's me...finally! I've been facebooking more and more lately, so I guess you could say I've been "cheating" on my blog. Here's some highlights of what I've been doing lately.

- Got up early and went yard-saling last Saturday. I got a couple of cute tops, a toaster oven, and a carrier for Lucy.

- I have a nest in one of my ferns which prompted me to go buy some of those little water-globe-things, because I now can't water that fern with the regular sprayer.

- David and I spent the day together last Sunday for his birthday. We ate lunch at O'Charley's and went to see the 12:30 of Angels & Demons. It was a good movie, but it's so different from the book. They had to leave out a lot of stuff for time...read the book. It's good, and not nearly as controversial as Da Vinci Code.

- We had our annual York reunion in M'boro on Saturday. We got together at the General Bragg trailhead of the Greenway. It was a lovely day, and the rain managed to hold off.

- We spent the rest of the weekend at the lake for Memorial Day. I had my first experience of coming off the jet ski while it was going 40 mph. Not fun! I'm okay...just a little sore. David was driving and felt terrible about it. It wasn't his fault...jet ski hit a wake the wrong way. Lex also had his first boat ride. He actually got in two boat rides this weekend. First one he sat very still and didn't know what to think about his life jacket and the wind. Second one he and his sister fell asleep. It had been a very long, active Memorial Day.

I'm now enjoying a scheduled day off work. I love tacking on an extra day to a holiday weekend. I've got loads of ironing to do, and I need to go to the grocery store. Those are my chores for the day!

Hope everyone has a good day! Summer's officially here!!!

Happy Birthday, David!

Today is my dear husband's birthday. I love you, honey! I know we've entered the phase of not wanting talk about "how many" we are, but it's still fun to have a birthday.

Love to the Mommas

The clocks were striking midnight, and the rooms were very still, as a figure glided quietly from bed to bed, smoothing a coverlid here, settling a pillow there, and pausing to look long and tenderly at each unconscious face, to kiss each with lips that mutely blessed, and to pray the fervent prayers which only mothers utter. As she lifted the curtain to look out into the dreary night, the moon broke suddenly from behind the clouds, and shone upon her like a bright benignant face, which seemed to whisper in the silence, "Be comforted, dear heart! there is always light behind the clouds."

Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

I want to wish a giant Happy Mother's Day to my Mom tomorrow! I love you, Mom, and we're so excited to have you over for family dinner Tuesday. I hope you have a wonderful day.

I also need to wish a Happy Mother's Day to my mother-in-law, Debby Johnson. I don't think I brag enough here about how extremely blessed I am to have the most amazing mother-in-law in the world! You will never hear me utter MIL horror stories...never, because I seriously don't have any!

Happy Mother's Day as well to all the other moms and grandmothers in my life. I love you all, and as always...you are all perpetual examples of beautiful motherhood! Should I ever be blessed to be a mother I will have no shortage of women to look to for guidance.

Checking In

Just checking in with a little update. Everything's going along fine...just not much interesting going on.

One exception: My Mama Dugan's birthday was Saturday. She turned 101! We had the party at my Mom and Dad's here in M'boro. There was a great turnout of family! It was nice to see and visit with some family that I rarely see.

Things are just pretty quiet right now. Working and wishing all this rain would stop. Here are a couple of pictures to show how much the water's up at the lake. The first one is from Mama's birthday party in '07, and the second was taken just a day or so ago (it's courtesy of my Dad's facebook page). A good way to compare is to look at the poles on each end of the last section of dock. Also you normally have to walk down to the dock. Now it appears as if we'd have to walk up. At least we won't be praying for the water to be up this year by Memorial Day. I actually hope it goes down, and some of that junk clears out!