The Good Daughter

I got up at 5am this morning to take my mom to a doctor appointment. She had a colonoscopy this morning. Not fun. At all. For her that is...I'm not complaining about getting up at the buttcrack of dawn. She was not looking forward to this at all. She felt like the doctor was forcing her to go. She told me that she "doesn't have a problem pooping." But the doctor told her that at 69 she was over due for the test. So she went. She said the worst part was having to drink all of the stuff yesterday to get herself all cleaned out. She threw up the last of it. Bryan had that same problem. It's just too much liquid for your stomach to handle. She told me that the test itself was easy. She pretty much fell asleep and doesn't remember any of it. When I picked her up all she said was that she felt drunk and wanted a hamburger. Oh mommy...So funny. All she could think about yesterday was that her reward for having the test was that I would take her to get a burger. I told her that since it was only 8:30 am, she would have to go home for a few hours before I would take her to lunch. I was not going to feed my mother a burger that early in the morning. I brought some crackers and water in case she needed to get something in her stomach. She munched on a couple crackers and was going to go home and scramble an egg to get her by until she could have her burger. Gawd.....my mother is obsessed with hamburgers!
But everything looked good and all she has to do is add more fiber to her diet. So yay for mommy having a clean pooper!

YEAR ONE COMPLETE! WOO-HOO!!

Gosh....One year already. I can't believe how fast it went. There were so many things that I talked about, and so many times that I blogged but didn't talk about a dang thing! But I was here, I blogged every day, sometimes a couple times a day. Even on vacation I blogged.
I'm proud of myself for sticking with it. Hopefully I will be able to stick with it for another year.
I went through all of the old blogs and picked one blog a month that was my favorite.
Here is my list....
November 4, 2008 ~ Finally
December 30, 2008 ~ A Box & A Shredder
January 19, 2009 ~ Rick....
February 16, 2009 ~ Coffee Aisle 5
March 19, 2009 ~ Oiy....I've been so busy today.... (i like the pictures)
April 26, 2009 ~ Rick-A-Bowl-A-Thonappoloosa
May 24, 2009 ~ JOURNEY was Awesome...and a little Deen
June 2, 2009 ~ Oh Bubba
July 22, 2009 ~ Big Fish
August 23, 2009 ~ So much fun
September 23, 2009 ~ Sea level to 10,000 feet all in one afternoon (hard to pick from hawaii)
October 9, 2009 ~ Fall & Halloween Haiku's

So those were my favorite Blogs.
Wonder what I will come up with this year????
Thank You to everyone who stops by. Thank You to anyone who has left a comment. Thank You to everyone who sends me private messages or talks to me in person about blogs. I just appreciate that you even stop by and read at all!
~Barb~

Won't You Be My Neighbor???

OK....I just typed out the title, and it makes it sound like I'm begging people to be my neighbor on Facebook games! I guess that means I spend way to much time farming! LOL!
No....this is actually about neighbors. Go figure.
I have been planning a little get together with friends from the old neighborhood. Old neighborhood as in the one I grew up in. I recently met up with my childhood friend Christy. We had not seen each other since High School. We did go to each others weddings, but I think we both skipped the receptions. So much time has passed, and yet when we got together we talked for 2 straight hours. It was so much fun to see her again. We thought it would be fun to meet up with people from the old neighborhood, so I got a hold of who I could find on Facebook and we are getting together in 2 weeks! I can't wait to see everyone. It's going to be so much fun!
I was asked by one of my friends at work if I could make a couple cards for her. She wanted something for her granddaughter's birthday and baptism. Baptism??? Hmmm....that's a first. The birthday card was easy. She wanted something girly/pink. For the baptism she said she wanted something white. I asked her if there was a quote or something "baptismy" she wanted on the card. She had no idea. Neither did I. I went online and found a saying that I thought was cute....
A child is a precious gift from God
And baptism is God's gift wrapping
I thought it was cute for a little girl, so that is what I put on the card. And I had to have some color on it, so I used a light pink cloud looking paper for some of it. I think it turned out cute. Hope she likes it.
Tomorrow is the big day for my blog. One year ago I started this.
Wonder how much longer I will keep this up......

Good Googly Oogly...It's November.....already.....

I can not believe that it is the 2nd of November. Where did the year go? In 2 days it will be one year since I started this Blog. A year already. I have managed to blog every day. Of course there were a couple times where I had to write the blog ahead of time and set it to post, but that is not cheating! They give you that option for those days when you do not have internet access. And there have been times when I was on vacation, or camping where I didn't. But I still had something posted every day. I'm proud of myself for sticking with it.
I have an idea already for what I am going to do for the 1 Year Anniversary Blog. Be sure to come and check it out on Wednesday!

Family Portrait....well kinda....

Had a great time Trick-or-Treating with my sister, her daughter-in-law Melissa, Melissa's mom Connie, Melissa's 2 year old Richie and Katie. Richie was the cutest ever. At one house he went up, said his Trick-or-Treat, got a candy, but was not leaving. Melissa was pulling him away a little but he was still looking in the bowl. The woman asked him if he wanted another one. Then she held up a tootsie-pop. Nope. Then she held up another piece of candy and asked him..."Are you looking at this one?" Richie replied...."Yes I am!" Katie got it all on video. So funny! Another cute thing he said that had us all cracking up was when we were just a couple houses away from being back home, and he looked up and saw that the clouds had parted and the moon was showing and he said...."What a bootiful moon!" It was so funny because the surprise in his voice was so freaking cute~ You just want to squeeze him!
This is not the video of Richie (that can be found on my Facebook) but I saw this one on lolcats this morning and it had me in tears! So funny!
Enjoy~!