Sunday.....er, no Monday

It feels like Sunday night.  But its Monday.  Which most of you would say is a good thing.  But I don't feel good about it.  Joseph is out packing up his car as we speak to be on the road again.  I hate when he leaves, and he won't even be gone long this time.  Its hard on me - all this traveling.

This week is extra trying on my emotions.  Two reasons:
1). I thought my temperature had spiked.  (Background:  When trying to get preggers, the doctor has you take your temperature every morning with a special thermometer (basel) and you chart what your temp is doing. Its supposed to dip a bit, spike, and stay hot.  Mine dipped, spiked, stayed hot, but went cold.  It should stay hot till your 28th day and then get lower when your little friend comes to town.)  So I've been really excited about my temp being up, and even made the mistake of telling a few friends it was up.  Now I'm feeling again like a failure.
2). Joseph is going off on a guys-weekend fishing trip this weekend.   Sounds fun right?  I am glad for him (I guess) but am so upset that he is leaving me for the weekend after being gone this week and then again on Monday.  I am just jealous of being left home.  I love to fish.  And I don't like to be left home.  Its extra hard because he doesn't understand my resistance to not going.  He just keeps telling me he has never met another man whose wife doesn't want him to go have some guys time.  I am going to try not to cry like a baby this weekend when he leaves.  Especially because my father-in-law and Jon-Jon will be picking him up.

Thats all, I'll put more pictures up this week.  I've got lots to share.

Jon-Jon!

Today was a big day.  This happened:

Jon-Jon graduated!  It was a very special day full of laughs, hugs and a good meal.  Graduation was long, but the speaker wasn't a bore like I thought an engineer would have been.....

I'll put up more pictures later.  I just wanted to let you know what I've been up to today.  Congrats Jon-Jon, Love you :)

Late Night

I'm sitting at the dining room table.  Its 11:15 pm.  And its Wednesday, meaning I have to work in the morning.  Why am I up you ask?  Well, my husband will be home in half hour and sometimes its just easier to wait up for him.  I hate when I get in bed, get comfy, and dose off and then he rolls in, turns on lights, makes me move over (i mean really, why CAN'T I sleep in the middle of the bed?) and then I can't sleep.  And sometime I lay down and just lay there starring at the ceiling.  He has only been gone since yesterday so its probably more of the first example tonight so I am up.

And I'm baking a cake.  Tomorrow is my dear friend Banita's birthday and I can't stand it when someone goes without cake on their big day.  I haven't had a cake on mine in years, but that doesn't mean others shouldn't.  I tried a new recipe.  I wanted to make my favorite cake, but it has sour cream in it and Banita doesn't do dairy, so I looked up a recipe for a non-dairy chocolate cake. I don't know how it's going to be but the  batter tasted wonderful off the spoon.

So here I am listening to a little Lady A on Pandora, baking a cake and blogging.  The dog is laying at my feet sleeping.  And the house smells of chocolate.

Baking a cake at my house poses a problem.  We have this really old stove that came with the house, and when my mom was here in  February, she washed the numbers off the dials.  So its sort of hit or miss on how hot the stove is.  I have a thermometer inside, but every time I open the door it changes drastically, so I have no idea how hot it is.  I just checked and the cake looks beautiful.

Wow, I feel the words are just flowing out of me tonight.  Maybe I should stay up every night and blog.

Back to the stove.  We are getting ready to redo the kitchen.  The cupboards are staying, but there is going to be new counter top, a new island, stove, dishwasher (which we don't have right now), new sink and a built in desk area on one wall of the kitchen.  Joseph drew up the plans for it and I can't wait till its done.  I'm going to have a breaking in the kitchen party.

So the stove has been one of the things that we keep coming to a screeching halt over.  We pick one, and then it has something that I don't like.  Then we pick on and Joseph doesn't like it.  Now we are stuck on whether to get a downdraft or a hood.  Oh well....

Till next time, May God Bless you :)

A little peek at my garden

Helloooooooooooooo

I took some pictures of our garden last week, and really after looking at it today I think its gotten a lot bigger.  Oh well.  I'll take more photos in 2 weeks and we'll see how much its changed!

First, here is a pineapple top that Joseph planted on the side of the house.  Yes, it is still there.  Yes it looks dead.  Yes I have been watering it.

Here's the front of the house.  All our new landsacping!  Joeseph put in those timbers to make flowerbeds for me.  What a wonderful husband!

New pots of impatiens on the front steps. 

Behind that cute dog are my climbing rose bushes.  They doubled in size this weekend while we were gone.  That dog loves to be in all the pictures.

See that big brown spot in the yard?  Thats the garden!

I threw this one in because of the dog!

Look at these!  These iris came up all on their own and we didn't even know they were there!

Tomato's!

Radishes!

And Potatoes!  They finally showed themselves after a long wait!!!!

Mothers Day

Happy Mothers day to all of you out there! Mothers day is a mixed bag for me. I miss my mother, I am thrilled to spend time with my mother-in-law, and today is a constant reminder of my inability to give birth (so far). So I didn't go to church this morning - just couldn't do it. Used some terrible excuse about pants not being ironed, which Joe was seeing right through it. So I had a breakdown, and went back to bed. Got up at 11, called my momma, took a drive with my dog, got a doughnut, came home and sat on the patio, ate the doughnut and planted flowers. For myself. It turned out to be a pretty good day.

Here's a little of what has been happening here in Jasper, at least at my house.

Well Thursday I sorta cut my hand open. Doing dishes. So then I was wandering around the house with my hand wrapped up in a towel trying to get a hold of anyone who might be able to come and drive me to the hospital. Finally my mother in law calls back and we head off for a 2 hour round with the ER. Luckily my favorite doctor was there. And he always makes me feel so comforted - its nice to see a friendly face. So he slides into the room Cosmo Kramer style and said he had to fight three other doctors for my chart. He then stitched me up with three stitches and we were on our way. Here's a picture.

Its doing ok. I am just not used to not doing things with that hand. I keep getting it wet, I keep getting it dirty. It is probably never going to heal.

Then that night my husband came home with this!

Its my new computer! Its a Sony Vaio and i love it. Yep that's my blog on my new computer. I can not promise that I will write more, but I will try :)