Jess comes after noon and Janice and Steve this evening! I still don't believe it!  I am excited and am so looking forward to this day!  I am thinking of you all and it would be so wonderful to have everyone here.  Actually I think in a way you all are!

I had a thought. I know this is shocking but hang in there until I tell you what it is.  I am boardering crazy here(oh!!!  I heard that!!! LOL!!! I said boardering!) . Lots going on and I may head to the cottage to help out there. It's Tuesday morning here and Janice and Steve will arrive Friday. Jess will be here sometime before them and everything is so exciting!!! Just so you know the house is sooooo far from being "fake".  I had the bedrooms cleaned but everyone was home for Mother's Day and the last one left yesterday. 

I had the best Mother's Day!!!  I was so blessed and I thank my wonderful kiddies. The day was perfect with everyone coming here but it just got better and better!!!  My two girls and my SIL took me to a spa for a hair cut !!! It was soooo funny,I was escourted and had no escape route at all!!  The three of them sat behind me and the laughter and giggling was going on through the whole process of making me look slightly less frumpy!!!  I thought this was so special for them to do for me. I came home as the "new" me and was treated to my son cooking along with my Husband so the meal was out of this world!  The kiddies took over pulling the table out to it's longest form(I love this,means everyone is here and the house is full!) and setting it. We gathered round for bar-b-qued shrimp,and pork chops and chicken breasts and my son did two lamb roasts. My husband did special potatoes that disappeared and we had a wonderful time talking and laughing.  I looked around the table and how easy to count your blessings. Each face so dear and special,each person so terribly close to your heart and wonderful. But the most special face was parked in a car seat!!! Little Sean will be 2 months old next week and my heart bounced when I got to hold him while he slept for a couple of hours. What heaven I was in to have not done the meal or the prep and my daughter took care of all the clean up and I was queen,more than queen,I was the one lucky enough to have all these people in my life. But I was the one to hold this little being and feel him dream and breath and just be. I am Mother to this wonderful group but I am Grandmother to the wonderful little next generation.  I am so blessed.

I was so moved by the day they gave me I was near tears,happy tears!!  It was so nice to be surrounded by the group and to get to feel Sean and I guess instead of yapping on (who me????LOL!?!) I should get back to the thought before the thought goes!  I was thinking that Janice has been out of touch and I know how very much eveyone means to her. I too feel that way and have not been on as much as I would like to be.  I feel bad as I have not been to lounges and have not been reading as much and feel that I need more time to visit everyone. So if I feel this,missing eveyone and missing the contact, I am sure Janice is really feeling it. I thought to use this blog and I could print off the messages to Janice and have them here for her when she gets here!  I thought this is a way for everyone to "BE" here too!  I know she has been busy taking in all the travel and sights but I think my dear friend....WHO I AM ABOUT TO MEET!!!!   ,sorry,very excited about it all!!!!.... will be really missing everyone too! So if we do this then she has the wishes printed out and forever they will be with her! Just a thought what do you guys think???

Hummm,you know how you raise your children?? Trying hard to pass on what you think is important and what you value???  Well I tried very hard to raise honest and straight forward kids.  Darn it!! I was successful. Maybe too much. You can't get anything by them and they call you on everything,darn annoying. I realized some time back that I was being totally out done by my kiddies. Use to be back when they were little,it was fun to keep a step ahead and challenge their knowledge and make a game out of it to keep them questioning and growing. The first sign of you being in deep trouble is when you refer to books for info to stump them. Then it all goes down hill from there. You must hang on tight to the thought that they have not gained on your intelligence. You must put up a good front and limit the use of uhhhh????  Never use uhhh and a puzzled look together or they KNOW they have gotten you!!!

Comes to the first of my daughters. She is brilliant as they are all in different fields and very knowledgable over and above their schooling. But this young lady is extremely annoying. She has labeled the truth.  She calls getting ready for guesting..."Putting on the Fake House".  Really!  Well she's sort of right...O.K., she's a lot right! I don't live in a spotless home and I could really care less about the dust bunnies...each has a right to life and how do we measure the intelligence of a life form we have not studied? They might be trying to start their own universe...I watched Star Trek...could be!!! I do swing into action when the dog fur gets a bit much...but then that is self preservation as it's hard to breath at that point. So my making of the fake house was delayed as I was having troubles and I have only just started to clean up...not that it is needed of course...everything being perfect and all!!! LOL! LOL!!! If you believe that then watch out for the next salesman!!!  Then First born son just calls and needs us to head north to over see a work project he paid for last year and they have not done yet at the cottage!!!  Getting work people up at the cottage is very hard. So do we go and Janice,Steve and Jess get no Fake House??? Or do we stay and I work on getting Fake House ready?? It takes a couple of hours to get there and a whole day at least for the work to be done so we will be gone three days. Son needs this to be done and I need to have a least a little of the Fake House going here. Fake House!!!  Daughter!!!  It's not really fake..just a little less real!  What do you Ladies think?? Is it fake to clean up?  I was taught that it is more putting your best foot forward or showing respect for your guests,who needs to see your house as it really is??? Who would want that? LOL!!!  Sometimes Fake is good!!!

Hummm....anyone care to donate??? Or better yet... set up a pool?  How many boxes will the silly ones need??  The waiting was broken by the call!!   I got to talk to Janice! Opppsss and Steve of course!  It was exciting to talk to Steve too! But they are here in Canada!!!  I was so happy!  Janice sounded a wee bit tired ...adjusting to the time change I bet and all the travel.  She is still three hours behind here as they are on the west coast of Canada in British Columbia.  It is so neat to think of Janice and Steve in Victoria and Vancouver as I have been there and can picture it.  I love the beauty of Victoria,quaint villages and gardens on a royal scale all surrounded by the deep clear Pacific Ocean. And the ferry ride over to the mainland where you can see beautiful beaches and mountains topped in snow.  I have walked those gardens and know how stunning and breath taking the veiws are.  I have had a very rough week,almost total lack of moblity which I think our dear Lady felt but all is starting to work again so I am fine.  I am so excited.  The reality is almost here,almost real!!!  I can hardly wait!  I spent yesterday eyeing the phone and if I left the house it was just to the drive or back yard...pull that one on me again you sneaky phone...Ha! HA! A watched phone does ring!!! So as dear emmie said 10 more sleeps....or lack of sleeps to go!!!  10!!!!!  Poor Jess,I hope we have enough kleenex,Jess hasn't said wether she is a weeper or not! Hope one of us is dry!!!  Guys don't count...I'm sure they are totally puzzled by all of this!