Mother's Day

Happy Mother's Day! Hope every one of you mothers out there had a great day! The beautiful flowers are from my daughter Barb. She had them delivered to the office on Friday. It was a wonderful surprise! I heard later she called the office on Thursday because she couldn't remember the address or wasn't sure of a florist. They delivered them already at 8:30 a.m. so it reallly was a surprise!

I had a terrible time getting into my blog tonight. I forgot my password and that I had changed my account. I think I have it all written down so that this won't happen again! Senior Moment!!!

My children weren't able to come for Mother's Day, but will be with me next weekend. They have a wedding on their dad's side of the family and will be staying here with me. I'm really excited about that. I love having them around.

Barb and Jim were here a couple of weekends ago and we got scads of things done around here. Jim is great at electrical things and helped me greatly! Between the two of my kids they got my entertainment center back where it was before the holidays. I'm a little slow in getting things back where they belong. I needed help and Jim hasn't been here since before Christmas so . . . had to wait until he got here. He also hooked up the turntable to my stereo set so I now can listen to some of my OLD albums that I haven't replaced with CD's. Also found out that there was a loose wire in my center speaker for the TV/DVD etc., and he was able to fix that. We took all kinds of cans and bottles to the redemption center, went shopping for a new microwave (mine died), took a bunch of stuff to St. Vinicent DePaul and installed a different TV in my craft room (second bedroom). Barbie got one of those new LCD, flat panel TV's and graciously gave me her old one. I'm not used to a 27 inch TV in my craft area, but it's great. I can also now use the DVD player and the VCR without rewiring a whole bunch of things. Jim also did some work on my computer. Thank you guys I appreciate all the help. Next time we'll just hang out and rest!!

Got a very upsetting phone call this a.m. It was PayPal checking on my account. I don't use one of my email accounts very much and hadn't checked it lately. Guess maybe I should have. The gal ask if I had approved (or whatever word I should use) a $1,500 payment??? Wow! that about knocked me over. I of course said no!! I use my PayPal account on a very limited basis. Very seldom, but someone got a hold of it and tried getting the $1,500. They gave instructions on what to do next time I use the account. There has been a limited level put on it for the time being. I checked email later this afternoon and there it was. The request from PayPal for verficiation. Glad someone caught that or I'd have a terrible time explaining that to the bank!!

Don't you love the picture of my kids? They both take great pictures. Can't wait until Jim & Mandy get married and all the pictures I'll have to scrap.

Speaking of scrapbooking -- I've done a 6x6 book of Chrsitmas 2005 for Barbie. It was the first year in her new townhouse and everyone was there for the holiday. I have since finished an 8x8 book for myself for Christmas 2005. I'm having a ball using different formats for my pictures. I did some shopping Saturday and found some great paper to use in upcoming projects! I'm still working on Jim's baby book, or at least the first 5 years of his life. He'll probably be married before I get that done!!

We've been extremely busy at work lately. The agency is co-sponsoring a workshop the end of the month and we're in charge of registration. I've taught myself how to use Excel and how to use a spreadsheet. I still have a lot to learn but have been able to get all those that have registered on the sheet and it actually looks fairly professional! There's hope for me yet. My major grant is also due June 1. I work on that between everything else that I'm responsible for. Think this coming week it's going to have to be my priority so that it gets finished in a timely manner.

My sister, my neice and my daughter and I have been trying to get together to do some shopping now for about 4 months. Sounds like we may have a date in June that will work for all of us. Hope so. We went shopping together in November and had a ball. Looking forward to doing something like again soon.

New baby coming in the family. My godchild, Beth, is expecting in September. Actually she's expecting the same day as Jim & Mandy's wedding. Needless to say, her and her husband won't be able to make the wedding, but I'm hoping we can all get together after the wedding and the birth of their first child. All kinds of exciting things happening in our family right now.

One last shot of the flowers. I love flowers! Wished I had some space to plant some, but maybe in another year or so. Thanks Barbie, they're beautiful.

I will try and write more often. I never think I do much of anything that's interesting but once I sit down (and get into my blog) I think of a few things so . . . guess I'll try a little harder to get here more often.

Everybody have a great week!