Flying Pigs

People said that the day we have a black president will be the day pigs fly. Sure enough 100 days into his presidency, it happened! Swine flu!!!

THIS

IS FAR TO IMPORTANT TO IGNORE!!
If you are thinking of vaccinating your daughter against Cervical Cancer go to The Keeper of the Keys and read this before you do.

The first confirmed

death from Swine Flu was announced today. A toddler in Texas. My prayers and thoughts to the family. However, thousands of people die every year from flu related symptoms. Why is there a concerted effort to cause panic among the population now? To push Socialized Medicine? Or..........is it to take our minds from other things, a cover up? Conspiracy?

I am not complaining

But I have learned what the Sandwich Generation is and it is not fun at all. I am exhausted!! I am so blessed to still have my mother and I do not mind caring for her at all. That being said, I am still tired. I do not have any energy and absolutely no creative juice is flowing in my veins. Thus the dry empty blog of the past month. I am praying for mother to continue to improve and soon be able to care for herself. Right now she is fighting being independent. She wants to be waited on hand and foot. Today she told me she wanted to get dressed so we went to her bedroom. She sat down on her bed and I picked out some clothes from her closet, with her guidance, and put them on her bed. I said, "Now mother, you can put these on." She replied to me, "No Evelyn, I want you to dress me." I told her that I would help her put her compression socks on, but she had to do the rest. Once we got her socks on, I sat down and told her to go ahead. She did it with little trouble, but she did not want to. When she was done, I praised her and told her she did a great job. Reminds me of caring for a four year old, but this one is my mother.
On Friday, I went shopping and prepared five meals for her. All my brothers or her caretaker has to do is take them from the freezer and cook them. Do not have anything in my house to eat, but mother is eating well. Today I made her the most flavorful asparagus leek quiche. I did have a nibble of it and now I want to go to the store for ingredients so we can have one.

Do you want to read a great story

about complete faith and trust in the Lord for the direction of your life? If so just click here to follow the saga of my daughter and her family's decision to move to Kotzebue Alaska. You will not be disappointed, she is a great writer.

Scroll down to the bottom of the page and start reading up. Be sure you tell her her Mama sent you:)

Some Socks

I made my girlfriend for her birthday. I used Red Heart Razzle Dazzle. I had read that someone else had used it one time and was satisfied with it. Personally, I would not buy it again. I prefer to pay a little more and get a better value in my yarn. When I purchased the yarn for these socks, I matched dye lot and color number. I knit the first sock and started the second, when I discovered even though I purchased matching lots, the yarn did not have the same colorway. I sent an e-mail to Red Heart, which I found out is a division of Coats and Clark, telling them of my disappointment. They did follow up with a letter telling me that it is not unusual having different colorways in matching dye lots and color numbers. I totally disagree with them on that. It has never happened to me before when buying a yarn of better quality. They did, however, replace my original two skeins of yarn with three. I now have the two original skeins, after frogging the original sock, and one full and two partial skeins of the yarn they sent me. Guess I will make some little socks with it.
So anyway, HAPPY BIRTHDAY WENDY. Hope you get many wearings from your socks.
By the way, they are the same length, her legs must be crooked:)

Got this in an e-mail from my daughter

It did not happen to us, just an e-mail she forwarded to me.

NO RUNNING IN THE HOUSE!!!!!!

How many times have we been told....

and have told our children...

NOT to run in the house?

Did we always listen?

Do they listen?

Not always.

Sometimes our seemingly futile efforts fail,

and 'boo-boo's' happen.

Here is a little guy who didn't listen,

and he got his own souvenir scars.

Perhaps he's learn from his mistake. Maybe......

Doesn't look too bad.

But perhaps he should keep this next photo

handy

to explain the way it happened

OW

OW

OW

OOOHHHHH!!!
THAT'S GOTTA HURT!!!!
(PICTURE TAKEN IN THE EMERGENCY ROOM)
Maybe this picture should be on your refrigerator for your kids, grand kids, nieces, nephews and day care kids to see.