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A six year old goes to the hospital with her grandmother to visit her Grandpa.

When they get to the hospital, she runs ahead of her Grandma and bursts into her Grandpa's room .

"Grandpa,Grandpa," she says excitedly, "As soon as Grandma comes into the room, make a noise like a frog!"

"What?" said her Grandpa.

"Make a noise like a frog please, please, please- because Grandma said that as soon as you croak, we're all going to Disney Land!

Don't ya think that will make all Grandpas have a warm and fuzzy feeling?

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

Nothing Goes as Planned

That is pretty much a given. If you plan something , any number of things could go wrong. Or right for that matter. This came to me very early yesterday morning while I was watching Father of the Bride.

I was tired, I hadn't slept well and my mind was wandering. I was laughing at Steve Martins antics in the movie, and playing on Facebook. One particular scene had me cracking up. Where he was trying on his tux from prom, and he thought it still fit. Or the one where he loses it and starts tearing apart packages of hot dog buns and gets thrown in jail.

I started thinking back to when we were planning our wedding. Chris was away on the road a lot. That left my mom, dad and soon to be mother in law to deal with my imagined catastrophes. Like when I tried to decide which flowers; or tried to find a place for the rehearsal dinner.

Do you remember the scene where he thought it would be a good idea to have a barbecue in the back yard for the wedding? The bride and groom burgers? lol My father tried to get me to order barbecue for our reception. I nixed that idea since I don't even like barbecue! ugh, what is it with men and barbecue?

Admittedly nothing really went wrong for our wedding. Granted it rained, but waited till after the wedding was over. The night before , when we got to the restaurant for the rehearsal dinner, they said they didn' t have our reservation, but that quickly got fixed.

What silly thing happened in the planning of your wedding? Did your parents freak? or try to make you do something you really didn't care for?

Oh What a Beautiful Day!

Wow, today the weather was so pretty! We all got to sleep in a bit, but I was still the first one really up. I felt so good because I cleaned out my closet. I hung all my purses/bags up on their hooks, hung up all my clothes and got rid of a huge box of stuff that I haven't worn, or won't wear again.

While I was doing all this Chris woke up, and announced that he and his mom were going to a baseball game this afternoon. Huh? what baseball game. Turns out that Sue's cousin's grandson was playing in the next town over so we all decided to go to the game. With the fresh air, light wind, family, baseball and all that jazz we had a blast. We also all pigged out on a variety of frito pie, popcorn, hotdogs, hotlinks and nachoes, lol. The game was a tie 6 to 6 but was still a lot of fun watching.

Afterwards we went on to Lowe's to get a few things we needed and I also wanted to see if they offered me an MDA shamrock. I'm currently a secret shopper for certain stores and if they offer me a shamrock , then I introduce myself as an MDA client, thank them for raising money and hand them a t-shirt. The cashier did indeed offer me one, so I in turn did my thing and gave her a t-shirt. She was surprised and happy:) Now I just have to go check in my other stores later this week.

When all that was said and done, we decided we didn't want to eat dinner at home so we went to a local cafe here in the town square. Can't say much else about that except that it was good! We wound up bringing some home though, since our eyes were bigger than our stomachs. Guess we ate too much at the game.

It was a great day. It is actually supposed to stay pretty nice, in the low to mid 60s till around Wednesday. So until then we can soak up as much sun time as possible.

Heres to hoping everyone is having a great weekend too!

Mom

Well, my moms heart is at it again. Making her short of breath and extremely tired. My mom has a large, generous and loving heart, but when it turns on her watch out.

She has an EKG scheduled for tomorrow, and a stress test for the 10th. Usually when this kind of thing happens she needs another heart cath and stent. If the tests show anything lets just hope that is all she needs.

She is currently staying with my aunt ( her twin), and has her dog Tipper in a kennel. She is looking for someone from a loving home to take him. It is just getting too difficult to care for him. She too has CMT and it is getting more and more difficult for her to walk him. She has a few people that she has in mind, she just has to ask them if they would take care of him for her.

Heres to hoping everyones week got off to a good start! I worked yesterday and I'm scheduled for this Thursday, but so far thats it. I can't believe that Spring Break is right around the corner. For Nicole's school it is the week of the 15-20th. Not sure what we are going to do yet, but will think of some fun stuff. I'm sure she will want to spend some of that time with her BFF Carson.

Bye for now:)

Everybody Loves Brad

Good Friday Morning to all:)) Nicole is off school today, so I'm off work too. Hoping to get some chores done around the house.

The other day when I was off I had a bunch of things planned that didn't get done. Instead Sue and I went to renew her truck registration , then we went to Petsmart to register Korie for obedience school, then on to Sams Club and found some great food bargains. Of course while Sue was busy shopping for food, I got lost in the book section. Weird, huh?

Anyway, from there I dropped her off at home and met Chris who had gotten off work early. I had a meeting with Nicoles teacher that day and he wanted to come. Now Nicole isn't having any actual school work problems, just problems with some kids in her class. I mean come on, 5th grade boys are soooo immature. She has just let it build up till she comes home crying for an hour. That is not my baby. I'm trying to tell her she is growing up and as much as I would like to tell her it will get easier, I can't.

She wanted to have this meeting with her teacher because she is Nicoles favorite. She trusts her, so she wanted to talk to her , with us present. The teacher , after hearing Nicole out, put her mind at ease, and said she would watch said boys a bit more closely.

What memories of 5th grade do you all have , or any words of wisdom for my sweet girl?

Ok, that had NOTHING to do with the title of my post, but this does.

Did you watch Everybody Loves Raymond? I did, and LOVED it. Loved Brad Garrett as Robert. Loved him too as Jackie Gleason in the movie about Jackie's life. I about fell out of the chair laughing when I saw this 7-up commercial:

Sunday oh Sunday

Wow, what a weekend this has been. Friday was my only day off that week. I was supposed to work Monday, but we didn't have school due to no power. Then I had more kinder kiddies on Tuesday, Music on Wednesday, and 4th grade on Thursday.

I have 4th grade again tomorrow and 6th grade Tuesday. I happened to run into one of the 6th graders I know on Friday - she told me good luck , they don't listen very good at all - oh joy...

After experiencing pretty good temps here this week, we have a 70 percent chance of more snow Monday night into Tuesday evening. They are predicting approximately 2-4 inches. That is what they said last time and we got the 12 inches, so I guess we will see...

I'm excited to be doing this post, only because I'm typing it on our brand new laptop. We got our income tax refund on Friday and Chris went shopping. Big boys and their toys, lol. Except in this case I like the toy he bought. Its fun to be multi-tasking; that is watching tv and being able to do a blog post, and be with my family.

Sue was pleasantly surprised today. She got home from church and her friend called asking if she wanted to go to the Dallas Opera house to see Phantom. Since she had never seen it on the stage before she happily agreed. Since she has gotten home she said she had a great time and loved it.

Nicole will be going to camp again in Colorado this year, and hopefully we will get to take her and have our very own vacation! Considering we haven't had much of a real vacation in like 10 yrs, this is something to look forward to. I have also never been to Colorado so I'm really excited.

Well, I'll sign off for now, and here is to hoping that everyone is well. I've read that several bloggy friends have been ill with either food poisoning , or the tummy bug going around. Either way they've been really sick. I think we have finally gotten rid of that bug here in the Able household.

So here is to hoping everyone has a great week!

Which Generation Are You?

I've always wondered about this myself..& now I know.
People born before 1946 were called (The Silent generation)
The Baby Boomers, are people born between 1946 and 1959.
Generation X, are the people who have been born between 1960 and 1979.
And Generation Y, are the people born between 1980 and 2009

So, why do we call the last group Generation Y? I never really knew until I saw a cartoon which explained it very eloquently below...& sure makes sense doesn't it!!

LOL, this was another funny e-mail I received from Sue. It makes sense though, doesn't it?

Heres to hoping ya'll are having a great week!