Violets

Violets always make me think of my grandmother because she loved them. She had a table sitting in front of her living room window, and it was covered in violets of all colors. Today I was out shopping with MG and she insisted on a potted violet to take care of and keep in her room. She has already watered it and was filling of the dirt to see if it was too dry. It may be my imagination, but I feel like my grandmother is "tickled" that her great granddaughter loves flowers just as much as she did.

Not Writing

Do you ever have so much going on and so many feelings tumbling around that you find it difficult to write? That's the state that I've been in for months. I have been writing some poetry on my "secret" poetry blog more regularly... sometimes it is easier for me to write my feelings in poetry. :-)


What's been going on? Looking for a preschool for my daughter...this is going well, but I have to visit a couple to make the decision. Taking care of our cat whose injury looks much better. Trying to keep the kids from hurting each other. Twisting knots in my hair in my sleep because of stress. Dealing with the perpetual weirdness at work and trying to get to work without being late. This is difficult as you will see in my next paragraph.


I had just finished cooking dinner and Mark came in at 5:20. I have to get to work by 5:30 and it takes just exactly 10 minutes to get there driving fast. The next thing I know, MG has bumped my grandmother's bowl sitting on a counter top and it shatters on the floor. I have to leave it all to Mark to clean up feeling sad because it was the only thing that I had of my grandmother's. My fault because it should have been in a safer place. I managed to get to work only 5 minutes late despite all this. Now it's time to go home once again. Mark is very good.... he will probably have given the kids their baths. :-)

Peaceful Night

It was an inconvenience that our power was out for 28 hours, but there was a certain peacefulness to it too. The part that I liked most was when I put MB to bed and sang to him by candlelight. When he drifted off to sleep, I just stayed in the room and listened to Mark telling stories to MG out in the living room. They were "camping out" on the floor in sleeping bags telling stories. With that being said, I am SOooooooooooooooooooo GLaaaaaaaaaaaad that the power is back on!

March Madness

March has been so busy. I've been trying to pick a new preschool for my daughter since her current school is closing this year. Closeness in location is important, so I may have it narrowed down to two. I've also been working on potty training the kids which makes things a little busier. We're continuing to have problems with the older one!!! I'm not sure what the problem is there. I've been taking care of an injured cat. Plus, I used to telecommute 4 days per week, so I USED to have extra time here and there to get chores done. Now I'm going in to work, so those extra bits of time were taken away.

Poor Jasper (our injured cat). I took him back to the vet for his check-up, and he has reinfected the wound on his front right leg by licking it. Now he has to wear one of those collars that prevents him from cleaning himself. It looks like a lamp shade. He is not happy, although I can flip the collar back since it's flexible to allow him to clean himself a little. It's made him sad. He has to take antibiotics, have his wound cleaned and medicated with ointment several times per day. I have to say that he is the most easy-going cat I've ever met and lets me give him the medicine! Our other cats are crazy, and I usually get scratched! He is super nice.

I haven't felt depressed really, just more stressed! :-)

Best Friends

I just caught this precious moment today. Jasper is one of our outdoor cats. He was injured yesterday... actually he had an old injury that had got infected. He was treated at the vet and now gets to be an indoor kitty while he heals. He is VERY SWEET and you can see who his best friend in our family is, can't you? :)