on why i haven't written....

so, i haven't written anything new in a while. wondering why? one word:
overwhelmed
my current status is running around like a chicken with my head cut off. busier than a one armed paper hanger. insert trite cliche here.
i'm exhausted. when you think texting is an acceptable substitute for a phone conversation, you are too busy to be good for anything.
at the end of this week i will be going on a trip to Texas for a MOPS convention. how would you like to be in a van with high-strung me for 8 hours? bless those baptist women.
life will not be this busy forever. just until i figure out how to put a few more hours into the day.

cutest thing i've ever seen on tv

i'm watching the Today show winding down from work when they start showing all those little old people that turn 100 years old on the Smuckers birthday thing. They show this sweet little old black lady who is 107 years old in SC and says her favorite TV show is Walker, Texas Ranger and she is in love with Chuck Norris. how cute is that?
when i'm old, mine will probably say, well preserved by the chemicals in diet coke; wrinkles courtesy of many years of tanning beds; stays plump due to 2 pack a day diet of oreos. loves to cheat at cards and color in coloring books. refuses to wear shoes. attributes her long life to her excellent driving record. (ha!) and her sharp mind to all the hair color absorbed into her brain.

a little overwhelmed

after a wonderful weekend (except for the killer migraine and medicine hangover) it's time to get back to business. i sat down to have my quiet time this morning, but i've lost my Life Journal. I have a 3 page to-do list, so far. my plate is so full, but what do i cut out? there is no easy answer and no magic pill, i'm afraid. i just need to sleep less and do more.
jeremy's birthday is saturday. I had planned for us to spend the weekend in Starkville, but a)there are no rooms available and b) we don't know what Hurricane Ike has in store.
SO, if anybody has some suggestions for a simple, inexpensive, wonderful present, please let me know!

getting back to normal

first let me say, Thank you Lord! the pathology report came back clear, which means NO CANCER! yay! He removed 2 of her drains, 2 more to go. She's feeling much better, but still not ready to put her SuperJackie cape back on yet.
I'm back at work tonite. It's still baby season, what can I say.
Life is good, and getting back to normal.

go away gustav!

busy with the hurricane preparations! of course, we have no idea at this point where it's going to go, but i say better to be safe than sorry. the laundry's done, the house is clean; I have oreos, pop tarts and diet cokes. now it's time to venture out in the yard and remove my "yard art"- specifically my bottle tree and all my MSU paraphernalia- that could become hurling missiles if the wind kicked up just right. good thing all my flowers have already died! one less thing to worry about.

we're home!

yay! mom got to come home today. she will be staying at my house for a while, definitely until this hurricane thing passes. She is feeling better and is almost back to her old self. We do not have the pathology reports back yet, but we feel confident that her cancer is all gone.
After all, she is in the care of the best doctor there could ever be- Jehovah Rapha, the Lord, Our Healer.

my favorite text message ever

my favorite text message EVER, from tracie, last night about 9pm
"during abbie's bedtime prayers, she asked if jackie was going to come home from the hospital with a baby"
i read this out loud to mama when she emerged briefly from a morphine haze and she laughed and said "i hope not!"
i love kids, especially that one. abbie you are so precious. i see so much of your mama in you- and i know she sees so much of ME in you, and it's just enough to make her crazy.