First of all, a very happy birthday to my girl, B.M.  She turned 10 on Sunday.  We did celebrate on time with Mass in the morning, chicken dinner with all the fixin’s in the evening, followed by triple chocolate cake and cookies & cream ice cream.  Earlier in the morning she recieved her gifts: a pink w/flowers guitar, lesson book/cd/dvd combo pack, Jonas Brothers school supply kit and a Jonas Brother’s CD.  She loved every bit if it!  Then when the older boys got up they had gifts for her as well.  J.B gave her a Miley Cyrus CD and J.M. gave her a Jonas Brother’s shirt. Both had hand decorated their gift bags. I was very proud of them for their effort.  Neither was asked to get anything, but they did.  She also got some money from her Godparents and my mom.  With that money she went with hubby and got a Webkinz opossum, a guitar strap and some picks.  I’m pretty sure her guitar is her favorite gift this year.  Her best buddy plays guitar and I think she’s hoping to play with her.   We thank God for the blessing of another year with our little girl!  I had hoped to be able to post pictures, but my camera batteries died. bummer!

My mom seems to be declinjing rapidly and could use a lot of prayers.  Wednesday morning she’ll be having a PEG tube placed.  We’re very concerned about complications that could arise. Particularly refeeding syndrome and gut atrophy.

We are in our second week of schooling and so far things are going ok despite all the extra running we are having to do taking care of mom’s dogs and keeping an eye on her.  I decided we’d enroll with Seton this year. So far the kids seem to like it.  I’m a little overwhelmed by the stuff I have to go over, but I think it will turn out just fine.  As a matter of fact, I know it will.

We had lots of rain finally. That was nice…except it was too much as one time.    We had some flooding in the yard and on the streets, of course.  But, we also had it coming in our chimney!  I noticed a wet spot in the middle of one side which happens to be inside our sunroom that was added on.  There was also water coming in at the corner.  I realized the only way for water to be in the middle of the fireplace was if it was coming from inside it.  I opened the doors and sure enough…water dripping just the an over hang does on the roof.  So, now we have an adjustor coming in to check it out.  Not what I wanted to spend money on right now, but you gotta do what you gotta do. Right?  *sigh*

Well, all this babble should make up for at least some time I’ve been away from my blog.  Hopefully it will hold y’all over for a  few weeks days or so.