Night before the big day...

Well, tonight is the last night that my mother will be in her 70's.  Tomorrow, she begins the 80th year of her life on earth.  She has seen so much in her lifetime and has watched so many of her relatives pass before her. 

I have been working on a birthday party for her for about 6 weeks now. I am really surprised that she has not figured it out yet. She know that she is going to lunch tomorrow, but  doesn't know about anything else.  It is not going to be a huge party, but it will be nice to have family and friends there to give her well wishes.

I hope we don't need paramedics once she enters the room and finds out what is going on! 

More about the party later.

Hello all...

We have been busy little beavers. We went to Kansas City twice for birthday parties for 2 special 2-year old boys.  It was nice to see everyone and wish that we saw these people more than just once or twice a year. 

We have been healthy - except for Kristi who got a terrible flu bug and missed a week of work.  She is finally back to normal.  I really don't want to get sick, but we have so many people at work sick that I am surprised that I haven't gotten sick yet.

I have been trying to catch up on my scrapbooking. I am working on March 2009 now. So, I am only 2 years behind.  I have several pages done that need journaling.  I have crop to go to tomorrow, but I think I am going to stay at home and work on a few of these journaling items.  I think I will get a lot more done here instead of trying to move my stuff there and back. 

I am also going to try to call some of mom's friends for her birthday party.  I finally got a room for us to have this party.  It is amazing that she has not caught on yet!  Thanks to my sister-in-law, Gail we now have a reason to go to the restaurant.  I told her that Gail wanted to come down on her birthday and I told her that we needed to go out to lunch on that day.  So, we can get her there fairly easy I think.

Alayna got an award at school today for her improvement in focusing.  I am so glad that they did this, it shows Alayna that people are taking notice to her new learning habits.  Now, we have to work on catching up with her peers. She has started painting - and loves it.  When she is painting, she is totally involved in what she is doing.  She wants it a certain way, and knows what she wants.  She is very artistic and this really shows in her card making and painting.  She is really interested in oil painting, but I have to work on that.  She is treading on an area that I know nothing about.