Month: July 2008

He has a neuro muscular disease (LONG name…) that he will now have to live with. There is medication. There is hope. Of all the possibilities presented to me at the hospital, he’s in best possible position. Which, is still not good. But it’s a hell of a lot better than it could be.

He will be hospitalized at least another day or two… continuing with my hopeful good thoughts and thankful for such an AMAZING hospital staff.

Jake has been sick (vomiting) for over a week. We went to our regular vet, he was treated, got better… and now much, much, much worse. Am taking him to hospital in a few hours, and couldn’t be more upset or scared.

So, why am I freaking out? Last night I realized something that made me very upset and scared. My other two dogs that are no longer with us had to be put down within 3 weeks of today in previous years. One due to cancer, the other a bear attack. While I won’t go into the grizzly details of either, just know that this is a very hard time of year for me because of the two beloved doggies passing (2004 and 2007), and I am terrified for my Jake. With his symptoms right now it could be anything from severe upset stomach to cancer… and until I have answers things are not going to be good around here.

I am not one that cries much, or admits it either. But today, right now I am in tears. Bringing up all the pain of summers past and having my buddy threatened… it’s not easy and yes, I’m scared.

Please keep positive thoughts in your heart for my Jake.

tooth #6 coming through. In full size you can see it. She’s really into crinkling up her nose now- I totally dig it. Oh- and she has perma-crazy hair. Seriously. Wild hair child. It doesn’t bother me so I rarely wet it and try to make it behave. Nah- too many more fun things to do than worry about baby having perfect hair. 🙂

Have read 3 pages of Nikon D60 manual. I SWEAR I will read it mostly tomorrow. (really!) but I am loving the more frequent good shots. Also loving how it blurs stuff. More on that later.

I made us a dessert that miss E could help with. She loves working in the kitchen, so every day I cook something that she can help with at some point. Even if it’s just assembling a sandwich- I make sure she can do something in the kitchen. Yesterday she loved stirring up Jell-O. Plus- is it just me, or is it NOT 4th of July without red jell-o? Probably just me, and I don’t know why. Of course some strawberries, blueberries, and whipped cream don’t hurt. No, indeed they do not!

Enjoying this weekend? YES I AM! It’s kind of awesome how I’m getting NO e-mail and we are totally doing our girl things, and I’m so free to create. Ok, and plus it’s kind of cool that I have no CHA assignments or work to do. That might sound odd- but not having any trade show work… well it’s a first for me in at least 2 years, so I’m kinda enjoying my peace. 

just enjoying a weekend of leisure here…

I’ve got a lot of fun stuff I want to work on here in the fortress of solitude (changing name from batcave for now…) this weekend. So will I have interesting things to blog? Probably not. But it’s ok. Why? Because instead of blogging I’ll post random musings on twitter. If you want to check it out, you can look here:  https://twitter.com/mayf

I got the idea because Ree (aka pioneer woman) is doing twitter updates on her July 4th cooking, and it gave me the idea that it would be fun to play with for the weekend. I hope you have a wonderful weekend! Here are some pages I made this afternoon with www.studiocalico.com ‘s April kit…

So love the green felt rick rack, the papers, the die cut journaling cards… so fun! off to play some more now…

PS- always wanted to use that cutie deer paper and didn’t know how… this so worked! Cut into strips I got the pretty deer, and my dear girls. (yes, color me cheesy for using a dear title with deer… but I wanted to!)

Congrats to Terri in KS- you won my monday prize! Just shoot me an e-mail (mflaum@comcast.net) and claim it!

Here’s my happy and patriotic girlies. My hands are tired – I’ve finished a 16 page word document (see sneak peeks below… they’re related to it) So I’m taking a day or two off from writing. Instead- I leave you with this cutie pic of the girls. We’re having our festivities today and tomorrow (since Jason works the 4th) so I’ll see you later!

ps- issue with netflix continues…