Best week ever!!!

Okay, so this was the best week ever!  I finally got to get Butterbean in my arms.  And let me tell you,  it is an undescribable feeling.  She is just so sweet and perfect.  I can't wait to watch her grow and learn about her world.  She is the center of mine.  She is 5 days old today and she already knows that whatever she wants, she just has to ask her Mimi and it's hers!

 Jessi is a good little mama too!  She is doing so well with her.  It just amazes me.  I am so proud of her!

My little family is growing and it just fills my heart to bursting.  I am so looking forward to the future!

Memorable Days!

  There are 6 days in my life that stand out as the most memorable days of my life:

1.  The day I realized that I was in love with Ricky Hall!  That was a earth shaking day for.  When we first met neither one of us liked the other one and one day we looked at each other and saw something different.  I knew the minute I first kissed him that I would spend the rest of my life with him.
2. The day he asked me to marry him.  I waited 5 long years to hear him ask me that all important question.  Every Christmas and birthday I would drop hints that you would have to be an idiot not to get.  Finally the one Christmas when he asked me what I wanted,  I just told him to get me what he wanted me to have.  He gave me a stuffed lion hand puppet and had a ring box stuffed up inside of it.  Very memorable
3. The day we married.  I had waited on that day for so long.  You see I have loved that man something fierce! He is my heart and I know he loves me! He is my soul mate.
4. The birth of my daughter.  She came almost a whole year to the day that we were married.  I fell madly in love with her.  She was just a little piece of heaven that God sent to me.
5. The birth of my son.  I also fell madly in love with him.  Another little piece of heaven
6. Today - the birth of my granddaughter Elizabeth Faye.  She was born today at 4:24PM today. She weighs 7lbs and 1 oz and was 20 inches long.  She has a head full of black hair and a great set of lungs.  I was allowed to help with the delivery.  Actually all I did was hold her right leg up and count to ten while she pushed.  That was truly an honor and a memory I will treasure for the rest of my life.  I actually witnessed her entrance into this world.  It was awesome!  Nothing compares to that!  It's just indescribable.  I squaled like a baby when she came out and the doctor just hugged my neck.  She was so sweet.  The Nurse Midwife that deliver Elizabeth was the same the one that helped deliver Chris almost 18 years ago!

  The only draw-back to today was that my mom was not here to share in it.  But I know she was there in spirit,  I could feel her there.  Ms. Alice and Mr. Rick came and was able to hear the whole delivery.  She had called my phone and the nursery nurse thought  she had silenced it but she really answered and they heard everything that went on.  I think it was meant for them to be a part of it.

A Better Weekend

 Ok, so my weekend was considerably better than my week!,  I haven't killed any poor animals since Friday,  unless you count the piggies on Angry Birds!
  I didn't even leave my house until today when I went to the grocery store. 
  I bought some books for my Kindle that I have been wanting.  Got 2 of them read.
  I took a 4 hour nap yesterday.  I don't nap on Sunday cause I don't want my night sleep messed up!
  My boys got along for the most part.  I did cook them breakfast yesterday.  We had a sausage, ham, scrambled eggs and hashbrown casserole.  I don't usually cook breakfast.  It's usually cereal or a poptart!
  I played with kitties some.  They are getting so big. 
  I still don't have Butterbean,  but I guess she is her mother's child and will do things in her own time and way.
  Tomorrow starts another week and hopefully it will be good.  I don't usually complain about my week but boy was it a rough one.
  Hope everyone has a good week!

  HUGS and KISSES

Audra

A sucky week!

  This entire week was a week from HELL at work!  All I can say is THANK GOD it's over for the week.  I don't usually talk about work, due to HIPPA laws and such but this week was rough.
  Not only were we extremely busy but had computer issues all week.  We also have had some staff changes.
  Thursday is my "Whoo Hoo!" day.  And man, was I ready to do that whoo hoo!.  We had computer problems all day and finally about 5 o'clock we lost power.  We lost our lights, computers and phone!  So we got off from work a little early today
  Hopefully, next week will be better.  We can hope and pray, can't we?

A DAY FOR REMEMBERING!

  Chris asked me this evening if I remembered what I was doing on 09/11/2001.  And I replied "I remember it like it happened this morning".  9/11 is a place in time that will remain indelible in our hearts and minds.  It's just not something that will ever fade away.
  While I didn't know anyone that died that terrible, awful day,  my heart broke for all the people lost that day.  That is just something that is not supposed to happen at home. 
    I felt helpless!  As a nurse,  I wanted to be there to help those people.  I wanted that desperately.  I am not by no means a trauma nurse but I could have helped in some way.
  Then I got pissed!!  I mean,  our country is not perfect by no means but it is our country!  Don't mess with us.

    Well, one of our monsters is gone, but there will be more in his place.  But, we can't be afraid to live.  If we live in fear, then the monsters have won.
  Alot of heroes were made that day.  I am sure they don't see themselves as heroes.  But they are heroes still the same.  The military, firemen and policeman have my utmost respect.  They do a job that they get paid precious little for but they still so up for work everyday so that the rest of us can rest easy.
 So today, I did my remembering.  I said a prayer for the fallen, survivors and families of both.  I also said a prayer for our country.  It is so sad that it takes a national tragedy to bring us together, but we can't get it together any other time.
  Well, that's enough rambling for now! I apologize for being maudlin, but it's been a maudlin kind of day!
  Where were you?