Looks Like We Are Staying Home

for Super Bowl Sunday. We were planning on attending Anthony and Tina's super bowl party in Stuart. Scott didn't feel well after his last chemo so he is not sure how he will feel his second week. It's hard to socialize when you are not feeling well. We will try and catch up with them at a later time. It's probably easier on him to stay home.

98 %Done

Scott felt pretty good on Saturday ( the day after chemo ) he and I painted our bedroom. They were suppose to deliver our bedroom set on Saturday but because they were running behind, they rescheduled for Sunday. Because we upgraded from a queen to a king I had to buy sheets. So after they delivered and set it up I went shopping for sheets. Scott was feeling like he was on a boat so he stayed behind. Our bedroom now feels like we are in a luxurious hotel room somewhere in the tropics. I only have a couple more small things to do including call the cable man to rerun the cable to the inside wall.

Scott Simpson

Probably old but I found this site where you can simpsonize yourself and I simpsonized Scott. He makes a cute simpson.

I Loved Heath Ledger In This Scene

Staying Neutral

Although Michelle and I will be attending different Super Bowl parties we thought it would be fun remaining neutral and not cheer for the Giants or the Patriots. So her and I will be sporting referee shirts to our parties. Matt her fiance` may be a tidbit upset - since he is a huge Patriot fan.

Quilt of Many Colors

When Skylar was born I saved her baby clothes from 0-12. I made to queen size quilt tops. I finished one quilt and hope to finish the other quilt when my boss leaves for a week in April. When Skylar comes over and we nap, she always ask me about the quilt. The colors are filled with mostly pink. I tell her I remember when... she seems to love it and it always makes me smile.
I have decided that I will make one for each of my grandchildren (as they come) and it will be a special gift from me to them.

T.V. Makes It look So Easy

HGTV finishes whole rooms in a weekend. My weekend projects seem to take longer than a weekend. Scott and I took up carpet on Saturday to begin laying wood laminate floor. I purchased the pergo snap and lock. It was really easy only a pain to cut around the door jam. Scott helped where he could, he was like a human table saw. I am not done but hope to be done by the end of this week. I would like to repaint while the furniture is out of the room. We have been sleeping our guest room and Scott's beginning to fill discombobulated. So I hope to finish before chemo on Friday.
Another upset this weekend was Scott's Packers lost to the Giants. We began watching the game last night and both of us fell asleep. When I woke up the T.V. was still playing and I heard the Giants were headed to the Super Bowl. I looked over and Scott was sound asleep. I decided to let him sleep and broke the news to him @ 4:00 this morning. He was so sure the Packers and Patriots would face off in the Super Bowl. Sorry Scott : ( Good luck Matt - who is a huge Patriot fan. As always I will have to cheer for the opposite team. I will be cheering on the Giants at this years Super Bowl party even though the Patriot's is favored to win.

Date Night

I received a phone call from a young, good looking man that ask me to dinner. Yeah!! I have a date. So what if it is my son. It still melts my heart when he ask me to dinner and tells me he loves me in front of his friends.

First Project Of The New Year

Scott had chemo on Friday. Dr. Nick gave us a good MRI report. Scott felt pretty good but, seemed to complain about feeling like he was on a boat. So he was a bit green.
I decided to check off my first project of my news years resolution . I removed everything from our closet, laid wood floor, cut and nailed new base board & painted. I put together a large cabinet with doors & drawers. I placed a new closet rod and cut down my shoe organizer and fit it beside the cabinet. Now we can walk in our closet with out falling in.

2008

Our New Year started out with the passing of Scott's mother.

Happy New Year

I never make new years resolutions because I never stick to them. This year I made one and will stick to it. I plan to declutter and I actually started before the new year began. I also intended to finish little projects around the house - that means I will use Scott's power tools : )
Scott and I will spend our New Year Day with Skylar...Great way to begin the new year.

Productive Few Days

I spent all day Saturday doing yard work. I trimmed our much needed pineapple palm to look again like a pineapple. I weeded, mowed, edge and trimmed. I don't know what it is but, always the day after yard work I wake up with a really bad headache. Sunday I cleaned out my closet and my drawers. If I haven't worn it in months - I bagged it up for the homeless. Today Michelle and I spent the day working on her wedding invitations.
Scott and I haven't seen Skylar since Christmas Eve. She phoned today and asked us to pick her up tomorrow and when I said "yes" she said she was happy. I can't think of a better way to spend New Years Day.

Some Peoples Kids II

Last evening we received a call from a friend of Scott's family. We were tired and choose not to answer the phone. A message was left on the answering machine saying that she had a feeling Scott's mother had died and wanted him to call her back. Who would call and leave that on someone's answering machine? We don't even know if she knows Scott's mom is ill.

Some Peoples Kids

Scott's mother is gravely ill. Given his condition he is unable to travel all the way to Wisconsin. He phones daily to check on his mother via the nurse's station. When Scott phoned Christmas Day to check on his mother, the nurse stated that there was company in her room , so she rang Scott through. Mike, a friend of Scott's brother was in the room. I had sent Scott mother a Christmas card that had our family's picture on it. He made the comment to Scott, that he didn't look to bad, given the condition he had heard Scott was in - he thought he would be in as bad of shape as Scott's mother. I can not believe someone would say something so stupid -

Hard To Let Go

I was heart broken when Blake decided to join the Army. Eventually I came to terms. I try to look at it in a different ways, like he has the opportunity to travel the world. As I was preparing myself for Blake's leave date which is June 12th- Blake has decided to finish his High School in an accelerated program. Instead of sitting in class for another 5 months and graduating with the Class he has been with since grade school, he has decided to drop Satellite High and graduate through High School with Brevard County. After many tears and many questions , this is my conclusion. After boot camp it was very hard for Blake to return to High School, he felt like he was taking a step back instead of forward. I stressed that it was important for me to see him walk - he said I saw him walk (meaning boot camp graduation) and that meant more to him than high school graduation.
Blake will renegotiate his contract and his departure date will be before June 12th.
I realized my dream for my children's life, my not always be their dream and that I may never be ready for Blake to began his adult life.

Christmas Holiday

I dropped Scott off at Chemo on Friday and headed to Apopka to pick up my mom. Gail had given Scott extra anti-anxiety, so he slept all the way home and the rest of the night. Skylar visited Saturday so Tom could visit Santa to make sure he completed Skylar's list. Skylar wanted to bake cookies we made two batches and she was ready to move on to something else. Christmas Eve we had our friends Matt, Michelle, Turner & Boston (their two dogs) Skylar, Tom, Blake , my mother, Scott and I. I had purchased a flurry machine and made it snow for Christmas. Skylar thought it was great - it snowed in our living room. It lasted about 5 min. then we made it snow again. Skylar then figured out how to turn it on and it really snowed. Christmas Eve was exhausting. Christmas day was quite - it was just my mother, Scott and I. It was a great - lazy Christmas.

Dec-who-rations

Most of you are curious how I decorated for our Who-bilation. Here are a few pictures. My mom made the fireplace mantel in one day out of scrap wood she had lying around. THANKS MOM!

Our Little Christmas Who

The Beginning of Who-bilation

Thursday after work we headed to Pacific Royal Resort to begin our Who-bilation. Friday was the first day of Grinchmas so we were excited. We started of our morning with Breakfast with the Grinch. Skylar did well until the Grinch showed up. She did not like the Grinch and when he approached our table she told him to stand by Blake on the opposite side of the table. The Grinch looked confused until Blake raised his hand and said I'm Blake. He was a great Grinch. Skylar never took her eyes off him as he moved table to table. A couple of who's showed up as part of the breakfast and she didn't like them either. She asked why there were mice there? Then alittle later the cat and the hat showed up with thing 1 and thing 2 by now she had had enough. Let's go she said. We then headed to Islands of Adventure to have our picture made with the Grinch. Again Skylar was having no part of that so we had to switch up plans abit. Skylar's favorite ride was the cat and the hat. Her and I rode it 16 times. She also loved the carousel. We spent most of our time in Seuss Land. Seuss land was full of who's. Skylar had the Grinch on her shirt and everytime the who's would see her they would scream and hide so Skylar would cover her shirt so the who's couldn't see the Grinch. Eventually she warmed up to the who's but is still not fond of the Grinch. We walked back to the hotel where Skylar had a small bit of sugar energy left and then she crashed.

Saturday we went to Universal Studios. Skylar didn't like The Shrek ride, she didn't like ET so we decided to hit some of the shows. We walked by Fear Factor and noticed Blake was casting for a stunt. His first stunt was to hang in the air 30+ feet his hands became sweaty and he fell :(

He then had to do the walk of shame. We went to kids land where we thought Skylar could have fun. The Nickelodeon characters were doing a show on stage. Again she was fine at a distance but did not want them close to her. So we decided to just let her play in Fivels play land - the she loved. She seem to like the Macy's Day Parade with all the floats and the characters.

We took the boat back to the hotel. Skylar was so tired she was goofy. I bathed her, dressed her for bed and she eventually crashed after we had a pillow fight. We decided to get up early, checkout and have breakfast.

Lean On Me

I arrived At Dr. Cwikla's mother's house Wednesday morning to dress her and take her for surgery. As usual I let myself in. I went to her bedroom and found her lying on the floor - she had been there all night. I phoned 911 and they transported her to the hospital. Her blood pressure was 225/90 and she was dehydrated from being on the floor all night. I stayed with her most the day. She was later taken to surg. to repair her elbow fracture.
Scott's MRI is questionable. We are not sure if the area is swelling or an increase in the astrocytoma . We will not know anything for 8 weeks.