Time flies!

My niece is 7 months old today. I can't believe that it's been 7 months, and that it's only been 7 months. I love her so much. Seriously, she is the best baby. She's so happy, until she gets hungry then she let's you know it! But otherwise she's perfectly content playing with her toys. She's not a big fan of tummy time, so we think she's gonna skip crawling and go straight to walking. She loves chewing on everything. We gave her a tupperware lid and she chewed on that thing all day! I love her so much and cannot imagine my life without her. I only wish she lived closer!

I knew I was her favorite

My mom and I were sorting through some of my grandma's jewelry the other day. She had a ton of stuff and we were sorting it out to separate the good stuff from the costume stuff. Anyway my mom came across a locket, which was in typical grandmotherly fashion, big and gaudy and straight from the '80's. My mom opened the locket and immediately started crying. I asked her who was in the picture, but she just kept crying. I thought it must be either her, or my grandpa, until she handed it to me. It was my picture in there, I think it was my kindergarten school picture. I always knew I was her favorite. =)

I'm so excited

The Angels are going to the ALCS. Yippee! It's very exciting around here. They swept the Sox which no one expected them to do. I didn't get to go to any of the games, because I was in pain all week. (See post below) But I'm hoping to go to one game this series. Hopefully they can kick the Yankees a$$e$. I can't stand the Yankees. Go Angels!!!


My favorite current Angel, Mike Napoli :)

I'm adopting

For the last few days my back has been killing me. I've come to the conclusion that it's a kidney stone. And, oh my golly does it hurt. If having kids is worse than this, I'm adopting for sure. I have never felt pain like this. My whole back hurts, I can barely walk. And everytime I try to pee, the pain just intensifies to unbearable. Then my back is so stiff I can barely get up off the toilet. I know, it's more info than you wanted to know, but too bad, I like to share. Anyway, I'm hoping to give birth to this stone soon, and then to be pain free. I'll let you know when the happy day arrives. :)

Watching re-runs

Friday was my grandma's memorial, and I will blog about that later, but just wanted to post this now. So all the family was here and we were all at my parents house yesterday. My mom, uncle, brother and I were having a conversation about heaven when my uncle said he wanted to watch re-runs in heaven. We all looked at him like he was crazy. I've watched enough re-runs of I Love Lucy and Gilligan's Island here on earth, I don't need to spend eternity doing it. Then he explained that he meant re-runs of our lives. To watch your kids grow up again, to watch your own childhood again, and see your parents and grandparents grow up. Even to watch historical figures, ever wonder what Abe Lincoln was like as a kid? Find out now. Or maybe even Jesus himself as a child.
I realize that no one here on earth knows what heaven is like, but I'm with my uncle.... I hope at least part of it is spent watching re-runs.

Now I want a Mac

So I'm working on the slide show for my grandma's memorial, a good friend who does sound and A/V stuff for a living is helping me put it together. We were doing it today and he was using a program on his Mac, I think it was iMovie, anyway it was amazing! And so much fun and looks like you can do so many things with it. I'm not getting a Mac, but I totally want this program. Why can't PCs do this too???
ps: I'll post the show after the memorial, I don't want any one to see it before then...

How are you doing?

Everyone keeps asking me how I'm doing, and I know that they all mean well, but it's such a silly question. I mean do people want the real answer...I'm just kinda numb, and sometimes I forget about it, but then I remember and cry again? Am I supposed to say that I'm doing ok? (Which would be really weird given the circumstances.) I know people don't know what to say, and that they really do care, and they mean well. I just didn't realize how many times people say that, myself included. And now I wonder how many times people just say they're fine even when they are not, because that is the standard answer to the question.
PS: Right now, for me, the answer would be, I'm hanging in there. Getting done what needs to be done, trying to be there for my mom, planning the service, and some moments are better than others.