Bless Your Heart

Well Bloggy Photo Days was a huge success and I want to thank all of you who participated. I plan on making this a seasonal thing so look for the next edition in the fall!
It was harder than I thought to continuously take photos throughout the day. And then wouldn’t you know it, Saturday I was sick so it made for very few photo ops. So I made sure to take lots of pics Sunday as well.
Lots to catch up on, so much to tell you!
Let me start with Thursday. Thursday morning Candice (my next door neighbor and friend) and I went to one of those meal assembly places. I’d link to the one we went to but it’s not part of a chain and I’m in a small town and please don’t come stalk and kill me internets. Anyway, we had a big time. It was lots of fun and we each made 6 dinners. I wanted to stock the freezer so while I’m recovering next week CSP can make us something to eat besides meat. My boy is a champion griller but not so handy with the making of side dishes that aren’t deep fried. It was so easy to put the meals together, although this is where I learned I’m not very good with fractions and measuring. I ended up with 3 tablespoons of chipoltle chili seasoning on my pork tenderloin instead of 1.5 tablespoons. That’s gonna be one spicy dinner! Candice and I went out for Mexican for lunch then I met Sara over at her new house to look at flooring samples. That was the day something snapped into place and Joey realized my name is not Gigi. OMG he was so cute. Come on Aunt Shanny, he’d say and show me every nook and cranny in the house. Jake told me he had a surprise for me when I got there and he presented me with a bunch of “flowers” of the weed variety. It was so sweet! They still had their roots and all!
Then I met up with my mom at my Grandmommy’s nursing home. It’s a really nice facility and not clinical feeling at all. Plus it doesn’t smell like urine which is a big plus. Gmommy loves all the people there and is really happy. I’m so glad about that.
We left Gmommy when it was time for her dinner and went to get dinner ourselves at the restaurant where Morgan is now working. We walked in and I had my camera ready, snapping pics of a mortified Morgan. She was doing such a good job! Each time she’d come into our area we’d flash her the thumbs up and cheer. She LOVED having us there I’m sure. Heh. When we were leaving Morgan asked if Mom could pick her up a book she needs to read for school. All she knew was it started with an O, ends with an N, and has a Chinese kid on the cover. WHA? So we stopped into the Barnes and Noble next door and luckily they had a binder with the reading lists of all the area schools. Thank the Lord. Cause let me tell you had that been my kid with that kind of janky information and she’d have been on her own. While there we found the clearance tables and I scored $2 road atlases (one for my car, one for CSP), some cheapo stationary, and a travel edition of Trivial Pursuit Pop Culture for $5. Mom had to visit the ladies room so I took a seat at the little cafe at the bottom of the escalator while she went upstairs. And I waited, and waited, and waited. I was glancing around after a while wondering if she was ok when I looked up on the 2nd level and there she was! Reading a book! I yelled her name and got a guilty look. A book on palm reading had distracted her. I swear she’s got the attention span of a goldfish sometimes! She ended up buying the book and while we were in the checkout line Morgan called to tell her that she’d gotten off work and ran into another car in the parking lot. DOH! First wreck in her new car. Luckily there was no damage to the car she hit. Oy what a day!