Hubby started his new job today!!! We are both really excited about it, yet we have grown accustomed to being together all the time so that part sucks that hes not here all the time now. He will have to travel to Chicago, India and Canada for this job but hopefully not often and we all plan on going to the one in Canada. It will be great for the kids.
Yesterday was my grandpa's birthday and he would have been 81. My parents, my aunt and uncle and us and the kiddos went to my grandma's and went to have dinner with her at Bandana's. Which was one of my grandpa's favorite places. She seemed to handle yesterday fairly well. My aunt took her to the cemetary. Then March 30th is the 1 year anniversary of him dying. No plans for that day yet, but I am sure we will all get together again.
My best friends baby is doing great. She is gaining weight all the time. She is now 1 lb 12 oz. They had her christening gown on her last night so hopefully she will get pics of her up soon. I will hopefully go up and see her tomorrow evening. I have not been up there since she was a day old. I figured mom and dad probably need time with her and the bonding time that is so very important along with all the emotional stuff that goes with it. But she will be a month old on Friday and its about time I went and saw her :o)
The picture that I have up today is of a little girl named Hannah ( not my Hannah). Her mom is a good friend of my best friends and her and I have done the TS walk for Hannah. We did it the first and second year and missed last year and I will hopefully do it this year. HERE is the link from 2 years ago when I blogged about doing the walk. I got over $200 for that walk and hope to do better this year. The walk is April 8th, its a mere 2 miles and a beautiful park to walk through. The first year my best friend and I did it we had wonderful scenery... Almost all the fields were filled with guys playing rugby. It made the walk fun :o). Not sure if my best friend will do this walk but if not then I am sure I can sucker my hubby into going with me. He went with Leah and I the second year so I am sure he would do it again. I have a recent pic of Hannah but I do not have it scanned in yet. So I will have to work on that and see if I can get it in and up here. If you would like to donate let me know and I will get you the info so that you can do that.
My cousin Michelle, her baby Nayah and her hubby Malcolm are coming home this coming weekend so we are going to have a welcome home party for Malcolm since he just got back from Iraq. They will be here a week, then going to FL for a week, then down to Jamaca for a week, that is where Malcolm was born. It will be great to see them all!! We did get some bad news though. The Army is trying to screw Malcolm and trying to get him to resign for another 3 years. He of course is done with it all. Done 2 tours in Iraq, been away from his baby most of her life, and now they want to resign him send him to a different base and send him BACK to Iraq for a third time. His other choice is no resign and he can go to Korea for a year without his family. And by the time he gets back from there he will have served his full time and can hopefully get out. He was in Iraq for 11 1/2 months this last tour and really does not want to go back and be away from his wife and baby but if it means going to Korea and getting out in a year that is more appealing than resigning and being sent back to Iraq. Then to top it all off he was exposed to TB and had to go get tests run. No results yet, but he was vaccinated against it so hopefully he is ok.
Now, for my grandma. I have managed to spend some time with her, especially while my hubby was home. I went to my aunts last Wednesday to scrapbook with her and she had taken my grandma to the doctor the day before. My grandma has 30-40% use of her heart, her lump in her breast is cantalope size and reaching around her side now, she has spots on her lungs, that she will not get tested since there is no point, and she has COPD emphesyma(?). So needless to say it was horrible news. The doctor once again tried talking her into a masectomy but of course that is a no and wanted to test the spots on her lungs and again it was a no. Not that I blame her. This is the way she wants it and its quality of life not quantity. It hurts like hell to see her hurting, though she hides it well, and is horrible knowing that I am going to lose her soon. My aunt, grandma and I went to lunch last Thursday and had a great time. I am cherishing every moment that I have with her. We spent all afternoon together and had a great time. We went to Hemispheres, a beautiful furniture store and wandered around there for a long time then just sat and visited. We are planning a trip to Kansas City soon. She wants to see her sister and since Dory is unable to make the trip we are going to take grandma to her. They have not seen one another in at least 10 years. That is a long story that I will have to share another time.