HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY ! !

I'D LIKE TO WISH ALL MY FAMILY
AND BLOGGER FRIENDS
A VERY HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY! !

Get ready to be highly envious of me, family and blogger friends...............I AM A-L-O-N-E IN MY HOME.
Yes, that's right--ALONE. Ah, blessed solitude. Well, if you don't consider the 2 cats, 2 zebra finches and the betta fish I'm alone. The fish and the birds don't bother me much, but the cats have a way of making themselves known, if you know what I mean. One of my cats is 13 years old and doesn't do much of anything anymore, and the other is a 7 month old giant 12 pound kitten. Candy, the old lady, is asleep on the end of Jessica's bed as close to me as she can get without being in my lap. Dolly, the giant kitten, is currently hiding somewhere. She is a black tortoiseshell and was lying in the middle of the living room floor, and I didn't see her earlier when I came in from the mailbox. I barely stepped on some appendage of hers and she came up spitting and fuzzed out, and now she is giving me reproachful looks and skulking under the furniture. It wasn't like I stepped on her purposely. I have never stepped on a dog or cat, or a kid for that matter, on the couch, bed or a chair. I just don't walk on furniture, it's not my thing. Okay, I confess, when we were kids we would try to maneuver around the living room without stepping on the floor, because everyone knows, if you think about them long enough, monsters really are lurking in the shadows under the furniture. As a certified grownup, though, walking on furniture is not my thing. So, why do cats and dogs insist on lying in the high traffic areas of your floor? I believe Dolly thinks it's her mission in life to get under my feet as often as possible in as short a time as possible. Most of the time I manage to dodge and step over or around, but her number came up earlier. I have on soft-soled houseshoes, so I know I barely even set my foot down on a tail or foot, I couldn't really tell, but I know I didn't put my weight down at all, or we would be having a Dolly funeral about now, or at the least taking up a collection to put her in traction for the next 8 weeks. Anyway, she really took it personal and has a real hate-on for me right at the moment. I can almost guarantee she'll put it aside for a few minutes if I go open a can of Mariner's Catch or Mixed Grill, though. Her snit with me is directly proportional to how hungry she is. Fill 'er up, and she'll be back to purring and shedding on me, all slights forgiven. If only people were so easy to pacify..................*SIGH*...........

I digress, but the reason I am enjoying all this solitary splendor is that Jessica is on her senior trip to Hot Springs and Little Rock, and Lamar is gone to spend the night with nephew, Danny. This is the second night I've been by myself, actually, since Jessica was out late on prom night, and left at 5 am on her trip, and Lamar had already spent the night with Danny last night, too. Danny's father-in-law had surgery Thursday and his wife is staying at the hospital with him for a couple of nights. He had a rough couple of days, but Danny said he's improving now, praise the Lord. Family, pray for him, he had to have a colostomy, and we still don't know how extensive the cancer is/was.

Okay, family, don't faint, but tonight I'm going to do girly things. You know, do my nails, bushhog the eyebrow (yes, if I don't really keep after it, I have a unibrow that goes from temple to temple!), pick out my dress for church tomorrow and all that jazz. I may (!) even put on makeup tomorrow morning! Shock, Shock!! I should make myself as presentable as possible if Jessica is actually going to be seen with me in public, don't you think?
Actually, in her defense, as far as I know Jessica never went through that phase that some teens do where they are ashamed of their parents, or at the least, don't want to look like they, you know, like to associate with them. I still have to study my Sunday School lesson, too. Lamar is going to church with his Mom for Mother's Day, and Jessica is going with me, so we will be going our separate ways tomorrow. I am looking forward to tomorrow, I really am.

Well, as I explained earlier, I will be gone most of the day on Sunday, so I don't know when I will be back to pester everyone here. I just noticed too, that this is my 99th post, so I suppose I will follow tradition and post 100 things about me for my next post. I only hope I can think of 100 things anybody else would even remotely be interested in knowing, LOL. I may alienate my family, much less my blogger friends who don't have that blood thing going on that means you HAVE to love me, we're related, LOL. So, anyway, once again, I want to wish everyone a HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY.