A Baby Shower, Easter Sunday & *Stuff*

I mentioned in an earlier post that I had some pictures from Jessica's baby shower at my church that I wanted to share, and here they are. Between the pictures from the shower and some from Easter Sunday, I had quite a few so I chose to make 2 slideshows instead of uploading each picture. Blogger has been pretty accomodating about uploading pictures for me lately, but I didn't want to chance it considering I have almost 30 pictures I want show you. Not to mention that it would make my post about 3 miles long if I uploaded each picture one at a time.

Here's the baby shower slideshow:






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There were about 35 people at the shower and Jessica received a LOT of very nice gifts. We were touched that so many people attended the shower and were so generous in their giving for baby Emmy. My sister Cecil was the hostess for the shower, along with my other sisters.

Cecil left the shower and got to the hospital just before her mother in law passed away. The memorial service for her mother in law is Tuesday at 11 am at our church and we'll be attending, of course. Thanks to everyone for your kind words and your prayers for Cecil and her husband.

Easter Sunday dawned sunny but cold here. The Easter Bunny probably froze his little powder puff tail off delivering his eggs here, with the temps in the mid 20's on Easter morning.

Danny, Mikki and baby Seth were at church for the first time since he was born. His pediatrician had recommended they keep him away from crowds for about 6 weeks, but they fudged a little. Seth is about 5 ½ weeks old now, and is almost 8 pounds, up from 5 lbs. 7 oz. when he was born. I took several pictures at church, then more when Cecil, Ducky, Danny, Mikki and baby Seth and I went to a restaurant for Sunday Dinner.

I guess that solves the mystery of what Diane did for her Sunday Dinner! My sister Ducky treated me to a catfish dinner, while the rest of them had smoked pork chops, country ham steak, chicken fried steak and chicken nuggets. This particular restaurant also has what they call "passarounds" which are free extras they bring out from the kitchen in addition to your regular meal that you pay for. Some of the free passarounds we enjoyed were fresh hot yeast rolls (which they actually throw to you from across the room!) fried breaded okra and white beans with ham, among other delights. Can you tell they specialize in Southern cookin'?

Now the Easter Sunday slideshow:




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Jessica visited her doctor today for her last ultrasound. Her doctor said that Emmy is not fully in position to deliver, but she is at least head down and not breech. He also went back to May 29th for her due date. He's going by the measurements of Jessica's belly for that date. I still think earlier and that Emmy is just a small baby.

Jessica has been having some headaches and a bit of swelling, and one of my fears for her may be realized. Her blood pressure is about 25 points higher than it should be and she had some protein in her urine today. All these point to preeclampsia and/or toxemia. As of right now she's okay and he's not terribly alarmed, but he did tell her to cut way down on her salt intake and to keep her feet up and rest more often.

According to the May 29th due date, she still has anywhere from 4-7 weeks to go, and that's a long time for possible preeclampsia/toxemia to rear its ugly head, or other complications. I'd appreciate your prayers on Jessica and Emmy's behalf, y'all.

Man, it's almost like history is repeating itself. We just got through the crisis with Mikki and baby Seth, and now it may be starting with Jessica and baby Emmy. Oh, I pray it's not so!

Remember I mentioned that I was making yeast rolls and coconut cakes for that bake sale at church? I made an extra coconut cake for us. Well, it's actually a hybrid: half coconut, half plain, because some of the weirdos in our bunch don't like coconut for some strange reason. Here's a picture of the cake, and the corner piece that's missing? That was a cook's sample. I have to say, it's pretty good stuff, and really easy to make, as homemade cakes go.

I have one more picture I want to share. I came across this picture a while back when I was looking through my old family pictures and I had to scan this one into my picture files to share with you.

This picture was taken on July 21, 1983. That's my nephew Frankie, my sister DONNA and my niece Tammy. This was almost 24 years ago! It seems like only weeks ago rather than over 20 years ago.

As my dear friend PRAIRIE FARMERESS recently pointed out, Tempest Fugit, or, Time Flies. Oh, mercy, how it flies!

I think that's enough for the moment, so I'm going to wish everyone a great week and send my love to you all.

Blessings,