I'm Still Kickin' & Still Ramblin'

***Pictures from Thursday morning with Jessica and Emmy. Jessica took all these pictures.***

Howdy, folks. I'm still alive and kickin', contrary to the rumors you might have heard. I've not been particularly busy, but not greatly motivated to blog about anything either.

To recap my week thus far:

Monday - Cecil and Sue brought burgers from McD*nld's for lunch then we played a few games and watched Paula Deen and some of the other afternoon shows on the Food Network. Yeah, I know. Y'all are just green with envy, wishing you led an exciting life like me.

Tuesday - Lamar had to have a colon*oscopy. He had to be up at 5 am to do a certain little procedure in preparation for the test. Use your imagination. Or don't. The test went fine and the Dr. says he doesn't need to look at Lamar's innards for another 3-5 years. We went home and slept away most of the afternoon after being up so early.

Aren't you glad you stopped by my blog today?

Wednesday - I typed up the business minutes for my church and made several Father's Day and graduation cards with my greeting card program. We received 5 graduation invitations this time, including Jason's. We just gave everyone a card and a (small!) check.

I also had business meeting at church Wednesday night, hence the typing of the minutes.

Thursday - Lamar and I rode the Sr. Citizen's van to Jonesboro to see Jessica and Emmy. Jessica took a few pictures for me. When we got home I finished the last book in a series of 6 that I've been reading. I've been reading them for about 10 days or so, off and on.

(Rabbit trail coming up --- This series of books has dragged on monotonously. I only persevered because I thought there would be a decisive and satisfying ending, tying up all the lose ends and answering all the questions left hanging throughout the series. Plus I was out of anything to read and my nephew Danny highly recommended them. His Mom, my sister Ducky, said they were okay but nothing spectacular. My opinion rates them slightly below okay.

Now, the kicker. The infernal so-called final book probably won't be the last one. The writer left herself several outs for more books. I like things tied up all nice and neat so I don't know if I'll wade through the next series of books where the last series left off in search of a definitive and satisfying ending or just resign myself to leaving everything hanging and call it good. Sometimes you just have to cut your losses and settle for the lesser of the two - boredom or mediocrity, you know?)

Okay, rabbit chased as advertised. I grilled chicken breasts and yellow squash for supper, along with some potatoes I diced in big chunks and drizzled with bacon grease in foil packets. I put everything on the grill, including the potatoes. It was good stuff, if I do say so myself. Lamar pronounced it good enough to eat. High praise indeed coming from him.

Emmy and Jessica are doing fine. Jessica has been released by her doctor for both Emmy's birth and her gall bladder surgery. She went back to work on Monday and is working part-time, usually for 4 hours most days, and 8 hours on Saturdays. She usually has Wednesdays off. Jessica is gone just the right amount of time. Long enough to enjoy her time away from Emmy but still look forward to getting back home to see her and Jason.

Miss Emmy is growing like the proverbial bad weed. She now weighs 8 lbs. 9 ounces. She weighed 5 lbs. 14 ounces at birth then lost to 5 lbs. 7 oz. so she's made up some ground in the last month. She was a month old on June 8th. She'll be 7 weeks old Tuesday the 19th. Jessica had to start giving Emmy cereal in her formula earlier this week. She just wasn't satisfied with formula alone. She's already resting better, sleeping longer at a time and is noticeably more content. Jessica was the same way as a baby and I had to start giving her cereal with her formula when she was less than a month old. You can tell by Emmy's chubby cheeks in these latest pictures that she's filling out more all the time and she hasn't been missing too many meals.

I had just changed Emmy's diaper and her clothes and fed her right before Jessica took these pictures. It's obvious Emmy is getting very sleepy, especially in the last 3 pictures.

I think that's about all the exciting news that I can muster up from my week thus far. I have a few emails and comments that I want to return tonight then I'm hoping for an early night. Anything before 1 am is early for me. I suffer from NightOwlism.

Here's wishing everyone a great Friday and a blessed weekend.