If I Had A Title, It Would Go Here

So, wanna see what my week

has consisted of up until now?
In pictures?
Okay....

My little princess in her Sunday dress.Emmy and Grandpa.
There was some napping.....
Jessica and Emmy as she was picking
Emmy up at the end of the day.
Emmy is holding her head up all the time,
and is holding her weight on her legs
for several minutes at a time.She's getting to be a big girl!Emmy's Mama bought her a colorful
hippo floor mobile, and Emmy loves it...
Loves it....LOVES IT!
Although Grandma has it on the bed
instead of the floor at the moment.
For some reason, the floor is farther away
now than it was when Jessica was a baby.
Hmmmm.....???
And some more napping.
I took this about 10 minutes ago,
right before I started typing this post.
This is the reason I have a few minutes
to blog, although I have no idea how long
it will last. Emmy sleeps anywhere from
5 minutes to 3 hours at a time, but usually
during the afternoon it's more in the

5 minutes to an hour range.

I mentioned in my last post that I knew someone else had given me the Reflective Blogger award and it had completely slipped my mind who had honored me. BARB AT A CHELSEA MORNING reminded me that she had given me the award several weeks back.

Thank you so much for recognizing me with this award, Barb. Your opinion and respect mean a lot to me, dear friend. My forgetfulness truly doesn't reflect the love and respect I have for you.

I am so sorry, Barb, that I failed to acknowledge your award to me. The only excuses I have are old age combined with having a 11 week old baby here 12 hours a day. Thank you for being so gracious in reminding me about this, and for not being offended by my absent mindedness.

I know you understand, and just think, next Spring you'll have another newborn grandbaby to care for! Somehow I think that you might be experiencing a dearth of properly functioning brain cells and a loss of short term memory soon after that baby arrives. And you'll have a 2 year old as well!

My dear blogging friend, CONNIE, aka MEOW, was kind enough to award me the Creative Blogger award. Thank you so much, Connie! I don't know that I'm all that creative, but I do appreciate that you think so and I'm honored that you feel I'm worthy of the award. Thank you so much, my friend. :-)

My mailman delivered a surprise package to me Monday. I wasn't really expecting anything and the generous gift card in the pretty presentation card addressed to Emmy was both a surprise and a blessing!

I won't reveal the exact amount because that would be just so tacky! It would be tacky, tacky, tacky! But whomever our anonymous benefactor might be, be assured that we are very thankful for your sweet gift.

As soon as Walmart puts out some pretty dresses and such for Fall we will put that gift card to good use. I looked for some nice dresses for Emmy when I was at Walmart Tuesday, but all they have are every day sundresses and onesies, and would you believe, they already have sweatsuits, sweaters and winter stuff out? Not a pretty Sunday dress in sight!

So I'll put that gift card away until I can find some pretty things for Miss Emmy, then I'll post pictures on the blog so you'll know that your sweet gift was used as you intended it to be. Thank you again, dear Anonymous Benefactor. :-)
Even though it's 95* I'm craving something hearty and filling, so I'm thinking I'm going to make a big pot of deer chili for supper tonight, and big cast iron skillet of buttermilk cornbread. I'll make enough for Jessica and Jason's supper while I'm at it. It doesn't take any more time or effort to make a double batch than it does to make a single batch. If Jessica doesn't want to take some home with her it will freeze well and be good for a quick meal another time.

I'm going to go see about getting my chili started, so I'll wish everyone a great Thursday afternoon.