being able to Skype now and seeing the grandkids! My wonderful DIL gave us a webcam for my birthday and my equally wonderful SIL installed it for me last night. So today, we got to see the grandkids for the first time in quite a few months. They were all excited and goofing around, telling us how they're having a great time in pre-school. They are ( Read more... )

I came home tonight to find a note from the Mr. that read : "Starting Monday, works from 8 am to 4 pm Monday thru Friday. One night a week 6pm to 6 am. And one weekend a month." At first, I thought he was referring to his work schedule but after a few minutes, I realized that he was talking about our son's new schedule for his Chaplaincy job ( Read more... )

Had the second visit to the endodontist today. I'm back in the chair with the whole 'rubber dam, tooth clamp and suction device' stuff going on and he says, conversationally " I'm going to have to melt the gutta-percha, so you will see some smoke coming out of your mouth." And I did. Very strange, to say the least. But not painful, thanks to the ( Read more... )

Had a really nice talk with my son last night.

( There's a reason it's called 'The Terrible Twos.' )