Lovin' Life

Just a new update to relate what has been going on in my life recently. On Oct. 31st my mother-in-law(91) fell and broke her pelvis in three separate places. The first few days that we went to
visit she didn't look well. I thought that this might be the start of her decline. She almost ended up coming to my new work for rehab, but due to red tape, did not. She ended up having surgery to have a metal plate, held in with long metal screws, attached to her pelvis. The doctor was surprised that she opted for the surgery at her age, but she decided she didn't want to end up spending the rest of her days confined to a bed or wheelchair if she didn't have to be. She has been in a rehab facility ever since and is doing so well. She may get to be released the first or second week in Feb. My husband has been so attentive and devoted to her all this time. He visits her almost every single day!

Our Thanksgiving Feast was at my MIL's house, as usual, however, she was not in attendance. It turned out very yummy and all my children were able to be there except Jenny & her family. . It was just kind of a lackluster holiday, however, because no one really stayed to visit or play games. My family left to visit my MIL and when we came back, everyone was leaving. Jenny and her family were able to come visit the next day though.

Christmas was so exciting! All my children came to our house(plus a couple boyfriends), it was a packed house! My mom came up(she stayed at Lisa's). We had our big dinner on Christmas Eve, because Mandi had to leave to return to Cedar Christmas afternoon. Christmas is finally exciting again because of Hayley! It was so fun to see her open her gifts and her reactions! I received the best gift of all from Jenny. It was a little box and the last gift I opened. When I opened it I found small bottles of BABY shampoo, BABY lotion, BABY powder and BABY wash!!! I just looked at her and said "Are you kidding me"? I knew this meant she was announcing she was pregnant.!Of course no one else could see what was in the box and when Jenny affirmed that she was PREGNANT by saying she wasn't kidding, I jumped up and did a little dance and ran over and hugged her and everyone else didn't know what in the world I was so excited about. Obviously, when I realized what the gift meant, I couldn't control my excitement! We have been waiting and hoping for this news for such a long time. When everyone else finally figured it out, we were all jubilant!

A week or two later, I was surprised again by the news that we now were expecting TWINS!!!! We are so grateful and happy. Double Blessings!!

My good news and excitement doesn't end there!! On January 16th, my daughter, Stefanie, announced that she was engaged!!! Now we had been expecting this news for quite sometime, so
when she told me that Todd proposed(which she said in a very nonchalant way at the end of a long statement that had nothing to do with engagements), I wasn't really sure I heard what I thought I heard her say, so I exclaimed "No way!". She said "Yes he did", I replied "I don't believe you". She said, "Mom, he really did"! I guess due to the casual way that she threw it in at the end of the unrelated statement, I just really thought she was pulling my leg, so i said "You liar"! She finally had to put Todd on the phone to affirm that he did propose. Now i guess you have to know the long story of how long I have been expecting this news to understand part of my disbelief. Briefly, she moved back to Cedar in Sept. after having moved home from Cedar upon graduating from college in May. She moved back because her new boyfriend(since April of '09) was still going to school there and she felt that the realtionship was going well enough that she didn't want to have to continue it on a long distance basis. Ever since she moved back she had been talking about them talking about getting married. So, I got the impression it would happen not long after she moved back. All I can say is I am so glad and excited! yay-yay!

So, as you can tell, many things happening over the last few months. Most of it all good. I feel so blessed and have such a great life. I love my family and I love being a mom and I especially love being a grandma!!!