OCD and Me

I wasn't happy with my Easter tablescape so I have been working on it again. I like this one better, but who knows what tomorrow will bring. I have been obsessing about this tableau for a week now. How could I go so wrong with pink, purple, flowers, bunnies, and little girls?

Toy Story Birthday

Couldn't resist showing you C &B's birthday cake. C chose Toy Story 3 for his birthday party theme. If you haven't seen the movie, some of the toys get packed and sent to Sunnyside Daycare when Andy goes to college.

Surprise! More pictures of my grandchildren

We have two birthdays this week and I love to celebrate birthdays...I think because my mother always made a big deal of birthdays and I felt special when she did that. Wednesday, Papa and I took the boys to a fish store to see the big tanks of fish. It was dark in there and my pictures were bad, but it was a nice store...I was surprised to find so many exotic fish in a store in our small town. We were there at feeding time and the store owner told us about some of the fish. Then we went across the street to Eggemyers and I showed them the car I like. I think it belongs to Mr. Eggemyer. It is parked next to his store a lot. DH found a similiar car on line for $30,000. He offered to go to Burnet and buy it for me. It was gold, though so I was not even tempted.
There are always fun things to do in Eggemyers.

Thursday was B's real 2nd birthday so we made cupcakes and he practiced blowing out candles for his real party which is on Sunday. Everyone liked the icing best.

When you are the big brother, you have to muli-task.

Tuesday we went to Wall to get some pictures of the "Perigree moon". It was too cloudy, but DH found an old house.

A Blessing for my Daughters

The Psalms have always been a source of peace and comfort to me. I hope this one brings joy and hope to you today.

How joyful are those who fear the Lord- all who follow his ways!
You will enjoy the fruit of your labor.
How joyful and prosperous you will be!
You will be like a fruitful grapevine, flourishing within your home.
Your children will be like vigorous young olive trees as they sit around your table.
That is the Lord's blessing for those who fear him.
May the Lord continually bless you from Zion.
May you see Jerusalem prosper as long as you live.
May you live to enjoy your grandchildren. May Israel have peace!

Am I Crazy? (no need to answer that)

After being so happy yesterday with the return of warm weather, I begin to think about SAD or Seasonal Affective Disorder. (Maybe I have it.)

Everyone knows that nurses, doctors and other medical personnel sometimes think they have every disease they learn about. I have never had that problem, but I like to diagnose myself with personality disorders. Here are the primary ones I have right now:

• OCD: preoccupation with orderliness and perfectionism. I do not like to make less than 100% on a test when I do my continuing education units. If I study a unit that has obscure questions that are not clearly answered in the material, I won't take the test. Why do nurse educators love to ask questions where all the answers are correct, but you have to choose the BEST one?


• Passive Aggressive Disorder: passive sometimes obstructionist resistance to following through with expectations in interpersonal or occupational situations.When someone wants me to do something I don't want to do, I don't want to tell them. I tend to just postpone and avoid it.


• Avoidant personality disorder: pervasive pattern of social inhibition and avoidance of social interaction. I don't like big parties or large groups where I have to talk to people. I don't like the time at church when we stop in the middle of singing and the pastor tells us to go greet people.


• Schiziod Personality Disorder: tendency towards solitary lifestyle. I need time alone and I love being at home by myself.


• Avoidant Personality: fear of anything new or starting relationships. Everytime I get one of those cards in the mail summoning me for jury duty, I try to think of ways to get out of it. I have never been on a jury.


• Dependent Personality Disorder: pervasive dependence on other people. I really like being married. He can do things that I can't do and I don't want to learn how to do them. He knows things that I don't know and I don't want to look them up.

On the other hand, the person I am married to is a counselor and works with people with all these "Disorders" and he never worries that he has them. He thinks he has strange diseases! Maybe we both have Relational disorder: two or more individuals with a disordered "juncture". I'm not sure what that is but maybe we have it.

Welcome back, 86 degrees

I was inappropriately happy for the return of warm weather today. Those 7 degree days are not in my comfort zone. We went to the lake and enjoyed the sunshine this afternoon.

We threw rocks (and a penny) in the lake. I told Z to make a wish when he threw in the penny. He wished that he could fly.

We love to find a huge slide like this. The one at the park near my house is gone. They are putting in new play equipment and grass...which is a good thing. Stickers had taken over there and made it hard to enjoy the park.

We also saw deer, ducks, thousands of birds coming in to roost in the trees at sunset, but no rattlesnakes.

More Things that make me smile

I have to agree with Hannah Whitehall Smith, the author of The Christian's Secret of a Happy Life, who is quoted as saying:
"If being a grandmother was only a matter of choice, I should advise every one of you straight away to become one. There is no fun for old people like it!"
I loved this thank you note from my oldest grandson, Joshua.

I looked for an older one in his scrapbooks and found this:

and this: Josh and I "several" years ago.

Something else that made me smile...Josh's mother made me this. I'm sure those old spools belonged to my mother. She has been in my thoughts a lot the last few days. I put some of her lace and ribbons on my new towels last week and saw some of her fabric that a friend made into a apron.