I AM BACK

I've been prodded a little by Robyn and Jenny that I haven't posted anything new in a while.
I didn't realize it had been so long.

I guess the biggest news that has happened has been the twins.
My niece had her boys.
She went into the hospital at just under 32 weeks and they were able to stop her labor.
So, the insurance company wanted her to go home and a couple days later her water broke.
By that time, she was 33 weeks so the babies were in NICU for a couple weeks.

They were able to come home last week.

In other news, baby steps that I thought I was making with my sister must have been all in my head.
Maybe she was just being polite and I read more into it.
My niece has told me over and over again that she is not the same person.

I got very upset over our last exchange, which had to do with a joke that she took wrong.
She got nasty and hung up on me.
Which is OK to do, because I, apparently, have been not so nice to her in the past.
She did apologize for overreacting, but I am just tired of all of it.

But, I am good.
Just have to get it all behind me.

What else?
Helping my daughter practice her driving.
She went through driver's ed, but they are still going to make her do a drive test.
They signed the certificate that way before she even completed all of her drive time, which pissed me off.
I understand making her drive if she needs it, but I don't understand not allowing her to do all of her time before deciding.

I got my garden planted and it is looking pretty good.
I won't get to work in it today, as it stormed pretty good last night and it's very wet.

My Yummy Stuff blog is giving me grief.
I had trouble renewing the domain name so it went back to a blogspot and google doesn't appear to be allowing me to just buy it again as new so in order to get my domain name back, I will have to move. Which is fine, but it still appears to be showing as a registered name.
And the search is not working and the recipe pages aren't right so I need to remove them and start over.

On a bright note, I did buy a 12.5 kg (27.5 lbs) container of cocoa powder.
It's a good thing I am a storage container hoarder.

Meanwhile...

As seen at a rest area in Illinois.

Seymore Butts under the bleachers

Worth Mentioning- May 12, 2014

Who's worth a mention this week?
My daughter, that's who.

When I hear some people talk about their teenagers/teenage daughters, I have to say I am pretty lucky.
She's respectful and thinks about people and doesn't give a lot of attitude.

Everyone has their moods and she is no exception.
But, not a lot of drama comes outta that girl.

She's my taekwondo girl.
She's a 2nd Dan black belt.

She loves to read and has only recently decided that librarian might be a good occupation for her.
She'd love to be a writer, but knows she needs a back-up.

She has also reached a point where she doesn't care what others think.
From the time she was little, I told her that it didn't matter what anyone else thought. It was what she knew that mattered.
That finally sunk in.

Obviously, she cares what her friends and family think.
But, other than that~ no.

This is part of my Mother's Day gift from her. I love it. She also got me a couple cds and a card.

Here's the card:

She did forget to sign it and did accidentally leave the plastic wrap on it, even though it said to remove.

There are so many things I could say about her.
I know that I am blessed to have such a good relationship with her.

I always wanted better than the one I have/had with my own mother and I got that.
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On a side note, if you read ruthsyummystuff I am having trouble accessing my admin account to renew the domain. If I don't get it figured out, it might momentarily get reverted back to a blogspot domain.