Random Thoughts from a Blonde

Dearest Mom
There is a time in every woman’s life when she understands her mother better than what she cares to admit.
Today, I am admitting that I understand you better now.
How so and why now?
I understand that there is nothing that you would not do for me if its within your power
That there is nothing that you would not protect me from even if it costs you your life
That there is nothing that can make you love me less but plenty that can make you love me more
That there is nothing that I can say or do to ever repay you in the smallest way for everything you have done and continue to do for me.
Today, I understand you as only another mother can.
Thank you from the bottom of my heart
I love you mommy, and thanks for being my Mom, I am proud that you are.
Happy Birthday

My Dad is having surgery tomorrow, again.  On my Mom’s birthday of all days. He is going in to have what my Mom jokingly calls a Roto Rooter job due to not knowing what the proper terminolgy is.  What they are actually going to do is go in and clean the carotid arteries out in his neck. Kind of like having your radiator flushed in your car, I guess.  This is his second surgery in the last three months.  The last one was for something different.  I’m just as concerned this time as I was the last time.  Seems like every time I turn around something is going haywire with my Dad’s health.  I know things start to break down and wear out as you get older, but that’s not suppose to happen to my Dad.  He is suppose to be the rock of the family, the one that we all lean on.  There is not a day that goes by that I don’t think about him and all he has done for me in my life.  The good Lord blessed me with a wonderful Dad, he is very loving and caring, and I am very proud to call him my Dad.

I’ll say a prayer tonight before I go to bed, and hope God is listening to me, and everything will be fine.

I love you Daddy, your the greatest.  And know that I am thinking about you always, not just today, but every day.

Carol is the oldest of our three beautiful daughters, 24 to be exact.  She is funny, smart, a joy to be around, oh and a Starbucks queer. She is also very clumsey and accident prone. This kid is so accident prone you can't let her have a butter knife at the dinner table because she will cut herself somehow.  And yes that has actually happened.  She will spill anything that doesn't have a lid on it.

Now that I am done picking on her, let me point out her good traits, and there are many of them.  Like her sister, Carol has also had a very bumpy road the last six years and has still managed to turn out to be the most wonderful person.  She is a very hard worker, too hard if you ask me, and she has done a great job supporting her own family.  And she won't put up with anyone's shit and she will let you know what she is thinking even if it is not appropriate.  She is one of the most beautiful and caring people that I know.  She has the most beautiful smile and laugh.  Her eyes twinkle when whe smiles. The kid is just too damn funny, wonderful sense of humor.

Carol, I am so proud to call you my friend and daughter. I love you very much Carol Anne. 

Allyssa is the youngest of our three beautiful daughters, 10 going on 21.  As you can see by the picture she has her Dad's great sense of humor.  She is smart as a whip and very funny.  She should be a negotiator when she grows up because she is always trying to negotiate a situation.  When she should clean her room up, when she should shower, etc.  Allyssa  is a beautiful person and when she grows up she is going to make some man very happy.  Well, after she negotiates the shopping trips to the mall.

I am only her stepmom and would never try to pretend that I am her real Mom, I am happy being her friend, and I would never disrespect her or her Mom in that way, and even though I don't show it as much as I should, I love her very much.

I love you Miss Allyssa, your a very special young lady.

This is our beautiful Sara.  She is the middle child, 21 to be exact.  She is ornery, stubborn, opinionated and smarter than shit.  (Sounds kind of like describing her Mom, LOL) She has beauty and brains, and she'll give any man a run for their money, and if your a man, God help you if you cross her, she's been burned too many times.  She is very picky about her men, just like her cars.  She is more level headed then any 21 year old that I have ever seen in my life.  And boy let me tell ya, she will tell you exactly what she thinks of anything and if it pisses you off, sorry about your luck.  Life has thrown her a few curves the past 6 years, but she has come out on top.  She has a great job, and a nice car and she is making something of herself and didn't have any help doing it.  She has turned into a fine young lady and a great business woman, and I am so very proud of her.

Sara, I am very proud to call you my friend and daughter.  I love you very much Sara D.

I want to wish all the father's out there a very happy Father's Day.

Most of all I want wish my husband a happy Father's Day.  I am so glad I have you in my life and I am glad that you are the Father that you are to my girls.  Your a wonderful Dad and husband.  Thanks for being there.  I love you very much.

I want to wish my father-in-law Joe a happy Father's Day.  I wish you could be here with us today.  I miss you very much and hope to see you again soon.

And last but not least, I want to wish my own Dad a happy Father's Day.  I love you so much Dad and I am so glad you are my Dad.  Your a wonderful person and an even better Dad.  Your a very special person. 

There is one more person that I would like to wish a happy Father's Day to.  Happy Father's Day John.  I hope your having a good one, you deserve it.  Thanks for being such a great friend to Mark and myself.

HAPPY FATHER'S DAY GUYS!! 

OMG!!  Yesterday was way worse then I had anticipated.  It was a giant CLUSTER F*** from HELL!!  Our moving muscle tried to back out at the last minute, and I do mean the last minute.  I got the U-Haul there, Sara and I are hauling stuff down to it, nothing can be loaded until the couch and love seat are loaded, and where is my son-in-law and his two brothers to load them, NOT WHERE THEY ARE SUPPOSE TO BE!  So let me tell ya Mom was getting pissed, but I kept my cool the whole time.  Not one time did I loose my temper.  So the guys finally get there about 3.5 hours later then they were suppose to, and they sit there for 45 minutes trying to decide how to load the truck, didn't seem like a you needed a genius to me to figure that out.  I'm not going to go into details about all the other shit that went wrong, I would be here all day.  We finally get back home to Sara's new apartment and the calvary was there.  My parents showed up with my uncle and the husband and my other daughter showed up and we got things unloaded very quickly.  And then out of the mouths of babe, my beautiful daughters say "What are we going to cook for dinner?"  And that means, "What's Mom going to cook for dinner?"  My response was "I aint cookin shit."  So then of course they look at their Dad and say "what are you going to BBQ?"  Gotta love those girls.  So we ended up having a full course meal, at 8:00 at night, and I done the dishes as usual, still not loosing my temper, and they ended up staying until 9:00.  And today I am so sore I can hardly move.  Thanks to the husband I got a wonderful foot rub last night, thanks baby.

So if any of our kids ask me anytime in the near future to help move, I am headin' out of town for awhile.  Going to Canada or something.

Thanks Doc, for the obviously good counselling.  Kept my temper in check all day long, even when my son-in-law took our part of the awning at Sara's old apartment with the U-Haul.

I love our kids, but they are wearing me out.