Doing OK here, hoping you all are as well.  Just busy enjoying the outdoors before nasty ole winter returns to the area!!  More soon.  Pics likely.

Meet Timothy Kyle!!!

He was born August 24th at 11:42 A.M. and is the third of my daughter, Candis’ children.  He weighed 6 pounds, 4 ounces and has hair!  This is important because Candis as well as her first two children were endearingly known as ‘cue ball heads” and took quite a while to have any of the baby-fine white-blonde locks begin to show. lol As you can see here in this picture, he’s doing alright where the hair issue is concerned!

Now this wee one will have a hard act to follow, considering he has a 6 year old sister and an almost three year old brother (next month) with whom he’ll be vying for placement within the Woods ranks.  I feel quite confident he’ll hold his ground though.  His siblings will love him, teach him ‘stuff’ and, yes, get into scuffs with him from time to time I’m sure, but such are the makings of any close family.  So he’ll endure. This pic of the three of them together is too precious, don’t you think?

I was there the night before when they had my daughter come in to be induced and took a few pictures, but I’ll not get too terribly pic-posting happy and attempt to post even a fourth of the shots I have taken in his first two days of life.  That would be more than Xanga could handle I should think!  Yeah, I’m known for being the ‘picture pest’ and you all know it’s true.  Just a couple more and then next week maybe I can sneak in a few more yet.  I went during my lunch on Thursday to see him and Candi took this one of me holding him just before I left.  She was all excited because the doctor told her she could go home instead of staying until Friday afternoon.  ‘Not sure why’, is what went through my head, since you have so much help at the hospital and don’t have cook, wash dishes and so forth, but, we always want to get home, don’t we?   Doesn’t a baby gazing up at mommy just look too sweet?  sigh

Have a super week everyone!  I could be a bit scarce on here for a time.  … well… I must do my Nana job and take pics… right?

I was having a really lousy day (a lousy week to be honest) at work and personally too and my friends knew it at work.  So three of them came over to my cubicle at work and blew bubbles to cheer me up!   It’s nice to have friends.

It makes me look like I have dirty spots on my face from where the shadows of the bubbles are, but I assure you, I had showered before I came in to work that day.

Wednesday, the day I was having such a hard time, I’d had a number of computer issues with both the laptop I must use that has my AIM software on it and the system computer at the administrative offices as well.  Then I had been praying for a long-time friend and her family because her mom was about to lose the fight against cancer and got the call from my friend, in tears, that she was gone.  My (very pregnant) daughter also called to tell me she had gone to the doctor and was dialated 2 cm and could go into labor anytime.  That part was good news!  Still, it added a bit more anxiouseness to the already stressful day.

So this week is over and all I can say is ‘THANK GOD!’

Still no baby, but she’s trying EVERYthing to make it happen this weekend.  It would mean she’d be back home before her eldest, Kerstin, begins school on Tuesday and that was her goal.  So please pray that my baby girl, Candis, goes into labor today or tomorrow at the latest and has us a new little bundle of joy, OK?

Well, I hope to get around to some of your sites to say hello today and tomorrow.  Have a super weekend!

Tomatoes!! YUM!

I had a nice evening with co-workers last night. I didn’t get home until after 8:00 and went straight from work at 4:00.  Normally, an after work function that I’ve been asked to attend means I make an appearance and jet, but I like the other AIM crew.  The reason for the get-together was to say farewell to 2 of our bunch who are staying with the company, but moving to other areas.  One is going to another state, Florida, and the other just a different region in Ohio.

Here is a pic of all of us.  We met at Willies in Montgomery.

As you can see, everyone has genuine smiles and we were having a good time.  I am apparently the only one who has a distaste for beer. YUK!

We shared various appetizers and then those who wanted some dinner ordered, but Amy and I rode together and had the furthest to drive home, so we left before most of the rest.

Well, I have VBS pics from our church’s Vacation Bible School to make a Power Point slide presentation.  I’ll put a couple of those on soon.

Make a great day!

I have been watching a show for a few weeks now. It’s a made-for-TV show called Into The West and I was enjoying the stories playing out of the settlers families and so on, when it began showing more of what happened as the pioneers pushed further and further west. I recall learning, in school, how our government handled things with the Indians and becoming quite indignant when retelling things at home about the mistreatment of the people who were here before us (or in my child-like manor, at that time I’d have said, “They were here first!“). As I watch this show, I can’t tell you how my ‘always-need-everything-done-fairly’ frame of mind goes into a spin. It’s made me think about a lot of things, but mostly, it’s made me want to study more, not only about our Native American history, but others as well. I love to learn things, but RE-learning things (or at least remembering them) is not bad either.

Gosh, it’s been a while!

I think of many of my Xanga friends often, some nearly daily, but I have had very little time to sit and write of late.  I also have not been able to stop by to catch up on what others have happening in their lives.  My apologies, if I have missed crises or blessed events or just some good writing or fun on you sites.

I will try to make it by to some of you today as I am staying home with some stomach trouble and would normally not have this ‘extra’ time to visit with some of you.

Have a blessed day!

Here’s hoping your long weekend was filled with relaxing, family & friends and the reminder to be thankful for those who have served our country in the Armed Forces, their families and the freedom we still have because of this.

About an email saying you won a Lottery

I want to share that there is an email scam going around, 2 of my personal email addresses had this come this week.  It says UK National Lottery at the top and looks quite official.  Then when you think, “hmmm, well, if I actually have won something like this, I’d hate to not redeem the winning ticket and miss out on that much money”.  So, you send a reply giving your information.  You get a response saying to send certain information to another person who is in charge of sending the pertinent documents to you to be signed.  Then you send that and… you get the 3 options on how to cash in on the winnings.  The first is to appear at the lottery board which is, of course, in London, and you are in the U.S.  So of course, you look at options 2 or 3 and each states you must pay the cost of them sending the funds to you and looks fairly reasonable.  However, the costs must be sent ahead of your receiving the money, obviously right?  And the money must be sent to a person who will act as the sender, once he’s gotten your fees, of course.  I went to www.snopes.com to check it out, typed UK Lottery in the search box and sure enough… there have been a number of victims of this scam.  I wanted to pass this on.  Please go to snopes.com and type UK Lottery in the search or any other email you get that you need to verify.  its a great site for locating a hoax or scam such as this.  Even if you just want to see whether a forward about a missing or ill person is true before passing it on and perpetuating a lie or something that began so long ago it is no longer valid.  This site has been something I use to keep from forwarding things that need be stopped and to keep from being taken for a fool.  Of course, I knew it sounded too good to be true, so it likely was, but at least with snopes, I can see there have been others.

I hope your Sunday is going along nicely.  i just needed a quick break from house and yard work.