All non essential personnel should stay home...

I am pondering that statement in the email. If I am non-essential, what does that say about my future? I walked over to the hospital for breakfast, and they are working. The chef cooked a hot breakfast just to my liking. The paper had been delivered, the sidewalks were cleared--well, at least as much as you can clear them while it is still snowing. Some places in the Colorado foothills have almost 40 inches of snow! It started snowing (sleeting first) on Tuesday night, and it hasn't stopped yet--and it is Thursday!

I am hoping to get brave enough to go out and look for some tattoo sleeves and a sweatband for my Halloween costume, but I don't know--the roads are pretty bad!

Some pictures from my morning walk: Beautiful children's hospital and the sculptures on the walking path: parents reading to their children and rabbits!

The construction workers were shoveling snow out of the building so they could work.

I think ER really wants to be a farmer! He seems to be having such fun! notice the difference in the size of the Marvelous Macy's pumpkin (in the front) and little ERs pumpkin (in the back!)

The Blevins family--aren't they cute?

Just for a laugh

Grandbabies

I have just returned from a week of visiting and celebrating birthdays with my very special gifts from God, known to others as my grandbabies...I have been thinking about how blessed I truly am. The Marvelous Macy just turned 6. She spent her birthday at Disney World, dining with Cinderella and dancing with the "very handsome" Prince Charming. I know where I stand with Macy; when she saw me over the weekend, she gave me a big hug and she whispered in my ear, "I've missed you, Mimi". She even wanted to spend the night with me, rather than hanging out with her numerous cousins, which she loves to play with. Macy is a child of my heart; I don't have to entertain her, I just have to enjoy her. We love to browse through the flea market, and we are very pleased with our purchases--I got some beautiful liquour glasses and Macy got a mirror and magnifying glass set--things we are sure belonged, many years ago, to some southern belle like my great-grandmother, Pearl.

Little ER, well, when I think of him, I think of a happy baby with the cutest of grins. He likes to show off his new teeth, four baby teeth, with his happy smile. He celebrated his first birthday, but more importantly, he is starting to show his personality--you can definitely tell when he is NOT ready to stop doing something. He is not really MY baby, though, not yet--he adores Mr. Lynn, and Mr. Lynn adores him. When I watch them together, I just feel happy, they are so cute.

Here he is, enjoying his first birthday cake--a cake in the shape of a John Deere tractor and made by his Daddy!! See his smile? Can you see his teeth?

And, finally, there is the very special Eli, who wanted to meet his Mimi so badly that he came 5 weeks early, just as she arrived for a visit. When he was first placed in my arms--well, he owned me from that moment on. I remember being mesmerized by his daddy, I would sit for hours on end and just look at him. I could do the same with Eli (and I did sit, for 3 straight hours, and just held him and looked and him and kissed him). And when I watch my son lean over the crib, and whisper, "Daddy loves you so very much" it reminds me once again how very rich I am. Life gets better and more special every day with the births of these children...riches I can't imagine, don't deserve, but am so very thankful for.

Little Eli came home from the hospital today--Yeah! Mimi had to rent a car to drive out from downtown to see the boy...and it was certainly worth the drive! He is a precious little blessing, and we are so thankful that he got to come home. From surprise, to purple to yellow, and now to healthy pink...a rainbow with a bright future!