Vacation in October

My last vacation of the year is winding down. Did I do alot? Somedays.

Spent a few days over on Cocoa Beach at Terri's sisters condo. Nice being able to walk out on the beach whenever the waves called you. Enjoyed the storms rolling onto the shore everyday, loved the pace, long, lazy and slow. Dropped Terri off at the airport on Thursday and then back to the house to sweep and mop.

Our weekly survivor dinner was at Bonnie and Rob's. What a great orzo and salmon pasta Bonnie served and the goat cheese salad was tasty too. No one was voted off due to one of the Russel's going home due to medical reasons. Friday was spent catching up on the house stuff and gearing up a weekend of football, laundry and ironing.

Saturday was spent on Bear Watch Patrol 2009. As I was cleaning the front patio one of our neighbors walked by and asked "Do you want to see the bears?"  Who does not want to see bears, especially in your own neighborhood? So down the street, Hunt Club, and there the Mama and Baby Bear were, up in the branches of a tree. The police were on duty making sure traffic did not block the road. This was about 9am. I continued my watch during the day with updates to Cimi and Randy, (picture courtesy of Randy) all day. Around 5pm I decided to take another trip down the street as I was hearing sirens, and we all have the curious instinct to have a need to know what is going on. The local news was on site with a camera and did an interview with me, but alas I was cut for the guy who thought it was better than Disneyland for entertaining his kids on a Saturday afternoon. As dusk appeared I was doing my last watch and update of the day and over heard the sheriff say "the bears have skedaddled".

So now it is Sunday and all of the tasks are done and just waiting patiently for the last football game that I am interested in.
                                        Can we say Saints, 6 and 0?

october vacation

I am officially on vacation and Terri has arrived for her almost annual October vacation. We are off  to Cocoa Beach for a couple of days and sadly she will return to New Orleans to go back to WORK on Thursday! Will catch up when I return. Have a great week everyone.

LSU or bust

Well it was a bust for LSU, I am sorry to say. As a New Orleanian I congratulate the Gators and their consistancy of wins. I am glad that Tebo was able to do that run and get back into his groove. I congratulate all of my neices and family members that the better team won. And I wish that LSU wins next year. Go Tigers.

October 2009

I continue my memories. Today or tonight however to place it, I gave birth to Manny. He was about 10 days past his due date.
Since never having had a baby, I was not aware of how you should feel when the contractions started. The evening before I just started pacing up and down the hallway. It felt like bad period cramps, it's funny even after 9 months of no periods you always remember what cramps feel like.
I decided in the morning to call my mother in law, Joan and asked her what I should do, she immediatly said to call the doctor. Being past the due date the doctor told me to go to the hospital. YEAH, it was going to happen today. At that time, we did not know who we would be having. The funniest, not at the time, was while the nurse was prepping me, shaving, I asked her if she was an expert at this procedure, which she claimed to be and immediatly cut her finger. So much for being an expert.
All day in the hospital and it was a Sunday and only thing on tv was football, yes the Saints did win, which was really a miracle. The weather was wonderful, a first fall day in New Orleans and here I was just lying in a hospital bed all day long, eating ice chips. After about 12 hours the doctor said let's do an xray to see if you can birth this baby, and the other funny thing was the really BIG poster on the wall asking if you thought you may be pregnant, ok. After the xray I was induced and here came Manny with a major scream out of his lungs.
Happy Birthday Manny and I hope your last year in the 20's is great.
Thanks to all who have helped me in the journey of giving advice, taking care of and being supportive of me as a mother and as a friend and relative to Manny.