Who reads this?

I just wonder if anyone is reading this blog. If you are, will you let me know? Just wondering.

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My back is hurting! Again! I keep in great shape but my stupid back "went out" when I was shaving my leg in the shower on Wednesday. I didn't think it was as bad as last time so I went to water aerobics on Thursday (actually felt great) and then went to Bible study that night and it started to really hurt. Ibuprofen isn't touching it. I went for a walk that night (separate blog) and by Friday my back was a mess! And I had the reunion this weekend! Saturday my Mom gave me a hydrocodone and it is the only thing that helps. Sitting is BAD! I ice it and rest it and try to not do anything too long--sit, stand, lie down. I broke down and took another pill today. Have gone to the chiropractor twice and will go again tomorrow. I guess my new water class against the current will have to wait. I'll try fit ball and go back to the deep end class but step is out for awhile. I have some prayer partners working on this so I will give it to God and wait. And thank Him for hydrocodone. :)

Reunion

LHS 1980 30 year high school reunion memories.

Ginger looks fabulous, as usual. Her husband is wonderful! He reminded me tons of Lee in looks and gentle spirit. Davi is working full time and lives near. Niki will be a freshman at Shawnee Mission North. Mike's kids live at home and nearby also. Liisa Embree McNeil looked great. She's in KC doing merchandising for a large corporations in carpeting. She is married, no kids. Cara Bray is in Lawrence working for medicaid. She has two teenagers. Jay Slapper is married and has two young kids. Mark Devoe is in KC, hates his job, has been divorced 18 years, should have been a psychologist and smokes pot daily. He has two teens also. Libby Dorsey Zimmerman lives in Bloomfield, Colorado with her husband and she works with computers. Her kids, Zach and Hannah, are about the age of mine. The class has four social workers: Mike Fowler who I didn't get to talk to this time, Michelle Porter who works with Native Americans in California and who is a Christian, Susan Devoe who works with sex offenders in KC but is also going to work for Children's Mercy. Dave Blesch is in San Franscisco and doing very well with his company, not married, no kids. Jerry Ehrens (?), crap his name is escaping me temporarily, lives in CA also and is married and has two young kids. I don't remember him being so incredibly nice in high school! Troy Rea is bald but still good looking and lives in Leavenworth running a car dealership with his brothers. Bob Wrigley is excellent looking and a big flirt. He told me that I'm hot, that he loves my hair and that a woman had to be beautiful and confident to wear their hair like that! Hecter McAnderson and his high school sweetheart and bride were there. He is retired from special ops. Michele Best lives in Heidelberg, Germany with her husband and teenagers and gets to travel around Europe and loves it. Michele told me she remembers me being never judgemental toward anyone in high school! So cool! Karen Johnson DePriest was there along with Karrie Wiley and they organized the whole thing. I thought everyone looked great, the same or even better! We all looked our age but good! I talked with Jeannette Evans about all the Sunday School classes we went to together. Sue Holliman Moore was there with Tim who is handsome! They are very much in love. Sue runs a daycare in their home and is very dedicated to it. Both her parents have passed. Her oldest son is in Florida and younger son just got married. Tim has kids and they have a nine year old daughter together. Jeannette Finnell was there an bubbly as usual along with Deena Roe. People were very huggy and open and kind and genuinely glad to see you. Chris Robinson was there with his wife. Talked to Brenda Boyer and Cathy Cummins. Jim Norwood died in a car accident and apparently their son died recently also so Lori Foster wasn't there. Kyle couldn't come for some reason. Here are a few pics.

Vacation

Went to Table Rock Lake and Branson, Missouri this weekend with Leah, Joel, my brother David and his wife Ronnie, his sons Jon, Ryan and Tim, Tim's wife, Hannah, and my Mom. We left Manhattan Friday morning and drove the two hours to Leavenworth to meet up with Mom, David and Ronnie and then followed them--they rode in the Lexus and we took our white car. The rest of the kids met us there later that night. I hade such a crazy headache driving! We stayed at Rock Lane Marina which is really a resort set up for people who have a boat. But they had a pool and we made good use of it! I stayed in a condo with Leah. We just took it easy and sat by the pool and tanned and chatted. Very enjoyable. Leah and I took a paddle boat out across the cove to an island and got out and swam in the lake one afternoon. The next afternoon we rented a boat but Leah and Mom and I only lasted an hour on the boat. Joel stayed and tried the wake board and got fried. Each night we showered up and went out the eat--the whole group at an italian restaurant the first night (yummy) and mom and Leah and I the second night (not so yummy food). We went to see the Beatles act the first night and the Chinese acrobats the scond night. Very enjoyable. All this on my generous mom's tab! Then yesterday we drove home--I drove all the way myself--6 1/2 hours! A very good, relaxing vacation. But its good to be home.

Adelle second outing

Last week Adelle was ready and came right out to the car when I pulled up. She rode in back again and started giving sports info, her fall back conversation when she doesn't know what else to say. We went to the house and made cookies together-oatmeal chocolate chip raisin. She started being silly but then settled down and really worked hard and concentrated and seemed to enjoy it. We just made two sheets because we needed more oatmeal and to keep her attention. We did make a mess. She ate sugar, brown sugar, cinnamon sugar, dough and several cookies. We got sugar all over the floor! Then she got on the computer as we were waiting for Leah to come home to say hi. Adelle kept trying to look up some score or something from March 30 that she has talked about for two visits now. Then we went to the fire station to take Scott some cookies and for Adelle to meet him for the first time. I told her she could ask him about scores from March 30. Adelle needed to use the restroom badly--she kept crossing her legs. She went in to look at ours but wouldn't go in it. I went and flushed but apparently the toilet paper didn't go all the way down and that bothered Adelle. She kept saying, "Why is your toilet broken?" So the first thing she did at the fire station was use the restroom. Then she shook hands with Scott and asked him her questions about March 30. He knew what she was talking about and got on the computer. Apparently, she is really into a sports radio show called "Around the Horn" which is a sports debate. She wanted to know which of the commentators won the debate that day! So Adelle sat at Scott's desk and listened to several Around the Horn shows on the computer. She laughed and tried to recite the words along with it and rocked and thoroughly enjoyed herself. When we got back in the car, she kept reciting what she had heard. She was soooo happy about it! Then we went to the grocery store for more oatmeal and also got some mustard. Earlier Adelle wanted a cheese sandwich and I only had spicy brown mustard. I'm not sure how I ever thought I could be Adelle's Big Sister without mustard in the house! We bought mustard and oatmeal and headed to the city park to swing. While swinging, we saw Leah and her friends and they were slack lining and kicking around a soccer ball. We went over. Adelle shook everyone's hands and then kicked the soccer ball (hard) several times. Allison asked Adelle if she wanted to try slack lining. With Allison's help, she jumped right up and walked down and back both lines without much difficulty! Everyone was impressed! Then she was ready to go home. I am going to get Adelle tonight and are plans are to make hamburgers and hot dogs. She has been talking about this both times we've been together--she's going to have two hamburgers and two hot dogs! Can't wait!

Mothers and Daughters

I have had the privilege of spending lots of time with my daughters and my mother lately. I love them so much. Someone said that to have kids is to forever experience part of yourself walking around outside yourself. I feel that way about my kids and I know my mom feels that way about me, also. But mothers and daughters, particularly oldest and only daughters are a strange phenomena. When I'm with my mom, I often hear myself saying things that I would never say to anyone else and then I hear the same kinds of words coming back to me from my girls. Its like criticism. I think I've figured out what it is. I think its that daughters don't like seeing their mothers age. Also, we desperately miss our moms when we aren't with them but we need our independence too. Moms are hard to get independence from. Right at this moment I am missing my mom and my oldest daughter whom we just put on a plane back to Wyoming. A lot. But I am feeling all filled up having just spent good, quality time with her. I give her her independence as she needs it. I am spending some more time with my Mom this weekend. Love you, Hannah and Leah. And Mom.

Rain Run

Hannah and Leah went on a rain run today and I was inspired so I went too! Of course, I couldn't run with them but I started out at the same time. The rain was just coming down gently and the temperature was just right. I ran about a mile total then walked home. I stomped in every puddle and the stream of water coming down the hill. I think I got an extra work out because my shoes weighed 1-2 pounds extra each. When I got home, I toweled off and now I feel rain water soft.