Last night Sally and I went to Apple Bee's and we saw a play called "Crazy For You". It was an enjoyable evening for the most part. I had a hard time eating my dinner. I had the chemo pump taken out a couple of hours before we left. Nothing appeals to me and I am extremely sensitive to taste and texture right now. The play was a musical/comedy. I think Sally and I were the youngest in the audience there. It was almost 3 hours long but it was entertaining. Thanks mom for letting me and Sally have a good night out.

Today I slept in until 11. We will be going to night mass this evening instead. I took Zachary and Kaity to the park. Kaity did not want to get off the swings. I stood there for over an hour pushing her on the swings. I finally convinced her to go down the slide. She didn't want to go home but after an hour and a half at the park I was beat.

Friday night I was on the phone and Sally was on the computer. Zachary and Kaitlyn were playing. Zachary comes in the kitchen and grabs a pair of scissors. I wasn't paying attention but Sally was. She asked him what he was doing and then we heard Kaitlyn crying as she was walking towards the kitchen. Some how, I am sure with Zachary's help, Zachary's remote control toy wheel was wrapped around Kaitlyn's hair. Zachary was going to cut Kaitlyn's hair. If he would have I am sure there would have been hell to pay with Sally. First of all it was a huge chunk of hair and secondly all Kaitlyn is going to be a flower girl next Sunday and Sally wanted to keep her hair long for that. Sally and I tried to get her hair out but it was in there tight and she was getting upset. We finally got it to where there was only a few strands left. I wanted to cut but Sally insisted we do not cut her hair. So I had to find my set of screw drivers and take a part the toy. We finally got her hair out.

This isn't the first time a toy has gotten stuck in my child's hair and I had to come to the rescue. When Zachary was little he loved Thomas the train and friends. He collected all the battery powered trains. One day while I was busy at work, Sally called me and told me there is an emergency and that I needed to come home. Luckily, I work only 15 minutes away. So I sped all the way home. I open the house door and there is Sally on the couch with Zachary on her lap. She was laughing and he was crying. Then I looked again and one of his trains some how got tangled up in his hair. This time it was right up to the scalp so there was no way the hair could be cut. Me being the hero that I am, was able to loosen it enough so I was able to cut his hair and free him of Percy.

Also, this isn't the first time Zachary took hair cutting in his own hands. When he was 4, Sally was laying in bed napping. She woke up to Zachary cutting off a chunk of her hair. Surprisingly, Sally thought it was funny and didn't go after him with the frying pan. She gets mad at me when I touch her hair because she says I am messing it up.

Tonight Michael had to go to an award ceremony. I stayed home with the 2 little ones. Plus I am really tired and Sally will be going with him. Michael received an award for donating 6 pints of blood. They said he saved 18 lives from his donation. He will have to wear a red rope during his graduation. Please keep Michael in your prayers. Tomorrow, at 11 am he has an important meeting. As respect to Michael I will not go into details (no he has not in trouble with the law). I will say that if the meeting doesn't go his way he will be very upset and disappointed.

Both the Cubs and Sox lost today. Well I am unbelievable tired today. I even took a nap and I have no energy. Sally has helped me with some of this post because I am to tired to type. Good night and God bless.

Must give me cake

Today I woke up around 9 and I feel pretty good. Just a little tired but, otherwise feeling better. Sally and I have some things we are doing this afternoon and evening. The removal of my pump, Zachary's soccer game and later we have received tickets from my mom and Dad to see a play at the performing arts center. I started this post at 11am and Zach's soccer game is at 12pm I have a few things I want to do around the house then the pump removal is at 5:30pm. The play is for 8pm, So there is a lot I want and need to get done so that is why I am starting this early. Kaity does seem to feel better today but we aren't going to let her go out. Michael and I are going to take Zach to his game without Kaity and Sally. This will give her more time to fully feel better. Last night she slept really good, she needed that.

Yesterday, I was playing with Kaity and she kept saying what I thought was bear. I thought she wanted one of her build-a-bears that she had made. So I was trying to give her these bears but, she wanted no part of them. I could tell she was getting frustrated. I asked her what, what do you want. She then without hesitation stuck her finger in her diaper pulled out a surprise for me. Then she stuck her finger near my nose. That is when I realized it wasn't bear she wanted it was butt. So like the good Dad that I am, I changed her poopy diaper.

The second part of my weight gain. I am a chocoholic and cake addict. Combine the 2 and there is trouble. When Sally and I first married she was working at Dominicks. There was a midnight position that opened and she took it. Michael was able to sleep at his grandma's when we were both working. We thought it would be best with my crazy work hours there wasn't a set shift she could work without having a sitter. Michael was with sitters since he was 1 and it was difficult to find care that met her standards. Right before she took the midnight position there was an incident which I might save for another blog. Of course it will again be on Michael's expense. Which lead to our decision to raise our kids on one income. , so far have not had a job that required a set shift so Sally could work around my hours. Anyways, enough with my ramblings and back to the chocolate and cake. Sally would often had something made for me to eat when I got home from work. One night she made a chocolate cake with home make chocolate frosting before she left for work. I came home to my surprise to find a chocolate cake waiting for me. I was like "Hell Yeah!". So I took the pan of cake and sat in the living room watching TV. Enjoying the peace and quiet of an empty house and cake, what more can I ask for. One slice turned out to be another and another. What can I say I was a hungry and growing man( just in the wrong direction). So yeah, I ate more than I should have but I did save some for Michael and Sally so I didn't see the problem. The next day when I woke up, Sally wasn't to happy with me. She started in with me about the cake. Saying she was pressed for time and still managed to find time to bake me a cake. She told me I was rude and selfish. I didn't see the problem, I left them cake. Ok, so I ate the center of the cake and left the burned edges for them. They still had cake to eat if they wanted to. Sally didn't make any more cake for me after that when she was on midnights.

Here is another cake story. When I worked at the dairy my brother in law, Tom (Sally's sister Stacies's husband) worked there with me too. We were on the same crew. One night while we were working hard they had taken their mom out for her birthday. Not only they took her out to one of my most favorite places for spaghetti but they went back to their mom's house for cake. So I was on the phone with Sally and joking around I told her to bring me a piece of cake to work. Sure I really wanted cake but there was no way I would let her drive to my work. I worked in the West part of Chicago( The stuffest part-Usually the highlight of the 10'oclock news). I saw things that I would be glad to never have to talk about it. Somethings left this big manly man shaking his head . About an hour after I hung up the phone with her I heard a paige from security for me. Sally and Stacie were at the security gate. Stacie drove her green little pick up truck with Sally to give us cake. This was probably the first time in my life I wasn't happy to see cake. I was really upset with them. The two goofs thought it was funny. In fact they informed me and Tom that while they were driving in the West side they decided to move their upper torsals around in a circular fashion so this way it would be harder for them to be hit by a bullet. Knowing that did not put my mind at ease. After they left I did eat the piece of cake but it didn't taste as good for some reason.

I will have more tomorrow take care and God Bless.

As her head starts to spin

I'm an going to start the blog with some stats of our Chicago Baseball teams so those of you not baseball fans please bear with me,
Cubs are 20-14 tied for 2nd 0.5 games out
Sox are 15-18 4th and 2.0 games out
Cubs -Soriano tied for 3rd in the Nat. league with 11 Homeruns
Sox- Quentin tied for 5th in the Am. league with 8 Homeruns
Cubs are 7th in both leagues with 57 Homeruns This is a surprising stat to me. I thought the Soxcatagory. I felt the Sox had more power than the Cubs.
Sox are 19th in both leagues with 33 Homeruns
Cubs have a team batting ave. of 2.55 22nd
Sox have a team batting ave. of 2.51 26th Both teams need help here to be competitive.
Cubs have 161 RBI'S 15th
Sox have 132 RBI'S 26TH
Cubs ERA IS 4.48 15TH
Sox ERA is 4.66 19th Again both teams need to bring this down.
Cubs in strikeouts have 285 1st in the league
Sox in strikeouts have 223 21st in the league
My report card for the teams for what I really think they deserve: Cubs C+ There hitting really needs to improve along with there bullpen. They are ranked 4th in the power polls,I Don't feel they are living up to that as of yet. They have had a lot of injuries as of late. Lee, Zambrano and Ramirez.
The Sox I think they deserve a D+ They were not really expected to do much according to the sports writers. There isn't any pressure on them because of this. I do think they have the talent to do better ,but lets hope not. There power poll ranking is 20th

Today is a very rainy day so I really don't feel like myself. I went to the Dermatologist today and she agreed with my oncologist that they are stress related acne. She gave me two scribts and some samples of some sunscreen. This is the exact sunscreen that my sister Dawn gave me a while back. Along with the SBS-40 skin cream she also gave me. I will have to find out where to get that, I am almost out. My face peels a lot so I first put on the skin cream and wait a few minutes then put on the sunscreen. The skin cream is really good stuff.
Kaity woke up last night throwing up. I really felt bad cause she was throwing up a lot. We got her to go back to bed but, later she woke up again and she wanted Sally this time. That was just fine with me. Sally got her back in bed and she slept until 10am. I really didn't feel that great either. I was feeling crappy earlier in the evening. I was very tired and had a upset stomach myself. I do feel better now just still tired.I think that I am going to be taking it easy today. I think my body needs it. Next week it is suppose to be warm and I have a lot to do. I need to get the foundation leak that we have taken care of and also the kitchen ceiling needs to be Spackled and painted all this needs to be done A.S.A.P. I am actually looking forward to this.

This story I am going to tell and the one tomorrow will explain a little (a lot) why I have a weight problem. When I was about 8 or so I lived next to a girl named Vanessa B. and next to her was her best friend Mathew V. Vanessa had this kitchen set with a real bake oven. With this real bake oven she had real cake mix. One time when Mathew and I were there and Vanessa left the room we cracked open one of the mixes and went to town. She came back and didn't seem to care, so we all dug in. One box became two then 3 then 4 and so on. We just couldn't let her mom know what we were doing. We told Vanessa to ask her mom for some other flavors because all she had was yellow. Like the good mom she is she didn't disappoint. I few days after this incident Mathew and I had a cake mix smorgasbord. We took what we could fit down our shirts and pockets and headed outside behind her garage as not to be detected by other cake mix stealing Kids from the neighborhood. Mathew and I got in a argument with the last box of the powdery goodness. I had it and I wasn't going to give it up. When I was done I did let him have the few granules that were left. That made him happy and he wasn't mad at me anymore. Vanessa never really eat the cake mix like we did. That is probably why she is thin.

Thanks for visiting and God Bless you

I'm shrinking, I'm shrinking

Today most of you know that I was to get the result of the CT Scan. So far so good. I was told the everything is shrinking. My lympnodes and my liver with the small spot on it, everything is shrinking. They didn't get a measurement of how much shrinkage there was. At least it's going in the right direction. So that is definitely great news to hear but, I still have a little way to go. I am very happy and will start the cart wheel training. Tomorrow I have a dermatologist appointment because Sally notice when I got out of bed when she was checking me out( wink wink) that I had red spots all over my back and arms. My doctor believes it's just a form of acne. He isn't sure, so that is why he set this up. I finally got my appointment with the liver specialist next Thursday the 21ST at 2:30 at U.I.C. I will be praying very hard that he will not feel the need to do surgery to remove the spot. I will take that news as a step back. I am hoping since the spot was small to begin with and it shrunk more he won't want to do surgery. I still have to see the thyroid specialist on the 28th

Today in the mail I got some blessed St. Peregrine Oil from the The Compassion Ministry. This is the Ministry of Father Rookey. When I called to have Father pray over me he told me he would send me the oil. St. Peregrine is the patron Saint of people with cancer. This is nice for them to do this. Like I mentioned on Tuesdays blog this is an added bonus to all the wonderful people(you) out there that are praying for me.

Pastor Brian -it is great to hear from you again. It's been a long time since I heard from you. I am glad you are back. I think I will take a visit to your church one day. I love to read your posting especially when we our beating up on Dan. Go cubs, They won 11-3 today.
Patty- I really look forward to your postings. I know that you don't know me personally,but you have really helped me with what I am going through, since you have been there done that. I have a couple of questions I would like to ask you if you don't mind.
Dan- Do you really need an introduction. Yes you probably do. I am really grateful for all the things you have done for me to help make my illness more bearable. You and your wife are truly amazing people and I wish only the best for you and your Daughters
Deb- I really look forward to reading your post . They are very uplifting and makes me feel better to have a fellow cubs fan being there for me. you are truly a special person. Joe is very lucky to have you. I hope Dan is able to help you with your cards and your writings.You have sent a few of your cards to me and they are very beautiful. The public needs to know.
My family( Sally's side and mine) and friends- All of you have done so much for me and my family. With the planning of the benefit or working it and getting the raffle prizes and ect. ect. ect. You all have gone far beyond expectations. You are giving me the love that I needed to help me with my illness and I will always be in deep gratitude to you. I wish I could make mention of everyone,but that would be a very long night for me and you do deserve the notoriety . I will say that I LOVE each one of you very deeply. I hope to thank you in a more personal way some day.

I want to tell a quick story about Kaity that happened yesterday. On our doors in the hallway we have the door knob things on them so Kaity can't get in the rooms. Now she will pull real hard on them to make them pull apart. So yesterday she got in the bathroom when she did this. She went in there to wash her hands, she was getting ready to eat dinner. Sally asked me check on her so she wouldn't burn herself with the hot water. I went to open the door and it was locked. "Oh know" I said,(I thought she must have done that accidentally) "Hey kaity open the door, this is Daddy( that really made her rush to the door). I didn't know what to do, she didn't seem to care. I wasn't sure how the door needed to be opened. I didn't know if it was a push in Like our bedroom door is or and push and turn like Michael's. The whole time thinking I have to look for my precision screw driver set. Before I was going to leave to save my poor defenseless little girl. Not knowing what trouble she could get into. I heard a sound from the door knob. The door slowly opened and she said " OK come in now ,done" and she walked out. I was speechless. You gotta love her.

God Bless you all and thatnks for the prayers. I truly believe it was the prayers that helped me today. Thank You

You are my son shine, Dedicated to Michael

Again ,Kaity woke up at about 2AM. I took her again in the living room and just cuddled with her on the couch. She calmed down immediately. Although I don't like her being upset, I really enjoy holding my little girl. It will be sad when she is a big girl and doesn't need to be held like that any more. Zachary once in a while will still want to be held and I enjoy that. Even Michael will lay on his mother on occasion. Getting back to Kaity I think I know why she may have gotten up. She is very particular how she is put to bed. Every time she goes to bed it's the same ritual. First of all, she gives everyone a kiss. Then she gives us her pillow. We have to make sure her pillow case is on perfectly. Then we have to place it in the same exact spot every time. She then lays in bed, but her head it resting against the wooden frame. So we have to pull her down by grabbing on to her ankles. We cannot use any other part of her body or we will hear her dissatisfaction. After all of that it is inventory check. Her pink heart, Build a Bear, bear must be on her right side, a baby doll on the left side. Her sippy cup she snuggles up with. Finally, she wants to be covered. The blanket can not be a real heavy one. Her face, arms and hands can not be covered up as well. After all of that 95% of the time she goes to sleep really good.

Zachary was the only one who really didn't have a ritual. When he was Kaity's age he didn't like to sleep in his bed. We would often have to lay down with him. Sometimes he would fall asleep on the couch if all the lights were off. Sometimes he would fall a sleep in front of the gate that would block off the kitchen from the living room when Sally would be in the kitchen on the computer. Most of the time he would end up in our bed. He started sleeping on his own right before Kaity was born. He sometimes sleeps in our bed when I work midnights. On occasion we wake up with Zachary sleeping at the foot at the bed without us knowing.

Michael had a ritual as well. His lasted probably until he was at least 10. Every night before he went to bed Sally would have to sing "You are my sunshine, my only sunshine...." song. If she wasn't home she would have to call him and sing it. No one else could sing it for him. Even when we went away for 3 nights for our honey moon, Sally had to sing it to him every night. Michael forbid Sally from singing it to Zachary when Zachary was born. Plus Michael would call her every morning when he woke up. We couldn't go very long or far because of it. Michael was and still is attached to Sally. He has admitted to being "A Mommy's boy". ( Nothing is wrong with that) He slept with her until we got married and often ended up in our bed. Sometimes on the weekend mornings he might climb in bed with us when the other 2 kids are in there.

Michael is somewhat of a weather bug. If the weather is fierce he has a hard time. Like the time I had my walk and was out in the tornado that hit Griffith. I was talking about my experience with Sally and Michael was getting mad and didn't want us to talk about it at all. Whenever there is a storm he goes in the hallway with a flash light. Last August with the tornado, he woke all of us in the middle of the night and told us he heard the sirens and to go into the hallway. Sally and I were to tired and laid in bed. Besides storms Michael is afraid of the dark. In December we lost power for a day. We took the kids out and came around 10 pm. The plan was for Kaity to sleep with us and Zachary was going to sleep with Michael. Zachary ended up in our bed and Michael wasn't happy. He didn't want to be by himself in the dark. I was expecting Michael to jump in our bed as well. Luckily, the power came back on and Sally and I were able to reclaim our bed. Sorry Michael but it's time the world must know or at least some of the people you know.

Today, was an uneventful day. I slept in again. Helped Sally with house work. Picked up Zachary from school and took him to the school book fair. Hopefully I can get to bed earlier. The last couple if chemo sessions I have been really tired. I hope if I get more sleep I won't be so tired. Tomorrow I am hoping to get the C scan results. Tomorrow's blog will probably be short since I will be getting home late. It takes me a long time to type out the blogs since I am only a 2 finger typer and I need to rethink the stories so they are as true to the best of mine and Sally's recollection. I am trying to spend more times with kids and less time with the blog when they are home and trying to fit in typing the blog when they are busy or not at home.

Some of you have been asking about the Running Girl book written by my good friend Dan. You might be able to find it at a book store in Cedar Lake called the Seed Sowers. It is not at the Christian book Store in Merriville, That store I was told wasn't very helpful in getting it in. Amazon sells it as well. They only have 2 in stock right now. Half.com has them also.

On another note. Sally just scanned this picture that I have been wanting to post. Since I am on my Michael kick, I thought this would be a good time to share. There is a story attached to the picture. A couple of months ago, Zachary told Sally he misses his older sister. Sally was confused and was trying to understand what Zach was talking about it. Sally said you have a younger sister, not and older sister. Zachary said no I have an older sister, remember the picture of her? He was talking about the picture of Michael. A few years ago Sally was in her creative moods. She didn't want Michael to feel left out by displaying all the cute picture of Zach. So she printed out this picture and made the color antiqued and placed it in a frame for all to see.

Until tomorrow God Bless you all and have a great rest of the week.

The big day

Last night Kaity didn't want to go to sleep. We finally got her down around 11PM. So at that time I started my daily Prayers and after that Sally and I played a little wii. Kaity woke up about 2:30 and she wanted her Daddy, so I was up with her for a while consoling her. I finally got her to sleep but, than I was restless most of the night. I did wake up at 8am so Sally could take Zach to school and I would keep an eye on Kaity. When Sally got home I went back to sleep and I slept until 1pm. I got my act together so I could pick up Zach from school. I also called Father Rookey again. I felt like calling him is an added bonus. With all the support and prayers I have been already receiving, I thank all of you for that. After I picked up Zachary from school I took him home and went for the CT scan. I also had my blood work done for Thursday's chemo treatment. As I was traveling to my appointment the song from Gloria Gaynor "I Will Survive" came on. I was like ooooooooohhhhh yeahhhh. I thought that was the perfect song for the situation at hand. Than the song by Steam called Ballroom Blitz came on. It was like no way, it must be my lucky day. There really isn't any reason why I mentioned that song except that it ROCKS! It was sad before I was to get my blood work done because there was a young boy about 4 years old getting blood drawn. Needless to say he didn't take it to well. They had to call in reinforcements so they could do what they had to do. I was at the Wellness Center for a while because of this. When I finally got my blood work done I then had to go and drink the barrien and than sit around for about 45 mins or so. I hope to get the results on Thursday when I go in for Chemo.

Talking about the little boy having the blood work done. The same thing happened to Zachary when he was about 5 and Sally was pregnant with Kaitlyn. The Doctor wanted to check for lead poisoning. It was a routine check that he went in for and this was his bonus. He knew before he went in what was in store for him. When he was called in he made a b-line toward the exit. Since I was speedy Bill I was able to catch him before he got to the border. When we finally got him back in there , reinforcements were called in plus he had to sit on my lap and I had to hold his arm down. I never heard such crying before and I almost wanted to say lets go. As a father this really breaks your heart. When we finally got it done none of us had dry eyes when we came out.
Another time when Zach was an infant and getting his baby shots. We took him in and he was always smiling, not having a care in the world. There he was smiling at the nurse and at his Mommy and Daddy. Hey you can't smile ,( the bad voice said) and since you are smiling they are going to stick you with a needle now. He started balling and that will break your heart too. I wanted the nurse to poke me since I felt like I deserved it after what I did to my little boy. Better yet just cut my arm off or pound a nail into it.

I am going to go to spend time with Sally God Bless you all and thank you for everything. By the way I don't know if any of you notice my new survey about the book Running Girl by my friend Dan. I read it and it is a book you want to consider reading. It's a book for all ages and it is Christian book.

CLEAN CLEAN CLEAN

This is all the garbage I got out of the car.

Today I slept in until about 9:30. I was really tire because I was up until 2 am the night before getting things ready for Mothers day and saying my prayers before I go to bed. I still feel a little tired. I just don't want to sleep my day away. After eating breakfast I took the car for an oil change. Sally and I are going to pick up Zachary from school and we have a meeting with his teacher about his academics and his placement for next year. He is having a hard time with some of his subjects. His best subject is Math. Usually gets all A's and B's in Math. I think he has a hard time with reading and that is what a lot of his problem is. When he brings home his homework and I go through it with him, he will understand it and do it right. At school they are responsible for reading there own instructions on how to do there work. That is why I think that is the issue. He also has a hard time with his speech and he sees a pathologist twice a week. We are trying to help him with his reading and did try to get help with his speech but, our insurance won't cover him unless we get a referral. We asked for a referral but they say he isn't severe enough. We have been fighting about this for about two years now. The help he gets at school just isn't enough.

We just got back from school. Zachary is border line from being retained and being passed. He might be OK next year if he receives extra help. Which we were told he might but there isn't any guarantees. If he does bad next year he would be held back in second grade. Last year we were told the same thing. It's hard to see him struggle and it's heartbreaking to hold him back. The teacher told us she would support the decision we make. Sally and I chose to have him retained. Zachary doesn't seem to mind. The major issue is his speech according to his teacher. Sally requested to have him tested for learning disabilities as well. We were told it will be a year process but as long as it's done, that's the most important thing. The teacher told us that Zachary has no problem reading or comprehending.

Zachary is funny. He complains about being a boy and wants to be a girl. He said it's not fair because girls always go first in the line and the boys always have to go last. He also doesn't think it's fair that girls have purses and boys do not. Wait until he get older when he realizes he has to pay for dates and all the other rules (like females are never wrong).

I am going to wash and clean Sally's car. The car always seems to get cluttered. The kids have a tendency not to take their garbage and stuff out with them. It's embarrassing when I get out of the car and a wrapper of some sort is stuck to my shoes. Or when we open the door and something flies out. Reminds me of the time when I was with my brother in law Tom picking up a basketball hoop that Sally had won. We already had one so we didn't need another one. It was sponsored by Pepsi. The backboard had a Mountain Dew logal on it. When we were going to put the basketball hoop in his truck, He opened the back end of his Yukon and out pours a water fall of Mountain dew cans. That is when I new that the backboard was going to be in the right hands. Now back to the story of the Clean Impala. Actually, the car is our car since my car hasn't been running since August. I like driving her car better. My car is a 94 Pontiac Grand Am. It has over 200,00 miles. The air doesn't work any more and what is even worst there is no radio. My car was broken into a few years ago and someone stoled my stereo which I had gotten for Father's Day one year. I do not enjoy driving without music.

Tomorrow at 4 pm is the day for the C Scan. In one way I am anxious for it be done. It would be great and a relief to know the cancer is going away. On the other hand, I am scared. To find out it has spread will be devastating. I am putting everything in God's hand but it's still hard not to worry. The waiting for the results will be the hardest part. Hopefully, we will know something on Thursday. I am asking for lots of prayers for a good out come. I am going to call Father Rookie again for his help too. So please everyone prayer for a great result. Thank You for the prayers and support.

Cubs are Idle, the Sox are losing 2-0 in the bottom of the 4th and the Hawks play at 8pm.

Mothers' day

Today I wanted to make sure Sally would have a nice day. This morning I went and got flowers for her and bagels for breakfast. Zachary wanted to have sausage links the way his brother Michael made a few months ago. He said they are the best sausage links he ever tasted. What makes these veggie links such a delicacy is, well let me tell you. It's the special way Michael makes them. He puts them in the microwave for about 10 minutes. This way they are nice and hard and crispy. Michael should think about putting together a cook book don't you think. I told Zachary maybe some other day. I don't think my stomach could handle the taste of such a dish. After we ate we went to church and then went to visit Sally's mom. Then we went and visited my mom. My sister Dawn and her closet Cubs fan husband Dave came over as well. it was nice seeing them. I don't get to see them much, cause they live out in Plainfield. It was a very nice visit. We then went home and took it easy for awhile. I had to take Michael to the Central Library so he can get a book for his Criminology class. After he got his books we went home and got ready to out for dinner. We were going to go to Gino's East. Sally wanted to get the stuffed pizza. The waitress said it would take 1 and a half hours. We said good bye and went to Edwardo's instead. It took Edwardo's 45 mins which is the normal time for stuff pizza. After we ate that fine meal we ended the evening with Frozen Yogurt Express.That is what our mother's day was like.She got a lot of nice gifts too.(Bath and Body from Michael,Pancake Puffs Maker from Zachary, perfume from Kaitlyn and I got her a Babies Neck Charm Ring that she puts on her neckless with my birth stone on it. She has all the kids and herself but, insisted on having one with my stone.)

When I was little and I would go out with my Mom and brothers and sisters to a restaurant my mom use to get made at me a lot. I would always order spozzzghetti. That was my favorite meal and still is. She would say that we are waiting a long time for our food because of the noodles for my spaghetti. She said that it takes a long time cause of them boiling my noodles. So thanks to me that is why we would always have bad service when we went out for dinner.
My mom got yelled at one time at My sister Lisa's wedding. When she is celebrating she like to have fun ,just like any one else. So at the wedding she was feeling so good that she actually stood on the table and started to dance. I was like "Oh no here we go,There going to kick us out"Here is my mom who is in her 60's dancing on this table. not caring in the least who is watching her. So after she picked up all the dollar bills and stuck them under her dress the bouncers came over and told her in a firm voice to get off the table. To this day I'm not sure if they were afraid she might break the table or the action she was getting, and that would be revenue lost for the banquet hall.

I hope everyone had a great Mothers Day. Thank you for visiting my blog and hope you continue to visit. Take care and God Bless

Grand day

Today Zach had his soccerama for his soccer league. This is when his team goes through all these different soccer drills. His team goes through all these drills and they keep score of all the players and from all the other teams in his league. They tally up the total for the each player and then add it together for the team. His team didn't win but, his coach said that he did a great job. Did a better job then some of the players that were expected to do better. That was a lot of fun watching that.

Zach and I went to a grand opening of a store called Add with Water. They sell boats and skis and other water related items hence the name. Zach heard this commercial on the radio and asked if we could go. I said that we can cause I like to go to things like this. There is always giveaways and freebies. If it's free I'll take it. You can give me a rock and I'll be happy. We got a free hot dog and chips with pop. We also got a bunch of floatable keys chains and a real nice flash light that is water proof and Zachary got some candy. I have no intention of buying a boat I just wanted the free stuff.

When Zach and I were going home he was talking about his Star Wars toys. Than for no apparent reason he asked me if Mississippi is real.I said what do you mean. Is Miss Issippi is a real person. After I got the car out of the ditch , I said that Mississippi was a river ,a state and a street but, believe there is no person named Miss issippi. I thought that was cute and wanted to share.

I am going to end this now cause I will be going to Michael's girl friends house. I was told that she ripped her bumper off her car along with the sensor to her garage. So I will be going there to look at the damage. god Bless you all and have a safe and very happy Mothers Day.

WHAT A DAY

Sally was chasing Kaitlyn around the house trying to get her picture.We don't live in a very big house but, Kaity was still able to out maneuver Sally.

We got Kaitlyn's 2 year old pictures done today. She did a very good job of smiling. In the past , we always had a hard time with her getting her pictures. She wouldn't cooperate or she would be in a foul mood and cry. The pictures were done very quickly because she done so well. It was just hard choosing which ones we wanted. When she doesn't do as well it's easier picking them out cause there are only a few good ones to choose from. This time they were all good. After we got our pictures we went back to my mother in laws and finished cutting her grass. We got Zachary from his Grandma cause it was grandparents day at his school. We then went to Michigan City to get them some sandals and some other things they needed. When we were going to Michigan City we got stuck in some major traffic. Both sides of the 94 were at a stand still. We knew that there must have been an accident. We weren't moving at all for about15-20 mins. The west bound side there was no cars going by at all so I knew what happened must have been bad. Finally we started to move and I noticed all the lights and there was a helicopter from some Illinois hospitals sitting on the expressway. As we got closer we saw what looked like about 3-4 people laying on the road,but I didn't notice any cars that looked like they were wrecked. Zachary asked Sally if we "could say a prayer for the people".Sally said absolutely so we said a few prayers for them. Then Zachary started to cry and we asked him what was wrong. He said he was thinking about if his mommy or his daddy would die. It almost made me cry. Zach doesn't express his feelings that often. We told him if he ever had to talk about anything that he could talk to his mom and dad, and we would listen to what he had to say.

I have a story about my mother in law. This little dandy happened the day before I got married to my wife Sally. It was June 12TH 1998 Friday. It was somewhat of a hectic day. My mother in laws( Mary) car was being worked on. So I let her use my car for what she needed it for. I am not sure were she was at but, she couldn't figure out how to get out of my car. Like I said I don't know were she was but she was being held hostage by my 1994 Pontiac Grand Am. She was sitting in the car not knowing what to do. Then finally a total stranger came walking by the car and she got there attention. She asked the stranger if they could help her to be freed by my criminally insane car. She rolled down the window and gave the keys to the person who then unlocked the car from the outside,freed at last. Mary is a wonderful person and would do anything for anyone. Every time I think about this story it it brings a smile to my face. I have a few stories about my mom to that I will tell one day. My mom and my mother in law Mary have done allot together in the past. They were like Thelma and Louise back in the day.

Thank you to everyone for all the prayers and support.

Update on the I-94 traffic jam. There was an 11 year old runaway that jumped from his legal guardian Grandmothers car. He was not hit by any cars but, was air lifted to Chicago hospital. The Grandmother noticed what he was doing and did slow the car down to about 45mph at the time he leaped. I guess the Grandmother picked him up in Michigan City and was taking him home. So I don't know what I was looking at I know I saw about 3 people laying on the ground.