Happy Halloween ! !

just a little trick or treat surprise for my granddaughters . . . little Hershey guys . . . with the cutest dangly legs . . . so so cute . . . we got these months ago when we went to Hershey, PA . . .

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the 2nd photo is one of the Halloween placemats I made for each of them . . . luckily I finished these before Mom went into the hospital or I'm afraid they would have been for next year !!

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my grandsons are getting a different surprise . . . but can't post it here . . . just in case they are watching . . . LOL . . . haha sorry guys !!

A Little Update . . .

thank you for all your prayers . . . I think they are working !!

she seems to be getting somewhat better . . . most days . . . the doctor says it will be up and down for another week or so . . . but we're hopeful she will get steadily better . . .

last night she was in a lot of abdominal pain . . . but the nurses said that means the bowel is beginning to work . . . which is good news . . .

they said she needs to walk and eat . . . both of which she is fighting them on !! . . . but the nurses said that even the fact that she has a fighting spirit right now is a good thing . . .

thank you all again . . .

PRAYERS !!

if you were praying before . . . please pray some more . . .

things took a bad turn on Wednesday for Mom . . . she began to have kidney failure . . . and they had to go back in and put tubes into her kidneys . . .

yesterday was a really bad day . . . they could not get her heart rate and blood pressure under control . . . and she was having extreme fluid retention and difficulty breathing . . .

they tried some other meds . . . and things began to improve last night . . . today they are saying she is somewhat better . . . but the next few days will be critical . . . if she continues to improve we will be headed in the right direction . . .

thanks for all your prayers . . . we really need them now !!

Thank You, ALL ! !

well yesterday was the big day . . . my Mom's surgery . . .

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the doctor said she came through it pretty well . . . tolerated the anesthesia good . . . and they had no problems with her heart . . . they did have to do some extensive work though . . .

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he says he expects her to make a full recovery . . . but she has a long road ahead of her . . . about a week in the hospital . . . then 2 to 3 weeks in a rehab center . . . and another 8 weeks of recuperation at home . . . after that he says she should be as good as ever . . .

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I feel so bad for her . . . she is 81 years old . . . and has had a lot of hard times in her life . . . along with 3 other major surgeries . . . it's just so sad that she has to go through all of this now . . . but she is a strong person and a real fighter . . . so she will do it . . .

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thank you all for your prayers and well wishes . . . I can't tell you how much I appreciate it . . . thank you again . . .

YEAH . . . a Kindle !!

I finally ordered a Kindle !! . . . YEAH . . . I'm so excited . . . I should have it in the next couple of days . . .

everyone I know that has one . . . lovesssssssssssss it . . . I sure hope I do too . . .

I do think I will really like it when I travel to California . . . no more carrying a pile of books to read . . . just download what I want onto my Kindle !!

now I'm in the process of going through all my books . . . I'm either going to have a big book sale . . . or just donate them . . . but I do know I finally don't want to be collecting books anymore . . . I am only going to keep my signed 1st editions . . . everything else MUST GO !!

I SURE DO HOPE I LIKE MY NEW KINDLE !!

Cultural Day at School . . .

at the end of the month my granddaughters will be celebrating "cultural day" at school . . . their mother is a descendant of the Fulani people of Nigeria . . . so we did some research on the Fulani clothing colors and designs . . . and I went shopping in my stash for fabric to make them each a little outfit to wear . . .

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at first I chose the fabric in the 3rd photo . . . but my son thought it looked more Indian than African . . . so then I went STORE shopping . . . and found the fabric that is in the 2nd photo . . . looks like we're going with that one . . .

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I'm going to make them each a little tunic with a wrap tie for around the waist . . . and possibly a kerchief to tie on their heads in the back . . . it depends if their parents decide to buy them the Fulani straw hats we found in the 1st photo . . . I'm voting for the hats !!

Shelfari . . .

you HAVE to check out http://www.shelfari.com/ . . . it's so cool . . . it's all about books . . . for readers . . . let's you create a bookshelf with books you've already read . . . want to read . . . or are reading . . .

look at the sidebar on my blog . . . at the bottom . . . it let me put a bookshelf of the books I want to read on here . . .

there are so many good books out right now . . . !!

be sure to click on the next button to see all my shelves . . .