Mom has a new hip. She is still groggy, and has not eaten anything yet, but she has a new hip!! The nurse said she will be up and walking tomorrow. Can you even imagine? I am so thankful that she is okay and looking forward to her living her life w/o the pain she has had.

Jeers to the doctor's office that left her a terrible message on Friday afternoon just before they closed. They said that they "found a shadow on her lungs" and she had to have it tested before the surgery. She had her MRI on Monday and everything is fine. But the entire weekend and all day Monday my mom thought she had lung cancer. That is how her mother died.

entire swim class!

Jenny had this great photo of the whole class!

I got my WARN letter today. The Fedex man so joyously rang my doorbell, and handed it to me. I suppose he was smiling just because he was a nice guy, and he had no idea what he was handing me. This is a letter that tells me AA is laying off 7.5 percent of the f/as and that my seniorily number is included. This is the second such letter I have received in my career with AA. The first time, I escaped the layoff by 5 people, and was transferred to St. Louis. That was fine, as I was single, and flexible. That was in 2003. It is amazing that 6 years later, things are still so terrible. I have been stressing over this for a few days now, and am really starting to worry. I would love to be a stay at home mom, but on my own terms!!! According to the letter, if my job is safe, I will get another letter before October1. If I do not get another letter before October 1, then I am furloughed. I think I might have to up my dosage of antidepressants to deal with this stress of not knowing for the next 3 months.... (I am only half way joking here)...

I just have to remind myself that it will work out. It will, life usually has a way of working out just exactly the way it is supposed to... except when it doesn't.... (oops the pessimist snuck out)...

Let's just say I do have to find a new job. What in God's name will I do? What am I qualified for? And DO NOT say waiting tables!!!! I have no experience in anything besides nursing, consoling, hurrying, challenging, policing, people onboard an airplane. I just do not know what I am qualified to do. And the other thing... I do not WANT to do anything else. I like my job.

I am going to try not to cry, try not to stress, and try to just think of the optimistic possibilities ahead if I do indeed become another member of our unemployeed society come October 1~

Swim Lessons

This week we had baby swim lessons! Thank you Mr. and Mrs. Owings for letting us use your beautiful, warm pool for our lessons. At first, I thought I might have a Michael Phelpsesqe swimmer on my hands... WRONG. Gates likes to swim for about 5 minutes. She went under water really well, and even enjoyed jumping off of the side, but she was wanting to get out and play on these little chairs the rest of the time! She was screeching and then Jacob would let out a screech (only his are joyous) Then Keelan would screech (also joyous)... It got kinda loud, reminded me of that movie Splash, when the mermaid made the TVs break...

Jacob, Hudson, Amy, and Darius.
Warming up!

Keelan jumping off the side.

And alas, this is much more relaxing and where she wanted to be!

We went down to McAllen to watch Brandon's brother graduate high school. Here is a cute picture of DeeDee and Gates. Loving the airplane.

Grandear and BoPop and Gates

I wish I did not cut off her head here, but this is her first popsicle and I think she liked it!!!

Too cool for school.

Both of our girls like the pool. Sorry about the extremely white legs in the photo. They're Brandons.

Swimming Fun with Hudson!

Hudson is having so much fun in there, Gates decided to join him!

The pill bottle was a hit.

Tonight we went out to eat dinner. Here is the group; Susan, Becca, Laura, Brandon, Mallie and Gates! We were sitting there in Chili's at 5:00 having a nice conversation and enjoying family fellowship. Gates is known to let out a scream every now and then, and they are usually joyous screams. Tonight, the couple next to us moved seats! I have never had this happen, and I am sure it will not be the last time, but PLEASE.... If you want a nice, peaceful dinner are you going to chilis?? at 5:00??


Karma is a monster, when we were leaving, Becca and I saw a mom and dad and baby settling in next to the movers...