JAZZED

I think the Jazz may infact have given up their last best chance to beat LA. It was however a great game and it was fun to watch. I think that is what sports are supposed to be about right????

Anyway I loved the game even though it was late starting. I don't usually go to bed at 11:30 so it was pretty late for me.

FUNNY THINGS

We are required (by DCFS) to have a gate at the top of our stairs so that the little one (age 2) doesn't fall down the stairs. Today we were sitting in the living room visiting when the little guy opened the gate and went down the stairs. We didn't realize what he was doing until he was started down the stairs. I didn't dare yell for him to stop because I thought he might panic and fall---so now we're trying to figure out how to keep the gate kid proof.

I AM NOT SMARTER THAN A TWO YEAR OLD---THE PROOF IS IN THE STAIR WELL.

SANCTUARY

We finally got our grand kids last night. Yup all 5 of them and brought them to our house for the weekend. It is way strange being responsible for that many kids again. They and we are having some bumps adjusting to who is what and where and how things have to be.

We borrowed our sons car so we could have all the kids and us in one vehicle. It was way dirty but we took it anyway and brought it home. I was outside washing the inside of the car (which I haven't washed the inside of a car in over 10 years) and my youngest daughter came out on her way to the gym and said---"oh so you sought sanctuary outside---I'm doing mine in the gym."

I told her I hoped her legs didn't fall off from all the exercize she'd be getting in the next few months.

No matter what this is better than the way it has been for the past three months---

Another Day Another Dollar---in the hole!!!!

I am really having a hard time right now trying to figure out what is really worth anything. We have spent the past three months fighting to get our grandkids---now we are going to get them but there are still many many rules from DCFS that we have to meet.

We have to take the kids two hours south every week for family visits and that is going to be tough because we have to take two vehicles in order to have enough seat belts to get them there. We don't know if we should buy a mini van right now because we may only have the kids until August when the may be able to go home to their parents. So we struggle along just like everyone on earth struggles along hoping that we at least make decent decisions on this.

We have made it through many other hard times with a lot less stress than we are going through this go round---IT REALLY SUCKS TO GET OLD!!!!!!

P 161 What I am reading

I was tagged to do this by Inklings---Double Play by Robert B. Parker---about the body guard for and the athlete Jackie Robinson in 1947 when he broke the color barrier into major league baseball.

"It was warm. The windows were down. Burke could smell the tar and steam heat smell of the city".

Now I tag *L*, *W*, Lightning Strikes and TG.

I WANNA BE LIKE YOU DAD

We had our girls home for the weekend and it was really nice. I believe they all came down this weekend because it is the last weekend before we have our grandkids living with us---for the weekend a couple of weeks then full time. It was a fun visit and things went well with all of that.

I got mad at W because she kept telling her son get me this get me that get me the other---I finally said to Inklings--"where did we go wrong raising her so that she was like that?" She piped up and said---"I got that from watching you Dad" guess things aren't always what they appear.

ORGANIZED????????

Here are a couple of pics of the storage cabinet we built in the garage Tuesday--I think it turned out great. We had just barely finished it when Inklings called DCFS to see what they wanted to do about inspecting it. They told her they would take her word that it was done.

Yesterday (Wednesday) Inklings went to court in a town a couple of hours south with our child and the judge said we could get the grand kids. So we get to bring them here for the May 9 and May 16 weekends and then we get them full time when school gets out on May 22 or 23 and I can't remember which day it is.

SO---at this time it appears that all of the crap (and it has been crap) we have had to put up with through this ordeal (and it has been an ordeal) is worth it--it will be more worth it when the kids are here.

As far as the storage cabinet for all the poison and gas and other stuff--guess I wish I had done it earlier without having to be pushed by DCFS---our garage is much safer today than it was Monday..........