ALL MY BEST INTENTIONS

Went up in smoke today as I totally forgot, ( or I should say, attemped to forget) having to be at the hospital all day today for IV treatment. Robert wished me well for today when we were on the phone last night or I probably would have forgotten to go. Not a great time. They had to use my feet again since my arms and hands are shot. The medication just "burns" so much more when using my feet, don't really know why, as it is the same medication....I just got home and gave myself the weekly shot of methotrexate. so all in all I feel a little bit "punk" as Mom used to say.
What this means of course is I did NOT get my 2 boxes of craft supplies to the post office, nor did I pick up my medication from Safeway, along with about 10 other things I had on my "to do" list. I will do those 2 main things in the morning and that means the boxes will get to Holland about next Thursday. The medication thing is a bit tricky because I want a 30 day supply of everything to take with me so I don't have to switch my scripts to Walgreens while I am in town. I do think that I have accomplished that by the Doctor releasing some medication "early" due to me being out of town.
I have a 3rd dog here, just for last night and tonight. His name is Jock. He is walking on 3 legs due to surgery on a back foot. I have to change his bandage soon, but he also has a "thera-pod" boot on his foot to keep it all in place. He is by far one of the sweetest fosters I have had. His foster parents, who are good friends of mine and often take Sheba are out of town just 2 days. Cumber goes to his new foster home tomorrow at noon, Jock gets picked up at 3 tomorrow and Sheba stays with me until Doug and Val come to get me at 4;45am to get to the airport for a 6:15am flight. Sheba is staying with D/V for the first 2 weeks. They got the ashes of Scarlet in an urn yesterday so they are bringing "her" to the beach while I am gone and will have Sheba to hopefully make the spreading of her ashes at the beach less sad.
I am ABSOLUTELY bringing only one suitcase when I come. Number one, I do not want to pay 50.00 for a 2nd checked bag, number 2, I am taking the El from Ohare to Katie-Kat's place and I only want to mess with one suitcase on wheels. Number 3: I can do laundry whenever I want in Michigan....Number 4...you guys don't care if you see the same clothes more than once. Good logic huh?
I am so excited to come, 2 days in Chicago, seeing my nieces, going to the Renegrade craft fair, stopping at our favorite stores on Monday before driving back. Wednesday, all us gals are going to Colon to see our FAVORITE AND MOST BEAUTIFUL grand nieces in the world and of couse our precious Jen.
Then on Thursday Jean and I are going to Ann Arbor to get some more craft supplies and go to some cool shops we have found on the internet.
Saturday, Rachel and I are going to Port Huron to cheer on Kimberly at the Miss Michigan pageant!!!!
The craft days will happen more than one day....we have toooooo many cool things to make, we hope Brenda, Rachel and whoever else is interested to join us. We will be doing some crafts that are EASY, actually all of them are easy with the correct supplies, which we have....I am so excited to get started on our crafts and to open our stores on ETSY.
And then of course out BIG FAMILY REUNION for Dad's 90th up at the cottage from Oct 1-5....It is all tooooooo much fun, I am so looking forward to seeing everyone and staying away from hospitals and Doctors....
I will be in Chicago 2 days from now!!!!
I know my blogs pale in comparison to Brenda, Jean and Jen's site. They use all those neat pictures. I only have pictures of greyhounds and I know you have seen enough of those.
I am so glad that Brenda is back on line. She even updated her webshots page, way to go Brenda. Rachel does really well updating me via email and Jen is doing a great job keeping her blog up to date as possible given they have no computer at thier cottage....Jean and I stay VERY connected by phone and email...as she said at least 20 hours of phone time in the last 2 weeks....these crafts have us so excited.
Rachel tells me Chad is going to school at night so he does not even get home until 10pm, so excited about Dan's internship and assuming that Dave, Jeff and Ben are doing well.
This is the last blog you will get from me before I see you all in person!!!! I LOVE OUR FAMILY.

Crafts...Crafts.....Crafts.....

Well, Jean oudid her self with her new blog today, it gives you guys an idea of what type of materials we will be crafting with...what started out as making a item or two has expanded. In a nutshell we will be making pendant necklaces with scrabble tile, bamboo tiles and dominos....Jean is going to make a lot of paper product stuff and journals. I am making all of the above plus some mixed media stuff, pendants, stand up figures, things in bottles, things standing on blocks, wall hangings, gift items....
We have spend endless hours on the phone getting our materials ready, I have been ordering from EBAY, but mostly our favorite site, ETSY as Jean mentions....Come join us!!!! you will be inspired. All of you can do these projects!!!!
Loved the latest blog from Jenny, the pictures of the kids are "over the top", how sweet the pictures are of the girls together. I am glad the forst day of school went well. Poor Brenda...having problems with her internet connection. I can relate!!!
See you all soon