Surprise

I along with my mother-in-law pulled off a wonderful surprise on the family. My mother-in-law and I arranged for her to come for a visit. My mother-in-law lives in Phoenix and we live in Boise. No one in the family was aware she was coming. I love a good surprise and this was one of them. I called H.P. and invited him to join me for lunch on Thursday. H.P. as I expected accepted the invitation (who would want to turn down a lunch date with me not H.P.) I told him I was coming his way to do a few errands and would call him when I was done. I headed to the airport picked up my mother-in-law and called H.P. and arranged to meet for lunch. We arrived first and waited until H.P. parked and got out then we got out and I said hello and he turned and looked at me and looked again and was like hey that's my Mom - it was a great surprise and H.P. was excited to see his Mom and know she was staying for a few days. During lunch H.P. kept smiling and shaking his head. It still did not seem real to him. Now to the kids, Psymon walked in the door from school and saw his Oma sitting on the couch and being the cool 14 year old that he is casually says HI. That's it no other response. A few minutes later after getting some food (he is a growing teen you know) he does think to ask Oma how long she is staying. Now Joyful comes home about 15 minutes later walks in the door sees her Oma on the couch, drops her bags starts to scream and jump up and down and gives her Oma a big hug. Joyful's response is well Joyful - so fitting.

We are all having a great time with Mom, mother-in-law Oma. She will be staying with us until Monday. We have already packed in alot. Thursday night we attended Psymon's last band concert at the middle school. He moves onto high school in the fall. It was a great concert and Mission Impossible was my favorite number performed. Friday I and my mother-in-law did a little shopping. Made it to a few stores I had been wanting to visit and had the perfect excuse to now. We played cards in the afternoon, barbecued a nice dinner and had a fire in our fire pit last night. We made some yummy smores and were outside enjoying the fire till after 11:00 p.m.

We are off today to H.P.'s aunts 80Th birthday celebration. I'll fill you in on the details later. Have a great day, enjoy a cuppa and check back for more updates.

I Know I Am Feeling Better Because

1- Tea tastes good once again!

2- I am thinking of eating something for dinner tonight that is not chicken broth/soup or jello.

3- I am dressed, fixed my hair, put my contacts in and put on a smidgen of make-up.

4- I have spent the day cleaning my house - it looks so good! I don't know how it gets so dirty so quickly but it does.

5- I am blogging again and made a few changes to my blog page. Be sure to check out the Michael Buble videos I added. I think he is just awesome. I saw him in concert and I would pay and go again in a heart beat. Yes I am just a little over the top concerning Michael.

6- I am disappoint that with this illness and lack of eating the scale is telling me I have lost not a single pound. I think the scale is wrong.

7- I think I will venture out of the house tomorrow and do something fun. I am not sure what, but it will be nice to be out of the house for a bit.

Not Even A Cuppa Sounds Good

I have not been blogging and I am not sure when I will get back to it At least not for the next few days. I am fight something and I am not upto blogging. I went to the doctor yesterday and I am waiting for results on labs. Sure hope they hurry up and call me. Once they get the labs back they will know what medicine to give me. Then I will start to feel better.

Its really bad when even a cup of tea does not sound good or is unable to make me feel better!

I'm Tired

I really want to blog. I have had a great day, but I am just to tired. It's been a long day what with book club this morning and the debate year end banquet this evening. I have so much to write about and yet I just don't have the energy. Tomorrow I will blog about all of my fun activities today.

Meet The Family

I think its time you meet my family. Let me start by introducing you to my wonderful husband whom we shall call H.P. for short. We have been married for 19 wonderful years. Yes I think he is wonderful. However H.P. does have one flaw - he does not drink tea in any form hot or cold, black or flavored. To his credit he does make a wonderful cuppa when I need one.

My 16 year old daughter I will call joyful. That is a perfect description of who she is and her personality. She is just finishing up her 10th grade year, and can't wait to be a Junior and "upper classman" next year. Joyful loves speech and debate and just recently got her drivers license. She is a joy to be around and she loves a cuppa. We share numerous cups of tea each day.

My 14 year old son I will call Psymone, I don't know why he named himself that but it works for me. He is a great guy. Although he is currently going through a growth spurt and is now taller than me. Yikes - when will he stop growing! Psymone does not like hot tea but he will on occassion have a cup of iced tea. There is hope for Psymone!

My third child is our Beagle Molly. She is 11 years old and still full of energy and life. She has been with us since she was 8 weeks old. She is a sweet lovely dog.

Well, thats it for tonight just a quick intor to the family. You will hear more about them in the coming weeks. Off to fix a cup of tea with milk and sugar.

Sunday Morning

I am really having fun with this blog thing. I thought I should have renamed my first blog and called it my second blog. I have been published on a friends blog and I thought I would share that with you. Its what started this whole blog idea. The title of the blog is called you guessed it Confessions Of A Tea Snob. Here is the link - go check it out and let me know what you think.http://365steph.wordpress.com/2008/05/08/tea-snob/

My First Blog

Hello,

I have decided that I would like to try blogging. I wrote a guest blog over at a friends sight and enjoyed it. I have been reading other peoples blogs for a couple of months now and thought it would be fun to try and write my own. I am not very computer friendly. I think my teens know more that I do about the computer and the internet.

I am not sure how often I will post or what I will say but I think it will be fun.

Welcome and one thing I know for sure. We will do alot of talking about tea! My favorite drink.

A Tea Snob