She's Fast, She's Sleek, and Crimson Red....

No, she's not a car, she's my brand new, pretty laptop! (You're probably asking yourselves, "Can a laptop really be pretty?", to which I reply an enthusiastic, "YES!") I LOVE it! I LOVE my husband for buying it for me! I LOVE Monday! (Okay, maybe not Monday so much)..but I'm just feeling so happy today!!!

My husband tried hard to fix our computer, but in the end it just didn't help. The last conversation he had with the tech people on Friday is what broke the proverbial "camel's back". They told him he needed to replace the motherboard, which is essentially the heart and soul of the computer, and costly, and with the price of personal computers coming down it just seemed stupid to do that. *Not to mention all the comments that all of you have been leaving, my husband got the hint! :)

At any rate, we're back up and running and I absolutely love the fact that I'm mobile now! Heck, I can type my blog while lying on my tushy eating bon-bons if I want to, how cool is THAT? Okay, enough about the computer,...I promise no more talk about it for a long, long time. (Is that a big sigh of relief I hear from the peanut gallery?) ;)

Hey! Guess what? I wasn't able to brag about this last week, but I feel I must mention it because it is momentous in our lives,....my "baby" got his first driver's license! I took Andrew last Tuesday for his driving test and he passed with flying colors, thank goodness! Since then he has been driving, driving, driving all over the place, even to pick up his brother at his friend's house, which in itself is a miracle! Ken and I figure we'll send him on a few errands until the novelty wears off, right now he's just excited to drive anywhere by himself. It is kind of scary, but we do trust him and we have to let him grow up, even though it makes our hearts ache a teeny bit. It's weird how certain events in your life are imprinted on your brain, I can remember vividly my own dad taking me for my test and how great it felt to know that he was proud of me. I hope Andrew felt the same way, and I'm so glad that I got to share that moment with him.

Thank you all, by the way, for the nice comments and concern about our friend's mom. I truly appreciate it. She is not doing very well, I'm afraid. In the past week she has declined considerably, and it's just so difficult to watch them go through this. All we can do is offer our support and love, unfortunately, there is nothing one can do to make it better, you know? She is a truly beautiful woman, the kind that is a mom to everyone she meets. If you told her you had a hang nail she'd say, "Oh, honey! That's just terrible, you poor, poor thing. Have a cookie, I just baked them this morning." We love her, too, as I think anyone who knows her does, she's just that kind of a lady. One time our friends had a birthday party, and my husband did a little too much celebrating, if you know what I mean? Fay (that's her name) had baked a huge tin of cookies that she always brings to all the family gatherings, and my husband ate practically the entire thing himself. He kept coming up to her and hugging her and saying (very slurred) "Fay, you make the best cookies in the world, you know that?". She thought it was so funny, a few days later she brought over a big tin of cookies that she said were just for Ken, her biggest cookie fan. He was embarrassed about the party, but couldn't get over the fact that she had done that for him. They've been smitten with each other ever since!

Well,..folks, I'm off to the grocery store this morning. I sometimes feel kind of freakish when I shop alone, people ask me if I have ten kids at home and are shocked to learn that I only have two. Neither of my kids are fat, but I guess my overflowing grocery cart leads people to believe they must be morbidly obese or have a food fetish or something. Teenage boys can put away an incredible amount of food! I go through five gallons of milk a week, several boxes of cereal, two loaves of bread, they eat me out of house and home. (not to mention all their buddies who stop by for a snack) Oh, well,...let the freak show begin! :) Have a great day everyone!