Hello Friends! Happy Monday. Here’s to a beautiful week ahead of us.

Work is going awesome! The one hour and twenty minute, one way, drive totally sucks, but cruise control and sirius are my new best friends…but, the alarm needs to learn that 4am is much too early to wake me up.

23 years ago today, February 22nd, was the due date of my first child. Shortly after midnight on February 23rd, a beautiful and healthy little girl was placed on my chest, and 23 years later she continues to take my breathe away. Can’t imagine my life without her, and so very thankful to be her momma! I love you Toni.

Time to cuddle with my electric blankie. Until next time.

xo-Jenny

20 years ago today as scheduled I arrived at the hospital at 7am to be induced as I was 2+ weeks overdue with my second child. Labor and delivery was not pleasant for me or my son as he was breech and his heartbeat kept dropping. At 5:40pm we welcomed our first son…and 20 years later it still seems like it was just yesterday that he entered my life and stole my heart.

If I have a monument in this world, it is my son. - Maya Angelou

Happy 20th Birthday Reggie. I love you more than life.

Dogs are our link to paradise. They don’t know evil or jealousy or discontent. To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing was not boring–it was peace.” – Milan Kundera

“No matter how little money and how few possesions you own, having a dog makes you rich.” – Louis Sabin

 “My little dog—a heartbeat at my feet.” – Edith Wharton

“Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole.” – Roger Caras

Well, we are home. We left North Carolina yesterday morning at 8:30am, stopped for fuel, to eat, potty breaks and coffee refills and pulled into my driveway at 6:30am this morning. 22 hours of driving!! Seriously not sure how truck drivers do it, and can’t say I would want to do the round trip again anytime soon…and needless to say, we encountered a lot of rush-hour traffic. Unfortunately I missed a lot of great photo op’s due to the night driving.

My beautiful daughter, Toni and I, and of course, my favorite guy, Oliver..

The lens on my Canon DRebel is the basic that comes with the camera so I am unable to get the good closeups that I would prefer/want. My daughters apartment is on the third floor and looking out her back deck the trees were full of beautiful birds including red cardinals.

A few minutes from my daughters apartment is the police department, and I had to laugh to see “Slick & Red’s Saloon” directly next door!

I thought this billboard was funny, because I’ve said it, a time or two…

Well folks, there’s a bit of a peek. My body is telling me to call it a night and get some much needed sleep. Until tomorrow..

xO-Jenny

 My daughter and I.

I am blessed, and thankful to be her momma.

xO-Jenny

Life has been busy for my family and I the past few weeks and as a number of you have noticed my blog entries have been empty.

A few behind the scenes happenings:

• Since passing that dreadful NCLEX, and finding out I had officially became a Registered Nurse, I put most of my energy into organizing my entire house, and ’simplifying’ my life. My house looked like a tornado had gone thru it, and I lost count of the number of trips to the Salvation Army to donate bags and bags full of ‘excess stuff’.
• Our oil furnace decided it’s life expectancy was over so a new furnace took its place, which took an entire day to be installed.
• Doctors appointments, errands, and visiting with friends and family.
• And of course, a couple of lazy days.

We celebrated Thanksgiving quietly with no stress and complete laziness, and the next morning headed out to Wilmington, North Carolina to spend time with my daughter, Toni.

This water fountain is in the middle of the street in town and has a plaque that reads: Anti- Germ Individual Cup Fountain.

With another plaque that reads: The School Children of Wilmington, Through the Generosity of Miss Annie M. Dore, Arlington, Mass. Present This Fountain To The City. MCMXV. (1915)

Loving all of the palm trees!! and just absolutely loving this city!! Not to mention the 70 degree weather!

We’ve been exploring and having a wonderful time, and I’m just not looking forward to returning to Maine.

 And of course like everywhere, you run into a few shady characters!!

Well friends, that’s a quick peek into my world for the moment. I’ll be back tomorrow with more photos, and will try to get back on track with my daily blog postings.

xO-Jenny