I haven’t been blogging much the last few days so I could spend every moment I could with Allison before her trip. She even slept in our bed last night while her dad worked the late shift. Four hours ago Gerry and I took her and my parents to the airport. Passed out hugs and kisses and big smiles. Going to Europe is going to be such a great experience for her ! IF they get there!  I got a call about an hour ago from my step dad to let me know their flight to Chicago was delayed because of bad weather. That means they are going to miss their connecting flight to London. He is suppose to call me back as soon as he knows something. I feel so bad. I hate it that they are still sitting here in Detroit waiting for a new connecting flight. It can’t be easy with an eight year old. I hope they call soon with good news.

Update -
I heard back around 10:00 pm that they were rushed on to another connecting flight to Philadelphia and then to London. Putting them only ten minutes later of an arrival time then their original flight. Thank goodness!

Allison and my nephew took over the living room last night for a double feature family fun night. Two family movies, two kids, two sleeping bags, two pizzas, a couple dozen Webkinz and whole lot of fun. The kids seemed to really have a good time.
First we watched Enchanted. I LOVED it ! We all agreed it was a very good movie. Both the kids told me how much they liked it, more then once. I guess it is one I’ll be adding to our collection. Then we put in Water Horse. Being as old as I am, I saw maybe ten minutes of this movie and was out like a light. I woke a few times and both kids had their eyes glued to the movie. That tells me it must have been pretty good. I just asked over breakfast and both movies got two really big thumbs up from these two. I guess our double feature was a success.

Cold rainy afternoons make me lazy. I just watched three hours of One Tree Hill reruns with out getting up off the couch other then to refill my glass of Diet Coke. I feel like I have lead in my butt, I mean I could really take a nice nap about now. If only I had the time. Allison should be walking in the door from school in the next twenty minutes and then we are picking up my nephew for a night of movies, popcorn and Wii playing. Should be a fun night. I guess I better get ready and get my lead butt in gear.

Our shop has been so slow that we had to shut things down today. Which really sucks but on the flip side for me I was able to take Allison to her bus stop and then get all kinds of errands done for her trip. I went to the credit union, grocery shopping, the post office, AAA to pick up Allison’s travel Visa for her spending money, I even had time to stop and play with my granddaughter for an hour. Now I am back home, back in my pj bottoms and on the couch with my hound, my laptop and a bowl of Pasta Roni, watching old episodes of One Tree Hill and it’s only noon. Yay me ! 

This is so cool ! Check out this Channel Island web site that is streaming live video of a Bold Eagle’s nest. The baby was hatched yesterday. Allison and I just saw the little guy sitting with what we think is the mommy. It’s pretty fascinating to see. Boy the internet is an amazing thing. 

You can go to Miss Ann Thrope’s blog for all the details but the skinny is, a fellow mom blogger who is battling cancer needs our help. So a few really great blogging chicks have gotten together and set up a raffle with some pretty awesome prizes.
If you can’t afford to buy raffle tickets, at least post a link and help get the word out there. Every little effort helps !

The Newmans, still beautiful and still in love !

~ Wordless Wednesday ~

Today I am addicted to Entrecard. I had fun this morning making one for each of my sites. Now I am surfing other blogs and dropping them all over the place.  Fun!

Thanks Mama.