This week has been chalked full of events both anticipated and unexpected!  I am up early this morning sending off my wonderful husband to Las Vegas for a much deserved getaway with his cousins!  I am lovingly nicknaming this weekend Keith's Make-a-Wish trip!!  His cousins have really come through to making this weekend one Keith will not soon forget!  He is having an all expenses paid Big Kid vacation! I am so thankful he will get to have a time in which he does not have a care in the world!  He has held this house and family together over these past 11 months and I am so grateful for his families help to give him some time away!

The girls will keep me on my toes this weekend while Keith is gone BUT we are going to make it a fun girls weekend together!  We will spend some much needed time with my parents as we finish going through Grandma's final belongings.  I miss Grandma so much but as some of you know she has not been the grandma I knew for quite some time!  In her prime she was a feisty old lady who was best at telling everyone else what to do.... in these past few years that person has been disappearing and a frail woman who slowly lost the ability to remember appeared.  In the end, my mom gave me the best gift when at her last visit with grandma days before she went to heaven mom put the phone up to Grandma's ear and I was able to tell her I loved her.  Mom tells me her eyes responded to me which is comforting!  I know that on Monday we added another angel to heaven and Grandma can be at peace and in control again of her movements and actions!

I am physically recovering from an awful MUGA scan that took place on Monday morning.  In the past you may remember that I dread this test... it creeps me out the way they take blood out and then put it back in with radioactive markers mixed with it.  I also hate it for the fact that it is another time my veins are asked to work with an IV.  I went on Monday and should have walked out when I found out it was a different radiologist but I stuck it out.... and then I was stuck four times before they managed to get the IV in.  The radiologist had to get an ER nurse to get the final one that worked.  In the meantime I was so upset by this and not to mention I knew that Grandma had passed by now so I began to cry.  The tears just kept on flowing and would not stop.  If that nurse had not been so kind and was not able to get it I would have walked out without the test being completed!!  BUT we managed to get the meds in me and complete the test.  I am interested to see the results!!!  In the future I am asking for another option to have my heart checked!!!

It is allergy season for me and so I am having some reactions to the leaves falling and the changes in the weather but other than that I am feeling well.  It will be nice to get back to some normalcy!

Life really does keep going on!!