Dallas Michael Wilson Rusty's Son

Well, on May 13, 2006 my son Rusty got to see his oldest son Dallas for the first time in 3 years and we got a pic of them together. He looks good considering all he has been thru. His last day of classes was Friday May19th. He had one special needs teacher that gave him an uncut decorative key when he had a good week and he was excited when he talked to Rusty on the phone this weekend as he got to bring his keys and keyring home with him. I think he had 6 or 7 keys on his ring but then he had a pretty rough time of it when they first got Dallas into classes in Warsaw after getting him out of his mothers care in January. He didn't care....he was excited cause he had keys of his OWN!!

Rusty does hope things will work out so they can go down maybe next weekend, he'd like to introduce Dallas ro his other brother and 2 sisters soon. Can't help but wonder how they will all eventually take to each other. There are six years difference in the boys ages, and both of the girls are trying to be leaders so we really wonder how this will fall together!!

I had the 3 younger kids for about 6 or 7 hours each day on Sat and Sun, while their parent tried to get some of their things moved out of Mandys mom's house. It is a long story and not a very nice one as their family thinks of no one but them selves and are litteraly kicking Rusty Mandy and the kids out on the street, so Mandy's brother can move in.....yes you read it right, her mom rented the place out from under them to her brother!!! Brie came over on Sun and helped me some with the kids so we have a few new pics and will put up one of each kid maybe tomorrow later in the day after I turm them all into jpgs and name them but for now will try to get some more sleep.

My very creative daughter....Brie

Now I can brag on my very creative daughter.....there really isn't much she hasn't tried that she hasn't accomplished in some form. It may not have finished the way she originally wanted it to, however, she has always been good about changing it into something she liked almost as good if not better. Up on occasion she has had a dud or 2 and has been frustrated for a short time but never for any length of time.

After her Advancement this year at the college and since with that advancement she recieved the benefit of free tuition, she has decided to take a few classes and work on her GPA as well as take some classes that she can just enjoy for a change.

Last week she was awarded a small cash award for one of her digital photos in a school booklet. Here is a url to that pic.

http://www.deviantart.com/view/28303558

Today however, was the art show at school, I try to go every year but just didn't feel like driving myself this year so guessed I wouldn't get to see it. However, at some point in the afternoon I get a phone call from Brie, first she was checking to see if certain people had made it down to go to see the art show cause she'd had to do another job and didn't see them. The hadn't so she was releived.....then she told me she had some really great news to tell me. Okay, what's up??

Her digital manipulation picture for digital art had been bought by the school from her for $250!!! She was very squeaky excited!! The funny part was that last night or the night before we had talked and she was joking and said wouldn't it be funny if one of her enteries like her Cinderella pic got bought by the school!! Then she said something about not holding her breath as that didn't seem to be the kind they looked for......you guessed it it was her Cinderella one that one!!

http://www.deviantart.com/view/31727422/

It's called After the Ball, now if your computer monitor is like mine...very old the pic might be too dark, it took her several trys to get it to print out light at the school but it is gorgeous and does have several thingd like shoes and mice/rats at the bottom. I am so proud of her, she has been doing this type of work for some time now. If you click on her name, then on the page that takes you to, click on gallery, it will load some of her pictures she has on this site, then there is a spot where it says next 24 at the bottom and you can click on it and see more. You can also go into google and just put in brie alsbury and several sites will come up where you can view some of her earlier work......can you tell I'm proud of her??

Okay....bedtime....Night All

I Believe I can Fly, She's still Singing it!

Back the first of February my niece Roxanne was in a helicopter crash on a training mission with the army as she is trained to be a medivac personel. She recieved a compression fracture of the spine which was the one thing we were the most concerned of. She has been doing, and not really paitiently, office duty for sometime now to let things heal up but now we will quote Roxanne... "I finally convinced them that I am not crazy, concussed, or fractured any longer (crazy took the longest) and so am not only flying again....I am also pulling duty already." Now when you see this pic you understand why I know it is the best thing for her to be back in the copter where she wants to be!!

Now here are one or 2 of the crash and you will know why we are grateful to the Lord for His wondeful Grace!!


This is what the copter they were riding in originally looked like before crash.



This is the actual site where the copter crashed by clicking on the smaller pic you can see where the tail made an indent very deep as it was the pivot point for even when the copter flipped over on it's side.





Thank You Lord!!

What a Wonderful Day this has been!!!

Dallas Michael




Today has been a good day!! My daughter in law called early today and was so excited I almost didn't recognise who it was. "You'll never guess who I just talked to and they are willing to let us see Dallas!!" Now let me explain this.....My son was married before and had a son that we have not seen for over 3 years now. Recently we found out that he had been taken from his mothers custody, and his grandparent who had always been enemies with my son, now had him in there home and we were trying to figure out how to get a loan to fight for Dallas as he didn't even know who we were and we didn't even know where he was for sure except supposedly down in the Warsaw area of Missouri. Well, today his other grandparents called my sons current wife and told them not to spend money they didn't need to as they were not going to try for legal custody, they just wanted guardianship for now and after what we found out Dallas has been thru and how much of a difference they have made in him since he was placed in their care, we are all in agreement that he is where he needed to be for now.

His mom and her boyfriend will both spend time in prison for the things they have done for this little boy. He is 5 yrs old and was beat by his mom with a belt and her boyfriend with his hand, He was sent to his room all the time, have no idea really about how they fed him but he was undernurished to the point his eyes were sunken in and black all around they said. He told his grma that his mom poured hot sauce down his throat when he said bad words. His mom and her mom use to chase him around with the sweeper and other appliances that made noises to get him to do what they wanted.
One place they had him at said his bowels had been backed up for 2 years!!!

But he is better now, he talked to his daddy last night asked his daddy when he was coming to see him. My son told me he talked to Dallas...no he was on the phone with Dallas for about 30 min. and Dallas did most of the talking!! Don't know who is looking forward to the weekend more Dallas or my son Rusty. I know we have all tried to find him and have waited a long time for this to happen, Just can't wait till it is my turn....this Nana use to have him every weekend and he will be 6 yrs old the day before my 1st wedding anniversary. Maybe shortly after that we can see him and finally become a part of his life again

Easter 2006 Michael

Mikey and his daddy whispering "I loves you"



Mikey talking on his "phone"



Mikey and his train



Mikey's smile

Easter 2006 Julie

Julie discovers the eyes on the train


Julie's smile


Great Grandpa Wood and Julie fix Mrs. Potatohead

Easter 2006 Jerrica

Jerrica and her Mrs. Potatohead


Jerrica discovered the eyes move on trains


Jerrica and her SMILE

04-18-06 2 days after Easter

It has been awhile since I have really felt like being up much and really felt like adding to the blog. Between the stress of making decisions and weather changes over the last month or 2 I just haven't felt like doing much of anything. Then there are the meds that make me so sleepy .......well, enough of that.....right now it is letting the meds take hold again and the pain letting up and going back to bed here pretty quick.

We had a wonderful day Sunday for Easter, Scotts parents had Scott, my daughter Brie and I, meet them at the Denny's here in town and we had dinner with them. Then we all met my son Rusty and his family back at our place and got to watch the kids play with the toys we had gotten them for Easter. Papa Scott and I, Nana, had gotten them trains from the Thomas the Train series, 3 different colors, 1 color for each kid. Then they each got a plastic boat to go with same color. The Aunt "Bee"(Brie) got the girs Mrs Potato Heads that had rabbit ears and a tail and rabbit slippers, then Mikey got a John Deer columbine tractor....plastic of course. The girls got some clips and ponytail holders also. But this is the first time Gr Grma and Gr Grpa Wood have had a chance to spend any time with the kids at all.

See when Scott married me almost a year ago he became an instant Grpa, without ever becoming a dad. But his parents also became instant Great Grandparents too!! They kind of liked that idea, especially Scotts Dad Kent. He and our Miss Jewels(Julie) hit it off real well Sunday, She let Gr Grpa do a lot of things for her and let him help her do things.

So now I will share some of the best of the pics with you all from Sunday. Meds are beginning to kick in.....so pic then off to bed.

Is My son Rusty Proud of His son Micheal or what?

Stop the World I want to get off or at least slow down...

Life has been very busy these last few weeks even more so than usual. It is kind of like when you were a kid and the summer disappeared too fast? Well, that is kind of like the way my life has gone lately.

Some good news I got today was the nurse from the neurologist office called and said my taking the B-12 was doing the trick it was coming up and all the other blood test they ran looked good. AMEN! The new med she put me on I think is making a difference in the long run, it is suppose to help with all the spasms that I have at night, they are like restless leg syndrome, Scott says he sleeps better and that I don't keep him awake or wake him up in the night hardly ever now.

We just recently found out that there seems to be a problem in thesituation where my sons oldest son is at and DFS did not contact my son about it so I am trying to be the cheerleader/ sounding board for my son which is about all I can do. Since there are no more Grandparents rights I can't even go for my grandson!!So trying to have patience and wait this all out and that isn't easy!!

Well, it is almost midnight and I need to be able to get up in the morning....that is one of the things I am trying to work on changing, the time I take my meds so I can hopefully wake up of a morning. Hopefully it will come together eventually. Didn't wake up till 2pm the other day.....just slept hard clear thru!!

Say Good Night Kathryn....Good Night Kathryn

Hail stones from Storms that went thru on O3/12/06

The 2 pics with hail stones on the table up against trains and tools used in hobbies were taken by my husband Scott. Then the other 2 pics with the hail stones being shown compared with a quarter were taken by my daughter Brie. Either way you go....we had some BIG HAIL STONES HIT and they left a lot of dents in our cars!!

Fibromyalgia

I have been reading a new book I ordered thanks to one of the ladies on one of my groups. The author is a neighbor of hers and Believe me this woman seems to know what she is talking about! Some of the things I have read to Scott and afterwards he said when we got back home he wanted to look the place over and find the cameras they had hid and were watching us with to write this book!! The book"fibromyalgia: a comprehensive approach" by Miryam Ehrlich Williamson.

Actually I have read the book clear thru, patially read it thru(you know the parts where you go back and say ....wait did I read that right?) Now I am going through with my ink pen(since my highlighters are all dead) and marking things as I come to them this time, that I either want to remember or that I want to be able to go back and say....see I knew it was the fibro when I told you that before!! Then there are those where we have looked at them and re-read several times the first time going thru and said WOW.....didn't know that but it makes a lot of sense!!

Now don't get me wrong I'm not stupid and I realise with my age that some symptoms could be just from getting older but then again some of these symptoms have been with me too long to blame it on just getting older. I also have an answer for the Doctor who is always telling me that I'm always going to be depressed and i might as well learn to live with it and just keep taking the meds all the rest of my life!! Yes I may have moments, even weeks of some depression, but you show me someone who suffers from pain who dosen't suffer from depression!! I do not plan on staying in depression all my life, he makes it sound like I had just better plan on being a psycho case the rest of my life and I don't plan on that happening!!

In fact my regular Doctor and I had a good session the other day and the neurologist and I had a good session the day before, they both are thinking we are on the right track and are hoping to see changes soon. They took me off of Celebrex and gave me some new meds that we hope once I get up to the appropriate dose for me will stop the massive spasms and restless legs that I seem to have all over my body. Scott says some nights I almost knock him out of bed with the spasms and I have knocked him upside the head a few times. I had a really bad spasm last night that jerked my whole body and made my hip where I couldn't move it. All I could do was cry and Scott had to help me move the leg so the hip was back in place so it would ease up. When I finally was able to get up I was very cautious as i wasn't sure if the hip would hold me but I needed to get up and take some meds...bad!! My whole body has increasingly let me know how much of it was involved with the spasm.....it is going to be a very long day I have an idea on Wed March 1st.

Okay better head for bed again and try to get more sleep.

THE GRANDKIDS

Alexis-8yrs old, Jerrica-3 1/2 yrs old, Michael-1 yr old, Julie 2 1/2 yrs old
Aren't they cute and sweet looking!!

Surviving yet another Valentines Day

Well, these last 2 weeks have been rough in a lot of ways.....On Feb 8th recieved word that my niece Roxanne who is in the Army was in a helicopter during a night training flight at Yakima Training Center, Washington. to quote her mom "Roxanne has a concussion and a compression fracture of the spine, whiplash and various technicolor bruises, cuts, nicks and scratches." That was a big scare but now it is still a concern as we know the compression fracture is at T7 of her spine which is just about the middle of the back!! Also it is hard on her as Roxanne is and always has been a very active person physically. The need to stay in Washington state till the investgation is over then they will be going back to Fort Drum in NewYork where they were stationed, and we will see what the Dr. there say about what needs to be done further.

Then Feb 14 has been a hard day for my family since 2000 when my sister Jane passed away from tongue cancer. Scott had even arranged for my Valentines to be on Monday the 13th so we could enjoy it. Now this year we have had another tragedy added to the Valentines Day and that is my cousin Mark in California, he and his wife Karen lost their oldest daughter Tiffany. It was thought that originally it was suicide but now it is uncertain until autopsy is finished.

I know I've been taught that God will not give us any more than we can handle as Christians but you wonder sometimes when things like this seem to pile up on you!! I've really wanted to sew or accomplish something over the last month or so but just have had no energy and with the arthur and fibro I have really been hurting. I did find a pamplet that I believe explains Fibromyalgia better than any I have seen so far If you know of someone who has fibro and want to help them it is worth reading!!

http://www.arc.org.uk/about_arth/booklets/6013/6013.htm

Well, it is almost 4am and we are up because the neighbors downstairs had their smoke alarms go off but fire department couldn't find anything. Now we have to begin to come down again so we can sleep again.

Very good first part of the week

First of all I should be in bed but tonight is one of those nights where I slept real hard for about an hour and now I'm wide awake!!

The weekend was looking like it was going to be rather dull. I did some cleaning, but for a change not in the hobbyroom. I was getting the rubbermaid/plastic bowls and containers back together where they belong and the doors where they will shut again......you know, that forever battle, where you say I am smarter than the plastic ware.....I will win!! It's amazing how once you go around the kitchen and find all the pieces, what a difference it makes in the looks of the kitchen clutter!! Then it just took some minor putting up of things and you could actually find cabinet tops in our small kitchen again......wow!!

I also got the coffee pot that my mom had brought to me that my dads mom had given them as a wedding gift, washed up and ready to use. It is old fashion compared to the ones now!! I nor Scott drink coffee but with it being ceramic I believe that I can use it to hold hot water for tea......now I will get in and make me a tea cozy for it then I can use it in the hobbyroom when I'm in there.

On Sunday I had several goals and it was very hard to stay on just one cause I kept having to get into the closet to put up things or get out things and I needed to actually go deeper into the closet stuff and get my small bookcase out to use in my bedroom. BUT....I needed to get certain things together with other things that were already in containers that were in the closet so I could get up to the computer and sewing machine here in the hobbyroom. I hate it when it is hard to decide which needs to be done first!!

Well, my son called and said he and family would be by sometime afternoon or evening so I thought.....okay I will get into the closet and get that done so i can get things put back into the closet before the kids get here. Then I find out that only the youngest, Michael is coming, he just turned 1 the first of Feb. Okay not problem He won't matter as much if I have to I can shove things in my bedroom.

WRONG.....when I hear them coming up the stairs I hear the girls talking so it is hurry hurry and stuff things back into the closet.....infact while the kids are knocking and hollering Nana, I'm hollering back Just a minute and having to get things in the closet so I can even get to the door!! But that's okay it all went in and I got my hugs and a bigger suprise as my daughter had come home at the same time they were coming in so I got to see both of my kids as well as my grandkids. YEA!!!

Rusty was doing some electical work for us so he started that while the kids ate the chicky nuggets they's brought with them and frenfries. Then we talked and played. Mandy my sons wife helped with the kids some and "helped" my son some. BUT.......they had also brought me pictures of all the kids that are around here!! So as soon as I can get it scanned I have a new pic to put up of Grand kids. We have Alexis(Mandy's 8yr old) Jerrica 31/2 yrs old, Michael 1yr old and Julie 21/2 yrs old. Very good pic of the kids, I am very happy to get a recent one.

Before they left I had my son see if he could get the knot out of my back so my rib would go back into place, which involves me laying on the floor and him having to do a lot of rubbing and massaging. The kids have never been around when he has had to do this before we realised that night......boy did he have help!! I think I felt everyone of the kids rubbing at some point!! The funniest was however, when Julie the very bold "tank" of the group got down almost on her head and pulled my hair back and said.....whacha doin Nana? We got to laughing so much it was hard to finish!! Her nose was almost on my nose and I could see her feet but she was almost on her head, and the biggest grin you can imagine!!

Okay time to get off and try to sleep....

Another Clean up Weekend

This last weekend was a clean up weekend. Scott worked so I worked on my part of the hobbyroom.Ya know how you can have things in a "neat" pile and all of a sudden something happens and you have an avalanche? I just do not understand how that happend, I mean after all the pile was only about 2 foot high and had books, material and a plastic bag or 2 in it! So I can now see the top of the sewing machine, most of the counter here and the floor in front of all of this is almost there. Actually the floor will be done as soon as I put up some of the small containers that are used like when I'm going somewhere and need small containers with handles on them.....thank you Rubbermaid and Sterilite.

I had also picked up some other beads and things for embellishments so found homes for them. My mom had given us some small glass bottles, you know the ones that you get when you get a gift with several different jellies in them......hey it works. Now that I have a surface to work on again I hope to begin a couple of projects, and how fast they get done or how much they get worked on will depend on how this spell fibromyalgia continues this time. Right now I have it switching sides, it use to bother just my left sidebut now it is beginning in the right side, starting as the otherside did in the neck and shoulder.

Well, another weekend over!!

I like my weekends most of the time, this weekend was no exception. Scott did have to work this weekend, I didn't like that but hey, we will live thru it!!Hopefully it will only last another week or so while they are training the other person for closing of the store at night.

A really good day on Friday

Friday has been a very good day, Scotts parents came down from up north and took us out to lunch. We always have such a good time and get caught up on the news on them,Grma and Uncle Alan and Aunt Susan. We went back to our place so we could quickly show them some things like my Tea Totes I'd recieved and my Magic Wands.

While we were there my daughter Brie called and wanted to know if i wanted to go with her to the Nelson Art Gallery downtown on the Plaza. So she came by, it had been awhile since she'd seen "Grma and Grpa Wood" and they were glad to get a chance to see her and talk to her. We talked about helping Grpa with his computer that he went ahead and bought the part for and needs installed.

Brie and I left and went downtown at the same time they left, so it worked out great. It has been a couple years since i've been down to the Nelson and BOY HAVE THERE BEEN SOME CHANGES!!! They have really built on and they have an awesome parking garage....the skylights for the garage are actually in the large shallow pool out front of the Nelson......it is so cool to look up down in the garage knowing where they are located and see the water ripple!! It is also neat to look out over the pool and see the light areas knowing they are giving light down in the garage.

They are constanly changing the exhibits around adding new things and sometimes just bringing back some old things. My Aunt Evelyn tells me that if I ever see a small pic of a bunny with her name on it to ask if she can have it back!! When she was a little girl they use to exhibit a lot of the kids pictures from the schools and nearly all of the kids in her class got theirs back but she never did. It would be funny if it was still there some place after all these years.....that prob would have been upper 60's or early 70's years ago!!

After I got home I went on to Walmart and Michaels and picked up Wonder Under and PelTex, some lace and things like that till I used up the last of the Christmas money for this year. We'd just not been in any hurry, we knew it would be needed for something useful and this was it!!

Bedtime again.....Meds are kicking in.....Night all!!

Can't believe it's been this long ago!!

Last week was a long and rough week. My husband was sick all week and home from work. You know I have no problems with people smoking if that is what they want to do.......but what does one do if they are allergic to cigarette smoke and it seeps into YOUR apartment from others apartments. The management is going to try to seal off our door area but this all seems to come up from the area around the furnace closet and the hotwater heater closet. But that is what happened and Scott was very ill all alst week with sinus problems and bleedingway up in his sinuses. He had to go on Antibiotics and one of the more exspensive sinus meds that we just can not afford to keep going. He went back to work this week and they switched his hours some and he is working days some and will be working on the weekend, makes it hard to plan when they keep messing with the schedule!!

I've gotten in both of my Fairie Wands......I'll try to get a pic of them soon and I've gotten all of my Tea Totes except 2 of them in the Tea Tote Swap in Fiber Art Traders. I just love all the different ways everyone has made their own patterns and all the different colors and materials and even fastening ideas they have used with this idea,Very creative group. My own daughter talked to me and wants me to make her and 2 of her co-workers ones like I made. That is a compliment when Your own daughter wants one, sure makes me feel good. Here is a pic of the ones I made


I've also been working on trying to relax a little more, this not going to bed until super late because I can't get the body to settle from spasms is getting very old!! So I am trying todo a little more relaxing by reading, and forcing myself to just relax some of the muscles that I know are involved during the day. Another thing I enjoy is playing with my little inside rock garden. Some of the things were mine and some came from my Grandma Coen's collection. Her and I had a lot of this type of things in common, the Gnome was her and she kept him in a Terrarium that I had given her for Christmas one year. I felt he needed to oversee my Rock Garden.





Okay, guess it is about time to try to get some sleep....maybe tomorrow I can get more done on the sewing.

This is Baby Bubbybird

A dear friend Normajean Brevik saw this and thought it looked like my Bubbybird logo and made it and sent it to me a Baby Bubbybird. That is who it shall remain  Baby Bubbybird.

Artist Trading Card Bubbybird