Global Warming in My Own Little World.

January 14, 2010

I know it has been a while since I last wrote, and I am so very sorry... but... I was cold.
No, not just cold... I was literally frozen. I know what you must be thinking, people do not just freeze and then defrost and still function. Well, apparently some of us do! Here’s what happened.

As everyone knows, it has been cold. The temps here in South Florida have been sticking pretty much to the 30’s. One morning it was in the low 20’s when I left for work. And that does not even count the wind chill factor. Now, keeping that in mind, my car has not been working and I have been riding my bike to and from work. For anyone who does not know, I live 16 miles from work. On the morning that it was in the 20’s when I went to work, I had ice forming on my visor. So… quite simply, my brain froze. I had a difficult time working, much less thinking at home too. You can ask my husband or children – there was no real thought process going on here for at least a week. I was a non-functioning cerebral mess. Example; when making a list of who is who in the family, I left off one of my children. Who forgets a kid?!?!?!?!

I am much better now. This morning was in the 50’s and I awoke with the ability for thought. This will be a catch up blog.

From the photo’s in shutterfly (bazandmary.shutterfly.com) you can see that we had an awesome Christmas and New Year. OK, most everyone got sick for Christmas, but New Years was completely awesome. Not counting the freezing thing that was going on in North Florida. Barrie and I had gone up to visit MJ and his family. Freezing aside, we had a ball. Actually, this may have been the start of my brain freeze as we had no heat in the car. The trip home was soooo cold! We had even tried to go to a huge flea market while the weather was in the teens…. What were we thinking?

Brittney went to a New Year’s concert in Miami. She saw Lady Gaga. By the way, this beautiful and sweet girl who is growing up way to fast… she is the baby I forgot. I am so devastated. She is fine. She laughed about it. I cried; and the more she tried to make me feel alright about it, the worse I felt.

Aunt Ollie is visiting with us for a while. We are thrilled to have her – keeps mom out of trouble! Or maybe… they are in more trouble, but the two of them work better at covering it up. Maybe we should watch them more.

MJ and Myrahia… Matt and Banee… both working hard at growing babies… MJ and Myrahia are due in March, two days before Michael’s birthday. Matt and Banee are expecting in July. Oh, tis good to be a grandparent!

Melissa and Shaun are doing their own baby growing with little Benjamin. He is now over 7 pounds. Xzavier is doing wonderful also. I was up at their house the other day and showed him the afghan I am making him and he is very happy with it. He is such a loving grandson. He makes me so proud and happy to make him a special gift from his grandma.

I don’t think I mentioned, Matthew has today off work and is fixing my car. He is such a good son; taking care of my problems. He is an incredible mechanic. He is one of the top mechanics for this region with Firestone. I am not just a bragging mom… Firestone told us that he was the second best tech out of hundreds in this region. He is the head tech at the Stuart branch. We are so proud of him.

Speaking of work – my break is over and I need to get back to it.

God bless you all…. Love ya, Mary