Good Morning :)
I remember back in the day when I would blog daily...sometimes multiple times a day! :D I wonder what I had to talk about back then? lol
it's September 10th at 6am
Today is my AFAA test that has been pretty much taking over my mind for the past 6 weeks.
In some ways I feel I didn't do as much as I could/should have but it's here now..I leave in 2 hours...soooo, I will go do my best :) and hope/pray I pass :)

My mom's husband's mom passed away this week...the viewing is tonight...I know I am going to be exhausted after being at my test from 9-6..the viewing is until 8....I also know that I do not want to see certain people...I don't know if I need to put tired and personal feelings in front of respects....
She was a very sweet lady. :) She was a mom of 5 boys :) One out of the 5 had his own son....Walt, her oldest son, married my mom who had two daughters....but Tillie lived in Rhode Island so she couldn't really see us...Then, I, her "granddaughter" had lots of daughters for her..but again...she lived in Rhode Island :/. I obviously didn't "know" her..but we took a very long road trip with 4 girls and went to visit her for a week. This was 8 years ago....
Her house was precious...she kept that thing T.I.D.Y! and that is loose talking.....
It was a 3 bedroom house...the master down, 2 up..the kind with attic ceilings (???maybe not....not that i think of it) but two cute bedrooms at the top of the stairs....5 BOYS raised there. :) 1 bathroom :) precious! precious precious precious!!!
She developed Alzheimer's....and no one lived in Rhode Island anymore to take care of her...Walt lives here, Paul, I think here also? Peter is a cave dweller...I don't really know what he does for a living but I know he goes in lots of caves...waaaaaaay into the caves....John lives in Orlando and Eric, her youngest, I believe lives in Boston....I think Eric tried to take care of her as long as he could...and I think he would go back and visit often..I don't know full details but long story short, she ended up moving in with Walt....and they tried to take care of her as long as they could..but when she went to, I don't know, get analyzed? "they" (I am speaking sooooo out of tibits of memory) said taking care of her was the task of like 12 people. So Walt had no choice but to put her in the home....
She ALWAYS called me Carmen. :P and her stories were SOOOOO adorable and this is with zero complaint as I tell you this..but she told them over and over. :) I tried to laugh everytime as if it was the first time I ever heard it. :) Gosh she was cute.
I wasn't as close to her as Ava...My AVA in Fort Smith...but thinking about how she had to leave her home in Rhode Island...her precious home. :( and now today she is laid out at the funeral home and besides the people from the home??? People don't know her here. Walt's friends may show up out of respect and of course her boys....but I assume her friends won't make it from Rhode Island? I don't know.

in other news...Sophia moves into her apartment today...She is with a boy named Alex. She needs me to take the seats out of my van and help her get a queen size mattress and box spring there....That is another reason I don't know if I will go to the viewing....I am sooo exhausted right now....I didn't sleep well from nerves for this long day ahead of me.....I need to help her and the thought of the viewing...Mike will be home with the kids ALL day which I know is fine..he is their Father...I just feel bad and I don't know why....(I am pretty sure men never feel bad when they are gone all day :P lol)

well....hoping I didn't sound like too much of a whiny butt...but this is what's up right now :)

Coming up..Rams play tomorrow...1st game of the season WHOO HOOOOOO! :D and it's chilly outside so we'll be having chili inside :)
I am ready to schedule my surgery (the one for all my inside falling parts...they need a lift :P) Keep you posted . :)

and that's all for today folks....
over and out. :)