Yoders and Vegas

For those of you that know me on a personal level and not thru friendships via work or just family related e-mails ... then you all know that I am not the "Brightest" crayon in the box. I have been known to laugh in the middle of dead silence minutes or even hours after the punchline of a joke is over. I've been known to laugh at my own jokes ... way before I even get to the punchline. I've been known to have the simplest of phrases go right over my head. Wait ... I didn't get that one. My 13 y.o. will use a word and I have to look at Darling Hubby to verify if it is indeed a real word. Yeah ... I get by on my personality and not my brain! Did I mention that I am super gullible? Well ... many many many moons ago when I was a wee child, my mother told me something over and over again and it has stuck with me throughout my entire life. My mother told me that my nose would get bright red like Rudolph whenever I told a lie. WOW ... REALLY? I believed it. C'MON...

It's been such a long time since I've written anything good. Something from the heart ... something with some feeling behind it. Since Marley's passing I haven't really had much to write in that aspect. Until now ... My baby sister Lauren announced she was pregnant last year. No lie ... I was disappointed but I was going to stand by her. That is what sisters do. I even offered to assist her by taking my future niece someday. I was sad and yet happy when she and her boyfriend said they were going to do what they thought was best and take their baby. Fast forward to Friday January 16th. I go to my moms house to celebrate my brother-in-laws birthday. During the showing of "Transformers" (can you believe my mother has never seen it!!!!!), my sister calls for us in the bathroom. She thinks her water broke. OMG. It was actually a leak... but we DIDN'T know!!! I stayed the night. Next morning mom took her walking at Wal-Mart. I went home. Took care of some ...