Thursday......and Prayers for Our Joni.....

I set two alarms to make sure I woke up in time for my appointment with my urologist.

Turns out I didn't need either one.

Dr. Bloom is my very favorite doctor - although I only have two!

Dr. Suma Abraham is my primary care doctor and I dearly love her, too.

She referred me to Dr. Bloom after I turned 65 and was able to get insurance coverage.

I had a constant UTI for years and years and, looking back, I don't know how I managed life like that.

All the time we were down in Katy taking care of Amber and the quads - I had an UTI.

Dr. Bloom has given me my life back......one I didn't even know was possible since I had been afflicted with this condition for so many years.

I did a tally for how many times I got up one night to go to the bathroom.

It was 36 times.

Sometimes less....but not by much and sometimes more. 

It's a good thing I was younger then because I don't know how I got enough rest to function the way I did!

I take a pill every night along with Vitamin C.

No UTI in 2 years!

Now I only visit Dr. Bloom once a year.

I baked chocolate chip cookies yesterday afternoon and took him a bag full.

He said he knew when he saw my name on the list this morning that he was going to get a snack!

This is one doctor visit I look forward to!

As I was checking out, I heard him tell his nurse, "Grab a cookie! They are delicious!!"

From there I hustled through the big nice Kroger on MacArthur that is nearly as good as HEB!

I bought food to prepare for the funeral of a dear family friend's son tomorrow.

Then I raced home to pick Louis Dean up for his follow up appointment!

He is still feeling blah. No energy. No spark.

Even the doctor didn't get but one story and two smiles from his today.

She said he will feel better as he recovers.

His chest sounded good and he is over the flu.

He's taken all the medicine.

All he needs to do now is regain his strength.....and his mojo.

I have seldom seen him like this!

We went on over to see Reaoma since I will be in Fort Worth all day tomorrow.

She was resting through much of my visit.

I gave her arms and hands a massage with some of the good hand cream Pam has there for her.

We talked and she was happy about seeing Pam yesterday.

After we left there - I still had two more stops!

Walgreens for my medicine and then I filled up the car with gas.

It was easier to do it then than in the morning.

I don't do mornings well and tomorrow will be a really early one!

I left at 9:30 this morning and arrived back shortly before 4:00!

Home at last!

The rains have gone and the sky turned blue so I went out to see the neighborhood.

At least my front yard.

Green grass is growing!

I work a little bit every day in the front flower bed up by the door and in front of the music and guest room windows. Right night I am raking up leaves and giving the liriope haircuts.

I do this in the spring and then again in August if the heat and lack of water has turned the ends all brown and scorched.

The I went to work in the kitchen - first putting up all the groceries, loading the dishwasher and then starting the food to take to Fort Worth tomorrow.

Taking and serving food is what we do when loved ones are grieving.

That's the way we show our love and allows us to serve then even as we grieve along with them.

I made a big fluffy salad......

Cool Whip, Jello, cottage cheese, chopped frozen cranberries, chopped pecans, drained crushed pineapple and a can of cut up pineapple slices.

I found a fresh sprig of mint in the garden to use as a garnish.

Next I made a sour cream pound cake using Summer's recipe!

A box of yellow cake mix

1 cup of sour cream

1/2 cup of oil

3/4 cup of sugar

4 eggs

325* for 1 hour

Turns out perfect every single time!

I felt like I was on a cooking show when I made up a big batch of potato salad.

I used my food processor to chop up the onion, sweet peppers, celery and I cut up the dill pickles and boiled eggs by hand.

It turned out really good.

Louis Dean and I both had a bowl for our dinner tonight.

It's been a long and busy day and I need to make an early night of it of I'm going to get up and get going early in the morning.

Please say a prayer if you can for our dear Joni and the family.

This is David, her only son.......

"You never said I'm leaving you, you never said goodbye. You were gone before I knew it and only God knows why. In life I loved you dearly, in death I love you still. In my heart I hold a place that only you can fill. It broke my heart to lose you but you didn't go alone. A part of me went with you, the day God called you home."

From Joni's Facebook page