Decisions, decisions....

A lot has been going on....I have like three things a day...between Tom's physical therapy and events for BCREA, CONTACT, DKG, RSVP, the Eastampton Rec Committee, XTU ticket runs, book club meetings, movies, lunches with Gee Gee and my DEAR friends...and, of course, dancing at Prospectors :-)

DKG Meeting-Installation of Officers

with Conni at the BCREA Spring luncheon

WXTU ticket run attempt (unsuccessful)

DIS quick stop for boxtop dropoff

Theresa hosting the Contact Wine Event

Marion and Jacquie leading the Healthy Life workshop

Informative workshop on Gamer Predators

Lunch with Gee Gee at Charlie Browns

BCEA Teacher Day at Carlucci's

Standardized testing movie with DEA

DEAR friends lunch at Prospectors

Ah, retirement!

We are looking forward to the CMA Music Fest, but are sad to be missing Hannah's wedding this week-end. Tom just isn't ready for the trip. Jackson is graduating from college and Mary Grace is graduating from high school. Samantha had another baby, too....lots of happy family events.

Next on the agenda is a new car for me. What to get, what to get? (And oh...do I hate spending money on it :-(    Well, we shall see what happens....

It's May!

Tom danced at Prospectors (2 weeks after knee replacement surgery! Not bad, eh?)

We saw Spiderman 2 at the really comfy seat-filled Marlton theater.

I am posting a link to the Jeff Memorial video I just found. I wrote to Bradley asking if I could have a copy and he referred my back to Nathan and Jackson and it turns out they had already posted one.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aM1YXhWbbnw

I am off to HRB for a bit.

Hope Zoe had a very happy birthday!

Busy week-end

Friday night was the Eastampton Ladies Night Out fund-raiser. (I didn't win ANYTHING. :-(

After I got home, I grabbed Tom who hobbled with me to Prospectors to hook up with Teri, up visiting from Virginia.

Saturday I volunteered at the Burlington County Earth Day Celebration in Smithville Park.

Saturday night it was back to Prospectors to dance with Teri (sans Tom this time).

Today is Sugarfootin' Sunday and I am back to Prospectors one more time. At least, that's the plan for now.

I had a couple of days of post tax season work, but don't seem to be on the schedule for any more. Hmmm....

Tom is getting better, but still taking the pain pills, Zoe's birthday is coming up, so is Isaac's, and Jackson is graduating!

In other news, I heard through the facebookvine that Kim is  moving (moved?) to Florida (and Margie's house may be sold soon.)

Tom has a new knee!

Tax season is over and Tom had a birthday and got a new knee.

Very hot news indeed. I was able to stay with him in the hospital for the whole 2 and a half days he was in there. Everyone was so very nice!

 We are home now and I am with him constantly helping him and making sure he doesn't fall or get infected. So far a nurse and a physical therapist have been to the house to check him out. He will be having home visits for the next two weeks, then out-patient stuff.

 On a totally new topic , here is a video I love (and it reminds me that I want to get a copy of the Jeff tape singing Bye Bye Blackbird to Hannah from Bradley now that the vimeo he made for the memorial celebration is no longer available). (I saw this first on Facebook and pulled the embed code from youtube....this dad was calming his daughter who was being kept up by fireworks, it explained.)

Free...well not quite...

It's beginning to look like the end of March...where does time go? I mean really.

 So, we went to Dr.Dwosh the other day and now that adds surgery/procedure number three to Tom's list of medical things to plan out, timewise. We already lost the Myrtle Beach vacation time due to knee replacement surgery mid April and probably won't be able to make it to Hannah's wedding either :-( But if Tom is relieved of all this pain he has been suffering through, it's worth it. We have to call the throat surgeon Monday to see about that one and the timing thereof.

 So I spent all morning working on a "free" photo book from Shutterfly and when I was finally finished, it was more than I eexpected (of course!) so I tried to back out to a different version and it looked like I lost all the accompanying verbiage (and format). I was starting to be very unhappy....but then I figured out how to get it back and paid the extra part, begrudgingly (It's still a good deal, really..) Here is my finished project (with, I'm sure advertising for others to do it too!)(Sorry about that).

Click here to view this photo book larger

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Working on it brought back a lot of good memories....and also brought to my attention how hard it would be to find any one specific photo from ALL the gazillions I have all over my computer and the internet. Hmmm.........

Love Story Comeback! Whoo hoo!

Meg and Robin are coming back to Prospectors tonight for a re-teach of the dance they choreographed for Taylor Swift's "Love Story".
Here is the video Ken had up on YouTube for it:

March 2014- Welcome to Medicare!

You know you're old when......
Medicare. Really?
Now I guess I'll be deluged with EOB papers like Tom has been for the last year. So confusing (but so grateful to have the health coverage we do!) Speaking of which....
Tom apparently got the word on his appointment for knee replacement surgery....two days before his birthday and just in time to thwart our planned Myrtle Beach vacation in early May and threaten (if not end) our plan to attend Hannah's wedding in Arkansas later that month. The good news is...he'll stop having all this pain and be able to walk, bowl, golf, dance, exercise without worry. (Ideally he'll be fine for stomping all over Nashville for Fan Fair 2014).

I am heading out today to first the DKG annual Combined Meeting and then out into the cold for the Mt. Holly St. Patrick's Day parade event for HR Block marketing purposes.

They are calling for yet another big snow event on Monday. (This is like the 15th one this winter season!).

So since I posted last a lot has been going on. The highlight was the trip for Sarah' wedding, a very happy event which included not only shmoozing with the Goff's and assorted new friends, but also hooking up with Austin based Dittfurths (whom we met in Hawaii five years ago), the Ross family (finally met the boys and also learning that both Samantha and Bradley are expecting new babies this year), and having lunch with Roxanne at the Atlanta airport during our layover there. (Her wedding is Oct. 18th in Atlanta.)

With Roxanne in Atlanta

With Samantha and Harlan in Austin