It's Friday.....

And with Friday, we get Friday Fragments!  Sponsored by Mrs. 4444, it's a place to spill all the leftovers from your week.  Join in and give us little glimpses of your life from the week.

Spring came and left in a rush this week!  That one day saw me busting out my capris and t shirts and actually doing a little yard work......pulling five weeds two buckets of weeds and sitting out in the sun for a bit.  It did leave me with a good

Heard around here....

Superhero bringing in my morning cup of coffee to wake me up to walk....

Time to wake up!  Insert cheery voice

Me, cheery voice not included.....

How many minutes?  (I mean until I have to actually walk)

Superhero....

Well, all I know is it's 7 minutes until Spring!

HUH???

Gotta love cheerful men!  

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I have made five recipes from Pinterest......four were bombs!  One, chocolate chip cookies, was the best recipe ever.  Have you had good or not so good results from recipes on Pinterest?

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My sister and her husband are here with us this week while they make sure his mama will be o.k. back at the assisted living facility after her weeks in rehab.  She's taken a few falls lately so they want to make sure she's going to be ok before leaving her to return home.  Prayers go out for Mary to get her strength back and start enjoying life!

Our mama lives in the same facility and every now and then gets very confused.  She has caregivers during the day, but is alone at night except for the two hour checks by the nurses.  She can't get up so she's ok at night.  Except for the times she's not and of course we never know when that will be.  This week it was Wednesday night!  Sister Debbie called me after I got home from church.......but thankfully before I put on my pj's.....to say mama was really confused and trying to get up out of her recliner.  It's a long story, but I ended up going over and she was agitated and manic.  When she's confused, she can't stop talking and wanting to get up and walk....she can't walk so that's a problem.

After a pretty good while, I told Debbie to go home because they are staying with her MIL and she needed the rest and I would stay until mama was calm and ready to sleep.  I gave her enough drugs to kill a horse a small dose of sedative and her pain medication hoping she would calm down and go to sleep.  Since that's a whole nother long story, I'll just leave you with two things she said.....
kind of a mama version of heard around here....

When I first got to mama's she was so happy to see me that she went on a bit about how sweet and beautiful (go figure) I was, so 
I said...

Mama can't help it that she loves me best.

Mama.....  (having obviously heard me wrong)
So, you're lousy in bed???

ME.....You'd have to ask the Superhero about that!

We got a good laugh to mix in with the stress!

Every time I thought she was asleep enough that I would try to sneak out, she would immediately open her eyes, so
I said....

Mama, I'm going outside for a minute.

Mama said....Are you smoking again?

After a moment of wondering what she meant by that AND how she could possibly still be awake after all the meds, mama said....

That's what my caregivers say when they're going out to smoke.  

I probably could have used a cigarette by that time, but since I don't smoke I just assured her that  no, I wasn't going to smoke and quietly went out the door.  
The nurse assured me she would check on mama often during the night, so I came home and went to bed with a prayer that God would keep His arms around her for the night.

The next day she was much better!

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And just for laughs, I found this fortune that I got in a fortune cookie years ago.....



Because you probably can't read it, it says....
 Your life will be happy and peaceful.....
I'm very happy, but peaceful???  Well, that's what I get for keeping those dumb fortunes!  Glad I didn't use the lottery numbers they print on the other side!

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Have a great weekend all!