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I love to crochet and never throw any leftover yarn out. When I was working at the hospital I crochet a bunch of throws for the NICU babies that were healthy enough or big enough to be in the regular bassinets. They weren’t that big maybe 18 X 24 inches just bit enough to place over then and tuck the sides in so they’d look pretty when mom & dad came to see them. The nurses loved them. Of course they all had to go through the hospital laundry before use.
What am I up to now? The church I go to has a small youth group but all the kids were bunched together from 5-16 with the youth pastor. I’d mentioned I use to help with the youth group when I lived in Chicago and he jumped on it. I’m helping out with the group on Wednesday night and I get the kids ages 5-10. We’ve only met for 3 weeks and have 3 kids in that age group (all siblings) and they weren’t there this past Wednesday so I had nothing to do and sat in the service with the adults. This morning at church one of the girls came over to me and asked if I was going to be with them at children’s church today. You should have seen the sad face when I told her no she only gets me on Wednesday nights.
My husband and I took a cooking class at the Senior Center (we’re not old enough for the center but they opened it to people 50 and above). One 6 week session turned into 3 – 6 week sessions and we became friends with the instructor, Chef Michael (not the one with the dog food) and his wife Jeanne. Chef Michael does cooking demonstrations for different organizations and events and he’s asked me to help with the next couple of events which are international in theme. I’m looking forward to that. He’s also starting the cooking classes again and taking our advice of traveling across the US in food. He’s starting out locally with Alabama cooking and asked if I’d teach one of the classes. I’m not good talking in front of people but Michael’s so sweet it’s hard to tell him no. He’s writing his second book, first is "My Life in a Frying Pan" and said it’s short stories infused with some recipes and he’s got Don and I mentioned in the book. His wife Jeanne was marketing manager and was on the air for one of the local oldies radio stations but the station was sold last year and the new owners shut it down. The gentleman who owns the air waves or frequency lives in another state, he just bought it for an investment. He told Jeanne and another gentleman who worked there to do what they want with the frequency so they’re making it a Christian station with a little bit of everything. At night they’re going to play old radio shows. I’ve volunteered to help in any way I can to get them going and will be doing some data entry and Jeanne also wants me to be on the air. I’m hesitant but she keeps pushing and it’s harder and harder to say no so I may get my 15 minutes of fame soon.
I had a cousin who’s wife left him for another man and he never got over his bitterness. Refused to be in the same room with his ex’s new husband. When his daughter got married he’d let it be known if his her mother’s husband was there he wouldn’t be. His daughter had to tell her mother she could not bring her husband to the wedding. When his son got married 8 months later it was the same thing all over again. A few years later his daughter (ex’s daughter that was 8 months old when they got married and he adopted her) got married in a small ceremony with a family gathering at his son’s house. I picked him up and drove and he was so upset because his ex’s husband was there and he felt trapped.
My opinion, you’re the adult, act like one. You can be civil without being friends for the sake of your kids.
Through all that when he was diagnosed with cancer his ex would drive him to doctor appointments and she was there at the hospital when he died.
I’m not friends with my ex but I kicked him out after a year of marriage when I found out at age 27 he was dating a 16 year old high school student on a work program where he worked. Thankfully there weren’t any kids.
My stepdaughter was visiting from Sweden with her boyfriend over Thanksgiving and decided to get married while they were here. We threw a wedding together in 4 days and he mother and grandfather drove to Alabama from Oklahoma. I’d never met my husband’s ex before and he said it was strange to see his current wife sitting at a table in deep conversation with his ex. I figured the day wasn’t about her, I or my husband but about my stepdaughter and I could put on a happy face and be nice to anybody for her sake.
I just hate when ex’s can’t even be in the same room with each other and call each other names when they have children. That puts the kids in a position that they feel they have to choose and it’s harder when they get older and there are weddings and grandchildren.
I have a friend who’s parents got divorced when she was younger and years later her father started dating and eventually married one of her mother’s friends. She was fine with it. The first time I’d met her father and his wife was at a bible study at his home and her mother’s current husband was there as well. It was strange to see them get along as it’s not the norm but I realized it’s what should happen.
People not talking just assuming is the one thing that’s bothered me about soaps for years. I remember when Julie was burned when that stove/oven blew up and had scars on her face. She knew what was best for Doug and cut him out of her life at that time. You could tell she was hurting and really loved him but she wouldn’t talk to him and let him decide. Same thing when Chloe was hurt in that car crash and had Brady believe she was dead.
I agree, for the past year we’ve had to sit through Melanie/Phillip/Stefanie then Melanie/Nathan/Stefanie and now Melanie/Phillip/Stefanie/Nathan. We need a break from all of them. If you want to count Melanie/Max/Stefanie when they were tearing Max in two trying to make him decide between his sister or his girlfriend those two have been at the center of a triangle/quadrangle long enough.
I agree. I was a Respiratory Therapist for over 30 years in the NICU, Peds, adult ICU’s and even sat in on some surgeries. I HATE it when they get the simplest things wrong. Use to laugh at ER when they’d once in a while have an IV hooked up backwards or any medical show where they’re doing CPR and have that all messed up. The docs don’t do CPR in a hospital setting, there’s usually 1 doc rattling off orders and the nurses and respiratory therapists are doing the work, administering the meds, starting the IV’s and yelling out cardiac rhythms. Docs just stand there and before they call it will usually ask "anybody have any suggestions" or "I’m going to call it, anybody disagree" Also if someones on a ventilator and they arrest they take them OFF the ventilator to do CPR since the machines are pressure limited and the chest compressions would cause them to stop giving the breath due to the pressure on the chest.
I do remember one case that was like a scene from Days. We had a patient in ICU on a ventilator that arrested. We were doing CPR for quite a while with no response when the doc called it. We had the the ventilator out of the room and stripped of all the equipment. We were in the middle of cleaning the venitlator and getting it set up for the next patient that would need it when we got a call from the ICU, bring the vent back. After the doc had called the code and everyone left the room the patient started breathing and had a pulse. You would have thought Dr. Rolf was lurking around the corner.
In Salem you can file for a divorce today and have it finalized tonight, young children or not. Sami and Lucas went out of the country to get their quicky divorce and thy just had a new baby, Allie.
Yup, we know if that happens and there’s a chance it’s Phillips he’ll be all over it like EJ was when Sami was pregnant with the twins.
Phillip has always been possessive. Look how he was with Chloe when they were dating in high school and after. He was very possessive and jealous, downright scary at times.
When Andrew was good he was great but he wasn’t consistent enough. Katie, I agree could sing but she didn’t do anything to stand out or as Simon would say, didn’t have a "WOW" moment and I didn’t see one coming. I can see Tim being one of the next to be let go as the ones voting for those let go are going to be casting their votes for the better contestents and Tim, even though he has his good moments isn’t that good.
