So my brother and his girlfriend, as you all know, have a baby together, Avery Kohl Delashmitt. Well, I had not seen him since Christmas so this past weekend my parents brought him to athens to visit with his Aunt Alison and Uncle Don. I thought that I might post a picture of him so all of you could see just how much he has grown!
So if you are a friend of mine, then you know how much I hate to get sick. Now, when I say this I am not talking about cold sick, I am talking about getting the stomach virus. I have been trying of avoid this virus that has been going around to everyone I know. First my friends, then Don's family, then my family. I have been staying clear of all these people until I knew for sure they were over this thing. And somehow, Don ended up getting it Monday night. When he called me from work, telling me that he was coming home early because he had gotten sick twice, I was freaking out. If my family had not have had it a few day prior, I would have left and spent a few days in Birchwood. So Don comes home, I fix a bed on the couch for myself, then I head off to Walmart to get the certin items that everyone needs when they have the stomach flu: Sprite, pop sickles, soup, and crackers. Unfortationaly we did not purchase these things when we got groceries two days before! Don was sick all night until about 4am, but he still did not go in to work the next day because he felt awful. That was Tuesday. Tuesday I completely bleached the house! I cleaned the bathroom first, then the kitchen! Tuesday night, even though Don had not been sick, I still lept on the couch just to make sure I wasn't getting the virus. Not after all that hard bleaching work I did. So today is a new day. Don felt 100x better and off to work he went this afternoon. I spent the whole morning, still avoiding Don as much as I could, washing clothes, bedding, towels, rugs...anything that came in contact with Don while he was under the weather. So I'm praying that I do not get sick and making Don stay on the couch tonight just to reinforce the virus that I'm not going down!!!!! Well, at least not without a fight!
Hey guys! I wanted to post a few of my new photos that I am doing. I am so excited about these and I hope everyone likes looking at them! Let me know if any of you would like to purchase one!
Photo: White Flower
Photo: Tellico
Photo: Sun TreesSo if anyone noticed, I deleted all the blogs that I had posted about Bella. Sadly we had to take Bella back to the adoption agency, which was a HUGE decision for me to make! Things we just not getting any better, in fact they were getting worse. Amos was started meowing outside her bedroom at seven in the morning, this went on for three days. The last night she was here, he started doing that at 11:30pm and did not stop until 1:30am, I had had ENOUGH!!! Besides that, the last full day she was here, and what really made us decide to take her back, Amos was constantly chasing her around, jumping on her back and bitting her. When he would do this, Don would pick him up and hold him for a couple of minutes to give Bella a brake. When Don picked him up this particular time, he had some of her hair in his mouth. He had bitten her so hard, he had pulled some of her hair out. That was it for me, she had to go back. I was very sad. Sad for her because I knew that she was not happy here with this really mean cat that was constantly mean to her. Sad for Amos because we were yelling at him all the time. Sad for me because of the love that I started to get in my heart for her. But I knew that this was for the best. The night before she left was the hardest for me, I just laid in bed that night and cried myself to sleep. I miss her! The house is quiter without her here, like I said in a post that I deleted, she was a big "talker". But Amos is back to normal, which is really good. I started to miss they was that he used to be. Hopefully Bella will get adopted to a really nice home, one that will be better than what we could give her. *my heart brakes* I miss you baby girl!!!
So there is the whole story about the cats and I would really like it if no one would talk to me about it because it makes me really sad!
photo by: a.nationSo my Christmas was busy, I guess that goes for everyone who is married and has to juggle a couple of family dinners in one day. Not to mention that my husband has been working second shift through the holidays, so that made things even more difficult. But they turned out great! Don and I got a lot of money for Christmas, and since when we moved into our house the shower had a crack in the bottom, we used our Christmas money to renovate. Now our shower is AWESOME! Other than that we got a few small stuff like; cookbooks, Don got some police stuff, clothes, and I got a really cool chair to go in the living room, along with a quilt rack. We had a great Christmas.
For New Years Eve, which is when we first met so we always celebrate that together, Don was working so we went out the night before to The Coppers Cellar in Knoxville, then to see Benjamin Button. We had a really good time going out on a date together, we haven't done that in while. The next holiday that is coming up is Valentines Day, and I LOVE Valentines Day. So I look forward to that. I'm thinking about making Don a surprise dinner, but I'm not sure what to make just yet. Let me know if you have any really good recipes I could try.
(I deleted the section about Bella)
