This Post is to You Mom....

Mom and Michael on his birthday.


Mom and me....oh I was a little fatty!


My favorite picture of Mom and me!

21 long years its been.

I understand now, so much that I didn't while I was a young "know it all."

We would make great partners today, you and I. If you could only see what I do for a living today, I know you would be proud. I remember years and years ago, when I was a teen, and walked out into the garage. You had tables set up, with all of our "stuff" on it. "What's going on?" I asked you. You told me you were having a garage sale. I was horrified! (Garage sales were not commonplace then.) How could you let the whole world know that we need money so bad you are selling our stuff? Smart a** teenager is what I was. Now, I shop approx 100 garage sales, estate sales, and auctions a week, looking for lovelies for my website and auctions. I wish you were here to say "I told you so!"

I am so very sorry, I lost you when I was too young, too caught up in my own worries to really get to know you. If I could do it all again, I would be proud to shop the sales with you mom, and even have our own sale.

I would love to sit and have coffee and chat. Go shopping. Oh mom, you could really teach me a thing or two about gardening, I struggle with it so. You had the magic touch when it came to gardening, just like everything else. I look back now, it seems everything you did was perfect. At least in my eyes it was. I just wish I realized it then. I am so sorry. I see women complain about their mothers "driving them crazy." I want to scream at them…how I wish you were here to drive me crazy…to see my boys grow up into responsible, handsome young men.

We were struggling when you and dad were raising our family…yet, you never let us do without. We had the most wonderful Christmases…the most wonderful birthdays. You were at our school plays, you yelled at the umpires when they made a bad call at our softball games. When I was about to be a new mother, you were at my door every Saturday with new maternity clothes you made me. You helped me decorate my first apartment. You did handstands to make my babies laugh when they were sick and crying. You taught me to sew, embroider, crochet, knit, cook, clean and love….I just didn't realize it then. I realize it know. I owe you so very much, and since I didn't tell you then, I'm telling you now...right here for all the world to see.

I know you are in heaven for you are an Angel. I hope to see you there someday, we have so very much to catch up on. Just when I began to appreciate you, I lost you.

I miss you terribly, now more than ever and more each and every year that passes.

I never said it enough so I'm saying it now....I love you Mom!

Happy Mother's Day!

And to all my blogger friends, if your mother drives you crazy, please, appreciate her and put up with it...for someday she will no longer be here to drive you crazy.

Scary Night Last Night

Well, last night was a horror. My little pooch Baby Girl, my companion, my assistant, my only "daughter", my very best friend, starting having seizures last night. At first, I didn't know what was happening, she jumped off the couch and I thought she hurt her leg, and was in pain, we tried massage, everything. Panicked, I called our vet, but they had closed for the night already. Finally ended up taking her to an emergency vet quite a long drive from here. Turns out she had an epileptic seizure, and will be on meds the rest of her life. That, I can handle, losing her, I could not. When we lived in Las Vegas, she was left in a box on Las Vegas Blvd at approx 3 weeks old. It was 115 degrees. I took her home, and it seems she knew we rescued her. She has been the friendliest, lovable dog I have ever had, and I have had many...she is a mutt, not sure what she is, but if I would have lost her I would have been devastated. They gave her meds last night, kept her overnight to watch for more seizures, but she was given the ok, and I picked her up today. She's a bit whacked from the meds, and they say she will be for a few weeks, but she is snoring on the couch right now, (with her brother Griffey right by her side, you can only see his butt in this pic....

Roses on My Desk!

Just look what my new blogger friend Lisa from http://pinkpaintandroses.typepad.com//

sent to me! A wonderful notepad holder and stampholder for my desk with what else? Roses! She knows me already! Thank you Lisa, I love them!

Some of my finds this week...

First, a beautiful toleware silent butler...



Next, an absolutely huge Chippendale Toleware tray....



Then, this to die for cast iron barbola type rose lamp...are roses barbola if they are cast iron? I don't know, I looked up barbola and cannot find a definition for it! Anyway, I think I must change the shade on this!



An antique oil painting of yellow roses....



And I found the most fabulous whats it called!...not sure, like a trumeau mirror but the mirror are on the outside, a panel on the inside..(empty, but I ordered a beautiful antique tapestry on ebay to put in it.)...and it has lights under the mirror...it hands horizontal, not vertical, probably over a fireplace mantle...but it is old, full of gesso roses and carvings, and is to die for! I will post pics once I get the panel to put in it!

I actually accomplished a lot this week, rearranged and purged my office/guestroom...I think Baby likes the new arrangement, she can watch the world go by!



She is my only "daughter" in my world of hubby, 2 sons, 1 male dog, and Baby...she is my girl! Although just a tad lazy!



And those of you posting pics of your daffodils peeking out...I am sooooo jealous!
This is what I see...this is supposed to be the channel leading to the lake by my house...



Not sure about you, but I don't see a daffodil anywhere!

Well, its not perfect, but its my first!

Ok, its not perfect, but this is my first successful scrap...finally figured out Photoshop! I think my pics are too small. I am now hooked, pulled out all the family pics out of the suitcase, scanning them all in, and I don't think I will ever sleep again!

I relaxed today, finally

Last night my oldest son Michael came over to spend the night...(or maybe he just came over so I could do his laundry???)...Anyway, the boys live about and hour and a half away and they work goofy hours so I hardly get to see them. We just kinda kicked back, watched a movie...The Sentinel, I think it was called, with Michael Douglas and Kieffer Sutherland...then we went out to a place overlooking the lake for dinner. I miss having the boys live with us...but, I know...I have to ... whats that saying....something about them leaving the nest? Whatever...I miss them! Nick is coming next week I hope. So, I got nothing accomplished today, but I have to say, this is the very first day I did not go out treasure hunting, list on Ebay, pack, or something business related. But....in the middle of the night last night I woke up, I finally thought of a handmade Christmas itemI could create for the website that everyone else is not doing....so tomorrow, we hit an estate sale, then off to buy the supplies....wish me luck! Will post pics as soon as I complete one!