Karen’s Opinion

My most wonderful son, Greg, spent 4 or 5 hours last night finding Pioneer Woman’s book signing location in St. Louis, bought a cookbook for me and waited in line to have it autographed. He even put her on the phone so she could say hi to me while she signed my book! What a great kid.

I love you Greg. Thanks for such a wonderful surprise.

Today is the day that our sweet little Brody had to undergo surgery. He has had goop in his eye for almost a year. We cannot get it to clear up and believe me, we have tried. We tried ointment that had to be put in his eye every four hours. I was diligent with that and it did not help. I had the vet give us allergy pills in case our Indiana weather and pollen was causing his eye to fester. I thought that was unlikely since both eyes were not having the problem but I gave it a try. The allergy pills only made him sleepy.

Brody’s surgery involved cutting the inside of his eyelid where his eyelashes curled inwards. The vet also flushed both of his tear ducts. While there he was neutered and had a micro chip installed in case he were to run away or get lost. He is an escape artist so this is a good thing.

I got a call from the vet who was laughing as she told me that everything went well. She was laughing because Brody is already running around the clinic. You can’t keep a good dog down!

The not so good of my day:
I took my sewing machine in to have it serviced. I did not want to part with it but reluctantly took it in for its yearly check up. I picked it up and was so glad to sit down to sew. I had everything lined up and began sewing. All was good until I lifted my foot off the pedal to stop the machine. The machine kept sewing! It is possessed. It doesn’t stop sewing when I tell it to stop. This is not good. Ugh. Back to the repair shop it will have to go. I do not have time for this. I WANT TO SEW!

After planning for quite a long time. The wedding was held and we had so much fun! I hope to post pictures soon and tell you all about it. For now though, I am wiped out! I don’t know why since I didn’t have to do that much. Everything was beautiful and it was great to see family and friends enjoy themselves. I didn’t cry at the wedding and was very proud of my baby boy while he stood at the altar and made an important step.

I think we are ready. Ready for the wedding on Saturday. As the parents of the groom, we don’t have near as much to remember as I am sure the bride’s parents do. I would definitely have to make a list. I just have a pile.

I can’t wait to see everyone who is coming for the wedding. That is the fun part of weddings; seeing people and catching up. I just hope I remember to ask Katie why they moved and who is watching my nephews tanning shop. Important stuff!

Two more sleeps to go and I hope they are restful ones.

I hate to mention it but it seems as if my wedding posts breed spam. Please, if you sell wedding candles, seat covers or travel brochures, do not leave a comment on my blog. I will not advertise for you. Your comment will be deleted or changed to suit me.

My son turned 24 years old yesterday. Yesterday was also Father’s Day so it was celebration day all the way around. Greg made his own birthday cake and it was delicious. It was a yellow cake with white chocolate mouse filling. I offered to make him a cake but he has been wanting to try out his cake slicer and said he was going to make his own cake. Here he is blowing out his candles. The candles melted so quickly that we had puddles of wax mixed with frosting. I’ll never buy those skinny swirly candles again.