I love this stuff!!

If you haven't heard of this stuff or don't have any you should get some soon! I think every household should have some Wilton Armetale, http://www.armetale.com/. I registered for some pieces for our wedding and received quite a few. I didn't realize how great this stuff was until I actually received it and went to use it. You can cook in it!! Put it in the oven, chill in the fridge, grill or even cook on your stove top. As most of you know I am clumsy and I love this because it will hopefully be impossible for me to break! It is very attractive as well. If you are in Florida you can get this stuff at Macy's and Belk's. It is somewhat expensive but you can find it 50% off at both stores. I got 2 pieces for 50% off at Belk's a couple of weeks ago and it is now on sale at Macy's this week. I totally think it is worth the full price but I love a good bargain!! This is definitely my favorite product of the year!!



(Some of the pieces we received for our wedding)

50/50

Well today was Maggie's week check-up with the vet. She has been feeling better for the last few days, so we both thought she was getting better. The vet listened to her lungs and they are the same, still pneumonia. The vet had me listen to her lungs as well, not good. I had to leave her for an xray and blood test to find out what was going on. Dave and I went back together to pick her up and to get the diagnosis. The vet told us she has a 50/50 chance. Her white blood cell count is off the charts, normal is 16 and she is at 36. She put her on a new antibiotic, since the other one hasn't really made a difference. The vet believes that the thing that has worked the best for her has been her breathing treatments with the coupage. We are instructed to keep that up with the new medicine and hopefully we will see improvement. We will know more in a week. Keep Maggie in your prayers!!

It's a Girl!

A puppy, not a child, of course. Dave surprised me with her Saturday before last. We had a garage sale in the morning and afterwards Dave said he was going to run errands. A little over a hour later he placed a puppy on me while I was sleeping on the couch. My belated birthday gift! We named her Maggie Mae and she is the sweetest thing!

She had a bit of a cough when we got her which progressively got worse the first night we had her. The next day we went back to the puppy rescue to get some medicine. On Tuesday I took her to the vet for her first check up. As soon as I entered the vet they rushed me into a private room b/c I had a "sick" animal as they noted the second I walked in the door. The vet finally came to give her a check and after listening to her lungs she told me that Maggie didn't just have a cold, it was pneumonia. The prognosis wasn't good, she basically told me the worst case scenario and she totally left out any good outcome. She told me that Florida has a lemon law on rescue puppies, well you know what that was referring to...no way could I take her back!! Maggie was placed on a very strong antibiotic and I was ordered to give her steam treatments and then follow that up with coupage (pounding on the chest) 3 x a day. Normal puppy vaccinations were also discussed as well as heartworm and flea treatments. It was all overwhelming and a big blur once I heard the "pneumonia" word. We were finally escorted by the nurse to the front desk to pay our bill but once we got there the vet came out and told us to go back into the room aka "quarantine." I had to pay via the nurse running back and forth from the front desk to the quarantine. The staff was nice and all but after the diagnosis and being confined to the quarantine, I wasn't in the best of moods.

It is now a week later, after many steam and coupage treatments and lots of antibiotics Maggie health is improving. Dave is the official pill popper and I give the treatments. She is starting to act like a puppy! Running, playing, chewing, disobeying, all the typical puppy stuff. I am taking her back to the vet on Thursday for her recheck so we are praying the vet has a better prognosis for her this time.

Some things old and some things new...

Well Dave and I are still getting settled in our home and it is an ongoing project. I am still moving out of my parents' house, we are trying to get out of our storage unit and of course there are all of the wedding gifts. There are storage bins and boxes galore but we are getting there. We had a garage sale last weekend and got rid of most everything we put out. Very successful!! We are going to have another in about a month, so if you want to join in let me know! We finally got my china cabinet to the house and I stocked it with all of our china. Thanks to all who contributed during our wedding, we got all 12 place settings! I love my china cabinet it was my great grandmother's so that makes it very special to me. Another old item I adore is my silver pitcher gently placed in the cabinet. Nana gave it to Dave and I for our engagement, it has been passed down for years in the family. I am proud to be the owner and can't wait to pass it along to my children or grandchildren someday.

Take time to...

stop and smell the flowers. That is so true. I have been so busy from school to wedding planning to moving. I am finally getting back to normal life after many crazy months. This cute vase was given to me for my birthday. It made me realize I need to stop and smell the flowers more often. Enjoy the rest of your week!

1 down, 7 to go...

I have never claimed that I am not clumsy! I am the one who fell down stairs at work while talking on my Blackberry and broke 2 bones in my hand! Needless to say I had an incident tonight with wine glasses and luckily only broke one, wine glass that is not my hand again. :) It broke on me, see picture below. Dave actually had to remove embedded glass from my arm. The cause of this accident is due to the fact that I don't have a shelf in my kitchen that is tall enough to fit my wine glasses. Does anyone else have this problem at their house? I guess this house was built before they made the wine glasses as big as they are today. By the way, I am not ungrateful, I am very happy to have a house, thank you Lee (aka Mother-in-Law). Since I know how much Lee loves her wine, I am really confused on how she stored her wine glasses. See picture below on how I have stored my wine glasses. When I was putting the open box with glasses in the cabinet is when the accident occurred. I am sure you can visualize them sliding out of the open box that is on it's side while I am sliding it into the cabinet... At least all of my china made it into the china cabinet tonight without a casualty, that could have been a real tragedy!!

Blood on arm at top of picture and then down on the top of my hand

Wine glass storage, with missing glass :(