Many times my mom sat by my bed when I didn’t feel well.  She took my temperature, put cool cloths on my forehead, read and sang to me.  When I was feeling better, but still too ill to attend school, I lay on the couch in our farmhouse kitchen while Mother worked, but was near.

Then our roles were reversed, and I cared for Mother as she developed Alzheimer’s.  I remember sitting beside her bed in the nursing home after she broke her hip.  Mother seemed to become very depressed at that time and was confused about many things . As I sat …read more

Dog owners are being warned of a new outbreak of parvo called Canine Parvovirus Type 2c, a highly contagious viral disease.

Parvo attacks the dog’s intestines and typically causes severe diarrhea and vomiting, resulting in weight loss and possible death. Dozens of dogs have died from it this winter — 23 in Michigan in the last two weeks alone — and many more are possibly infected.
Even Oprah, who just ten days ago showed off her two new cocker spaniel puppies, Ivan and Sadie, has already had one of the pups succumb to the illness while the other is currently being treated …read more

We have the GomBu. The crud. Aside from some terrible allergies we were fine, then Zack woke around 11:30 last night with a fever. Now I’ve got the squirts. Hubbby didn’t go to work. Ainsley went off to school, but it wouldn’t surprise me to get a call from the nurse. So, in lieu of a super original post I thought I’d let Blog Fabulous readers check out the baby poll from So Sioux Me.
I took a photo of my baby and my in-laws baby. One is a girl and one is a boy. 65% of readers believed Zack was a …read more