So Close & Yet So Far.......

Well, what a day!!!! It's 8:33pm & I just quit for the day, we took a lot of silly pictures to day you know just this and that getting ready & what not! We had a blast...Take a look!
Nikky, cleaning up the spaghetti sauce that splatted all over the wall & tiles, she's so short she can barely reach to the back of the counter...

Ranch Beans, sooo good & sooo easy to make, I'll post up the recipe one night next week!

Nik & The Boss (Bailey) she was the official supervisor/floor cleaner upper ~ hehe...Nikky was busy with the cheese & fruit platter...

The Finished Product, mmmmm I love cheese!

The Seafood Rice ~ This is one of my favorites & Mike's too, that's why I made it!


Yummy Lasagna in the making...

YUUUUUUMMMMMMMMUUUMMUMUMUMUMUMUM!

THE MESS....

My Little Helper after I told her we had to clean the mess, lol!


That's all I got, lol...I'm ready to crash...thank goodness this PARTAYYYYYYY doesn't start until 6:00 tomorrow night I still have so many things to do, we just finished cleaning the house from top to bottom and tomorrow I have to fix my dessert platters make buffalo chicken wings (sniff sniff, these are my Marine's favorite)& pick up the cake and the case of wine....

We were all video chatting with Billy this morning before we got busy he's so good, he had to re-qualify at the range this week, I guess they have to do that every so often now that they are "in the Fleet"??? Anyway he qualified as Expert, he got Sharp Shooter in Boot he was so happy & excited...he's a little superstitious, when he played ball if his team won he didn't was his baseball or football socks...I know gross!!!! Well guess what since he was on such a streak at the range he wore the same Cammie's all week...OMG in that tropical Okinawa heat...he rode out on Thursday with the Gunny...he was telling him that he was so happy that he qualified Expert but that he was happier to have on clean Cammie's he said that Gunny laughed so hard he had to slow down.

When he was finished laughing he said "Platt, I'm glad you told me it was you I was thinking that maybe something died in my truck all week long" ~ what a kid!

I'm going to miss him tomorrow night he's definitely the life of any party..he's going to call to talk to his sister and Mike while their party is going on ~ they have always been so close.

Well now I'm really off!!! Have a great night...Party Pics soon!!!!

Almost Done....

Nikky, checking her FaceBook before we take off!
Tonight we had our toes done before we did anything else! Girls night of pampering, it was so nice. Then it was back to BJs for a few things, UGHHHHH! I'm getting tooo old for this!

After BJs we ran over to Stop & Shop for a few items and then home...I love coming home after a long day!

Cute tootsies!

This is my baby girl....



O.k., Nikky is here and we are going to go and chit chat, I'll be sure to keep you posted on our progress & of course lots of pics!

Have a great night, God Bless!

The Mad Dash....

Well, tonight it's going to be short & sweet...It's 8:47pm & I'm just getting in!!! I ran home changed my clothes fed the dogs, fixed hubby a dish to take to work and then I was out the door again in a flash!

Where to you ask?????


Stocking up on stuff for the party...

Then it was home again to put it all away. Nikky will be here tomorrow night, we're meeting up here at home and then off to get our toes done! Priorities you know, lol then back to BJs to get the things I just didn't have the energy to get then to the market to pick up some odds and ends, like peppers, celery you know the things you need to finish off a dish but you don't want 40lbs of them, hehehehe!!!

Then Friday WE COOK!!!!!!

I'm off to watch the season premier of my favorite show, Ghost Hunters....EEEEEK


Have A Great Night!!!!

Yada Yada.....

Some days I feel like Lilly Tomlin doing her telephone operator skit when I am at work, I know we are all going to be there someday BUT HONESTLY HOW MANY TIMES DO I HAVE TO REPEAT "Sir your account is at zero you don't have a balance with us" ~ OMG, somebody shoot me please! Oh well, I just keep saying patience please patience!!

So we're gearing up for the party...I stopped at my friends house tonight to get her big glass decanter, Nikky & Mike are making Sangria and I thought it would look so pretty in that with all of the fresh fruit floating in it, mmmmmmmmmmmm! And I picked up a few trays, you know how that goes, you go here and there and bring something to munch and never get your trays back...kind of like that one sock that always disappears in the dryer, lol!

Nikky didn't like the dress she bought when we went out on our shopping bonanza a few weeks ago, I stopped by their place on my way home from my girlfriends house to see what was what???? She went back to Kohl's, and yes bought another dress, Lord help us. She is so cute!

Now we are waiting and holding our breath, there's a hurricane heading this way and if it hits they are saying Saturday NO!!! Please say a prayer, please hold off until Sunday & of all things it's Hurricane Billy, hehehehe how funny is that! Well Billy said not to have any fun without him! Seriouslym I don't want anything to spoil their special night ~ we are so looking forward to it!



Have a great night!

Made It Through Another Monday....

Have you ever heard the expression "no matter which way you turn your A#@ is always behind you"? Mine was all day today, the anxiety starts on Sunday afternoon & do you know what's funny????? I never mentioned my Monday anxiety to my son or anyone else in my family, one Sunday night when he was a little boy he got up and came into my room and put his head on my pillow and started to cry and tell me how much he hated Mondays and that they should be taken off of the calendar, well I was so upset knowing that he was just as anxious as I was but I couldn't let him see that so we got up and had hot chocolate, until the day he left for PI that was out ritual. Every Sunday night he would come into my room and we would talk and talk, sometimes we would even get up for a hot chocolate.

When he was in Boot he said that he used to look out at the stars at night and think about me at home all alone especially on a Sunday night, he would say an extra prayer for me. He still gets anxious on Sunday evenings, so he calls and we chat through it. Some things never change! Nikky gets anxious too but she shakes it off easier than we do I guess it's all in your make-up, her anxiety would come when there was a big test or a paper, but she would ace it, making herself crazy along the way. Now she gets anxious about client meetings, but she really doesn't have any worries she is bright & beautiful!

Why do we do that to ourselves, that's a mystery I would like to unlock...then maybe we'd all get some sleep on Sunday nights, hehehehe!

Lazy Day....

Well, it was another hot one up here in sunny old New England....planting is all done for now, I want to pick up two hanging pots for my garage tomorrow night and one for my front stairs and then we're all set!




Menu planned for the party & the Bride To Be approved, YAHOO!

Lasagna & Meatballs
Tortellini Salad
Assorted Sandwiches
Seafood Rice, Portuguese Style
Ranch Beans
Turkey & Ham "Carving Station"
Taco Salad
Wings
Assorted Hors d'Oeuvres
Dessert
Cake
Beer, Wine, Sangria & of course Jello Shots!

I have Friday off & Nikky is sleeping over Thursday night, we're going to get a jump on the cooking and then sneak out to get our toes done! We have such fun together...We'll take lots of pics! Only one missing will be my baby boy...

After we finished up in the yard, I whipped up a meatball pie & my chicken & cheese so that I would have a few things ready for the week & then this is what we did for the rest of the afternoon...Ready, we were so LAZY!!
watching the ball game

Bailey jumped in his chair when he got up to get a drink...

Max hid out on the sun porch....

I snuck away for a few minutes of peace & quiet!

Well, I'm off time to get ready for another week. God Bless, Stay Safe!

Saturday Evening Post!

Well the day didn't quite go as I had planned...sometimes Remicade doesn't agree with me & I have to stay close to home. But, we were able to go to the gardening shop and get some flowers...Nikky & Mike's engagement party is next Saturday and we had some serious yard work to do! Because we had so much rain June & July I never did get around to planting anything, funny though the Red, White & "Blue" petunias that I planted for Billy's going away party came back?????

I didn't think that petunias came back, oh well. I replanted them and they are hanging outside my kitchen window, every time I look at them I think of him. Sometimes after Remicade I get very weepy & today was no exception, badly missing my Marine, I just wish I could hop on a plane to Japan jump off and give him a great big hug...

Oh well, that's part of being a Marine mom!

This is what one of my flower buckets looked like before I planted some beautiful mums (my favorite flower, next would be those big bright blue hydrangeas)...


and after.....


After dinner we took a ride to the beach, Love going to the beach in the late afternoon. I watched a little old couple walking their dog up and down the beach, every time the wife would talk her husband would bend down and look right into her eyes, it was so touching to watch them. I hope that Billy & I get to be that age together. I do love him so much, he is such a great guy!

Well, I'm going to hit the hay, I know it's early but I feel like a wet mop! More tomorrow, have a great night! God Bless...