I just talked to mom.  She sounds really alert.  She's been sitting up in a chair and even took a few steps already.  She had some pretty bad oatmeal for breakfast and was complaining about that.  Food should improve once she's able to make her own choices.  Dad spent most of the night with her, but went home about 6 this morning to take care of the cats and rest for a bit.  He was there at 9, so it must not have been a very long rest!

Thanks for all your prayers - she's really feeling their effects!

My mom is undergoing surgery to replace her left hip right now.  We'd appreciate your prayers.  I'll post later once I hear how it went.

EDIT:

Mom's in a hospital room now.  The surgery went very well.  The hip was worse off than the dr even thought, but it's brand new now - she'll be the bionic woman!  She sounded pretty groggy, but the fact I was even able to talk to her over the phone is something!  Keep those prayers going - she's seeing the benefits!

I was telling coolmom56 about my pots, so I have to share them with the rest of you.

We learned to do this in garden club and I'm hooked!  So is Michelle!

This was my first one, done at garden club.

This one was done there too, for my aunt Em.

Then I did this one for my neighbor, June.

And this one for neighbor Diane.

So much fun!

*edit*

You want directions?  Sorry, I should have posted that at the same time.

Take a terra cotta pot.  You can paint it using outdoor acrylic paint if you desire.  That's what I did.

Then you apply things to the dried painted pot using modpodge glue.  The first two examples used napkins, in which I cut around the designs and peeled back the napkin to only the very top thin layer than has the design.  Since the napkin is so thin it's easier to apply the glue to the pot and not the design.  You can modpodge lightly over that once all the decorations are in place.  The other two examples use stickers, which are actually much easier.

Once the top layer of modpodge is dried apply a terra cotta sealer.  We couldn't find that, so we used a general sealer, which bubbled.  So I'm going to make a bigger effort to find the right stuff!

I think it's really funny that my one line blog generated more responsed than what I've received in a long while.  LOL.

Xango took forever to get these videos postable.  These are some videos we took of the kids while we were in Orlando.

Kaden really liked playing the bongos in Animal Kingdom.

But he liked the water even more!

And Skyler gets wherever he wants to get now!  There is one where he's crawling around with a boat, and that what I'd thought I'd uploaded.  I'll have to find that one.

Snow in April should be outlawed.