TAMMY!!!

My co-worker, Anne Melville, went to visit her granddaughters in Hermiston last week,. The kids had this sidewalk chalk with 3D glasses. It really looks 3D! So I thought I would make sure you know about it! The kids had a great time with it! They got it at Walmart.

Isaiah Buck and the girls

The girls, Leanna, Joella and Ashley got to go see Isaiah Saturday. They had a great time with him, many laughs and hugs. Ashley said he was like the old Isaiah with his humor and sarcasm (fun sarcasm). He seemed tired a lot, but they really had much fun! He should be hom June 20th so the Bucks are busy remodeling their house to prepare. Isaiah does walk, but his balance is sometimes off. Pray that he eats better so they can take out his feeding tube. He is eating pudding and mashed tators. His throat needs some healing. He is truly a walking miracle. He regained his emotions so has had some tears and much laughter. God is good.
Wake Up Jane (Ashley, Leanna, Joella and Elliot) played for the Wallowa county Talent Show yesterday. They are just so cool!

Ahhh......coffee, coffee, coffee.......how do I love thee? Let me count the ways. Lets see.....with caramel or hazelnut flavoring is always good, sugar free, fat free, with one of those nice little coffee beans on top of the cup. Yes, that is the best way. I admit it. My name is Jackie and I am a coffee-a-holic. I drink at least one pot a day and Tuesdays and Thursdays are especially special because my friend Marty delivers to my office a very special latte every week. So I am totally overdosed on those days. There is always a pot of coffee in the office. This last time I broke down and bought Duncan Donuts ground up coffee. It is really good and I resent having to go back to cheap coffee. But it is just coffee after all. At least with the cheap stuff I can add flavored creamer to satisfy. mmmmm..I love coffee. I think it must be a Mallon trait.
Good news came last night at a school meeting that Isaiah is suppose to be home by mid June. Tammy: one of the teachers here, Mrs. Vernum, plays in an orchestra and was in Hermiston doing a concert. She was visiting with other orchestra members. Some of the Hermiston orchestra told her their church had been praying for Isaiah! I wondered if it was someone from your church.
I really don't even have anything to say today. Just felt like babbling. Probably because I am alone at work and have no one to talk to.

The Ball

I know when you read this you are going to think "Jackie, what were you
thinking!" That is the whole problem! I wasn't thinking!!!

Tonight is Ashley's school ball. At 6:30. Today I remembered the following
things:
1. Her dress needs hemmed, it is way too long. Like several feet. So I
have to do that when I get home at 5:15
2. She also has to take 1 liter of 7-up and a container of apple juice.
Ok, I can go grab that at the store at lunchtime and drop it off at the
school on the way home (it is 2 blockes from my house)
3. There is a cake walk and silent auction to help with the expenses of
her classmate that was in the accident and coma. Well, sorry, I can't do
this. I feel guilty, but i just don't have the time
4. She needs to bring a finger foods dessert. Someone shoot me now.

I would have Ashley take care of this, but she is at the school decorating
all day, then will come home and hurry to get ready. I am so stupid! I
have known these things for weeks and today it just became reality in my
brain!

So, at my lunchtime I suddenly remember that once I went to Dollarstrecher
and bought a bucket of frozen cream puffs. And then I took them to a
wedding rehearsal and sprinkled powdered sugar on them and then drizzled
them in chocolate. Wa la!! So off I went to Dollarstrecher to get the
bounty. Quite proud of myself at this point....

THEN......my brain was quite good to me. I thought about how I hate
sewing and what a pain it is going to be to hem this beautiful dress. And
a friend I did see in Safeway and she suggested: Duct Tape...............when you live in the country you memorize the manual "10,000 Things You Can Do With Baling Twine and Duct Tape". Well, why didn't I think of Duct tape before??? Do not laugh at my redneck ways......and this bears no further comment from
you either......
I mean really! Duct tape like...saves the world! Whether you are putting
it across someone's mouth, waxing with it, or hemming a ball gown.....and
it comes in Martha Stewart colors! But alas Safeway only had it in white,
but IT WAS ON SALE!!!! Everyone knows I love a good bargain! Now, my sister in law is the expert on Baling twine and I know she could have done something beautiful to the dress in baling twine, but I didn't have her here to help.

So tonight I will flee from work, go home, throw together the dessert and
tape up Ashleys gown and everyone will think I am supermom. And at 6:30
the girls will leave for the ball looking dazzling and giggling and I will
throw myself on the couch, put my feet up on the coffee table, and let out
a huge sigh...............and smile.