Leave the Puce

Well, we are on a Monsters Inc or (Monsters Incorptidated...as Em tries to pronounce it) kick lately. There is a part in the movie where Mike tells Sully where to file all the paperwork he is going to do for him. He tells him to put one pile in "such folder", give the pink ones to Roz, the green ones to accounting....and then he pauses, turns around as he is leaving and yells to Sully "leave the puce" (evidently puce is a color????)
Anyway, Emory was starting down the hallway to her room the other night and said "Mommy I am going to get something special for you out of my room." She turned, walked a couple of steps and then turned around and said, "Leave the puce" with the proper hand motions and all. Still makes me giggle!

New Sugar Britches Embroidery Website

Many of you have been asking and yes, I did change websites for my embroidery simply because the blogspot is free. Sorry for the confusion. You can find the new website at
sugarbritchesemb.blogspot.com
Thank you for your continued support!

I feel LOVED

What a wonderful birthday this year! I had such a lovely day with some of my favorite people. I started the day with my sweet snuggles from Emory..always a treat! The we went to our Mom Bible Study where my Mom-In-Law made our group sopapilla cheesecake to honor my birthday. What a SWEET surprise!

Some friends for BS then took me to a great lunch at a little Mexican food dive here where I fully enjoyed the freedom on not having Emory for a little while. Marsha took her home so I could enjoy my massage that Jody had booked for me. (Another wonderful surprise).

Jody and I then had a wonderful hibachi grill dinner followed by my favorite dessert. What day could be better?

Thank you to all of those that made my day so special!

Celebration of Granpa Joe

We celebrated the like of Jody's Granpa this week at his memorial. We are all sad for the loss, but are so thankful of his conversion to Christ 10 years ago. He will be greatly missed by all of us!

Here are some pics with Emory last summer when they came up to escape the hurricane. This is the two of them doing monkey face to each other.

In the same breath, we are grieved in the passing of Great Grandmother Sallie as well. What a wonderful 104 years she had on this earth. Emory will miss her sweet "Granbury Sallie" as she called her....and she will also missed the way she talked.....Em would say "she talks funny", but what else would you expect for 104 year old voice?

I broke It

I never know when I am going to have an uncontrollable Tate moment. Most of the time when I feel one coming on I can control it pretty well. In fact, I have them all the time and no one probably notices! Which is a comfortable thing for me. But, you never know when one of those big ones....you know the ones that come with sobing.....are going to hit.

The last random one hit me at our Couples Retreat last fall when a sweet husband was giving a talk about his family life and their issues with infertility. Right after he was done, I got up to go the bathroom (or so I thought), but a strange thing happened when I got there. I fell to the floor and sobbed like a baby on that dirty floor for a good 20 minutes. Every time I got up, I would catch a glimpse in the mirror of myself and fall to the floor again to continue with the madness.......My sweet friend Kelly finally caught me, just when I had pulled it together for the 50th time.....and then I fell into her arms and started all over. So funny, I can laugh about it now. ....

So, to continue with the present story, today I was at the gym in one of my favorite aerobics classes when it hit. Our classes this week have been a third of the size they normally are, so we only had about 10 people today. At the end of the class (keep in mind I compete against myself...and competed very hard today) I am always physically exhausted. We were stretching during our cool down when our instructor decided she wanted to know everyone's name. We went around and told her that and then on came the subject of children. She mentioned to the group that my daughter has the most gorgeous red hair. (Of which I agree...thanks God) and then proceeded to ask me THE question....you know, the normal question EVERYONE asks expecting a normal answer...."How many children do you have?"

So, as all 10 people turned to look at me, I answered how I normally do:

"I have two but my little boy passed away." I realize that is always a shock and I would be shocked if I was on the other end. She quickly said, "Oh so sorry, and then something to the effect of....hope everybody had a good class...." I know she was flustered and that is OKAY!

I was still fine at that point, until a sweet girl around my age approached me and asked me what had happened.....I told her the really really short version that ends with "it was awful"...awful always meaning losing a child....not having Tate. And then I lost it.....went to the gym bathroom and balled my eyes out. I then had to collect myself to go pick up Em in the play room, and as soon as I saw her yell "Mommie" in her excited voice I lost it again.....and then again on the way home.

So yes, I BROKE IT, I broke my new years resolution of only 3 vanilla diet cokes a week, because sometimes, just sometimes, things can be fixed with a vanilla diet coke and today was that day.