I spent most of the weekend (well, as much as the vet would let me) at Simba’s side. The rest of it was spent with family, celebrating the bro’s engagement–which was hard to do with all my nervousness about Ba.

Ba’s made a lot of progress: he went from totally refusing food, to eating cookies out of my hand when I went to see him this evening….He’s coming home tomorrow after the vet does some more tests. So, we’ll have more time together. The vet doesn’t know how long Ba has–could be months, could be a few years…. But, at least he’ll be coming home, and I can love him to bits every day before he has to leave me.

So, Happy Mother’s Day it is, after all!

Speaking of Mother’s Day….Josh got me the SIRIUS RADIO SATELLITE THINGY! It’s arriving this week. Howard, here I come! Finally! I’ve missed him so….Anyway, the Monkey got me magazines and a Cash For Life lottery ticket that I have yet to scratch. My parents got me Rachael Ray’s 365: No Repeats: a Year of Deliciously Different Dinnerscookbook! I really don’t like Ray on her TV shows, but she is talented, and the cookbook looks great! My goal is to cook one recipe from it a day–in order (I’ll change the meat recipes to chicken, etc.). I’ll let you know how that goes.

Also from the Monkey….
We had a brunch this morning for the bro’s engagement. First, Josh spilled an entire glass of orange juice all over the place–on me, on the Monkey, etc.. I quickly grabbed the Monkey–rescued her from complete saturation. I put her on my lap, and, SPLAT, she stuck her whole hand in a bowl of syrup and, ACK, slapped her sticky syrupy hand on my shoulder so that she could get her other hand in the bowl, which she managed to do….WHAT A MESS! Usually, I can easily laugh at these things…today, it took some effort and a lot of soda water….

From me to Josh….
There was a bug on my strawberry at brunch today….I showed everyone, of course. And, then I showed Josh. He took the strawberry from me, I thought, to look at it. I turned away for a second, and, when I looked back at him, the strawberry was gone! IT WAS IN HIS MOUTH!!!! Oops! He had thought I was giving it to him to eat! He hadn’t realized I was showing him a bug on it….

Thanks, friends, for supporting me in this waiting period for my Ba….