Today with Cakes!

Hey Yall!  I am starting back slow.  I want to blog.  I just feel like things are not interesting enough around Cakesland to write about.  So I am going to start back slowly.  Things may be different than last time.  And they might be the same as last time.  Bored already aren't you....

Today is like a picture book.  You know, like a book that tells a story with pictures......oh, I forgot who I was talking to......my loyal following of three are all extremely intelligent and graduated from the picture books long ago.  Well, I tend to be going backwards.  So with two pictures I will share with you   "Today with Cakes"......

Got the picture?  From the pictures?

All pictures came from Pinterest.  As soon as I have recovered and have a couple of minutes to read up on giving credit where credit is due to the pictures I use, I will start crediting.  Until then....

Later....

Back By Popular Demand....

Hey yall!  I have been reminded lately that I have neglected Frannycakes.  And that everyone is sick of seeing Weezie, well, sick.  Well, she is, well.  I am sitting here thinking about what I can start blogging about and still keep all of my three readers.  So stay tuned....

Sick Little Puppy

Hey Yall!  I have been at the vet already today with Weezie.  I just realized that she really isn't a "puppy" anymore, but an old lady.  She will be 10 years old this May.  Poor little thing!  She has been sick throwing up and just acting like she is hurting and can't get comfortable.  I slept on the couch last night so I watch out for her.  Those of you who know Weezie know that she does not like to be held, does not like to sit on furniture with you and generally is happiest if nobody pays her any attention. 

For the past couple of days all she wants is to lay on the couch and for me to hold her.  So I took her into the vet today.  She has a history of bladder stones and had surgery several years ago.  After a thorough exam, he started gently pressing on her spine and she would tighten up.  He feels like she has hurt her back.  An x-ray showed she did have some stones and one in her kidney. She also has a bladder infection.  But he didn't feel like that was causing her the most pain.  He feels like the worst pain in coming from her back.

So he gave her a shot of steroids, a bottle of prednisone to start tomorrow, muscle relaxers and antibiotics.  I took these pictures when I got home after I gave her the medicine.  I think the muscle relaxers kicked in.  The girl is out and snoring her heart out.  Did you notice the collar she is wearing?  A girls gotta wear some bling even when she doesn't feel good.  

I guess I will go continue to do some cleaning out and throwing away.  It is ashamed that I don't have some muscle relaxers to take with Weezie.  That couch is big enough for us both!

Graduation from Nursing School!!!!!!!

December 17 was a very exciting time for our family.  Jamie graduated with a degree in nursing.  For those of you that don't know the whole story, very few of you I am sure, Jamie decided to return to school after an unfulfilled business career.  He had received a degree in Business from the College of Charleston years ago.  He decided to go back to college to get his degree in nursing which is so perfect for him.  I know he will be a wonderful nurse and touch the lives of his patients.  We are so proud of him!!!!  Way to go Jamie!!!!

The whole family got in their cars and headed to Kentucky.  Such a fun 11 hour drive.  We were hoping for good weather and no snow on our drive and Mother Nature came through for us.

The graduation ceremony was so nice and seemed very personal.  Each student had written who they wanted to thank and why.  It was very touching.  Lesley pinned him.  Such a good day!!!

Jamie and Lesley

   

All My Children.....The Jackson Family

All of us again.  We were freezing!

Jamie and his Gran Gran

Jamie with Aunt Vickie and Gran Gran

Grandaddy and Ga Ga with James Thomas

Jamie and Lesley with Lesley's parents

Jamie and Lesley and her family. 

Want to know the icing on the cake?  He already has a job and has begun working!  So proud of you Jamie!  We love you!

Public Service Announcement

DO NOT, I repeat, DO NOT use a razor to shave off your stray eyebrow hair even if the hair is an inch long and appeared overnight.

You are welcome.

Love

Hey Yall!  After I posted yesterday, I realized that I had forgotten about some pictures that I took with my cell phone while we were at Jamie's.  Grace Darling, my grand-dog, has terrible allergies.  And when they are at their worst, she manages to pull out all the hair on her paws and lick them until there are sores.  Poor baby.  Lately her allergies have been flaring so she gets to wear her cone....which is something like a crown but not really.  It doesn't seem to bother her at all and has learned how to get around with it on.  In this pic she is wearing her halloween costume.  

                                                                      Grace Darling



I couldn't leave out a picture of Jamie relaxing on their fabulous sofa.  He's so cute.  I just want to squeeze his cheek.  I am his momma.  I can say that.

                                                                              James Jamie


I guess I need to go and check out my cell phone photos.  There is probably a few blog posts there just begging to be written...probably...

Later...

Jamie and Lesley and Kentucky

Hey Yall!  Long time no see!  Mr. Frannycakes and I took a trip to Kentucky last weekend to see Jamie and Lesley.  They moved during the summer to a town about an hour away from where they were living.  The town they are living in is so cute!  And we loved their house.  I'm sorry I don't have any pics from the inside!  I will do better the next time we are there.  They have a new sofa, a sectional, that Mr. Frannycakes and I lurved!  We have a sofa that is not long enough for us to lay down on and take a nap comfortably.  But they do.  We all watched the Georgia Tech football game.  I was laying down dozing.  Dick was laying down.  Jamie was laying down.   Leslie was making jewelry.  And there was still room left on the sofa!!!  Even with Grace Darling and Weezie on it!  We will definitely be getting us something like it in the future.  Can't wait.

Saturday night we had dinner with Leslie's parents who came over to visit and join us for a storytelling festival that Jamie and Lesley had planned for us to attend.  There were 5 or 6 storytellers that had been at this festival that started earlier in the week and we were attending the last performances.  There was a huge tent and it was filled with people.  It was wonderful and I am so glad we were able to go.  One of the storytellers went to the same college I did and was probably there one of the years I was.  It is a small world.  After all.  At least that is what I have heard....

I sure hated leaving them.  Living so far apart is the pits.  But we will be going back in December for Jamie's graduation.  Can't wait.

Later...

Hello.....My name is Frannycakes...

Hello...My name is Frannycakes...You might remember me from long, long ago when I pretended to post whitty tales of my exciting (cough, cough) though somewhat humdrum life.  I cannot be blamed for the entire time I have been away.  Blogger has had a problem and my blog was lucky enough to be one that would not work.  I make no promises.  But I will try and do better.  Try.

Have yall read The Help?  OMG!!!  It is so good!  I loved it.  I even talked Jamie into listening to it on tape.  He loves it.  And the movie is coming out soon...

32 Years of Wedded Bliss.....Happy Anniversary Dick!

Happy Anniversary Dick!

Thirty two years seems like a really long time,

but after looking at these pictures, it was just yesterday,

wasn't it?

I love you!



 "What do you mean he's not a train engineer?"

Did Someone Call for a Nurse?



Sunny Florida

Hey Yall!  I guess by now no one reads Frannycakes any more.  I have been a horrible blogger.  So for those of you who actually still check once a month to see if anything has changed, you are in luck!  Mr. Frannycakes and I drove south to sunny Florida for a romantic getaway work meeting that he had scheduled.  While he slaved away in a meeting, I slaved away in a lounge chair at the pool.  It was glorious.  Our hotel was on the beach and there were lots of the wooden chairs with umbrellas set up.  Of course you have to actually pay for those.  And since I had no idea how long I would be out in the sun since my lilly whites haven't seen the sun since last summer, I decided I would play it safe cheap and lay by the pool.  There were two pools, one heated and one not.  The throngs of middle school age boys and their families that were there for a baseball tournament decided they desired warm water to swim in and left the unheated pool to the old biddies that were really only there to lay in the sun anyway.  I always dread going to lay out because there always seems to be a bunch of itty bitty bikinis and model figures laying around.  Well folks, it was a good day for me.  There were two similiarly voluptuous in a once piece and one who made us all look good in a bikini.  A BIKINI!!!!!  A good day!!!!!!

On Friday, Mr. Frannycakes and I headed down to the pool.   Ms. Bikini was no where to be seen and neither were the one piece girls.  A couple of  young girls were laying out with their 'kinis on.  I wanted to tell them enjoy it while they could. 

Our good time was cut short by work trouble, so we headed back to Savannah on Saturday.  We were supposed to go to spend the night with Chris and Linley and Maeby Shea.  Not being able to go there was a big disappointment. 



Gazing past my pedicure needy feet at the Tiki Bar dreaming of a diet coke on ice...



Mr. Frannycakes needs to spend some extry time in the sun......



Later gator....