Long post....it's been a busy week!

Last week, I was checking out the status post of my friends on Facebook and noticed that my daughter, who lives 4 hours too far away, posted that she was ready to move in to her new house. After a quick phone call to her, I packed my bags, gassed up my car and hit the road! I got there just in time to help her hubby make another trip to the house to pick up some more boxes and get the rest of the beds. We spent the next two days picking up the rest of the boxes and furniture and getting the house cleaned for inspection.
I love her new house. It's in a very nice neighborhood and not secluded like the other house is. My older grandson will be able to play outside with the neighbor kids, so he's pretty excited about that.
My daughter had planned a much needed-well deserved-girls weekend out, so I brought my grandsons home with me since their daddy had to work...and I wanted more Gramma time too! But, I also needed to get back in time to watch my youngest grand-daughter. Of course, I was running late, but making good time with no potty breaks.
The oldest grandson was busy playing with his Nintendo DS...FULL BLAST..."because the sounds effects aren't any good if you don't have the volume turned all the way up"!! But the baby was tired of riding in the car seat and started fussing, I was trying to entertain him by teaching him the sounds that animals make. The last one was "what does a doggy say?" He got that one down pretty good since he has a little doggy at home and he's familiar with the sound! ARF, ARF! ARF!!
I had the rear view mirror tilted down so I could see the baby in the back seat. I was almost back in to city limits, when I looked in my side-view mirror and saw this:

Oh great..what did I do wrong? Well, come to find out, while I was looking in the rear-view mirror at my grandson, I missed the speed limit sign when it reduced speed by 10 mph. So instead of driving 3 miles over speed limit, I was driving 13 mph over!!! No wonder he pulled me over! I do tend to have a lead heavier-than-usual foot...especially when I'm on the highway, but NEVER when my grand-children are the in the car!
The nice officer walked up to my side of the car and shined his sun-bright-high-beam-like-flash light in my face.
"You in a hurry?"
"Yes sir, as a matter of fact I am" I said...in a very sweet innocent tone of voice, of course.


Key in background noise "ARF ARF ARF.....VAROOM, CRASH, OH NO!...ARF ARF ARF"

He told me what he clocked me at. I told him why I missed the sign. He asked me where I was going. I told him I was headed to the softball complex to pick up my grand-daughter so I can watch her while my son and his wife play in the CHURCH (had to throw that word in...I knew only God could help me now!) league softball game"

Key in more background noise "ARF ARF ARF....BANG BANG, "I MISSED", BANG BANG...ARF ARF ARF"

Then he asked me where I was coming from. "I'm coming from my daughters house, 4 hours away"
"Who are these kids with you?" "They are my grandsons. I brought them home with me until Tuesday."
After a series of more (of what I thought were unnecessary) questions "What ages are the kids?" "What church do you play for?" "What time is the game?", he finally asked for my drivers license and proof of insurance. "Mam, your insurance is with State Farm?..I hear the man at this office is no longer in business" "No sir, a woman took over and she's running the office now." What does that matter? As long as I'm insured right? And then....go figure...the nice officer looked at my insurance papers and said that the only proof it shows is that my insurance expired in November! What? Oh No! My hubby took my insurance papers and card to work to make copies of them! He had to insure a new (to us) vehicle his company just gave to him. (I love free stuff...especially automobiles!) He never put it back in my glove box! UGH! What now officer?

Key in even more background noise "MAMAMAMAMA....ARF ARF ARF....OH NO..GET BACK HERE GUY..YAY, I GOT HIM...MAMAMAMA...ARF ARF ARF"

Ok...by this time, all I could think of was "how am I going to pay for this ticket?" Speeding, no proof of insurance, and now I'm sure of a noise violation....the list of offenses was getting longer by the minute!
The nice officer came back to my car, after running my tags through to dispatch, and found out that I have a clean driving record...I'm just lucky blessed like that...and yes indeed, I do have insurance. YAY ME! One offense off the ticket!
He gave me back my license and expired insurance papers, looked at me and said "Mam", as my older grandson looked up from his game to say "Gramma, if you really were speeding, you do deserve to get a ticket!" WHAT? I thought you were on my side! Aren't you Gramma's boy?
The officer laughed...."No mam, I'm not going to give you a ticket this time. I don't think anybody could possibly make all of this stuff up!"



But there's more...looky, looky at what....I WON!

Brandie at THE COUNTRY COOK was having a give-a-way, so I entered. Like I said earlier, I love free stuff, and who doesn't like to win prizes?...but this jewelry is absolutely beautiful! If I didn't win it, I was going to ask how I could buy it! Here's what Brandie said about it: 
"So here it is - courtesy of my Momma. She sells this jewelry and it is called lampwork glass jewlery....This jewlery is all handmade by a highly skilled artist who uses a torch and different colored glass to create these works of art."

 
   I love the little cross!

 Thank you soooo  much Brandie!

And be sure to tell your Momma thank you too!

I absolutely love it..and the beautiful bag it came in!

What a great gift this is! I'm still excited!

I love to visit The Country Cook's blog! 

We have a lot in common..

a great love for family...

and food!!

I took the grand-baby back to my daughter last night. I had so much fun with him. He's almost a year old and he gets in to everything!! 

He's almost mastered walking on his own...

won't be too much longer!

My momma and I met my daughter at her in-laws where she hosted a Park Lane Jewelry party. She going to start selling this jewelry ...and I'm thinking about it...not quite sure yet. 

My oldest grandson is spending the rest of his Spring Break with me. His 8th birthday is Saturday and we're having his party here at my house. It's been a long while since I've hosted a young ones birthday party...

this ought to bring back a lot of memories for me.

I hope your week has been as great as mine!

p.s. I'm tired!