Happy Leap Year!

                                         Wow! I can't believe it, it's the last day of the month and it's a leap year. wow!  Mom and I were having a little disagreement about the number of years passes before a leap year occurs.  Mom thought it was 7 when I said it was 4.  When I looked it up on the internet I found out that I was right.
                                    Hailee said there was a kid in her elementary school class that that was born on February 29th and she would get all excited whenever there was a leap year because they would get to celebrate her birthday on that exact date.  We always wonder what that would be like to be born on that date.  But anyway both mom and I are excited for this evening.  The season premiere of America's Next Top Model airs tonight.  For the record Katey likes the show also.
                                Mom and I will watch TV together in the evenings frequently.  There are times when we will both sit on the same couch with a blanket and pillow and watch our show.  But there are other times where we will lay on separate couches.  For the record these are a few of the shows we both like to enjoy.
                            The voice 
                             America's Next Top Model 
                             Project Runway 
                              The Biggest Loser
                              Dancing with the Stars (on occasion)
In my opinion I think I am the only one watching The Biggest Loser this year right now.  Mom said she is kind of sick of the length of it.  The show runs for two hours but as the players get eliminated weekly mom will start watching a few weeks until the live finale.  For those of you that don't know The Biggest Loser is the weight loss show on the nbc channel.  There are shows that mom and I like individually watch.
                             Her shows are: House
                                                      Grey's Anatomy
                                                      Once Upon Time
                                                      The Revelation (even though I do watch that once in a while)
                                                      Brothers and Sisters 
                                                      Grimm 
These are some of the shows I enjoy: 19 Kids and counting
                                                       Doug
                                                     Sponge Bob Squarepants 
                                                    Hey Arnold 
I know you guys must think I am nuts for liking Doug, Hey Arnold, and Sponge Bob because they are cartoons but I can't help it.  I still have a little kid inside of me that still loves those cartoons.  When I told that to Hailee she laughed and she enjoys the same cartoons.  For the record she still enjoys watching Sponge Bob.  Well I think I am going to go for a walk.  It sure is a beautiful day!  
                                                                                                                           Lots Of Love,
                                                                                                              Heather AKA Frodo                                                        
                                                                                                       

                                             Katey's fun visit 
                                 Boy what a night it was last night.  As you all know the oscars were on and mom had received a text from Joy and Katey earlier in the week that they wanted to come over and hang out, but I was sorry to say that Joy wasn't feeling that great so she wasn't able to come.  In a way I was a little disappointed because it's always fun to hang out with her and I was looking forward to giving her the LION KING dvd blu ray that had got into my bag my accident that belongs to James.  But anyway I will just have to give it to mom to take it to work with her.  Hopefully Joy is feeling better.
                      But anyway that presented a little problem for Katey.  Since she doesn't have a car she now needed a ride to the house.  Luckily Mark was out golfing and picked her up on his way home.  LOL he sure does love to golf.  It seems like he can golf in any weather any temperature LOL.
                   He loves to call Katey his "grand daughter.  As a joke I asked if mom would allow Katy to call her grandmother but she said no.  She said if she did she would kill her when she's sleeping.  Yeah like that would ever happen, LOL, mom wouldn't hurt a fly.  Anyway Katey had brought some matching plad pink pants for Hailee, mom, and I from Dillards.  She even packed her own to wear to bed.
                    She laughed when I came downstairs with my pair of pants and said
                           "I like your pants,"  It was funny because we were both even wearing our our UGGs so the bottom half of us matched.  But anyway when we were watching Katy was messing around with her cell phone.  She has an I phone and she has this voice/ text feature.  For the record mom's phone has this feature also.  But anyway Katey knows french and was trying to tell it to text something in french and it would type the wrong words.  Mom tried a few phrases in her phone and it would do the same thing.  
                           They would read to me what the phone typed.  I was literally on the floor laughing.  After awhile I had to excuse myself and go to bed.  This morning it was slow at first but than Mark appeared from the garage before going to work asking if Nathan ate the pizza that was in the garage outside in a pizza box.  From what I heard Nathan didn't eat any pizza and I heard our border collie Onyx was outside.
                          LOL, mom said he had a little guilty look on his face.  I wouldn't be surprised if he was the one who ate that pizza.  He LOVES pizza.  He was literally looking at Hailee and drooling when she was eating a couple of pieces last time.  I couldn't believe it until I saw it for myself.  I know he has a huge sweet tooth but I didn't know he liked pizza that much.  Well anyway I better go. 
                                                                                     Lots of Love,
                                                                                         Heather     

                                 A   mother, daughter evening
                               Boy what a night it was last night!  As I told you on my previous posts last night was finally the night mom and I were going to see Little Women and spend some quality time together.  Mom and I left the house around 6 to get a bite to eat and to make sure we got there in plenty of time.  We were not sure where to go at first.  We wanted to go somewhere where they served something besides meat since it was Friday and since we couldn't have meat.
                              I suggested Curabba's but mom reminded me that there could be a long wait and it could take too long so we just decided to go to GRINDERS.  Neither of us were really hungry for a huge meal so we got something light.  Mom ended up getting a artichoke flat bread appetizer when I ended up getting a strawberry walnut salad with cinnamon croutons and feta and dried cranberries.  We decided to get a coffee to go.  It seemed like they took forever to make the coffee though.  
                        Mom whispered that that was one of the reasons she did not like GRINDERS.  She said the service wasn't that great and that she didn't care for the food all that much.  She said they served good salads but her flat bred wasn't that great.  But anyway we got there plenty of time for the show.  On the way I talked to her about our religion.  
                     I asked not enabling ourselves to eat meat on Fridays during lent was just a catholic thing and she she said she didn't know but she thinks it is.  I asked her why we do it if we aren't going to church.  She looked at me and asked if I missed going and I told her I did and I basically told her what I told Jess the last time we were together.  I felt like I had to drag mom to church, that I was the only one who was really dedicated into going and I didn't want to force anyone into doing that.  Mom nodded with understanding and said it just seemed like such a hassle.
                I remember Jess offering me to go to church with her the last time we were together and when she said that a million thoughts came to my head.  
               "Would that pastor like me because I come from a catholic background?"  
                 "Would I get criticized in the sermon?"  In my uncle's church all that pastor did in his sermons was talk about how wrong the catholic faith was and how they don't know anything and how the lord believes how badly Catholics are.  But anyway enough of the religion back to to the musical.  I thought it was pretty good. Mom and I both thought that the actresses that played Beth and Amy should have been reversed.  For those who are familiar with the story Amy the youngest has blonde curly hair and in the book and film, but in the musical Amy had brown  hair in the musical who wore it in braids the way that Beth was supposed to.  
                         Beth had the blonde curly hair.  But overall it was good so it was a fun mother daughter evening.  Well I better go.  
                                                                                                 Lots of love,
                                                                                                         Heather                        
                         

                              Home sweet home/mother and daughter time

                        Boy it feels good to be home!  Dad had dropped me off  Tuesday evening after we ate.  It was funny because I couldn't get a hold of mom to tell her that I was coming home Tuesday so she thought I was going to be dropped off yesterday afternoon so she was surprised to see me on the couch watching TV in the living room.  Anyway yesterday she had the day off and I hung out with her.  I went with her to her Dr's appointment for her mouth checked out where she she had surgery.  
                    She says it is doing well.  She was eager to be able to eat whatever she wanted again and to be able to brush her teeth.  After that we went to the grocery store to get the things we needed for dinner.  For the record yesterday was ash Wednesday.   Hailee said she had seen people come into MARCS with ashes on their foreheads.  
                   But anyway because of that we made a fish dish.  We made a pistachio crust recipe.  It was really YUMMY but we could only find bags of pistachios that were in their shells and it was a struggle removing each one.  A couple of my fingers started to bleed.  Nathan looked at me and laughed and asked why we didn't we just didn't we get the already clean ones and I basically told him that we couldn't find them at Fishers.  He shook his head and laughed and said we should have went to MARCS they always carry them.
                               Mom laughed and said we almost went there.  After we came back mom did some laundry and I basically asked her for for her her opinion and a little help.  As you all know I am trying to write a novel but I am having trouble deciding what point of view I want to write.  I am thinking of either writing 1st or third person.  Of course 1st person is when the protagonist tells the story using I, me, ect. and the third person is the opposite.  It's almost like you are looking at the characters through a window.  
                             I am leaning toward first person but I told mom that I had a problem in doing that because the protagonist has seizures and when she has seizures she loses conscious.  I told mom she can't tell the story when she loses conscious.  Mom than told me that I could describe how I felt during my seizures and could describe to the reader what it was like during the seizure.  So first person it will probably be.    But anyway just like I had spent time with dad I had spent time with mom.  
                             Of course it seems like I am always with mom since I live with her but that's not always the case.  She's always at work and it's nice to have some alone time to bond.  No offense to dad but mom is a lot more fun to hang around with.  Maybe it's because she's a woman lol.  Anyway tomorrow night is finally the night we go to see Little Women.  Mom said we got pretty good seats. 
                             The show will start at 8 and we will head over there after we get a bite to eat.  I will let you know how the show went.   Well I think I better go.  
                                                                                        Lots Of Love,
                                                                                         Heather    

                                  Last day with dad 
                        Boy I can't believe how fast time passes.  It is my last day at my dad's.  As for those who have read my previous posts I have enjoyed every day so far even though we don't do that much.  I thought I would be staying till Wednesday but that's not the case.  It was Tuesday but still I'd take any day to be with dad.  
                             It's not like we see each other every other weekend like we used to.  But anyway yesterday was probably the most entertaining and funniest day of all..  Nathan had came over for lunch between his college classes and while we were hanging out we lost power.  Dad wasn't really happy because he needed the computer to look up something that he needed replaced in the kitchen.  Luckily James and Nathan both have internet access on their cell phones and got to work researching, or at least James did.
                            Nathan on the other hand was playing a game and wasn't paying attention.  After awhile dad started asking me for ideas on what we should do to entertain ourselves.  LOL sure he would ask me.  I should be the one to know since I am constantly watching Little House On The Prairie and in that time period they didn't have power.  I looked at him and smiled.
                                "I guess we can always churn butter," I answered laughing. He laughed and he said we need some entertainment and he started singing I will always love you by Whitney Houston.  Trust me, it wasn't very pretty.  He was making fun of her.  He was making everyone laugh really hard.  James had returned to his room and I could hear him hear him laughing non stop in the room.  At one point he switched songs and was singing another Whitney Houston song in the same funny way.  
                                   I had to cover my ears when he sang that one.  James appeared from his room and looked at me like he was bagging me to tell dad to stop singing, but I know him better then that if you tell him to stop the louder his voice gets.  He didn't stop until the power turned on.  When that happened James gave me a couple blu rays that I might be interested in watching.  One was The Lion King and the other was Despicable Me.  
                                  I decided to watch The Lion King first because dad wanted to watch Despicable Me when we were all done eating and after the dishes were done.  It's so funny because I always get so nervous when I watch The Lion King especially during Muffassa's death.  To this day I still cry like a baby when I see that scene.   I still  try to watch it every once in a while to see if I can get used to it so it doesn't affect me as bad but it still does.  My lip trembles or tears or go down my cheeks every time I see Muffassa straggling to climb up pride rock and Scar just staring at him doing nothing.and when he does it's only for one quick second saying,
                           "Long live the king."  But anyway later on I watched Despicable Me and that was both a funny and a good movie.  James says it is one of Joy's favorites.  So anyway that was yesterday who knows what will go on today.  I better sign off for now.
                                                                                                  Lots Of Love,
                                                                                                       Heather                  

                      Receiving a good laugh/watching movies 
                              Boy what a day it has been!  As I told you before I am at dad's and having a great time!  I am glad that I didn't decide to cancel.  I honestly was thinking about it because mom told me a couple days back that James was sick with bronchitis and I was afraid to be exposed to him.  But I just couldn't cancel on dad because he asked me to come over for the weekend last weekend but I couldn't due to Becca's welcome home party.  
                       I am happy to say that James is feeling better.  Dad makes sure to separate my cup so that I don't grab his by accident because the cups that he has look identical.  We did not do much today.  I just watched movies in his bed room while he watched the golf tournament in the living room.  He asked if I wanted to join him in watching golf but I objected.  
                            LOL I can not watch a golf game.  It puts me to sleep every time I try.  When I told dad that he just laughed.  Anyway during the commerical breaks we would talk and he made me laugh by telling me what commercial he couldn't stand.  He HATES the pig where he's going down a sled or sliding down someing yelling "WEEEEEEEEE WEEEEEEE!  He said there should be a butcher waiting to chop  it's head off and put it on a spit.  He once mentioned to me that he would want to see that Aflac duck get run over.  
                But anyway he just made me laugh by overhearing his conversation with my uncle John.  LOL sometimes they can have the funniest conversations.  Uncle John is the oldest on my dad's side and he can be fun to talk to or just to overhear.  But anyway they were telling some funny jokes that were making me laugh pretty darn hard. ABC family had a Harry potter weekend event and I was watching that.  Even though I have almost all the DVDs I still enjoy watching them on that channel.
                      On that channel they include scenes never shown in theaters.  But while that was on the parent trap was on the Hallmark channel, both versions.  The old and the new.  I like the new a lot more.  The one with Lindsay Lohan.  The mother and the father in the older film were too weird.  
                     I kept on switching back and forth between Harry potter and the parent Trap.  Afterwords we had an excellent dinner.  For the record we had pork roast with mashed potatoes.  YUMMY.  Dad said we are having corn beef and cabbage tomorrow.  It seems like whenever I come over he plans whatever we are going to eat ahead of time.  Well I am going to go to take my medicine than go to bed.  
                                                                                                                          Lots Of Love,
                                                                                                                             Heather AKA Frodo         

                            Father/daughter time
              Boy what a day it has been lol.  You guys would have guessed I am spending some quality time with my dad.  He picked me up this afternoon and brought me over over to the horse farm where he works to visit some of the horses and the people that he works for.  LOL neither of us thought we would be getting out of the car but the horses were in their stalls eating and the owner Tim and his wife were eager to introduce me to them.  I of course wanted to meet them as well because dad had told me so much about them and how they loved people.  But anyway if I would have known about this I would have worn beat up tennis shoes but I had my UGGS on.  
               Luckily the barn wasn't that muddy and I was lucky enough to make my way into the barn without a mark on my UGGS.  I met two horses named Coca and Huggy.  They are both brown with some white on them but I think Huggy had a little redish color to him or her.  Dad was telling me that when they are out in the field they will come up to you and want to be pet.  Huggy tried to take the paint brush out of dad's hand when he was painting the fence last fall.  He said he will bring me back in the spring when it's nice.  
                       After talking to Tim and a bit we made our way to dad's house.  For the record I will be staying till Wednesday.  We don't really go anywhere when I am over there but I do love just the different surroundings and his company.  We both love to play YAHTZEE and we will have tournaments.  We will usually play a total of six games and add up the total score of each game and the person with the highest wins.  Of course we don't play all 6 games at once, we divide them up.  Right now he is creaming me and he is rubbing it in too LOL.
                  Another reason I always look forward to spending these few days with him is enjoying his YUMMY cooking.  There are times that I will  ask him to fix a selected dish because it will be the only time I will only have that dish in a while because Mark doesn't like it and will not fix it so I will ask dad to fix it and I will just enjoy it and dad will just laugh at me when I scarf it down like it's my last meal.  Well got to go eat.
                                                      Lots Of Love,
                                                            Heather