Thank you for all the birthday wishes!!  So glad to be home...going away is ok, but being home is awesome!!  We had such a good time and we both needed the time away with just us.  I found lots of stuff to buy, but really only came home with very little...the 2 big pieces of furniture I wanted would not fit in the suburban of course.  Jerry kept saying let's go get a uhaul, but it just seemed crazy...I may have to buy me an old pickup truck just for hauling stuff around! I did find an amish roof tin star for my barn, a tiny child's chair, a couple of hadley pottery coasters with kentucky on them, a UK necklace and some star sheets for my bed upstairs and an original painting from a Kentucky artist at the KY Arts and Crafts Museum(my most favorite place)... saw a ton more stuff I wanted from here, but that's for another trip.  We did alot of furniture looking for the sunroom..I mean to the point where I was like NO MORE FURNITURE LOOKING!!  I think I know what I do and don't want out there now!!!  Again, so nice to get away and just exhale!!  We got in last night and the boys came over and we had dinner together...would have been the perfect ending to a perfect few days except sitting across from me just waiting to complain or tell me again the right way to do something was my Mother in law!!  Yes, she came home with us...sorry, I just threw up in my mouth a little...I've already been schooled on the final stages of Alzheimer's, what type of bar stools I need, how to get blood out of Jerome's shorts, how to trim my bushes out front, how to clean my shower, what needs to get done still on my sunporch, the fact that German desserts are better than American desserts(this was done as she was eating a piece of chocolate cake and practically licking the plate clean) and on and on.   She bought us this huge popcorn maker wagon of a thing...I mean it's a piece of furniture and she's insisting that it is going on the sunporch...yea, right next to my bottle of bourbon!  She even told Jerome to go in there and put it together.  I said, my sunroom isn't even done yet!  That's ok she said, it can go anywhere...yea, like in the garbage!!   Jerry is taking her home on Friday, so I only have to deal with her for 4 days...Jerry's off today and I plan on working outside, doing laundry and/or having diarrhea and staying in the bathroom all day today!!  Tomorrow, I guess I'll haul her around doing errands and then on Wednesday I'm going to a new antique mall outside of Paris...she's going to love that...NOT!! Thursday, we have tickets to see a performance here in Murray and then Friday, home.  I'm also suppose to have tile, ceiling and trim going in this week...where is my bourbon??!!!!    I guess it will be Saturday or Sunday before I make it over to see Mom and Dad now.  Jeanie, what day are you going to Ryan's?   Oh and Dad does have a UTI?  So they have started meds for him?  Bless his heart! And Mom's teeth...they want to pull them I'm guessing once they put her to sleep?  Please do ask Bryan about this and what he thinks...YIKES and YUCK!!   Ok, the natives are stirring...I love you all,  Jamie