Welcome 2013

Happy New Year!!!  2013 what do you have instilled for my family and I?  Hopefully, nothing but love, happiness, and good times together.  I am not a resolution kinda gal... current goals are just every day kinda goals;

*I want to read the bible with a new dedication I have never had before.  Not only read it, but understand, follow, and live it daily.  I am 41 y/o and I haven't read the bible with a purpose, only what lessons or sermons we are having.  I really hope I can achieve this and stick to it.  I think it will help my family and steer me in a direction that I have been missing.
*Be a much more dedicated  WMI leader and teacher.  To look at WMI as a an opportunity and not an obligation.

*LOOSE THIS WEIGHT!!! In 2008, I had 2 back surgeries, one in Feb. and one in June.  I not only did I gain a ton whilst being confined to laying bed,  I have never been able to get it off in almost 5 years.  The lowest I have been down, post-surgery was in the 180 #'s and in a size 14 pants.  I am currently at 240.  Only now do I realize I have lost about 40 #'s.  The most I have weighed is 280, so there's 40 gone with out realizing.  Not sure when I lost it.  I am in a size 22 and sometimes that doesn't fit.  I truly would love to make it to 140 pre-surgery weight, but I would most definitely settle for 160 and a size 12.

*Get set financially and be able to pay our bills on time.  Our house will be paid off in 14 months, car in 36 months, and we want take or children on a family vacation this Spring Break (2013).

*Be able to spend more time camping, outdoor activities, and spending time with family.

Pretty boring, eh?  That's just me and my family.  We are just plain 'o folk making a living and trying to live right.  Speaking of boring, right now I should be cleaning house and marking a few things off my Spring cleaning list.  With 18-20 inches of snow out side it's really hard to think about Spring cleaning.  When I could be curled up in my chair with a dog, coffee, and a book.


Too-ra-loo

Happy New Year

Each ending is a new beginning.  I have heard and seen this phrase this countless times this year.  But what of those situations, relationships, or memories you never wanted to end.  Memories that left our minds involuntarily, moments you never ever thought you'd forget, you are unable to recall the color of a persons shirt, color of their eyes, smell of their cologne.  I didn't want this relationship to end, I want to remember every word of every conversation that we ever had, I want to smell his smell after he shaved, ready to go to Bustler's for a fried chicken supper.

I can hardly believe that he will never meet any more of my grandchildren.  Bubba will carry on his name and so will our little Moo Moo, I hope this is a start of new tradition.  I know I will never forget him in my life time and I hope that my children will forever carry on his memory.  In less than 2 months it will be a year, since his passing.  There is barely a moment I don't think about him, wishing I could call and tell him something, or hoping that he will call me.  His number is still in my cell phone and pops up when we get a call from Aunt P.

The majority of 2012 has been in remembrance of my Uncle B., he left us in March so unexpectedly.  I've heard a million times how much better off he is, there is no pain and suffering, there is no sadness or tears, and oh how he is rejoicing.  I am selfish and sad for myself and family.  I know I will go on and things will progress with out consideration of my pain.

However I have allowed this pain to cover me, I can not deny the joys that have been so bountiful in 2012.
* it's been 10 months and 10 days since I last smoked, it has almost gotten to the point that cigarettes gag me.  I wish others would not smoke in my home, but apparently no one else cares.
*Bubba 10 seems to be leveling out on and controlling his impulses of adhd.  I don't actually disagree with a diagnosis of adhd, but I really think 85% of his adhd is just him being a boy.
*My oldest daughter B 24 and her daughter MooMoo 4 moved in with us at the end of October.  Having a place to call home, the fact that she wanted to come here, and being so close has been a wonderful, stress-filled, noisy, happy, fun, grumpy adventure.
*My husbands job affords us home, car, and just enough to get by.  Some times I am tired of just getting by, but I am thankful I can complain about that not something worse.
*Being a SAHM&Gma, I am so thankful that.  My husband never complains if the laundry piles up, sometimes the dishes are still in the sing the next morning, or  if he has to fix supper at 6:30 because I have had a really bad day.
*My other 2 daughters, TBerry 19 and ARS 17, are growing into beautiful, independent women, who know what they want.  Going to school, working, and living life, putting off babies at least for now.
*Our super small church growing by leaps and bounds this year.  Being related to almost everyone in our church, having a personal relationship with Christ and not afraid or ashamed to admit (and yes, I know that this should have been my first statement!)
*Still have both of my parents, sister, niece, and the majority of my 13 aunts & uncles, and a whole new string of family that gave me another dad, brother, and 3 more sets of aunts & uncles and tons of cousins.
*Living in the town where I was raised and only a block and a half from that house.
*I could list a million more things I am thankful for in this year alone.  Last, but not least... I am thankful for the life I have and chances and second chances that have been afforded to me.

Happy New Year

Yesterday, Winter Storm "Euclid", deposited a total of 14 inches of snow on our small town.  This is the first significant since the "Ice Storm of 2009".  Even then it wasn't about the snow it was all about the ice.  I am not a fan of cold, since this was the day after Christmas, we didn't have anywhere we had to go.  Our families we all safely snowed into their homes.  Our back door is drifted shut and impassable right now.  Our front door had as small amount drifted, which Bubba quickly took care of in his eagerness to get out side.

I do remember 50+ inches we received the first Winter I lived in Ohio. Cabin fever to say the very least.  I had sever pneumonia, at home alone and snowed in with 9 month old, a 2 1/2 year old, and a 8 1/2 year old, as soon as I lost consciousness the oldest quickly went to the neighbors and they called 911.  I have very little memory of the whole event.  It's really like it didn't happen to me, but just a movie I had seen glimpses of.  I did get well, we all survived, and wonderful thanks to the Lord it turned out as well as it did.

Today has been the end of the year munchies, I suppose.  I can't believe what I have eaten today.  I swear the snow is laced with THC and it has seeped into the house giving me a contact buzz.  Starting with 2 cups of coffee and an orange for breakfast at 8:30 am I decided to go back to bed and stay warm with my puppies.    Then I woke up like a grizzly from hibernation!  If it was in site I was prepared to eat it.  An apple, mini snickers, mini kit kats, popcorn, cheese burger on a toasted bun, candy cane, 2 cups of hot chocolate, 2 glasses of iced tea, glass of water, puke sandwich, and a piece of pecan pie, which I could happily finish but don't want the effects of pie O/D to contend with.

Well, stay warm, safe, and happy y'all.

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