Happy St. Patty’s Weekend

It’s another Friday…….

I can’t believe how fast the time goes.  Before you know it is Friday again.  This has been an awesome week.  Spring has arrived and I hope it is here to stay. 

Many things happening this weekend.  Not sure I can fit them all in, but will do my best to satisfy all requests.  I will take them as they come.  We have family coming and a surprise to add to that family function.  Only John and I know what the surprise is and NO, WE ARE NOT PREGNANT!  As much as I would love, love, love to have another baby, John is not having it and so unless I run out and find me a donor and a divorce lawyer I will not be having another baby.  I am looking forward to the family getting together and for the surprise.  I have been telling them all sorts of things to throw them off.  I said don’t eat, there may be food, wear tennis shoes and comfy clothes, etc., etc.  I am not telling the surprise on here until the next post because I have a feeling it will get leaked.  Even the five year old doesn’t know.  She would tell in a minute.

A lot of my girlfriends are going out drinking all day tomorrow to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day.  I will not be doing that.  I will be taking Aubriana to sign her up for CHEERLEADING.  She is extremely excited and I hope once she is signed up that she will enjoy it very much. 

I hope you all have a wonderful weekend and I will post again soon.  Take care and God Bless.

 

 

Welcome Spring in The Month of Love

This has been an amazing week for weather…… Spring arrived and it’s only February.  February is the month for hearts, pink and red, candy, flowers, LOVE and even sometimes snow.  Not this February… The first week has been like Spring.  I have welcomed the weather and yes, it has given me Spring fever.  It has also given me the push I need to get my house clean.  My house is always clean, but my dad has finished moving and half of his life and my childhood ended up in my basement.  I don’t know who gave him or I permission to dump it in my basement, but it’s there.  So needless to say we have asked for help from my Aunt to entertain Aubriana one weekend so John and I can clean it up and get our house back to normal.  Yes!  There is something called normal in our house.  I know it’s hard to believe, but there is.

But, before I can do my Spring cleaning, I have to go to my first Scrap-booking event of the year.  This is one of my favorites.  Many friends, lots of food, lots of conversation.  Even more exciting than that is the fact that I decided to sign up to be a Creative Memories Consultant.  I am very nervous, anxious and actually a little reluctant, but that part won’t last long.  I know I can do this.  My passion is scrap-booking and I will do great.  Might not hit all the goals right off the bat, but that is okay – I CAN DO IT!

John and I will celebrate our 7th wedding anniversary on February 19, 2012.  This year will go down in the record books as one of the hardest, but we are still together, we still love each other and we will continue to push thru the Devil’s try at getting between us.  Besides we have something more POWERFUL than the Devil… We have our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ on our side.  And for those of you who haven’t invited him into your life…. He is absolutely amazing and can work a miracle in a minute.

I pray your February is full of Love, Laughter, Chocolate and if your lucky enough Spring!

 

 

 

 

Two Hour Delay

Do you know what a two hour delay does to a family?

It allows us to sleep in after waking up at 4:00 a.m. to a five year old having to go potty and not making it.  It allows me to finally fall back asleep just in time for my wake-up call.  So really what does a two hour delay do?  Absolutely NOTHING!

We had a little bit of freezing rain last night, which made the government open two hours late.  Two hours late?  Yes, two hours late.  I don’t quite understand it either, but whatever the government does so does Aubri’s school.  So I arrive to Aubri’s school two hours late and low and behold they decided to open on time.  Well so much for that parent handbook that you get at the beginning of the school year, that you have to read back to front and sign an acknowledgement.  Oh well I was only 45 minutes late for work.  Aubri was a complete bear because her schedule was off and I have absolutely no motivation to get anything done today.  Hmmmmm, hence the reason I am typing this.

As far as the rest of the day… Aubri has a birthday party to go to tonight at Pump-it-Up.  A building full of bouncy houses, slides, etc.  We attempted this party once already, but when we arrived Aubri’s friend Tyler, the birthday boy, got into a fight with the metal bench in the front lobby and had to be rushed to the ER for seven stitches.  Poor kid, missed his own party.  I am not sure who was more upset…..  Aubri or Tyler.  Tyler was in shock and Aubri was upset that the party was canceled and that her boyfriend of several years was hurt.  Rest assured the party is set for tonight and we are not letting Tyler near any metal benches.

We did finally settle my dad into one house instead of him running between two.  He is actually sleeping in a bed and his clothes are mostly in one place.  I think we have one more weekend of this running back and forth and he will finally be in one place.  We were very sad when we left on Saturday evening.  We had decorated my dad’s shelf outside his door with a piece of pottery that was my mother’s and someone stole it.  How ugly and inconsiderate can one person be?  I guess they needed it more than we did.  I rather look at it in the positive rather than the negative.  My father was heartbroken, but it is partly our fault for putting something sentimental out on the shelf and the item was a collectible.  So whoever stole it knows what Longaberger is.  I was able to replace it, but it’s not the same.  This replacement wasn’t my mother’s.

I hope you and your family had a great weekend and hopefully if you had a two hour delay… It was a real two hour delay and not a pretend one and that you actually got to sleep in.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

My First Try…….. Here goes nothing!

I have been contemplating setting up a blog for those family members and friends that are not on Facebook and who are far away and don’t get to share in our life.  Well this is “My First Try” and I am definitely nervous.  I have never done anything like this before.  How am I doing so far?  Good, I hope. 

We are already three weeks in to 2012 and it has been eventful to say the least.  The year always starts with The New Year and then we quickly move to Aubriana’s birthday.  Aubriana turned 5 years old on Sunday, January 8, 2012.  I do believe my little baby is growing into quite the young lady.  This year’s party was celebrated with many family members and friends at Chuck-E-Cheese.  I do believe I posted on Facebook that it was a Holy Chuck-E-Cheese birthday.  I say Holy because I do believe they were giving something away that day.  It was standing room only inside and the parking lot was packed.  Aubriana and her friends had a blast and really that’s what it is all about.

As Aubriana turns 5 in January, that means Alexis will quickly follow to the age of 15.  So as Aubriana gets a year older so does Alexis, which also means I get older and so does John.  What a vicious cycle!  Can we stay the same and allow the kids to get older so we can stay young and watch their progress?  Oh!  That’s not how it works.  So needless to say May 2012 will be coming quickly and Alexis will turn 15 and finish her very first year of high school.  Alexis is a star student with either straight A’s or a straggling B in there ever so often.  B’s are not usually her forte.  She strives for those A’s.  She is very smart and wants to do well at all times.

I’m getting a bit ahead of myself, but when Alexis turns 15 that is also the same year that she will be able to get her learner’s permit, well I guess legally it will happen the first of 2013, but the fact of the matter is that it is happening whether we want it to or not. 

As for John and I, we have been very busy moving my father.  He is leaving my childhood home and moving on to bigger and better things.  He is starting a new chapter in his life.  Well overdue if you ask me.  My mom left this home to go home with her Lord six years ago and my dad has been continuing that life.  It is time for him to move on and explore the rest of the world.  It is bittersweet to say the least.  Saying goodbye to the home I have lived in since I was six and saying goodbye to the last home my momma lived in is tough.  I am so pleased with what the future holds for my father and am so proud of him for continuing his life and not throwing in the towel.  So many times when a spouse dies, the other gives in.  He hasn’t and won’t.  He has the rest of us and we will lean on each other when needed.

My hope is that your 2012 is as blessed as mine has been and is going to continue to be.  Despite the negative world we live in we will put one foot in front of the other and take whatever God hands us.  I know He is with us and we will never walk alone.