Cold Season!! YUK!!

Well, now that one holiday ends an other begins. I'm not sure that I am ready for the holiday season just yet. The stress levels go up abit. In hopes to find that perfect or almost perfect gift. Yep! not sure I'm ready for that yet.

On another note. The family has been sick, well all except for Keanul. Rick got some kind of cold over Thanksgiving and has gave too much. Roz came down with it on Sunday night. She has been running a fever and hasn't been able to keep anything down. But tonight she finally ate something and managed to keep it down. Now I think I'm starting to come down with the cold too. A couple of the people at work are coming down with colds as well. The cold and flu season has officially started. Hooray!! Yuk!

Hoped everyone had a great Thanksgiving!

Thankful

Keanul has a homework assignment on "What I am Thankful for?" Seeing how it's close to Thanksgiving, I guess it's an appropriate assignment. He has to come up with 40 things to be thankful/grateful for. It's a bit much, is it not? But I guess there is a lot to be thankful for in all reality, isn't there! There is so much it's hard to know were to begin. I guess when you have to write stuff on paper it makes it kind of hard to think of things. It is like being put on the spot.

Well I won't tell you 40 things that I'm thankful for, but I will tell you a few. My top 6 of things to be thankful for is:

1) my family.
I love my family. I am thankful for having them.

2) God
How could you not be thankful for this man. He created it all.

3) Running water
I think it speaks for itself.

4) My health
I am truely thankful for this.

5) Being alive
There is so much to be done and so little time.

6) Being able to watch and participate in my children's lives.
This is truly one of my biggest blessing!

This list is subject to change at any given time... lol

Quotes from the Underbelly!!

I have been sitting here thinking what do I want to say? I'm not sure. Do you ever feel like you are just drawing a blank? So I think this blog well be about what other people have said. Some inspirational quotes that I have found, and that I like. I hope you enjoy them. Hope you had a good day. Has anyone seen that show? Quotes from the Underbelly. It's quite funny; well the one that I saw anyways.


The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life.

Wise men speak because they have something to say, fools because they have to say something.
~Plato

Wisdom is supreme; therefore make a full effort to get wisdom.
(that one is for my son)

Esteem her and she will exalt you, embrace her and she will honor you.
~Proverbs 4: 7-8

In the end it's not the years in your life that counts. It's the life in the years.
~Abraham Lincoln

The best way to cheer yourself up is to cheer somebody else up.
~Mark Twain

A sense of humor is the ability to understand a joke -- and that the joke is oneself.
~Clifton Paul Fadiman

My Birthday!!

Yesterday was my birthday. When I woke up I figured I should keep a positive attitude. Getting a year old is an adjustment you know. Roz was there to greet me in the early morning with Happy Birthday Mom! I must say I had a great day!! We started off the day by watching Rozalynn's basketball game. My Dad, Rhonda, and my mom, Jeani, sat with me. Then I left there and got a mini make over. I got my haircut and styled. It's short! This is the shortest that I ever had in my life. I went out to lunch with my loving family at the Olive Garden. Where they sang there happy birthday jinggle. I went and saw my sister and her family. I had a great time with my sister yesterday.

So here is the loving gifts that I got yesterday. I must say first how truly blessed I am to have such a loving family. I couldn't ask for anything more. My hubby and Roz got me a very nice and comforting pair of tennis shoes. Roz picked me out roses. Different colors! Beautiful! Rhonda and Mark got me this great smelling scented oil hmmm! and soft scarf, gloves, and headband set. Winter is coming!uggh! My sister, Karen and her family, got me a beautiful candle set. The candle smells like the ocean. Serenity! My momma, Jeani, got me a great gift! A hand less mixer and bowl. Now I can throw everything in the mixer and it will mix it's self. I have wanted one for a long time. I haven't seen my mom yet. She had to work yesterday, but I will be seeing her today. So the specialness goes on. Oh! and Keanul, my loving most precious son, got me a gift card for Starbucks. He knows how much momma needs and loves her coffee!

Thank You, Thank You! Everyone for making my happy day a happy one. Thank you lord for blessing me as well. Love Ya Guys.

Basketball Girl

This is Rozalynn's 2nd year in basketball. Boy, does her face just shine. As it does for anything she loves to do. Tonight was basketball practice. This is the first year for my husband to help coach. My daughter is quite happy about that. Roz and one other girl on the team has been in basketball the previous year. So lets just say the team need some help. But what I think is so neat about the beginning of something. You get to see the progress of it. The progress and hard work that these girls make throughout the year. It is an amazing transformation. I am glad and proud to be apart of this.

Ahh Sunday! Packer Day, lazy day, no work day! This is definitely the day of rest.

Yesterday was Rozalynn's first basketball game of the year. I missed it. I had to work yesterday morning. But my lovely sister Rhonda took some pictures. Thank you Rhonda. Rick gave me the play by play. So it felt as if I was there.

Well, I hope everyone enjoys there day.

Not much going on here. Roz and I are just watching a movie "Spy Kids 3". Rick is sleeping. Keanul is out and about with his cousin Jarad and Jarad's friend Brandon. Hope they are behaving themselves. As I sit here I think to myself. It is here! He is a teenager!! I hope the troubling years aren't coming. You know the nail biting, hair pulling, pacing back and forth, where is he, years!

It probably has nothing to do with him. My birthday is around the corner. Another year gone by. Every birthday I feel as if it's another day. When your a child your birthday is exciting and fun. As a teenager your counting your birthdays until the day you get your drives licences. Then you can't wait to be eighteen, because than you are an adult. You can vote! Your parents can't tell you what to do any more. You are your own person. Then you wait until your 21!! WooHooo you can drink, legally! As a kid there was always something to look forward to. How come we lose are spark in birthday. Instead of getting excited; we get the birthday blues.

So, one of these years for my birthday what I really want to do is go see either Oprah or Ellen. With my family and friends. Oprah we can just drive. And Ellen we would have to fly. What fun that would be! That would put excitement back into birthdays.

Forgiveness

Forgiveness, it's easier said than done. As I was having supper at Jeani's house late week. Mitch are beloved friend is up from Texas for a visit. We were talking about something, and somehow I made a comment about my mother. I must have sounded bitter. Mitch simply said, "Forgive". I have been thinking about that simple word since. I thought I have forgave, but maybe deep down I have not. So that is just something I need to keep working on. Slowly, but surely.


On another note I spoke to my father last night. In request of my mother. She is applying for her citizenship. She's been in this country for the past 33 years legally. In my opinion she is one. But she needed to find out some information from him. So I am the goat. As I was asking him questions regarding the date they were married and the date they got divorced. I was thinking to myself " Why don't they know this?" Why wouldn't you remember those dates?" As my father mumbles some dates off, and says " I think those are it!" I also asked him, "How did you and mom meet?" Silence.. a long pause. He said "He couldn't remember, and that he can't remember every women he dated or married." I think to myself, and I just want to say, "What? Are you serious!" How can you not remember your first marriage. A women that you had 2 kids with. That you married, and you can not remember how you meet her. I don't get it. Seriously! See how hard it is to Forgive. Not just my mother, but my father as well.

Roz!!!

Last week was teacher conferences for Rozalynn. I'm please to say she is doing well. She is right on task. Just need to keep reading her take home books. Practice, practice, practice! It was also parents week at her dance studio. She is taking tap and jazz this year. She is just loving dance. It is great to see her improvement each year. It's amazing to watch her grow before my eyes. She is blossoming into a young girl. As she has asked Grandma not to buy her any more baby toys, because she is not a baby no more.
Yesterday I was able to make Rozalynn's Halloween parade at school. She was an elegant princess. A beautiful costume that I found at Crackle Barrel. It was a long pink dress with a gold belt and glitter gold short train. It had a cute princess hat. She looked absolutely beautiful. It was cold last night for trick or treating. I froze for my daughter as we walked for 2 hours to get precious candy treats; she owes me one. Oh what we do for our children.