The 12 days of Christmas... sort of....

As much as I really tried to upload these pictures in order... i messed it up (surprise surprise)
I really did not do well about updating my blogs so I went through my camera and I almost had a little history in pictures of how things went up until the big day... so here we go... a little out of order but isn't that the story of my life!

Just Grinning it up....
Noah had a dentist appt. which I missed and BEGGED them to please see me, they had a really strict policy about no-shows and I am the queen of forgetfullness so if it is not on my calendar, I will forget... heard my voice mail and told them they just HAD to see us, we have been waiting for this dentist to open up his practice for over a year! It is alligator dental and WE LOVE DR. AL! We had already visited another dentist here in Seguin and they told me Noah needed to go to a specialist and I really wanted to keep him here so we waited for Dr. Al, and it was completely worth it AND he didn't need near the work we were first told, they fixed his cavitity in the front (that is why he is showing his smile) he had chipped that tooth and it had turned into a little cavity... AND he has two loose teeth, I mean REALLY loose and I am so nervous, his two permenant teeth are already poking out but Dr. Al said no worries, they will move into their natural place as soon as we lose these two... I see a whole lot of money going into this mouth...


Live Nativity at St. James

It never fails, it will be 75 degrees and sunny and the night of the Live Nativity at church it is freezing! I made cookies and went and hung out with my bestie Cathy...love that BG... It was really nice... and Alice made the best hot chocolate... no farm animals though ... the men were in a meeting (LOL)


Who's the pretty girl.... huh?
Okay, so the day after Christmas we had tickets to go to the dance... yes, me and my honey and a bunch of friends were headed to kick up some dust and dance to La Mafia... That saturday I stayed in my PJ's AALLLLL day, loved it! and i decided late that afternoon to go get my hair cut and nails done which I had not had my nails done in about... humm... 15 years, maybe longer... seriously! (totally regretting spending that money now, just a little because i LOVE THEM) I felt so spoiled, Noah went with me and didnt even nag about the time, so i let him pick the color... We had a blast at the dance... my husband had a nice long visit with Ralph that night but it was still a ton of fun and I can't wait til we can do it again! (This time Jim Bean won't be invited)


Santa Baby...

Okay, I was in tears when my husband got home from work the Tuesday before Christmas, I had taken the whole week off to spend time with Noah and ended up having to help my mother in law with her tamales ... which I don't mind but hadn't planned on and I completely missed the pictures with the pretty Santa at the bank here in town... 3 days til Christmas and no santa picture I felt like a horrible mother... so my wonderful husband loaded us up in the car and we headed to San Antonio to find a Santa... and we did! We took him to North star mall and ran into country kringle on our way to picture time, somehow i didnt get that picture loaded but I was so happy... this was another one of those 'all about me' moments for mommies. I love my husband, he is the best....

Cookie time

Look at these yummy cookies I made... I made peppermint drops, chocolate snowtops, coconut macaroons, sand tarts, toffee chew bars, ranger cookies, chocolate covered pretzels, chocolate peanut patties, pecan patties and rocky road candy! Don't ask what got into me!


Carol of the Bells
Just giving a co-worker a new pair of shoe laces just in time for Christmas... funny... oh, and don't worry....he got me back...


39... WOW

Just because it's your birthday doesn't guarantee you get it easy... this was the best picture Johnny got of me and my grouchy son on my bday...and that was after a lot of threats... LOL It was a good birthday and I gave me ton's of kisses later to make up for it....


I told you....

I was a baking fool! Aren't my treatbags cute! I love making bows and doing pretty packages for Christmas....

Happy New Year!!!!!
Let's keep the stars in our eyes and look for good things to come in 2010! God Bless!

Gentle Mary

I have been trying really hard to do an entry every day in honor of my favorite month… and time of the year! Noah had his Christmas program last night, and he was absolutely precious! You can’t really see him well in the picture he is in the center in the red vest… love that boy! Ya, I went to find him an outfit for the program because it had to be just right, and I finally found that set and stayed up til after midnite the night before hemming up the pants. Then yesterday the hunt was on for black dress shoes and black socks…but I found them and he looked adorable. When I was getting him ready for the program, he has his ‘happy place’ for his pants… tucked under his tummy and it made the pants pooch in the front… so I had to bribe my son with a new toy on Saturday to wear the pants over his tummy… I know this sounds crazy, but the point is this… regardless of the fact that this was his Christmas program, this was all about me… Let me explain… All those fits he throws, the crying every morning… the nights staying up with him sick or throwing up, the grouchiness… loss of sleep, frustrations… wanting to hide in a closet because he is making me crazy.. all of those trying moments when you question what exactly you got yourself into… ALL OF THEM … lead up to moments like these, when they look absolutely angelic, up on the stage, singing their hearts out and you feel total and absolute love and pride.. it makes all those hard moments fade away and gives you just enough strength to take the trying times until the next ‘moment’ when you realize it’s all worth it… (including the trip to CiCi’s after the program where he decides to push the red flash soda button so it goes straight into the arm on his new shirt and runs into his clothes… all the way down his back and into his pants… lovely) You forget about the fact that you had to run home after work, take him to get his hair cut, make sure both granny’s remembered you were picking them up at 5:15 to get Noah there on time and get them seated… had to fight for a parking space in the cold and get the granny who can’t see and the granny who is walking with her cane that she decides at this time she needs to their seats so you can get Noah to the line where he needs to be only to lose his BRAND NEW coat in the hustle of not losing them and him in the crowd then proceed to get them seated only to have your husband come in to tell you that they are in the wrong seats which I let him know that the USHER looked at our tickets and brought us too and would he MIND getting them to the right seats while I went to look for the coat (which I did not find) and get Noah to where he needed to be since the only thing he had to do was get himself ready and there … whew… so like I was saying, it was wonderful. So my brother in law had to sit with both the Grandma’s and I told Noah that we would leave right after his performance to go and eat… and the whole time I am wondering how the heck I am going to get these two ladies up and going quick and without too much of a commotion without just picking them up and carrying them out… at that point it didn’t matter anyway, I was still grinning from seeing my cutie… oh, and did I tell you my husband went all the way to the upper level to video the whole performance… and he was so proud… but kinda like he forgot to push the record button… but… we will always have the memories… LOL Johnny took his mom home after we ate and Noah and I went to drop off my mom… I told Noah to be a gentlemen and take mom to the door, he asked what a gentlemen was and I told him it was a man who did nice things for people and was respectful… so he got off the truck, opened the door for her and helped her start down the sidewalk, he starts running to ring the doorbell so my sister can open the door and see’s my sisters mangy cat and hi-tails it back to the truck, jumps in the front seat and slams the door… Mom was only halfway down the sidewalk, and I told Noah… you were supposed to take her all the way in…he rolls down the window and tells my mom… ‘ Mom… you can go the rest of the way because that cat looks scary, I’ll watch you from here’ my cowardly lion… Ha!

Merry Christmas… spread the joy

Tis the season...

Noah’s teacher is working on getting the children to understand the importance of giving this time of year rather than just receiving. Really, this is something that we should all focus on…myself included. It is really hard when my son automatically thinks he will be getting something when we go to the store, as soon as he hears I am going he wants to tag along and THAT equals stress for me because even if I tell him no toy… it is a battle. as soon as we get in the store he starts with ‘no toy right mama’… which leads to ‘can we just go look at them’ which leads to ‘can I just get this one’ which leads to ‘you don’t have to get me one again’ which leads to ‘I have been looking for this one all my life’ which leads to ‘please mama, please please’ which leads to ‘your mean mama, so mean to make a little boy cry’… oh, if I could only get him to understand how very blessed he is, to get almost everything he wants and to have so much love… but they are kids and that is really really hard to understand. You know that saying, if I only knew then what I know now… So how do you get kids to ‘get it’… when you have this little thing that relys on you for everything, whose life is so strongly relying on the decisions you make… I really get stressed about it, because we only get one chance and he is like a mirror of our lives, I catch him saying stuff and cringe when he says something that is all mine…and I really wished he hadn’t heard that. Like when he said the word idiot, not bad but not nice… and then I heard myself say it while I was driving… oops! I don’t always make the right choices, yes, it is easier to go shopping and spend money on crap I don’t need than to write a check and put it in the basket at church. I realize that to teach giving, I must learn to give… freely and whole-heartedly… And not just from the excess… from the best of myself, giving up things I don’t need to do things for others that do need. So, my son has to take a gift for Blue Santa for his class, and I won’t go to just any store to find something that will ‘do’, I am going to march him to his favorite Toy Store and tell him to pick something he knows he would want…because it will make another person very happy too… and we will take it home, wrap it… and give it with all our heart (mine at least, I may have to pry it out of his hands) and I will imagine a smiling kid on Christmas morning that will be just as happy as mine was buying it – until he had to give it away that is…! and maybe, just maybe Santa will sneak an extra one in the basket for a thoughtful boy… (wink wink)

Enjoy life’s simple pleasures, every moment is!

I am thankful today for a thoughtful husband that puts up with a crying boy and rushed wife every morning.

Happy Birthday Jane

Today is my mom's 79th birthday, okay so my sisters and I debate that, they say 78, I say 79... Mom is doing really good, I think we are all missing Ernie a lot, its hard to believe it has been a year already. I had the momonater make chicken mole for mom and she came over and ate... she was really happy and even cleaned the kitchen, I told her not to but...hey, who am I to argue. My Noah is watching Christmas shows and I am going to clean a little bit and hit the sack early, I have been sleeping so good the last few nights it has been HARD to get up in the morning... and tomorrow we have a Spurs game to go to...and Thursday is Noahs christmas program and and and and and... whew... tired...

Peace out my party people....

Pilgrimage

One of the things that can get me to go to San Juan...even in the Summer time is knowing that we will stop in Alice to eat at Dairy Burger... They have THE BEST steak strips in the world... yummy! And even though they are not exactly on my diet plan, when i read their sign... I knew it was the right thing to do! "Give God Praise" I did...with every single bite! This is the roobe actually behind the alter where masses are held at the church, people buy candles to light for their promises and prayers and take them to this room and light them. My husband and son praying and making their petitions...

They sell bottles that you can fill with Holy Water, and this is the large fountain outside the church where people fill their containers of holy water, this Jug is for Aunt Doe...

You can't even imagine the number of candles that are lit at the church on a daily basis, they have people that pull the trays as they are filled when people light them and move them to this room where it is filled with lit candles that remain there until they completely burn... amazing....

It makes you wonder, the hopes, prayers, heartaches, thanks, wishes of all the people that these candles are burning for....

This is the alter at the church...

The advent wreath at the church... the large candles are almost as tall as Noah...

This was the manger scene on display at the gift shop....

Funny... RV Park... not really a light spectacular...

This reminded me of Skids and Mudflap from the transformers movie... mini-cop

The tree at Dairy Burger... I know I know, they didn't have the ones up at the church yet! in my defense... but I though it was really cool that they had this huge live tree in the restaraunt...
God Bless those steak strips!



It was a wonderful weekend, we spent good family time together and I really enjoyed that...

...and hello, the Longhorns won... what more could we ask for!

Go Horns!

Can't get enough of the big guy in Red

Here is something really cute that AT & T is doing for their customers.... I love when big companies like this get in the Christmas spirit...

Good little boys and girls across the country can text their holiday wish-lists to Santa this year, thanks to the bearded man in red and some of his helpers, including AT&T*. AT&T customers who text SANTA to 1224 between now and December 24 will receive an invitation from jolly old St. Nick himself to text back their wish-lists for this holiday season. Thanks to a special agreement between Santa and AT&T, text messages sent to this short code – and the reply text messages from Santa – will be offered at no charge!


Happy Holidays....

Pilgrimage

My Family and I are off to visit San Juan this weekend. The Basilica in San Juan is really beautiful, but I will be the first one to tell you, making the trip down there is something I don't usually enjoy. Honestly I never quite understood WHY people would drive all the way down there, a 5 hour + drive not including stops... the scenery is NOT beautiful, it's not even a nice drive... AND don't even TRY to get me to go in the summertime, it is so dang hot you could cook your meals on the sidewalk...fast! But people always make promises or promisas as my Mom would say to make the trek down there and light a candle for special intentions. We have been meaning to go again since before Ernie passed away, we have made many promises and we need to go... I feel called to go for some reason, something great is going to come, even if it is just the sheer joy of being with my family and feeling peace. Last time we went my 75 year old or so (can't exactly remember when) mom walked on her knees to the front alter...a good distance but this is not uncommon...to see people doing these things in San Juan, it is felt to be a blessed place. It makes me think about the pilgrimage of Mary and Joseph all the way to Bethlehem, just to be enrolled. No phones back then, had to make that trek in person. Nine months pregnant on a donkey, I can't even imagine... I cannot complain about the drive thinking about that. Keep my family in your thoughts and prayers as we take this journey and I will post some pics when i get back...

Another opportunity to serve.... pick up a pen, make a difference. God Bless

While making out your Christmas cards this year take a moment and send one to this address. Let a Soldier know you're thinking of them and and thank them.

A Recovering American Soldier
c/o Walter Reed Army Medical Center
6900 Georgia Avenue NW
Washington, DC 203607-5001

... Have a wonderful weekend!

Let It Snow!!!

This is why I LOVE living in a small town...

The Holiday Light Parade is the beginning of the whole Christmas season...

This float is from Noah's school, they had two....

The art league always does these neat puppet people, you can't see but he would stand up and had huge candy canes that moved his arms and legs...

This was one of the entries for "cowgirls for a cure" they rode their horses all lighted up with fluffy pink boas around there necks...LOVE THEM... until one of the horses pooped near us... yuck... gotta love those pooper scoopers...

Who can't feel there heart ache when you see soldiers in the parade... I wonder where they are from and know they are missing their families... They deserve the best this season and always!

Me and my snuggle bunny waiting for the parade to start...

Watching out for snowflakes today!

Here comes Suzy Snowflake....

I saw Mommy kissing Santa Claus…underneath the mistletoe last night…

It is cold here finally, I am actually wearing long sleeves and a sweater and NOT sweating… Love It!

We should focus on the reason for this season… and remember always, those that don’t have anything or anyone… and of course count our blessings…

There are always ways to help… AND make a difference… My friend Steph gets the Tootsie Roll award today for being a sweet thing and emailing the following out… and I urge you to copy…then past… then pass along and pay it forward by doing the same..

Cleaning for a Reason
If you know any woman currently undergoing Chemo, please pass the word to her that there is a cleaning service that provides FREE housecleaning - 1 time per month for 4 months while she is in treatment. All she has to do is sign up and have her doctor fax a note confirming the treatment. Cleaning for a Reason will have a participating maid service in her zip code area arrange for the service. http://www.cleaningforareason.org/ Please pass this information on to bless a woman going through treatment. This organization serves the entire USA and currently has 547 partners to help these women. It’s our job to pass the word and let them know that there are people out there that care. Be a blessing to someone and pass this information along.

I always have these crazy ideas in my head, just wanting to make a difference and serve. Watching the St. Jude commercials or even the adopt a child ones… heartbreaking and heart wrenching. But change starts with each and every one of us…

Count your blessings and most importantly BE a blessing also.

Here is my cutie in his thermals, don’t you just wanna bite him?!

Oh yeah, and the cold weather hits and guess who can’t find her son’s brand new coat… bad bad momma… that’s what I get for being over prepared and buying it in September…

AND today I went to my weight watchers meeting… gained 2.8 lbs…. yup…and worth every dang calorie! of course the receptionist asks me if I was expecting that… and I told her heck ya I was! Duh, big girl…Thanksgiving and tamales… she is lucky I didn’t gain 20! Now at 52.2 lbs total, gotta get back on track so I can eat my way through Christmas… LOL

It's supposed to snow here tomorrow! WOW, and last week we were wearing shorts...

Peace and love in HIM….

Oh the weather outside is frightful....

Today feels like winter! BRRRRRRR...

I am so ready for Christmas, okay, like mentally but ACTUALLY... my house is a wreck and the tree still isn't done and the coldest weather so far and my husband decides tonight he wants to put up lights... My throat feels...ummm... a little scratchy so I will be working on the inside decorations....

I love this time of the year and am TOTALLY in love with the whole Christmas season! Tomorrow is the Holiday Parade downtown and I am so excited, love it! I actually think I am more excited than Noah... who doesn't really understand how much I look forward to this....

Today I am so very thankful for a warm home... (as I type my son is crying on the floor calling me a mean mommy... I left his shirt he wanted at Penneys because I forgot my coupon at home... jeez... how do you get a four year old to understand that they are holding it for me... FIND A HAPPY PLACE...FIND A HAPPY PLACE) okay, ahem, like I was saying... (his cartoon just started again) I am thankful for a warm home filled with LOVE...

I am also thankful for a good husband that went to Wal-mart in the cold to get staples for his staple gun to put up the lights (and I pray he doesnt ask me to help)... and did I mention I hope that is all he gets?

Santa, I have been such a good girl this year, can I pretty please have my house magically spic and span and all the laundrey put away.... is that too much to ask for?

I'm dreaming of a white Christmas, just like the one's I used to know, where the tree tops glistened AND CHILDREN LISTENED to hear...sleigh bells in the snow (and their parents).

Peace and love in HIM!

Prayer Request

Being a Christian does not mean life is always easy, it just means that you know that there is always light even in the darkest moments…..

My brother in law is a pain in the butt (sometimes)…but I love him… He is a truly good hearted person... He is going through some really hard times right now and I know the power of prayer, please keep him in your thoughts and prayers. If he looks lost, he is…he went to Church with us on Sunday and Father Dennis gave an awesome sermon of course… love that man. I pray that God take hold of his heart… and he learn that he has never been lost to God….

When we went to adoration last night I felt drawn to the bible and picked it up, this is the reading that God placed before me…

My son, when you come to serve the LORD, prepare yourself for trials.
Be sincere of heart and steadfast, undisturbed in time of adversity.
Cling to him, forsake him not; thus will your future be great.
Accept whatever befalls you, in crushing misfortune be patient;
For in fire gold is tested, and worthy men in the crucible of humiliation.
Trust God and he will help you; make straight your ways and hope in him.
You who fear the LORD, wait for his mercy, turn not away lest you fall.
You who fear the LORD, trust him, and your reward will not be lost.
You who fear the LORD, hope for good things, for lasting joy and mercy.
Study the generations long past and understand; has anyone hoped in the LORD and been disappointed? Has anyone persevered in his fear and been forsaken? has anyone called upon him and been rebuffed?
Compassionate and merciful is the LORD; he forgives sins, he saves in time of trouble
Sirach 2

God is so good, but we are all human and I am sure even the most faith filled people have moments of fear in their lives... God is never away from us....

Never give up on the people you love, God doesn't give up on us!

Ouch

Here is my baby showing his injury... I am getting ready to leave to take him to the Orth Dr., I sure hope they put a hard cast on it. He was real fussy this morning, the cold weather made his arm hurt I am sure... and he gets so frustrated... Let me tell you, this Momma is stressed over it too... How can you tell that cute face to stop whining...! LOL

Wow....

Well, the Sauceda family just couldn't stand to make this just another Thanksgiving, we had to make it one to remember... so, my son decided to break his first bone! UGH! My poor baby broke his wrist... and THAT is how my week started off. It was already a weird week because my boss officially retired last Friday and now I answer to my 'big' boss who offices in South Carolina. It shouldn't be anything new to me because there have been periods in my working career that I have been completely alone in a building for months, but it was our own portable building... now we are in a real building with lots of people and it is weird but I almost feel like we don't have anyone looking out for us, kinda like we are in a fishbowl....

I am more aware of how they look at our area and to start off the week having to call in because Noah broke his wrist...not good. But, such is life. My son was NOT happy that I even went to work and left him at the Momo's house in the first place. I am scheduled for vacation next week so I HAD to go in, I am already far behind and this wasn't helping...

We have kept Noah home from school because they only put his arm on a splint with a wrap around it, the break was just a smidge from being clear through (seriously, I wanted to throw up looking at the X-ray, i felt horrible because it had happened the night before and Johnny thought it was just a sprain) and then there is a small piece of the bone where the break started that kind of chipped and turned... ugh... and they won't put a cast on it until the Ortho Dr. x-ray's it again to make sure it is setting and healing correctly.. and if it isn't, they will have to do surgery... I really don't want to think about that. I am totally freaking trying to keep a 4 year old from jumping around and banging the arm and finishing off that break. I am really really sad because he will miss his last football game too.....

I know I am going to gain 15 lbs. this week because I have been eating everything in sight just because of stress... in fact, i just scarfed down two pieces of cinnamon toast... oooopsy...

I'll post a pic of Noah with his 'soft' cast... he is torturing me with that broken wrist I just don't want him to fall on it... That is his newest excuse for trying to get out of bath time...the water 'hurts' it... whatever.... How can you gripe at a kid with a broken wrist? Not to mention his Aunties and Grandma's are treating him like a piece of fragile china... that boy is totally rotten...

Life is good, God is good and I am so ready for Turkey day! I am so very grateful for the people at the hospital that were good to my baby and let a big girl cry because she felt bad. I am even more grateful for a family that loves my little boy so much they have been spoiling him rotten...

The week in review....

Okay, so I bit off a little more than I can chew with the whole “week in my life” theme… I guess that is a true testament to the fact that I am a busy busy bee! If I lost my calendar I would be in really big trouble… I literally have to note everything I have to do… or I will forget (did I mention I forgot to pay my electric bill…) Johnny is on team for the next men’s ACTS retreat at church and his meetings will be every Tuesday until the retreat in mid-February, this past Tuesday was his first meeting, and I am sure he will have plenty of projects to throw at me… I missed Noah’s book order that was due Tuesday… I can’t remember why? Noah had flag football practice that day, I walked my mile and a half…thank you very much! and I know I did something else that I can’t remember either…. Noah informed me that Kyle can fart 100 times a day… apparently that is the new ‘cool’ thing with the 4k boys… lovely… He has given me a hard time EVERY day about going to school, I have turned into the pushover Mom I didn’t want to be… he’s so darn cute though! We made it through a trip to HEB and Dollar General with no new toy… I even had the momo with me at HEB and she didn’t cave in either. No tears, just whining…cause don’t you know I am a mean momma…LOL I returned 3 redbox DVD’s for a grand total of… sit down, too much money… I can’t put it down b/c if Johnny reads this he will remind me all the time… let’s just say, I won’t let it happen again. I went with Noah on his class field trip to the corn maze in Hondo… it was a really neat place… but… we got stuck with 12 kids in our group… that’s right, 12 four year olds with 3 mom’s that took a day off of work for THIS! jeez… It was neat, okay I was stressed in the actual maze because it wasn’t something a 4 year old would consider fun walking through a maze with a riddle to get us to each point… and I was right there with them… I could have done without that part, just a little too much stress… not to mention that all they had there were port a potties…. ya, with 4 year olds… yikes… I am not a germ freak but between that and runny noses… I was pretty stressed… And I was trying to stop diet sodas that day also… ya, that didn’t work, as soon as we got done with everything and got all the kids cleaned, juice boxes punched, chips opened and eating… I headed straight to the snack bar and bought two ice cold diet dr. peppers…. it was a long day, and I knew it would be when the teacher gave me my group and said, this little’s one’s name is Billy, watch him because he likes to hit…. great…. I am going to spend this weekend cleaning my house for next week and getting noah’s snacks ready, I am in charge of room snacks for next week and of course I have to bake… cute little pumpkin cakes to be exact… It will be a nice quite weekend I hope and I will take it easy as much as possible and get my house ready for the Thanksgiving week… can’t wait!

Here is my son's 4K group picture at the corn maze...

A week in the life...

Okay, if you think you are the only person person that is overwhelmed...overworked and feel underappreciated...your wrong... We have all been there and some of us live there ALL the time. But…life is short so we can complain and whine or get on with living it … right? So, in honor of the special people in my life, I am inviting you to spend a week in my life, starting with the evening before and the day of…

And the story begins…

Monday evening
Doctor’s appointment, so I start my evening early …because evening to me is when I leave work… Only problem, I can’t remember why I have a doctor’s appointment? I am sure I am not seriously ill…but it is on my calendar and my ear has been hurting all weekend anyway so I go… also because I can’t cancel or my doctor will surely send me a nasty letter telling me to find someone else to cancel appointments on and I have a balance I need to pay anyway soo…. I go… the lovely nurse asks if I went in for my lab work b/c they can’t find the results… THAT’S why I had an appt., follow-up on labwork… which of course, I forgot to go in for… he he he… so I told her about my ear and she said… alright, come on… gotta love an easy visit… unfortunately my doctor told me my ear canal looked fine and to go easy on the Q-tips… how did she know? See… THAT’s why I love my doctor, she has ESP… that and she gives me xanax… ANYTHING ELSE, yes… I have lost 54 lbs… she is so impressed… and I have started walking and my body hurts… can I get something for pain? LOL she tells me to take magnesium, which helps with aches but can cause loose stools so I have to play with the dosage… walking and loose stools… WOW…

Picking up Noah… Mommy, your late… actually I am early… where is your pillow and blanket I sent with you for naptime, it’s not in your cubby (I freak out with the whole cross contamination thingy and was imagining my sons blanket in a pile of dust and other peoples mats on the floor on the corner) Teacher wouldn’t let me keep it so Daddy took it with him… WHAT! OOOooh no, here I am trying to comfort my son who hates nap time and I send stuff from home and then he can’t have it… Why did she send it home Noah… because naptime is too short mama… Should have known…

So I debated on whether or not to tell the Momo I had to go to HEB, b/c that meant I would have to pick up her AND Hector and take them and would add more time and stress on my trip… but, hello…I had to take Noah so how much worse could it get…

..little did I know…. (to be continued)

Happy Anniversary

Today is Johnny and I's 6th wedding anniversary... Six years sure has gone by fast. Here is a picture of Noah holding our wedding bands this morning... Love that boy...

They look so big in his little hand...


The kiss, I am pretty sure my husband was trying not to laugh during this 'staged' kiss... Please not the perfectly waxed eyebrows... haven't looked as good since...


And this... is the traditional big Catholic wedding party... that's right, we had to have that many so it would make us look tiny LOL... seriously, we had a great group, all my nieces, Johnny's cousins and our friends... And you can't see it to appreciate it, but Funkweda (Patty) my maid of honor... who pretty much got her tail chewed by me all day (good thing she loves me) got her dress a size and a half too small...that's what she gets for waiting to long to get fitted... she looked great, she just couldn't sit down at all or she would slide off the chair... And she got an F right away... we couldn't figure out why i kept stepping on my dress... kinda like i wore my skirt (two piece) backwards the whole entire day... yup... she won't live that down...not to mention i am sure everyone at the church saw my tennis that were supposed to be hidden... that witch!

Happy Anniversary to my honey, who has seen the best and worst of me and STILL loves me...

Girls Night out

We went out for Cathy's Bday a couple of weekends ago, the boys had taken off camping AGAIN so we went out too. Which, is a MIRACLE for me because I am seriously not a partier, not that we got wild or anything like that... but I am a movie and dinner kinda gal... not to exciting... but I did so good, even stayed out til 1:30 which is pretty amazing even for me!

This is cathy in her bday get-up that Heather got for her, can't you just see that smile... "who's the pretty girl...huh...?"

This is with her present from Sonya, she calls Sonya helmet so she bought cathy her own helmet, it had her name on the front and on the back it said "Jesus loves me" too funny!

She is ready for the roller derby!

Another creation

So, you I told ya'll I have been on this baking kick.. don't ask... but these are the little mini-cakes i made for Cathy's bday... aren't they cute! Look out Martha Stewart...I am coming after you girl! he he he... wait til you see my Halloween yummies I made... loving my new phone because it makes it so much easier to post pictures on my blog and facebook, I don't have to wait to have my hubby take them off my camera...

Noah Halloween

Halloween 2009... Snake Eyes "Go Joe"

Noah my love...

Today was 50's day at school, a couple that helps with the school often is celebrating their 50th anniversary so they asked the kids to dress 50's for mass and were having coke floats to honor them... isn't he a cutie! Plus, makes me thing of my favorite song I sing to him... I have a boy, Noah is his name, since i met him, i've never been the same, cause i love that boooy and Noah is his name...Noah's his name... OOOOOhh Noah OOOooh Noah

Creepy Crawlers

These were the snacks my husband signed me up for ... for Noah's Halloween party... and where they live.... HEHE check back for the whole story later!

Pumpkin problem

This was one of the pumpkins from the pumpkin patch, they had some really crazy ones this year, I will post more later... neat huh?

PMS is real

So, I would say I have been in rare form today… even for me… I totally thought I was going to smack the receptionist at my WW meeting. Don’t get me wrong, she is a very nice lady… too nice, you know the kind I am talking about, like that annoying Patty cheerleader girl that practically forces Sandy to be a cheerleader in Grease, I mean come’ on now, Sandy was a nice girl but Patty went way overboard, kind of like a June Cleaver on crack… I am getting off track here… ANYWHO, she is a chit chatter, and I already work with one (yes Chrystal, I love you and I don’t mind at all chit chatting with you blah blah) anyway, she like talks too much and there are like always tons of people in line and I am like ‘look lady, you are the receptionist, just weigh us, write it down and move it along’ but know, she has to ask them how they are, how is their day going, are your bunions still hurting…did you know they got a new shipment of the fat free cheese at wal-mart…and goes on and on… with all of us (some of us) waiting patiently. So I guess my frustration with her has been building… never mind the fact that every time I have a loss of more than 5 lbs she makes me get on the scale again ‘just to make sure’ ya right whatever…just say it, ‘you usually don’t do that much, did you got some of those shots in mexico or what is going on?’ I bribed the scale lady… no no…my guardian angel is behind me holding me up just enough to make me lose this week. Ya, she has totally done that to me like three times. And when I gain… ‘were you expecting to gain this week? what happened” mam, when you see me walk in and remove everything I can down to my earrings, chances are pretty clear that I have eaten too much this week. When I go into the restroom hoping to squeeze out at least 6 more ounces, probably means I overate.. What happened? I ate too much… that’s what happened! So this week when I gained 1.6 lbs, I wasn’t worried, I had PMS…my excuse was actually REAL this week… and when she asked ‘were you expecting that’ I just looked at her and said ‘I really don’t know what I was expecting’… because I was trying to hold back what I really wanted to say… I looked at her little employee badge that said lifetime member since 1992, and I reminded myself, that she had done quite well keeping her weight off, and I thought… maybe I should be a smart alec and tell her to reward herself with a nice makeover as a treat… STOP IT … your being ugly now BG… but I refrained, but next week, when I step on that scale when all this extra water is gone and there is a big loss… because there will be… and she makes me step on the scale again ‘just to make sure’ … I am going to put some of those sugar free chewy’s up her nose!

Look at these cuties!!! Noah is playing flag football and he LOVES it! This is his second time playing and he cracks me up when he is practicing at home. It works out great because I can walk around the football track while he practices, the first time I did 4 laps, then 5...now the other cutie Ethan's mommie Christl has been walking with me and she got me to do 9! woo hoo, that is a little over 2 miles... and considering that I ate at Chili's at lunch today and will again tonight (it is Chili's give back day for Noah's school)... I need to WORK IT!

Okay, and I am going to throw all caution to the wind and tell you this, because I know I am TOTALLY leaving myself wide open here... BUT Chili's is having a great deal right now... 2 can dine for $20, you get an appetizer, two entrees and a dessert!!!! You cannot beat that! AND 10% of your bill goes to St. James but make sure you tell them! Okay, I know I am going to get a lot of harrassing texts from that info... so let me tell you now ... WHATEVER! and...FYI sniff sniff...they were OUT of paradise pie for dessert...you talk about 2 big girls wanting to cry, I totally thought my other friend Chrystal who was at lunch with me, was going to crap her pants when the waiter told us... I warned him... I said "brother, you better be glad I am sitting between you and her because you seriously put your life on the line telling her that"... the hostess talked us into the brownie sundae... double yuck! Chrystal sucked it up and took one for the team and FORCED it down... if anyone should be reported to our Weight Watchers leader, it should be her...

CHOW!

WOW

All I can say is …. WOW, let me see…how do I start off this entry… put your seatbelts on, it’s going to be a bumpy ride!

So…. anywho, I get home last Wednesday after work, with Noah and the Momo-nater in tow and get into the house ready to get ready for the next 4 days of ‘off’ time…. I had to mentally prepare myself to get Mom and the Momo ready for their Garage Sale on Friday and Saturday… Open the door, hit the switch – no lights… damn… power out? nope… I wish… so at the same time that I am figuring out the electricity is not on, my sister and keith AND my friend Alice arrive at the house… the DARK house… I am like, WHAT.. this cannot be happening, I look outside to see the neighbor weedeating, with an ELECTRIC weedeater… NOT a good sign, then… it happens… Momo says, “you did pay your bill right” of course I did…duh..duh ..crap, then I remember, the day I go to pay it they are drilling the drive through road and I would have to get down off of my car to pay, um NO… I have plenty of time since I had just gotten the bill, I was totally not feeling the get off the car thing… So I remembered again later that week… they were still working on the drive thru… SERIOUSLY, I was running late so no time to park and get off and hello, there wasn’t front parking space anyway.. in the back of my mind I knew that they send a notice before cut off and I had plenty of time… which brings us back to last week… After I realized it was only my house without electricity I start whining that I did not get a notice so it can’t be that, well, lo and behold, guess what was in the mail, my cutoff notice with yesterday’s mail… I was HOT, checked for a postage marking to prove this was NOT my fault and they mailed my notice late… no postage marking…NICE… It was at that very moment that I should have known…that this would be a clear indication of how crappy my weekend was going to be.. I should have immediately ran, so…of course Johnny gets home in the middle of all the commotion…. and I give him the look… you know which one I am talking about… the “I double dog dare you to say something to me in front of my sister and your mom”, and being the smart man that he is, he just asks…’what do we do now’, I said, pack clothes for the night and let’s go to momo’s and I will call the city when we get their… AND this was only Wednesday night…it was only the beginning (TO BE CONTINUED)

My life is crazy... as I am sure you have figured out by now... but i love it, and you have to know that among my many blessings, one of the ones i consider to fall back on a lot is my sense of humor... Dear God knew i would need it, and my prescription of xanax. The most important blessing, is my Faith... the fact that I do believe in God, I know he sent his only son to die for my sins and that my gift of all gifts is everlasting life. I am not going to blow it, especially after the sacrifice that was made to give me salvation.

I am not a minister, I am certainly not perfect, I am a sinner and I sin often... and I know this... My eyes are wide open to the choices I make, I accept people for who they are, I know the things I have done wrong and the things I have done right. But I also know, in the deepest part of my heart that my Jesus has had a plan for me since the very beginning, I have always completely trusted in him knowing that something great was coming. I just didn't realize that it would be on a daily basis. There is a moment, every day in each or our lives to be Jesus to someone... we need to learn to take it.

Yesterday I went with my BG to pray for a friends mother that is dying. We were supposed to meet some of our ACTS girls there but things happen, and it was just the two of us...and even though praying is not new to us...leading it for a family that is accompanying their loved one on the last stretch home is not something that either one of us thought we would be okay to do. She walked into my house and the first thing she said was 'Cathy can't come, Darren is sick'...and i knew that too...but I knew Alice would be there...no problem... so we scrambled searching through books and prayers and the bible trying to find the right things to do...just in case.. But Alice, sitting in the front of the nursing home, waiting to go in, i think all i could do was think about Alice driving into the parking lot... WILLING her to be there... i looked at Christina and said, if Alice isn't here by now, something has come up because i know she would not have forgotten... So... there we went, i picked a bible verse, we grabbed some prayers I knew were specifically written for a dying person... and we went. As Christina was reading from the bible, I was trying to glance at the prayers... the last time i had read them were to a dear friend that was going home much too soon but had battled Leukemia much too long... he needed rest. and then i remembered, that there were some parts of the prayers that this family my consider harsh, because that was my concern before that although I knew sometimes things can be said one way but knowing my loving God... he wanted us to face up... but if someone was in the baby steps of their faith journey, i did not want to offend them or hurt them or make them feel like i was sitting in judgement... so i changed some of the words, I said sick person instead of dying person, i asked for healing rather than forgiveness for all the wrongs she had done and sins she had commited against our God. But I was worried that I would seem like I was telling her 'your going, better fess up now or it won't be nice' because fear is awful but God is merciful and faith teaches us that.

God takes care of us, didn't i just say that? He spoke through Christina, I felt it just as surely as I did when Cathy, Pat or Alice led us...and the BG and I know that is a definite thumbs up. The prayers were perfect, the family felt loved and I truly hope she felt peace. AND I had a brand new copy of the same book that had the prayers in it to give to the daughter, so I did, and i told her to read about the prayer and to please share them with her mom often.

I want you to think about this for a moment, think about the family you love so much, think about sitting next to them and Noahing that they were going away and there was no running, no hiding...no going back. Her sister crying reminded me of my sisters, whom I can't even have in the same room at one time without a fight or someone leaving....or not showing up knowing the others would be there. I think about the love i have for each of them and how i work on it daily because i choose to love them for who they are.

Think about your Mom, if you were an only child can you imagine how spoiled you were? Like my Noah, can you imagine the love... can you imagine the only Mom you have getting ready to leave you... how many times did she reassure you that everything would be okay, but this time how can it possibly be without her?

This family has been on my mind, I will go back again before she goes home. I cry for a mother that can't find the words to give the peace her family needs right now.

Don't waste a minute, life is to precious...

Psalm 91

You who dwell in the shelter of the Most High, who abide in the shadow of the Almighty,
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Say to the LORD, "My refuge and fortress, my God in whom I trust."
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God will rescue you from the fowler's snare, from the destroying plague,
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Will shelter you with pinions, spread wings that you may take refuge; God's faithfulness is a protecting shield.
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You shall not fear the terror of the night nor the arrow that flies by day,
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Nor the pestilence that roams in darkness, nor the plague that ravages at noon.
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Though a thousand fall at your side, ten thousand at your right hand, near you it shall not come.
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You need simply watch; the punishment of the wicked you will see.
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You have the LORD for your refuge; you have made the Most High your stronghold.
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No evil shall befall you, no affliction come near your tent.
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3 For God commands the angels to guard you in all your ways.
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With their hands they shall support you, lest you strike your foot against a stone.
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You shall tread upon the asp and the viper, trample the lion and the dragon.
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Whoever clings to me I will deliver; whoever knows my name I will set on high.
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All who call upon me I will answer; I will be with them in distress; I will deliver them and give them honor.
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With length of days I will satisfy them and show them my saving power.

God Bless

pobrisita

I am seriously having a Monday…and it is actually painful… I just popped an Aleve, a Xanax and 4-B12’s so I can just muster up the energy to finish off this day. It was a tragedy from the get-go… I should have stayed in bed-SERIOUSLY…

You know, one thing I have had to deal with is the fact that although this blog is very therapeutic, I have to keep in mind, that I have opened up myself to people, the ones I know of I love dearly but really, anyone can read it and that is neat…but it does keep me in check and makes me hold back on details that might be a little much to share… SOMETIMES… but today is one of those days when I just need to let it all hang out and I am… SERIOUSLY

I am struggling to get back on the diet wagon… I am just frustrated and not feeling to good about myself and I know a lot of that has to do with feeling like I am losing control on that area of my life. The only person that can change that is me so I have to spank myself… I guess… but I have started walking at the track and I am really enjoying that… SOMETIMES

which leads me to this story…

Yesterday at church my son kept poking at me under my arm… I looked at him and he was smiling…but he kept on…I was kneeling and trying to pray… and he kept on when it hit me, he was playing with my fat! Just about the time I realized that, I glance at him and he looks at his arm, then goes back to flicking my fat with his finger… SERIOUSLY and when I tell him to stop and he doesn’t, because he doesn’t listen to me (which will lead to another story) I have to tell Johnny to tell him to stop because even though I know I can take my shoe off and throw it at him I think he has already caught the attention of the family sitting behind us and that would definitely attract more attention. So…now that I am totally NOT in the right frame of mind to pray I sit back down and look at him, he smiles…and flicks my chicken wing one more time – since daddy isn’t looking… so being the grown-up that I am, I reach over and pinch his stomach roll and smile back… SERIOUSLY

So, after church me and my fellow BG’s proceed to the nearest buffet to take out our frustrations on – and we beat the crap out of that buffet… can’t you just see us standing there telling it ‘who’s your momma’ we spent more on tokens than we did on food to get just a little bit of girl time… but we felt bad, and felt regret after we saw all the plates of food that we demolished… AND we decided to hit the track!

So…we all went home to change and meet at the track for some activity points – I am pretty sure we would have had to walk a couple of days straight to work off what we ate… when we got there, my son who won’t listen to me decides to throw the fit of all times because he wanted me to sit there and watch him play on the bleachers… did he NOT realize that he was one of the reasons I was determined to walk! so after crying, kicking, screaming and whining (him not me) I decided to drag him home and put him to bed to show him I was in charge and he would listen – so I only got one stressful lap in… and made him go to bed and of course I had to stay there with him and fell into a coma myself… UGH

So the guilt of not cleaning my house and taking a nap with all that food still working it’s way to my hips was weighing on me (no pun intended), when I wake up to hear shuffling in the kitchen, I could have sworn not even 5 minutes ago it was snoring. My husband is cleaning the cabinet out above the stove and has all the contents all over the place and tells me how gross it is. Only another woman can understand the hidden message we get… while you were sleeping instead of cleaning I had to get up and do something to this filthy house. Um, could you have proved your point in the restroom, where people actually SEE. I guess the foil was crying out for help and the lunch sacks just couldn’t bare another minute of suffering… SERIOUSLY….

So, if you enjoyed this little rant…smile…because you must be a woman! Every man reading this is rolling his eyes… and everyone woman is thinking ‘I hear you girl, I feel your pain’

Don’t get me started on today….

Serenity…Peace…Joy…NOW please

Viva La Hump Day!

Okay, so I am surprisingly wide awake at this hour when I should be sound asleep... It has been a busy week again. I say that a lot don't I? Noah started flag football and he loves it, this is his second year and ... I don't know if I should say it because I might jinx myself, but maybe, just maybe I will have a football player! Oh how God loves me if I do! I even walked 3 laps around the field while he practiced, I am totally sure it was like...what 10 miles or something like that. I am trying so hard to be a good girl but tonight, some brownies attacked me, pinned me to the floor in my kitchen and jumped down my throat, they almost got stuck so I had to drink some milk! What was I thinking the night before I weigh in? Oh well, such as life... I will be totally regretting it tomorrow.

Never Lost

Last week was a hard week getting out of bed every morning, my body wanted more rest. It was a challenge every morning to drag myself out of bed because my boys will sleep until I get up, so if mama runs late, the whole family runs late.

I walked to the closet, stood there with blurry eyes and thought to myself…’Taco’ definitely a taco day…and I sure wish Chrystal Pistol my co-worker would call and ask if I wanted one, in fact…I had a feeling she would. Not ten seconds later, my phone rings and I knew it was her, and it was! I know, sounds crazy…but true. It added a little pep to my step knowing that taco would be waiting for me when I got to work and I actually felt blessed because I knew God had thrown me a little sunshine in the rain. BUT, my God has a sense of humor, and he uses it quite often to give me little reminders like today. I got my boys going, packed lunches even and headed off to work and JUST as I am pulling in the front gate my phone rings, it is Chrystal, she locked herself out of her car and if I was on my way could she hop in and get a ride to the dealership to get a key they were already making for her. How could I say no, afterall, she did bring my taco… Well, you see it was pouring rain and I didn’t mind at all because it is hard to want to be at work when the weather makes you want to curl up in your bed at home. It was then that I learned the REAL problem, our nice, hot, fresh tacos…were locked safely in her car too! And even though her brand new car had On-Star…she had not activated it! But it’s okay, because she had worked around it without having to tell her husband that she had locked herself, and both sets of keys, and our tacos…in her car…and that nice little extra feature that could have quickly saved her, hadn’t been activated.

That On-star is a handy thing, one call and they can unlock your car, bring you fuel, send help… just one call! Sounds a lot like my Jesus, always there, always ready to help…give you just that extra little push, console, heal, hold, help…all in one little call. Never-lost, just like that On-star, we may lose our way, but we are NEVER LOST from HIM. If you have ever used one of these devices, even when you take the wrong turn (which brings us back to Chrystal, because she didn’t think our On-star was right on a business trip to Conneticut…like she has been there so many times) she decided to take what she felt was the right way, and it took us off of the right path, but never failing, it tells us ‘recalculating’ and adjusts the route to get us back on track. Isn’t that just like God, we may stray, we may make wrong choices or bad decisions…but all we need to do is put ourselves back in his hands and he gets us back on the right track. Never Lost, never forgotten. One of the best things about that On-star is that even when you take the wrong turn, it just fixes it, it doesn’t tell you “what were you thinking” (that was my job), it doesn’t get mad at you or roll it’s eyes (again…my job J), it just tells you what to do to get back on track. Isn’t God the same, we can do some pretty crappy things to ourselves, to others, make really really bad decisions and if we call out to him, he will just stand there with his arms open welcoming us home… He loved us enough to send his son to die for our sins knowing full well that we would continue to sin… WOW, that is love!

Which brings me to another little gift, the most beautiful song I have ever heard, it has been on my mind since I heard it last week, I called Cathy right away and made her listen to it and she didn’t know it, I could just hear my Chachito and Vinnie playing it, I wanted it for my birthday! Absolutely beautiful song, just made my heart fill up with God’s love, which is what it is about. This morning God reminded me to share that song of his infinitie love with all my lovies that read my blog, so google it if you can and listen… and remember how much he loves you..and me too. The lyrics are below, the band is the David Crowder band (soon to be the Cha Diaz and Vinnie the man band newest song) I love it, and I know you will, it is brand new and let it open up your heart to feel all the love you deserve!

So moral of the story, activate your On-star (God), he’s free and you will never be lost! (and you won’t have to pay $45 to get your taco out either).

Peace in Him!

He Loves Us…David Crowder Band

He is jealous for me, Loves like a hurricane,
I am a tree, Bending beneath the weight of his wind and mercy.
When all of a sudden,
I am unaware of these afflictions eclipsed by glory,
And I realise just how beautiful You are,
And how great Your affections are for me.
And oh, how He loves us so,
Oh how He loves us,
How He loves us all
He loves us,
Oh how He loves us,
Oh how He loves us,
Oh how He loves.
Yeah, He loves us,
Oh how He loves us,
Oh how He loves us,
Oh how He loves.
And we are His portion and He is our prize,
Drawn to redemption by the grace in His eyes,
If his grace is an ocean, we’re all sinking.
And heaven meets earth like an unforeseen kiss,
And my heart turns violently inside of my chest,
I don’t have time to maintain these regrets,
When I think about, the way…
He loves us,
Oh how He loves us,
Oh how He loves us,
Oh how He loves.
Yeah, He loves us,
Oh how He loves us,
Oh how He loves us,
Oh how He loves

Big Girls Don't Cry

Well, today is day two of my big girl bra. Yes, I will admit…I am a sports bra-aholic, and my girlfriends are determined to reform me. Now come on, before everyone gives me a hard time again…they are comfortable, I mean, isn’t comfort important? When did we all give in to wearing these things that pulled them up, pushed them together and then had wire attached to torture any part that dared tried to escape? I guess trying to make everyone else switch over didn’t catch on so I caved in… WAAAHHH! I have been looking for months, no lie, for one to start off with… I mean, you gotta give me a little space, switching the girls from ‘young wild and free’ to ‘strike a pose’ is quite a shock in itself so I had to ease them into it by finding one that was at least ‘semi’ comfy. Good grief, I never realized what a challenge it would be…and odds were not in my favor, small and wide is not, hummm, how do I put it, a popular thing… J Let me tell you, there are some cup sizes that are crazy, I didn’t realize some of those girls lived that far at the end of the alphabet. The other challenge is with trying to lose weight, I don’t want to spend a fortune on them because hopefully I won’t be using that size for too long… Now, the shock of being able to buy my most favorite sports bra from Wally World for a mere $6.74 was something I used to feel I could brag about, especially since I was the only girl out of all my sisters that has small ones (at least compared to theirs), I am a C cup but DD’s were considered flat chested until I came along. I consider it a blessing because their bra’s are an investment. I still swear it is because I always slept on my stomach and they just never had a chance to grow but that would contradict the reasoning for why my rolls didn’t stop growing, hummm, gotta give that some thought… Anyway, I am having a really hard time pay so much money for a big girl bra, am I paying that much extra for the underwire? Is it sterling silver? Is the cushioning a special blend? Is the satiny look spun by special weavers in some 3rd world country? jeez, you pay that much money and okay, if you are single, I can see that MAYBE you might need to put out a little more money on them, but when you are married, my husband could care less what is holding them up, in or even how they feel. I wore my new one for the first time to church yesterday and made sure all my girlfriends, at least the four that sat in the same pew as me, knew that I had my big girl bra on. It really took everything in me not to pull up my shirt and show it to them! If you understood the kind of friendship I had with all these girlies you would totally understand that this is not out of the ordinary for us. They were proud, I was proud…and deep down I felt a little more grown up, like I was wearing my first training bra. So, another milestone has been accomplished in my life, I have a black silky underwire big girl bra… And I wore it all day, and was reminded by all my friends to keep wearing it… and as I sat on the toilet, which is my ritual before I take my shower at night, my son comes running into my restroom with my bra in his hands and asks me with every ounce of seriousness, ‘mommy, can I play with this?’ and I tell him to put that back it belongs to me and NO he can’t play with it… God only knows what he had planned on doing with it… and in the back of my mind I thought of many many MANY years ahead when I could use that story to torture him, just like that bra tortured me today…

Yippee for Friday!

It is cold and rainy outside, perfect stay home weather. I feel so relaxed bing here at home all of us just relaxing in our PJ's. We had planned on heading to the coast this weekend but this weather was God's way of telling us to stay home tucked and I am glad, no football game tonight... Noah has meet the coach for flag football tomorrow but I am pretty sure we'll skip that too and just stay chillin' like villans here at the house.

Well, we officially have a new dog, his name is Bones. Bones is a miniature dachsund...I am sure I spelled that wrong but anyway, he is an older dog and supposed to be housebroken... but, um...kinda like he has already relieved himself twice in our bedroom and once in Noah's... here we go again! Johnny is trying not to like him, I think he is really missing Gino, all of us are...but bones is a good dog and overall, i like him. Noah keeps talking about Gino but he is enjoying Bones so we are off to a good start.

My banana cake was a hit... that damn cake took about 3 hours to make but it was pretty scrumptious. I don't know what has been my baking kick lately but I have been a baking fool... so call me if you want something special, I make it from Scratch... that's it, i have an itch! I already did pecan pies..for the first time and they were awesome and then i did banana bread... now the cake... Look out Betty Crocker, I'm coming after you! Doe told me I should enter it into the fair, I hadn't thought about ever doing anything like that, I feel so country even thinking about it... 'My legs are sweatin' Ma' I'm thinkin i might just mosey on down to the county fair and put my dessert in that there contest and just might win me sumthin... watcha think?