Bragging!!!! #1 Grandson

My eldest Grandson was featured in the local newspaper! He graduated from Pre-School which he attended at a local highschool. The article was about the HighSchool Seniors graduating but it included a shot of a couple of the "Student Teachers" helping a couple of the kids get ready for GRADUATION!

He held the flag and led the crowd (and I mean crowd - fire marshall would have had a fit with that many people crammed into one room!) in the pledge. I was so proud I could have burst!

My Interview

My Blogger friend Drea http://dreawd.blogspot.com/ sent me the following 5 interview questions at my request. (Reading Drea's I thought wow that would be fun........so)

1. How did you get started blogging?
My Daughter-in-law introduced me to BLOG WORLD over a year ago - As way to update within the family. It has grown so beyond that - in fact I've made more "blogger friends" in the last year than I have in person.

2. Did your life turn out the way you thought it would?
NO - Not really well maybe a little. My goal for "When I grow Up" was to be a school teacher or a nurse, or the best would have been be a school nurse (hehehe). Instead I am an Office Manager (making more that most Teachers - but less than Nurses, but discovered I was FREAKED by blood so nursing wouldn't have been for me anyway.) I planned Growing old beside my High School sweetheart and having children with him. That part did turn out like I planned - well actually he was my Junior High Sweetheart - High School was more Off again than On again. Still plan on growing old(er) with him!

3. What do you think are your biggest flaws? may it be physically or not.
Oh man I didn't plan on this being THAT long of a post. Physically - it would be my weight, I have always fought weight issues and have a few times in my life actually got it under control and really began to like myself but then........something happens and I hit a depression and food makes me feel better so.....then I gain weight and that depresses me and then did I mention food makes me feel better. ENDLESS CIRCLE! Another huge flaw is thinking that my way of doing something is the only way to do it. I should have a tatoo on the inside of my wrist that says "Just because it's not your way doesn't mean it is WRONG!"

4. Do you find it hard to balance time w/ children and your spouse?
When my kids were little I was happiest when we did Family times doing stuff all together but my honey always seemed to want "time alone" I felt torn between the two for a long time and then as the kids grew a little more independant it wasn't too bad. The more Randy could meet their needs as well as I could the easier it was (I think the less he felt excluded). I was lucky enough to be a stay at home mom so I didn't feel like I was cheating the kids when we would have one of the grandparents keep the kids for "alone time".

5. Whats some advice you can give us new moms? and why.
The number ONE thing I would encourage new moms is to remember that some day the house will be back to just YOU and YOUR SPOUSE, do not let it be a time when you look at him and say "WHO ARE YOU?" - always make time for Dates with you honey. I have had way too many friends who have seperated or had extra stress on the marriage because they didn't put forth the effort of continuing their friendship with their spouse. Maybe some of them didn't have the friendship with their spouse to begin with.

If you’re interested in being interviewed here's what you do:

-Leave me a comment saying, “Interview me.” Leave your email address as well.-I will respond by emailing you five questions. I get to pick the questions-You will update your blog with the answers to the questions.-You will include this explanation and an offer to interview someone else in the same post.-When others comment asking to be interviewed you will ask them five questions of your choice *they don't have to be the same as the ones used here*

Slowed Down

Okay this post is going to be filled with things that have flitted through my mind lately and these happened to be the ones that have Slowed Down as it went through long enough to create stress for me.

I have been having issues since before Easter with deciding what I can type and what I can't - I've had a heavy heart for some time in many areas of my life and as I have always tried to teach my children you don't have the right to tell other peoples secrets without their permission. Lots of the things weighting on me are not mine to share but I think I've kept it long enough that they have had time to share the news with everyone they should.

Britt & RC are expecting again - I'm aiming for a girl this time, but then again with 3 big brothers that might not be so fair either. My concern with this is Brittney has not really been herself since Andrew was born just over a year ago and now there's another one on the way. Britt is tired and has had more migraines in the last year than I remember her ever having before so I'm concerned about her health and energy levels. But hey I'm also excited because, I mean you know, it is ANOTHER GRANDBABY and how I love grandbabies!!!!!!

Right before Easter in fact Good Friday, Shawn and Tasha received a notice that they had 10 days to move out of their house, with his job he HAS to live in the same town he works. The town they live in (actually a small one near by) had a catastrophe and now they are trying to rebuild so there is lots and lots of construction workers in their town renting everything from travel trailors to single rooms to save the hour drive from the nearest really big town. So we weren't sure where they were going to find to live - we figured that their landlord had an offer for a bunch more money and wanted the house free to rerent. They were not late on Rent, they were doing everything right (well except for the picking up the dog poo behind their fence that their neightbor had threatened to call Shawn's Capt on him for not cleaning it up - oh yeah and the dog who deposited it is not even Shawn's dogs.) So after a LONG weekend of stress Shawn called their landlord Monday morning and she had sold the house to her son, who immediately signed a lease with them so it was NO BIG DEAL except for running a young couples holiday weekend - Tasha stressed so much she lost weight from being literally sick to her stomach from it.

Nyki and Jeremy have recently moved into a new house - she says she loves it and I know Rylee loves her new room so I'm excited for them. Jakob is practically walking and he is only 10 months - Oh how I was excited for mine to walk then I spent oh the next 18 years chasing them down........hey the same thing can be said about Talking!

My job - where do I ever start with it?
1 My company bought another company and then cleaned house in our org chart and set their people up in all the leadership ........ this means a new boss to me.... this means proving myself yet once again (some of you may remember I went through this just over a year ago and I HATE CHANGE!) So I've been a little stress.
2 I have heard that people are having to interview yet again for their position under the new management so for all I know my new boss may have someone he wants to be his Office Manager/Project Administrator and I could be unemployeed.
3 One of our guys got ticked off and quit just before easter and so I have been trying to learn what he did so nothing falls through the cracks. (Boy do I owe this guy an apology his job was a whole lot harder than I always thought it was.)
4 Even if I don't lose my job - they are talking about moving our office and I am so spoiled to carpooling with Randy - it saves GAS, it saves STRESS, and it gives us time (usually uninterupted time) together. Do I like my job enough to add 45 minutes to my commute? My new boss did say just past Friday that we were moving but wanted to stay on this side of the bay so that's good - except that means I have to find new spaces for the upper management to see and decide on - something else to make me further behind in getting my actuall job done.

I have a wedding coming up and I can't seem find openings in both the Bride's and my schedule to fit the needed meetings to go over the important details so I must figure out something because every Bride deserves the best day possible and that is my job as Wedding Coordinator to make sure it happens. Without being able to meet with a bride I have NO IDEA what she considers her "Perfect Day" to be like.

Randy and I are coordinating Judgement House in October and we are behind the eight ball already because we haven't kicked into high gear and we must!

Randy has been travelling a BUNCH lately which adds to the stress for me......I know y'all know...but I am not able to sleep very good while he's gone.

So my life has been stressful - I know everyones is but I have not been able to shake this Darkness I've walked in for almost 2 years now enough to make a game plan on how to get it under control again.