update Update UPDATE..........

After many demands I will UPDATE. Hmmmmmm what do I have to say that would be interesting to you guys? Yep that is the main reason I haven't posted.......Nothing is the answer Nadda - Zilch!



Did you hear the one about? No never mind I can't ever remember the end to jokes (well at least the non-dirty ones.)



Let me tell you about our weekend. Britt and I took the kids to the outlet mall - killing time waiting for RC to finish his bike ride - raising money for the homeless. Here's a picture of all the riders. (RC is in the Yellow shirt - hehehehe).












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Anyway while we are at the outlet mall - BTW note if you are ever designing a Children's Clothes Store - please make sure all walk ways are big enough to push a double stroller (heck I would have been happy if they were wide enough for a single) between the racks of clothes. After being in 2 stores and the kids being slapped in the face by low hanging clothes - we found the Carter store - so I sent Brittney in to look around while I had Kailey in the front pack, Andrew in the stroller and the two older boys are climbing a Mountain (okay okay to you and me it would ahve been a small mound of dirt ....but hey think like a boy!). A man is sitting outside the store watching his little boy while wife is shopping. I call the boys to come back over to me (they had gotten to the other side of the mountain and were climbing on top of the covering the pump for the fountain and I could see the lid bow under the weight and Jessica McClure popped into my head....so I called them back.) The man sitting there with his son looked up at me about the time the boys made it to me and said "You are through having kids aren't you?" I'm sure my face showed the shock.....I said "They're my grandkids" "Well they are through aren't they?" was his response........don't get me wrong they already have decided on "Four and no more" but what business is that of this stranger? What gives him the right to say anything to me or even to judge us in that way?.
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On a lighter side.............I went to the credit union on Valentine's Day, as I was walking in a gentleman came in before me carrying a HUGE teddy bear (that played music when you pressed the palm of his left hand) holding a big box of chocolate and tied to him was two HUGH HUGE HUGE Dolphin balloons Kissing - tails hooked forming the shape of a HEART and 4 normal size heart balloons. I thought WOW what a lucky girl (actually following that thought I went to - for all that money she could have had diamonds - hehehe) Anyway he walks up to teller @ a closed window gives it to her and visits for a second and says he will let her get back to work. After she assured him she still had 15 minutes left of her lunch - he leaned against the window and they began to talk...........just as I was called up to the "next opened window" which was beside where the couple were talking I noticed a man walking in carrying a small box of candy and 3 normal size balloons - and thought that is so much more like it! He walks up to the couple that are visiting and hands the same girl his gift wishes her a Happy V-day and walks away. The first guy just watches the exchange and then after guy #2 leaves he goes back to talking. I commented to my teller - wow that could have been ugly and she said "At least I know who sent me my V present" she had 3 red roses. All I could think of was "man that could have been UGLY really quick!"

Did I tell you my hunny is coming home for the weekend? Here it is only Monday and I think the week is moving too slow already!

Pictionary FUN

Pictionary Fun
1. Go to photobucket.com.

2. Type in your answer for each question into the PhotoBucket search bar.
3. Only use the first two pages. Choose your favorite photo to represent your answer.

4. Copy the html and paste it.

5. You can only answer in picture form.

1) What is your first name?

2) When is your birthday?

3. What kind of car do you have?

4. Where did/do you go to school?

5. What's your favorite color?

6. What's your favorite movie?

7. Favorite vacation destination?

8. Favorite Letter?

9. What are you most afraid of?

10. Who do you love most in life?

11. Favorite time of day?

12. A word to describe yourself:

APART

As most of you know Randy is in Texas and I'm in Florida - this is not an ideal situation. In fact it SUCKS! While packing up the house getting ready for a dual family situation Randy came across an old Poem book from my high school days. I didn't write this poem but I find it very fitting right now.

A Parting

No I don't need you
Yes I do Care
No I don't Mind
If I'm here Your There

Yes I still want You
No I'll get by
Yes I still Love You
No I won't Cry

Yes I'll be Happy
No I don't Mind
Yes I'll Keep Trying
No I'll be Fine

Yes You must Go Now
Come on Now Don't Cry
Yes I still Love You
I Love You Good-Bye


Luckily for us it is only a temporary situation but Please remember when either of us is short or cranky or just flat not sociable it's because we are incomplete - because when 2 become 1 - which we did over 28 years ago - it's hard to loose a part of you even for a little while.

Keeping MY Fingers Crossed

http://theroadtohome.net/2008/01/28/its-giveaway-time/

Hoping to win me a VERA BRADLEY...............

Funny Bumper Stickers

I saw the funniest Bumper Sticker this morning on the way in to work

"Monica Lowenski's ex-boyfriend's Wife for President"

I do not usually laugh at political bumper stickers but that one cracked me up.


Yesterday, Randy and I saw a bumper sticker on the way to church that cracked us both up

Jesus Love You
but I'm his favorite

Hope these make you smile!


BTW - My Favorite Daughter-in-Law had a birthday yesterday so drop over and say Happy B-Day - @ T's blog.

It's a good thing I only have One son - cause other DIL's would have a hard time cause T has set the BAR for DIL HIGH!

Randomness........(is that a word?)

I have a bazillion thoughts bouncing around in my head........none of them are connected or probably even complete at that so.... I am going to try to put them down in some sort of order and see if they will quit playing PinBall in my head before I TILT!!!!! (Reference that only the older people will get I'm sure!)


First have I told y'all that we are moving to Texas? Well we are - truly we are..We as in Randy and Twila and Brittney and her crew. Randy and RC have an opportunity to buy a business together (a pre-existing profitable business).....which I thought would be a GREAT thing but now that the actual thought of packing up a house and relocating again is becoming a reality it is not looking so GREAT any more. I say LET'S JUST START OVER - we could take our pictures (because some of them are irreplacable) my rocking chair (my sister bought me when I was pregnant with my first child) and my table & china (both belonged to my MamMa) and then go - well I guess Randy would insist on taking his bikes..... but everything else I think could just be replaced with enough money (oh yeah that's why we aren't leaving them behind - I remember).



I know those of you that know me will not be surprised here - but I have a tendancy of letting things become personal......if someone is inadverdantly hurt by something even remotely to do with me - in my Mind it is ALL MY FAULT and even if there is someway I can fix it and do I still can't shake the fact that I caused Pain to someone I care about.......I'm there again and with all the other stress going on right now.....I cannot shake the funk and my poor husband has to deal with my crying and then yelling and then crying etc....... at least I recognize the pattern and am now trying to reel it in so he doesn't have to get totally splattered with Verbal Vomit. Between family and friends I feel like I am carrying the WORLD on my shoulders a BAD WORLD one that will spin off the axis if I make the wrong move and I have to say I have a history of wrong steps, deviating from the intended path so I'm trying to balance the world and walk so straight of a path that I do not even take one tiny step wrong.



This move has me stressed to the max - lots of things had/have to happen for it happen. It's been a whole bunch of hurry up and wait. Like Randy is moving to Austin in a week (ONE WEEK !) from today, I will go when I find a job or when Britt and the family goes after school is out in June. From the time he accepted the opportunity to buy the company to Last Monday - the 8th we knew it would be "sometime in January" but not the exact date. Randy is very much a - it will happen person where I am "I HAVE TO KNOW WHEN, WHERE, HOW........" person. So where he is a little concerned about the whole change he is NOT freaked by it like I am. I can't remember the last time I slept all night without waking up and fretting about how this will play out or that will play out.

Like Randy goes online to find an Auto loan because we have carpooled for years and he will be making a living by driving to many different cities thus putting many many miles on a car - so he had to get a new car, knowing that it will be easier to get a loan while he is still at the company he has worked at for 8 years than it will be under a NEW SELF OWNED company he gets a loan buys a car and takes on another car payment and higher insurance premiums. This was not a WANT this was a necessity - so he got a new car. Where I would have drug my feet and thought how can I do this without taking on more bills prior to going to a job that won't have a "Salary" attached to it - Well actually I would have turned the job down because there were too many obsticles in the way. Not that that is what I wanted him to do - I think it will be a great opportunity and I am so looking forward to being only 3 or 4 hours from my other grandchildren (I will be able to see them more than 1 or 2 times a year- YEAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH not to mention to my own children and the rest of the family - the only one in either of our families that will be more than about 10 hours away will be Randy's Brother.)

As I type this - I am reminded that God has helped me this far and he will carry me on. He is in charge and in control of the Blueprints/Itenary that I so long to view about where my life will be 6 months from now but as I am reminded time and time again there is no FAITH in knowing - the Faith comes in the unknown.....hopefully this is a lesson I can learn and embrace this time instead of having to relearn it time and time again. (I can't wait to read this a YEAR from now and think.....why was I so stressed?)

I leave you with a picture of what Beauty looks like ours does not have the spoiler on the back and is grey not White (Beauty is what we named Randy's car.....since mine was already called the Beast - for it's habit of gobbling down the gas)