Just a few weekend plans

Just a little howdy before the weekend starts. I am sure my time this weekend will be busy, since Michael and I both will be at the house and we have LOTS to accomplish in those two days. Note to self * Get my list ready. Our biggest goal is getting the main floor of our house back together. If your wondering what all is going on then jump over to my home blog and take a look see!

Well here it is Mother's Day weekend. Do any of you have any special plans? As of now, I don't have any big plans. Sad I know....not really. All three of my kids are very busy right now and it is hard to get us all together for any amount of time. So if we can't get together then I am sure we will at a later time.

When God Created Mothers
by Erma Bombeck

When the good Lord was creating mothers He was into His sixth day of
"overtime" when the angel appeared and said, "You're doing a lot of fiddling
around this one."
And the Lord said, "Have you read the specs on this order? She has to be
completely washable, but not plastic; Have 180 moveable parts... all
replaceable; Run on black coffee and leftovers; Have a lap that disappears
when she stands up; A kiss that can cure anything from a broken leg to a
disappointed love affair; And six pairs of hands."
The angel shook her head slowly and said, "Six pairs of hands... no way."
"It's not the hands that are causing me problems," said the Lord. "It's the
three pairs of eyes that mothers have to have."
"That's on the standard model?" asked the angel.
The Lord nodded. "One pair that sees through closed doors when she asks,
"What are you kids doing in there?" when she already knows. Another here in
the back of her head that sees what she shouldn't but what she has to know,
and of course the ones here in front that can look at a child when he goofs
up and say, "I understand and I Love You" without so much as uttering a
word."
"Lord", said the angel, toughing His sleeve gently, "Come to bed.
Tomorrow..."
"I can't," said the Lord, "I'm so close to creating something so close to
myself. Already I have one who heals herself when she is sick... can feed a
family of six on one pound of hamburger... and can get a nine-year-old to
stand under a shower."
The angel circled the model of a mother very slowly. "It's too soft," she
sighed.
"But tough!" said the Lord excitedly. "You cannot imagine what this mother
can do or endure."
"Can it think?"
"Not only think, but it can reason and compromise," said the Creator.
Finally, the angel bent over and ran her finger across the cheek. "There's a
leak," she pronounced. "I told You. You were trying to put too much into
this model."
"It's not a leak," said the Lord, "it's a tear."
"What's it for?"
"It's for joy, sadness, disappointment, pain, loneliness and pride."
"You are a genius," said the angel.
The Lord looked somber. "I didn't put it there."

Happy Mother's Day

Thursday Thoughts

Hi buddies, Can you believe it, another post for me...what is she going to talk about today? Ah, who knows. I have had a slow morning here at work and so thought I would work on a post. I know I should be working on some more training, but don't feel inspired to that....YET! I will....

This morning my mind has been busy working overtime, with all kinds of thoughts about home, family, spiritual, you name it. I feel my existence tugging on me in a million little directions. Now for me that can be a bad thing, but actually now, it's not, It's a good thing. I feel like I have my motivation back, which has been lacking for a while now. Over the course of the last several days (maybe week) I have been working on getting my perspective back to where it is/was suppose to be. For a while, I was just one tired soul. Since my new schedule, I am feeling more "normal" and rested. It is simply amazing what a difference and outlook you have when your body gets proper rest. My optimistic attitude had become more negative. Which is a trait I simply hate. I know that is a strong word, but it is so true for me. Do you realize how many people have negative attitudes and they don't even realize it? For me, I do realize when mine is like that. And I don't like it. And seems no matter what I was doing it wasn't getting better. Praise God, I don't feel that way anymore. For the most part, I am back to my happy little self with way to much going on. :) Oh well, I know it is temporary. Once our house projects are complete, things should settle down.

So did you all see my video that I posted last night? Isn't Chondra a funny lady? Just love her humor and the way she can laugh at herself. I have found another woman that I also enjoy, her name is Jeanne Robertson, see what you think!

Well, I am going to work on a little post for my homemaking site, so if you want to check it out...jump on over there.

Hope your having a blessed week.

Cindy

Happy Wednesday Everybody

Two days in a row...that definitely has to be a record for me.  My track record hasn't been all that good lately.  Today was so much better than the other days of the week.  The sun actually came out to play for a bit....but tonight the rain started in again and it came a downpour.

I had a little bit of free time so decided to change my background to something a bit more cheery.  What ya think?  Well this week is zipping right along, and before we know it, it will be the weekend.  Our dear  friends ( the ones we go out with all the time) he is turning the big 50 on Friday.  So hoping that sometime we will be able to get with them to celebrate. I know they have lots of plans with family this weekend and with it being Mothers Day they have to incorporate those activities as well.  So not sure if we can get together Friday or if we will have to wait until next week.

 This week at work I have been working on some computer training and it has actually been fun for me.  It's been awhile since I have been given the opportunity to do anything like that at work, so I have been plowing through them.  Today I started working with Photoshop CS.  It looks like it will be a good class.  Although I have worked with web pages for years, I haven't actually done much in the graphic arena, and I have been itching to work with some of the software. 

Well, guess I should wrap this up, i haven't eaten tonight and it's already after 9.  So need to grab a snack and hit the hay.  But before I go, i want to leave you with something to make you laugh.

Saying hi

Just stopping in to say a quick hello and hope you all are doing well.  Sorry I have been gone for so long, but so much is going on with me these last several months that I can't seem to stay on top of things.  And my blog has kinda gone to the way side.  I hope soon that I will be able to visit with some of you again.  I do keep up through my RSS feeds though. 

Working on ALL the additional renovations is taking all our free time, so bare with me.  Miss you all!

Working round the clock!

So you wonder what I have been up too, huh? Bunches of stuff going on with me and my family. At the moment, just trying to keep our heads above water. We are busy,busy in the middle of doing some renovations in our house, and seems like every spare moment is taken up with that. Some of the things we are doing is we have ripped up the old carpet in the living room so wonderful hubby can install wood flooring. He installed all wood flooring on the main level of the house 18 months or so ago and we left the LR until later, it is now later.

We ripped off old wallpaper in the dining room (which I liked but hubby didn't,

but we were ready for a crisp new look) and repainted the room (country white) as well as the LR (butter cookie). In order to do all this, we have had to rent a storage unit and move furniture into it so that we could move around. My LR and DR has a open concept so we had to remove almost everything for all the supplies and tools. So we truck back and forth to the unit to get what we need until it is complete. Hubby is also framing in my LR windows to give the room a more custom feel. Over the last several years we have redone almost all the house, and that is THE one thing we have done in every room. It is such a small and inexpensive thing but makes such a big difference. Once all rooms are completely finished we will be ripping out all the carpet on our second floor. Whoopee!!!! So I am in the mist of looking at carpet samples. It's gotta be something that doesn't show dirt, and can handle high traffic. Especially the steps. Thinking maybe a berber. Any tips?

On top of all this, my sons have been looking for jobs. One down and one to go....my daughter took ill and was out of commission for over a week, running extremely high fevers. Three night in a row at the ER. Doctors thought she had mono but all the test came back negative, but she was exposed to it and it was kicking her little butt. I am so glad she is feeling much better and is back in school. My aunt passed away unexpectedly and it was a total shock...so I had to make a quick trip to Kentucky for her burial. Needless to say, there have been many days that I felt like I was on "auto pilot". Doing all this on top of trying to work full time, the only time I missed work  was for my aunt funeral. Whew!

My step son is getting married this weekend, so have had to shop for "something to wear". I picked out a little sleeveless navy with small white polka dots (so Julie Roberts) and the cutest shoes.  Still haven't packed, but looking forward to the trip.It will be nice to visit with hubby's siblings and his kids. It also happens to be my first anniversary so hubby and I are going to take a few days afterwards and get some R&R. Believe me we both could use it. It has been a highly stressful time for us. with everything that has been going on.

We will be in the Gatlinburg this weekend, and I can't imagine a more perfect place than the mountains to celebrate Easter and our anniversary. Once we get back, we will have to gear up for my daughters graduation and a party for her. It is hard to believe that my baby is graduating from high school in just a few short weeks. Where does the time go?

Ok...I wasn't going to write a book...just a update. Hope all is well with you and your families and your enjoying this Easter season.
Hugs

Where has the time gone (NO pictures this time)

Seems like I was just here, and it has been weeks since I posted anything.  Yiiikkkkkeeesss!  We'll I will try to make a quick update. How's that?   Life is life and I am living it day to day, and trying to just do what is humanly possible.  How's that?  No, really, everyday for the last several months has brought on many new struggles and changes for me and I am just trying to adapt to everything.  In the last several months, as most of you know, my kids lost jobs and we have been praying.  God answered our prayers this morning with a job for my #2 son (only in birth order, :) ) he will be starting a job in a couple of weeks and my #1 son (birth order, remember?) has a interview tomorrow and a possible lead for another job.  So we are praising God today.

Michael and I had a nice day out on Saturday, we drove up to Washington Pa to visit with his sister and had a nice lunch out with her and her hubby and scooted into a antique shop.  It was just a beautiful day to be out.  The weather was so nice and such a change from the cold temperatures we have been having.  Yesterday was spent with the boys at the house, helping Michael with some projects.  Oh joy!  We asked them to come over and help out and we would pay them.  They have been doing some odd jobs here and their for family members to pick up some spending cash until the unemployment kicks in.  It was nice to spend some time with them.  My daughter darted in for a few minutes and then she was gone again, but I always enjoying seeing her if only for a few minutes.

Today the weather has been great.  A perfect spring day.  As much as I dislike the time change, I do like the longer daylight hours. So thankful for that. I am really ready for the weather to get warmer and stay that way, although the forecast calls for cold temps again later this week. UGH!

Michael's son is getting married in a couple of weeks in Knoxville so I am hoping when we go down for the wedding it will be nice.  Looking forward to that little time away.  That also happens to be "our" first anniversary.  Woo Hoo!

Well, I just wanted to say hi. Hope you all have a blessed week.

Hugs,!

It's been almost a month

since I have written  on here, but my life has been so busy and I just really needed the time away. Scheduling conflicts and real life family issues have taken the most of my time.  During the week I don't have any computer time on Monday and Tuesdays  evenings anymore.  Except on rare occasion. So unless I were to post early in the AM (5:00) or so I can't post.  Maybe if I wrote post on Sunday and scheduled them...but I like being able to spend my Sunday's doing family/couple things.  (Although I think I might figure something out for those days). I truly do hate being away so long, I would love to devote more time to sharing more, but I feel overwhelmed so much of time because I don't have it in me to share at the end of the day.  Is this making sense?  Can anyone out there relate?  Also, it seems like the longer your away the harder it is to get back in the grove.

I don't want to go into the family issues here, but let me please say thanks to you all who have prayed for me and my family.  It means so much to know that we are being lifted up in prayer.  Continued prayers are  needed.

Now on to other things that is going on in my life.  Work is crazy, alot of changes going on there, seems like it NEVER ends.  From my job demands too where I sit on a day to day basis. My hours changed back in October instead of going in at 4:30 AM and getting off at 2:30, I work 9-5 but with a 1.5 hour drive (one way) and at that time of the morning longer, it makes for a long day.  But overall I have finally adjusted to that schedule.  I am so thankful that it gets dark later.  Now I am not driving both ways in the dark.  :) 

I have been alone this weekend,  Michael went to Texas to pick up his new truck. So I have had a chance to work on some much needed things in my house.  I decided to spend some time rearranging my furniture and "knick knacks" on Saturday.  Oh I like it so much better.  It felt good to expend some of that bottled up creativity that was inside me.  I hadn't done that in a LOOOONNNNNNNGGGGGGG time. On a regular bases I use to move and change things around but not so much over the past several years.  It felt wonderful and made me feel more like my old self.  I had several other things that I wanted to do, but didn't get to them all.  So they will go on my "to-do" list. 

I have also spent time doing some reading.  I am reading another Beverly Lewis book. The "SummerHill Series 2".  I actually bought 1 and 2 a while back and read 1 right away.  When I was ready to read 2, it was gone.  I think it got threw out with the bags or something, because I never did find it.  So last week while out doing some shopping I picked up another copy. 

Ok, I just felt the need to explain myself a little and let you know that as things are getting some better around here, I might be around a little more.  For the nights when I don't have time for a post, you can still catch me on Facebook. Is that addicting or what?  It has actually been very good for me, I have had the opportunity to connect with friends that I haven't seen in 20+ years.  From the early years of the Navy days - until now. 

Hope you have had a wonderful blessed Sunday!

Hugs!

Cindy