Happy Day to Me

I can't believe that mother’s day is just around the corner. The girls hate it because most of the time my birthday always falls within just less than a week of Mother's Day. They usually combine both events into one gift, which is fine with me. I really hope that this year they check out 1800flowers.com and send me some flowers for the combined event. Right now they have this contest going on "Celebrate Mom For Who She Is Contest" if the girls would enter me into the contest and tell them what a wonderful, supper, spectacular Mom I have always been I could win about $30,000 in prizes. I really think that I deserve to win cause I am the best Mom in the whole wide world. OK if not the best then I am really a close second best.

Usually on Mother's day we just all get together and have a big meal and we celebrate with Joy and her 3 children so that they don't have to split the day between her and me. We are not the kind of family who goes out to eat for the holiday we just usually cook up a huge meal and all of us just kind of pig out and enjoy the day together.

Happy Birthday Brian

Here is another poem my Mother started but never finished for our son I thought I would post it for his Birthday. Brian passed away when he was 3 and today he would have been 39. I just wanted to do something to recognize him.

Brian was my ....

My little fellow with the chubby face
had in my heart a special place
He would look at me and give me a smile
and I was in heaven for a little while.

His hair was light and curly....

HAPPY BIRTHDAY BRIAN!

Eat to live don't live to eat

Since Randy and I have been back from Haiti Randy has put back on a lot of the weight that he took off before making the move. Randy is one of those Emotional Eaters, when he gets stressed out or something is wrong he eats. I really worry about him because of his being overweight. I love him very much as you can imagine since we have been married for 40 years now. I actually think he might be able to get some help from www.ShrinkYourself.com to try to get to the bottom of his emotional eating issues. I try to talk to him about it but it just frustrates him and I don't want to fight about it with him. This program was founded by a world renowned emotional eating expert Dr. Roget Gould. He has a program that has been well studied for over 20 years so he is not a novice at this subject. The program Shrink yourself doesn't only help people who want to overcome their problem with food having power over them. The program focus on weight loss but it also helps you uncover bigger issues in your life. Shrink Yourself users have not only reported changes in their weight but they also experience big changes in other area of their lives. They have a free interactive session and personalized emotional eating report are available on their web site. I really think I am going to try to get him to check into this so that he can overcome this issue in his life.

How hard can it be

How difficult can it be to get three children in and out of the shower? Should be an easy process but no..... Let me see where do we start.

1. Who goes first
2. Who goes second
3. Who goes third
4. Do each of the three children have clean underwear to put on
5. Do each of the three children have clean PJ's to put on
6. Do each of the three children have a clean towel to dry off with
   
7. Do each of the three children take said clean underwear, PJ's and towel to the bathroom with them
8. After the shower can you then locate the dirty clothes said children were wearing before their shower to launder them
9. Also after the shower how difficult is it to locate 3 very wet towels so that their mother does not come home again from work to find a soaking wet spot on her bed from a very wet towel.

Well after much to do all of the above has been accomplished and now the three children are in bed getting their sleep for school tomorrow.

Tick Tock Tick Tock

When my dad had a massive stoke several years ago he had a grandfather clock in his den. I wanted to bring it home with me but was afraid that hauling it to Florida from Indiana in a trailer I would just ruin it so I didn't do it. But, I have always wanted one of the Howard Miller Grandfather Clocks so now I am checking out where I can find one and I have found the grandfather clock that I think is just what I am looking for. In a day and age where so many products are simply mass produced I believe it is important to have a quality clock We are now looking for a new place to live and I would love to have a large living room where we could have a beautiful grandfather clock
that we could some day pass down to our children and then on to their children. This I believe is something that could be in a family for generations and generations to come. I really believe that a beautiful clock should be the center of your home decor. Our life centers around time so therefore our home should be centered around a beautiful clock that will create many memories for years and years.

Red Hot

I only have a couple of kinds of candy that I really really love. One of those is Red Hots. I can't believe how hard a time I have finding them all during the year. I mean at valentines time you can find them everywhere. But the rest of the year I only have two places where I can find them. One is a local grocery store here called Publix and Walgreen's Drug Store. I have always loved cinnamon candy for as long as I can remember. I also love Hot Tamales candy. When I was a child we would stay most of the summer at our grandparents house in the country. The only good thing I remember about staying there was he used by buy a candy called cinnamon balls. It was round balls of cinnamon candy that was coated in a very fine sugar. I have never found those since I have been an adult but would absolutely kill for some of them. So if anyone out there knows where I can get them drop me a comment please.

Beautiful inside and out

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Missing in action

I can't believe that we are now beginning to discover things that have come up missing since someone moved out of the house. The other day I went to my jewelry box to put on my good watch and it was gone. The girls kept saying you must have put it someplace else. But, they both know me I am such a creature of habit that I always put things in the same place all of the time. Plus since living with the girls and this not being my own house I am very careful that everything stays in our room. I don't even leave my shoes downstairs like everybody else does. Then this evening Jill got ready to lay some meat out for tomorrow. We bought a pork roast the other night to go with a small one that we had in the freezer. Well you guessed it the small one is missing. Now I know I did not misplace that. I mean how many places can you put a frozen pork roast? There is only one explanation. It grew feet and walked out the door with the "Mother" when she moved out. No telling what else we will find missing as time goes on.

Set up House

I have started looking for things that we need to purchase when we move out and get our own apartment. There is so much we need it is like starting our marriage all over again but 40 years later. There is a site called that specializes in giving you the very best of As Seen on TV products. But this site does all of the research on all of those infomercial products and gives you objective information on all of the top products. They have a section on the site for product reviews. I am forever seeing things on the infomercials that you just wonder if they really do what they say. This way you can check it out before you bite the bullet and make the purchase. I checked the site out and they have one of those really neat cordless "one touch can opener" I just might get us one of those. Plus Jill has been searching for those space bags that you suck the air out of for her move to Holland this summer.

Rain Rain go away

I know that we need rain and I also know that this is the month of April. April is supposed to bring April showers so that we can have May flowers. But, I would settle for one less flower in May if we could have one sunny day right now in April. We seem to have had quite a bit of rain the last few days. I know some places pretty close to us got about 5" of rain yesterday. I really hope that when it is time to walk to the bus stop to get the kids after school that it is not raining. I don't want the sun to be beating down on us but no rain. I would settle for some clouds but I repeat NO RAIN! It is a 20 minute walk to the bus stop and then a 20 minute walk home so that would be 40 minutes of walking in the rain plus what ever time we have to stand and wait on the stupid bus. So again I say no rain.