Karen's Korner

HOW BAD CAN IT GET?

2010-11-21T08:03:00.006-06:00

Good Sunday morning again everyone. Hope everyone has had a good week. It is currently 50 degrees here this morning and some Fog. The last 2 mornings have been very foggy and we have been under Dense Fog Advisories of the mornings. It is windy outside and it makes that 50 degrees feel a little more chilly. This week we are supposed to be getting some more much needed rain and a strong cold front is to come thru on Wednesday with the possibility of some flurries. Yes, I said flurries. The high on Thanksgiving Day is only supposed to be like 40 degrees and the lows going down into the 20's. We never know what to expect with the weather here in Arkansas. LOL.

Well, we only had 2 Basketball games to go to this past week. They were on Thursday and Friday nights. We have 2 this week that I know of and they are on Monday and Tuesday nights. In my opinion, which doesn't count for nothing, they shouldn't even schedule any games during a Holiday Break. But that is just me tho. Both of the girls only have to go to School on Monday. They both get a "FREE" day on Tuesday because they done good on their Benchmark Tests back in the Spring. Then the whole School lets out for Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday for the Thanksgiving Holiday. They are both happy that they only have to go one day this week and I am to in a way. Neither one likes to get up early and now I won't have to listen to them whine or anything. LOL. I will still have to get up early on Monday and Tuesday to get hubby up so he can go to work those days.

Our Thanksgiving plans have changed. We have decided to go ahead and go to my Parents house for Thanksgiving. My Mom kept on and was wanting us to come down there, so we decided to go ahead and go eat Thanksgiving Dinner with them. I will be making my Dressing and Potato Salad to take down there and my Mom is going to do the rest. My Sister won't be there to eat with us, but I think she will be there to have Supper with my Mom and Dad. After we get done there, we will come home and start on rearranging the living room and cleaning it up real good and then put up our Christmas Tree. That has been a tradition with us ever since me and hubby has been married and I guess we will continue to keep that tradition.

I am really dreading this year for Christmas. As Patricia Neal once said in the Walton's originial show, "THE HOMECOMING", there won't be any Santa Claus around here this year. If it wasn't for the girls, I wouldn't even bother about putting up a Christmas Tree at all. When there is no money, Christmas just really stresses me out. Hubby said earlier this week that for Christmas this year we are just going to stay home and not got to anyone's house. If relatives have gifts for the girls, they can just bring them to our house and give them to us. We will just sit at home and I will do some cooking for us and I guess we can watch Christmas shows. Hubby has recently found out that he isn't a full-time hand after all. The guy that hired him has told him he was and he even got his Uniforms, but the Computer says he is only Seasonal. So, I guess he could get laid off at any time. That just put much more stress on me with the other stress that I have going on that I still don't want to talk about right now. All I can do is just ask that everyone keep praying for me and my Family. Also, to top it all off, I just found out that the girls, ARKIDS isn't paying for anything. I have no clue as to what is going on with that. I am going to have to call tomorrow and find out what is going on. When I got their cards, I called and they told me it had been in effect since May of this year. The thing is I hadn't even applied for it until August. I just feel like my whole world is falling apart sometimes. Now, no insurance for the girls, no presents under the tree for the girls this year, hubby isn't full-time, how much more worse can it get? It just makes me really mad at the System because we are beeing honest about things when applying for help and there are others who lie and get alot more help than we can get. To be honest, it just makes me want to turn those people in. I know, I am a bad person and have a bad temper, but I have always been taught that HONESTY is the best Policy. Evidently, my honesty ain't worth a crap. Well, let me quit rammbling on with all my problems.

I forgot to tell about our little Family time we had last Saturdy night when I made my post last Sunday. We got the Fire Pit all fixed up and just the 4 of us had a Weiner Roast and me and hubby even roasted some Polish Sausage and then we even roasted Marshmellows and had some S'mores. It was a chilly night and we sat under the carport with our little fire and just had some good quality Family time.

Guess I will go for now and start visiting. Hope everyone has a wonderful week and a "HAPPY THANKSGIVING" on Thursday. If you are traveling, I pray safe travels for you and yours. Take care everyone and may GOD continue to Bless each and everyone of you.

Love and hugs,

Karen H.

A BUSY, BUSY WEEK.

2010-11-14T09:00:00.003-06:00

Good Sunday Morning again everyone. Hope everyone has had a wonderful week. It is currently 40 degrees here right now. We had another cold front to come thru early yesterday morning and it brought some more much needed rain around here. It also brought some more much cooler temperatures. When I first woke up this morning, it was 33 degrees. We had a pretty big frost out as well. I will be glad when the weather decides to be either cold or warm. Earlier this past week, it had warmed back up and I had to run the A/C during the afternoon, but at night and the early mornings had to use the heaters. It was nice to wake up to the rain yesterday morning and see some water puddles outside.

Sorry about my post last week. Some how or another, it didn't let me finish it. Oh well, at least I did have a post tho. LOL.

First of all, I would like to ask for some prayers for my Family. At this time, I do not want to go into any details, but it's an uspoken Prayer Request for right now. Maybe in time, I will discuss it.

This past week has been a busy, busy week around here. I was on the go with the girls all week. They had basketball games to cheer at on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday nights. Luckily, we didn't have to travel very far. The first two nights games were over at the Lake City Gym. The last two nights were here at our Gym. There are more games scheduled for this week and even an Invitational Tournament at Bay. Not sure which games they will be cheering at, but I sure hope we don't have very many. I don't mind driving, especially at night, to some local games nearby, but when they are far off, I just don't drive by myself and won't be able to go to the games then. It gets very expensive when you have to drive out of town to games several nights a week and plus paying to get into the games. At least the girls do get in free since they are cheerleaders. At most places, it cost's adults, $4 each to get into a game. I generally try to make sure that we eat something before we do go to a game and we all try to take us all a bottle of water to drink at the game as well. The concession stand food is expensive also. Oh well, let me quit griping, because there is nothing I can do about it. All we can do is just take one day at a time.

Next week is "THANKSGIVING". Do any of you have any big plans? We have decided to just have Thanksgiving here at our house with just the 4 of us this year. I'm going to cook a small Turkey. I will fix some Dressing as well. I know I will fix a big bowl of my Potato Salad. Not sure what else I will fix, but hubby says just to keep it simple. I think we may get us a couple of frozen pies for our dessert. I'm not a big baker myself, so the frozen pies will be just fine with me. Also that weekend is when we usually put up our Christmas Tree and decorate for Christmas. We all have a big chore ahead of us before we do put up the tree. I usually like to rearrange my living room and get it all cleaned up real good before we do put our tree up. The girls have to get their rooms cleaned up as well. They both have a small 4 foot tree that they put up in their rooms. We bought a White Christmas Tree a few years ago and year before last our youngest daughter chose the colors to decorate it in. Last year our oldest daughter chose the colors and this year will be my year to choose the colors to decorate it in. Last year, it was blus and silver and was really pretty. We have all kinds of different colored lights and decorations. I'm not sure what color I want to use this year. Either way, I'm sure it will turn out pretty tho. Hubby and the girls usually put the lights on together and then the girls decorate the tree. I just sit on my butt and sort thru the decorations and hand them to them. LOL. We used to decorate on the outside big time, but we don't do that anymore. One thing, we just can't afford to buy all those decorations to use on the outside. We just use what we have and make the best of it with what we do have. This has been a tradition of us putting up our tree on Thanksgiving weekend ever since me and hubby got married.

Well, guess I will go for now and start my visiting. Hope everyone has a wonderful and Blessed week. May GOD Bless each and everyone of you as well.

Love and hugs,

Karen H.

DID SOMEONE LEAVE THE FREEZER DOOR OPEN?

2010-11-07T07:59:00.003-06:00

Burrrr!!!! I think someone has left the Freezer Door Open around here. Good Sunday Morning everyone. I hope that everyone remembered to set their Clocks back an hour before going to bed last night. It is another cold day here in the South. We finally got some Rain last week. One day the Rain was a chilly rain as well. If the temperatures had been down near freezing, it might have been something else that fell. After the rain, we had a cold front to come thru and it's been cold since. I've had my Central heat going as well as my pad heater in the hall. The last couple of nights we have been under a freeze warning. It was 30 degrees here when I got up earlier. I think this weeks weather is going to be another one of those roller coaster rides. It starts out chilly and then warms back up into the 70's. Only in Arkansas. LOL.

I apologize for not posting last Sunday, but I was just so tired and felt bad and had some chores to do. Seems like a Woman's work is never done huh? I know mine isn't. Just wish the cleaning lady would show up like she is supposed to. LOL.

The last couple of weeks has had us going to some Basketball games to watch the girls cheer. This week is going to be busy as well. They have games on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday nights to cheer at. It's a good thing they are all home games. They done really good on their "THRILLER" Dance they did a couple fo weeks ago. I'm hoping they will go it again soon so other people will be able to see it. Since Basketball is in full swing now, they are not going to Gym Classes on Tuesdays anymore. But still with all the games, they are staying busy and keeping us on the go some as well.

Well now that Halloween is finally over, it's time to think about Thanksgiving. I'm not sure yet what we will be doing. I may just fix dinner here at the house for me and hubby and the girls. I think it would be nice for a change for the 4 of us just to have a Thanksgiving meal by ourselves. Do you have any big plans for the upcoming Thanksgiving Holiday? We usually put our Christmas Tree up Thanksgiving weekend as well. I'm so not looking forward to Christmas this year. Not even sure if the girls will be able to have a good Christmas or not. They do understand tho that times are really hard on us, but maybe we will be able to get them a little something. Last Christmas we went all out and got them their own Laptop and a new Cell Phone for Christmas along with some other little things. But last years finances were in much better shape than this year will be. I guess as long as we are all healthy, have a roof over our heads, and food on the table, that will be a good Christmas. Even tho I like Christmas, it just really stresses me out and makes me not to want to even put a tree up sometimes. If it wasn't for the girls, I wouldn't even put one up. And since they have gotten older and quit believing in Santa Claus, it has taken alot of the fun out of it for me as well.

DO THEY STILL MAKE RAIN ANYMORE?

2010-10-24T09:22:00.003-05:00

Good Sunday Morning everyone. I'm having my first cup of Coffee right now and would like it if you would join me. If you don't like Coffee, well, I have some Water or a Diet Caffeine Free Soda. It is 70 degrees here right now and it's on the windy side out this morning. They are calling for a 50% chance of Rain for today, but they gave that percentage one day this past week and we didn't even get a drop here. I'm seriously beginning to think that they don't make Rain for us here in Northeast Arkansas anymore. It's been so long since we have seen any Rain here. It has rained everywhere but here. By us having a very hot and dry Summer, I'm just guessing we are going to have a very bad Winter. I'll take the Snow, but just no Ice like we had here last year in 2009. I don't think I could go thru something like that again. Luckily, my Parents had a generator and we stayed with them during that time. The girls were out of School here for 11 days because there was no power. I seen on the local news the other night where a town in Southeast Missouri is still recovering from that Ice Storm. We don't have a generator ourselves, but if it should happen again, we will be able to cook and have some heat. My cooktop is gas and we now have a Pad Heater in the hall that is also gas. We have 2 coolers that if we have to, we could put things in it and stick it outside so it wouldn't go bad. The only thing is, I wouldn't have my Coffee Maker. That wouldn't be a good thing. LOL. I have got to have my Coffee of the mornings. Oh well, all we can do is just hope and pray for the best and that we don't have another major Ice Storm like last year.

Last Saturday night, a good friend, and a former Elementary Principal of the girls, got killed in a car wreck up around Lake City. I forgot to mention it in my last Sunday's post. I guess I was still in a state of shock myself. From the way I understood, him and his wife were on their way to a Church function up in Jonesoboro and he crossed the center lane and hit another car head on. I've had several people to tell me that he may have had a heart attack and he died instantly and his wife was hurt and at first they didn't know if she would make it or not, but she did. She had something wrong with one of her legs or foot and one of her hands and had to have surgery. They had air-lifted her to the Med in Memphis, Tn. One of the other passengers in the other vehicle had to be air-lifted the Le Bonhuers and was in serious condition. I think the others had some minor injuries and everyone is doing okay now. They had Mr. Case's Funeral on Thursday of this week at his Church in Jonesboro and brought him back to Caraway to bury him. Me and our oldest daughter and one of her friends went out to the Cemetary to the service out there. It was a sad and somber day here in Caraway that day. They had dismissed School here at noon that day so everyone that wanted to go to the Funeral could go. He had been with the School for 30 years. Even after he retired he was still a P.E. Teacher for the elementary kids. Both him and his wife we wonderful people and very good Christians. They both had a strong faith in GOD. He will be dearly missed for sure, but at least HEAVEN has a new ANGEL there now. R.I. P. Mr. Case.

Other than that above, this week has been fairly quiet and slow I guess you could say. Both girls had their regular Gym in Jonesboro in Tuesday and then our oldest daughter worked at her job on Wednesday after School. Like I said above, they had gotten out of School at noon on Thursday and they didn't have their regular Cheerleading practice either. There was no School on Friday due to the Teachers having their In-Service. So, the girls got to sleep late. Our youngest had gone to one of her friends house on Thursday afternoon and spent the night there. Friday evening they had their first Basketball game to cheer at at Armorel, AR. That is a suburb of Blytheville, AR. They both looked really good in their new Cheerleading Uniforms. I didn't take any pictures, but will the next time. This coming Tuesday evening(26th), they are going to do their Michael Jackson dance to "THRILLER". Both Jr. and Sr. High Cheerleaders will all do it together. They have to have some ripped up clothes. Our youngest daughter already has hers, but our oldest will have to get hers done by then. On Saturday morning, I had to get the girls up early again. They were both going with the Choir from School for "All-Region's Try-Outs". I have no idea if they made it or not because hubby had to go pick them up early because our oldest daughter had to come back and pack for an over night stay with the Youth from our Church for a Youth Rally. She left around 12:30p.m. yesterday and is supposed to be back around noon today. Our youngest daughter went to her friends house and went on a Hay Ride with her friends Church last night. She said they had a good time. Me and hubby went to Jonesboro yesterday evening to buy some groceries and it was around 7:30p.m. when we got back home last night. Since we couldn't afford to go out to eat, I got a couple of frozen pizza's and heated them up for us when we got back home. It actually felt good buying groceries and not having to worry about hubby telling me we can't get this or that. LOL. I even bought some name brand things and I haven't been able to do that in a very long time. Hubby even got a Safety Bonus at work this past week for not having any accidents for 3 months and it was a $50 gift card from Wal-Mart. He used that to buy our Toilet Paper and Paper Towels and Paper Plates and Garbage Bags that we have to have. When we got home, I had a job of putting all the groceries up. I even had to re-arrange things in my freezer to make room for some of the things. That has been my week. This coming week the girls have 2 games in Lake City. So I guess, Basketball Season has officially started for our School and they will be doing alot of cheering. Basketball Season usually goes thru February.

Well, guess I will go for now and start visiting some of my favorite blogs. Take care my friends and I hope you have a wonderful week. May GOD continue to BLESS each and everyone of you.

Love and hugs,

Karen H.

A QUIET WEEK.

2010-10-17T07:46:00.005-05:00

Good Sunday Morning everyone. I am up early this morning and right now I am the only one up and am having my first cup of Coffee. It is 47 degrees here right now and is supposed to warm up later on in the day to the mid 80's. This past week I have been having to turn my Pad Heater on of the mornings and running it till about Noon and then turning the Air-Conditioner on until just before bedtime. LOL. I guess it's just that time of the year where we have to use both of them.

Well this past week has been a pretty much quiet week around here. The girls had their regular Gym and Cheerleading practices on Tuesday and Thursday and our oldest went Wednesday after School to try out for the Bowling Team at School. Still haven't heard if she made it or not. Yesterday, we went over to hubby's Brother's house for a Family Cookout and to celebrate 2 Birthdays. We were celebrating his wife's Birthday and their daughter's Birthday. Had alot of good food and Birthday Cake and Ice Cream. We all enjoyed visiting with Family and even some real good friends that are just like Family. I didn't take my Camera to take any pictures because I just wasn't in a mood to take any pictures and since I don't remember how to upload them up on here, I just said the heck with it. LOL.

The girls do have their first Basketball Game this coming Friday night to start Cheering at. It will be out of town, but that's okay, at least it's on a Friday night. They finally got their new Cheer Uniforms in this past week and they are real pretty and look good on both of them. They are supposed to do a dance on the 26th to Michael Jackson's, "THRILLER". They have been working on that and I seen some of it this past Thursday when I went to pick them up from Cheerleading Practice. Both of the Jr. and Sr. High Cheerleaders will be doing it together and it looked really good. I'm excited for them and can't wait to see them actually do it. They have to wear some ripped and torn clothes just for the dance tho. I will be taking pictures of that and will have them posted on my Facebook, so those of you who are on my Facebook, be sure to watch for the pictures sometime after the 26th.

Yesterday when we were going to hubby's Brother's house for the Family cookout, we stopped by the Post Office to check the Mail. Well lo and behold, I had a letter saying that we had been approved for Food Stamps. "THANK YOU" Lord for yet another answered prayer. I was a little disappointed in the amount we will be getting tho, but I guess every little bit will help out. What really gets me is that some people will lie about the things they have to turn in and get alot more Food Stamps each month and then you have people like me who are honest and tell the truth and don't really get as much as those other people who lie do. Oh well, at least I am "THANKFUL" to be getting some tho. It has been so bad on us that we haven't been able to buy groceries ourselves. It takes everything that hubby makes just to pay the bills and put gas in 2 vehicles to last 2 weeks. After that, there is nothing really left. I just hope and pray that he will be able to find a better paying job someday soon and will get paid every week. I would try to find a job, but if I did that, it would put an end on me trying to get my Disability. Still haven't heard anything on that. The last thing I heard was something about a hearing and it could take up to a year just for the hearing. I have one of the best Attorney's working on it and I'm sure he knows what he is doing, but it just seems like it is taking forever.

Oh well, sorry for all the complaining and griping this morning, but i guess I haven't had enough Coffee yet. LOL. I keep remember the saying that, "All Good Things Comes to Those Who Wait".

Well, guess I will go for now and start doing my visits to your blogs. Hope everyone has a great Sunday and a good week. May GOD BLESS each and everyone of you.

Love and Hugs,

Karen H.

"HAPPY CANADIAN THANKSGIVING"!!!!

2010-10-11T00:01:00.001-05:00

I would just like to wish all of my Canadian Friends a very "HAPPY THANKSGIVING" today. Enjoy the time with Family and Friends and be "THANKFUL" for everything. We all have so much to be "THANKFUL" for. I tried to post a picture here, but it seems I have forgotten how to or either that, they have changed the way you do things here on the Blogs. Anyway, "HAPPY CANADIAN THANKSGIVING" to all my wonderful Friends up in Canada. May GOD BLESS each and everyone of you.

Lots of Love and Hugs,

Karen H.

TERRAPIN DERBY AND 30-YEAR CLASS REUNION

2010-10-10T07:15:00.005-05:00

Good Sunday Morning everyone. I would like to apologize for not posting last Sunday, but the Saturday before, I was busy, busy, busy. My hometown of Lepanto, had their 80th Annual Terrapin Derby that is always held the first Saturday in October and then my Graduating Class of 1980 had their 30-Year Class Reunion that night and then that Sunday I had to go to my Mother-In-Law's for a double Birthday Dinner for my hubby and his Sister. Needless to say, I had been pretty much on the go since that Friday.

It is 53 degrees here this morning. Our weather has been jumping back and forth from warm to cool. Last week we had a strong cold front to come thru and the high temperatures were only in the 60's and we had lows in the 40's. I even lit the pilot light on my Pad Burner in the hall so we could use it just in case. Well, we had to use it in the mornings when I got up. It was on the chilly side. Now this past week it has warmed back up again. It started out with me using the heater of the mornings and then turning the A/C back on in the afternoons. Finally the latter part of this week, I have just been leaving the A/C on all the time. Sure wish it would make up it's mind if it wants to stay warm or stay cool. LOL. I think we have another cool down coming later this week with high's only in the 70's. Hope everyone is enjoying the weather where you live.

I took both girls to see a Children's Pediatrician this past Thursday. Since they had their ARKids, I needed to find them a Primary Care Physician and get them established with one. One of my Sister-In-Law's had suggested one out in Jonesboro and we were able to see him this past Thursday. Both of the girls really liked him and said he was "cool". LOL. I was very impressed with him as well. He checked them both out very well and both are in good health and in the right percentile in their height and weight. He did give them some Claritan for allergies. So much of that seems to be going around in this area right now. He even suggested them getting a shot for spinal menangitis and they both got one to protect them. He said he would like to see them both again in 6 months unless something comes up before then. After we left the Doctor's office we had to go by Wal-Mart to the Pharmacy to get their meds filled and had to wait there about 45 minutes. By the time they got done we were all hungry so Ashley, our oldest daughter suggested we go to Taco Bell to eat. She and Alyssa had said they have been hearing on a Radion Station they listen to where they had some cheap things to eat, so we went to Taco Bell. All 3 of us ate for $7 and some change. Of course Ashley paid for it all. That was so nice of her to do that and I'm so proud of her for doing such a nice thing. We left there and came back home and they got all of their School stuff and I took them back to School around 1:00p.m. All 3 of us enjoyed our time together even tho it was going to the Doctor. I guess it was some much needed Mother and daughters time.

Last Saturday, my hometown had their 80th Annual Terrapin Derby. What is that you say? LOL. Well, they have been doing this for 80 years now. They have vendors set up and down Main Street and they even have a Parade that comes down Main Street at 2:00p.m. I took alot of pictures of the Parade. I won't try to post them all because there were over 100 pictures of just the Parade. Yes, I took a picture of everything in the Parade. After the Parade beginning at 4:00p.m. they block off a side street off of Main Street for alot of Turtles to Race. They have 3 winners. Each year, girls of all ages will run for Terrapin Derby Queen and will sell tickets on the Turtles. The girl who sells the most tickets wins the Terrapin Derby Queen. They usually have a Jr. Queen and a Sr. Queen. Believe it or not, in 1973, I won the Jr. Terrapin Derby Queen myself. Then at 7:00p.m they have a Street Dance. We normally go to the Street Dance ourselves, but this year, my Graduating Class of 1980 had our 30-Year Class Reunion. So, me and my hubby went to that and the girls spend the night with my Mother-In-Law. I had the best time at my Class Reunion. It was the most fun that I had had in a very long time and was some very much needed fun time for me as well. I think we had about 18 out of 35 that showed up for the Reunion. A few of them I had not even seen since Graduation. It was about 12:30a.m. when me and hubby got home that Sunday morning and let's just say I had a little too much fun, but not that bad tho. I had said previously that I had been on the go since that Friday, but it was that Thursday because that Thursday night, I had went down to Lepanto and helped decorate for our Reunion with a couple of other girls that I graduated with. I didn't go to my 10-Year Class Reunion, but I am so glad that I went to this Reunion and now I'm ready for the next one. LOL. Now, I'm going to try to upload some pictures, but if I can't, for all of those that are on my Facebook, you can go to my Pictures on there and look at all the pictures.

That Sunday at 1:00p.m. we had to go to my Mother-In-Law's for a Double Birthday Lunch. That Sunday(3rd) was my Sister-In-Law's Birthday and then on Tuesday(5th) was my hubby's Birthday. So, my Mother-In-Law decided to have a Birthday Lunch for the both of them. All of her kids were there with their kids and I tooks pictures of that as well. We all had a great afternoon of eating and visiting and taking pictures. This was the first time that all of her kids had been together in a very long time. She has 5 kids(2 boys and 3 girls) and also she has 8 grandkids(5 boys and 3 girls) as well.

Well, it was taking too long to upload the pictures in a Video, so you can go to my Facebook Page and look under Photos and the Album's name is 80th Annual Terrapin Derby and 30-Year Class Reunion for those pictures and then for the Birthday pictures it's under the Album name of David and Sue's Birthday Dinner. Sorry it was taking so long but there were lots of pictures on that Saturday.

I guess that is about all that has been going on with me for the last week or so. Guess I will go for now and start visiting some of my favorite blogs. Hope everyone has a great week and may GOD BLESS each and everyone of you.

Love and hugs,

Karen H.

One heck of a Week and an Answered Prayer

2010-09-26T08:47:00.003-05:00

Good Sunday morning everyone. I hope that everyone has had a wonderful week. It is currently 60 degrees here and the wind is blowing. Today there is a chance of rain and it's supposed to be a cloudy and gloomy day after a strong cold front came thru. I'm loving this kind of weather. The high today is only supposed to be in the 60's and in the 70's some this coming week with lows in the 50's. May have to light a fire. LOL.

It has been a bad week for us around here. Our oldest daughter, Ashley, has been having some dizzy spells and feeling like she was going to pass out and her hands shaking. I ended up taking her to the Emergency Room Monday after School and they did all kinds of tests on her there. Everything checked out okay except they did find an irregular heart beat on her heart. The 2 Doctors that seen her wasn't comfortable about sending her home and was wanting to send her to Arkansas Children's Hospital in Little Rock to be checked out, but that would be a long drive from here, so we ended up taking her to LeBonheur in Memphis. They were wanting her to be checked out by a Pediatric Cardiologist since they didn't have any in Jonesboro. So, she was taken to LeBonheur by Ambulance and I rode in the Ambulance with her and hubby came over in our vehicle. We got there and they hooked her up to a heart monitor and never done anything else. She wasn't even checked out by a Pediatric Cardiologist like they were wanting her to. So, we ended up coming home and got home around 3:00a.m. Tuesday morning. I kept her home from School that day as well. She done okay and then she worked at her part-time job on Wednesday afternoon after School and while they were cleaning before closing time, she got dizzy there. She went ahead and went to Church that night and then about 7:30p.m., my Sister-In-Law called me and wanted me to come get her because she wasn't feeling too well. I went up there and she was complaining of chest pains and shortness of breath. She couldn't hardly walk out to the vehicle at this time. So, me and another one of my Sister-In-Laws, and Brother-In-Laws, all helped her to our vehicle. I brought her home and I tried to get her out myself, but I couldn't. She was in such pain that I came into the house and told hubby I needed help with her. She was screaming and crying at this point and wouldn't calm down, so I called our local Ambulance to come check her out. They got here ASAP and one of the guys said she was having a panic attack and they took out with here and then about 7 miles from here they had called another Ambulance to meet them so they could transfer her to an Ambulance that can administer an IV. Back to the hospital we go again. The ER Dr. on call this time, said that she had what they call Chest Wall Pain and it is sometimes caused by stress in teenagers and that she had a panic attack along with the pain. He gave her some pain/anti-inflammatory pills to help with it. He said nothing was wrong with her heart. At this point, I have 3 different doctors telling me 3 different things. They sent her home and she ended up going to School at Noon on Thursday. She has been doing okay except she went on a trip with a Church group Saturday from my home town and she said she had some shortness of breath on the bus. We were down at my Parent's house last night having Dinner with them and she got up from the table and went and layed down and called me in there. She said she was having a hard time getting a good breath, so I made here undo her Bra and unsnap her pants. I know that sounds weird, but sometimes that works on me as well. I was doing my best to keep her calm so she wouldn't go into another panic attack and after a while we came home. I gave her one of the pills that the ER Dr. had prescribed for her when we got home and she got to feeling better a little later. I ask that you all please keep her in your prayers right now.

I also got an answered prayer on Friday afternoon. As you all know, I had filled out an application on the girls to have insurance thru ARKids First and I got their cards in the mail on Friday. "THANK YOU GOD" for answering that prayer for me. Now our girls both have insurance on them that will pay for everything. We won't even have to pay for anything. They had qualified for the Part A on the ARKids First insurance. That is where you don't have to pay for anything. On Monday, I had an appointment with the Social Worker on my Medicaid and someone had marked out the part about Food Stamps. So, I filled out another application for Food Stamps and had to bring home a paper for hubby to have filled out at work and got that faxed back in. So, please keep us in your prayers that we will hear something about getting Food Stamps real soon. I'm hoping as well that I will be eligible for Medicaid also for me.

On another note, hubby told me earlier this week that his boss had called him aside and told him he was full-time now with benefits. The pay is still going to be the same(which isn't that good), but he will have insurance and will get to have uniforms to work in as well. Him having uniforms will be a good thing and will cut down on the wear and tear of his own clothes and then me not having to wash his work clothes. I don't know how much the insurance costs but if I can get Medicaid on me, then maybe, he can just take the insurance out on him and everyone will be covered again. It's just so hard not having any insurance and not enough money to pay for things. But at least he does have a job and we are able to pay our regular bills. Just not enough money leftover to really do anything extra or go anywhere.

Since the girls now have insurance, I am going to call Monday to a Children's Pediactric Doctor in Jonesboro and set them up to be looked at and to have a Primary Care Physician. They both could use a good physical and be seen by a regular children's doctor. I'm also going to get their eyes checked and start them back on their dental check-ups as well.

I guess that is about all that has been going on this week, but it's been enough and at times too much for me. Wednesday night, I really thought something bad was happening to her. It scares me because Heart Problems do run in the Family. As a Mother, I won't stop worrying until I am 100% sure if there is anything wrong with her or not.

I hope that everyone has a wonderful week. Me and hubby had to re-schedule our doctors's appointment to this Tuesday since we got home so late Tuesday morning and was in need of some sleep and had to cancel. Take care everyone and GOD Bless you all. Now it's off to visit some of my favorite blogs.

Love and hugs,

Karen H.

ANOTHER SUNDAY HERE IN THE SOUTH.

2010-09-19T09:04:00.003-05:00

Good Sunday Morning again everyone.

Well, as promised, I am posting again. Hope everyone has had a good week. It is 68 degrees here this morning and I'm drinking my Coffee. Hope you will join me. It has been a pretty nice week here with cool evenings and mornings. The last couple of days it has warmed up into the low 90's for highs but still bearable. Now if all the bugs and mosquitos would just go somewhere else, it would be alot better. I have seen tons of Moths, Crickets, and Dragonflies over the last month and a half. Don't know what all that really means unless it means we are in store for a bad Winter.

I've had a bad toothace since Thursday and have been rinsing my mouth out with Listerine and taking Tylenol for the pain at times. Don't have any insurance anymore, so I'm having to tough it out. On another note, we had a sad week here in our Family. One of my husband's brother's fiance lost her baby last weekend and in fact lost it on his Birthday last Friday. It was a precious little girl. It would have been their first child and they had even planned on getting married last Sunday. Me and hubby went to the visitation last Tuesday evening and they seemed to be doing as well as can be expected. They buried her on Wednesday, but we didn't get to go because if hubby takes off from work, it causes us to lose money, so we didn't go. Please keep hubby's brother and his fiance in your prayers as they go thru this difficult time.

I fixed a pot of Homemade Vegetable Soup for our Supper last night. It was really good. I had intentions of making some Homemade Buttermilk Cornbread to go with it, but my tooth started hurting, so we just had crackers to go with it. If I feel like it tonight, I may make some Cornbread to go with it. As always, I make enough for us to eat a few days, so there is enough for tonight and probably tomorrow night as well. I like cooking that way, so all I have to do is just heat stuff up. It may sound crazy to some, but I don't believe in wasting any food at all.

I would like for yall to keep me and my Family in your prayers also. This has been a very hard time on us financially since hubby isn't driving a truck anymore. I have an appointment tomorrow morning for Medicaid. I also signed up for Food Stamps and am hoping they will tell me something about that tomorrow. I have the girls signed up on ARKids First, but it takes 45 days to hear something on that and it hasn't been quite 45 days yet. I had to also re-sign up on my Disability this February. Hubby got me a lawyer and the last letter I got from him was about a hearing and it said it could take up to a year for just the hearing. When you are used to bringing home a little over $900 a week and then it drops to $720 every 2 weeks, that is a cut in the throat if you ask me. But we are still surviving barely from paycheck to paycheck. I'm just praying and hoping we are able to get some kind of help.

Me and hubby has to go back to our regular doctor Tuesday for a check-up. We have run out of prescription's and it's been over a year since we were last there and they won't give us anymore refills until we are seen, so we both are going Tuesday morning to get looked at. I'm still a walking Drug Store myself but hubby only has 2 prescriptions he has to have every month. Even tho we have no insurance, we still have to pay full price on the the ones Wal-Mart doesn't have in Generic. Both of our meds together each month runs about $100.

Well, guess I have vented enough for today. I did want to put up a new post like I said I was going to do. I'm not going to set a certain time on when I post on Sunday's, but it will be sometime on Sunday. So watch for my new post.

Well, hope everyone has a great week ahead. I'm going to finish drinking my Coffee and start visiting some of my favorite blogs. Take care my friends and may GOD Bless each and everyone of you.

Love to all,

Karen H.

HELLO AGAIN EVERYONE!!!!

2010-09-12T09:35:00.003-05:00

Good Sunday Morning Everyone. Here I am again. Thought I would drop in and make a post. I am still alive and kicking. I know it's been over a year since I have posted, but I think I am going to maybe start making a post once a week on here. Since I've been doing Facebook, I have alot of my Blog friends on there and do keep in touch with them and play games with them. But here lately, I have been taking a break from playing the games on Sunday's. So, I figured since I won't play games on Sunday's, the least I could do is make a post on here. I think I may have forgotten how to even blog. LOL.

Well, it's a nice 70 degrees here this morning and it actually feels good outside. We finally got some much needed rain the lat couple of days and I noticed this morning that our grass is turning green once again and hubby may have to mow it later on this week. We have had a very hot and humid Summer. It was also a very dry Summer as well. I think this Summer may have had the Summer of 1980 beat. I have really been enjoying the much cooler and lower humidity we have been having. I am ready for Fall. Fall is my favorite Season.

I don't have any pictures to post on here like I always did because I'm not sure if I even remember how to. LOL. The last time I made a post, they were re-doing things I think and changing things up. Maybe some of yall can give me some tips or something to remind me.

As far as my health, I am doing okay. I went back to see my Cardiologist back in July and he said I was doing okay for now and I go back in January to see him again. I'm figuring he is going to want to do another Heart Cath at some point. I sure hope not because I don't like having that done. But, since I have started back smoking and he knows that, I'm sure he will do it at some point.

Yes, I said started back smoking. I only liked 2 months and it would have been 2 years that I had quit. Hubby hasn't started back yet. But the reason I started back was because we started having some problems and that seemed to calm my nerves. I don't smoke inside the house anymore. I do go outside and smoke. I will say this, a carton of cigarettes will last me about 2 weeks now where before it would last a week.

The girls are growing up on me. Both are in Jr. High School now. My oldest is 14 and my youngest is 12. Both are Jr. High Cheerleaders as well. So starting in October when Basketball Season starts up, we are going to be busy watching them Cheer at the games. They recently started taking Gym glasses once a week. They will learn jumps and stunts in these classes. But beeing a Cheerleader is very expensive especially if you have more than one. But, I'm thankful for my Parents, they are helping them out with buying their things they need.

Hubby doesn't drive a big truck anymore. He stopped back in February of this year. He said it was just too stressful on him as him and his Uncle had quit team driving in January. He does have a local job and he does drive a truck hauling fertilizer and chemicals to farmers for them and he is home every night now. But the money isn't all that good and he only gets paid every 2 weeks at this job. So things have really been hard on us financially this year. We have no medical insurance either. This is one of the reason's we have had some marriage problems and I started back smoking. I have no idea what the future will bring on us financially, but I guess we will stick it out and see what happens. I still haven't gotten my Disability approved. Hubby got a lawyer for me back in February and I did get a letter about a hearing and it said that hearing could take up to a year. So who knows.

Well, guess I will go for now. Just wanted to do a post so everyone would know that I'm still alive and kicking for now. LOL. Yall take care and have a great Sunday and hopefully I will make another post here next Sunday.

GOD BLESS YOU ALL,

Karen H.

"HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY"!!!!

2009-05-10T05:15:00.004-05:00

Good Morning Everyone. "HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY" to all you Mothers out there.

Soeey I haven't been blogging all that much. I seem to be Facebooking more lately. If you would like to Facebook with me, you can go to my sidebar to the right and click on that and I will be more than glad to add you as a friend to my Facebook.

It is currently 60 degrees outside and feels like 60 degrees. The winds are out of the North, northeast at 6mph. It is partly cloudy out as well. I tell you all, I think I may need to start building me an ark. In the last 2 weeks, I think we have had around 10 inches of rain here where I live at. We are way past water logged. LOL. There is still a 50% chance of showers for today and tonight. Yesterday afternoon, hubby checked our rain gages and our small one said 3 and 3/4 inches of rain and our big one said 3 inches of rain, but I think they were both wrong. We rode around town here and water was everywhere. Even some of the streets were still under water. I think we have had more than enough rain fall so far. I know when Summer starts it's going to be hot and dry and we will be wishing for some of this rain, but gee whiz, we don't need this much water all at once.

The girls haven't been able to play much softball games here the last 2 weeks because of all the rain. Even the practices have had to be cancelled. I'm hoping it will dry up soon and they can start back playing. They both have 4 games that need to be made up now.

I have been doing pretty good. On the days when the humidity is up high, I have bad days because it's hard for me to breath good and get a good breath. I have to stay inside around the Air-conditioner most of the time. Me and hubby both have a doctor's appointment this coming Friday with our regular doctors. I go back to see my Cardiologist in June as well as the Neurologist. I'm still a walking drug store too. LOL. I still take "One Day at a Time" and still do things slowly. That's all I can do I guess. I was denied my Disability. I'm going to try again and if I get denied again, hubby said we would get a lawyer. So, say a prayer that I can get my Disability started sometime this year.

Hubby got me a Motehr' Day gift Friday night. He knows that I have been wanting a Tatto for a long time and he finally took me out to eat and got me one. I got a small Rose on my left leg. I have pictures of it on my Facebook. The worse part of getting the Tattoo was the outlining of the Tatto itself. Once that was done, it wasn't that bad. It was my very first Tattoo and hubby calls it my "Forever Rose". LOL. I wanted a rose because I love the song that Bret Michaels, of Poison, sings, "Every Rose Has It's Thorn". Hubby learned to play it on his guitar and has even sang it to me. That's why I wanted a rose Tattoo.

I finally got my flower garden planted a few weeks back. My Mom came up one day and helped me with it. I also have some before and after pictures of it on my Facebook. I also have pictures of the Saturday before Easter on my Facebook as well. So, if you want to see all my pictures, I hope you will join me on Facebook to see them all.

Me and the girls are going to my Mom's today and go to Church with her. Me and my Sister are cooking dinner for her as well. My Sister is cooking a Roast with Veggies and I am making Cornbread and bringing a Vidalia Onion. My Sister is bringing some kind of dessert and my Mom is making a Diabetic dessert. I am going to take my camera and take pictures of Mother' Day and then I will upload them to my Facebook. Last month when my Parent's and Sister took the girls to Branson, MO on their Spring Break, me and my Sister went in together and got our Parents tickets to see The Baldknobbers. That was their Mother's Day and Father's Day gift from the both of us. I did buy her a long stem Red Rose to give her and a candle too. So, hopefully she will like them both.

Well, guess I will go for now. Just wanted to pop in and let you all know that I am still alive and getting along fairly good. I will get around to visit you sometime today or tonight. Take care my friends and have a great day. May GOD Bless each and everyone of you. Again, "HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY" to all the Mother's as well. May GOD Bless you on your special day.

LOVE TO ALL,

Karen H.

Another Rainy Monday!!!!

2009-04-13T04:34:00.008-05:00

Good Monday Mornin' Yall, I do hope that everyone had a great Easter weekend and Easter Sunday and ready to start a new week. It is currently 53 degrees and very foggy outside this morning. The winds are calm, therefore, we have no windchill right now. It started raining here yesterday afternoon and we got some heavy rains last night and earlier this morning. More rain and possibly some Sever Thunderstorms are in the forecast again for today and tonight. April showers bring May flowers they say. LOL. I still yet have to plant my flowers and hopefully I will be able to before too long. Hopefully the threat of cold weather and frost are long gone by now. I just need it to dry up, so I can get out and work in my flower bed.
Saturdday morning, I had 2 Softball games to go to in my Hometown of Lepanto, AR. Both girls were playing. Our youngest daughter's team won their game 12 to 0. Our oldest daughter's team won their game 25 to 6. Right at the end, one of our oldest daughter's coaches was making our girls get out on purpose so they could hurry and finish the ball game since we were so far ahead. Our oldest daughter made a double play during her game. She caught the ball in the air that one girl hit and then the runner on first base left and our oldest daughter tagged her and she was out. Talk about a good play and a proud Mother, I was. After the girls games were over, I had to run my my Parents house so the girls could get their things and we came home. Hubby had done got home from picking up their load from Memphis and getting the B-Service done on their truck. He had done had the grill fired up when we got home. I had to go in and make some Potato Salad to go with our Hamburgers and Hot Dogs and Beef Smoked Sausages. While I was cooking, I did wash up some dishes as well. Later on , my Sister and my Parents got here and we ate outside under the carport. It had been windy pretty much all day, so hubby brought our table and chairs under our carport and we ate on that. It was nice and I took a bunch of pictures. I'm going to try to see if I can fix a slide show, so yall can see some of our afternoon. Sorry yall, I can't get it to work. If anyone knows a better way for me to add it, I would appreciate you letting me know. I'm not that very smart when it comes to doing things on here.

When everyone left Saturday evening, I was one tired Momma. LOL. Me and hubby both were very tired and we both were in bed before 7:30p.m.CST. LOL. I think I was asleep before my head hit the pillow. LOL. The girls stayed up and watched t.v. and got their showers and finally went to bed. I don't know what time they did go to bed, but I do remember our youngest daughter coming to bed and saying to me she was going to watch t.v. for a little bit. I woke up at 11:30p.m.CST and was awake for the rest of the night. MY legs and feet were killing me from being up on them so much on Saturday. I had my alarm set to go off at 3:00a.m.CST so hubby could get up and get ready to leave out at 5:00a.m.CST. He got up and got his shower and after he finished, I got up and got me a shower and stayed awake until 8:00a.m.CST. That is when me and the girls got up to get ready to go to Church yesterday morning. We didn't have Sunday School yesterdy morning and we came home after Church was over with and I layed back down for a while. The girls were cleaning their roomss like I had asked them to do and then they watched t.v. and got me up later on. I had to take our youngest daughter to the Dollar General Store because she needed some pencils and erasers for School this week. After we got done there, we came home and I heated up the leftover hamburgers that hubby had grilled out on Saturday afternoon. Then I washed dishes again and done some laundry. "A WOMAN'S WORK IS NEVER DONE" !!!! Always something to do and places to go.LOL. But both the girls have been really good in helping me out since I've been home. They do help me with the laundry and they take out the trash and vacuum for me and clean their rooms. I'm picky about my laundry and don't like ANYONE doing it. LOL. I do let them fold the clothes up somtimes for me tho.

Our youngest daughter is supposed to have a game here in town tonight at 8:00p.m.CST, but I do beleive it has been rained out and more rain for today and tonight. I'm having the girls go to bed a bit earlier this week because they are doing the Benchmark Tests this week in School and I want them to have plenty of rest and not be sleepy during School this week. If the game is cancelled tonight, this is going to be pretty quiet week. We do have Church on Wednesday night, but that's about it for this week.

I'm sorry I didnt' get around to visit any over the weekend but as you can tell, I have been busy, busy, busy. I will do my best to get around today. Take care my friends and have a great Monday. May GOD Bless you and yours.

LOVE,
Karen H.

HAPPY EASTER!!!!

2009-04-11T04:23:00.004-05:00

Good Saturdy Mornin' Yall, I do hope that everyone has had a great week and ready for a new day. It is the Saturday before Easter Sunday and I'm sure everyone is going to be busy today. I know I am. It is currently 46 degrees with a windchill of 43 degrees. The winds are out of the North northwest at 6mph and it is Cloudy outside. Today is suppose to be nice and Sunny with a high of 65 degrees. On Easter Sunday we are supposed to have an 80% chance of Rain. We had some Thundestorms come thru here on early Friday morning and we were under a Severe Thunderstorm Warning for about 45 minutes. We did get some hail and wind and some heavy rain in that. In Mena, AR, which is in the Southwest part of Arkansas, they had and EF-3 Tornado to hit. Last I heard, there were 3 fatalities and around 30 injured and lots of devastation to the town. In Murfreesboro, TN, yesterday there was a Tornado there as well. I think there were 2 fatalitites there, but that's about all I know on that there. I'm just "THANKFUL" we didn't have anything too severe around here.

It has been another busy week around here with the girls. Monday after School, our youngest daughter had her regular softball practice and it was very windy and cold out there. That wind would just go right thru a person. It's a good thing I still had my sweats and hoodie still out because that is what I wore on Monday afternoon. Our oldest daughtere's team didn't practice on Monday night and I'm glad because it would have been too cold to sit outside.

Tuesday afternoon I had to take our oldest daughter to the doctor because she had been complaining with a sore throat and her ear hurting when she swallowed. Come to find out, she had an ear infection and the doctor gave her a Z-pack . She will take the last one this afternoon. I guess she got it from being out in the cold and windy conditions in her tournament last weekend. She never ran any fever and for that I am "THANKFUL" for also. She seems to be doing much better now. Wednesday afternoon our youngest daughter's team practiced until 5:30p.m. After they had finished practicing, we went up to our local BBQ place and got something to eat since it was Church night. Thrusday night found us traveling to Trumann, AR to play Softball. They had been calling for Severe Weather pretty much all day, but it held off until later on that night. Our youngest daughter played first and they beat Trumann 12 to 8. This is the same team that beat them in their Pre-Season tournament last Saturday in Monette, AR. The whole team played good and it was a good ballgame. Our oldest daughter's team started playing about 10 minutes on another field there at the Softball Complex about 10 minutes before our youngest daughter's game was over with. When her game was over with, all I had to do was just get on the bleacher's right behind where I was at watching our youngest daughter's game. Now our oldest daughter' team played an on edge of your seat game and exciting. They had to go into overtime and our oldest daughter's team ended up winning that game 11 to 9. I just hate games like that sometimes. LOL. Makes me want a cigarette sometimes. LOL. Just kidding. I've been quit 8 months now and I'm not going to start back, but I just hate games that are that close. LOL. It was 10:30p.m. when we got home on thursday night. The girls had to take their showers and go to bed. You talk about 2 tired girls the next morning, I had 2 of them. LOL. It's a good thing that yesterday was Friday.Hubby got home yesterday morning and went to bed. The girls went to my Parents after School to spend the night with them and me and hubby ended up going to Jonesboro and again we ate at our favorite Chinese Restaurant, The Mongolian Bar & Grill. Can I say Crablegs. LOL. Hubby got me and him a plate of crablegs that had just came out and was still hot. You talk about yummy. They were. After we finished eating, we went to Wal-Mart so I could buy me an Easter outfit. I found a pair of White Capri's and a Turquoise top that I'm going to wear on Easter. Hubby done a great job in making me laugh alot last night. I was laughing so much till he had me hurting. LOL. It was good to have some alone time with just him. I do love my girls but once in a while me and hubby needs time to be alone. So, that brings us to today. Both the girls have a game this morning in Lepanto, AR, which is my hometown. That is one reason they stayed all night with my Parents, so they wouldn't have to get up as early as they would if they had of stayed home. Our youngest daughter plays at 10:00a.m. and our oldest daughter plays at 11:15a.m.Hubby wont' be able to go to the games with me. He normally would have gone toMemphis yesterday afternoon to pick up their load, but when he got up to his truck to go yesterday afternoon, he had a message on the Qual-com saying they were overdue a B-Service on their truck. He called the workplace and they told him to just wait and come this morning and they would do the B-Service first thing this morning. He is on his way over there now and hoepfully he will be home by noon. This afternoon, we will be celebrating Easter here at home with my Parents and Sister. Hubby is going to grill some Hamburger and Hot Dogs on the grill and I'm going to fix some Potato Salad. We are doing this this afternoon since hubby will be leaving out in the morning and won't be home on Easter. The girls dyed some Egggs at my Mom's last night and they will be hunting Easter eggs here at home this afternoon. I have some sports plastic eggs tat I'm going to use for prize eggs. I have some change I'm going to put in each egg and maybe $5.00 for the big prize egg. My Mom is brining a Sugar-Free jello dessert and a Corn Salad and my Sistter is bringing a Key-Lime Pie and a Peach Cobbler. Thiose aren't Sugar-Free tho. I may take a small bite from both of them. That is what has been going on in my neck of the woods this past week and for today as well. What has been going on with you this week? Would love to hear from you and to know what has been going on with you this week and your Easter plans. Me and the girls are planning on going to Church in the morning. They wont be having Sunday School after church, so we will come home and just relax and eat some leftovers most likely.

Tuesday and Wednesday of this week I felt sick to my stomach in the early hours of the mornings. No, I'm not pregnant, it must have been a virus going around. Someone said it was going around. Even tho I didn't fell up to par, I still had to get up and go and do my motherly duties.

I'e decided that I'm just going to post about once a week. That way it will give me time to post what has been going on all week around here instead of daily. I hope thtt is okay with each of you. I will still try to come around and visit each day. Being on the go will keep a person busy for sure. So, take care my friends and I wish each of you a "BLESSED & HAPPY EASTER"!!!! I will be around sometime to visit with you. May GOD BLesss you adn yours.
LOVE,
Karen H.

MONDAY MUSINGS.

2009-04-06T04:30:00.004-05:00

Good Monday Mornin' Yall,
I do hope that everyone had a great weekend and ready to start a brand new week and day. It is currently 42 degrees with a windchill of 34 degrees. It is cloudy and the winds are out of the West Northwest at 20mph with gusts up to 29mph. The high today is supposed to only be around 45 degrees and on the windy side as well. It is supposed to get down below freezing tonight. In fact, we are going to be under a Freeze Warning beginning late tonight and until 9:00a.m.CST in the morning. Winter is still trying her best to stick around here it apprears. It got up to 73 degrees here yesterday before the cold front came thru late yesterday afternoon.

We all had a very busy weekend with Softball games on Friday night and all day Saturday. Friday evening, me and our oldest daughter, and my Mother-In-Law left here kind of ealry and went to Trumann and went to eat at McDonald's and then went to Wal-Mart. I ended up buying the girls an Easter Basket, even tho they think they have outgrown Easter, I still like to buy them one. LOL. Our oldest daughter was playing her first game at 8:00p.mCST there in Trumann, AR. My Mom and Sister had come to get our youngest daughter and took her to Monette, AR to play her first game at 6:00p.m.CST. The reaon the girls had their Pre-Season Softball Tournaments in different towns is because of the age groups. Since there are so many age groups and teams, they have to split them up. It will be like that in the Post-Season Tournaments as well. Now for their regular games, they both play on the same nights and in the same town, but at different times. Our youngest daughter will play first and then our oldest daughter will play second. There's usually about 15 minutes between each one's games. They both have to go back to Trumann, AR this coming Thursday evening to play.

Anywho, back to Friday night. When hubby got in Friday evening from picking up their load in Memphi, TN, he came home and took a showe adn came to Trumann, to watch our oldest daughter play. He made it there about 8:30p.m. So, he only missed out on about 30 minutes of her game. In the meantime, we stayed in touch with my Sister to keep up with what was going on with our youngest daughter's game. Our youngest daughter's team won their first game and had to play another game right after their first game. It was a double elimination tournament, meaning you had to lose 2 games before you are out of the Tournament. They ended up losing the second game and h ad to play Saturday morning at 10:00am.CST. Our oldest daughter won their game on Friday night and didn't have to play until 10:30a.m.CST on Saturday morning. After her game was over with on Friday night. I h ad to come home so I could wash both girls uniforms so they would be clean for Saturday morning. I didn't get much sleep at all on Friday night. About the time I was going to fall asleep good, my alarm went off at 6:30a.m.CST. I had to get up and fix breakfast and fix me and hubby some Coffee. Om Saturday morning, my Mom and Sister took our oldest daughter back to Trumann and me and hubby took our youngest daughter to Monette. In situations like that, we usually rotate going to the girls games, so we can see them both play. We kept in touch again with my Mom and Sister to see what was going on with our oldest daughter' game. My Mother-In-Law had gone with me and hubby again on Saturday morning. Our youngest daughter had won their game on Saturday morning, so about 15 minutes later they had to play again. They play against the 12 and under Trumann team and it was a slow game. There was alot of walking goin on. Our team's pitcher had hurt her arm on Friday night and wasn't able to pitch on Saturday, so they had to hurry up and train someone else . The other girl did a good job. Trumann's pitcher wasn't that great either. They had to go into overtime twice.

This is our oldest daughter. Her daddy was taking the picture and she is like me, doesn't like to have her picture made at all.

A picture of the whole team. 2nd place winners.

Another team picture with their winning medals on around their necks.

Now even tho our youngest daughter's team didn't place in their tournament, I did tke some pictues of her playing, so I'll share them as well.
This is our youngest daugter, she is the one to the right.
Here is our youngest daughter up to bat. She is a pretty good hitter.

A better picture of our youngest daughter up to bat.

Her she is on 2nd base, the position she plays, trying to get a girl out. I didn't get one of her whoe team. I'll try to do that next time. I hope you enjoyed the picrtures. I am very proud of both girls and their teams.

After we had finished up in Trumann Saturday evening, we went on to Jonesboro, AR to eat supper. We were all really hungry at this point and was tire of concession stand foods. We ended up going to our favorite Chinese Restaurant again, The Mongolian, Bar &Grill. After we had finished eating, we went to Wal-Mart on Parker Raod, yes, Jonesboro h as 2 Wal-Mart's, and I boutht the girls an Easter oufit. They didn't want dresses as they don't like to wear dresses that much anymore. Our youngest daughter got her a Capri outfit and our oldest daughter got her a nice pair of jeans and a nice shirt. I tried to find me something, but they didnt' have any Capri's out yet, so I'm going to look at the Trumann Wal-Mart Thursday evening when we go there to play. I don't like to wear dresses that much either, so Carpri's will do me just fine as well. After we finished shopping at Wal-Mart, we came home. By this time, both of the girls were way beyond tired. Bless their hearts. Everyone was tired as well. When we got home, they helped unload the truck and got thier showers and went to bed. I didn't really sleep that much either. I guess I was just too tired to sleep. I got up at 3:00a.m.CST when hubby got up and took me q shower. After he left at 5:00a.m.CST, I went back to bed and fell asleep. Me and the girls slept in yesterday and got rested up. I did do 2 loads of laundry yesterday and cooked supper. I fixed us some Fish Sticks and Cream Potatoes and then I did dishes. and layed down while they got their showers. I did go to sleep but woke up this morning around 2:30a.m. CST. I am having my morning Coffee now.

Both of the girls have Softball Practice again this afternoon and tonight. Our youngest daughter has it right after School and our oldest daughter has it at 6:00p.m.CST. I'm going to have to dress warm today and especially tonight since it is suppose to be windy and cold today and tonight.

Well, guess, I'll go for now and start my visiting. I apologize for not getting around to visit with everyone that much lately, but as you can tell, I have been busy with the girls. Take care my friends and have a great Monday. May GOD Bless each and everyone of you.

LOVE,
KAREN H.

T.G.I.F. FRIDAY!!!!

2009-04-03T06:52:00.003-05:00

Good Friday Mornin' Yall,
I hope everyone had a great Thursday and ready to start a new day. It is currently 46 degrees with a windchill of 40 degrees. It is cloudy outside and the windds are out of the Northwest at 15mph with gusts up to 21 mph. "THANK GOD" we didnt' get any Torndado's around here in my area yesterday. We did get some rain and a little hail late yesterday afternoon and eve a couple of Thunderstorm Warnings were issued for a couple of nearby counties, but that was about it. I was glad it didn't get bad as it always makes me nervous since we don't have a storm cellar anymore. I think most of the severe weather stayed to the east and south of us. We did get put under a Wind Advisory beginning at 7:00p.m.CST last night and lasting until 5:00a.m.CST this morning. It is still on the windy side out this morning also. The high today is only suppose to be around 62 degrees and tomorrow around 70 degrees. We have another chance of storms on Sunday and then another cold front coming thru and then on Monday night the temperature dropping down to 31sdegrees. It's a good thing I haven't planted anything yet or the freeze will kill them.

Well yesterday our youngest daughter was supposed to have played softball at 6:00p.m.CST, and even her Coach had called and told us around 4:30p.m. that they were still going to play. Well our youngest daughter had Pee-Wee Cheerleading practice and tryouts yesterday at 4:30p.m. and I had to take her to that as well. While we were at that, her Coach called me on my Cell phone and told me they decided to go ahead and cancel the game since there was more rain moving in. By the way, our youngest daughter did make the Pee-Wee Cheerleading Squad. All the girls that tried out made the Squad. After her Cheerleading practice was over with, we went to the Quick Shop and got us a Sandwich for supper since I had already gotten us some cash for the Softball game. When we left there and was on the way home, the bottom fell out. It rained really hard and you could barely see in front of you and it even hailed a little bit. The hail was about the size of Peas. The hail didn't last very long and there wasn't alot of it. I was glad of that. But it did rain. We came home and stayed in and I made the girls go ahead and get their showers early just in case it got bad and the power went out. By 8:00p.m.CST, the severe weather had done moved on East of us. I think there may have been a light shower or 2 overnight, but that was about it. So tonight, I have 2 Softball games to try to be at. Our youngest daughter plays at 6:00p.m. in Monette, AR, and our oldest daughter plays at 8:00p.m.CST in Trumann, AR. I'm going to our youngest daughter's game for a little while then I will take our oldest daughter on to Trumann and watch her play. MYy Parents and Sister are coming to watch our youngest daughter play and as soon as she is done with her game, they are all going to come to Trumann and watch our oldest daughter play. I imagine both girls will be playing tomorrow as well. That is where it will get interesting to say the least. You want to be both places at once. i guess I could just cut myself down the middle and one side go to one game and the other side go to the other game. LOL. Hopeully they won't be playing at the same times tho and I can be able to make most of both games.

I did manage to do 2 loads of laundry yesterday before any bad weather came. Now I shouldn't hanve to worry about any laundry again until Sunday afternoon or maybe even Monday. Sue wish I was rich and could afford a maid. LOL. I haven't been sleeping good again this week and it's been up in the wee hours of the morning before I do go to sleep and then it's time to get up to get the girls up for School, so I'm going to have to get me a nap here after while. Hubby is on his way to Memphis, TN to pick up their load and put their truck in the shop to be fixed. Hopefully he will be home intime this evening to go to one of the girls games as well. IF not, he can go to them tomorrow.

Well that is it around here for the last couple of days. I will probably wait and post again either Sunday or Monday. I hope everyone has a great weekend. May GOD BLess you and yours.

LOVE,
Karen H.

TORNADIC THURSDAY????

2009-04-02T07:44:00.003-05:00

Good Thursday Mornin' Yall.I do hope everyone had a wonderful Wednesday and ready to start a new day. It is currently 50 degrees and it feels like 47 degrees outside this morning. The winds are currently out of the East Northeast at 8mph. It is also partly cloudy outside here this morning. Yesterday morning it was 34 degrees, but it did warm up to near 70 degrees by the afternoon. It was a beautiful Spring day and today is shaping up to be stormy and possibly tornadic. In fact 2 years ago on thi date, there was a Tornadic outbreak . I hope today isn't another repeat of what took place 2 years ago. After all, this is Arkansas, and this is Tornado Season.

I am doing Laundry again today trying to get everything washed up so I won't have to worry about doing it tonight. I am also having my morning Coffee, Cereal, and Orange Juice as well. Would you care to join me?

My DH made it home yesterday morning around 3:30a.mCST. I was awake when he got home. In fact, I had my alarm to go off at 6:00a.m. to get up and fix the girls breakfast, but I shut it off and our oldest daughter came in our bedroom around 6:45a.m and wanted to know if I was going to get up and I did. LOL. They still got their Breakfast and even made it to School on time. DH left out around Noon going to Memphis to pick up their Minnesota/Wisconsin load. Our youngest daughter had Softball practice after School yesterday and they practiced until around 5:30p.m.CST. They are suppose to play in their Pre-Season Tournament at 6:00p.m. this evening. I do have a gut feeling that the game will be cancelled due to bad weather. After her Softball practice, we came to the house so I could check my vitals and then we went to the Quick Shop and got us a Sandwich to eat for supper. After that, it was time for us to go to Church. After Church was over with we came home and they got theire showers and got ready for bed. It was late before I finally went to sleep again last night, but I did get up in time this morning and fixed their Breakfast on time. I am also listening to The Weather Channel so I can keep an eye on the weather.

Did anyone have any April Fool's Day jokes played on them yesterday? I did play one on our youngest daughter. About 1:00a.m.CST I woke her up and told her that her Breakfast was ready. I know, SHAME ON ME. LOL. I just couldn't resist the temtation tho. LOL. She fell for it and after it was over with, I apologized to her. I think she said they played some tricks on some of their teachers at School yesterday but didn't get into any trouble. Who knows, maybe the teachers outsmarted the kids yesterday. LOL.

Not much else has been going on her since I posted the other day. Today is looking to be active weather wise.

Guess I will go for now and start my visiting. I also have some clothes to fold up and put some more in the dryer as well. Take care my friends and have a great Thursday. May GOD Bless you and yours. I'll be around shortly to visit with you.

LOVE,
KAREN H.

2009-03-31T07:44:00.005-05:00

Good Tuesday Mornin' Yall,
I hope that everyone had a great weekend and Monday and ready to start a new day. It is currently 57 degrees and it feel like 55 degrees. It is cloudy out here this morning and we have some showers in the area. The winds are out of the South at 10mph. It is supposed to be a rainy morning and a little on the cooler side today. yesterday was a nice day but on the windy side to me. Tomorrow is supposed to be nice and warmer and then rain again on Thursday. How is the weather in your neighborhood? I hope the weather is co-operating with y ou today.

Sorry I haven't posted in a few days, but I am still trying to get back into the swing of things. LOL. I just don't want to get up in the mornings when my alarm goes off. I was awake all night Saturday night and didn't go to sleep until ater 5:00am.CST Sunday morning. That is when hubby left back out. It sure has been lonesome without him being around here. He will be home late tonight or early in the morning. He called me around 6:37a.m.CST and he was having breakfast in Gallup, NM and he was going to bed after he ate because his driving shift was over with. The girls made it home Sunday afternoon around 12:30-12:45p.m CST. I sure was glad to see them too. They had to unpack their things and I had to do up their laundry so they would have clean clothes for School yesteday. I ended up doing 2 loads of laundry on Sunday afternoon. They helped me tho. Asley's softball coach had called shortly after they had gotten home and said their uniforms were in and needed us to come to the new ball field to pick it up, so we went up there to get it. Some of the girls were staying up there practicing, but Ashley still had some unpacking to do and she was tired as well and I told her she didn't have to stay since they would have regular practice on Monday night. So we came back to the house and just sat around. My Dad had b ought me and hubbby a DVD of the Balknobbers. Me and my Sister had went in together and bought my Parents tickets to see the Balknobbers on Friday night. It was taped live and afterwards, they were selling DVD's of the Friday night show. My Parents are on there at the beginning . It shows people out in the audience and they were waving to us. LOL. It was really neat and also the show itself was just hilarious. The girls really loved it. They had a good time up in Branson, but was ready to get back home and sleep in their own beds. Nothing sleeps better than your own bed. I didn't make it to Church as planned sine it was after 5:00a.m.CST before I finally went to sleep. The girls had called me around 11:30a.m.CST and they were about 15 miles North of Jonesboro and thqt woke me up.

Me and hubby did go to jonesboro on Friday night and I told him I was wanting a Bloomin' Onion to eat and h e said that since it was fried, that it wasn't good for me and I didn't need it. LOL. So, we ended up going to our favorite Chinese Restaurant, The Mongolian Bar & Grill. They have Seafood in there which I just love and seafood is pretty good for you as well. I always have me some Peel em' and eat em' Shrimp and Crab Legs. I even have me a couple pieces of Sushi as well. So, I don't guess I'll ever get me a bloomin' Onion unless they find another way to cook it where it will be good for you. Saturday, I did a load of laundry so hubby would have clean clothes on sunday morning. I did fix us a late brunch and we just sat around all day and hubby rented him some movies to watch. Then for our supper Saturday night, we had t.v. dinners.

Sunday evening for mine and the girls supper I fixed some Tuna Fish and then I grilled them a Cheese Sandwich also. That was our supper on Sunday evening. After we had finished eating, me and the girls went walkin down our street here since it was nice outside. They were both ready for bed come Sunday night.

They were both ready to go back to School yesterdy mornning. Our youngest daughter had Softball practice after School and practiced until 5:00p.m. CST. After her practice was over with we came home ans had sanwiches again for supper because our oldest daughter had her Softball Practice at 6:00p.m.CST. So, on Monday's we only h avetime to come home and grab a sandwich between each practices. Our oldest daughter practices until 8:00p.m.CST. After that, it's time to come home and start their showers and get ready for bed again. Both of their Pre-Season Softball Tournaments start this week. Our youngest daughter's first game is supposed to be Thursday night qt 6:00p.m.CST, but it's suppose to rain on Thursday as well. We will have to see if it rains them out or not. Our oldest daughter's first game is on Friday night at 8:00p.m.CST. Then I'm guessing both girls will be playin pretty much qall day on Saturday. So our weekend this weekend, is going to be busy. As they say, "NO REST FOR THE WEARY". LOL.

I am just now having my morning coffee. Like I said, I am really having a hard time gettting back into the swing of things. LOL. Maybe by next week, I will have gotten used to setting the alarm again. LOL.

I was going to put up a new post yesterday morning, but I had to go get tags for my vehicle that hubby had bought me back in February. He said it was an early Birthday/Anniversary present to me from him along with my new computer. It's not brand spankin' new. I'ts a 2,000 Isuzu Rodeo and it's a 4 door which I love. It's alot easier for the girls to get in and out of also. It is white and I just love it. We had paid our Blazer off last month and hubby had seen the Isuzu Rodeo at the same place here in town where we had bought our blazer, so he decided to get it for me. When I had gone to get tags for my Rodeo, I went by the Dollar General Store in the same town and got me a 3-piece Patio set. I had seen it there on Friday night. My Parents and Sister had given me some money for my Birthday last week, so I had enough and had to put $5.00 extra dollars to go with it and bought it. It looks like it is wrought iron, but it is a heavy duty plastic. I'ts 2 chairs and a little table. Hubby is going to have to put it together sometime this weekend if he has time between ballgames. I'm going to put in on my front porch as I have a long front porch. When I get it sat up, I'll take some pictures and show you that too. I'm hoping that maybe tomorrow my Mom can come up and we can start on my flower garden. I did take some before pictures of it on Friday afternoon adn when I'm done, I'll post the before adn after pictures of it.

Well, guess I had better go for now. I have some clothes to fold up and put some more in the dryer and also I'm just now having my morning coffee. Coffee doesn't seem to even wake me up anymore. LOL. I'll be around shortly to start visiting with you all. Take care my friends and have a Terrific Tuesday. May GOD BLess you and yours.

LOVE,
Karen H.

FRIGHTENING FRIDAY POSSIBLE

2009-03-27T05:06:00.004-05:00

Good Morning Yall,
I do hope that everyone had a great Thursday and ready to start as new day. It is currently 55 degrees with a winchill of 51 degrees. The winds are out of the East, northeast at 9mph. We also have had some more rain overnight with some thunder, which woke me up earlier this morning, and it is still raining some outside. It is suppose to be a Rainy day with the possibility of some Severe to Tornadic Storms here later on today and tonight. I sure hope not. I think the greatest risk for Severe Weather is going to be to the South of here where I live at.

Hubby got the yard all cleaned up yesterday. He went up town here to our local Western Auto Store and bought him a new Weed Eater and then he weed eated around the house and the yard. He got one of his cousin's to come over and pick up some tree limbs that were still on the ground from January's Ice Storm and haul them off to the ditch out in front of the house, so the City will pick them up sometime next week. So now the yard looked really good adn clean yesterday evening. But now since we had more rain overnight and more on the way for later today and tonight, it will soon be grown back up again.

The girls called me yesterday afternoon to let me know they made it to Branson, Mo, safely. They got up there around 12:30p.m.CST. They went and ate lunch at the Baldnobbers' they said. They said they were going to go ride the Go-Carts and go play Put-Put Golf later on. They called me back again last night and said they did do that and they had just gotten back up to their room from swimming in the indoor pool and being in the jacuzzi. Those lucky girls getting to be in a jacuzzi. Shame on them. LOL. I'm glad they are having a good time. They also said it had been raining some up there as well last night. I hope it doesn't rain all weekend up there, so they can do some more things. They both sounded very tired when I talked to them last night. I think they were about ready to hit the hay. LOL.

After hubby got done with the yard yesterday afternoon, I had him to take me to our local Dollar General Store so I could buy some things for my flower bed. We bought alot of potting soil and i even bought some different kinds of flower bulbs to plant and some little odds and ends to sit in the flower bed when I am done with it. When I get it all fixed up, I'll take a picture of it and show everyone. If I think about it, I'll do a before and after picture. I still want to get me some Tulips to plant in there as well.

I told my hubby yesterday that I would like to go to jonesboro tonight and eat me a good Steak. I told him I would like to go to either Colton's Streakhouse or Outback. I told him I wanted to get me a Bloomin' Onion too. I've got hankering for one of those things. LOL. I guess it all depends on what the weather is doing if we go or not. If we do get to go, maybe after we finish eating, we can run by Wal-mart and I can get me some Tulips. My Parents gave me some money for my Birthday the other day. I aam really excited about getting my flower garden all fixed up so some flowers can start growing and make the front of the yard look pretty.

I would like to A"THANK" Mary of Mary's Writing Nook for the lovely Easter Friendship button that is displayed on the top right side of my blog here. "THANK YOU" so much Mary. It is lovely and I appreciate it very much. If you have never been to visit Mary, please take the time to do so when you have time. She is one of my Canadian friends and she is also a writer. She writes some very good stories.

WEll news is short this morning as nothing much has happened since i posted yesterday morning. I will be around shortly to start my visiting. If you are still asleep, I'll do my best not to wake you. Take care my friends and have a great Friday. MAY GOD Bless you and yours.

Love,
KAREN H.

THANKFUL THURSDAY!!!!

2009-03-26T09:56:00.012-05:00

Good Thursday morning everyone. I hope everyone had a Wonderful Wednesday and ready to start a new day. It is currently clear and 54 degrees here right now. The winds are calm, so therefore, we have not winchill. The Sun is shining brightly this morning and it promises to be a beautiful day. We had some rain overnight and more rain and possibly some sever thunderstorms are in the forecast for Friday. I just pray it doesn't get too severe. It is suppose to be up around 70 degrees again today and then after the storms on Friday, turning cooler agin with highs in the 50's.

I would like to take this time to "THANK" each and everyone of you for your "HAPPY BIRTHDAY" wishes and also the PRAYERS you said for me yesterday. I do appreciate each and everyone of them so very much. I know I emailed most of you the other night to let you know about me having the Heart Caterization yesterday. "PRAISE THE LORD" there was no blockage and I came thru it just fine. GOD IS GOOD, ALL THE TIME, GOOD INDEED IS GOOD!!!! I got to come home yesterday afternoon, but I am still recovrering for a couple of days. I can't drive for a couple of days and I can't lift no more than 10 pounds for the next week. About all I can do is eat, sleep, and play on the computer, LOL. I do have a book that I want to finish reading as well. But again,"THANK YOU" each and everyone that prayed for me and wished me a "HAPPY BIRTHDAY" yesterday. It is so great to have such wonderful and caring friends online that I can count on.

Well, since I had that procedure done yesterday, me and hubby didn't get to go to Branson, MO with the girls and my Parents and Sister. The girls understood tho and they just wanted their Momma to be well . I told them last night that maybe next year, we will be able to go somwhere with them on their Spring Break then. They stayed all night with my Parents last night and they left around 7:00a.m.CST this morning. Please keep them all inyour prayers for safe traveling today and on the way home on Sunday. I do appreciate it very much.

Hubby's back is doing much better also. Last Friday, Saturday, Sunday, and Monday, he just layed around and took his meds and did nothing. He is able to stand up straight now ans his walking is alot better. In fact, he went and got our riding lawn mower from my Parents house last night and mowed the yard in the dark. It does have headlights and the yard was really getting grown up, so he wanted it mowed before the rain moved in. He's gone up town now to buy him a weed eater, so he can weed eat around the yard. It looks pretty good for being mowed in the dark. LOL.

I wqnted to let everyone know that I received the book from Diane @ Diane's place week before last. I have been reading it and it is really good. It's one of those books when you start reading, you don't want to put down. I'm not a fast reader, so it is taking me some time to read it.

"THANK YOU" Diane for hosting such a great book Giveaway. If you have never been to visit Diane, please take the time to go and visit with her. On Saturday's she usually post's what she is or isn't cooking for her sunday dinner. Sometimes when she does cook, it will leave your mouth watering. She has some great recipes that she shares as well.

Also a few weeks back I was presented an Award from Mrs. Katie form Katie's Place. She is the mother to Shelley from shelley's vitnage Variety. If you have never been to visit either one of these ladies, please be sure to take the time to visit them as well. Shelley has alot of vintage dolls she is always sharing with us and alot of other antiquish thing. nyway, the Award that Mrs. Katied presented me with was "THE ONE LOVELY BLOG" Award. "THANK YOU" so much Mrs. Katie for this lovely Award and I am honoered that you chose me tot have it.

Now, I am supposed to pass this Award on to 7 people. But since I don't do favorites or have favorites, if you are a reader of my blog, PLEASE take this LOvely Blog Award home with you. After all, you all have Lovely Blog's to read. Here are the rules just in case some of you want to follow the exact rules:
Here are the rules girls............
Rules of this award:
1. Add the logo to your blog.
2. Link to the person from whom you received this award.
3. Nominate 7 or more blogs.
4. Leave a message on their blog, letting them know they are “One Lovely Blog”

Also, I would like to t'THANK' Anni of Hootin' Anni's for the beautiful Spring/Easter layout she did for my blog. "THANK YOU" Anni. You are such a dear friend and I so appreciate you taking the time to do this for me. You are one talentted lady. If you have never been to visit with Anni, Please go by and visit with her also. You may leave there laughing or you may leave there crying, but either way, you will leave with a big smile on your face. AGain, "THANK YOU" so much anni for fixiing my blog up for me.

I hope that about catches me up on things around here. LOL. I am going to go and lay down a bit. Hubby just got back and is using his new weed eater. I told him since he had a new toy, that later on I wanted to go to the Dollar General Store and buy me some things for my flower bed out front. My Mom is suppose to come up next week and help me clean it out and plant some flowers in it, that is if weather is permitting. You never know what to expect here in Arkansas. I have seen it snow in April before. It's been several years back but it did Snow in April. Take care my friends and have a Great Thursday. May GOD Bless each and everyone of you. Again, "THANK YOU" all so much for your prayers and Birthday wishes for me yesterday. Just know that I do appeciate each and everyone of them. I will be around later to visit. I may be slow, but I will be there.

Love,
Karen H.

2009-03-17T07:02:00.005-05:00

Good Mornin' Yall. I hope everyone had a great Monday and ready to start a new day . It is currently Foggy here and we are under a Dense Fog Advisory until 9:00a.mCST this morning. It is 43 degrees outside here and the winds are calm therefore we have no windchill right now. It is suppose to be up around 73 degrees today. Sunday when i did my post I thouht it was suppoed to be sunny, but it was cloudy all day and even th the temperature got up to 55 degrees, it was in the chilly side. Yesterday it was mostly cloudy until yesterday afternoon and it got up in the 60's adnd turned out to be a nice afternoon. But once the Sun went down last night, it got chilly again. I'm running my A/C during the day and turning the heat back on at night. LOL.

Today is St. Patrick's Day, so I would like to wish all my friends, a "HAPPY ST. PATRICK'S DAY"!!!! MAY THE LUCK OF THE IRISH BE WITH YOU!!!! Be sure to wear your Green and are any of you cooking the traditional St. Patick's Day foods? I doubt I will since the girls don't like those kinds of foods.

Both the girls had Softball practice yesterday afternoon and last night. Our youngest daughter had her practice right after School and our oldest daughter had hers at 6:00p.m. last night. Both of their Pre-Season Tournaments begin on March 31 and goes thru April 4. One of the Tournaments will be in Monette, which isn't very far from here and the other one will be in Trumann. So, it's going to be at 2 places at one time. LOL. I'll just have to take turns like I have in the past.

I am late in postin this morning because I have actually been sleeping better at nights and not waking up until my alarm goes off at 6:00a.m. CST. Then I get up adn fix the girls their breakfast and get them up around 6:30a.m.CST so they can eat and get ready for School. So now, i am just getting around to doing my post.

My DH will be home either late tonight or early in the morning and will have to leave out again tomorrow to go up North and then he will be back home on Friday morning and he will be off because he is taking his vacation next week so we can go to Branson, MO with my Parents, Sister, and the girls. So, first part of next week I won't have to be setting any alarms to get up early. LOL. I'll have to set it on Tuesday as I have 2 Doctor's appointments that day and then on Thursday,since that is the day we will be leaving to go to Branson, MO. Hopefully I will be able to sleep in the rest of the time. LOL.

Guess I had better go for now. I have some jeans to put in the dryer and I need to do some other things. Again, "HAPPY ST. PATRICK'S DAY"!!!! to each and everyone of you. Take care my friends and have a Terrific Tuesday. May GOD Bless you and yours. I'll be around shortly to visit with you.

Love,
KAREN H.

SUNNY SUNDAY IN THE SOUTH!!!!

2009-03-15T04:16:00.003-05:00

Good Morning Yall, I hope that everyone had a great Saturday and ready to start a new day. It is currently 48 degrees with a windchill of 46 degrees. The winds are out of the North Northeast at 5 mph. Yesterday it was cloudy most of the day and most of the rain had moved outby Noon, but it still stayed cloudy for the most part and on the cool side with some drizzles every once in a while. Today is suppose to be Sunny and around 67 degrees and up into the 70's tomorrow thru Wednesday.

After I had posted yesterday morning, I decided to cook a good Breakfast so DH cold get up and at and take his meds. I fixed a package of Turkey Bacon and opened up a can of Granss Jumbo Biscuits and scrambled some eggs with fresh Parsley in it.I woke everyone up to eat. Me and Dh ate but the girls were still too sleepy to eat , so they only ate a Biscuit and went back to bed. I tired going back to sleep as well since I had been awake since 3:)0a.m., but I just couldn't. I guess I was too tired to sleep. I did lay down in bed and wathed Food Network for a while. Both the girls were going bowling withone of our youngest daughter's friend's Church. They finally got home around 5:00p.m. I got up and started fixing supper. I had some dihes left from Breakfast that I washed first. I ended up fixing Steak Fajita's for Supper. They turned out pretty good, but SDH and the girls didn't like the taste of the red, orange, and yellow peppers tht I had chopped up and put in there. DH said they had a different taste than just the regular green bell peppers. I guess next time I will just use a regular green bell pepper. Guess I watch too much Food Network. LOL. The Wheat Flowur Tortilla's were really good and everyone liked them adn said they couldn't tell the difference in the taste of the Wheat and the regular White flour Tortilla's. After supper, I was just too tired to wash dishes again. Ther girls were going to another one of our youngest daughter's friend's Church at 6:00p.m. to play basketball, volleyball, and just to hang out with Christian kids. DH went and got them around 8:30p.m. and brought them home. I had gone to bed just right before DH went to get them as I was just dragging. I guess I overdone myslef on Friday night and waking up early yesterdy morning and staying awake all day.

I got up around 3:30a.m. this morning . I had to take me a shower before DH has to leave out. I still havne't quite mastered taking a shower by myelf just yet becaause I don't want to fall, so DH sort of helps me out. Now I am blogging and doing laundry that I didn't do yesterday. DH will be leaving out around 4:45a.m. and me and the girls will be going to Church again this morning. Our preacher has been teaching on the attitudes of the 7 deadly sins on Wednesday nights and then she talks a it more about them on Sunday mornings. It has been really interesting and I don't want to miss any of it. She will be doin this thru Easter. It all ties in with The Ten Commandments and the Lenton Season before Easter. We don't have Church on Sunday evenings unless we have a Fellowship Supper and thats usually once a month. We do have Wednesday night services and we have something for every age group. I must say that it is so good to be back in The House of the Lord an Worshipping him.

My Dh just left a few minutes ago and I put the jeans and other colored clothes in the dryer. I have some towels that I need to fold up as well. A Woman's Work Is Never Done for Sure.

I would like to wish Pea @ A 3rd Blogiversary. She has been blogging for 3 years nd she is such a sweetheart. Please, if you have time drop by to visit Pea and "CONGRATULATE" her on her 3rd year of Blogging. She is also having a giveaway. You will just have to go and visit and read her post from yesteday. She almost forgot it. "CONGRATULTION's" on 3 years of Blogging Pea!!!! It has been a pleasure knowing you and I do enjoy visiting you.

Well guess I'll go for now and fold up those towels and I still have to dry my hair and then I want to fix me some coffee. I'll be around shortly to visit with you. Take care my friends and have a Blessed Lord's Day. May GOD BLESS each and everyone of you.

Love,

Karen H.

Another Rainy Day here in the South.

2009-03-14T04:27:00.004-05:00

Good Saturday Morning Yall,
I hope everyone had a Fanastic Friday and ready to start a new day. It is currently 40 degrees outside with a windchill of 33 degrees. The winds are out of the Northeast at 10mph. It is also raining outside as well. I'm just glad the termperature is above freezing and we aren't getting anymore freezing rain. The Snow I can deal with, but I don't like the freezing rain. I think the rain is supposed to be out of here around Noon today,but you know how the weather in Arkansas can be. LOL. It is suppose to be up around 60 degrees tomorrow and then back in the 70's again next week. Only in Arkansas can you find strange weather like we have been having. LOL.

My DH finally madke it home around 6:45a.m.CST yesterday morning. I sure was glad to see him as I always miss him when he is gone. He came in and ate a bowl of cereal and took his meds and went to bed. I woke him up yesterday afternoon around 4:00p.m.CST so he could get ready and we could go to town. I had to go to Wal-Mart and pick my meds up befoer 6:00p.m.CST. That is the time I told them to have them ready when I called in my refills. When we first got to town, we went by Wal-Mart first and I went in and got my meds. After that, we met my Sister at Monggolian Bar & Grill to eat Supper. It is a Chinese Restaurant that we love to eat at in Jonesboro. They also have Seafood there too, which is a big favorite of mine. We all had a good time and got plenty to eat. After we finished eating we went back to Wal-Mart so I could do my weekly shopping. I have some "GOOD NEWS" to share with yall also. In the past when we had gone to Wal-Mart, I would always get one of those Electric Buggies you can ride around in. But last night, I decided to just walk and hang on to a regular basket. I did it. I went all over Wal-Mart last night. MY DH and our youngest daughter were give out by the time I was ready to leave there. They were complaining of their feet hurtin. LOL. i oudid them all. LOL. When I got home, I was tired too. AFter I had finished putting the groceries up and other things, I went to bed and went on to sleep. I woke up around 3:15a.m.CST this morning and decided to go ahead and do another post.

Today should be a pretty quiet day around here. Our youngest daughter is going to go bowling with one of her friend's Church this afternoon. hubby bought him some movies at Wal-mart last night, so he will probably watch some of them today and tonight. I have some laundry to do and I planning on fixing Steak Fajita's for our supper tonight. I found some Wheat Tortilla's at Wal-Mart last night and am planning on using them. I am doing my best to eat and cook alot healthier since I've had my stroke and congestive heart failure. Some things I try to buy will say they meet the American Heart Association's Food Criteria. It may cost a little more, but if it is better for me and my Famil, it will be worth it in the long run I do believe. I even bought some Turkey Sausage and ground Turkey last night as well. I've seen on Food Netowrk where they make Turkery Burgers from ground Turkey. Some have even used half ground chuch and half ground Turkey to make Burgers. I bought some ground chuck also and may try doing that some night. Since I love watching Food Network, I like to experiment with my own cooking sometimes. LOL. My Family may not like it, (mot of the times they have tho). so I enjoy doing thing lik that. I told y DH once I would love to have a Food Network Kitchen someday. LOL. Hey, it don't hurt to dream now does it and if your going to dream you might as well dream big huh? LOL. I even bought me a box of Couscous that I'm going to try sometime and some Polenta. I've seen both of them being cooked on Food Network before also but have never tried them. I also bought me some fresh herbs and some differnt kinds of cheeses that I've seen used on Food Network as well. If any of you have ever used any of the items I've listed, if you don't mind, you can share with me how you cook with them. I would apprediate it very much.

HMYH will have to leave out at 500a.m.CST in the morning but will be back either late Tuesday night or early Wednesday morning. This next Friday when he gets home, he won't have to go back out the folowing Sunday. He is taking his week's vacation. The girls will be on Spring Break from March 23rd -27th. Wew have some plans for that week. That Thursday 26th, us and my Parents and Sister are all going to Branson, MO and staying until Sunday 29th. ACtually me and my DH will have to come back home on Saturday 28th, because he will h ave to go back to work on tht Sunday. But we will still h ave 2 night of vacation with the girls. This will be the first time tht we have ever been on a vacation with the girls like thi and I am rally excited about going. It's been years since I've been up to Branso, MO. Last time was when I was a little girl and we went to Silver dollar city. We are goint to be staying in a Hotel in the main strip there in Branson. A couple of places I want to go and tke the girls are on the main strip as well. I want to go to the Hollywood Wax MUseum and also the Titanic Museum. My Sister will be taking the girls to Splash Country up there as well. ur hotel has an indooe heated swimming pool too. I may get in a few times, jut to say I got wet. LOL. I can't swim anyway, but I do like getting in the water. There is also the Tanger Outlet Mall tht is full of stores and my Sister said the prices are really resonable in there adn we are going to that as well. I'm sure we will be doing other things adn seeing other things as well, but those are jst a few of the things that I know for sure we will be doing.

Well guess I'll go for now. I may go lay back down for a bit and get back up later. I will try to be around sometime today to visit you. Take care my friends and have Super Saturday. May GOD Bless you and yours.

Love,

KAREN H.

THANK GOODNESS IT'S FRIDAY!!!!

2009-03-13T04:18:00.007-05:00

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Good Friday Morning Everyone. I hope everyone had a great Thursday and ready to start a new day. Today is Friday the 13th. I hope most of your aren't supersticious. I know I'm not because all thst stuff is of the devil anyway. It is currently 34 degrees with a winchill of 23 degrees. The winds are out of the North, Northeast at 17mph with gusts up to 24 mph. It is partly cloudy outside also. Well yesterday Old Man Winter decided to pay us another visit and leave us some of his goodies. I woke up yesterday morning and looked outside and I could see Ice on the high line wires and on the trees. I was thinking, this can't be good. The girls went to SChool becase the roads weren't really that bad here in town. Most of the morning we had freezing rain, sleet and then about Mid-morning it started turning to Snow. It was mostly a wet Snow and wasn't sticking because it had been so warm eaier this week. The did end up closing the School here around 10:00a.m.CST yesterday morning. I took alot of pictures and I will share some of them with you. It snowed off and on all day with some rain mixed in but we didn't get any accumulating snow. By Sunset, it had all pretty much moved on out of here.

Well, I still have to learnhow to put the pictures in the right place, so please forgive e as I'm still trying to relearn and remember how things work on here. Since it was so ad, my DH told me to call and reschedule my Doctor's appointment to another day. He didn't want me to get out and fall. So, I go on the 24th of this month. That's the same day I go to the Cardiologist also. I have one appointment in the morning and one in the afternoonm, so it all worked out well and DH will be on vacation that week and can go to both of the appointments with me too.

Afte I had went to pick te girls up from SChool yesterdy morning, we came home and I did 4 loads of laundry and washed a sink full of dishes and then cooked supper. I fixed some Homemade Chicken Noodle Soup for our supper last night. There is enough for tonight, so we will be having leftover's. I need to go to Jonesboro and get my meds, but it's suppose to start raining this afternoon and rain pretty much all weekend, so I don't know if we will go tonight or tomorrow. I'll have to wait nd see what DH wants to do. He will be home in about an hour or so and will have to go to bed and sleep some.

I received a "Lovely BLog Award" the other day from Mrs. Katie @ Katie's Place. Mrs. Kstie is Shelley's Mom . Sorry Aout not putting th links on here right, but if you go to my Blogroll you can see Mrs. Katie's and Shelley's links andclick on them and visit them. They ar both nice ladies and I enjoy visiting them. THANK YOU" Mrs. Katie for the Award. I do appreciate it very much.

Today just isn't my day on putting thingd here on my blog,so please forgive all the mess ups today.

Well, guess I'll go for now annd start visiting some of you. I'll try not to wake you since it's so early. Take care my friend and have a great day and weekend. May GOF Bless you and yours.

Love,
Karen H.

WET WEDNESDAY

2009-03-11T05:22:00.003-05:00

<Good Wednesday Morning Everyone. I hope everyone had a Terific Tuesday and ready to start a new day. It is currently raining this morning and the temperature is 43 degrees with a winchill of 38 degrees. The winds are out out of the North at 9mph. Yesterday we had a high of 75 degrees and the high today has already happened as the temperatures will be dropping throughout the day today. Befinning at 4:00a.m.CST Thursday morning we will be under a Winter Weather Advisory and going until 7:00p.m. CST Thursday evening. They are saying we could get a couple of inches of Snow. I remember just not long ago when they said that we ended up with abou a foot of snow here. At least we didn't have any Severe Storms thru the night last night. So, I guess we willjust have to wait and see what we wake up to tomorrow morning. Stay Tuned. LOL.

Our youngest daughter had Cheerleading practice after School yesterday and will continue for a couple of weekd and then they are going to have try-outs this year because there has been alot of girls to sign up for Pee-Wee Cheerleading. Their Coach said they will practice pretty much all Summer long also. Ourr youngest daughte also has Softball practice adfter School today, but it will be at the High School Gym and will be inside. Then we have Church tonight. Another busy day is on tap for us.

Last week I as visiting my friend, Diane @ , and she was having a Book Giveaway.The name of the Book is HOME TO HEATHER CREEK SERIES FROM GUIDEPOSTS, "EVERY SUNRISE". and it looked really intesting, so I decided to sign up for it. Well, yesteday afternoon, I got an email from Diane saying tht I ad won her Book Giveaway. I am really excited about getting the book and start reading it. "THANK YOU" Diane for hosting the Book Giveaway and I look forward to receiving the book and will let everyone know how it is when I start reading it.

Hubby made it in this morning around 4:120a.m.CST, but will have to leave out around Noon today going to memphis ot pick up their Minnesota and Wisonsin load. He will be back home sometime Friday morning depending on the weather he runs into up North aor maybe even down South here. This Fridy will be his Uncle's turn to go to memphis to pick up their Arizon/California load.

As of right now, i am still going to the Neurologist tomorrow. But if it is sleeting or freezing rain or even Snowing in the morning, I may have to re-schedule it because I am not going to get out and drive n any of that mess.

Guess I'll go for now and do a little visiting before I have to get the girls up in a few. Tke care my friends ans have a gereat day. May GOD Bless you and yours.

Love,
Karen H

TUESDAY

2009-03-10T03:55:00.004-05:00

Good Tuesday Morning Everyone. I hope everyone had a wonderful monday and rady to start a new day. It is currently 68 degrees and it feels like 68 degrees. The winds are out of the South-Southwest at 16mph. It's suppose to be up around 76 degrees here today and on the windy side again, so who knows we may be put under anothrer wind advisory before the day is over with. Storms are expected for tonight and a cold front coming thru with a high tomorrow of only4 degrees. I've been having my heat and A/C on the lat few day. I ge chilly at night and warm durin the day. LOL.

Sunday me and the girls went to Church and after Church we came home and date lunch. I heated up the leftover Roast and me and DD 1 ate some. DD2 wasn't all that hungry she said. After we ate lunch we went to the Dollar Geneal Store as I had to get a Bridal Shower gigt to take to the Church at 2:00p.m. I tellya, those Dollare General Stores sue do have some nice things. I know I could pert near spend DH's whole PAYVHECK IN THERE. Lol. We then came back home so I could put verything in a gift bag. We went back up to the Churh a little befoe 2:00p.m. and the girl had a goodBridal Shower and got lots of nice things. There were 3 tables put together to put things on and all 3 of thme were filled up. There were all kinds of good foods there to eat, but since I hve to watch wat I have, I did goo. I had som eChicken Salad on a piec of brAD AND A FEW CRACERS. AND SOME FRUIT. I had water to drink instead of punch. By the time the sohower was ove with I was really tired. WE came home and I had some laundry to do and finally around 4:00p.m., I told th girls I had to lay down for a spell. I told them if they got hungry there was sandwich meat and some things in the cabinet they could heat up in the microwave. I got up around 7:00p.. and took my vitals ans my meds ansd ate me some supper. I went bck to bed and I actually sept real good on Sunday night. I guess by getting up a 2:00a.m. on Sunday morning nand staying up really tired me out. I've been awake this morning since 2:00a.m. also. I'm having some Coffee now, so if you would like a cup, pleaase feel free to help yourself to a cup. I't's Decaff.

Yesterday was another busy day. After School our youngest daughter had Softball practice until 5:00p.m. After she was done we came home and heatee us a Hot Pocket up in the Microwave and then at 6:00p.m. Our oldest daughter had Softball practice until 7:30p.m. When she was done we came home. They got their showers and done their homework. Normally they do their homework when they get home from School, but since Dthey both ha practice they had to wait until they got home last night.

Hopefully this afternoon will be a quiet afternoon and as of right now, nothing is going on. DD 2 does have Pee-Wee Cheerleading tryouts after School today, but I don't hav to go to that tho. Then the business starts back up tomorrow. DD 2 has Softball practice again after School and then we hve Church tomorrow night. DD1 has Softball practice on Thursday evening. So, the days have come where I'm going to be on the go alot especially when their games start up w3hich will be at the end of March when their Pre-Season Tournaments start. I don'ty know why they want to start up so early becaue usually it's cold at the beginning of the Softball Season. Oh well, all I can do is just sit back and complain. LOL.

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This coming Thursday morning. I have to go and see the Nerurologist at 9:00a.m. I ask tht you all keep me in your prayers as I go and see him. "THANK YOU" aso much in advance for your continued prayers for me. Jut know they are greatly appreciated.

Last nightt when DD1 was practicin, there is WALKING track around the Softbll Field. me and DD2 wALKED part of it. Not very far aince I'm not up to tht just yet. Maybe ech time one of the girls hs practice, I can increase it abit. DD2 wanted to walk 2with me so I wouldn't have to be by myself and she even held my hand so I wouldn't fall. I thought tht was just so sweet of her. Since I have been home from the HOSPITAL, BOTH OF THE GIRLS HAVE really helped me out and I'm so proud of them.They are reLLY GROWING UP INTO fine young ladies.

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Guess I'll go ofor now and see who is up and if your not, then I will wake you up. LOL. Twke care my friends and haVE a great day. Msy GOD Bless you and yours.

Also some of you may hVE NOTICED THT i HAVE PUT UP Q THING FOR TO ADD FOLOWERS. iF YOU WOULD LIKE TO JOIN, PLEASE FEEL FREE TO BE ONE OF MY fOLLOWERS. i WILL BE MORE THAN GLAD TOHAVE YOU. aLSO, i HAVE fACEBOOK AND IF YOU WOULD LIKE FOR ME TO ADD YOU, PLEASE FEEL FREE TO IVITE AND i WILL ACCCEPT YOU.

LOVE,
Karen H.

Stormy Sunday

2009-03-08T04:22:00.006-05:00

<Good Sunday Morning everyone. It is currently 67 degrees and feels like 66 degrees. The winds are out of the South Southwest at 17mph with gusts up to 26 mph. We are under another Wind Advisory for today. It has beenv vewy windy around here the last few days and this is the 3rd day for us being under a Wind Advisory. There is a chance for some Sever Thunderstorms for today. Ijust hope it doesn't get too severe.

I hope everyone has had a great weekend thus far. On Thursday night, I had bought 2 Beef Roast's from our local grocery store because they were on sale and I put them both in my big Roaster and added some Mrs. Dash's Seasonings nd Black Pepper and Worchestire Sauce along with some chopped up Red Onion, Chopped up Red, Yellow and Orange Bell Peppers, a couple of packages of Baby Carrrots, and some Red Potatoes cut up and added it on with the Roast's. I cooked themall night on 200 degrees andI fave my Parents one of them with some of the veggies for themtohave for their supper Friday night. I also made a pan of Homemade Buttermilk Cornbread to go with it. You talk about good. Me aand the girls will have enough left to et on for a couple of days. This past Frriday was hubby's Friday to go to Memphis to pick up thier load ans whenhe got back and ate Fridy evenning, w3e decided to go to town so it woulsn't be so crowded on us on Saturday. I just hate going to Wal-Mart anymore because they are always moving things around on you. It just chaps my hide at times. LOL. ur youngest daughter had one of her friends to stay all night with her and it was around 12:30-1:00a.m.CST when we got back home. Talk about some tied fgirls. They were ready to go while we were shopping. LOL. I told hubby too bad qwe don't have the money to go shopping every night and tire them out. LOL.

On Friday I went out to the School for our daugheter's Student of the Month Award. Here she i s with her Principal and her Award.

Here she is with my Parents and her Award.

Sorry about that but the pictueres ended up at the top and I uploaded 2 each of them. Aorry a out thst. After the Student of the Month Awards wee over with we went ove to the Cafwerteria and had lunch with her. We hd Burritos with Chees on top Spanish Rice and Jello with Fruit Cocktail and I had plain tea to drink. After Lunch, my Parents came over and Mom got the RoastI had givenher. She called me Friday night before we went to town and told me it was good and tender .

Saturday was spnt laying around much of the day. Since I have beenhome from the Hospital, I can't seem to sleep at night. I get sleepy and when it's bedtime, I got to bed and I get wide awake. I think it mayb e some of the mes I'm on making me that way. After all, I am a walking Drug Store to say the least. LOL. I've got a doctor's appointment his coming Thursday with the Neurologist and I'mg oing to say something to him about it. Tht is one reason I didn't post over the weekend because I was tire and sleepy and needed to get some sleep.

I did manage to vsit few of you las niht and hopefully I will get around some more today. I am planning on going to Church this morning and I'm suppose to help with a Bridal Shower at our Church this afternoon.

I do hope that everyone sat thier clocks ups sn hour before retiring last night. I don't like losing tht extr hour of sleep. A woman nededs her beauty sleep. LOL.

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Take care my friends and have a great Sunday. May GOD Bless each and everyone of you.

Love,
Karen H.

Thursday-March1, 2009

2009-03-05T04:26:00.001-06:00

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DO hope that everyone had a wonderful Wednesday and ready to start a new day. It is cueerently 46 degrees with a windchill of 41 degrees. It is partly clousdy and the winds are out of the South at 12 mph. It is suppose to be a warm day and windy as well. Most of th esnow is gone now. There may be just a it here and there that wer in shaded areas still lingering around. It is suppose to be up near 80 degrees by the weekend with rain in the forecast on Sunday. You talk aout crazy weeather, well come to Arkansas and you will never know wht to expect from one day to the other.
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I noticed my graphics didn't show up the other day, so I'm trying to do it anothe way today. Hopefully it will work today. hOW DO YOU LIKE THE NEW LOOK OF MY BLOG? "thanks " TO aNNI OF hOOTIN aNNI'S FOR CHANGING IT FOR ME. "thank you" SO VERY MUCH aNNI. yoU ARE A WONDERFUL FRIEND AND i DO APPreciate you fixing it for me.

I didn't post yesterday because hubby got home around 1:05a.m. CST yesterday morning and I got up and visited with him a bt. He had to leave back out around NOon going up to Minnsota and then over to Wisconsin. He should be home sometime in the morning. He will have to take a 10 hour break then go to Memphis and pick up their Arizona/California load. HIm and his Uncle take turns ech Friday going to pick it up. Thtway it fives each person a longer weekend every othe weeken. Me and the girls went to Church last night. Sine this is the Lint Season of Easter, our Pastor dstarted a study on the 10 Commandments and the 7 Deadly Sins. This sunday morning she ill bwe preaching on 2 of th deadly sins and then on Wednesdy nights we will discuss those sins more. It was really interesting last night and I took a bunch o fnotes. Sine I'e had my stroke, I am wanting to get back into Church and ger more involved gagain. GOD saved my life and gave me another chance, so I owe it to GOD to honor him and "THANK "him for what he has done for me and my family, GOD IS GOOD, ALL THE TIME< GOD IS GOOD!!!!

Both the girls have Softball practice today and tonight. Our youngest daughter has it right after School and our oldes daughter has it at 6:)0p.m.CST. To me, they always start the girls Softball Season way too early and they hve played games when it has been too cold to play. It also makes the Season end too early also and then come Summer, they don't have anything to do.

I wuld like for everyone to pray for our small town here. The bad Economy has hit our town. We have a small factory that has been here for years and now only emplys 44 peopl4e and they will be shutting down their doors within 60 days. Please lift up all the ones that will be jobless in your prayers please as well as everyone else across the United States that have lost jobs. It is such a sad situation to see all thse people losing jobs .

I gort some goos news earlier this week. My Case Worker from the Home Health called me on Tuesday and told me she had talked to the Therpist andsaid I was being dismissed from Therpy, but if I needed them to call them and they would ser me up as an outpatient ina clinic. "PRAISE GOD" for his healing hands. I still have a ways to go tho, so please dcontinue to keep me in your prayers as wwell. I edo appreciate it zso very much.

Guess I will go for now. I am drinking my coffee and wqaitin for our local morning newss to come on at 5:)0a.m.CST ant then I hve to fix the girls their breakfst. Take care my friends andhave a great day. May GOD Bless each and everyon of you.

Love,
Karen H.

Tuesday-March2, 2009

2009-03-03T04:27:00.003-06:00

Good Morninga again everyone. I do hope that everyone had a great Monday and ready to start a new day. It is currently 26 degrees with a windchill of 19 degrees. The swinds are out ofthe Northeast at 6mph. e still have Snow on the ground here this mornig. It only made it up to 33 degrees here yesterday, so not a hole lot ofmelting went on. Hopefully tody it will all begin to melt away. It'sd sduppose to be up around 65 degrees tomorrow and near 790 degrees bythe weekend with some rain in th forecast.
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I had a Ladies Meeting at our Church last night and I really enjoyed it. My MIL had the refreshments which she actually made homemade Chili and I took some Hot Dogs and shredded Cheese and some chips to go with the Chili. It was all so good and tasted really good on a cold night like last night. After the meal we had some business to discuss about different things we doat Church and thenour Pastor who is a Woman had the devotional. It's always good to be sround other Christian Women and enjoy their Fellowship and GOD's word. We always meet the frst MOnday in ech month at our Church.
I have to take my MIL to Jonesboro this afternoon to the eye doctor. It's been a long time since she's had her eye's checked so one o her daughter's made the appointment last week and called me to see if I would take her out the an of course I said I would. Her appoitmenty is at1:30p.m.CST this afternoon. Then at 5;00p.m.CST, I have to take the girls to one of theier cousin's Birthday Party. Yesterday was his Birthdaybut his Mom is having chips and dip and cake this evening. So, another ubusy day is in store for us here. Hubby will be home sometime tonight as well. I talked to him around 33:00a.m.CST and he was in Gallup,NM and he was fixing to eat his breakfast and then go to bed. He will have to leave out again around noon tomorrow, but will be back on Friday morning sometime. [url=http://www.glitter-graphics.com][img]http://dl7.glitter-graphics.net/pub/186/186317svon70h9ur.gif[/img][/url]

I thought since the 17h is ST. Patrick's Day, I would go ahead anstart using some St. Pattuy's Day graphics. I've visited a few of you and have noticed your blogs are all decorated for St. Partrick's Day. DO yall ahave any special program you use to so that or do you get it from a certain website. I would appreciaete you letting me know, so mayb I caN DECORATE MINE AS WELL SINCE GREEN IS MY FAVORITE COLOR.
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I got a letter in the mail yesterday lettting me know that our youngest daughter h ad been chosen as Student of the Month athey will recognizer her thiss Friday March 6 at School and have invited me to come eat dinner with her. It's suppose to be a surprise but she was with me w3hen I opened the letter at the Post Office yesteday afternoon. I am going to take my camera and take some pictures and then I will gladly share them with you. I had to buy me a new battery pack last week for my camera beause it got to where the other batteries I had for it 2owoldn't stay charged. Now I have jut got to get used to taking it with me when I go places and to tke pictures. I think I am going to start sdoing some photographyof just the girls nd around here in town. That would be a nice hobby rto have I think.
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I think I am on a rol now since this is my 3rd post. LOL. I am going to fgive it a try to post everyday again, b uut if I don't, I will at least come to visit you and to let you know I'm okay. I'll try my best not to go MIA again. I hvave missed e veryone and hope to get back to like I used to be.
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I am going to go and drink my coffee and watch the local news at 5:00a.m.CST and then have my daily Bible Devotional and then I am going to tfix the girls some canned Cinnamon Rolls for their Bereakfsast this morning. Take care my friends and have a great day. May GOD Bless each and everyone of you.
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Lo ve to all,
Karen H>

2009-03-02T08:05:00.009-06:00

gOOD mORNIN' eVERYONE.
hOPE everyone had a great weekend and re3ady to start a new week. We still have some snow on the ground here where I live at. Most of it meled off of the roads yesterday and it's currently 24 degrees with a winchill oc 20 degrees. The winds are out o f theNorth at 3mph. iT'S SUPPOSE TO BE around 38 degrees here today and around 44 degrees tomorrow and up neqr 70 again this weekend. If you want a roller coaster ride, well Arkansas is the place to be fr that. I took some more pics yesterday afternoon of both the girls and I will share those. 9 Hope you enjoyed them. I think we ended up with around a foot of snow here where I Live at. bIGGEST SNOW we have had in a very long time. But at least I got my Snow! LOL. I even made some Snow Ceream yesterday afternoon and it sure was good. I had enough left I put it in the freezer. Who knows, we ma eT IT COME 4th of JUly. LOL.
dnjoyed cat hing up with some of you the other day and will continue to do some eah day. I"m not sure if I"ll be posting everyday jut yet gagain as I still have too many typos. Hopefully it won't lAST LONG AND i CAN GET BACK TO POSTING ON A REGULAR BASIS AGIN. mE AND THE GIRLS DIDN'T GOT TO cHURCH YESTEDAY BECAUSE i DIDN'T WANT TO GE OUT AN FALL AND HURT MYSELF. oUR cHURCH HAD SERVICES BU THERE WAS ALOT OF cHURCHES ROUND THT CANCLEL THEIR SERVICES. I fixed the girls some bacon and scram led eggs and openex up a can oc Grands Biscuits cofor thi bREAKFAST YESTERDY. lET'S JUST SAY IT WA ALMOST A bRUNCH FOR THEM. lol. I washed a is sinkful of dishes aterwards and foled up some clothes. They played outside a while yesterday afternoon and tried to build a snowman ut couldn't. They hae hd their Dad o help them in the past and he had to leave out yaesterday morning so he wan't here to helpt them this time.
Guess'll go for now as I hae some therapy to do. Take care my friends and had great day. may GOD bless each and everyone of you.

Love & HUgs,
aren H.

Let It Snow, Let It SNOW!!!!

2009-02-28T20:45:00.007-06:00

Hey everyone, I know, it's b een a log time since I have postee. Just thought I would gi e everyone an update on what's been going on 3with mwe. Firtws of all, I had a stroke on the 7th of this month and I also have congestive heart failure as well. It is being treated with meicatinos right now. I go b ack to see the Cardiologist on the 24th of next month. I havd also had to change the way I eat and what eat ans exer cise too. I have been taking therapy twice a week for a ouple of weeks now. I still don't have good use of my left hand ut hopefully theraspy will taske care of that. So, if you see misspelled words, that ix why. Please be in perayer for me as I continue to recover and pray I don't have to h ave any surgeries to my heart. I have also signed up on my disa ility. Pray that I can get that started as well. Iwould greatly appreciate it very much. I ber you are wondering why I named my Title what I did. It has b wbeen snowing her pretty much all day. As o right now, I think we hmay ha d around 6 inches and it's still snowing ans suppose to snow till early in the morning. We are under a Winter Storm Warning until 3:00a,m. in the morning. I took some pictures with my camera and I'm going to tyty and post them. Hop you enjoy.The last picture is of our youngest daughter with her mouth open ttrying to cstch the snow. I ddidn't get any picsof the Icew Storm we had because I had to b uy a new b qasttery pack for my camera. I also had to buy me a newq comuter as wwell. I got a DELL from Wal-Mart and it h as Windows Vista. Gonna take me a while to get uwsed top it for sure. I so apologize for tha the mistypes I have made but hopefully you are ab le to read most of this. Take ca4re and I"ll try to ger around to visit , but it may take me a couple of day. I have missed everyone on here. Take care my ffriends ans ha ve a great weekend. May Gof Bless each nd eveyone of you. I am also on Facebook in case you would like to b e added you can go here: http://www.blogger.com/post-create.g?blogID=3541743519111161413

kzren Horgon

WEDNESDAY

2008-08-27T04:27:00.004-05:00

Good Mornin' Yall,

Well, it's been about 3 weeks since I've posted and I thought I would do another post to give everyone an update. But first, let me give my weather report. LOL. It is currently 71 degrees here at 4:32a.m. CST. It has been a bit warmer this week, but not as bad as it was the first of the month. We have actually had some nice and pleasant weather around here and even some nice rains as well. The nights haven't been so bad either. The only thing about nights around here is the skeeter's. Yeap, they will eat you alive. I am ready for some Fall weather and temperatures around here.

Now for the update on my hubby. I took my DH back to see the Neurologist last Tuesday and he released him to go back to work. Last Friday, my DH's Uncle took him to their Terminal to take the DOT Test (Urine Test) was what he was told he would have to take and the letter from the doctor wasn't good enough for them. So, my DH didn't get to leave out this past Sunday as planned. He had to go back there on Monday and had to take the DOT Physical as well as the Stress Test. The doctor's office did fax a form that my DH's workplace needed and they got it. The doctor actually talked to the lady in charge of giving the test and physical and he told them they better not let anything happen to his patient. The doctor wanted my DH's blood pressure and heart rate monitored closely. Hubby passed the test's with flying colors and didn't have any problems with his blood pressure or heart rate. So, my DH and his Uncle will be leaving out around noon today to go pick up their De Pere, WI load and then be home again on Friday. I tell ya, it's going to be really hard after having him home and being with him constantly for a month. Today, my DH will be smoke-free 1 month and tomorrow will be 1 month for me. We are doing good so far. There has been a few times that I wanted to cave and go buy me a pack, but I didn't. I am still having to take my DH back each Friday to have his blood checked to make sure his INR levels are where they need to be. When he left the hospital, the INR level was like 3. Then the next Friday, it had gone up to 4.6. He came home taking 7.5 MG of Coumadin. After that first week, they put him on 5 MG of Coumadin. I took him back last Friday and his level was 4.3. So, they put him on 4 MG of Coumadin. I'm sure it will take a few more weeks for it to get where it needs to be and then after that, he will go back every 2 weeks for a while and then only once a month after that. I have to take him back to see the Neurologist on Sept. 12 for a Check-Up. The Neurologist is suppose to have some more information for us on the Stint Surgery and about having it done in Memphis, TN, instead of having to go to Little, Rock, AR. The Neurologist did tell us that it would be better in the long run to have the Stint Surgery. Even tho it has it's pro's and con's like Coumadin, at least if he had a stint put in, he wouldn't have to take Coumadin anymore. He just has to be really careful now while he is on Coumadin and make sure he doesn't start bleeding and bleed to death. He is still having some problems with his speech, but hopefully in time, it will get back to normal. I have also noticed that he seems to be more irratable than before having the stroke. Certain things seem to bother him more as well. Maybe that part will get better in time as well. Please continue to pray for my DH and our Family. "THANK YOU" all so much for the prayers you have said already.

The girls started back to School last Monday(18th). They actually made it thru the first week just fine. The first day of School they didn't have any homework. I think they started having homework either the 2nd or 3rd day of School. I tell ya, I don't know bout yall, but alot of that Math homework they have these days, I don't know the first thing about. I think I need to be in School with them both. LOL. When I was in School, we didn't have that kind of Math. Where do they come up with the Math they have these days? LOL. I'm from the "Old School" as some would say. LOL. The first week of School around here was a sad and tragic week. Either on the first day or second day of School, a local girl that goes to High School in Lake City, where our High School is at, had a wreck and had to be air-lifted to a Hospital in Little Rock. I think she had some broken bones but she is home now and is in a wheelchair. It's going to take some time for her to get back to normal again. Then on Wednesday or Thursday of last week, a former Police Chief that used to work here where I live at, shot himself. Yeap, that was really bad. Then last Friday, in Lake City, a 23-month old girl had wondered off from a Day Care and went to the neighbor's house next to the Day Care and got into the neighbor's swimming pool. It was about 20 or 25 minutes before she was even found. They first took her to a hospital in Jonesboro and later she was transferred to the Children's Hospital in Little Rock, AR. She had been on life support because she was brain dead and then about noon this past Sunday, they took her off of life support. I think she passed away around 4:35p.m. CST, Sunday afternoon. They are having her Funeral tonight. It has really affected alot of people in Lake City. I didn't know the little girl or her parents, but I did know one of her Aunts and cousin because the Aunt teaches here in the town where I live at. So, I ask that you remember the Family of the 23-month old, the Day Care where she was at, and the neighbor's whose pool she got in. I think they were all good friends and I don't think any charges are going to be filed. So far this week, things seem to be going better than how last week started off.

This coming Monday is Labor Day, and I thought I would use some Labor Day graphics. Do yall have any special plans for the Labor Day weekend? My Parents are wanting to go to Hardy this Saturday and take the girls with them for the day. I think me and my DH will be going as well because my Parents want us to go so we can just get out of town for the day. We are planning on taking a Picnic lunch as well. I think they are calling for some rain on Saturday, but we will have to wait and see if it does rain on Saturday. The girls will be out of School on Monday.

Well, I do appreciate all of the comments everyone left in my previous post. I have been awake all night again. LOL. I will probably get some sleep later today after my DH leaves out. I have Church tonight. We are suppose to be starting a Tour of The Holy Land. The Wednesday night teacher is suppose to order some things so we can do this over a projector or either by a computer. It sounds really interesting and I think I will like it.

We had our youngest daughter's Birthday Party this past Saturday at our Church Fellowship Hall. Their Wednesday night classes, called Kid's for Christ, had a Lock-In on Friday night and they didn't go to sleep till about 5:00a.m. on Saturday morning. Then the Parents had to come pick them up at 7:00a.m. You talk about some sleepy and grouch kids. LOL. Anyway, our youngest daughter turned 10 on Sunday and her Party on Saturday turned out just fine. We told her that when her Daddy went back to work and we got caught up on bills and things, that we would make it up to her. She understood.

Well, guess I better go for now. I am having coffee again. LOL. Take care my friends and I'm going to try and get around to visit sometime today or tonight. May GOD Bless Each and Everyone of you.

Karen H.

2008-08-06T10:37:00.004-05:00

Good Day Everyone,
I thought I would pop in and do a post. I know it's been a good while and since Summer is coming to a close and School is about to start back, I thought I might try and get back in the swing of things again. I hope everyone has had a great Summer and got to enjoy time with Family and Friends. We haven't done much around here because my DH doesn't have any vacation time in yet. The girls have gone to several Vacation Bible Schools in the area and this week they are going to the VBS at our Church. Tonight is the last night for it and they will have their commencement.
It has been rather hot around here lately. We have been under "Heat Advisory's" several times in the last few weeks. Just the temperature got up to 102 degrees a couple of days and with the heat index, it was like 110 degrees. Just very miserable around here. We are suppose to be getting some relief by Friday they say. We are to get some rain tomorrow and then on Friday the high's will be in the 80's. That will sure be nice for a change. I am so ready for some much cooler weather.
I would like for yall to know that my DH had a stroke last week. He was out on the road when it happened. "THANK GOD" he was with his Uncle when it happened. It happened sometime either late Sunday night or early Monday morning. I had called him that Monday morning around 5:00a.m. and his speech was so slurred and it was all I could do to really understand him. His right arm was numb, but he was still able to drive. His Uncle wanted to take him to the Emergency Room in North Las Vegas, but my DH is very hard headed and wanted to hurry and get home so I could take him to the Emergency Room. They got home last Wednesday morning around 3:00a.m. and he took a shower and I took him to the Emergency Room. They did a CAT Scan on him and it showed up he had had a stroke. They admitted him and put him in ICU. A Neurologist came in to see him and he ordered a series of tests on my DH. They did a MRI and it came up good. They did another test where they sedated him and put a tube down his throat and checked his heart and it came up good. They did another test, MRA, and it showed up that he had had several mini strokes over a period of time. The Neurologist said there was like 9 or 10 mini strokes. Out of those 9 or 10, 2 of the mini strokes were severe. They kept him in ICU until Thursday afternoon and he was put into a Private Room. This past Saturday, they did another CAT Scan and did a EEG (Brain Wave Test). Both of those came up good as well. They started him on Cummadin (don't know if I spelled that right or not), and also, Zocor. He finally got to come home yesterday afternoon. I was so glad because nothing is better than your own bed to sleep in. Anyway, he has to be off of work for at least 2 weeks and maybe longer. I have to take him to have his blood checked again next Tuesday and then the following Tuesday, he has to go see the Neurologist for a follow-up. We may have to go to Little Rock because the Neurologist said something about having a stint put in so he wouldn't have to take Cummadin the rest of his life. I am hoping and praying that it can be done in Memphis because that would be so much closer to us. Either way, both the Cummadin and the Stint has pro's and con's. We will just have to weigh the pro's against the con's on both sides. He has had to quit smoking as well. He wanted me to quit smoking with him and so I decided I would. It has been hard, but so far so good. He hasn't smoked now in a week and my week will be tomorrow. It is really hard when I am having coffee because I was used to drinking coffee and smoking. Nothing better than a good cup of coffee and have a cigarrett in another hand. It is going to difficult, but I know with GOD'S help, we can do it. This Stroke has really scared my DH and he is determined to do it. While he was in the hospital, he had to walk up and down the halls for therapy. So, yesterday afternoon late, we walked around the block here where we live at. We are going to keep doing that as well. So, if you have a moment to spare when you are saying your prayers, I would like for you to pray for my DH and our Family as we go thru this difficult time. "THANK YOU" so much in advance.
Our girls will be starting back to School here on the 18th of this month. My Parents have taken our oldest daughter today to get a booster shot that she is suppose to get before going in the 7th grade. I think they are getting the girls School supplies as well. Since my DH isn't able to work, we have no income coming in now. I do have everything paid up for this month tho, and hopefully, he will be able to go back to work before everything comes due again next month. Our youngest daughter's birthday is this month as well and we were planning on having her party at Chuck E. Cheese's. That is where she was wanting to have it. But since this has happened, it will have to be here at home and we have talked to her about it and explained everything to her. She will be 10 years old and she seems to be okay with it.
Well, guess I'll go for now. I am in the process of fixing some lunch for my DH. He got used to having 3 meals a day in the hospital, so now I have to fix 3 meals a day here. I just have to watch what he eats since he is on Cummadin and taking meds for his Cholesterol as well. He's not on any real special diet, he just has to be careful what he eats and how much. Take care everyone and I'll try to get around later today or tomorrow and start visiting again. May God Bless You and Yours.

Love & Hugs,
Karen H.

"HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY"!!!!

2008-05-11T05:13:00.004-05:00

Good Mornin' Everyone,

"HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY" to each and everyone of you Mother's here in blogland. It is currently 58 degrees and the winds are out of the West, Northwest at 18mph with gusts up to 27mph. It is suppose to be a windy day today and we are under a Wind Advisory until 7:00p.m. this evening. We had another round of Tornadic Weather here late yesterday afternoon and early last night. I think it all started around here around 5:00p.m. They sounded the sirens off here in town and me and my DH went to our neighbors storm cellar. It was full, but there was enough room for us in there tho. The girls were in Lepanto spending the night with my Sister and they went to the Funeral Home and got into the Steel Vault they have there. We did get some pea size hail her for just about a minute and then some very heavy rains. As far as I know, there was not any damage here where I live at. I do know there was some damage here in Craighead County, but just not here. "PRAISE GOD" for seeing us thru another round of Severe Weather. Me and my DH were watching our local t.v. station out of Jonesboro, and when they told everyone in Caraway to get to their Tornado Safe Place, that is when me and my DH went to the storm cellar. One of our weather guys said on the 10:00p.m. news last night that since February 5, of this year, we have had some kind of watch or warnings every week. It has been a wild and bumpy ride so far weather wise this year. It is suppose to be up around 66 degrees here today and windy and then down to 48 degrees tonight. I may have to turn the heat back on. LOL. I know we do have another chance for some rain and storms later this week. I just hope and pray it doens't become severe like it has every week.

It has been a busy and stressful week here this past week. Both of the girls had softball games in Trumann on Tuesday evening. Our youngest daughter's team won their ball game 19 to 17. It started out that each team would get 5 runs and then it was like that over and over. They have a 5-run limit for the softball games. Well finally, we ended up winning the ball game. It did rain a bit on us at the ballgame, but nothing too bad. They didn't have to call the game or anything. I didn't melt either. LOL. After our youngest daughter played, our oldest daughter's team played and they lost 16 to 8. They didn't play as good because it had been "FUN DAY" at School that day and everyone was tired. They also got cheated a bit as well. We actually got to play games this past Friday night. LOL. It has rained every Friday night for the past few weeks, so it was good to get to play this Friday night. We played my hometown of Lepanto which is now called East Poinsett County. Our youngest daughter's team played first and it started out like it did in Trumann on Tuesday night. Each team would get 5 runs and have to start again. They ended up losing their game 20 to 18. They did play a good game tho. Our oldest daughter's team played next. Now this was a more exciting game. We started out behind, and then we came back and tied it up. It was tied 7 to 7. They had to go into overtime. We ended up winning the ballgame 8 to 7. I heard the coach say this was one of those heart-attack games. After the game was over with, me and my DH and the girls went out to the Quick Shop and they rented some movies to watch. It was nearly 10:00p.m. when our oldest daughter's game was over with. I sure am glad it wasn't a School night. I know on Tuesday night, it was after 9:00p.m. before our oldest daughter's game was over with and we had to drive home and they were both just worn out from the "FUN DAY" at School and playing ball, so I let them stay home on Wednesday and sleep late. Not a whole lot is going on right now anyway, so it didn't hurt them to miss a day. My DH made it home Tuesday evening around 11:50p.m. and me and him sat up till around 3:00a.m. watching t.v. and talking. I had to get up at 10:45a.m. so I could start some coffee and get my DH up so he could get ready to leave out at noon. The girls did go back to School on Thursday. Our oldest daughter's class went on their Field Trip to Memphis. On Friday, they had Junior High Orientation and a Luau with the 6th grade from Lake City. They will all be going into the 7th grade together next year. It was a meet and get to know each other and they had hamburgers and hotdogs and chips and dips to eat. Someone from the School had done the grilling for them. I had to send some Hamburger Buns and a bottle of Ketchup for the meal. My toothache is much better and I finished my antibiotics on Friday night. I'm not having to take Ibuprofen like I did last week. That has pretty much been my week last week.

This week is to be another busy week here again. Both of the girls have softball games here in town on Tuesday night. On Thursday night, our oldest daughter will be Graduating 6th grade and they will be having a 6th Grade Graduation Program out at the School. I am really excited about it and I will be taking my camera to take pictures. The only bad thing is that my DH won't be able to be here to see it. He wishes he could, but he can't take off and be here, so I will have plenty of pictures to show him when he gets home this coming weekend. I don't know if the girls will have any make-up games this week or not, but we will have to wait and see. Both of their Softball Season will be over with the last weekend in this month. I know they do start the Season way too early and it's either raining or too cold to be playing. They need to wait till School is out to start the Season and that way they will have something to do most of the Summer.

I had mentioned that last week had been stressful. Well, for right now, I just want to ask for a Prayer Request that I need. There was an incident that happened on Wednesday evening of this past week with our oldest daughter. The Church Bus had come by to pick them up and take them to Church. About 10 minutes after the bus picked the girls up, our oldest daughter came back home and said she didn't want to go to Church. I asked her what happened and she said this boy that has been bothering her every Wednesday night for a while now and even at School said something to her. She told me what he said and I just got so mad and so ticked off. I had previously talked to my SIL that goes to Church and teaches one of the Wednesday night classes about the boy saying things to her and she said she would talk to him. Well when my daughter comes home from Church, the Church she was Christened in and raised up in and not wanting to go, it's time to do something. I went up to the Church and had someone to tell the boy to come outside and if he didn't, I would have the Police to come and make him come outside. This boy is in the 6th grade, but should be in the 8th grade. He is already on Probation, but I don't know what for. All I know is that he is on Probation. He is one of those trouble making boys and both of the girls has told me the only reason he goes to Church is to see a girl up there. He came outside and I raised my voice at him telling him to apologize to my daughter and he wouldn't do it. I told him he needed to go inside that Church and get down on his hands and knees and pray to God. I was so mad yall, I just couldn't help it. I did tell him I was going to have him arrested. I never touched the boy or even cursed at him. I just raised my voice with tears almost in my eyes because I was so mad and upset. This boy has been saying some sexual things to our oldest daughter and he even grabbed her butt one day last week at School. Our daughter finally went to Church and I came home and called the Police. The officer on call told me he would go out and talk to him when Church was over with and talk to his Step Dad. He told me I would have to go to Lake City to file charges on him since he is a Juvenile. Thursday morning before School started, the boy went up to our daughter and told her he was still here, meaning he didn't go to jail. That ticked me off again. I called the Police that afternoon and as soon as our oldest daughter got home from the Field Trip, we went to Lake City and I got an affadavit to fill out. I also called the School on Friday morning to talk to the Principal about the situation. She wasn't there on Thursday, so that is why I had to wait till Friday and talk to her. She did suspend the boy for 5 days from School. I am taking the affadavit back to Lake City tomorrow and I am also going to get a lawyer to have a Restraining Order put against him. Not only am I afraid for our daughter, but I'm afraid now since he has been suspended from School, that he may try to come to the house and so something. Our daughter DOES NOT have to take this sexual harrassment at all and I will go to any lengths to protect both of our daughters. My DH is fully supportive about this as well. He knows what has happened and he told me I did the right thing. Our daughter is scared of going to Juvenile Jail or being suspended from School herself. I told her she hasn't done anything wrong and she isn't going to jail or getting suspended. I ask that you all keep us and this situation in your prayers. I will keep everyone up to date on what is going on with the situation as it comes to me. I have to take those papers to Lake City tomorrow before any processing can get done.

The girls will be home around 8:00a.m. this morning and we are going to Church. After Church, we are going to my Sister's house. She is cooking some Steaks, hamburgers and hotdogs, and other things for me and my Mom today. After I finish there, I will come to my MIL's for a while and visit with her. We celebrated Mother's Day last weekend when we went to Jonesboro with the 4 of us.

Well, guess I'll go for now. I'm about to finish my last cup of coffee. I need to eat me a bowl of cereal and start getting ready for Church after while. Our Church starts at 9:00a.m. and then they have Sunday School afterwards. There is always fellowship with coffee and breakfast foods between the Service and Sunday School. Take care my friends and have a great day. May God Bless Each and Everyone of You. I'll get around sometime today to visit with you. "HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY" again to everyone.

LOVE & HUGS,

SUNNY SUNDAY

2008-05-04T05:27:00.004-05:00

Good Mornin' Yall,

I hope that everyone has had a great week and weekend so far. It is currently 48 degrees and it feels like 45 degrees. The winds are out of the North at 6mph. It was a nice day here yesterday and the temperatures only made it into the low 60's. It is suppose to be up near 70 degrees today. We had some bad storms and tornadoes around here on Friday. Not a pretty picture at all. Yall may have seen some of the footage about it on t.v. They had issued a tornado warning for my hometown of Lepanto which is only 11 miles from where I live on Friday afternoon. They sounded the tornado sirens and I think my Dad said there was only some minor damage done there. The worst of it went on East of Lepanto to a small town called Etowah, AR. It did quite a bit of damage there. In fact, I have an Aunt who lives in the area that was hit. She and her husband are okay as well as their home. No one was hurt in that tornado. "PRAISE GOD"!!!! It did hit another town called Earle, AR. I used to have some now ex-relatives that lived in Earle. They said it was the hardest hit town here in Northeast Arkansas. They said the tornado was an EF-3 tornado. Please keep all of these people in your prayers as some have lost everything they had and then as they try to pick up the pieces and rebuild their homes or whatever they may decide. They never sounded the tornado sirens here in my town, but the kids at the School had to go to the Tornado Safe room twice Friday. They last time they went, they kept them a little while after School was out. The girls were about 15 minutes late getting home from the bus. I am glad they did keep them because it is better to hold the kids than not too. We live in tornado alley here, and so far we have been so lucky. I just know one of these days tho, we are going to get one here.

I know I haven't posted any since last Sunday. I woke up Monday morning with a slight tooth ache. Our oldest daughter had a softball game in Keiser on Monday evening and after we got home, it got worse. I started taking some Ibuprofen pills that night and that eased the pain. I went and got some anitbiotics for it on Tuesday and started taking them. It is slowly getting better, but I am still having to take Ibuprofen every so often. I'm hoping it will get better soon because I sure don't like pain. I was in the bed most of last week with it. It was also hard to eat anything I liked as well. I ate only soft stuff. I'm not sure when our Dental insurance will kick in, but when it does, I'm going to see about having my teeth worked on. I just hate needles. LOL. On Thursday of last week I had to go pick our oldest daughter up from School around 2:45p.m. because the School had called and said she had fever. I brought her home and gave her one Ibuprofen tablet. She went to bed for a while and slept some. She was supposed to have played in a softball game on Thursday night, but I didn't let her. Our youngest daughter had a softball game in the same town as our oldest daughter's team and my parents and sister took her to the game. Our youngest daughter's team lost their softball game 15 to 5. Our oldest daughter was able to go to School on Friday and she heard that their team had lost their softball game as well. They were both suppose to have a game here in town on Friday night, but as usual, it had rained and rained them both out. Seems like every Friday their games get rained out. We have some games this week as well.

My DH finally made it home Friday afternoon around 1:30p.m. They had to put their regular truck in the Volvo Shop last weekend and the company gave them another truck to use. Well the truck they gave them doesn't run as fast as their regular truck and that put them behind a few hours getting home. This past Friday was my DH's turn to go to Memphis and he had to go and pick up their regular truck because it was ready. He had to switch everything back into their regular truck and pick up their Salt Lake City load and by the time he got done, it was 7:45p.m. Friday evening when he got home. I had fried some Cheeseburgers, Tater Tots, and Shrimp for our supper on Friday evening. Me and the girls went ahead and ate and my DH ate when he got home. Since our oldest daughter had gotten some money for her birthday last weekend, my DH told them we would take them shopping this past Saturday. So, Saturday afternoon we went to Jonesboro and went to Ryan's and ate first. We then went to the Mall and I had to have my nails filled in and our oldest daughter got her a Pedicure and paid for it with her birthday money. Me and our youngest daughter had went into The Children's Place in the mall and my DH and our oldest daughter went to Hollister's. Our youngest daughter bought her an outfit and a pink cowgirl hat with a tiarra on it and a purse at The Children's Place with the money we gave her on our oldest daughter's birthday. Our oldest daughter bought her a pair of lounge shorts to wear around the house here from Hollister's. We then went to Kay's Jewler's in the Mall and my DH and our girls bought me a gold bracelet that has hearts on it and has MOM inside each heart. It is really pretty. My DH also bought me a Journey necklace. This was all early Mother's Day gifts from them. Our oldest daughter wanted to stop by Aeropostle's and look. We went in there and she bought her a pair of jeans that was on sale and a couple of shirts. After we left the Mall, I had to go to Wal-Mart and get a few things for the house. I also had to take my new cell phone back because it tore up on me last Monday. My DH got the money back and turned around and got another one with the money. Our youngest daughter had seen a Silver Charm Bracelet that she wanted to get me for Mother's Day, so she got her Dad to give her some money to buy it. They gave it to me last night after we got home. My DH also bought me a new watch. It is pink and it is pretty as well. So, I think I did good for this Mother's Day by getting 2 new bracelets, a necklace, and a watch. When we finished shopping at Wal-Mart, I stopped by Kentucky Fried Chicken and bought me some Chicken gizzards and livers. Now don't laugh, LOL, but I love those things. On the way home, I stopped in Lake City to buy some gas because it's cheaper there than it is here in our town. They have opened up a new gas station and it has a Subway in it. I bought me and our youngest daughter a footlong sandwich and I brought mine home to eat sometime today. Our youngest daughter only ate half of hers and she said she would eat the other half today. My DH and our oldest daughter didn't want anything. When we got home, we had to unload the truck and I had to put things away. We went to bed around 10:45p.m. last night. I had to get up at 3:45a.m. this morning so I could get my DH up so he could leave out around 5:00a.m. I had woke up around 1:30a.m. and couldn't go back to sleep. I finally got back up around 2:30a.m. and started some coffee. I am on my last cup now.

Well, guess I'll go for now. My tooth is starting to hurt a little bit and I'm going to take me a couple of Ibuprofen pills and lay back down for a while. I'll do my best to get around to visit sometime today. Take care my friends and have a great day. May God Bless each and everyone of you.

LOVE & HUGS,

P.S. I am still not able to add any pictures from Glitter Graphics to my post's. Is anyone else having the same problem? Am I doing something wrong maybe? If you have any clue, please feel free to let me know in the comment section. Any information will be greatly appreciated.

SOGGY SUNDAY????

2008-04-27T05:31:00.011-05:00

Good Mornin' Yall,

I hope that everyone has had a great weekend and ready to start a new day. It is currently 53 degrees with a windchill of 50 degrees. The winds are out of the North Northeast at 8mph. We are suppose to get some more rain again today. We got some showers on Friday morning and Friday afternoon, and then on Friday night, the bottom fell out. I heard there was even some hail here in town too. Yesterday was a really nice and Sunny day, but a bit on the cool side. I think it made it up in the 60's yesterday. I've been giving my Air-conditioner and heater a workout here lately. During the day I have to turn the A/C on and at night turn the heat back on. LOL. Hopefully since May is right around the corner, the weather and the temperatures will get on their normal track. I sure hope so anyway.

My DH and his Uncle finally made it home on Thursday morning around 4:40a.m. "PRAISE GOD" they were able to make it home safely. I know my DH was really glad to get home and back into the States. He did take my camera with him and took some pictures of Canada and other parts of the Northwestern States. I will try to put them into a slide show and show them one day this week. We have had a busy time since he was at home. Thursday was our oldest daughter's 12th Birthday. I was suppose to take a cake out there at the School around 10:00a.m. on Thursday morning, but since my DH had just got in that morning and needed some sleep, I called the School and told them I would bring it out there in the afternoon. I had just went to the grocery store and bought a cake that was already made and then bought some decorations and put on it myself.

The cake I bought already had the large yellow roses on it that is in the top right hand corner. I bought the candied flowers and the Happy Birthday on the cake. I also bought some black icing in the tube and put the black on there. Black is our oldest daughter's favorite color. I also bought the 12 candles and added them as well.

This is our oldest daughter standing by the cake. It's hard to believe she is 12 years old now. Seems just like yesterday we were bringing her home from the hospital. My oh my, how time does fly. They also grow up way too fast as well.

This is her blowing out the candles on the cake. There was only a small piece of the cake left and I brought it home for our youngest daughter to have some. Both of the girls had softball games Thursday night in Monette. Our youngest daughter played first and they won their first game, 15 to 9. They played really good again and everyone was really proud of them. Our oldest daughter's game started while our youngest daughter was still playing, but luckily they were playing in the same town and the fields were right beside each other, so me and my DH could actually stand up between the bleachers and watch both games. Our oldest daughter's team won their game, 21 to 3. My Sister had bought a Chocolate Chip Cookie Cake to the ballgame and after the game, all the girls sang "Happy Birthday" to her and they had a slice of the cake. After the games were over with, we all came home. On Friday morning, me and my DH had went to our old house, the one that we had lost, and got some more things out of there that we wanted to keep. Around 10:30a.m., it started clouding up and we decided to quit for the day. It's a good thing because when we brought the boxes over here to store them in the shed out back, it started raining. Our next door neighbors saw us and helped us put the boxes in the shed. We still have a few more things to get out from there, and me and the girls and my Parents and my MIL are going over there this afternoon and get those things. They are suppose to auction the house off sometime tomorrow. Before the girls got in from School, it started raining again. Our youngest daughter was suppose to have a game on Friday night here in town, but the field was still in good shape, but the coach called and said there was still some lightening around and since they use metal bats to bat with, she didn't want to take any chances in playing while it was lightening. So, both of the girls went and stayed all night with one of their friends. Around 7:30p.m., me and my DH decided to go to Jonesboro and take our oldest daughter's bike back that we had bought for her a couple of weeks ago. You may remember me telling about it and when we got home and she rode it, it tore up. So, we took it back and exchanged it. We also did some shopping. I bought me a new coffee maker because my old one has just about had it. I also bought a new telephone set for the house. I bought me a couple of outfits and bought my DH a new outfit so we could wear them on Saturday. When we were getting ready to leave Wal-Marts, it was raining outside. We waited a few minutes inside to let it slack up. It did slack up a bit and we got everything loaded into the truck. On the way home, the bottom fell out. I do mean it fell out. LOL. It was raining so hard that I could only drive 40-45mph. You couldn't hardly see the road or anything in front of you. It was also doing some serious lightening as well. It was the cloud to ground lightening and it was really bad. A few times it was so bad and so bright that it would nearly blind you. When we made it home, it was still raining some here, so we just left everything in the truck. Me and my DH sat up for a while and went to bed around 1:00a.m. I got up around 7:30a.m. Saturday morning and started some coffee. I got my DH up around 10:00a.m. We were having our oldest daughter's Birthday Party at the Skating Rink in Jonesboro. I had to run by Wal-Mart and pick up her cake that I had ordered for her on Thursday afternoon. It was a Hannah Montana Cake and it was really pretty.

This is a picture of it. We had bought the candles that say "HAPPY BIRTHDAY" to put on it seperatly. The little guitar on the left hand bottom corner has lip gloss in it. The guitar on the top right is just a piece of plastic that she could keep as well. We had about 1/2 of the cake left, so we brought the rest of it home. She had a really good party and there were like 28 kids there, plus some adults. I'm guessing there were probably around 40 people there all together. We let them skate for a while and then we ordered some Pizza's for them to eat. After they ate Pizza, they skated a bit more and then they came back and had some cake and Ice Cream. She then opened up her presents. Everyone had a great time.

This is both of our daughter's at the Skating Rink.

That is my DH out there on skates with the hat on. LOL. It had been a few years since he's been on skates and it was hilarious. I had to take several pictures of him on the skates. He did fall down once. I was going to get some skates and skate with him, but since I can't really skate, he didn't want me to and take a chance at me falling down and getting hurt. So, I didn't skate.
This a picture of my DH and our youngest daughter skating together. I never did see our oldest daughter skating with him. I guess she was too busy skating with her friends.
This is a picture of all the kids that were there. They were waiting to eat their Pizza. The big table doesn't have everyone on there, so I guess my DH couldn't get them all on there.

Here's the Birthday Girl blowing out the candles on her cake.

Here she is opening up her gifts. She had several gifts, plus she racked up on the money as well. LOL. I may have to take out a loan from her. LOL. No, we are going to take them shopping again this coming Saturday. That is me in the blue tank top there. We were going to book our youngest daughter's Birthday Party there for August, but she didn't want to have a Skating Party. She said she wanted to have her Birthday Party at Chuck E Cheeses. On the way home, we stopped by there and I was going to book her party, but they only book 3 months in advance, so I will have to wait and call next month to book her party. I did order a couple of Pizza's from there and brought home. Both of the girls were having a friend over to spend the night with them, so since I had some laundry to do, we had Pizza for supper. They stayed outside across the street at the neighbor's house till around 9:30p.m. They have a trampoline and they all sat out there and jumped on it with the neighbor's son. We had our front door open and I could see them and besides, the young boy is in the 7th grade and a really good kid. He had rode to the party with me and my DH yesterday. Me and my DH went to bed a little after 10:00p.m. because he had to get up and leave this morning. They are going back to their regular run to Salt Lake City. I told the girls before I went to bed to stay in their rooms and not to be loud. They did what I said. I don't know how late they stayed awake, but they were all asleep this morning when I got up around 3:45a.m. They are still sleeping now. My DH and his Uncle finally pulled out around 5:20a.m. this morning. It was so good to have him home for a few days and for him to be home for our oldest daughter's birthday and birthday party. That has been my weekend, how has your weekend been?

We have around 5 games scheduled this week for the girls to play softball. Our oldest daughter is suppose to play in Keiser on Monday night, but we will have to wait and see and see how much rain we get today. Then on Thursday night they both have a game in Lake City and on Friday night here in town. Then of course, we are taking them shopping on Saturday. So, we have another busy week and weekend in store for us. In May, we will really be busy because they both have several games during the week. Both of their ball season's end at the end of May. I just wish that the gasoline prices would go down. Friday evening before me and my DH went to Jonesboro, we put some gas in the truck and it was $3.55 a gallon for regular unleaded.

Well, guess I better go and make another pot of coffee. The first pot I fixed me and my DH both drank out of so I didn't have a full pot myself. LOL. I didn't get around to visit after I posted on Wednesday, so I am going to do my best to get around and visit this morning. I'm probably not going to be posting everyday like I used to because since it has warmed up and I can get outside some, I don't want to be on the computer all the time. If it ever quits all this raining, I'm going to buy me some flowers and plant in front of my house. My Mom has a rose bush she is going to give me as well to plant. I still don't have everything unpacked here at this house, so it will be a while before I will show pictures of it. LOL. I know, I'm slow, but we aren't going anywhere soon, so I have plenty of time to get it done. It being softball season keeps me busy as well. I am still not able to add any graphics to my page for some reason. Are any of you having trouble with it as well? Take care my friends and have a great day. May God Bless You and Yours.

LOVE & HUGS,

WEDNESDAY

2008-04-23T02:53:00.005-05:00

Good Mornin' Everyone,

I am back after having some computer problems. I do hope it is fixed now. "THANK" each and everyone of you for being concerned about me. I am okay, just had some computer problems and I had to wait for my brother-in-law to fix it for me. He is a truck driver as well and I had to wait till he got in and had time to fix it for me. It is currently 57 degrees here and I think it may be foggy outside right now. I haven't looked out, but that is what the weather on our local t.v. station's website is saying. We have had some really nice days here lately. The last few days it has gotten up to around 80 degrees. We got some rain yesterday around noon and was under a thunderstorm warning for a while, but nothing too bad except for just some heavy rain. It's suppose to be up around 83 degrees here today with another chance for some thunderstorms. In fact, the rest of this week there is a chance for some thunderstorms. I've had my air-conditioner on for a few days now. I did turn the heat on a bit ago when I got up because I woke up with a sore throat and was a little chilled. I just turned it back off tho. I'm sure I'll have to turn the air-conditioner back on later on tho.

My DH made it home last Friday around 5:30a.m. and he wanted some coffee. It was his Friday to go pick up their load to go to Canada. Well, they were suppose to go to Winnipeg, Canada, but it got changed on them. They left here Saturday afternoon around 3:00p.m. going to Surrey, Canada. From Surrey, they had to go to Edmonton, Canada. They made it to Surrey just fine and my DH called me Monday afternoon to let me know they were heading up to Edmonton. He said he was going to lose his signal on his cell phone because the farther away from the border he got, he wouldn't have no signal. While we were talking, our call got dropped. He called me yesterday morning from Edmonton. They were at the place they were suppose to unload and he used the company phone to call me and let me know what was going on. He said he fought a blizzard all night. He said after they left Surrey and got into the mountains, it started snowing on them. He said it was so bad at times he could barely see the highway. I had called his driver manager yesterday morning around 8:30a.m. to see if they had made it to Edmonton and he said that he knew at midnight on Monday night they were 200 miles away from Edmonton. My DH said they made it to Edmonton around 6:00a.m. yesterday morning. He had called me around 10:35a.m. our time and said they were fixing to leave Edmonton and they were probably going to run into the blizzard again. He said he didn't know if they would have to shut down or not. I haven't heard anymore from him since then. I do know they are taking Highway 16 in Canada heading to Winnipeg and come out at the border in Pembina, North Dakota. I know he will call me when he is able to get a signal tho. He is hoping they will be in sometime tomorrow. They didn't have a very long weekend this past weekend, so if they make it home tomorrow, they will have a longer weekend. I'm praying they make it home tomorrow. Tomorrow is our oldest daughter's 12 Birthday. Her party will be this coming Saturday at the Skating Rink in Jonesboro. I do know it's been a long week so far not being able to talk to my DH when I want to and then him having a short weekend last weekend. I am really looking forward to him getting home and spending some time with him.

The girls have been keeping me busy still with their Softball games. Our youngest daughter had a game out of town last Thursday and they lost 15 to 8. Both of the girls were scheduled to play here in town last Friday, but of course, it rained and rained them both out. Our youngest daughter had a game out of town on Monday night of this week and they lost by one point. The score was 15 to 14. They played such a great game and they did alot of teamwork. The team they played on Monday night had played them here a week or so ago and they lost to them 12 to 6. Both girls have a game scheduled in the same town on Thursday night and again here on Friday night. Hopefully it won't rain and rain the games out. They already have about 3 make-up games to play.

The girls had the Benchmark Exams last week and as far as I know, they did their best on them. I won't know the results until next School term. As School is drawing near to the end of the year, field trips are planned and our oldest daughter's 6th Grade Graduation will be on the 15th of next month. The parents have already had a meeting to discuss the program and things we are going to do for their Graduation. We are suppose to have another meeting in a couple of weeks to get more details on the graduation. Our youngest daughter has her field trip today. They are going to Jonesboro to the ASU Equine and see some live horses I think. From there, they are going to the bowling alley and bowl for 2 hours and have lunch there. I am suppose to meet her there at the bowling alley between 12:00 and 12:30p.m. Our oldest daughter's field trip is on May 8th, and I'm not sure yet where they are going. They both have their Sports field trip for this coming Friday. All of the Pee-Wee Basketball Players and Cheerleaders will be going to eat Pizza and go bowling as well. Then on the 6th of May, I think it is, the Elementary will be having Fun Day. That is where they have several of those jumping things and other activities and a picnic at School. The parents can go to that as well and then they can leave early that day too. So, with Softball games and School activities scheduled for the next few weeks, I am going to be really busy.

I did some laundry yesterday. I did 3 loads of laundry. I didn't do any over the weekend because I was under the weather with my monthly thing. I just layed around most of the weekend and took my PMS pills about every 5 hours. I must say, I wouldn't know how to survive without my PMS pills. LOL. Okay, I just turned my air-conditioner back on. LOL. I was starting to get hot. I guess I am having power surges. LOL. I also heard a noise and I was going back into our bedroom and before I got back there, our youngest daughter was running out of our bedroom. She said she heard a noise. I told her I heard it too and when I went in our bedroom, some things had fell off of my dresser. She said she thought it was an earthquake. I know one thing, my heart is beating 90 to nothing right now. LOL. Now, she can't go back to sleep and she is in here with me. She said she wanted to be close to her Mommy.

Well, guess I'll go for now. I'm about to finish my first cup of coffee. I will do my best to get around and visit with you sometime today. I do have to go to Jonesboro around noon tho for our youngest daughter's field trip. Take care everyone and have a great day. May God Bless Each and Everyone of You.

LOVE & HUGS,

SUNDAY

2008-04-13T05:21:00.005-05:00

Good Mornin' Yall,
I hope that everyone has had a great weekend and ready to start a new day and week. It is currently 36 degrees with a windchill of 32 degrees. The winds are out of the Northwest at 5mph. Yeap, you read that right. We had a cold front to come thru after the storms and rain Thursday, and it's been quite chilly around here. We have had to turn the heat back on again. "PRAISE GOD" we didn't get anything severe around here, but some places got some hail and some more heavy rains. When I had posted on Thursday morning, we were under a Tornado Watch until 11:00a.m., but they extended it till 5:00p.m. that afternoon. It was really windy here on Thursday as well and by mid-afternoon, the winds were really blowing. It finally started raining here shortly after the girls got in from School on Thursday afternoon. And it rained and rained. It did slack up a few times and quit, but it started up again. Our electricity did go off for about a minute and came back on, but that was the only time it went out. They did place us under a Severe Thunderstorm Watch until 1:00a.m. Around 9:15p.m. Thursday night, we did get placed under a Severe Thunderstorm Warning. There was some hail in Lake City and other surrounding cities, but it never hailed here that I knew of. But it did rain tho. Both of the girls games were cancelled for Thursday. Friday and yesterday were partly cloudy and much cooler days around here. Today it is suppose to be partly cloudy and a chance for some showers and then tonight mix in with some SNOW. Yeap, you read that one right too. I'm not going to hold my breath tho, cause I just don't think it will be much except a flake or two if that. The high today is only suppose to be 49 degrees and down to 34 tonight. We are under a Freeze Watch for tomorrow night and into Tuesday morning.

My DH made it home Friday morning around 9:00a.m. and he was really tired. I was tired too as I hadn't had much sleep either. After he came home, me and him both went back to bed. Our youngest daughter did have a game up here on Friday evening. They lost to Manila 12 to 6. They did play a good ballgame tho. It was pretty chilly while she was playing ball. After the ballgame was over with, we all came home. I was in bed before 8:00p.m. I was still tired and cold from being out in the cold at the ballgame, so I put my P.J.'s on and went to bed. I think everyone else came to bed around 9:00p.m. We all slept late on Saturday. We got up around 8:30a.m. Now that is late for around here now. LOL. We all got up and got ready and went to Jonesboro for the day and shopped till we dropped. LOL. We had gotten our little Income Tax Check in on Friday, so since our oldest daughter's Birthday is this month, we took them to Jonesboro for a day of pampering and buying them things. We first stopped at a Pawn Shop and my DH bought him another Guitar. Oh, he loves his Guitars and likes to have a new or used one every now and then. After we left there, we went to the Mall and me and the girls had some new nails put on. I used to have them all the time, but this is the second time the girls has had some. After we finished there, we took them to a beauty shop in the Mall and they got their hair cut and had some highlights put in their hair. They loved that and it made them feel special. My DH told them they could have whatever they wanted done to their hair as long as it was decent. So, that is what they had done to their hair and both of their haircuts and highlights turned out really good. While they were getting their hair done, me and my DH went into Target to look around and we went to Starbucks and I bought a cup of regular coffee. My DH doesn't like the flavored coffee's, so I just bought a Starbucks Mug and had regular coffee put in and we shared it. We also went to Payless Shoe Store and I bought me a pair of Tennis Shoes. They were having a sale where you buy one pair and get another one 1/2 price. Actually you could buy anything in the store for 1/2 price. I bought the tennis shoes and some socks, and I bought the girls both a Guitar Hannah Montana Purse. They loved those purses. After they had finished with their hair, we took them to Payless Shoe Store and bought them some shoes. I ended up buying me another pair and getting another pair at half-price. Hey, you can't hardly pass up a good bargain like that. They had wanted to go into Claire's and they were having a sale on earrings where you buy 2 pair and get the 3rd pair free. So, my DH bought us all 2 pair of earrings and we got 1 pair free. I also went and bought me a new purse and billfold because I needed them both badly. I usually keep a purse till it wears out. LOL. After we finished at the Mall, we went to the Skating Rink and I paid for our oldest daughter's Birthday Party. She is having a Skating Party on the 26th of this month, and you have to pay for the party at least a week in advance. We will have to pay more on the day of the Party because I know she will have alot more than 8 friends there. When I finished there, we went to eat at the Mongolian Bar and Grill. It is a Chinese Restuaurant and we love eating there. After we finished eating, I had to go to Wal-Mart. We let the girls pick out a new bike for part of their Birthday present also. They both found one and my DH bought some bunji cords and took them out to the truck and put them on top of the truck. We have a rack on the top of our truck, so he stayed out there with them till I finished my shopping. I really didn't take the time to really shop the way I wanted to, but I did buy a few necessities for the house and I bought me a pair of pants on sale for $7.00. I also bought me a Deep-Fryer so I could use it cooking all of the things I had bought from Backwoods BBQ last week. We came home and when we got into town, we stopped out at the Quick Shop and my DH aired up the tires on the girls new bikes. After we got to the house, we uloaded the truck and the girls rode their new bikes for a while. Our oldest daughter's bike tore up, so I'm going to have to take it back and get another one. Me and my DH also bought us a new cell phone like the one we got the girls for Christmas. After I had gotten things put away, I had to charge our new cell phones so I could activate them. So now, all 4 of us has the same kind of phone. I went to bed around 1:30a.m. this morning and my DH came to bed around 2:00a.m. I couldn't go to sleep so I got up and ate a snack and layed back down. I finally went to sleep around 2:45a.m. and then my alarm went off at 3:45a.m. I didn't want to get up. LOL. I almost turned the alarm off and thought about going back to sleep, but I knew I couldn't. I got up and started a pot of coffee and got my DH us and he got ready. He left around 5:00a.m. this morning going to Salt Lake City. They have to go to Canada next week, but I forgot what part they have to go to. They will be home on Tuesday night to spend the night this week, weather permitting. Then they will be back home on Friday morning and won't have to leave out till around 11:00a.m. next Sunday morning. Our oldest daughter is suppose to have ball practice today at 1:00p.m., but I hope they cancel it because it's going to be too cold and then it may be raining again as well. They have a game here at home tomorrow night at 7:30p.m. That won't be too bad since it is here at home. After Monday, they both won't have a game until Friday. That's a good thing because tomorrow, they start their Benchmark Test's. That has been my weekend so far, what has yours been like?

Well, guess I will go for now. I'm about to finish my last cup of coffee and I think I may lay back down for a while since I haven't had much sleep. I will try and get around to visit with you sometime today. I do need my sleep. LOL. Take care my friend and have a great day. May God Bless You and Yours.

LOVE & HUGS,

TORNADIC THURSDAY????

2008-04-10T04:05:00.001-05:00

Good Mornin' Yall,

I do hope that everyone had a great Wednesday and ready to start a new day. It is currently 68 degrees. The winds are out of the South Southeast at 20mph. We are also under a Tornado Watch untill 11:00a.m. this morning and that could be extended later on. There are already some Tornado Warnings out for some counties to the West of us. It is suppose to be up near 80 degrees here today and that's not going to be good at all, especially for this time of the year. Yesterday was a little cooler around here and partly cloudy. It had rained a bit before I took the girls to School yesterday morning. Today and tonight is suppose to be pretty bad around here. That is what the local weather guy is saying as well as The Weather Channel. The Weather Channel is saying this could be the biggest severe weather outbreak so far this year. There is the possibility of Tornadoes around here as well. I don't mind the rain and even a little thunder and lightening, but when they go talking about severe weather and tornadoes, I get uneasy. There is also some heavy rains that we will be getting as well. I would like to ask for prayers for me and our girls that the weather doesn't get very bad. We don't have a storm cellar anymore, so we would have to leave the house and go find a storm cellar. I don't think I want to do that. After all the severe weather moves out, the weekend and first part of next week is suppose to be alot cooler than it has been. They are saying the highs will only be in the 50's, and the lows in the 40's.

My DH made it home Tuesday night around 11:00p.m. I sat up with him till around 2:00a.m. and I finally went to bed. He stayed up a while longer and practiced some on his Guitar. I heard him playing when I first layed down, but I went off to sleep and didn't know when he came to bed. He told me when I got him up yesterday morning that he came to bed around 3:30a.m. I had my alarm to go off at 4:45a.m. to get up and start some coffee for myself, but since I hadn't had much sleep, I reset the alarm for 5:45a.m. I sure didn't want to get up then either. LOL. But I did and fixed a pot of coffee and visited a while. I got the girls up and they got ready for School. After I took them to School, I came home and took my medicine and ate me a bowl of cereal. I finished my cup of coffee that I had as well. I went to lay back down until about 10:50a.m., but my cell phone rang and it was my Sister and we talked for about 20 minutes and then she had to go. I couldn't go to sleep, so I got on up and fixed another pot of coffee so my DH would have some to drink. He left out around noon yesterday. I never did go back to sleep yesterday afternoon tho. Me and the girls went up to Backwoods and ate supper yesterday evening. I had ordered some things from the owner for the house and they had come in. When we got done eating, we came home and I put the things that I had ordered into the freezer. I ordered some Hamburger Patties, Shrimp, Brocolli and Cheese Pops, Tater Tots, and Onion Rings. I still have some Chicken Strips and French Fries in the freezer from where I ordered those last week. I had her to order me some Chocolate Chip Cookies for next week. The owner is really a nice lady and she doesn't let just anyone order things from her like that. The girls went to Church and after they got home, they got their baths and our youngest daughter finished up her homework. Me and the girls went to bed around 9:30p.m. last night and I was going to watch the news in the bed, but I fell asleep and missed it. My DH called me around 10:25p.m. last night and the Sports segment was fixing to come on.

I was going to use some Weather Graphics on my post today, but for some reason, blogger isn't co-operating with me and not letting me put the graphics on here, so today will just be a post without any grahics.

I have been tagged for some Meme's recently and I will try and do them next week. I am going to have to write down who tagged me and think on some of the things I was tagged for. My mind isn't what it used to be. LOL. So, if you have tagged me recently, just know that I haven't forgotten about the Meme's, and I will do my best to do them next week. I have also received some more nice Awards and I will post them next week as well.

The girls are suppose to have a softball game in Harrisburg tonight, but I doubt they will be having the games since it's suppose to be raining and very stormy. I'm not sure about Friday evening either, it just depends on how much rain we get and if we get any damage around here. I don't think they have any games scheduled for next week. That's a good thing because on Monday they start the Benchmark Exams. I have to make sure they get in bed earlier than normal and get plenty of rest. They have been eating Breakfast in the lunchroom at School lately, but our youngest daughter told me last night that she wanted me to buy some orange juice and fix them some Oatmeal for their breakfast's next week. I already have plenty of Oatmeal, so all I have to do is buy some orange juice.

Well, guess I'll go for now and start visiting some. I will try to visit each one of you today if I am able to. Even tho my computer is plugged into a power surge protector, when it's lightening, I still like to turn my computer off. I just don't want to take any chances. I am now having my first cup of coffee and it taste's mighty good this morning. I may have to make a second pot to keep me awake for today. I just hope the electricity doesn't go out. Take care my friends and have a great day. May God Bless You and Yours.

LOVE & HUGS,

TUESDAY THIS & THAT

2008-04-08T04:46:00.004-05:00

Good Mornin' Yall,

I do hope that everyone had a great Monday and ready to start a new day. It is currently 56 degrees and the winds are out of the East at 5mph. We've had a couple of nice days around here. Sunday the Sun shone all day and it got up to 63 degrees. Yesterday was really nice and it got up to 73 degrees. I had to turn my A/C on yesterday afternoon. This morning I have the heat back on. LOL. Clouds are going to start moving in this afternoon and we have more rain in the forecast for tonight and going thru Thursday. They say we may even have some Severe Storms on Thursday. I sure hope not. I just wish it would make up it's mind if it's going to be nice and warm or nice and chilly.

Not alot has been going on around here. Sunday after I did my post, I started getting sickly on my stomach and had to lay back down. The girls had gone to Church and when they got home, they worked on their rooms some more and let me rest. For their lunch, they fixed one of those microwavable beefaroni's and had some chips. I finally started feeling better later that afternoon and got up and fried us some Chicken Strips and French Fries for our supper on Sunday night. Yesterday, our youngest daughter was suppose to have had a softball game in Bay, so when they got in from School, we got ready and left and went to Trumann and ate at Subway. The girls love to eat at Subway as well as I do. After we finished eating, we went on down to Bay. Her game wasn't suppose to start till 7:30p.m. but she had to be there at 7:00p.m. We had about an hour to kill before being at the softball field at 7:00p.m., so I called my friend, Diane, and went by and met her. She is really a nice person and Miss Emmy was there also. Now the pictures that Diane shares on her blog just doesn't do any justice of Miss Emmy. Miss Emmy is just a precious and adorable little girl. Our youngest daughter really took to her. But we had a nice visit with Diane and her husband, Lamar, and Miss Emmy. "THANK YOU" Diane for you hospitality while we were there. It was so nice to finally meet you and I did enjoy our visit. After we left Diane's place, we went on down to the softball field. Well, when we got there, come to find out, Bay didn't have us on their schedule to play ball with them. Nope, they sure didn't. So, we didn't get to play softball after all. I was a little upset because after all, gas prices isn't cheap these days and I can't afford to be putting gas in my truck everytime. But at least I did get to meet Diane while I was there tho. So, we headed back home. After we got home, the girls said they needed some clean jeans for today, so I did a load of laundry last night. I still have another load to do today.

My DH and his Uncle made it to Salt Lake City just fine this week. He called me around 9:00p.m. last night and he was fixing to go to bed. They had just had supper and switched out in Kingman, AZ. They will be home sometime tonight to spend the night. They will have to leave out tomorrow around 11:00a.m. going to Memphis and picking up their Minnesota/Wisconsin load. They have to go to Canada in a couple of weeks, but I'm not sure what part of Canada they will be going to yet.

Well, guess that's about it for this Tuesday. I am just now having my first cup of coffee and I am going to go start my visiting. Take care my friends and have a great day. May God Bless You and Yours.

LOVE & HUGS,

SUNNY SUNDAY

2008-04-06T03:55:00.011-05:00

Good Mornin' Yall,

Come on in my friends, I have the cups ready for some coffee or tea. I do hope that everyone has had a great weekend so far and ready to start a new day. It is currently 41 degrees and the winds are calm. We are to have a nice day today with a high of 72 degrees. The Sun finally came out here yesterday afternoon and it turned out to be a pretty nice day. Friday was a rainy day here and we got some more heavy rains. But more rain is in the forecast for Tuesday and going all the way thru Friday.

My DH finally made it home Thursday afternoon around 3:45p.m. I sure was glad to see him and he was so glad to be home. Thursday night we went up to Backwoods and ate supper. We went to bed fairly early because my DH was still tired and he always sleeps better when he is in our bed. Friday morning he had to get up and go to Memphis and pick up their load that goes to Salt Lake City. He was back home on Friday afternoon. Since it was raining, the girls Softball games was cancelled for Friday night. So, we all went up to the Cowboy Grill and ate supper and then we took the girls to my Parents house for them to spend the night with them. It had been a while since me and my DH had some alone time for just the 2 of us. We came back home and watched t.v., and then he practiced some new songs on his guitar and I added some new music on my playlist here on my blog. We went to bed around 2:00a.m. on Saturday morning. It was still too wet on Saturday, so the girls Pre-Season Softball Tournaments were cancelled again. I don't know if they will finish them up another weekend or not. Our youngest daughter does have a game on Monday night out of town. I don't know if both of the girls teams will try to do any practicing today or not. I'm sure if they do, their coaches will give me a call later on. The girls got home yesterday afternoon from my Parents house around 2:45p.m. I had told them Friday night while we were eating, that they had to work on their rooms when they got home. That is what they did when they got home yesterday afternoon. On Friday I had done my laundry because I didn't know if they would be playing softball on Saturday or not. For our supper last night, I fried some bacon and fixed us some eggs. We also had some biscuits and I made some gravy to go with everything. It sure was good. After supper, I washed up the dishes and me and my DH watched a movie on t.v. called "Next" with Nicholas Cage. It was a really good movie. We all finally went to bed around 9:45p.m. I had my alarm to go off this morning at 3:45a.m., but I woke up around 3:15a.m. and got up and started some coffee. I had to get my DH up at 4:00a.m. for him to get ready to leave out around 5:00a.m. I sure hope they have a better week this week and don't run into any bad weather out in Wyoming. I have some more laundry to do today as well. The girls have to work on their rooms again today and our oldest daughter has some homework and study for a test for tomorrow. That has been our weekend here.

I have received some Awards over the last couple of weeks and I would like to acknowledge them.

This Award is from Mama Bear@ http://bearsinexile.blogspot.com/. "THANK YOU" so much Mama Bear for this Award. I do appreciate it very much and for you thinking of me. If you are on my Blogroll, please take this Award home with you because all of you have Excellent Blogs that I enjoy reading.

This Award is from Brandy@ http://mommysquietspot.blogspot.com/. "THANK YOU" so much Brandy for this Award. I do appreciate it as well and for you thinking of me. Since I have a friend in each and everyone of you, I would like to pass this Award on to each of you on my blogroll as well.

This Award is from Lib@ http://libsprivateparadise.blogspot.com/. "THANK YOU" so much Lib for this Award. I do appreciate it very much and for you thinking of me as well. "WELCOME BACK" to Lib. She was out for a while and had to have some surgery on her eyes. She was dearly missed and we are so glad to have you back with us.

This Award is from Cielo@ http://houseinroses.blogspot.com/. "THANK YOU" so much Cielo for this beautiful Award and for you thinking of me. I do appreciate it very much. Since I am feeling very generous today, please feel free to take this Award home with you as well. You are all so nice and I do appreciate each and everyone of you.

This Award is from Robin@ http://bittersweetpunkin.blogspot.com/. "THANK YOU" so much Robin for this beautiful Award and for thinking of me. I do appreciate it very much. So go ahead everyone, and grab this Award as well and take it home with you. I sure hope I haven't forgotten any Awards from anyone. If I have, please let me know and I will be so glad to acknowledge them. "THANK YOU" all again ladies for these beautiful Awards and for thinking of me. I do appreciate each and everyone of them.

Well, guess I'll go for now. I am going to try and visit each and everyone of you today. I've been a bad blogger lately and haven't been posting or visiting like I used to, so I do hope you will forgive me for being a bad blogger. I think it's just because of all the rains we have been having and being cloudy so much. So, if I'm not here, grab yourself a cup of coffee or a cup of tea and I will be back shortly to visit with you. Take care my friends and have a Blessed Sunday. May God Bless You and Yours.

LOVE & HUGS,

THIS & THAT THURSDAY

2008-04-03T03:30:00.002-05:00

Good Mornin' Yall,

I do hope that everyone had a great Wednesday and ready to start a new day. It is currently 48 degrees with a windchill of 45 degrees. The winds are out of the East at 8mph. We have had some rain already early this morning and more is on the way for later on. We may even get some Severe Weather as well later this afternoon and tonight. More heavy rain is possible as well. The area's that got flooded a week or so ago, maybe in for some more flooding as well. We are already under a Flash Flood Watch thru tomorrow evening. If it keeps all this raining up, we may have to build an ark. LOL. It seems that every Spring we get alot of rain, and then come Summer time, we don't get that much. I know the farmers are needing to get in the fields to start some planting, but hopefully all this rain will stop soon and they can get in the fields and start their planting.

I would like to "THANK" each and everyone of you for the prayers you said for my DH and his Uncle. I do appreciate them so very much. My Dh and his Uncle were finally able to leave Rawlins, WY, yesterday morning around 10:15a.m. They were told tho that there may still be some icy patches along I-80. But they took their time and made it to Salt Lake City finally yesterday afternoon. They had to wait a while to get unloaded since they had missed their regular appointment time on Monday. They did make it down to North Las Vegas on Tuesday night, but the place was closed. They finally got unloaded there in North Las Vegas yesterday morning and started heading back this way. They won't be able to make their Minnesota/Wisconsin run this week as it was suppose to be picked up in Memphis yesterday. They will be home sometime today and will have to leave out again on Sunday morning. This Friday, will be my DH's turn to go to Memphis and pick up their Salt Lake City load, but he will be back Friday afternoon. I will get him up early in the morning to go over there to pick it up. I was talking to him once last night and he said that this whole ordeal has just made them both sick. He said he will be so ready to get home today. I can't wait for him to get home today either. "THANK YOU" all again for your prayers.

I know there is a Trucker's Strike going on. So far, it hasn't affected their company yet. "PRAISE GOD" for that. The Company they work for is a very good Company and doesn't stay in debt with everyone. I think the strike is really affecting Owner/Operators and small Trucking Companies. Not only Diesel is very high, but regular gasoline for our vehicles are very high also. When I put gas in my truck on Monday, it was like $3.19 a gallon for regular unleaded gasoline. I just don't know how much more people are going to be able to take. Not only is gasoline sky high, basic groceries such as bread, milk, and other things are going thru the roof. It is really hard on poor folks like us. It's getting to the point where a family of 4 can barely live anymore. I also know how hard it is on the folks who are on a fixed income. Everything is going up but their checks they get each month. Even if they do get a small raise in their monthly checks, their rent or something else goes up and they don't really get that extra money like they should. Our Country is in such a mess right now and we all need to pray that something will give and make it easier on us poor folks. Maybe I should run for President and straighten things out. LOL. Just kidding there and trying to make a little humor so I don't get so mad here. Okay, I'll stop griping and preaching now.

Our oldest daughter's softball game was cancelled on Tuesday night. I was hoping it would be because it was still very muddy on the field. For our supper Tuesday night, I fixed a big bowl of Tunafish for us to have sandwiches. Me and the girls love Tunafish sandwiches. I had to go pick up our youngest daughter from School yesterday afternoon. The School Nurse had called and said she was complaining with her stomach hurting. I asked the Secretary is the stomach flu was still going around and she said it was some. I brought her home and gave her a Pepto-Bismal tablet and she laid around for a while. When our oldest daughter came in from School, our youngest daughter was starting to feel warm, so I took her temperature and she had a low grade fever so I gave her some Advil. It had broken before Church started last night and she went ahead and went to Church.

Well, guess I will go for now and drink my coffee. I will do my best to get around and visit with each one of you sometime today. Take care my Friends and have a great day. May God Bless Each and Everyone of You.

LOVE & HUGS,

HAPPY APRIL FOOL'S DAY!!!!

2008-04-01T06:45:00.001-05:00

Good Mornin' Yall,

"HAPPY APRIL FOOL'S DAY"!!!! I hope that everyone had a great Monday and ready to start a new day. It is currently 59 degrees and the winds are out of the Southwest at 5mph. We have had plenty of rain the last couple of days around here. Sunday, it rained pretty much off and on all day. It started raining here again yesterday afternoon. It never got real bad around here, but they did put us under a Thunderstorm Warning once last night. It was due to some hail. We didn't get any hail around here where I live at, but some places got some hail. Rain is back in the forecast for tomorrow night and on Thursday as well. The high today is only suppose to be around 61 degrees. March came in like a lion and went out like a lion as well. I think this has to be one of the rainiest March's we have had in a long time.

I would like to ask for a Prayer request. I would like for yall to pray for my DH and his Uncle. They left here Sunday morning around 5:00a.m. heading to Salt Lake City. My DH started out driving and drove to Bolivar, MO. His Uncle took it from there and drove to Big Springs, NE. That is where my DH took over. Well, shortly after my DH got around Cheyenne, WY, he seen a sign where it said the road was closed 3 miles ahead. They had to shut down on I-80 because of the weather conditions there in Wyoming. Yesterday morning, my DH's Uncle drove about 200 miles and had to shut down again. They were between Laramie and Rawlins, WY. I think they were like 25 miles from Rawlins at this point. He sat there from 11:45a.m. yesterday morning, till around 8:30p.m. last night before they could even move. Anyway, the last time I talked to my DH was around 11:00p.m. last night and they had been moved down the Interstate a little ways where they would be close to an area where they could get fuel or something to eat if needed. The Police were helping people get to a place like that. The Police Officer did tell my DH that it could be a couple of days before they would be able to leave from there. They are now close to a Diner and had to walk to it last night to get something to eat. There have been multiple pile-ups and other weather conditions there and that is what has caused them to get shut down. I don't know when they will be able to deliver their load to Salt Lake City. I just want yall to pray for them as they are stranded out there in Wyoming and pray that they will be able to start back traveling soon. They have had to shut down before in the past, but nothing as bad as this time. "THANK YOU" all so much for your prayers for my DH and his Uncle. I just worry so much about him and his Uncle especially this time. I'm not even sure they will be able to get their load that goes up to Minnesota this week or not. I do know they won't be home later tonight like they normally are. Their Driver Manager is aware of the situation as well.

I didn't get to go to the Baby Shower on Sunday afternoon. Sunday morning when I first got up I was feeling a little sick to my stomach. I thought it would pass, but it never did. It felt like I was going to have to throw up all day long, but I never did. I also had a bit of diarrhea as well. I finally started feeling better later on Sunday evening. The girls did go to the shower with my MIL. I didn't sleep good at all on Sunday night either. It was around 3:00a.m. before I finally went to sleep. After I took the girls to School yesterday morning, I came home and ate me a bowl of cereal and went back to bed.

Our youngest daughter had softball practice after School yesterday. It sprinkled some while they were practicing. They couldn't practice on the field as it still had water on it, but they did practice in the outfield for about an hour. Our oldest daughter didn't have practice last night. Yesterday was one of my nephew's Birthday. He turned 14 years old. We had went out to their house around 5:30p.m. yesterday and had supper and Birthday Cake and Ice Cream. We finally came home around 7:30p.m. last night. Our oldest daughter is suppose to have a game here tonight, but I don't know if the field will be too wet or not. I imagine after the rain we got last night, it may be too wet. I know yesterday afternoon, it still had water on the field, so we will have to wait and see. I know they both have a game here on Friday night as well and then they have to finish their Pre-Season Tournament on Saturday. Since more rain is in the forecast, we will just have to wait and see what happens.

Well, guess I will go for now. I think I will go and visit a bit. I am having my first cup of coffee this morning. I had my alarm set to go off at 4:45a.m., but I reset it to 5:45a.m. I just can't seem to get up as early like I used to. Take care my friends and have a great day. May God Bless Each and Everyone of You.

LOVE & HUGS,

2008-03-30T06:06:00.003-05:00

Good Mornin' Yall,

I hope everyone has had a good weekend and ready to start a new day. It is currently 48 degrees with a windchill of 45 degrees. The winds are out of the East at 7mph. We have some fog here and some rain. It has rained pretty much all weekend here. We are to be getting some more rain tomorrow and possibly some severe weather at that. Seems like every Spring we get alot of rain around here and then when Summer arrives, it is hot and dry. I guess that is expected here in the South.

Sorry I haven't been posting like I normally do, but life around here has been busy. I just can't make myself get up very early in the mornings like I used to. Then this past weekend was busy with Softball Tournaments and then my DH was home. Then nothing much else has been happening around here, so there's not much to blog about. I think I am just going to try and post maybe every other day. I don't know really, I'll just have to wait and see and see what goes on around here.

My DH made it home Friday morning around 7:45a.m. He was really tired and he went to bed to get him some sleep. I went back to bed for a while too after I took the girls to School. The girls got out of School early on Thursday afternoon. It was Parent/Teacher Conference Day starting at 2:30p.m. They got out of School at 2:00p.m. that day. I went out to the School around 4:30p.m. and got their Report Cards. Both of the girls had good grades. Our youngest daughter made the A/B Honor Roll. Our oldest daughter had all A's and B's except she got a couple of C's. She has always had some trouble with the Math, so that is where she always gets a C. They try and teach kids alot of hard stuff these days. I told one of the teachers on Thursday afternoon that if they were to go back to the Basic's like it was when I was in School, that I think the Students would learn alot more and make better grades. She agreed with me on that. Some of the Math our girls brings home these days, I didn't have till I was in Junior and Senior High School. They have them doing Algebra in Elementary School now and it's so much different than when I was in School. Half of the time, I have no clue how to work the problems they need help with on their homework. I have always told our girls to just do their best in School tho.

My DH went and picked the girls up from School on Friday. They normally ride the bus home from School, but we had to leave and be in Harrisburg at 5:30p.m. Our youngest daughter played her first game in the Pre-Season Tournament. Now these games are suppose to only last one hour and 15 minutes, but this game lasted 2 1/2 hours. They finally flipped a coin to see who won. Our youngest daughter's team lost in the flip of the coin. It was a good game and the score kept being tied up, so that is why the officials decided to flip a coin to see who won or lost. Since our team had lost, we were suppose to play another game right after that, but it started raining and was lightening, so they postponed it until Saturday morning. One of the men over the Softball League there in Harrisburg told our coach Friday night that he would check the field early Saturday morning and would call and let them know something around 7:00a.m. on Saturday. On our way home Friday night, just right before we got into Lake City, the bottom fell out. I mean it was raining hard. Lake City is where our oldest daughter was having her Pre-Season Tournament on Saturday. I figured they wouldn't play on Saturday. We came on home and went to bed that Friday night. I had gotten up around 5:30a.m. on Saturday morning and started some coffee. Our oldest daughter had to be in Lake City at 8:30a.m. because her game was to start at 9:00a.m. Our youngest daughter's Coach had called me and said they had re-scheduled their game to 10:00a.m. I had called our oldest daughter's Coach to see if they were going to be able to play and he said yes. So, we all headed to Lake City. My DH dropped me and our oldest daughter and my MIL off at the Softball field there in Lake City and then my DH and our youngest daughter headed out to Harrisburg. About 20 minutes after he had left, our youngest daughter's Coach had called me back to let me know they were going to wait and play at 12:00p.m. So, I called my DH back and told him and he was just getting into Jonesboro and so he turned around and came back to Lake City so he could watch our oldest daughter play her game. While we were watching our oldest daughter's team play, our youngest daughter's Coach called me again and said their team's game had been post-poned till next Saturday and it would be played in Trumann because Harrisburg had another Tournament scheduled for next weekend. So, our youngest daughter will be playing this coming Saturday at 8:30a.m. in the morning and she will have to be there at 8:00a.m. While our oldest daughter's team was playing, it started raining and lightening. The officials had them to get off the field for a while to see if it would quit. Well, it didn't. The rain just got harder. Everyone was going and getting in their vehicles because everyone was already wet. As we were leaving, I seen our oldest daughter's Coach and asked him when they were going to finish the game and he told me they would play today. There was only 25 minutes left of the game to play and we were winning 10-6. After we left the ball field, we stopped by the Tax Office there in Lake City where we always file our taxes. I had the stuff ready and had brought it with us. Me and my DH just knew we were going to have to pay in this year, but lo and behold, we are actually getting a little back this year. That totally shocked us both. We will be getting some back on Federal as well as State. Then on and around May 9th or May 12th, we will be getting our Stimulus Check from the Government back. Now let me tell yall, when they first started telling about this refund from the Government on T.V., they said that married couples filing jointly would get back $1,200 plus $300 for each child. So, we were figuring on getting back around $1, 800 on that refund. Well that is just a bunch of bull and it's not true. It all depends on your Income Tax that you file on. So, we won't be getting no $1, 800 back. Instead, we will be getting back $1, 200 on that Stimulus refund from the Government. I am "THANKFUL" for that amount tho, but they shouldn't be giving out false information on t.v. and letting people think they will be getting that much back. After we finished at the Tax Office, we came home. Everyone was still a little wet, so we changed clothes and then layed down to take a nap. Later on, me and my DH and the girls went to Manila to eat Mexican Food. It's the place where me and my DH had went to for our Valentine's meal that I had told about. That was the first time the girls had been there and they loved it just like we did our first time. We had some food left, so we brought it home and there is enough for me and the girl's lunch today. We came back home after we had eaten, and my DH went to bed. I had to wash some jeans so my DH could have some clean jeans for when he left out this morning. I finally went to bed around 9:30p.m. last night and then had to get up at 3:45a.m. this morning to start some coffee and get my DH up at 4:00a.m. He left around 5:00a.m. heading to Salt Lake City. I think they maybe running into some Snow in Nebraska and Wyoming this time. I sure hope it doesn't shut them down on I-80 like it has before. But anyway, next week and next weekend is busy for us again as well. Our oldest daughter has a Softball game here on Tuesday night and both of the girls have a game here on Friday night. Then, on Saturday morning, we all have to get up early again for them to finish the Pre-Season Tournaments. I just hope it doesn't rain or is cold like it was this past weekend. We had to take a blanket with us on Friday night and Saturday morning because it was just cold outside. I had the girls to wear a Hoodie under their Ball Shirts so they would stay warm. I know Friday night, my throat started getting soar and was soar off and on on Saturday as well. It's still a little scratchy this morning, but I'll be surprised if no one gets sick after being out in the cold and getting wet on Saturday. To me, they start the Softball Season way too early and it will be over with at the end of May. They need to start it like in the middle of April and let it go thru at least June.

Well, guess I'll go for now. The thunder and lightening is getting a little closer and louder. I may have to turn my computer off for a while. I'll try to get around and visit today sometime. Me and the girls have a Baby Shower to go to this afternoon. Take care my friends and have a great day. May God Bless Each and Everyone of You.

LOVE & HUGS,

WIPED OUT WEDNESDAY

2008-03-26T05:56:00.003-05:00

Good Mornin' Yall,

I hope everyone had a great Tuesday and ready to start a new day. It is currently 55 degrees and it feels like 53 degrees. The winds are out of the South at 9mph. Yesterday was a nice day and it got up into the 60's. But it sure was windy tho. I was going up to the Dollar General Store yesterday afternoon to buy me some coffee, and when I opened up my front door, I could see sand everywhere. Looking outside of town here in 2 different directions, you couldn't see nothing but sand. I don't understand how it could be that sandy with all the rains we have had recently. We were under a Wind Advisory until 7:00p.m. last night tho. I think it is going to be another windy day today and on the warm side as well.

I would like to "THANK" each and everyone of you that has dropped by the last couple of days and left me Anniversary and Birthday wishes. Also, the ones that sent cards thru emails and the ones in snail mail. I do appreciate each and everyone of them so very much and for you all thinking of me on those special days. I was down on Monday since my DH wasn't here with me, but I made it thru the day. Again, "THANK YOU" all so very much and you will never know how much I appreciated the cards and comments.

My DH made it home last night around 11:20p.m. I was laying down but hadn't gone to sleep yet. He called to let me know he was fixing to come up to the front door. I got up and let him in. We sat up talking and watching t.v. I didn't go back to bed until after 2:00a.m. this morning, and I just got up at 5:45a.m. So, I haven't had much sleep. I do have me some coffee tho. I will go back to bed for a while after I take the girls to School later on. I have to tell yall, last night me and my DH was sitting up watching Bill Engvall. It was on the Comedy Central Station and it came on at 1:00a.m. It was Bill's latest show that was taped in 2007. Both of us has always enjoyed watching the Blue Collar Comedy shows, but Bill and Larry the Cable Guy is our 2 favorites out of the 4 of them. Anyway, Bill was talking about him flying with some Armed Forces Team and he was going up in an F-16. He was talking about being cool. He came to the part about telling when the F-16 went upside down and it was so funny yall. I was laughing so hard that I had tears in my eyes. When it went to an advertisement, my DH said he had a visual. LOL. Now let me tell yall here, when I used to go out on the road with my DH, I would always try to tell him how to drive. LOL. Yeap, I'm a big back and front seat driver. LOL. Anyway, my DH said that he could just see me now in one of those F-16's. My DH said he had a visual of the Pilot ejecting himself and then telling everyone he had to get out of there because I was trying to tell him how to drive the F-16. ROFLMBO. He said I could have the F-16 and I could fly it myself. ROFLMBO. Yall, my DH had me in tears almost from all the laughing we were both doing. But we had a good time and he is always saying or doing something to make me laugh. I do love that man dearly. You just had to be watching the show and be here to hear my DH telling it. That was the highlight of my night.

Well, guess I'll go for now and try to visit a bit. I am having my morning coffee. I didn't get to visit yesterday morning because since I didn't have any coffee to drink, I started getting one of my bad headaches and when I took the girls to School, I came home and went back to bed. I did fix me a pot of coffee yesterday afternoon tho. I started visiting yesterday afternoon and done some last night. Since I will be going back to bed after while, it maybe the same way about visiting everyone today as well. I'll do my best to get around to you tho. Take care my friends and have a great day. May God Bless You and Yours.

LOVE & HUGS,

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME!!!!

2008-03-25T06:08:00.007-05:00

Good Mornin' Yall,

I hope everyone had a great Monday and ready to start another day. It is currently 39 degrees with a windchill of 32 degrees and the winds are out of the South at 10mph. We had a nice day yesterday, but once again a bit on the cool side. I think Spring has left us around here. LOL. Today is suppose to be in the 60's and also on the windy side.

Today is my Birthday. I am 46 years old today. Nothing special is planned since I was given my Birthday party this past Saturday. Yesterday afternoon, my MIL came be before the girls got in from School and brought me the prettiest pot of artificial flowers and a little bag of 2 large candy bars for my birthday. My Mother had already given my birthday present last week. I was wanting some new rugs for my bathrooms and she got me those. Then my DH took me out Friday night and I got my hair cut. The girls gave me a card with some money in it. My DH will be home later on tonight for at least a little bit of my birthday.

Not alot has been going on around here. The girls had softball practice yesterday. Our youngest daughter had her practice right after School and our oldest daughter had hers at 6:30p.m. It was getting cold, so they didn't practice as long as they normally do. Our girls have their Pre-Season Tournaments this weekend. There has been some changes in both of their tournaments. Our youngest daughter's tournament was going to be held in Marked Tree, but they got kicked out of the league because they were trying to have a stack team. They can't have those this year, so our youngest daughter's tournament is going to be held in Harrisburg and she has her first game Friday night at 6:00p.m. Harrisburg has a couple of teams and they will be playing the Harrisburg Black Team. That is just the colors of their shirts. I think the other team has orange shirts. Our oldest daughter was to have her first game this Thursday night, but Lake City has decided to have all the games on Saturday. We have the first game on Saturday morning at 9:00a.m. We will be playing EPC, which is my hometown's softball team. A few years after I had graduated, they were consolidated with another town and became East Poinsett County. So we have another busy weekend scheduled for us. Saturday night after our oldest daughter's tournament, her coach is having a bonfire out at his house and they will be having hot dogs and also making samore's.

My dear friend, Mary@ http://maryswritingnook.blogspot.com/ gave me this beautiful Anniversary card yesterday.

"THANK YOU" so very much Mary for this card. I will be adding it to my sidebar. I just love it so much. I also got a card from Mary yesterday in the mail for my Birthday. "THANK YOU" so much Mary for the beautiful Birthday card. If you have never been to visit Mary, please take some time and go visit her. She is such a wonderful person and has alot of uplifting post's she does. Also, Joyce@ http://joyce-creationinprogress.blogspot.com/ gave me this card yesterday also.

"THANK YOU" so much Joyce. I really appreciate it very much. If you have never been to visit Joyce, please take some time to do so. She has alot of inspirational post's as well. Again, "THANK YOU" Mary and Joyce for these beautiful cards. I had also received a couple of cards in my email from a couple of friends as well. Loretta@ http://lorettas57.blogspot.com/ and Linda@ http://somewhereintyme.blogspot.com/ emailed me beautiful Anniversary Cards. "THANK YOU" Loretta and Linda for the beautiful cards you sent me.

I guess that's about it for today. I am having a hard time getting up in the mornings when my alarm goes off at 4:15a.m., so I have been resetting the alarm to go off at 6:00a.m. LOL. I'm still having trouble going to sleep early at night, so I guess that's why I'm having to do that. Also, I forgot to buy some coffee yesterday, so I can't have my coffee this morning. I am going to have to go buy some when I take the girls to School in a little while. Take care my friends and have a great day. May God Bless Each and Everyone of You.

LOVE & HUGS,

HAPPY ANNIVERSARY TO ME!!!!

2008-03-24T06:15:00.000-05:00

Good Mornin' Yall,

I hope that everyone had a great Easter yesterday and ready to start a new day. It is currently 28 degrees and the winds are calm and there is no windchill at this time. Yesterday was a beautiful day, but still a bit on the chilly side. I think it made it up to 51 degrees yesterday afternoon. It got lower last night than had expected. Today is suppose to be in the 50's, but who knows, we will just have to see what the high gets up to.

Well, as you can tell, today is my Wedding Anniversary. We have been married for 13 wonderful years. It was actually on a Friday night when we got married 13 years ago. My DH is my best friend and I LOVE him with all my heart. It is kind of lonely without him being here with me on our special day tho. Since today is our Anniversary, I thought I would share how we met each other. I was working at a local factory here in the town we live in now back in 1994. I was working on an assembly line with his Sister. It was around the first part of December and me and his Sister had become pretty good friends. We got to talking one day and I had told her that I always get down during the Christmas Holidays because I didn't have anyone special to share it with. I had my Parents and my Sister and her then husband, but you know what I mean. She told me she had a brother that was wanting to meet someone and get married. I was like wow. LOL. I told her to tell him I could cook as well. LOL. They always say the best way to get to a man is thru his stomach. Anyway, we talked about him some during the week and on Friday I told her I would get him a Christmas Card and bring it to work the next day and she could give it to him. We had to work a half a day that Saturday. So, I gave it to his Sister that Saturday and even put my telephone number in it. About 30 minutes after getting home from work that Saturday, my phone rung and it was him calling me. I was living with my Parents at the time in my hometown of Lepanto. We talked for about 45 minutes and he had to go and he said he would call me back later on. Well, he did. I finally went up the next Sunday and met him. Let me tell yall, when I knocked on his door and he answered it, I thought my heart was going to melt. He had and still does have the prettiest sky blue eyes. He was living with his Mother and his Aunt at this time as well. They were all gone Christmas shopping when I got there. But when I saw him, I thought to myself, there is no way I will have a chance with this guy. It was like Love at first sight for me. He invited me in and we sat around talking for the longest. He showed me his guitars that he had and even played a bit for me. His Mother and Aunt and Sister finally came home and he introduced me to his Mother and his Aunt. We left his house for a while and rode around and talked some more. From there on, we started going out every Saturday night and the more time we spent with each other, the more we came to know each other better. He didn't have a car, so one Sunday afternoon while I was at home, he called me on the phone and was talking to me. Next thing I know, he asked me to marry him. Yeap, he asked me over the phone. I was in shock I think because I asked him if that was some kind of joke or something. LOL. He said no, he was serious. After the shock wore off, I said, YES!!!! I was on cloud nine and so happy. I didn't tell anyone just yet tho. One day the next week after work, I had stopped by his house and he gave me an engagement ring. It wasn't any fancy ring, but it was something that came from his heart and to this day, I still have that ring. Anyway, I brought him home with me to my Parents house that afternoon and we told my Parents and they were happy for us. The day he asked me to marry him was on a Sunday afternoon in January. We had only been dating a month when he asked me to marry him. I was wanting so bad to elope, but since he had never been married before, he wanted to have a nice Church Wedding. I agreed to it. But oh my, you don't know how many times I tried talking him into eloping. LOL. So, we finally agreed to get married on March 24th. It was going to be a week later, but some of my relatives was going to be gone and the only day they could be at our Wedding was on the 24th. So, the 24th it was. Now don't forget, I had been married before. My first wedding, I didn't have a regular white wedding dress. It was a floweredy long dress that I had wore at my Senior Prom that my Mom had made for me. So, my DH now wanted me to have a white wedding gown. He wanted to have a Tuxedo as well. There is a Bridal and Pageant Shop there in my hometown and we went there and looked around. We saw some beautiful dresses and I tried on several. The one dress that I had tried on it was on sale for half-price. He saw it and loved it and wanted me to have that one. So, he bought it for me. It had to be fitted for me of course. I still have that dress tucked away for one of our girls wedding someday. But we had a beautiful wedding and a really nice reception afterwards. We didn't go anywhere for our honeymoon. We came home after the wedding that night. The next day we went to Jonesboro and ate Steak at a nice Steak house and then we went car shopping. He bought me a Toyota Corolla. It was a used one, but it still worked. That was our honeymoon there. LOL. So that my friends is how we met and here we are today, celebrating 13 wonderful years of marriage together. We both still feel like teenagers in Love and our Love keeps growing stronger and stronger everyday. We have 2 beautiful daughters that we have been blessed with as well. We have had our struggles along the years, but we always stick together and go thru those struggles and trials together. We've even had some bad arguements as well. But we always work things out after we both have cooled off. I am so "THANKFUL" that we met and got married. I LOVE YOU VERY MUCH MY DARLING AND HAPPY 13TH WEDDING ANNIVERSARY!!!! I MISS YOU TERRIBLY AND I APPRECIATE EVERYTHING YOU DO FOR ME AND THE GIRLS!!!!

Me and the girls didn't do much yesterday. Our youngest daughter went to Church. They only had Church Services and no Sunday School at our Church. Me and our oldest daughter wasn't feeling too good, so we stayed home. My Mom had called around 12:30p.m. and said the girls had left some clothes at her house from when they spent the night with her last week. She said they were going to bring them up here to them and she was going to bring us some Fried Chicken and some more Potato Salad. That is what me and the girls had for our lunch yesterday. After my Parents went home, the girls played outside with some of their friends for a while. I heated up the Beef Fajita's for my supper last night, but the girls weren't all that hungry. They just snacked on some chips that we had brought home from my Birthday Party on Saturday. That was our Easter here at the house yesterday.

Well, guess I'll go for now and start my visiting. I would like to "THANK" everyone for the nice compliments and Birthday and Anniversary wishes that was left on my comments yesterday. I'm glad you enjoyed my Birthday Party. I did notice after I had published my post, that you can't enlarge the photo's. I had changed the settings of the picturs to medium, but that didn't work. I have no idea how to get them on here so they can be enlarged. Oh well, I guess it wasn't meant for me to know. LOL. Take care my friend and have a great day. May God Bless You and Yours.

LOVE & HUGS,

HAPPY EASTER!!!!

2008-03-23T04:45:00.017-05:00

Good Mornin' Yall,

"HAPPY EASTER" everyone. "PRAISE THE LORD, HE IS RISEN"!!!! I do hope that everyone has had a wonderful weekend and ready to start a new day. It is currently 35 degrees and the winds are calm. We had another beautiful day yesterday. It was on the windy side a bit, but other than that, it was a nice day. Today the high is suppose to be around 54 degrees and down to 32 degrees tonight. I think Winter is still trying to hang around a bit. At least the rains have stopped for a while and some of the rivers are starting to recede a bit. Let's not stop praying for the ones that have been affected by all the floods as they will still have a long road to recovery.

My DH had called me on Friday morning around 5:00a.m. and wanted to know if I had some coffee ready. I told him I didn't as I was still in bed. I told him I would get up and start a pot for him. He got to the house around 5:15a.m. and got him a cup of coffee and headed to Memphis to drop the load they had and to pick up their Salt Lake City load. He got back to the house from Memphis around 2:30p.m. Friday afternoon. We sat around a while and figured out what we were going to do. I told him that I was really wanting a hair cut and to go out to eat. We got ready and we went to Jonesboro and went to the mall. I got my hair cut at a place in the mall and after we were done there, we went to eat. We ate at TaMolley's. It is a Mexican Restaurant. We had the Beef Fajita's for two. Ohmygosh yall, there was alot of beef on the platter they brought out. We couldn't eat it all, so we brought the rest of it home. It was so good tho. I had ordered a large bowl of Guacamole Dip and my DH ordered a small bowl of White Cheese Dip. I just love Guacamole Dip and can never get enough of it. LOL. After we had finished eating, we came home and it was around 9:30p.m. when we got home. While I was in the mall getting my hair cut, my DH had went to a couple of stores there in the mall and looked at some Routers. He found one at Target and after I was done with getting my hair cut, we went back to Target and bought it. We have 2 computers and in the other house the other one had been in our youngest daughter's bedroom. It wasn't hooked up to the Internet, so they just played some games on the computer and they would sometimes argue over the computer. When I found out we were going to move to this house, I told them the computer wasn't going into either of their bedrooms. Now, it is down from mine over in the corner of the Dining Room. They had been wanting it hooked up to the Internet because I won't let them get on mine. So, that is why my DH bought the Router and when we got home Friday night, he hooked the other computer up to the Internet. He said he wasn't going to tell them it was hooked up to the Internet and that he would tell them he had a surprise for them. Saturday when we went to my Birthday Party, he told them he had a surprise for them. Oh my, you should have heard them. LOL. They were guessing all kinds of things it might be. Our youngest daughter did guess it once, but my DH told her no, that wasn't it. LOL. On the way home, we told them they had to hunt for their surprise. They had to help unload the truck first before hunting for it. After they figured it out, they were really surprised and happy. To keep them from fighting, their Daddy told them they could be on the Internet only 30 minutes at a time. So, hopefully I won't have to hear any arguing. LOL.

My Birthday Party turned out to be a very good party. I did act surprised. The young guy that works with my Dad at the Funeral Home, was there also along with his Family. His Birthday was on March 15th and he turned 21. His Dad did all the cooking. He cooked hamburgers, hot dogs, smoked sausages, ribs, boston butt, and even barbequed a stick of bologna. LOL. Yeap, he sure did. We also had some potato salad, baked beans, and all kinds of chips and some rotel dip. There were even some grilled onions. My Sister had bought 2 Birthday Cakes. One was for me and had my name on it and the other one had the young guy and his brother's name on it. He as a twin, so it was both of their birthday's on the 15th. We had Sweet Tea and unsweetened Tea and all kind of soda's to drink. My DH took some pictures and I'm going to share them with you.

The picture above is a picture of my Birthday cake. It was a white cake and had this icing on it. Oh, it was so good. There was even some left and I brought it home with me.

This is Dakota's (the young guy that works with my Dad) and his brother, Dillion's Birthday Cake. It was a chocolate cake and had this icing on top. I didn't eat any of this cake as I was full from all the food and my piece of cake. Below is some pictures of all the food we had to eat.

Mmmm, doesn't this all look so good? Would you care for a hot dog or smoked sausage?

Potato Salad or Baked Beans anyone?

How about a Hamburger? They were so good. Please, help yourself to some of this good food. There is plenty.

This is how they had the table set up for the Birthday Cakes. My Sister even decorated the poster's with our names on them. She even had some confetti spreaded all over the table.

A picture of the Birthday people. Dakota is on the left, his brother, Dillon, is in the middle, and I'm not sure who the lady on the end is. LOL. That is me with my new hairdo. I felt bad and didn't feel like wetting my hair Saturday morning, but it was still pretty. That was the first thing our girls noticed about me when I got there. They said, oh momma, your hair is so pretty. It was a tad bit chilly inside the Family Life Center and that is why I had my jacket on.

Another shot of the Birthday people. I was looking down at my cake I guess. LOL. Below is just some random shots my DH took.

Looks like some hungry folks there in line huh? LOL.

Can you folks please hurry up and fill your plates? LOL.

This picture is of our girls and my sister. I'm sitting down there to the left. That's my Dad in the background at the counter. Well, I hope you enjoyed yourself at my Birthday Party. I am so glad you stopped by. I just hope you got enough to eat. LOL. There were some more pictures taken, but mostly the same ones I have already shown. I do hope you can click on these now and enlarge them. I had to change the settings when uploading the pictures.

I had to get up at 3:45a.m. this morning and start some coffee and then get my DH up so he could get ready to head out. He left the house around 5:00a.m. Where we live at now, it is closer to where they park their truck. I can stand at my front door and see him leaving or coming in. They have already gone. I do think they are going to be able to go on their regular route going to Salt Lake City. My DH talked to someone on Saturday and said that US Highway 63 was open. That is the road that goes up thru Hardy where it was closed on Friday. Of course, they have a CB in their truck as well and can always get information from other truckers on how the roads are. The weather appears to be looking good out West this week, so hopefully they will get home a little early again on Tuesday night. If so, my DH will get to be home for a little part of my Birthday. We will be apart for our Anniversary tomorrow, but he will call me tho.

Well, I guess that's about it for today. I think the girls are going to go to Church this morning. I would go, but it's that time of the month for me once again, and I have to stay close to home. We brought some food home with us yesterday from my Birthday Party and we have plenty for us to eat today. We also have some of the Beef Fajita's that me and my DH brought home on Friday night as well. I doubt we will be going anywhere today. They have to start back to School tomorrow also. Yall take care my friends and have a Blessed Easter. May God Bless Each and Everyone of You.

LOVE & HUGS,

GOOD FRIDAY

2008-03-21T00:30:00.001-05:00

Good Mornin' Yall,
I do hope that everyone had a great Thursday and ready to start a new day. It is currently 49 degrees with a windchill of 46 degrees. The winds are out of the South at 7mph. I am having another sleepless night, so I thought I would go ahead and do my post for today. It was a beautiful day here yesterday. The Sun was shining, but it was still a tad bit chilly for me. It got up to 60 degrees yesterday. On Tuesday I had my A/C on and then on Tuesday night I had to turn the heat back on. LOL. It is still on now. It's suppose to be around 71 degrees again today and then back around 58 degrees for Saturday. I seen on our local t.v. station yesterday afternoon where a levee broke from the Black River in Poplar Bluff, MO. They were having to rescue around 100 people. Also on our local news last night at 10:00p.m., they said the White River at Jacksonport was steadily rising and it was up to the levee then. They had some prisoners out there sandbagging the levee at that time. They say that all of this flooding will be historical. I've seen so many pictures and it is so bad and such devastation from Texas up to Ohio. Just Please, Please keep remembering all the ones affected by these floods in your prayers. It just breaks my heart to see so much devastation like this.

Yesterday I was awarded another Award. It is the "EWE ROCK" Award. Anni@ http://hootin--anni.blogspot.com/ gave it to me.

Anni made this Award herself for 13 of her favorite friends she has met on the net and here in Blogland. I am so touched that she chose me as one of the recipients. "THANK YOU" so much Anni for this Special Award. It has touched my soul and I will treasure it always. If you have never been over to visit Anni, please take some time and go visit her. She always has some nice things on her blog and interesting things to show you. Somedays she is even on the comical side. LOL. Yes, she will make you laugh so hard that you will nearly pee your pants. LOL. She is a hoot sometimes, therefore I guess that's why they call her Hootin' Anni. "THANK YOU" so much again Anni for this Award. You have no idea what it means to me.

My sweet friend, BJ@ http://sweetnothingsbj.blogspot.com/ is having a Gift Away to celebrate her 200th Post. "CONGRATULATION'S" BJ on your 200th Post and for having this Gift Away.
BJ is giving away this beautiful Rooster Plate. Here is what BJ has to say about her Gift Away.
A FITZ and FLOYD, Cog Du Village, Rooster Portrait plate in blues, golds, yellows and just a hint of red. Oh, it's mighty pretty and, if you can use these colors and you like ROOSTERS, please leave a comment on THIS posting of mine. IF YOU ARE A BLOGGER, I will email you as soon as I draw your name (make sure your email address is listed on your beautiful blog) and once I have your mailing address, it will be on it's way to your lovely home. I will leave this open for a few days and have the drawing on SATURDAY, MARCH 22nd. The ONLY thing I ask is that every time you look at this colorful, little plate, say a tiny PRAYER for me; just a "God bless bj"........ And to say a prayer for me is saying a prayer for my beloved family. One can NEVER have too many prayers going up for them! Even if they go up thru bribery!! :) :) :)SO...I say THANK YOU right now to the future winner... "THANK YOU!"

Yall be sure to go and visit BJ and CONGRATULATE her on her 200th Post and enter to win this beautiful Gift Away. BJ is such a wonderful friend of mine as well. She is so down to earth and always cooking something up in the kitchen. When you leave, your mouth will literally be watering or you will be drooling all over your keyboard. LOL.

I didn't do much around here yesterday. I slept till around 10:10a.m. That is when my DH called and woke me up. I finally had my first cup of coffee around 10:45a.m. LOL. I know it's a bit late, but tis better late than never huh? LOL. I tried my best to visit everyone yesterday. I'm sorry if I didn't get around to everyone, but hopefully I can sometime today. I did go up to Backwoods BBQ yesterday evening and got me a Chicken Strip Plate for my supper. It was just me as the kids were in Jonesboro spending the night. Even tho I do miss them both very much, I have enjoyed the quietness around here. I have caught myself looking into their rooms to just check on them. LOL. I know that sounds crazy, but it's true. I will be glad to see them on Saturday tho.

I had mentioned in my post yesterday about my Birthday. I had a few comments wanting to know when my Birthday is. My Birthday is March 25th, and our Anniversary is March 24th. I get to celebrate 2 days in a row. LOL. I will be 29 and holding on my Birthday. LOL. No seriously, I will be 46 years old. Me and my DH will be married 13 years this year. I know I said yesterday I couldn't go into details about our Saturday plans. But if you will keep it a secret and don't tell anyone, I will let yall know what it is. Before we got to move into our house now, I had brought my Mom over to show it to her. I was letting her know that my DH'S side of the Family would be having their Annual Family Reunion on the Saturday before Easter. In the past they have had it on Easter, but for some reason they changed it this year. When I told my Mom that she gave me a funny look. So here is the plan. She told me that they had already had a surprise Birthday Party for me planned on the Saturday before Easter as well. She told me not to let anyone know that I knew about it. I had to tell my DH about it as his Family Reunion was scheduled for the same day and he said that we would just go to my surprise Birthday Party instead. My Sister and Parents are going to be using the Family Life Center at my Mom's Church. My Sister is fixing a big meal and I do know they will be having BBQ Ribs and some Potato Salad. I'm not sure what else they will be having. There is a young guy that works with my Dad at the Funeral Home there in their town and his Birthday was on the 15th or 17th of this month. My Sister had done called his Parents and they live in Dyersburg, TN, and they will all be coming over as well. The young guy doesn't know anything about this party either. He turned the big 21 years of age. So, I am going to have to act surprised when I go down there. Our girls have been in on the surprise party as well. They don't know that I know either. My Mom told me last Sunday when she came up to help me clean the other house up that she had called my DH and told him to tell me that he was taking me out to eat and instead we would be going to the surprise party. I was just totally shocked to know that they had something like this planned for me. I will be taking my new camera and I will get my DH to take some pictures and then I will share them with you all next week. I think I am worse than a little kid now. I can't hardly wait. LOL. I haven't taken any pictures of the house that we moved into yet. I'm waiting till we get everything unpacked and settled in a bit more to do that. I don't want yall seeing bags and boxes everywhere. LOL. I just feel more comfortable doing it that way.

Well, guess I'll go for now. I do hope that everyone has a great day and Blessed Easter Weekend. I probably won't post again until Sunday or Monday. The girls will be going back to School on Monday. Hopefully I can get back into my normal routine then. LOL. May God Bless You and Yours.

LOVE & HUGS,

HAPPY SPRING-THURSDAY

2008-03-20T01:00:00.001-05:00

Good Mornin' Yall,

"HAPPY SPRING"!!!! Today is the first day of Spring. It is currently 36 degrees and the winds are calm, therefore, we have no windchill at this time. Have we had some wild and crazy weather around here the last couple of days. It started raining here on Tuesday night and I do mean it rained. I don't know how much we actually got here in the town where I live at, but I know it was quite a bit. There were even some Tornadoes close to us, but they went on to the North of us. We were lucky around here. Some of our neighboring towns weren't quite so lucky. Hardy, AR, and Springfield, MO, have been hit really hard with so much rain. Roads have been closed due to the flooding. In fact, it may be possible that my DH and his Uncle will have to find an alternate route when leaving out this coming Sunday going to Salt Lake City. Part of US Hwy. 63 going into Hardy has been closed and I don't know when it will open back up. Also, part of I-44 in Missouri, going towards Springfield has been closed as well. There have been many homes washed away and even a few lives have been lost. Please keep all of these people that are going thru this difficult time in your prayers. I do think it is suppose to be dry up thru Sunday.

We have finally got moved in. We got everything moved in on Saturday afternoon. Oh, I still have plenty of unpacking to do, but I'm just going to take my time and do a little bit each day. We started moving around 10:30a.m. last Friday and worked until around 6:00p.m. I found out I had bones I didn't even realize I had. LOL. I didn't sleep too good on Friday night because every bone in my body hurt. Saturday morning it was raining again and we finally got started back moving the rest around 11:30a.m. We had everything moved by 5:00p.m. Still another restless night for me. Sunday afternoon, me and the girls and my Mom went and cleaned the other house up. Monday I didn't do much because I was so tired and so sore from the weekend. The cable guy came out and got our cable and internet hooked up. Tuesday I did some unpacking and put things up. I even cooked homemade Chili for our supper on Tuesday night. Our oldest daughter went and stayed all night with one of her friends and our youngest daughter had one of her friends over to spend the night. My DH made it home Tuesday night around 10:30p.m. Wednesday I did some laundry. I haven't been having to set no alarm since the girls have been out on Spring Break this week. I've kind of been staying up late and then sleeping late. LOL. I had started to do a post for Tuesday, but I was so tired and couldn't think or concentrate, so I gave up. I guess my mind was even a bit tired. LOL. The rest of this week and the weekend is going to be pretty busy for us around here too. My DH will be home Friday and we will probably go out on Friday night to celebrate our Anniversary and my Birthday. The girls went to my Parent's house on Wednesday afternoon and will be back home on Saturday. They are taking them to Jonesboro today and my Sister has booked a room at one of the hotels that has an indoor swimming pool. They are staying all night up there tonight and going swimming. My Sister is taking them shopping on Friday for them to pick out some things for our oldest daughter's Birthday next month. I can't go into details right now for our Saturday, but I will let you all know about it on Sunday or Monday. Then of course, Sunday is Easter. My DH will be leaving out around 5:00a.m. on Sunday. I'm not sure just yet what me and the girls will do. We may go to my Parent's house and eat with them.

I'm taking a break from doing the "THANKFUL THURSDAY" and Slow Cooking Thursday for today. I do have so many things to be Thankful for tho, but I just don't feel like participating this week.

Well, I guess I will go for now. I am going to try and go back to bed and see if I can get some sleep. I don't know what time I will get up. When I do and am having my coffee, I will start visiting and trying to catch up with everyone. It will probably take me a week just to do that. LOL. Yall take care my friends and have a great day. May God Bless Each and Everyone of you on this first day of Spring.

LOVE & HUGS,

MOVING FRIDAY

2008-03-14T08:45:00.000-05:00

Good Mornin' Yall,

I do hope that everyone had a great Thursday and ready to start a new day. It is currently 50 degrees and the winds are calm. It is foggy outside as well. We did get some rain overnight but it has stopped for now. More rain is in the forecast for later tonight and in the morning. They say we may even have some Severe Thunderstorms. I sure hope not. At least I do have my new NOAA Weather Radio to let us know of anything severe.

Well folks, this is going to be my last post until probably after Monday. The Cable & Internet Company are suppose to be out sometime Monday and get us hooked back up. My neighbor's Sons and a couple of their friends helped me move quite a bit yesterday afternoon. We got all of the front room furniture moved over to the other house. We also got the washer and dryer and they even hooked them up for me. We got the table and chairs out of the kitchen and my buffet and china cabinet as well. All that is left to be done is moving the beds and the bedroom furniture and of course my computer and computer desk and dishes and the refridgerator. Then comes the fun part of unpacking everything again. LOL. Anyone want to volunteer to come and help me here? LOL. I have my work cut out for me for a while. My Mom is coming up Monday to help me get things straightened up some. The kids will be out for Spring Break next week, so they will have plenty to do in their rooms.

I think this is going to be a short post for today. That's unusual for me huh? LOL. I'm sure when I am hooked back up I will have plenty to blog about. My DH made it home around 4:00a.m. this morning and it was still raining some then. He said to let him sleep till about 10:00a.m. and he would get up and we would start moving the rest of the things. I kept the girls home from School today so they could help us as well. I slept in this morning also as I was tired from yesterday's moving. I am fixing to start me a pot of coffee. Would you care to join me? I'll try my best to get around and visit before I go offline. I will be thinking of everyone and missing yall while I'm offline. Take care my friends and have a great day/weekend. May God Bless You and Yours.

LOVE & HUGS,

SLOW COOKING THURSDAY & THANKFUL THURSDAY

2008-03-13T05:00:00.001-05:00

Good Mornin' Yall,

Before I begin my normal morning routine of telling about the weather, I have something far more important to share with you. This is no joke and it's real. My dear Friend, Cynthia@ http://mygreat8.blogspot.com/ is going thru something very difficult. Her daughter, Ladybug, is missing. Here are a couple of pictures of Ladybug. The first one is without her Sunglasses and the second one is with her Sunglasses on.

Cynthia is on my blogroll and I haven't been by to visit her lately. Yesterday I was visiting Dawn@ http://grandmaofthree.blogspot.com/ and Dawn was telling us about Cynthia's daughter missing. Here is some information about Cynthia's Daughter, Ladybug.

Margarita "Magui" Martinez 4-19-1994Missing: 3-10-2008

If anyone in the Southern California, El Centro/El Cajon/San Diego area see this young girl please contact your local police department.I know this is a large area and many young girls this age look alike. So please take a good look at her picture. She was last seen Sunday evening. And we believe she may be headed to the San Diego area with a hispanic male. Please pray for her safe return. I will keep everyone posted. Due to her RP, if outdoors, she will be wearing sunglasses. She has photophobia. She also has nighblindness and tunnel vision.

Cynthia is a wonderful Mother and has 8 Children. She is a very wonderful writer as well. I know most of us don't live near Cynthia, but we can all pull together and pray for Cynthia and her daughter, Ladybug. I would so appreciate it if you would take some time and go visit Cynthia and leave her some words of encouragement. THIS IS A MOTHER'S WORSE NIGHTMARE COME TRUE!!!! I can't even begin to fathom what she is going thru right now, but all I can do is pray for her and give Cynthia my support and letting others know about her missing daughter. I would really appreciate it and I know Cynthia would too.

Now for my daily weather report. It is currently 56 degrees with a windchill of 53 degrees. The winds are out of the Southwest at 13mph. Yesterday was such a beautiful day. It made it up to 72 degrees yesterday afternoon. It was really nice outside. I even had to turn my A/C on yesterday around noon. LOL. One day I'm freezing and the next day I'm burning up. LOL. Today is suppose to be another nice day with the high in the 70's as well. It is suppose to turn cold again next week with highs in the 40's. Tomorrow they are still calling for rain and they have upped the percentage to a 90 percent chance of rain.

Yesterday evening while the girls were waiting on the Chuch bus to come pick them up for Church, I was talking to my next door neighbor. Since I knew they are calling for rain tomorrow, I asked him if he would help me start moving today and he said he would. He said he had some friends that lives behind him and they would start this afternoon moving some of the heavy things for us. He has a doctor's appointment this morning, but as soon as he gets back from that, hopefully we can get alot of the heavy things moved before tomorrow.

I felt better yesterday than I did on Tuesday. My eyes aren't watering and matting up as much as they were either. I am still sneezing some, but other than that, I am feeling better. "THANK YOU" all so much for the prayers for me. I do appreciate them very much.

I have some more Awards I would like to acknowledge. Mary@ http://maryswritingnook.blogspot.com/ Awarded all of her reader's the other day with the Friendship Ties Award. Mary also sent me this Award. "THANK YOU" so very much Mary for thinking of me and giving me these Awards. I do appreciate each and everyone of them. If you have never been

over to visit Mary, please take some time and go visit her. She is such a wonderful person and is such a caring and thoughtful woman. I am just so glad to have come across her here in blogland and have become such good Friends with her. "THANK YOU" again so much Mary for these Awards. They will be truly cherished.
Since this is Thursday, it's time for another Slow Cooking Thursday recipe. It is hosted by Sandra@ http://familycorner.blogspot.com/. If you would like to participate in Slow Cooking Thursday, go and visit Sandra and sign the Mr. Linky and then post your recipe for a Slow Cooker on your blog. Today is a little different than other normal Thursday Slow Cooking Recipes. We have to post our best Slow Cooker Recipe and then one lucky winner will win this. Isn't that just awesome. I would so love to win this new Slow Cooker. I do need a larger Slow Cooker myself. So, I am going to do my best here for my best Slow Cooker Recipe. I think I will do my DH'S Hobo Stew. Now since he does his out on the grill and uses alot more things with his, I will cut down the recipe some for my recipe. Take 2 pounds of Ground Chuck and boil it first. After it has boiled, be sure to drain it and rinse it off real good. Put the Ground Chuck into your Slow Cooker. Next, take 1 Red Onion and slice it into thin slices. Take a few Celery Sticks and cut them up. Take a Green Bell Pepper and a Red Bell Pepper and slice them up thinly. Add about 10 Red Potatoes.(They don't need to be the large ones, just the smaller ones). Add about 4 cloves of Garlic that you cut up real fine. Add a package of Baby Carrots. You can either leave them whole, or slice them up as well. After you have cut up all your vegetables, put them in the Slow Cooker. Add some salt, pepper, Worchestire Sauce and about 1 stick of butter. Also, add some small portions of corn on the cob. You can either use the frozen kind or if you have some from your garden, you can use that as well. Add 1 can of Chicken Broth and 1 can of Beef Broth and some water if needed. Put the lid on your Slow Cooker and let it cook all night long on slow. By dinner time the next night, you should have a wonderful tasting meal. This recipe may require a larger Slow Cooker, but you can always add or cut down on the things to add. So there my friends is my hopefully award winning recipe.

Today is "THANKFUL THURSDAY" once again. It is hosted by Iris@ http://eph2810.com/. If you would like to participate in "THANKFUL THURSDAY", please go visit Iris and sign the Mr. Linky and leave Iris a comment and then post your "THANKFUL THURSDAY" devotion on your blog. Today's "THANKFUL THURSDAY" is about Providence. Here is a scripture that Iris used for today.

“So Abraham called the name of that place, “The Lord will provide”; as it is said to this day, “On the mount of the Lord it shall be provided.””~ Genesis 22:14 (ESV ~ emphasis mine)

On this "THANKFUL THURSDAY", I am "THANKFUL" that GOD had provided us a better place to live. Things that we all take for granted such as electricity, gas, water, and cable & internet, I am very "THANKFUL" for. Some people in this world don't even have any of these luxuries that we do. I am so "THANKFUL" that GOD has provided me with each and everyone of you. Each one of you have made me a better woman in some way and has lifted me up in some way. For that, I truly am "THANKFUL". I am "THANKFUL" that GOD provided HIS one and only SON, to die on the Cross, to save us from our terrible sins and that HE forgives us when we fail him. I am a sinner, and I don't really think that I could have actually done this same thing that GOD did for me and you. I hope that GOD forgives me for thinking that way. I am also "THANKFUL" for GOD providing me with such a wonderful and loving husband and 2 beautiful daughters. What do you have on this "THANKFUL THURSDAY" to be "THANKFUL" for? If you would like to leave a comment and let me know, I would love to hear what you are "THANKFUL" for. This is only if you want to and I'm not making anyone do this. And if you would like to participate, please go visit Iris.

Well, I guess that about does it for this Thursday. I am having my morning coffee and I will be visiting you very soon. If you not awake, I'll try not to disturb you. If I'm not here when you stop by, make yourself at home and have a cup of coffee or a cup of hot Chamomile Tea. Take care my Friends and have a great day. May God Bless Each and Everyone of you.

LOVE & HUGS,

2008-03-12T05:26:00.003-05:00

Good Mornin' Yall,

I hope that everyone had a great Tuesday and ready to start a new day. It is currently 45 degrees with a windchill of 41 degrees. The winds are out of the Southwest at 7mph. We had another beautiful day here yesterday. It made it up to 58 degrees. It did feel a litte better outside than it did on Monday. We are suppose to be up around 70 degrees today. I do think that Spring is just around the corner.

Since being out in the cold on Monday afternoon and Monday night, I had a hard time getting warm yesterday. I finally got warm around noon. I started sneezing and my eyes started watering and matting up some. I just felt bad all day yesterday. Last night my throat started getting a little scratchy, but it's okay this morning. Hopefully I won't come down with anything. Tis that time of the season tho.

I did do my laundry yesterday. LOL. I did 2 loads of laundry. I have another load to do today, so maybe I can talk myself into doing that load. The girls had after School Tutoring yesterday after School. I had fixed some Chicken Strips and Rice for our supper last night and had it ready when they got in from School. Instead of frying the Chicken Strips, I had some Shake & Bake for some Pork Chops, so I used that on the Chicken Strips I already had. They turned out really good. The rice I fixed I had some shredded cheese left in a package and added that to the rice and then put some sugar in it. That turned out really good as well. The girls really liked it and I did too. We went up to our Fire Station for the meeting of our oldest daughter's Softball Team. The last 3 years we haven't had to pay for anything because there has always been a sponsor for the team. This year, there was suppose to be a sponsor, but the sponsor hasn't come thru yet. So, we had to pay $30.00 for our child this year. That's not too bad. Our youngest daughter we will have to pay $20.00. It is all well worth it tho and besides, they enjoy playing sports. As long as I can afford for them to play sports and they want to, we will support them in every way we can. Our oldest daughter's first game will be on March 27, at 6:00p.m. Her Pre-Season Tournament is being held in Lake City, AR. That's not very far from us at all. In fact, we are consolidated with Lake City in our School District. I don't know who they will be playing yet, but I do hope it is warmer by then. LOL. If it isn't, I will be taking me a blanket of some kind to wrap up with. That was pretty much our day yesterday and last night.

I have been tagged 3 times to do a Meme. The first tag came from Mary@ http://maryswritingnook.blogspot.com/. I am to list 8 facts/habits of mine that none of my blogging friends know about me. Here are the rules of the Meme.

Rules:In the 8 facts about yourself, you share 8 things that your readers don’t know about you. Then at the end you tag at least 8 other bloggers to keep the fun going.

1. I have a glass eye.

2. I don't like to be late for anything. I had much rather be early.

3. I don't like to clean house. LOL. I do keep my house clean, but I'm not one of those people who are always doing something and keeping a spotless house.

4. If I don't get my way, I get mad. LOL.

5. I have a bad temper that can get the best of me sometimes.

6. My mouth can get me in trouble sometimes. Oh when I am at one of our daughte's sport games, and the ref's and ump's make a bad call, I let them know about it. LOL. A few years ago when our oldest daughter was playing a softball game, there was a very bad ump there. He finally told me if he heard one more thing from me he would make me leave the game. I kept quiet after that, but it sure was hard.

7. I don't take time for myself. I had much rather take care of my DH and our girls than allow time for myself. I do sometimes wish they would do something special for me, but if they don't, then that's okay as well. As long as they are happy, that's what matters.

8. I'm a Christian, but don't attend Church. It's due to the fact about something personal happening at the Church we belong to.

Now, I must tag 8 people to do this Meme.

1. Laura@ http://2lmzfarms.blogspot.com/

2. Diane@ http://lenadianejennings.blogspot.com/

3. Dabrah@ http://dabrah.blogspot.com/

4. Patti@ http://nonnasnews.blogspot.com/

5. Loretta@ http://lorettas57.blogspot.com/

6. Nan@ http://onmyporch.blogspot.com/

7. Amanda@ http://jacarandacottage.blogspot.com/

8. Mary Isabella@ http://daisybouquet.blogspot.com/

I do hope that you will participate. If you do, please let me know when you have done your Meme so I can drop by to read it. I know there has been so many Meme's going around lately, and if you don't want to participate, I will understand.

Betty@ http://bettysthisandthat.blogspot.com/ also tagged me for a Meme. It is a 6 word Memoir. Here are the rules for this Meme.

1. Write your own six word memoir.2. Post it on your blog and include a visual illustration if you’d like.3. Link to the person that tagged you in your post.4. Tag five more blogs with links.5. And don’t forget to leave a comment on the tagged blogs with an invitation to play.

Here is my 6 word Memoir. LET NOT YOUR HEARTS BE TROUBLED. I don't have a visual illistration for this, but I do love the saying. I know it's not easy sometimes, but I must always remember it and know that GOD will take care of me. Now I am not going to tag anyone specifically, so if you are on my blogroll, consider yourself tagged by me for this Meme. I was also tagged by Michelle@ http://imalittletpott.blogspot.com/ for the same above Meme. So, it looks like I did pretty good there. LOL.

I have some Prayer Request's today. One of our good friends, Lib@ http://libsprivateparadise.blogspot.com/ has been under the weather for a good while now. She hasn't been able to do any blogging. She has been having double vision and can't read. She is scheduled to have surgery today on her left eye and then she will have to have surgery on her right eye. I don't know what time her surgery is going to be this morning, but I would appreciate it very much if you would keep her in your Prayers. If you have time, please drop by and leave her a comment and let her know you are thinking of her and praying for her. He husband gave us this update about her on March 1. Also, there are so many of us here in blogland that have been going thru difficult times and having problems and being sick as well. I ask that we all just keep each other in our prayers. I know everyone will appreciate each and every prayer.

My DH made it home around 1:15a.m. this morning. He called me to let me know he was in town around 1:05a.m. and was fixing to drop his Uncle off at his house and he would be home in a few minutes. I got up and came and unlocked the door for him and sat up with him for about an hour. I have to get him up around 11:00a.m this morning so he can get ready to head out going up to Minnesota and Wisconsin. It sure makes the week go by faster when he is able to stop in during the week and stay all night. I am going to go for now. I am on my second cup of coffee and I will start my visiting. Take care my friends and have a great day. May God Bless Each and Everyone of You.

LOVE & HUGS,

TUESDAY THIS & THAT

2008-03-11T04:29:00.004-05:00

Good Mornin' Yall,

I do hope that everyone had a wonderful Monday and ready to start a new day. It is currently 39 degrees with a windchill of 33 degrees. The winds are out of the North Northeast at 8mph. Yesterday was another beautiful day. It got up to 57 degrees here yesterday afternoon, but it was once again a tad bit on the windy side yesterday afternoon and it was chilly if you had to be out in it like I was. More on that later tho. Today is suppose to be up around 60 degrees and by tomorrow or Thursday up near 70 degrees. There is also a chance for some rain on Thursday and Friday. Yall be praying that it doesn't rain this weekend so we can move. As always, you know I appreciate your prayers so very much.

Both of our girls had their Softball practice yesterday afternoon. Our youngest daughter's practice started at 3:30p.m. and went to 5:00p.m. While we were out there watching them practice, it was windy. I got cold. The bleachers were metal bleachers and when you are sitting on cold metal bleachers, I get cold. I had to get up and stand up a few times. After our youngest daughter's practice was over with, we came to the house and had regular bologna sandwiches again for supper. I had turned our A/C on yesterday around noon because it was warm here in the house. When we got home from our youngest daughter's practice, I turned the heat back on again. LOL. We had to be back at the field at 6:30p.m. for our oldest daughter's practice. We gave 2 ball fields right by each other. Our oldest daughter was suppose to practice on the big ball field. When we got there, there was High School Boys Baseball Game in progress and we all sat there for a bit. The boys were going to play 3 more innings, so the coach said we would go over to the new ball field where our youngest daughter had practiced earlier. That is where we went. By the time we got over there, it was starting to get dark and it was even getting more chilly. I nearly froze to death out there. LOL. My feet were so cold I could barely feel them. The temperature was like 50 degrees, but it was still cold out there. They finally finished their practice up around 8:15p.m. Both of our girl's Pre-Season Tournament will be March 27-29. I do know where our youngest daughter's tournament will be, but I haven't heard where our oldest daughter's tournament will be at yet. This makes it really hard on us as we both want to see the girls play. So, since my DH will be home for the weekend, one will go with one daughter and one will go with the other daughter. We will work it out tho. Try being in my shoes when it's just me here and they both have games on the same night and in different towns. What I have been doing in the past is one night go with one daughter and then the next time go with the other daughter. My Parents and Sister help out also by taking the one to their game on the night I can't go to the game. But this year, they are trying to get both teams to play on the same nights and playing right after each other. There will be a couple of games that will be like in the past, but one of our youngest daughter's coaches told me last night since gas was so high they are trying to get both games scheduled on the same night. That will make it a bit more easier and I will be able to see both games. Both of their Home Games are here in our town on Friday nights. So, my DH will be able to see them both play on Friday nights. During Softball Season, since we are on the go alot, we either eat a sandwich here at home or grab something somewhere else. Tonight we have to go up to our Fire Station at 6:00p.m for our oldest daughter's team to be sized for their uniforms. Most of them have outgrown their uniforms from last year, so most of them will have to have bigger sizes. I know our oldest daughter has outgrown her uniform from last year.

I called the Cable & Internet Company yesterday morning and told them we didn't get to move over the weekend and they will be coming out next Monday sometime to hook the Cable & Internet up over at the other house. I will try and do a post early Friday morning, but after that, I will be offline until we are hooked back up again. I'm hoping by Tuesday morning I will be all hooked up and back online. The girls will also be on Spring Break next week as well. I'm sure they will be getting their bedrooms all fixed up the way they want it while they are out on Spring Break. My Parents are suppose to take them to Jonesboro one day while they are out and buy them an Easter outfit. I told my Mom yesterday on the phone that our oldest daughter doesn't like to wear dresses and not to buy them a dress if they are not going to wear it or only wear it one time. I told her to buy them a Capri set so they can wear it after Easter as well. They usually let the girls pick out what they want, so we will see what they come home with.

I actually slept good last night. I went to sleep around 9:30p.m. and I didn't get up till my alarm went off this morning at 4:15a.m. I did wake up a couple of times during the night, but I went back to sleep. That's why my post today is a little later than I normall do my posting.

I didn't do laundry yesterday like I had planned. LOL. I talked myself out of it. I just wasn't in the mood to do laundry, but I WILL have to do it today tho. I don't know what I will fix for our supper tonight. My DH will be home sometime later on tonight to spend the night. He called me last night around 8:00p.m. while we were still at the ball field and he had done got loaded and had left North Las Vegas. He said he was going to have to put his Cell Phone on charge and would call me this morning.

I got alot of compliments yesterday about my blog being all decorated for St. Patrick's Day. "THANK YOU" all so much for the nice compliments. I really do appreciate them very much. I am getting my St. Patrick's Day Graphics from Glitter-Graphics.com. They have alot of nice and pretty things there, so if you want some St. Patrick's Day decorations, please visit that site. I really like the one I have at the top that has my name on it. You can also see that I have a Dog with my DH's name. I tried finding some with our daughter's name on it, but I couldn't find any. I just love the St. Patrick's Day decorations.

Well, guess I will go for now. I am about to finish my first cup of coffee. I think I will go and see who has coffee ready this morning. Take care my Friends and have a great day. May God Bless You and Yours.

LOVE & HUGS,

MONDAY MEANDERINGS

2008-03-10T01:29:00.008-05:00

Good Mornin' Yall,

I do hope that everyone had a Blessed Sunday and ready to start a new day. It is currently 39 degrees and the winds are calm, therefore we have no winchill as of right now. Yesterday was a beautiful day and it warmed up to 52 degrees. It was just a tad bit on the windy side, but not too bad. Today we are suppose to have a high of around 55 degrees. More of our Snow melted yesterday but we still have a little left. I'm sure as the week progresses and the temperatures continue's to warm, it will all be gone soon.

Since St. Patrick's Day is just a week away, I thought I would get an early start and start using some St. Patrick's Day Graphics and Dividers. Since Green is my favorite color, I will enjoy doing this. I hope you will enjoy my St. Patrick's Day Decorations this week.

I would like to acknowledge a couple of things right now. First of all, Mary@ http://maryswritingnook.blogspot.com/ has given all of her Friends this beautiful St. Patrick's Day Card.

Isn't that a beautiful card? "THANK YOU" so much Mary for this beautiful St. Patrick's Day Card. I will cherish it always. Yall may remember that I won Mary's Easter Giveaway here not too long ago. I got to pick out 3 of her cards that I liked. Since they are Easter Cards, I am going to wait and take a picture of them on Easter Morning. I had Mary to fix a card for both of our girls and then one for my DH. Since I have my new camera now, I will use the camera to take pictures of them with the cards. If you have never been to visit Mary, PLEASE take some time and visit her. She is such a wonderful person and she lives in Canada as well. I always enjoy reading her stories and seeing what is going on in her part of the world. "THANK YOU" so much again Mary for the beautiful card.

Also, last week I was given a Stamp of Approval by Betty@ http://bettysthisandthat.blogspot.com/. "THANK YOU" so much Betty for giving me your Stamp of Approval. I will cherish this always. If you have never been to visit Betty, PLEASE drop by and visit her sometime as well. She lives in Tennessee and she finally got some Snow the other day. Me and her both have been wanting some measureable Snow this Winter, and we finally got it. "THANK YOU" so much again Betty for this Stamp of Approval.

I would also like to mention a Giveaway. It is being hosted by Pea@ http://peascorner.blogspot.com/.

Here is what Pea is saying about her Easter Giveaway.

With Easter fast approaching, I'm in the giving mood once again:-) Just add your name in the comments and on Friday, March 14th, at 8 a.m., I will draw a name. The winner will win the pictured goodies...Easter basket filled with a bunny candy dish, egg shaped candles, a bunny figurine, Marshmallow bunnies, egg decorations, Easter stickers and Lindor Easter eggs. You can click on the pictures to enlarge:-) Good luck everyone!! xoxo

Now just look at all those beautiful goodies. Who wouldn't want to win those. PLEASE go and visit Pea and enter her Easter Giveaway. Pea is such a wonderful and caring person. She lives in Canada also. I do enjoying visiting her and seeing what is going on in her part of the world. Someday I would love to go to Canada and visit with her and Mary. "THANK YOU" Pea for hosting this Easter Giveaway.

Yesterday not much went on around here. The girls did go outside a few times and played with their Friends and went up to our local park for a while. Yesterday morning I washed up some dishes that had piled up. LOL. We eat out of Paper Plates around here most of the time and since it's just me and the girls here most of the time, I let them pile up till there is enough to really wash. I also watched Food Network some and by 6:30p.m I was ready for bed. We did go up to our local Dollar General Store and I got me some more minutes for my Cell Phone and a few other things I needed here at the house. I also spent some quality time with the girls and we played around and talked for a while.

I have some laundry to do today. The girls are suppose to have Softball practice this afternoon. Our youngest daughter's practice starts at 3:30p.m. and goes to 5:00p.m. Our oldest daughter's practice starts at 6:00p.m. and ends at 7:30p.m. I don't know if the field will be too wet or not, but they will let me know for sure when they come in from School this afternoon. I do know our oldest daughter has her first game on the 29th of this month. It is the Pre-Season Tournament. I'm not sure yet where it will be held at, but I do hope the weather is warm by then. LOL. I remember going to games in the past and it was so cold that they had to wear their big coats while playing Softball. For our supper last night the girls was wanting some Fried Hot Dog and Bologna Sandwiches. That is what I fixed for them. I don't know what we will have tonight for supper since we maybe having Softball practices. I'll just have to wait and see. If they do have practice, it will have to be something quick tho.

Well, guess I'll go for now. I am just now having my first cup of coffee. I talked to my DH last night around 8:00p.m. and he was in Nebraska. I told him I was fixing to go to sleep and he said he was about 100 miles from where him and his Uncle would be switching out and then he was going to bed. He said he would call me this morning when he got up. Take care my friends and have a great day. May God Bless You and Yours.

LOVE & HUGS,

SUNNY SUNDAY

2008-03-09T03:31:00.010-05:00

Good Mornin' Yall,

I do hope that everyone had a great Saturday and ready to start a new day. It is currently 30 degrees and we have no windchill this morning. The winds are calm. Yesterday was a Sunny, but cold day. I think it made it up to around 38 degrees. The Snowplows were out yesterday morning clearing the roads, but the side streets and grass still had the Snow on them for a while yesterday morning. Most of it had all melted by late yesterday afternoon. Today is supposed to be a nice and warmer day with a high around 50 degrees. It's suppose to be up in the 60's by mid-week.

We didn't get to move yesterday. My DH said he didn't want to take a chance in moving things and with the side streets being still snow covered. He called our Landlord and told him we would start moving next Friday. I will be moving some more smaller things over there this week and then my DH and his cousin will move the big things next weekend. And besides, I didn't want the carpet over there getting all muddy and wet. I will call the Cable & Internet Company early Monday morning and let them know so they won't come out and unhook me here. It will have to be re-scheduled for everything to get hooked up at the other house. I will be posting and visiting as usual this coming week.

Since we didn't move yesterday, me and my DH took some pictures of the Snow we got here. He played with it more than me. He told me he is wanting one just like it and since we have some of those coupons left, I now have to order him one. LOL. Since I had gotten up very early yesterday morning, I layed back down and went to sleep for a while yesterday afternoon. I tell ya, he came in the bedroom I don't know how many times taking pictures of me sleeping. LOL. He was worse than a kid on Christmas morning with MY Camera yesterday. LOL. He also took some pictures of the girls here in the house as well. So, as promised, I am going to share some pictures that we took yesterday of our Snow.

This picture is of the girls out in front of the house we live in now. They are standing in front of our very small front yard. That's our oldest daughter, Ashely, on the right hand side eating some Snow. Our youngest daughter, Alyssa, is on the left side. She loves having her picture made and she has to be so-so when having her picture made. LOL. She is our little Princess.

My DH took this picture. It is to the side of the house we live in now as well. You can see the yellow house in the background. That is the house we will be moving in. It's the same color on the outside as the one we are living in now. The Blue House to the left there is one of my neighbor's house. These houses are all kind of close together here in the area where we live at. But at least I know my neighbors and we all look out for each other.

This picture is of our girls in the back of the house we live in now. That is a big long storage shed they are standing in front of. It is sectioned off and our storage shed it the one on the far right. My DH took this picture and the one above. The only one I took is the very first one. LOL. He wouldn't let me play with it. LOL. I told yall he was a big kid. I still love him very much tho. The girls had attempted to make a Snowman, but I think this Snow we got wasn't the right kind for making Snowmen.

This is a picture of our girls out front of the house again and our youngest daughter is eating some Snow this time. LOL. They sure did enjoy playing in the Snow. Since we don't get Snow around here that often, when we do get Snow, it is always a Welcomed Sight.

This one is of the girls in the back and our youngest daughter is working on the Snowman. Our oldest daughter has some Snow in her hand and she looks to be in deep thought about eating the Snow. LOL. I do hope that you have enjoyed my pictures that was taken with my new Camera, or should I say my DH's. LOL. The one's he took inside are still on the camera and hasn't been downloaded yet. I hope that you are able to click on these pictures and they will be enlarged.

Since I slept yesterday afternoon, I didn't cook supper last night. I had layed down around 2:00p.m. and went to sleep and my DH woke me up a little after 5:00p.m. taking pictures of me. LOL. I decided since it was a little late to be cooking for me, I ordered a Family BBQ pack from Backwoods BBQ here in town. My MIL had called my DH and was wanting a BBQ sandwich and some fries, so I ordered that for here as well. With our Family pack we got some meat, a big bowl of baked beans, a big bowl of slaw, a medium size cup of mild hot sauce, and a package of buns. With what I ordered and what I ordered for my MIL, it was all only $18.99. Now that's not bad for 5 people. There is enough BBQ left for me and the girls to have a sandwich today.

Since I went to the doctor last Wednesday and she increased my pill intake of the mornings, I haven't been feeling up to par. I think it's my body adjusting to the pill increase and I stay sleepy alot. I wake up very early of the mornings and by 7:00 or 8:00p.m. I am ready to go to bed. I haven't even had to take some of my sleep-aid pills at night. Maybe my body will get adjusted to the pill increase before too long.

Well, guess I will go for now. My DH just got out of the shower and we are having coffee together. He will be leaving shortly going to Salt Lake City. Take care my friends and have a Blessed Sunday. May God Bless You and Yours.

LOVE & HUGS,

SNOWED IN SATURDAY!!!!

2008-03-08T02:45:00.006-06:00

Good Mornin' Yall,

I hope everyone had a great Friday and ready to start a new day. It is currently 30 degrees with a windchill of 24 degrees. The winds are out of the Northwest at 6mph. Guess what yall? We are SNOWED in!!!! Yeap, we sure are. It started snowing here yesterday around 11:30a.m. and I seen on our local T.V. Station where they were letting School out here at 12:15p.m It was a heavy Snow, but I never saw any BIG Snowflakes. By 3:00p.m. yesterday afternoon, we had enough Snow to play in and try to build a Snowman. My DH made it home from Memphis around 3:30p.m. He had called me a little before 3:00p.m. and said he was leaving Lepanto, which is my hometown and only 11 miles from where we live, and he said he couldn't even see the road. He said he was having to drive in the middle. Now what is normally a 15 minute drive, it took him about 35 minutes to get that far. The girls were already outside playing in it and after my DH got home they all came in and warmed up a bit and then my DH and our youngest daughter went out and tried to make a Snowman, but it was too wet. Hopefully today they can make one. It was really cold yesterday as well. The temperatures pretty much dropped all day and the winds were blowing something fierce. I made the girls bundle up real good before going outside to play in it. I'm sure they will have a good time in it today tho. It's suppose to be Sunny and up to around 35 degrees today.

It doesn't look like we will be moving today. There is just too much Snow. I FINALLY GOT MY SNOW THO!!!! It just came at the wrong time. LOL. Oh well, I plan to enjoy it while we do have it. My DH told me that I will have to pay his cousin and someone else to move us next week. I guess that will be better because by the middle of next week, it's suppose to be up around 60 degrees. Everyone is still asleep this morning, so I will have to wait until my DH gets up to see if he wants to try to move or not. If we don't, I will post tomorrow.

Yesterday afternoon my DH and the girls had gone up town to get some things and while they were gone, I finally gave in and opened up my new Digital Camera. Oh yeah, I was wanting to take some pictures of the Snow. Well lo and behold, I wasn't able to. The re-chargeable batteries that came with it had to be charged up. I put them on charge and took them off a bit ago when I first got up. I put them in the camera and I will continue to read the instructions here in a little bit and when it gets daylight, I will go out and take some pictures. My DH still has to hook the USB Cable cord up to the computer, but I installed the Software on it yesterday afternoon while he was sitting in his recliner. So, if we don't move and I post tomorrow, I will share some pictures of our SNOW. It's a really neat camera. I was reading the instructions yesterday and it even has a movie mode. Here is a picture of it for some of you that didn't see a picture of it before.

It is a Fujifilm E900 Series. I am really excited about getting to use it now. Now I have no excuse to share pictures with yall. LOL. I'm just going to have to get used to taking the camera with me when I go places.

Well, guess I'll go for now and start me some coffee. I am going to go and visit some of you that I missed yesterday. Too bad everyone doesn't get up as early as I do and post. LOL. But I will be around to visit you sometime today. Like I said previously, I'm not sure if we will try and move today or not, but I doubt we will get to. It just depends on what my DH decides to do when he gets up. I don't know how much Snow we got. I'll have to wait till it gets daylight and take a ruler outside and measure it. I know there is alot out there tho. Take care my friends and have a great day. May God Bless You and Yours.

LOVE & HUGS,

PHRIDAY PHAVORITE PHOTO PHUN

2008-03-07T02:45:00.001-06:00

Good Mornin' Yall,

I do hope that everyone had a great Thursday and ready to start a new day. It is currently 36 degrees with a windchill of 25 degrees. The winds are out of the North Northeast at 19mph with gust's up to 27mph. We had a mostly cloudy day here yesterday. After I had finished my post yesterday morning, they had upgraded our Winter Storm Watch to a Winter Storm Warning beginning at 6:00p.m. last night and going thru midnight tonight. They were saying we could get anywhere from 4 to 8 inches of Snow here. The winds did pick up late yesterday evening and it was really windy outside. That wind would just cut right thru you. It made it up to 40 degrees yesterday. As I am typing this now, we have NOTHING. That's right, NOTHING outside. It did start Snowing yesterday afternoon in the Northwest counties and some were even letting Schools out around 2:30p.m. It looks like all the Snow has gone around us again. Dadburn it, I had gotten my hopes again as the weather people were being very optomistic about this Winter Storm. I guess I just live in the wrong place for it to Snow anymore. LOL. I know, we have seen some Snow, but nothing major. I was so hoping we would get a measurable Snow so the girls could play out in it. Oh well, only in my corner of the world of Arkansas would this happen. I should have known better.

Today is Phriday Phavorite Photo Phun. It is hosted by Anni@ http://hootin--anni.blogspot.com/. If you would like to participate, please go and visit Anni and let her know you want to participate and then post a Phun Photo. Today I am going to share a picture of the Snow we got on Tuesday. Yes, the wait is finally over. LOL. Now don't get all excited as it's not much, but it is some Snow.

This is a picture right out by my front door. The winds had blown over our table and some of our chairs. But you can see the Snow on the umbrella and a little on the gras behind it. That was about all we got here on Tuesday. I know you are probably saying this isn't a Phun Photo, but since we don't get that much Snow around here, when we do get some, it's always fun to see it and enjoy it. This was taken with my Cell Phone and since I have gotten my new Digital Camera in, and after my DH gets it all set up and install the software on my computer this weekend, I will be able to show some better pictures and hopefully you will be able to enlarge them. Anywho, I hope you enjoyed my little picture for today's Phriday Phavorite Photo Phun.

The Gas Company Guy called me around noon yesterday to let me know he would be at the other house so he could turn the gas on. I met him over there and the gas is now on. I called my Mom and she came up and we cleaned the house some. It wasn't all that dirty, but I did vacuum the carpets and my Mom wiped out the cabinets and sinks and bathtub. Me and the girls took some of their things over there last night. We only made a couple of trips because it was just too windy and cold to be out last night.

This will be my last post until after Monday. I hope the Cable & Internet people are able to come out and hook our Cable & Internet up. Sometimes they tell you one thing and then turn around and do another. But they sure want their payment when it is due. Anyway, I will be back to posting just as soon as I'm all hooked up.

My DH called my last night around 6:30p.m. and said he was fixing to go to bed. He said they had just gotten into the State of Illinois. From where they were at, it is about a 12 hour drive to here. My DH will be dropping his Uncle off and then going to Memphis and it will be sometime this afternoon before he gets home. He has to drop the load off and then go to the Terminal and have the truck worked on. They have been having problems with the Air-Conditioner in the sleeper part. So hopefully they will get that fixed. They don't need the Air-Conditioner when they are up North, but when they are out in Las Vegas, they need it.

Well, guess I'll go for now and start me some coffee. It will taste really good on this very cold and windy morning. I hope that everyone has a great weekend. Take care my friends and have a great day. May God Bless You and Yours. I will see you all when I get hooked back up next week. I will miss you all, but know that I will be thinking of everyone.

LOVE & HUGS,