Fun Friday!

One thing you want to accomplish today?....

Well, I want to finish pricing things for my yard sale that I am having on Saturday. The yard sale is part of my organizing effort. I went through my kitchen, my bathroom, the kids' rooms & my bedroom... and now everything is piled in the livingroom. I wanted to have the Yard sale this saturday so if I don't get it done today then I am going to have to aim for another weekend... which I'm sick of having all this junk in my living room... so I might just chuck the whole yard sale idea and donate the whole lot to Goodwill or something.

On a personal note, I still have a headache, not as bad.... but it's still there. I'm still waiting for my glasses to get in. Hopefully when I call today they will be there, and I can get there and stop these headaches!!

Vacation Pics... (Blog Challenge)

Hey friends, today's Blog Challenge is "When you do vacation pic. Do you make a different book for each vacation or all in one book?"

Well, I don't do a different book for each vacation. I do, however, do different books at the same time. I have a family book, that contains everything we do as a family, kids' school pics and special family events such as birthdays. I have just finished a book about my husband growing up (kind of like a baby book). I have three special 8x8 books one is a memory book on my grandparents. I have lots of different photos of them and their life together. The other 8x8 is of Marty & I and our life together, from dating to 2005. And then I did a "Book about me" for a challenge last year. I have our wedding album that I just finished last year, it's a 12x12. I have other books that I am working on, 1st a book about my childhood (since I got some more pics from my mom's estate) and the other one is on my roots, really on my great grandparents... Other books I want to do is memory books on my dad and mom now that they are gone. I still have a ton of pics of my neices and nephews so I probley should do something on them.

Now vacations are fun, and they are spent mostly up north at my in- law's place. My favorite places in Michigan to visit is the Mackinac Bridge and Mackinaw City. I love the fudge and all the history.

Well, I still have a headache...but I am supose to get my eye glasses today, this afternoon, waiting for hubby to get here to pick me up when he gets his check. We got some major grocery shopping to do and get my glasses. So maybe my headache will go away after I get my glasses.

Headaches...!!!

I don't blog as much as I used to because I've had these really horriable headaches. I've been to my family doctor, a Neurologist, and now to an eye doctor. Ok, my family doc sent me to the neurologist, the neurologist gave me anti-depressants to control my headache (can't tell you how many times I have found myself cyring for absolutely no reason) and then sent me to see an eye doc and told me to never go to a chiropractor, so I went to see the eye doc... and he told me to go see a chiropractor and gave me the news that I have to have glasses!! (I'm too young to have glasses... I am too young, right?) Does anyone have any experience with a chiropractor, should I go? What do you think about chiropractors?? Ok, well that's it for now. :)

A little bit about Walker

Hello my friends, having Tucker here, reminds me so much of Walker. I wrote this little piece just after we lost him, yes I got some ideas off of a rainbow bridge site, but it just fit him so much....I wanted to share it with you but I couldn't... after 4 months, I think I am ready.

"Walker our Beloved Friend and Companion"

October 29, 1995 to April 12, 2008

Walker was 13 years and 6 months young. Yes, young. Even though parts of him were old and slowing down he was still young at heart. Still game to chase a toy when he could see where we threw it. Still ready to insist that he follow my husband anywhere at anytime. Some days it was so hard for him to get up and down stairs, most days he took long naps & watch Maggie try to get him to play...and some days he did play with her, but he still wanted to please us with all that he was. Even at the end, Walker was charming all those who met him, even at the vet's office where we had him put down. He and my husband had a special bond, they were more than owner and dog, they were best friends, I still can see Walker wagging his long tail in love when he heard my husband's voice or when he heard my husband's truck pull into our driveway. He met every new experience with a smile, ears forward and tail aloft (oh that tail it knocked over plently of nick nacks or photos!). He was foremost among the elbow nudgers, and just plain in your face until you pet him; he saw no point in a hand lying idle when it could be put to better use scratching an ear, head or better his rear end.

Time is cruel, but Walker's light heart carried him through the years cheerfully. His life was well lived. He blessed every life he came in contact with. How could we ask him to go on in pain?

We love you Walker and can't wait until we see you in Heaven! But until then, enjoy your time at the rainbow bridge... we love you buddy!

Please vote for Maggie

Hello Friends - I was wondering if you all could vote for Maggie at Greatest American Dog

Thanks.

More pics of Tucker...

He is so smart! I've already taught him to go up and down the stairs and how to sit. We are still working on the potty, but that will come in time.

We had to take my husband into the ER this morning. He woke up in severe pain, the doctor says that he has a kidney stone... OUCH!!

Well after 4 months of not having Walker, my husband just couldn't stand it, he was talking to our neighbor and her sister is a breeder, and we got a 12 week old Shetland Sheepdog. He is totally cute, and Maggie is already loving having a dog around to play with. We named him Tucker. He is so beautiful, and so very smart. I've started training already, he isn't house broken yet and is wouldn't go up and down the stairs when we first got him, and he is doing that now (he is really freaked about going through doors.) and we went for a walk tonight and he walked some. We will get there... it's just really hard training when I've got 3 kids talking to him and confusing him. LOL!!

I saw my husband smile tonight, and I think it's the first REAL smile since we had to have Walker put down in April!! Tucker is his dog already, even though Maggie is getting really jealous! Oh yeah, we are not getting him "fixed" because the breeder would like to stud him with another puppy when she gets old enough. (NOT related to Tucker!) LOL!

Our family needed something to smile about!!

It's Thrify Thursday!!!

Hey gang... Well I am having a Yard Sale in a couple of weeks so I've been busting my hinney off to clean everything!! My husband and I cleaned out our kitchen, I can't believe that we had so much JUNK!! We have lived in the same place for the past 13 years, so things just kept piling up... literally! We set a date for the yard sale, and I started with my scrapbook area (because there was more than just scrap stuff there), then I went through the kids' rooms (toys & clothes), then went to the kitchen... now today is a relax day, Friday & Saturday I'm gonna bust out my living room, the rest of my bedroom and the two sheds. Then maybe I will be ready.

My goal for the yard sale is to clean out our house and get more organized. So here is my question... I would like you my readers to place a comment on this post and give me your organizing tips... :)

Thanks guys!!

Jeans Purse

Hello my friends...

I got a call this morning from my friend, she was in tears and finally she tells me that her 5 year old was in extreme pain and can't find any one to watch her other kids. Of corse I tell her to bring here it will be no problem for me to watch her 3 other kids. So today I had a 13 year old boy that thought he knew everything, told me I was changing diapers wrong to that I was cooking grill cheese wrong... UGH, my 9 & 7 year old foster sons, my 4 year old foster daughter, my friends 2 year old, and her 6 month old foster daughter.... AHHHHHH!!

Even though I had SIX kids I did some really fun stuff!! I made a purse out of a pair of old jeans. Anyone wanna know how I did it, just email and I will let you know how I did it.

BTW: Thanks for the comments on yestreday's blog. :)

It's been a while....

Hello all... I know I know, I've been gone for an aweful long time. My life has been crazy crazy and yep you guessed it crazy. All three of my foster kids where in baseball. UGH, Sunday to Thursday nights were spent at the ball field. I had my surgery as you know in May. Well I still have some moments when my throat just doesn't feel the same. Like at a baseball game I was yelling for my 9 year old, he was up at bat and wasn't doing very good, and I yelled his name and half way through yelling "It's okay just shake it off," I lost my voice!!

Since I've been to the Neurologist and started the meds he put me on I've only had ONE headache and fewer daily headaches. Well, except for when I ran out of meds and the pharmacy couldn't get me the meds without talking to the doctor, then I had a MAJOR headache... what was happening was my eyes were twitching, [okay this is hard to explain...so please excuse the really hard explaination :)], what I saw was flashing light - kind of like a stroub light - very annoying, and it felt like my eyeballs were spinning which made me very dizzy and I was very sick to my stomach... Oh boy it was aweful!! But better now that I'm back on the meds.

My husband hurt his back at work... 5 days with him on muscle relaxers and pain meds.... UGH!! That wasn't fun. But he is all better now and back to working like a crazy man. I thought I would share this photo of him... lol it's one of my favorites. I love him so much!!

I got to scrapbook last Friday and Saturday, I got 14 pages done!! I would share, but they have my foster kids on them and I can't share their photos.

Well, goodbye for now, and God bless you all!!