Seems Like Yesterday.

Wow, It seems like only yesterday that we moved into our house we live in now.  We have been here 7 years now and so much has changed.  The picture above was taken shortly after we moved in.  We had 5 blowers working the yard that year.  Sheila’s Dad pushed the issue for us to get a riding lawn mower with a bagger on it.  It has made our life so much easier.  What took 5 people to do now takes 1 person to do.  Sheila and I will take turns riding the mower while the other person handles the task of removing the bags to empty.  So I guess it is a 2 person job, if you want to make the task go faster.  I look back now and wonder how we were so blessed to have a family that cared so much about us to jump in and lend a hand.  They sure did not have to and we did not ask for the help.  But the help was so much appreciated.  I know that a lot of families would not have helped the kido’s out as much as our’s has. That just gives us so much more to be thankful for.   The life lessons that it taught us will not go by the wayside.  When we are blessed to have children of our own I will step up to the plate and make sure they have every chance to have long lasting memories just like the photo above.

 

Blessings till I post again.

Nice Weather

I’m so thankful for the nice weather that we have had for the past few days.  I’ve felt kind of crummy with sinus junk going on, but regardless it has been so beautiful.  

I was going through some of our pictures and found this one of me and Sheila from about 5 years ago.

 

Blessings till I post again.

Semi Lazy Day

I got up at 3:40 this morning and could not fall back to sleep. I got up and surfed the web for a while and then took a hot bath. I find it helps me to take a hot bath before I lay down and it usually does the trick. So at 6:58am I got back to bed and I slept until 9:40. I have not slept that late in I can not tell you how long. So I talked Sheila into going to Waffle House. The last time I had waffle house was on Sept 18th 2009. So I am past due for my waffle fix. After that we ran a few places and got back home. Before I knew it the time was after 2:00. Man where did the day go? They say time flys when you are having fun. Well sometimes it does when you are not too. Sometimes you get so busy doing a bunch of nothing that your whole day just slips right by you. I did get a chance today to lay down and take a much needed afternoon nap. Ginger never missing a chance to curl up with someone, nearly beat me to the bed. Olivia came in and saw that Ginger had beat her, so she left. After some time had passed Olivia came back to see if Ginger was still on her turf. Well she was, but she was fast asleep in her bed by now. So Olivia snuck in bed with me and laid next to me and fell asleep. They crack me up, They are just like 2 kids who both want our attention at ALL TIMES. But we love them. I can't wait till we do have children of our own. I plan on spoiling them rotten.

Blessings till I post again.

Good Week

Its rare in this day to be able to sit at my desk and say that I had a wonderful week. I was in a good mmod every day for an entire week. I wont say that it was all peaches and cream. I had moments of time that were hard to digest. But we all have those moments. Even in the moments I was still able to stay positive and enjoy my week. I have been working so much overtime and though the money is good, it does drain your mental and physical being. I am sure that I have not been a picnic to be around every waking min. I just pray for more good weeks than bad, more good moments than bad and more positive thinking. I pray the same for all my family, friends and even those people who may not like me.

Blessings till I post again.

Wal-Mart

We went to Wal-Mart tonight. It's been some time since we have been to wally world. But I was not let down at all. The number of rude and clueless people that seem to flock to walmart are still shopping there. Where do these people hide? I never run in to the same class of people at other stores. I will say that over the past few years I have encountered more than my fair share of rude shoppers. But am I missing something? Is there a pre-requisite to shop at walmart that you have to be an aggressive and self centered shopper? I guess this is just one of the mysteries of life that I will never understand.

We did find the yogurt pretzels that I have been looking for at other stores with no success. Having known the way that walmart is good at advertising one price only to be scanned another price I did a smart thing. My pretzels were on sale for 2.00 and I scanned them at the convient self scanner located miles apart in the store. And they rang up 2.78. So I went back and took a picture of display showing 2 bucks and when we checked out I handed my phone to the clerk and she was a bit surprised that I had thought ahead and had the info she needed to complete the transaction. No need to send earl to the back 40 to confim that I was not lying to get my product 78 cents cheaper. Gotta love the camera feature on cell phones.

Blessings till I post again.

Stuff

It was a very good day today. We had a guest speaker at Church and he was very informative. Everything about todays service made me realize just how blessed that I am. I thank God every day for all of the blessings that he has given to me and my wife. But tonight I am even more aware of the blessings that I have. Every breath that I take is a blessing. Waking up in the morning is a blessing. No matter what stuff is going on in my life there are millions of people going to bed dealing with harder stuff that I am dealing with. Praise God that I have stuff to struggle with. Since I was a child I have always been told that God will never put more on me than I can handle. On the days that go by smoothly I believe it. On the days that don't I try to believe it. I know in my mind that it is true but the enemy trys to convince me that it is not. But at the end of the day when the dust settles and I look at the big picture, I see that God was there with me and he helped me to deal with stuff. He brought me through stuff and he is ready to help me deal with tomorrows stuff to. I've said many times before and I'll say many times again that the song Through it all is probably one of my most favorite songs. Because I believe and live by the verse. " I thank him for the mountains, I thank him for the valleys, and I thank him for the storms he's brought me through, For if i never had a problem, I would not know that he could solve them, I would not know what faith in god could do" Lord... Thank you for STUFF.

Blessings till I post again.

Happy New Year

I started the new year off by going to my mother in law's house this morning and Installed the under the cabinet radio that we got her for Christmas. After we got the old one down (complete with cassette player) it took me all of 10 mins to install. I was able to use the new craftsman drill I got on Black Friday. After that we went home and I installed a new door knob on our pantry that we bought about 2 weeks ago. Keeping the momentum I told Sheila to go to Home Depot and get that Ceiling fan that we spotted right before Christmas. I told her while she was gone I would get the old fan down and tonight we would have that new fan up. So I did just that. Start to finish I did the whole job in 1 hour and 5 mins. I really impressed myself today. 5 years ago I would not have even attempted to pick up a screw driver. Well unless I was handing it off to someone.

I have not mentioned my constant struggle with my weight issue's lately. I've tried to avoid talking so much about it, but I will say that I have been following the doctors orders and I have gained 7 lbs so far. I still have 5 more to go and I will get there. It's been hard to not run to my bike and ride like a crazy man when i see the scale go up. But I think 7 lbs is a major accomplishment on my part and I thnik that I might be on the right track now.

Blessings till I post again.