Lala Loopsy

Nothing exciting today except it kinda warmed up for a bit. It was nearly 40 today and me, Lala and the dogs went out back for a few hours.

Bill went ice fishing all day. He took the car so now he gets to go to the grocery store tomorrow.

Me and Lala just got done talking to Coffee on OOvoo. That was kinda fun. She got to see Lala taking a bubble bath hehe.

~~Show Faith, Always Dream, Share With Everyone, Hope hope HOPE and Love Ridiculously & Unselfishly and Be the Person you Dream and Hope to be remembered for~~

CHER

Sunday September 23rd 2012

It was a nice quiet Sunday dinner. I made chicken nachos and mom bought a carrot cake with her for Zacs birthday. He's gonna be 23 tomorrow.I think he was a bit surprised.
Me and bill picked up some sand for the sandbox today and Rylie and Alana played in it for over an hour.
Me and my mom walked down to the Moreno house and checked out the outer perimeters again. She will probably end up putting a bid on it, but it will be much lower than what they're asking. They want a little over 88,000 and mom will bid low. The tax value is 47, 000 so they are well over priced that's for sure. It's funny because I will look back on this in a few years and she may have went a totally different route.
I'm propped up here on the pull out sofa bed with Rylie snoring away next to me. Alana went to bed around 7:30. She was starting to turn into a little bandit. She's so cute sitting on the potty chair. It's hard to imagine that Micah and Rylie just got potty trained and Alana is ready. She wants to keep up with them two so badly. She is doing a good job at it! Micah is staying at Zacs parents so she has a way to school. Her new preschool refuses to pick her up at their house so Vicki takes her. I feel like I never see Micah anymore. That may change here soon because Jayme and zac want her to be home with everyone else, not having to stay at his parents every night.

May 17, 2012

 It was so beautiful out today.  69 but sunny with no wind. I could live like this everyday.  It's going to be in the mid eighties tomorrow and the next day.  I think I might sneak down to the beach and stick my toes in the water.
We picked up Rylie today for "my week-end".  Bill just carried him up to bed, he's been sleeping on the couch since we got home 2 hours ago.  I hope he doesn't get up too early tomorrow, at least not before us especially since we had to return the dead-bolts because I got the wrong kind. We need the kind that takes keys for both sides. So now there are empty holes in the doors with tissue stuck in it. How hillbilly is that lol. I just don't want him to go outside without me. I guess I'll be shopping for those dead-bolts tomorrow.
Me and Bill went to see his mom today.  They took her back to the nursing home last night and her urinary tract infection is pretty muc gone.  Her face is a little swolen but not near as bad as it was in the hospital and she kinda looks good that way.
We played a few games of yahtzee.  Then Mary came to make sure they changed her back to real food instead of that thickener stuff that she wouldn't eat.  I wouldn't want to eat it either.  I mean if you know you're gonna go you should be able to enjoy the time you have left. And food is a big part of that.  We stopped and got her a chocolate shake at Stake N Shake. She was loving that. A little bit before we left Suzie and her son showed up.  I was glad to see Bills mom in her wheelchair and sitting in the break room.  She could talk well but still can't hear and Mary doesn't think the hearing aid is necessary now. I hope Bill goes to see her more often.  Oh ya, they started her on morphine today and took her off of her psyc meds.  She's on the lowest doese of morphine and I think she was pretty alert for being on it, I was a bit worried about that.

I can't remember if I posted since Mother's Day or not. But, me, Bill, mom, Jayme, the kids and Derick all went out to the Old Country Buffet or something like that. For some reason I don't think that's the one, but the other one just like it. Ugh, I hate my memory.  Wade was able to call me on Mother's Day.  He is starting to get ansy and we figured he is coming up on a year now.  Actually I think it's been a year now.  It seems longer and will really seem long by the time he gets out.  He's going to a 16 wk counseling type of course and I think it's helping him.  He also gets a time cut from it. I hope he gets lots out of it cause he needs to do things totally different when he gets out and that's really hard to do.  I think he will remember who has been there for him and who hasn't. He has lots of time to think while he's in there and all his "so called family and friends" can't seem to break down and write a ten minute letter.  It's not even that so much that I worry about, it's who he hangs around.  I don't want him breaking his parole and ending up spending the rest of his sentence in there.

What a bummer post. Good things are happening too.  I've started my new website www.sharing-it-forward.com and it will be along the line of a self-help website but with my twist added in there.
The rocks were removed from our back yard thanks to Jon. And we planted grass that has already had to be mowed twice.  It's beautiful but we still have some bald spots that I'm going to fix by getting another bag of grass.  I'm also going to get the crab grass killer and fix the grass in the front and in the back--then plant some nice grass there too.  I still haven't found a place in the yard worthy of a vege garden except the hill area--thats the only place that gets a fair amount of sun.  I have sprouts of tomatoes, brocolli, carrots and radishes and nowhere to put them.

Well I'm off to put a little time into my new website.

PS
I've still been dieting even though I don't bother with dieting on Sundays when we have our family dinners.  People are noticing my weight loss and commenting.  It's great.  I feel lots better too!

~~Show Faith, Always Dream, Share With Everyone, Hope hope HOPE and Love Ridiculously & Unselfishly and Be the Person you Dream and Hope to be remembered for~~

CHER

Dinner at Jayme's

 Today was a nice long Sunday. Me and Bill went to moms and Bill installed her new water faucet.  It didn't take long at all.  Then me and mom put the air compressor on Craigs list for $800. I hope she gets at least $700 for it! It's big and nice even though it's 12 years old.
Then we all went to Jayme's for dinner. She made beef and noodles, mashed potatoes, green beans, salad and bread. Wow it was alot of food and it was real good too.  She is turning into such a good cook.  The kids love that food.
Derick's family came over too and it was nice to meet them.  His mom, and both brothers Rick and Greg.  I forget his moms name, oh no.  I did pretty good remembering his brothers name.  They were all so nice too.  All the boys are so different.
The kids were at the top of their games, I played with them as much as I could. Alana is so silly.  She has Derick wrapped around her little finger.  She throws her little fit on the floor waiting for him to come pick her up.
We just got home and it's almost 8:30 now.  Already getting kinda tired...prob all those carbs! Going off to work on my other website www.sharingitforward.wordpress.com


~~Show Faith, Always Dream, Share With Everyone, Hope hope HOPE and Love Ridiculously & Unselfishly and Be the Person you Dream and Hope to be remembered for~~

CHER

My Little Birthday Party

It was a nice day having the family come over on my birthday.  Alana really digged the cake. Here are the pictures that I took.

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~~Show Faith, Always Dream, Share With Everyone, Hope hope HOPE and Love Ridiculously & Unselfishly and Be the Person you Dream and Hope to be remembered for~~

CHER

Great few days AND Curves and diet update

Cover of Curves

 It's been a pretty good few days for me.  First I went to see Wade yesterday.  I always love the 2 hour visits we have.  Even though he's been in prison for a year I don't think that it's fully registered with me.  I'm not sure that it ever will and I don't think that I want it to.  Nobody wants to face the fact that one of their children are behind bars for now and years to come.  I always wish we could go back in time and surely enough I find a way to blame it on myself.  I shouldn't do that because mothers with children in prison are already frowned upon.  But I do get to see and talk to him and that's more than Tammy can say.  He's learning a lot there, good and bad.  He's starting to weed it out too and I'm happy for that. I wish his dad would go visit him, I don't think he realizes how important that is for Wade.  We have our "busy" lives but we have to put our priorities in line and live by that...period. Wade has plans and they are all good ones....at least the ones he lets me know of.  It's kinda weird but through the entire process I've been worried about his life afterwards and what kind of life he is going to have.  He will have to have twice the amount of diligence than any other person to get where he wants to be but it can be done.  Anything can be done.  I know that for a fact and I always have faith, especially in my kids.
Today I weighed in at Curves and lost 11 lbs!  I was so excited! I told Sondra that I feel like I'm on the biggest loser and I'm going to win the competition! hehe.  That's pretty good because I'm in my 3rd week there and I can feel major changes.  The circuit training is one of the best things for the body and my 1200 calorie diet has been working wonders and I don't have any problems at all except for late at night sometimes.  I ate a whole baggie of celery last night.  Not a bag from the store but the left over cut up pieces from Easter.  Man, they tasted good haha.  They really did.  I wanted more.
Another lady at Curves told me about Hydroxycut.  I've of course heard of it before, it's a diet pill basically.  It's suppost to burn fat and give you energy.  She said that it worked wonders for her.  When I get a word of mouth tip like that I usually jump on it. So on my way to see Wade yesterday I picked up a bottle.  I'm glad I did because they were on sale for $10.00 off.  So I've been taking them for 2 days now.  I take one before I eat.  The directions tell you to take 1 before each meal for the first 3 days, not to eat between meals and not to eat after dinner.  Then after the 3rd day you can up to 2 before meals.  I haven't noticed a difference in my energy level yet anyway.  I may notice it when I increase to 2 pills Friday.  I will take all the help I can get! But I'm so happy because that 11 lbs is long gone.  I lost it in a way that it's not going to creep back on overnight...I fought hard for it.
I think I got my mom to start drinking protein shakes in the morning now.  She is going to buy some this weekend.  I told her that it's real important to get those 30 grams of protein in within 30 minutes of waking up.  She is also doing good with the Zoloft, she says she has more energy which makes sense since depression sucks the life and energy out of you, and she's only been taking it about a week if that so she should still see more improvement up to the 2 weeks.


~~Show Faith, Always Dream, Share With Everyone, Hope hope HOPE and Love Ridiculously & Unselfishly and Be the Person you Dream and Hope to be remembered for~~

CHER