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Getting Back to More of the Same!

The fact is:

You are already doing what you want!

You Choose.

Period!

OK, now that I’ve gotten that out of my system…I am having a quiet evening at home, an old Patty Duke episode on the tele, Christmas lights lit, my sweetie Christmas shopping in the next room, the girls sleeping on the couch, and I can hear the hum of the washer and dryer going. It has been a long productive day.

I don’t think I’ve seen the Patty Duke show since I was a little girl. It reminds me of all of the trouble my sisters and I used to get into. I used to do all of the babysitting of my younger sisters while my parents were at work. My sisters loved to make my life difficult, and I loved to return the favor in kind, so to speak! LOL! I have so many stories of the crazy, zaniness, that we got ourselves into. One of the things that comes to the top of my head was the time that I was about 12 and caught the kitchen on fire. Not a “ooh the pan is on fire”, but “OMG THE FIRE IS TRAVELING UP THE CABINETS!!!!” fire!! After putting out the fire, I put the troops AKA my sisters, into cleaning mode!!! All I kept thinking was, if we clean this up mom and dad will never know!!! HAHAHAHA!!! Well, no – they found out. Matter of fact I remember my parents walking in, I was standing on the stove cleaning the ceiling, one of my sisters was cleaning the floor, another a wall, and another standing on the counter next to the sink cleaning cabinets!!! The jig was up!!! I am amazed we all made it into adulthood!!!

Gotta love those memories!!!

Have a FABULOUS evening!! 😉

Back Home & Taking It Easy!

My sweetie and I are back at  home, from a quick weekend down to Roseburg. We went to support our little sisters with their Christmas bazaar! I am just so proud of them for all of the hard work they had done, and for all of the goodies they were able to come up with. The booth had all sorts of goodies for sale, ornaments, heating pads, i-spy pillows, gift baskets of bath goodies, advent calendars, etc. It actually was a little slower than my sis, Jennifer would have liked, but she really did do such a GREAT JOB!!! They all did! This was the first time that I can remember them stepping out of the box and do something that caused them to use their bravery muscles! I AM SOOOO PROUD OF THEM!!! I love you, girls! More than you will ever know!!!

On another note: I am longing for my farm today – I know it is out there somewhere, I just pray that we will find each other someday. I am really dreaming about growing my own fruits and vegetables. Sharing our goods with neighbors and friends, and canning our deliciousness away to be enjoyed year round or given as gifts – OH THAT WOULD BE THE LIFE!!! 🙂

While I go and dream some more,

Have a FABULOUS evening!!! 😉

Laughter is the Best Medicine!

Christina: “Jennifer, You are the wind beneath my wings!”

Jennifer: “Maybe that is why you keep flying around in circles.”

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I just got off the phone with one of my little sisters, Jennifer!!! She is such a hoot!!!Ok, so maybe she isn’t quite a little girl anymore – matter of fact she is almost 25, but she is still the hilarious comedian of the family!!!! I think she came out of our mother’s womb with a witty remark that could’ve made the doctor laugh so hard, that she was in serious danger of being dropped!!!

Jennifer is recovering from surgery that she had his past week, and although she is still in some pain, she is just as busy as ever making the world laugh around her!!! What a blessing that woman is!!! 😉

When Jennifer was about 9, her and my youngest sister, Trina, who was 4 at the time, used to spend every Summer with my husband and I. I would pretend they were my little girls and we would take them with us everywhere to go do all sorts of fun stuff, well, at least that was our goal!!! You see, during one EXTREMELY HOT Summer, when my Sweetie and I were living in Idaho, we thought it would be fun for the girls to sleep in a little tent that we had set up in the finished basement just for them – it was the coolest part of the house, and during that heat wave, a cool place was MANDATORY!!! I mean HOW AWESOME IS THAT!?!?!?! Well, ok, apparently they HATED IT!! I didn’t realize, probably because I had never slept in the basement, that there was an extremely noisy furnace which scared the bajeezus out of them every time it turned on!! Plus, because they were so scared, they kept the tent completely zipped up and it became a swealtering sauna!!! I never could figure out why they go to bed in there pjs and they would get up in the morning in just there underclothess. OK, now I get it, it was super hot!!! But they just went along with everything because they didn’t want to cause any problems!! ISN’T THAT FUNNY???? Everytime I hear this story, I just feel soooo bad that I didn’t realize that the little tent was sooooo not fun!!! I am sure I owe them a small fortune in therapy costs!!! Thankfully, we all just laugh about it now!! I still LOVE THOSE GIRLS!!! ;- )

Ok, so down to business:

Today is day 4 of my 30-Day-Self-Created-Visual-Nutrition-Plan!! Feeling great!!! I can eat whatever I want, but I have to take a picture of ANYTHING and EVERYTHING I eat and post it on this blog – and have to be willing to take any criticism I might incur!!! The key word being ACCOUNTABILITY!! In addition, I am incorporating more fruits and veggies into my day to help me eat a more BALANCED diet, and get healthy!!

I have to admit, that the knowledge that I have to take pics and post everything that I have eaten has really curbed a couple of poor choices!! Although, I did treat myself to a real New York style hot dog tonight, which was DIVINE!!!

Anyway, here is the pics of all my eats for today!!

Breakfast: Yogurt with granola

Snack: Sliced orange with 3 mini blueberry muffins

Lunch: Salad with chopped rotisserie chicken, raisins, Dijon dressing, and cherry tomatoes

Snack: Some carrots cut like chips

Snack: Grapes and string cheese

Dinner: A whole wheat hot dog bun, a foot long hot dog, caramelized onions (I am totally addicted!!!), and super healthy baked beans!!! YUM!!

Snack: Fresh strawberries (I decided that because I splurged on a hot dog for dinner, I had better save the chocolate for my strawberries on another day!!) 🙂

How are all of you doing? Getting any ideas for yourself? I would love to hear some of them, please free to comment up above!!!

Have a FABULOUS evening!

Sisters!

To make a long story short, I have been having a really bad case of the mean reds!!! and two of my little sisters have TOTALLY made me feel better! LAUGHTER IS THE BEST MEDICINE!!!

and for those of you who don’t know what the mean reds are, here are some of my favorite lines from one of my favorite movies, Breakfast at Tiffany’s:

Holly Golightly: You know those days when you get the mean reds?
Paul Varjak : The mean reds, you mean like the blues?
Holly Golightly : No. The blues are because you’re getting fat and maybe it’s been raining too long, you’re just sad that’s all. The mean reds are horrible. Suddenly you’re afraid and you don’t know what you’re afraid of. Do you ever get that feeling?
Paul Varjak : Sure.
Holly Golightly : Well, when I get it the only thing that does any good is to jump in a cab and go to Tiffany’s. Calms me down right away. The quietness and the proud look of it; nothing very bad could happen to you there. If I could find a real-life place that’d make me feel like Tiffany’s, then – then I’d buy some furniture and give the cat a name!

Have a FABULOUS evening!!!