I Find it Amazing

I find it amazing that you can be constantly blowing your nose because it's running like a racehorse, BUT at the same time you can't breathe because your nose is so plugged!!! I just ate a bowl of cereal and found myself gasping for a breath of air because I couldn't breathe while I was chewing!!! Colds Blow!

I find it amazing that one day it can be 82 degrees (which also makes the breathing hard when you have a cold!) and the next day your lucky if it's 50 and there's frost and freezing warnings out for the following night!!! I went to give Whitney her shot this morning and take care of her cuts and the poor horse was shivering because she has already shed all her winter coat. We put a blanket on her, which seemed to help quiet down her shivering quite a bit. Thank God for wood stoves!

I find it amazing that when you offer to take a child_unit out to lunch that they come up with a counter off of...'you have to play Xbox with me or I won't go'...hmmmmm, I think it may be, I'm gonna go without you! That's all I need to do is get addicted to video games!

I find it amazing that May is almost past!

I find it amazing that we take God's wonderful creation of foliage in all its wonderful variances for granted. I actually picked some Lilacs to admire yesterday and in between blowing and sniffling, I could actually smell how beautiful they smell. I really am amazed that all of this comes back year after year after year. We are Blessed!

I find it amazing yet again that another cat has had kittens in the cat house and she's trying to take over the older kittens that are already in there. She keeps trying to drag them back in the house....it's too funny to see how much of a fight they put up while being dragged around. (hehe)

I find it amazing how individual my kids are and how wonderful they are. I'm PROUD! It's hard to see them growing into adults because I want to keep them, but I know they have their own roads to follow. *sigh*

I am now going to go and be amazed by how warm I can feel with a blanket wrapped around me!

Y'all try to be amazed by something today!
Love Ya :)

Rough time, eh

Today is Memorial Day, I hope everyone took some time to remember the people that have fought and are still fighting for our Country, freedoms and rights.

Our local Memorial Day celebrations yesterday were a bit off. The afternoon started with the annual parade, which seemed a bit short this year. Next was the gathering in the school courtyard. I'm sorry, but I really think they need to find someone else to lead the ceremonies in the coming years, the poor fellow that led the ceremony yesterday couldn't remember the name of the special guests and then for some odd reason, the 21 gun salute AND Taps got left out completely!!!! Needless to say, many people were not too happy. I heard a little bit later on that they thought everything was running a little behind and they were going to be late getting to the VFW for the 'picnic' (hotdog) lunch they provide every year. While I appreciate the lunch that they provide for anyone that shows up, I would much rather that they took the extra time to honor the fallen soldiers with the respect they deserve, hotdogs have enough preservatives in them that 10 minutes won't make a bit of difference!! >:(

Wednesday I decided to go to lunch by myself. I got a book and sat in my favorite booth to enjoy some 'cold' pizza from the pizza bar. It was kinda towards the end of the lunch run and they didn't really want to make any new, fresh pizzas...but, it was ok. While sitting there, an elderly gentleman was making his way to the restrooms. He was walking with a cane at a very slow pace. The closer he got I could hear that he was having difficulties breathing. It really hit me hard. He would have to stop every few tables to catch his breath and the sounds that came with each labored breath sounded EXACTLY the way my dad used to breath when he was strained. It's sort of a whistling breath. I started to cry sitting there. Right now I'm even trying to hold back the tears just remembering it. For anyone that doesn't know, my dad died when he was only 56 years old from COPD...from my understanding, it's a sort of mixture of chronic bronchitis and emphysema. 40 years of smoking can have that affect on a person. The longer I sat there made me just want to go and hug that guy, he made me realize that I never really did grieve for my dad. A lot of things happened between us that soft of put a wedge between us, I wasn't with him when he died, my brother took care of all the funeral arrangements and 2 days after he died, Tom's grandma died. It was really just too much at the time. It used to just make me angry that he wouldn't give up smoking when he knew things were starting to get bad...he could have had more years to spend with his grandkids....and kids for that matter. That day was the first day that I realized that I do actually miss him.

Everyone in the house is getting a cold....Christen started it...then Emily...then D...now me. I felt like crap yesterday....although, ya know...people always say they 'feel like crap', how does crap really feel? Who started saying that? I mean really....it should be, "I feel like crap smells"....that at least makes more sense! I mean, I don't know about anybody else, but when you go to the bathroom and 'crap' it tends to make one feel better...not bad. Hmmmm....another thing to ponder, eh.

We were on our way home from TRYING to go and see the new Indiana Jones movie, but it was sold out :( We came around the back way home and went by my horse...she was laying down...Whitney NEVER lays down. Apparently, someone had done something NOT SO SMART with her and she ended up getting hurt. Her back right leg is cut and scraped pretty bad and she has a couple of scrapes on her right leg too. Needless to say, she's on a 10 day-antibiotic and salve regiment. I wanted to cry last night when I saw her. I did a little, but, she needed me to help her more than I needed to cry. She was up walking on it this morning, that's a good thing :) I'm just going to be worried for the next 10 days about getting kicked in the face while I'm trying to clean her up!!

Well, it's after 11 now and I haven't eaten anything yet today and I still feel like crap smells! (sore throat AND plugged up nose!)

Y'all think of a Veteran today,
Love Ya :)

No time

Wow, it's been a little while since I've updated and honestly, I don't really have the time to do it right now! Christen has to be to softball practice in exactly 16 minutes, so, I guess I'll try to update something in that time.

Yes, the youngest child_units have started their 'summer' ball seasons, D has actually already played 2 games. However, we don't really have winners or losers at this point in their ball careers, they're all winners....*sorry* I think I just rolled my eyes there....D plays "coach pitch" at this point which means that each child gets to bat and nobody is really considered 'out' if they ACTUALLY get tagged legally. At least it's only 3 innings and goes pretty quick. Christen has her first game sometime next week. Yay, another traveling team :| At least when they play, they adhere to the real game of soft/base ball! Yeah, yeah, yeah, I KNOW, they're only little kids and they're learning....except next year when they get tagged out and have to go sit down, they're gonna be crying because that's not how they were taught to play!!!!! *sigh*...OK, I'm over it.

Em is gone right now, she's down at Western Michigan University participating in the Michigan Youth Arts Festival!!! She says it's very enjoyable down there and the music sounds AMAZING. I can't wait to go and listen to the concert tomorrow. The only problem with going there is that it's going to take over 3 hours to drive down there. I know that Ben is going with me, I'm just hoping though that I don't have to take the two younger ones, they'll be extremely bored and grumpy after such a long drive. Who knows, maybe they'll be ok.

Alex is gone right now to a track meet. He really didn't want to go either. I don't blame him though after going to a far away baseball game yesterday. Oh well, that's what happens when you want to play every sport there is! The boys track team is doing great, they've won every meet so far this year I do believe, the girls are even doing well. I guess for years they've come in last at every meet, now they're at least making up towards the middle of the pack. Em is doing great too in shot put and discus. Alex is doing FANTASTIC with his 3200M relay team! I think they've gotten either first or 2nd at every meet.

Ben is HOME!!! Well, at least for the summer! He's not really enjoying the 'adult' life. He doesn't like the idea of waking up, eating breakfast, working hard all day, eating supper, going to bed, getting up in the morning and repeating it all over again!!! I told him, "Welcome to adulthood". He wasn't impressed. I'm just really glad to have him home though!

Tom is working REALLY hard. I honestly have no idea how he does it! It's no wonder he's in as good of shape that he's in....I know I couldn't put in the hours he does!

Oops, just looked at the time.....4:27, I have 3 minutes to get her to practice.

Y'all enjoy a ball game today!
Love Ya :)