Friday

This evening our family plans on attending a Memorial for Officer Hamilton. He was a Pasadena Police officer for a little over 4 years. He leaves behind a wife and 2 small children. I invite you to come to Strawberry Park, in Pasadena, Tx, tonight for the Memorial get together. They will be having games, a movie and snacks. This is all free, but any donations will go directly to the family of Officer Hamilton.

Neat looking spider

This very neat creature was found by my two arachnologists in our very own back yard. We took it tonight with us to Red Lobster, where my oldest son preceded to name it and tell everyone it was highly poisonous. It was contained, just so you know. I told him we would get home and google the info on it...He was mis-informed. It is not a crab spider and it is not highly poisonous. This is a Spiny-Backed Orb Spider. Very common in Houston/and surrounding area gardens. Healthy gardens, that is us...Woohoo!

Enjoy this picture of God's most amazing creature.

Mom is today school day????

"Good morning Momma!" "Good Morning sweetie, did you sleep well?" "Yes Momma, do we have school today?" "Hmmmmmm????" "Momma, do we have school today?" "Yes, Tyler, we have school today...Why is it so light in here today?" As the mom slowly looks at her alarm clock, she notices with a smile on her face that it is 7:15,
!!!7:15!!! "What happened? Why didn't my alarm go off, oh no!!!" Cody get out of bed, hurry...

The mom goes back into her room and finds that the volume on her alarm clock is all the way down. Hmmmm, that explains the problem.

If Cody, Mr. Chicken lips, lives another day, it will be by the grace of our Dear Lord... Cody was messing with my alarm clock yesterday, with a smile on his face, he told me my alarm clock was 2 hours later. I didn't think anymore about it after I fixed the time. Little did I know, I wouldn't be able to hear it go off this morning.

Not me, Lord...

I love my boys, I love my boys, I love my boys..... I really do!!!!

Teen Sex

This is a touchy subject, but one that needs to be spoken. I don't have teens yet, but I've been married for almost 17 years. So I think my experience with raising a husband to some degree counts in this arena...LOL

I heard on the news this morning that the Teen Sex percentages have gone down a considerable amount. This worries me, follow me on this. I don't think this survey is being conducted in the right way. I am afraid that many teens are having sex, more than we really believe...I think, by listening to young people and our illustrious media, that our teen population is indeed having sex but not heterosexual sex. If a survey was conducted I believe the amount of teens having sex in the 21st century are having homosexual sex. They are indeed having sex, and not calling it so. Let me hear your thoughts on this?

Great Choices For My Health

Yesterday was a great day, regarding my health. I drank 10 - 8 ounce glasses of water, drank my milks. Had great snacks. The biggy, hold on to your seat.... No chips, not one chip passed my lips at the mexican restaurant we had dinner at last night AND... Our family went for a mile long walk around the park lake with Laura. Great day, spent making great choices. Now, if all days could be like that.

Sewing...

Last night Hubby asked me if it was possible to shorten his undershirt sleeves that go under his uniform. "Sure!" I said. Easy peasy, until he brought me all of his shirts. Hello, am I being paid for this???

Slow Is the New Fast

I am learning that there are some things in life that are better learned and maintained in a slow manner. I have a list that I believe is important to do slowly as to retain the importance of it:

1. Losing Weight

2. Reading

3. Deep cleaning

4. Communication (especially in a angered situation)

5. Eating

6. Planning

Notice two of the items I listed are about food, coincidence? I don't think so. I believe that some things really take time to learn and the process of change takes time. It has been said that changing a bad habit takes approximately 3 weeks to one month. December 31, 2005, I decided that I needed to change my life, my eating habits, my weight. Well, it didn't start December 31st, actually, I had been doing research on the internet, talking to my MD and speaking to others. I was going to have the Gastric Bypass. My doctor told me he would approve me and my insurance would cover it. I was considered morbidly obese. I have been called alot of things, but Morbidly Obese, cut me to the innermost part of my soul. My doctor told me that at the rate I was going, I may not make it to my 40th birthday. He lovingly (and I do mean that he lovingly spoke to me) told me that I was a great candidate for Diabetes, Heart problems: including heart attack, and Thyroid problems. He asked me to think about the effect all of my eating was having on my life, and my family's life. He also asked me to go home and think about my family's life without me.

I joined Weight Watchers December 31st, and I have never regretted doing so. I lost 72 pounds in 2 1/2 years. I did this, I didn't have a surgery, I didn't start drinking drinks from a can. I changed my eating habits...I began planning my meals, eating smaller portions...I was constantly mindful of what I was putting into my mouth.

Somewhere along the time that we took in our 2 Korean boys and the time the job really began to be very distressing I stopped being mindful of what I was eating. I stopped thinking first and began eating first...I am trying desperately to get back to a plan, Weight Watchers is the way to go. I hope to continue working daily to get back on track. That is my desperate need. I have aproximately 45 pounds left to lose. I am confident that I can lose this weight. I have already been a loser and I want to be a loser again.