Better Days Ahead

So today started out well. I actually woke up on my own about 6:15 or so, not me. I am so  not a morning person so why I keep waking up is far beyond me. But  I like it, I want to start getting up early all the time- it's quiet!
 So I was was awake, just didn't really do much but lay there for a bit and relax. After my coffee and shower, few work calls and herding kids out of bed. I was off to work. My first day back!
It felt good, first meeting fro coffee went well then off to lunch meeting that was even better (family) then headed out in the beautiful 65° weather and hit the streets. Pictures and updates on construction at the New Killeen Subdivision It looks awesome.
  Got a bit of house work done played games with the kids, and had a few visitors. Even sold lots of GS Cookies.
All in all it was a very successful day. I just wanted to thank God that I was well enough to have had such a great day with friends and family . I am a little sore now but I am headed to bed now to sleep it off.

Church  tomorrow and then finish the dreaded clothes I am so far behind on.
Good night loves & hugs


 Kim  :)  

See my new Music player Widget!

The New year

Well so far my new year and all of its aspirations have not taken off so well. As you can tell I have been gone for sometime here.
First my daughter got pretty sick then we went out of town to Revolve Tour - Like Women of Faith for Teen Girls  it was awesome. TO be surrounded by that much love and Chirstitan Faith, to be moved by the songs and the skits. Purley magical i thought, plus Britt Nichole is always so much fun in concert, so is Hawk Nelson.
Then to top it off we got to see hubby that night and the next day. We had a great mini family vaca, not all the kids but it was nice one one one for my son and husband and for me & Maria.
So back home back to work I go, I come home w/ a major headache and I go to bed, for a week w/ the flu. So hubby comes to take care of me. I then drive him back to Texarkana (8 hrs) we have a wonderful trip there and a quiet dinner. Nice us time. The next day I am in excruciating pain go to the ER to find out I have gallstones, and my gallbladder is enraged and need to come out.. So here I am now stuck up here 8 hours away w/ my car and hubby cant leave school to take me home to my own dr. so I get mom to come get me and bring me home and in 2 days I was in same day surgery. Here we are now a week after that and I am recovering pretty well. Just sore like I have been kicked in the chest. But all and all I am doing better. I am looking at this as a positive step to better health.
Maybe some of my symptom are from this bad organ that was living in my body. Maybe my Fibro wont be so bad now, maybe the fatigue and exhaustion will be less.  I am sure that this had allot to do with my down sliding the past few months.
Tomorrow I am thinking of heading to the gym for a bit a walking on treadmill, then maybe some slight stretching and  mild yoga. My diet had been restricted quite a bit this past week so I am trying really hard not to go back to soda and junk food. Easier said then done when home all day I know but hopefully I have the strength to stick with it.
Well that's whats been going on, so I really need to get to work and make some money! I am ready to take on this new subdivision and sell!
Got a few parties booked for my Thirty-one gifts too so that should help off set a few things and take another headache off my plate.
Take care and God Bless Hugs & Luvs ,

  Kim
PS pretty much stopped taking the Cymbalta cold turkey sorta, was to sick so waiting to see if I am good or need to still ween off of it- but only a few pills in about 3 weeks, so far so good!

Fun Friday

Ok so not really Fun as one would hope, but I am happy with uneventful.

   Started of in pain still in hip and the cold weather always make me super stiff and puffy. In case you didn't know Rhuemi appt yesterday same old stuff, bursitis in my hip, edge of a flare up and a little PMS, but other then that my life is peachy.
ALso I am starting my weening process off of the Cymbalta and I will be getting off my Ortho evera as well.  I will be trying to document that as I hear it is a harsh withdraw. I am scared to death so please pray it goes smooth & that I will be fine. Also started back on the Advocare: MNS, Catalyst and still taking Spark.

 Have to say I did go to bed early last night and slept pretty hard until 4 ish then tossed and turned the next 2 hours. I really hate mornings. Just too tired and painful to get out of bed.
PTO meeting went great and I was on time, spent a little time chatting at with  a great friend.
We discussed relationships and how things change, almost like some people in our lives are seasonal. They come and go like the wind. Do you have people like that in your life? How does that make you feel? And as a child of God is that how we are supposed to be like?
After that I ran some errands, we got a few tickets on post for free today, one fro a football game and then to see a comedian. It was great to have lunch with my mom and her friend then to run into my dad by sheer coincidence.
Did some birthday shopping and then head here to work. Which is where I will finish up my blog for today and read some various scripture on Discipline, honesty, respect, and love.
Probably just sit here and do my reading but really need some buyer to come in and buy this home.
 Yes, I know alot of reading here is what I have for January and February:

Karen Kingsbury Like Dandelion Dust (been trying )
Terri Blackstock Cape Refuge Book 3 of 4  (audio)
Proverbs- Daily read and discussion w/ friend
Psalms we are reading a chapter each week in Sunday School Class
Romans -Small Group read and discuss weekly

Refreshed

Wow, I can not believe it has been so long since I got on here to write. My hand have been pretty sore and so have my arms. Been working alot lately. So I never bothered to pick up the laptop at all. I was just using my phone to do a few updates here an there.
First i want to say thanks to all my friends out there, I always wonder why would I blog, who wants to read my stuff. Then as I started to feel ill I searched ay and night for information, and I soaked it all up. I felt so much better to know that I was ot Alone. There are others, I am not crazy.
So I thought if  I could reach just a few people with my random rantings, and make them feel better, then I have accomplished something.
And guess what, people ARE reading it. That's is so exciting, hope you don't notice all my typos, my brain seems to work faster then my fingers, and the Internet can handle.  And  now the batteries in the key board are going out on me. 
Well I guess I need to wrap up early then, but I wanted to tell you real quick;
Last week was a really rough week, I cried, at everything- even a Folgers commercial, and the news where that track girl crawled over the finish line for her dieing coach, anyway, I had migraine & sinus headache last Wed, slept the entire day away, next day got the kids off, and then went home and slept more, ignored phones call and all. Friday I had to work at BBW- didn't want to leave the house. I got nauseous and upset stomach bad, it was awful, tried to get up and would get dizzy and shaky.
I went anyway, my good friend was working with me and she always makes me laugh and smile.
I could have stayed home, wallowed in my self pity, my despair, but I had to look around, some of my woes are financial like everyone else lately, but I know I have to work to fix it, right?
so I worked all day Sat, Sunday I went to SS Class- felt so good, then worked long shift  and a trip to the ER (another story later)
I have been reading Proverbs each day and discussing it (via text) Great idea to have accountability, w/ out the pressure. my point is that  I woke up this am, drank my coffee, showered and dressed, actually put on make up and did my hair. Yes, I wore make up today.  And I still had spoons left the-spoon-theory
and here I am sitting at work and still going, I did take one of my Rx pills today that helps but that was later in the day.  So do you think that because I took the time to learn from God this week that I feel so much better then last week, when I thought everything and everyone hated me? I would have to say that it has everything to do with my attitude today, sure I have a wonderful party tonight for work, but last week I would not have even thought about going. Surrounding myself with people no way.

OK keyboard & mouse are really dying and my hands are cramped, gonna go get pretty for party and relax.

PS Had sweet couple come into today, praying that they are serious about building and their home sells quick.

Thanks for visiting...~Gentle Hugs~ God Bless

Directions

How well do you listen to directions?  Do you follow them to the "t" or do just push through trying to get as much done as you can and do it all but only part way?
That seems to be the case alot of times lately around my house. We barely have time to breath much less take out the trash & put a new bag in.
So how  do we fix that, how can we get back to the basics? God and family, then everything else. I understand we all work and and get distracted by everything especially kids or coworkers.
Last time I wrote I talked about scheduling and making sure that we performed out best during the day. that focus was  more for us with chronic illness or Brain Fog if you will so that we can keep working with out forgetting the task at hand. Or sentence for that matter
So getting back to the daily schedules, do you start you am off with coffee and breakfast, is that when you read your emails or your morning paper? I have tried to incorporate my bible study time then, maybe take 30 minutes before the kids are up running around and screaming they can't find their shoes. Then maybe on your lunch break take another 15 minutes or so and just Praise God, praise him for everything, then ask him for your needs as well as others. I do alot of worship in the car, I can sing as loud as I want with no one to laugh or judge. It makes my drive time go by alot faster and I am in such a better mood once I get to my next destination for I am consumed by the holy spirit.
There is a message out there for each one of us. A path to follow and directions are laid out each day, with guidance and we fail everyday trying to make our own path or doing it my own way.
HELLO, that's not working, wake up and look at everything around you. Is that where you are supposed to be? Just take time to listen and hear the directions that are being spoken to you. Sometimes we just have to keep going straightt forward until he say it time to make that turn.
I can keep going on and on ranting but that doesn't fix it, I have to start doing it.

Kids

Just sitting here with my youngest watching Charlie Brown, I look at her on my laptop typing away to her friends, and texting.
My son doesn't even stay in the living room long enough for me to even see him text.
As usual my older girls are not home 

After attending a funeral for a 17 year old boy my heart is still broken, as hard as it is to be a parent we have to stay focused on all the good things.

Yeah off to Scouts, gymnastics, soccer (all day)
pto meetings it's all the same. Tiring - what else gives you that amazing feeling, that's my kid!!

I say that to say this - love your kids wholey, never go to bed angry, never leave w/ out a good bye and always say I love you

God Bless