Life is life

Ok it seems that no matter what I'm not very good at keeping up on the whole blogging thing.
So I guess it is what it is and that's that. I will post when I post, lol

This will just be a 9 month catch up blog. :)

My son's graduation went well back in May. My eldest and favorite Aunt made the trip from Cleveland for D's graduation. We enjoyed her being here for the day. WE had only been in our new house for 2 weeks when graduation day came so my house was obviously still a total wreck from unpacking. (I hate unpacking by the way) Instead of moving in with us my parent's chose to move to Arizona. So the morning after D graduated they was on the road but not until I made them a very large breakfast for a full tummy while traveling there 1st day on the road.

Two day's after D graduated my cousin's oldest graduated and his graduation party was right after his graduation. It was a beautiful and perfect day to be outside for his party. Can't believe these boy's are out of high school. Just doesn't seem possible.

Fast forward a month and we had a very busy 9 Day's! The last saturday of June we had our yearly family reunion. Then had to rush home cause had family coming in from out of state for my son's graduation party and our yearly camping trip.
Reunion we was pretty much stuck in my great aunt and uncle's garage due to rain. Apparently a bad storm hit my tiny town while we was there. The closer we got to home after the reunion the more tree limbs and tree's was down on the ground. My family from out of state got to my house before we did so luckily I left the door on locked for them. (I don't make it a habit of leaving my door's unlocked even though I do live in the country). When we got home it was a race to get the house clean and ready for the following day of company for D's graduation party. It turned out to be a very hot, humid and muggy day so since my grandparent's was going to be there I decided to have the party indoors in the a/c. I didnt want grandma and grandpa getting over heated since they are in there late 80's. And I think everyone else appreciated that to. The party was perfect Except for the fact that my parent's and sister and her family wasn't there. Originally the plan was that I was going to buy the plane ticket's to fly my sis, bro n law and there 4 children out but I didn't realize how expensive it would be to fly all 6 of them out here so that didn't happen. Will get them out here another time. :(

Normally we would've been leaving for our camping trip that day as we always do the Sunday before the 4th of July. But unfortunately for us I waited to long to make our reservation's. We ended up pitching our tent onto my baby cousin's camp site. They don't go for the whole week like we do so that gave us a couple of day's to hang at the pool and not have to rush to get all the camping gear together. But I made sure we had our reservation's for this year before we left the campgrounds last year. Camping was fun as it alway's is every year!! Am excited for this year's camping trip though cause I picked one of the few tent site's that are in front of the swimming lake. The only trick will be trying to keep my sweet fur baby out of the lake cause she love's swimming......

A month after camping D got his first job. It is close enough for him to walk to work, but not in these frigid temp's. I'm peeling myself out of bed early and taking him to work. can't wait for Spring to get here so he can walk to work though. :-/ He is still working there and helping his momma with bill's for awhile. But he need's to start looking into college. The past 9 month's has gone by so quickly. Went to cleveland for Christmas and got into mischief with my favorite bestie cousin. Alway's enjoy my time with her!

Future plan's are now in the work's. Yearly camping trip. Long weekend for me in the fall to take a road trip to the DC area to see my best friend from high school. And hoping to go to Cali the 1st week of August if D can get out of work for a week so we can go see my sis and family.

And I am working on starting a project to make money on the side to make extra money on the side. Hopefully this pan's out the way I want. But I will post a seperate post for that. I need to get off of here now. Hope everyone has a good week. stay warm it's gonna be another cold freezing week. Laterssss

Journey

In 4 day's my son will be graduating from High School and beginning his own journey in life. I'm sad that he has grown up so quickly and sad that the year's have gone by entirely way to fast. But at the same time I am curious as to what the next chapter in his life has in it's folds for him. He want's to be a diesel mechanic which I don't have a problem with that cause it will be a good paying job. He has a college picked out that specializes in the auto mechanic industry. They also specialize in Nascar stock cars's which I told him he should consider that also, so that he can get a job working with Nascar and get me tickets for all the Sprint Cup Races around the country...... hahahahaha (yes I'm a big Nascar fan)

 This summer is going to be a busy one for us! My parents are coming in on Thursday. My favorite aunt on Friday. Graduation on Friday night. And the beginning of graduation party's starting on Sunday for my cousins son whom is also graduating this week. My parents are moving to AZ on Saturday. Then a month straight of constant 12 hour shifts for me. The last weekend of June is my sons graduation party and the following day we leave for our yearly camping trip. Then 3 more weeks of constant 12 hour shifts and then off to Cali we go for a week to spend some much needed time with my sister and her family. ~hopefully~ Then after that it's time for my son to go on his journey in life. ~sigh~

I just hope his adulthood brings many pleasure's in life and not to many hardship's that so many of us has seen over the past few years.

As I'm typing this I'm completely distracted by other things and realize that I'm blabbering a tad bit. I will post more this week.

                                            ~Happy Memorial Day! God Bless and stay safe today!

Trust

So I'm on a 5 pound restriction which isn't work related. Yesterday 3 hours into my shift after I put the drs slip on our hr reps desk he calls my cell phone and asks me to call him. So I walk away from my press and went up to hr (he forgot that I work 1st shift) and proceeds to tell me that because this is not work related that they can't accommodate me at work and tells me to go home.... Ok whatever! I think that's b.s. Cause I happen to know for a fact that they have accommodated many other employees. But I'll keep my mouth shut on this. 

A week ago I took my spoiled bratty dog to the vets cause she had scratched her ear raw and I suspected that she has allergies. So the vets gave me some ointment for her ear which has pretty much healed. But, the other night my friend noticed the same thing on her neck only it was way worse. So I took her back to the vet this morning and they shaved her neck, cleaned it up and the vet now fully agrees with me. Ugh! Good thing k9 allergy meds are way cheaper then human meds! She's now on 2 different types of allergy meds.

Right after I woke up this morning and was getting ready to walk out the door to head to the vets a friend from work texts me and asks me if I wanna make some money. Another employee got fired for something he said to her this morning and because he knows where she lives she was worried about him trying to retaliate and go to her house. She wanted someone to go to her house and watch her kids and house just to be on the safe side! I completely don't blame her on that! Her kids have never met me so I am glad that she trusts me enough to go to her house and watch them without them not knowing me. Trust is a key word in not only relationships but friendship to. :)

Hello 2014

2013 in review: My son turned 18, I financed my very first suv and I love it! My spoiled dog was hit by a truck and survived. She could barely walk for a month and had to have help getting into sitting positions and laying positions and had to be lifted to a standing positions but she survived and that's what matters! I found out that I have high blood pressure which took 5-6 months to get under control. My son started his senior year of high school :( my dr discovered that I have seriously high cholesterol and told me to lose weight and change my diet to see if I can bring it down myself before deciding on putting me on meds for that. I didn't have the best year in 2013 but I got by.

I have many New Years resolutions for 2014 and I will stick to all of them.

I will take that weight off plus some. I am changing the way I eat slowly but surely.

I will succeed in quitting smoking.

And most importantly I am slowly working on making my finances 100% healthy again.

I have a goal to buy a house in the next few years and one way or another I'm going to make that happen.

And I vow to post on a regular basis on here rather then once or twice a year. :)

My son will be graduating in May and I'm completely unprepared and not ready for it. I'm flying my sister and her family out here to help celebrate at his graduation party and I'm completely excited and anxious for them to get here! Not only for the family time but so I can have some much needed  sister time with my baby sis. I'm moving my parents in with me in the spring to free up money for them and for myself. But I don't think my sister yet knows about this which I don't know if that will upset her or not.

Mother Nature started 2014 off with a winter weather advisory for us and the snow is so beautiful right now. I took a picture earlier but unfortunately I can't figure out how to upload a picture of it from my iPad so I guess I will have to leave the picture out that I took earlier.

I hope that 2014 brings everyone happiness, good health both physically and financially! 

             Happy New Year!!!

Time

I'm feeling a little down lately. Time seems to be going by so fast. School ended 8 days ago and I now have a high school senior on my hands. I have hit 40 and d has hit 18 and it just doesn't seem possible. I'm not ready to let go, but what parent ever is?

It seems like it was just yesterday that my dad and I had tricked d into walking instead of reaching for
Furniture to grasp into his tiny hands.  D was late, more like lazy on learning to talk no matter what I did I couldn't even trick him into talking. When he was 3 years old we moved from the west coast to the mid west to my home state and my grandmother had him talking up a storm within a week. Thank God for great grandmothers!! ;)

And then I must've blinked cause the next thing I knew he was starting kindergarten and from there the time just took off from underneath me. Constant school functions, a short time in the school band, sports starting in middle school. The typical teen parent arguments and me pulling my hair out.
But now a year from now that chapter in life will be over!

But I am excited over the next chapter in life. I can't wait to see where his journey as a adult will take him. I know he wants to go into the military but hasn't come right out and told me this. Probably because I want him to go to college! But I can't force him to go regardless of what I feel or think, right!?!

Life as a single parent has been a journey that has its ups and downs! I have had help raising him by my parents, aunts, uncles, cousins and the most important person my ex whom he looks up to as his father figure. I appreciated that help cause I honestly would get overwhelmed at times.

I seem to be blabbering in this post so I'm going to end this one. I will be posting all of d's senior stuff
Once school resumes in the fall. I'm always meaning to post blogs but never seem to have the energy to do it but am going to start making time for it.

Happy Sunday oh and happy Father's Day to all the fathers and mothers pulling double duty out there!!

Luck of the Irish!

I've alway's had a passion and fascination with anything Irish regardless of what it was. I learned when i was a young that I had Irish in me from my dad's father's side of the family.  I recently learned that my great grandfather (my dad's mothers father) was half Irish. So I have more Irish in me than I thought!! I find it ironic that a country that has alway's fascinated me is actually part of my heritage/ancestry. And I love it!! St. Patricks Day has alway's been my favorite day of the year. This post is actually just a post with some Irish Blessing's for anyone that loves a good Blessing. I know it's a little early but have fun on St. Patty's Day, Drink some green beer, Dance and sing like your the only one on the room and most importantly have lot's of insanely crazy fun!! Be safe and have load's of fun!!

Irish Blessings and Sayings
May you always have
Walls for the winds,
A roof for the rain,
Tea beside the fire,
Laughter to cheer you,
Those you love near you,
And all your heart might desire!

May you be in
Heaven a half hour before the
Devil knows you're dead!

When Irish eyes are smiling,
Tis like a morn in spring.
With a lilt of Irish laughter
You can hear the angels sing
When Irish hearts are happy
All the world is bright and gay
When Irish eyes are smiling
Sure, they steal your heart away.

May your blessings outnumber
The shamrocks that grow,
And may trouble avoid you
Wherever you go.

There are many good reasons for drinking,
One has just entered my head.
If a man doesn't drink when he's living,
How in the hell can he drink when he's dead?

May the best day of your past
Be the worst day of your future.

I'm looking over a four leaf clover
That I overlooked before
One leaf is sunshine, the second is rain,
Third is the roses that grow in the lane.
No need explaining the one remaining
Is somebody I adore.
I'm looking over a four leaf clover
That I overlooked before.

May you live to be a hundred years
With one extra year to repent.

May those who love us, love us
And those who don't love us,
May God turn their hearts
And if he can't turn their hearts,
May he turn their ankles
So we will know them by their limping!

As you slide down the banister of life,
May the splinters never point in the wrong direction!

May luck be our companion
May friends stand by our side
May history remind us all
Of Ireland's faith and pride.
May God bless us with happiness
May love and faith abide.

Leprechauns, castles, good luck and laughter
Lullabies, dreams, and love ever after.
Poems and songs with pipes and drums
A thousand welcomes when anyone comes.
That's the Irish for you!

There's a dear little plant that grows in our isle,
'Twas St. Patrick himself, sure, that sets it;
And the sun of his labor with pleasure did smile,
And with dew from his eye often wet it.
It grows through the bog, through the brake, through the mireland,
And they call it the dear little Shamrock of Ireland.

May your neighbors respect you,
Troubles neglect you,
The angels protect you,
And Heaven accept you.

May you have:
A world of wishes at your command
God and his angels close at hand
Friends and family their love impart,
And Irish blessings in you heart.

May God grant you many years to live,
For sure he must be knowing
The earth has angels all to few
And Heaven is overflowing.

These things I warmly wish to you-
Someone to love
Some work to do
A bit o' sun
A bit o' cheer
And a guardian angel always near.

Here's to a long life and a merry one
A quick death and an easy one
A pretty girl and an honest one
A cold beer and another one!

May your pockets be heavy and your heart be light,
May good luck pursue you each morning and night,

O Ireland isn't it grand you look
like a bride in her rich adornin?
And with all the pent up love of my heart
I bid you the top o' the mornin!


May the lilt of lush laughter lighten ever road,
May the midst of Irish magic shorten every road.
May you taste the sweetest pleasures
that fortune ever bestowed,
And may all your friends remember
all the favors you are owed.

Go mbeannai Dia duit
(May God Bless You)

May your home always be too small to hold all your friends.
God is good, but never dance in a small boat.

May you live as long as you want,
And never want as long as you live.

If you're enough lucky to be Irish...
You're lucky enough!My wild Irish rose
The sweetest flower that grows
You may search everywhere
But none can compare to my wild Irish rose
My wild Irish rose
The sweetest flower that grows
Someday for my sake she may let me take
A bloom from my wild Irish rose

'Tis better to buy a small bouquet
And give to your friend this very day,
Than a bushel of roses white and red
To lay on his coffin after he's dead.

For each petal on the shamrock
This brings a wish your way-
Good health, good luck, and happiness
For today and every day.

Dance as if no one were watching,
Sing as if no one were listening,
And live every day as if it were your last.

Beginning my mission

I went into work today only to get sent home, which is no big deal i guess. It just gave me the time to run over to the gym so that i can move forward on my mission. I have my goal's set in my mind and am using July 1, 2012 as my goal deadline.


The gym said they will help me reach my goal and i'm dead bent on reaching it. I told them i wanna lose 50 pounds (I only need to lose like 40 in all honesty) by next summer and they said no problem that will be easy and will help me. Starting tomorrow i will be going to the gym after work. And Saturday i will cut out my smoking permanently. 


I have not set foot in a gym in almost 15 year's and wish i had never stopped going. I have fought and fought with my weight since i had my son. It's been a never ending battle for me!!
I have been unhappy with the way i look since i had my son 16 and a half year's ago. So if i'm going to be happy with myself then this goal will make it happen. :)


I don't normally eat when i'm working, but i think if i'm going to reach my goals that i need to make myself eat a small breakfast in the mornings, a small lunch and a light dinner.
I think the hardest thing will be staying away from the fast food, junk food and pop.
The more i cut out the easier it will be on me. I eat ALOT of carbohydrate's and am sitting here wondering if i will be able to cut those out or if i would be able to get away with eatting some carbo's twice a week at least. I love my spaghetti, lasagne etc to much to fully cut those out while i work on my goal. :\ The main thing is i need to eat more veggies and fruits. But im such a anti veggie person that i'm not sure how that will fly lol. 


I'm outta here for now i will post more tomorrow night on how my first day in the gym went. (: Have a wonderful people!!!

Son Poem

Never Unsaid

I never want this to go unsaid,
So here in this poem, is for it to be said. 
There are no words to express how much you mean to me,
A son like you, I thought could never be.
Because the day you were born, I just knew,
God sent me a blessing- and that was you.
For this I thank Him everyday, 
You are the true definition of a son, in everyway.
It is because of you that my life has meaning,
Becoming a mom has shown me a new sense of being.
I want you to know that you were the purpose of my life,
Out of everything I did- it was you that I did right.
Always remember that I know how much you care,
I can tell by the relationship that we share.
For a son like you there could be no other,
And whether we are together or apart,
Please do not ever forget-
You will always have a piece of my heart.

Remembering!!

June 8, 1989 started off as any normal day. It was our last day of school and in a few short week's we would be permanently moving to California. I was finishing up my 1st year of high school as a freshman. My brother was finishing up his last year of middle school. I had my last 2 final exams and was not looking forward to it.
Jason was excited about moving to the west coast. We had already spent time in both California and Arizona the past couple of years. A summer long camping trip in Arizona. Part of that summer was spent at our Aunt and Uncles in Arizona. We got lot's of cousin time with 4 of our cousins during that visit. And had a blast being able to see them. We adventually headed back to Michigan at the end of that summer of 87 and back to school and the same ol daily life....
That fateful day after school i would have never thought that our life would change in such a drastic devastating way when Jason and i stepped off that bus. A train was coming down the tracks and we had to cross over it to get home. My brother never saw it coming, he ran off of the bus so quickly that i couldnt stop him to make sure he knew it was coming. He never saw it coming until it was too late. I remember seeing him start to turn back around but it was to late. The train clipped him in the head and it is a memory that will never leave my mind. It took year's for me to forget and be at peace. I so desperately miss him during the summer months. Next month he wouldve been turning 36 and i sometime's wonder what he would have been like as a adult. How many kids he would have had. Career.... im pretty damn sure it would have had something to do with computer's!! LOL :)
I've been walking down memory lane the past couple of day's just remembering my favorite memories of him that i have permanently locked into my heart. I pull those memories out every now and then with a smile on my face. I will never forget any of them memories they will alway's be safe in my heart.
1 of the few memories that i have of the day that we laid Jason to rest was my grandmother singing my brothers favorite song  which my aunt's adventually got up and joined her to help her get through singing it. This song often runs through my head just because its 1 of my memories of him. which i will add to this posting along with a few of my favorite picture's of him.
R.I.P little brother I Love You!!

Amazing Grace!!

Journey

So since my life seem's to be a constant Journey (and adventure), my new blog name seemed perfect to use!!
There never seem's to be a dull moment in my life especially being a single mother to a 16 year old son.
I sometime's feel like he is trying to pull away and do thing's his way and i'm really having a hard time with that!!
I sometime's wish he was still little. I miss him wanting to cuddle with his mama. But then again there's alot of thing's i miss. Guess i need to get used to the idea that sooner rather then later he will soon be out on his own.
His 1st year of high school will be coming to a end next week. Before i know it in 3 short year's i will be getting ready for his graduation and open house!!
It amazes me how fast time flies once you are a parent. As kid's it seemed like the year's dragged by cause we wanted to be adults and when were parent's we just can't seem to make time slow down. Why is that??
This is why i think life is a daily journey. But where does this daily journey truely take us in life?

Help!!!!

I want to get rid of the name tweety on my blog.... can anyone please tell me how to change my blog name???

End of the world??

So i've been seeing all kind's of statuses on Face Book today about how the world is coming to a end on Saturday. I've also seen that people are paying others 135$ to care for there animal's when it happen's. Really?? Are people that stupid to fall for that kind of scam?? As i child I grew up in a legalistic Baptist Church, I learned alot about the Rapture and i can say to anyone that we will not know when it will happen until it happens. Yes the signs of it coming is there. The war's and All the deadly Earthquakes, typhoons, sunamis, floods, hurricane's, tornadoes and fires etc are all signs that it's coming. But it could still be several year's from now and could possibly not even happen in our life time!! Seriously people get a freakin grip on yourselves. This rumor was started by a small Religious Sect in California!! Here is a video link to check out. I seriously sometime's want to go back to my upbringing just to teach people about the Rapture cause so many people are just full of nonsense!!!

Here's that video link

http://www.worldtocome.org/player.html#!Item=560068

Have a wonderful weekend!!!

Confused!?!?

So i'm really beginning to wonder if summer is ever going to get here or if mother nature is going to be mean and skip summer. I'm really getting tired of it being cold and especially sick of all this rain we've been getting lately. I need some warmth. Hot summer night's with a beer or 2 in the evenings to enjoy. I'm anxious to go to the lake and get my summer tan going (:

and getting my swimming fix in!! ;) not to mention that i am itching to get into my shorts tank tops and going barefoot every where.

Yes i am rambling and yes i am bored!! I'm irritated over the fact that thursday and friday was hot yesterday was warm and now its cold again :\

On the other hand of life somethings seem to be looking up. Some of which i'll put in another post at a later date. I'm finally off of restriction at work for my shoulder. I was sent to see a orthopedic dr 3 weeks ago and he looked at my MRI and the only thing he could see was arthritis so he gave me a injection and it worked. I went back to see him this past Thursday and was pleased that the injection did it's job and told me that when i feel that i need another one to go see him to get another injection. And let me tell ya when he gave me that 1st injection he came up behind me and stuck that needle in before i knew what hit me. All's i remember is this sudden burning sensation going through my shoulder and arm outta no where :O it was crazyness lol

Well i guess since im babbling im gonna get off of this. Have a great night!!!

!!

just figuring out how to upload pics onto this (:

now if only i can figure out how to do this via my android......

Bored

Beginning to wonder why i have this blog. I have had it for i dont know how many year's now and have yet to put it to use. But am going to start writing on it on a weekly basis for all kind's of stuff hahaha ;) Sitting here right now bored out of my mind and have nothing to do, so i decided to mess with this and start learning how to use it. For now i'm off of here have a great night!!!

time

I guess its been a couple of years since i last touched this. Gonna start using it on a regular basis. Feeling the need to blog so i mine as well start.

Dylan started High school today. Made me sad this morning just thinking about it. I don't understand where the time has gone. Kid's seem to grow up way to fast. Dyln spent most of his summer with my parent's this year. it was nice to have that long of a break from him, even 4 weeks i missed him pretty badly. I only got 1 picture of him this summer before i took him to my mom and dad. I swaer he must have grown a whole foot while he was with them :O

I'll try to be on this once a week. I feel the need to blog about Dylans high school year's, cause i know the next 4 years are going to go by quickly.