WHATS HAPPENING FOR MONDAY!!!!!

Sunday was a very nice day. Joe and I did some work in the yard. Went and picked up some more rocks to outline where I have my Mums at. Will pick up another load of red cedar mulch tomorrow. I have to go up and get my schedule for working at the Nursing home tomorrow so will do that while im out. Also have to go by the drug store and pick up one of Joes meds., pick up a couple of paint rollers so we can paint the lean to shed sometime soon. Need to get that painted so rain and elements wont damage the lumber.

 

I am getting really excited about the reunion. I hope we have some surprises about who showes up….would be so awesome if some more of the people from the board could come. I know it is sort of close to me but if it had been up in the very northern part of the state I would have gone just the same.  And no matter where we have it , it will be 3 to a4 hours away from someone. I think Janet did a great job in finding this place. I know she looked in the center of the state and couldn’t find anything that most everyone could have  afforded. Thanks Janet for finding this place and hope that if we don’t have a lot this year that next year will be even bigger and better. Everyone will have a whole year to plan and save and arrange to be off from work etc. And it is some really awesome people to be with too.

Hopefully we all will have some great pictures to share with everyone ..I know I will put  all the pictures I take on my photo web site because I can put lots and lots of pictures on there and on our profile you can only put just a few..

 

Looks like Bob McQueen still is in ICU. Lets please pray for him and his wife. That is so sad that he is having these problems.

 

Stacy is having wls. Monday morning at 7:30 Lets keep her in prayer.

 

 

HAPPY BIRTHDAY CHELLE 

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU

HAPPY BIRTHDAY DEAR CHELLE

MAY YOUR DAY BE GOOD AND ALL YOU WANT IT TO BE.

 

 

BRITT: Yeah I know it wasn’t Sunday when I put it up but if I don’t put it online at night then it is late in the morning before I get it on. Then someone starts wondering where it is lol So I usually try to get it posted between 10:30 and 11:30 the night before.

Thanks for the compliments , it isnt easy to learn to say thank you when someone says nice things , it is a real learning experience to be able to do so. But I do thank you .

 

 

COLETTE: yeah I think you are right about the 2 year molars. We looked in his mouth today and could see one of them already thru the skin. But he isnt running fever today. Has been great today. That is good. Who knows about kids.

How are your groups going? Is it growing some? I hope you all are doing great. One of these days I would love to get up there and visit you at one of your meetings.

I know you are an awesome group leader.

 

 

JANET: GOOD MORNING!!!!!  I hope  you are feeling some better today. I know how chronic pain can make you feel. It can affect every part of your thoughts and being.

Know that we are all praying for  you to get better.

 

Well how did the time go with Cory yesterday. I hope it went a little better than you were expecting.

Well the pool being green and cant see the bottom might be a good thing if someone happened to be at the bottom lol

 

That sounds like a good idea about signing off on the land but don’t settle for any less than what he owes you , not one penny. You could use that money . Maybe to help pay for something for your back.

 

Yeah I am hoping that some of the newbies will come to the Reunion , It will be so much fun to get to know some of them.

 

Hope you get your course taken soon so you can be done with that. You cant afford not to do it quick now can you? I know that when you have as much stress as you do in your life, daughter, finances, manics, mother, etc etc. that all of this isnt conducive toward your back not hurting . The spasms are probably made worse by the tension you have all the time. Try to learn to relax and not take everything upon your back. Just know that you are in my prayers daily.

 

 

 

LOVE AND JOY AND PEACE ABOUNDS

 

JAN

 

 

 

 

 

Hello, Well it has been a long day today. But I do enjoy Sunday's and church. We had our monthly singing night tonight. And we had a baptism. I love singing nights cause I love to sing. I like singing with my guitar but I REALLY like singing with soundtracks. I do alot of Crabb Family songs. I love to hear Jason Crabb sing. We saw them in concert two times and not only can he sing but he is very handsome and not hard to look at! LOL That sounds awful coming from me cause he's young enough to be my son, but I've always heard you never get to old to look! LOL Jan I am having surgery on my second toe on each foot. I have hammer toes and they will break them and do a tendon transfer and put pins in them. He said I would have the pins in for at least eight weeks, maybe longer will have to see how well I heal. It's something I have needed to do for a long time but when I was heavy I didn't want to do it. Now since I'm lighter I thought it might be easier for me. Janet I do pray you can find some kind of way to get relief from your back. I'm sorry about the Medicare, that sucks big hairy donuts!! I do hope that today was not to bad a day with the boyfriend. Kids can drive a person to drink, and it hurts so bad the way they treat their parents. I don't know what the deal is with kids these days! We have couple in church that have a 16 year old son that is giving them all kinds of trouble. He has gotten expelled from school already this year for 10 days and kicked off the school bus for good. He has took on his dad in a fist fight and throwed his mother around. The dad won the fight but ended up with a black eye. Then about a week later someone called the child protection agency and reported that the dad had beaten up the boy and the boy had the blackeye, which was all wrong. The boy has about a foot of height over the dad. The boy is a pretty good size guy. So they are at a loss as to what to do with him. They said that the  juvenile officer  is now envolved so don't know what's going to happen. They want to try to get him into teen challenge but they charge $2000.00 a month, so can't afford that. I will keep praying for you to find pain relief and financial help for your medical needs and also for Mike and your family problems with Stephanie. God Bless You, I love you. Tammy I am still praying for you and your situation with Heather, I do pray it works out best for all involved. It's just not fair sometimes the way kids treat us. I mean we worry so about them. Make sure that have a loving home, most of the time a room of their own with a TV and computer. New clothes for school and every other need they have and then it's like this. I mean I don't want them to bow down and kiss my feet for it, but a thank you and a I love you once in a while would be nice! Or helping around the house because they want to help you out. But no you have to threaten their life to get them to sweep or do dishes. I would fall over dead I think if Sydney said "Come on Nena let's go bake a cake together" or "Here let me do the dishes because I know your back hurts"! I know, I know ,living in a fairytale world. But I use to do that for my mom and grandma. Well that's enough complaining on my part I guess. I do wish all the ones having surgery this week the best outcome possible. I'm praying for Bob. And also for the others that have asked for prayer. Well everyone have a great monday, I pray each one of you will find peace in your lives this week. God Bless You All Love Brenda

Good Morning Jan and OH Peeps~ Another Monday-BLAH!! I hate it when the weekends are over and I know it will be another week before Mike and I get a chance at any "real" time together. At least this next weekend, he will hopefully have 3 days off-but they may be getting rid of BOTH of his employees and hiring back an old one-and so its anybodys guess if he will be working this upcoming weekend or not. Our day yesterday was not bad at all. In fact-if Cory would have acted that way the first day we met him-things would have never gotten so bad. He was well behaved, kind and soft spoken. He was also on his best behavior. Stephanie said that she just point blank told him that IF he didnt abide by the rules she gave him-he wouldnt be allowed over ever again and she wouldnt even try to talk us into it. So-I cant complain. I still dont care much for him-but I do have to say that I was thankful for a good visit yesterday. He was even well behaved around the boys and spent time talking to Darrel and playing Sony with him. Thanks for the prayers everyone-I surely appreciate them. Well, I ended up taking Stephanies phone away last night. We are not wanting to abide by the phone timeline we have given her. First was a verbal notice-and within 2 days she was past the timeline-and so at 10:45 last night, when she got busted on the phone again-I just walked in-said tell them goodbye-and put my hand out. She never said a word to me when she handed me the phone. So-I bet that she doesnt want to hit strike 3-or she will be giving the phone back to her grandma. Mike was sick ALL day yesterday and still not doing so hot this morning. I think he ate bad chicken from Arbys, in a wrap. He was so sick-and the last time anyone was that sick-he and I got sominella (sp?) poisoning. His coloring looked a little better today, so I hope the worst of it is over. He wanted to go with me to pick up Cory-JUST IN CASE-so I drove, but the trip was torture on Mike and I pulled over several times. I have a list of stuff yet to do/get organized for the reunion. I really hope-just like everyone else-that we get some more people going. I am so pleased with everyone going so far-I just hope that we can meet some more people and get to know some we otherwise wouldnt get a chance to meet or spend some time with. I know its going to be a HUGE success! Im so very excited about that. I really am just praying at this point that pain wise, the back lets up just a bit so that I can have a good time as well-and not HAVE to MAKE myself smile or whatever-I just want a couple of days-and then I dont care about the rest, I will worry about it AFTER the reunion.....so, I could definitely use some prayer about it. Thanks. **Chelle- HAPPY HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU!! I hope you have a great one, girl-we love you-have a wonderful day!!! Well, I am going to end this post and get a couple more posts done about the reunion IF my computer will cooperate. Its still taking forever to get in here. Not sure whats going on. Not as bad as it was over the weekend-but still not as good as it was before then. I hope its nothing serious. I like to get on and check on everyone in the morning and new posts-but spending an hr to get in here and then 1/2 hr to move around and then having troubles getting it to accept a post-just makes me so frustrated.  I hope that everyone has a really good week-as always, your in my thoughts and prayers. Janet

Good morning!  Well another weekend past, I too am sad that the weekend is over but actually I am looking forward to the next 2 months to fly by so I can go to my first appt. with Dr. H.  I wish I knew how long out they are scheduling surgery.  Like if I have my appt. Oct. 17th I am just wondering how long after that before I would actually have my surgery?  I thought about calling Dena and asking her but I don't know if she could tell me that or not? I am so happy I finally found someone here on the boards to go to water aerobics with me.  We are going to go MWF at 8:30 she just couldn't go this morning so we are going to meet Wed. so I'm excited about that.  She had her surgery in March I think, by Dr. H.  I'm just glad to have someone to work out with I think I will feel better about going now.   I still have my cold so I haven't felt too good this weekend several people I know are sick with whatever it is that is going around? I'm excited about out support group meeting tonight can't wait to see everyone again.  I wish we had it 2x a month instead of once seems like a long time in between meetings.   Well, I need to get some laundry in and feed the puppies.  Take care everyone and have a blessed day!

hello   oh i know where ur coming from , i went to seminar  Feb and got my psych done by March  and then got to make my appt and low behold it was  5 months away, i was like 5 months? oh man, well im finally down to 2 days to go, my appt with dr H is wed. and im so excited and im also wondering how long it usually takes for them to hear back from insurance ( medicare) and then if im gonna get  to have surgery this yr???? as to how long it will possibly take em to schedule  my date.... to all my friends..... Mona is canceling her appt wed with Dr.H cos she never got her insurance back but she has told me to go ahead and she is also riding  up with me wed. to my appt. so she is gonna support me then when her time times i am gonna be able to tell her 1st hand what to do and what not to do, so she is truely a good friend...im so glad cos i was worried and didnt wanna hurt her by going ahead even though i was goin too... we will be going up early and checking on andrea is there anybody else who will be in hosp. wed we can check on? if so let me know.

Hello Missouri, Yesterday was a lazy day for me.  Did do grocery shopping after the gym.  Today the sun is shining and I'm feeling perky.   I had fun on Saturday night.  Our wonderful neighbors called while we were eating our salads - decided to have salad with hard-boiled eggs.  Glad we were eating lightly because they wanted us to go to a place here in Springfield called The Parlor where all they have is hors'd'oevres and desserts.  They have wine and drinks but it is a quiet nice place with a circular fireplace with couches and also  tables and banquettes.  Since I don't drink or eat desserts my neighbor (a Weigh****cher success story) ordered a cheese-type snack and the guys ordered a sausage and cheese plate and I just had water.  It was pleasant because it was not noisy and we could visit and hear each other.  I don't know if they are open in the daytime but we probably will go back.  It would be a nice place to go for dessert (if you eat it) after a movie or something.   After my rant about feeling fat I still lost a pound last week.  Which proves that I have absolutely no idea of what I'm doing!!!  My WW neighbor is the only person who is not WLS who I've ever really been able to relate to about losing weight.  She was bullemic when she was younger and then gained quite alot and about 4 years ago lost to a normal weight and has kept it off.  She goes to WW every week to keep herself accountable.  She recently had "girls" done by Dr. Garrison in Springfield and it is a good, believable outcome.  I'm really glad for her.  I'm going to see Dr. Garrison and get a consult about my upper arms - price and her opinion of success of the surgery.  My neighbor really likes her.   Last night I was trying to touch up my toe-nail polish and dropped the bottle of red red polish and it bounced and spun across about six feet of my bathroom floor - which is white tile.  Thank you Jesus the grout is dark.  I grabbed a full bottle of nail polish remover and a handful of Kleenex and started working on it and got most of it up but after awhile it just seemed like I was smearing it around.  I happened to remember a box of white spongy things my daughter bought  while she was here and she recommended them highly - can't remember if they are Clorox or Mr. Clean.  Anyway I went and got one of those, wet it and it absolutely took up the remaining pinkness.  Unbelievable.  I will be buying more of those for sure. I am thinking and praying for everyone who is having surgery, who have had surgery and are having problems and those waiting for surgery.  Also for the many folks on our board who are hurting so badly.  I ask our Lord Jesus to be with all of you. Please know I love you all - my brothers and sisters. Lana

Hellooooo Missouri! well the weekend was good. we took Catie and her friends to the Bridge for the end of summer bash. they had a real good time and are wanting to go again....we shall see...anyone have any info about this place....I wouldnt let her go alone but with a group of friends. she is a Jr. this yr. its hard to believe she will be leaving the nest soon. We had our grandbaby Pixie here most of sunday she loves the POOL and when she comes over she goes and gets her suit and says nannie you ready yet?  we swam and read books and than she "cooked" for me on aunt Caties old kitchen. Dean was off for a change so that was nice. we did not get to go for a night swimm when the moon was out....bummer may have been the last for the summer...hard to believe its winding down and before you know it .....Halloween!!!    I do hope all of you who are close enough will bring your friends and kids and come to our annual spookhouse. we have free yard haunt every yr for the last 7 and now we are in the back yard bigger and better! today I have spent the day puttering in the house....and working on my flowers again. hopefully I will make myself sit her until I am finished with them...they have to dry and packed by friday. I also have a castle tower and houseboat on the work tables.....just cant seem to make myself get  to them. but thats how things go.  also working on a How-to that will be in Greenleaf Gazette next month.   Janet Im so bummed for you about the ins. dont loose heart kido....something will turn around for you! this is one of those times that helps you know what good times are.  it will get better. sounds like something positive came from sunday with the daughter. good for both of you! keep strong....look what you have overcome!!!  Mel, girl stay on those Dr and make sure they are doing all they can. you look so good! I wish I was brave enough to do the color! I want blue.....yes blue hair!   well I was going to say something to a couple of other folks but I didnt take notes Have a great day yall! nutti

It's still up in the air if I am going to be able to travel this weekend or not to come to Springfield as I really need a Grandchild fix! Am seeing Dr. Suttmoeller in Dr. Scott's office tomorrow afternoon.  He was my PCP here in Kirksville before he joined MO Bariatrics.  I cannot wait until Oct. 2nd to have this gallbladder out.  So hopefully I will get this surgery moved up. Anyone coming to Columbia tomorrow? Hugz - Shannon

I will be there Wed. to see Dr Suttmoeller. Can't wait....

Hello all just stopping to say hello and let you all know that yoiu are on my mind! Love Susan