WHATS HAPPENING THURSDAY

Today started cloudy , ended cloudy and with wind all day. Kept getting colder and colder it seemed. So I guess we are going to have a little winter weather right now. That is ok im ready for it even tho I get cold so easy now days.

Both my girls stayed overnight with me we just had a sleep over , giggled and talked till about 2am, I had to lay down this afternoon to take a nap.

After they left I didn’t do a lot except get my ref. straightened up and took the turkey off the bone, froze it in baggies in portions. Took the bone of the ham and put it in a large zip lock baggie for beans later on this month. One of my favorite things , Ham and beans.

 

I sent a lot of stuff home with the girls so they wouldn’t have to cook anything later on , you know the drill when you go to moms for a huge meal , half the fun is taking home leftovers. Lol I remember my own mom use to do that , then she would go into the deep freeze and get me fish, and deer and rabbits etc, things that daddy had caught. As a single mom it always was great. I always carried a cooler when I went home to see them. Lol good memories.

 

I have to work this week end but will start putting up my Christmas decorations next week hopefully I will have them all done within a few days. Before wls I took a couple of weeks to get them all up am hoping that now I can do it in a couple of days.

 

Well im going to do the recap and get to bed because I have to be at the heart clinic in the morning by 7:am, for the stress test. Not looking forward to that at all.

Will let you all know what that was like.

 

 

NUTTI: glad to see you again. I know you are just thrilled to have your husband working normal day hours now.

 

Hey that is amazing weight loss. really proud of you.

 

Hope you will get to come to the COF meeting on the 26^th.

 

Do you mean you are clumsy? I was too when I had lost quite a bit of weight. I think our center of gravity gets messed up , you know the weight isnt the same place it was and we were use to moving in a certain way to walk and after losing a lot it isnt there to counter balance us any more.

 

Well that is my story and im sticking to it.

 

You will be in wal mart sizes soon. Great going.

 

 

 

TRACI: wow strep all ready? Seems early for schools to be closing because of things like that.

 

Glad that you will get all your things done at once on one trip. We have to do that all the time. We live 30 miles from the nearest town so we make lists of all the things we need. That way when we do go we can get all that we need. Without having to go back and forth.

 

 

JONADA1: Glad to see you post.  Hey how are you doing after surgery? It has been what 2 weeks since wls? Hope you are following instructions and getting in water and protein now.

 

 

 

JANET: don’t worry till you have something to worry about ok? Don’t borrow trouble , Hopefully you will have your Gall bladder surgery but one good thing is that you aren’t  so obese now and lots more able to heal. Sugar had that done after her surgery and was back doing water aerobics within about 5 to 6 days. Pretty good .

 

Oh MY GOSH im glad you didn’t get hurt with that guy running the stop sign. You could have been killed you know?

 

So sad about the little girl and yes I say why protect those two. They should be killed the same way they killed that precious little girl.

 

Did you see on the news that someone had hotlined the treatment of the child to DFS and nothing was done evidently. If they had done something and ask her she might have told them what wass going on in that house.

 

 

So glad Mr. Jon is better we will all keep praying for him. Darrell going to see his mother? So when is this happening?Did you all ever get her to sign over complete parental rights?

 

Insulation will surely help keep your house more comfortable. Probably reduce your gas usage by as much as 50% if it is done really well. That will be great.

 

 

 

CHIPSTER: is cool that you are almost to surgery date. And yes it is normal to be nervous, although I wasn’t. Im a freak.

 

Just know that all will be praying for you on surgery date.

 

 

 

BRENDA: you know all most of us do is just write what you had today or will happen. Lol. Don’t do it for the world. Just us.  Keep coming in daily for others. They need your opionans.

 

 

 

RENEE: well I could have sworned that you would get the white jacket treatment. Lol

 

Hey I like your avatar. Really good picture. And congratulations on the weight loss. you know we celebrate each and every pound that is lost.

 

 

 

 

TAMMY V: so glad that you will be getting your surgery soon. Im sure that Dena will do her best to get you in for wls. The bench will be waiting.

 

We will be praying for your nephew and everyone else in your family. I just say prayers for all of you in your household and anyone that you have on your heart…

 

 

 

BEV: so so happy for you on your approval. Now to get a date whoo hooo.

 

You know people just don’t understand about eating and the holidays. We now make holidays to be what they were and are for, not food. And one of these days you will be able to eat tiny bites of all of those fooda again. I put like a teaspoon of each dish on my plate from our Thanksgiving but had only a small taste of all of them. That was enough.

 

Besides I told everyone shoot I ate all of that stuff for years and years and years so why do I need to eat it again. I know what it tasted like.

 

 

 

SHANNON :congratulations on the weight loss. great going. Hope all is going well with you.

 

Sounds like you have your holidays all planed out for all I hope all goes as planned.

 

 

 

LANA:  I hope you and your hubby celebrated his birthday and he enjoyed his cookies and book.

 

I keep praying for your RA and that you will feel better daily.

 

 

 

DEBBIE D: very good to see you too. Hey 178 pounds very very good.

 

Yes before I forget HAPPY BIRTHDAY.  Hope it is a really good one that is for sure.

 

I hope your hubby is  able to find better work soon. That really would help him I know.

 

I have the stress test Thursday ..will let you know if they give me the results with test. I don’t look for it to show up anything other than a good health .

 

JANET LOGAN: so happy that you came to join us on here. I love the new name for the new group. Angels is perfect.

 

Yes I hope you get all of those things cut on and sewed on and ready for the RNY .

 

 

 

 

CONNIE: Time will whiz by now that you have a date and you will wonder what you were so worried about.

 

Thanks for the prayers .

 

Will see you at the meeting. Cant wait .

 

 

 

Sheila: I didn’t mean to skip you yesterday. Sorry babe, didn’t mean to .

 

 

Debbie Ds birthday is tomorrow, hope all of you will join me in saying happy birthday to your. LALALALA MIMIMIIMI

 

 

Trudy is having her wls surgery Thursday also  Vesta is having gall bladder taken out. So all of us need to say prayers for both of them.

 

 

 

 

HUGS AND BLESSINGS

 

JAN

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Morning everyone Yes Jan - my children attend a very small private school with maybe 60 students in the whole school (K4 - 12th grade).  VERY small.  So it doesn't take much to close the school.  They have combined grades (of course) and with three teachers sick, and several students, that was enough for them to close school and disinfect everything.  Shoot - with my THREE kids sick, that's a 1.79% of the school!    It adds up quickly.  Anywho, with the cold weather here (BRRRRR!!!!), I have a pot of beans soaking for bean soup for supper.    Have a great day everyone.

Hello all.... well the brakes on our truck went out why we were driving down 63 Thank God that DH knew what he was doing and we made it safely home and now the truck is going to the shop.....all the kids will be gone for Thanksgiving...the birth momma gets part and then my ex gets mine so DH and I are going to travel to Moberly...Kirksville..Hannibal and Quincy to work and then have Thanksgiving with MIL in Quincy..then we have a package for three nights and two days down in Branson so we may use that why they are all gone so I might get to meet Shannon in Kirksville and then maybe Jan in Branson :) would be cool....We are going to have what I call Thankful Dinner the weekend after I cook a large dinner and we eat then we put the tree up and as we decorate it we have to say someting we are thankful for and we write it down and compare it to the year before...its fun the kids enjoy it last year my 7 year old was thankful that I could cook good food this year you all want to be its video games lol  anyway hope you all have a great day

Just popping in to say good morning! And then we are off to Poplar Bluff to  get groceries. I have to get everything  I will need for Thanksgiving. I wish we  had a grocery store that was closer than  a 80 mile round trip! We do have a couple  small family owned stores that charge highway  robbery but they are 40 miles round trip! I guess that's what I get for living so far out in the boonies, but I would rather  drive to Poplar Bluff a couple times a month than to give up my quite country life. Everyone have a great (Brrrrrrrrrrrrr) day! Brenda 

Hello Missouri,
Only have a second to post but wanted to report that DH's birthday dinner went great and he loved his gifts.

Jan, I can't remember if I told you, but I found Cuddle Duds at Target for only a couple of dollars more than Sams and they had a mock turtleneck top that I bought. They were Target brand but on the front it said "by Cuddle Duds". Thought you might get to a Target before the next meeting. Let me know.

Praying for good results on your Stress test and for all the other needs, spoken and unspoken.

Love you all sooooooo much,

Lana

Good morning OH family!  It's a *****illy out this morning I hope it warms up some. I talked to Dena in Dr. H's office late yesterday and she told me that she got the approval from Humana and she sent everything over to Bothwell and told me that Margie would be calling me in a few days or so to set everything up.  I guess it's out of Dena's hands now?  I asked her if she knew if it was possible to still have my surgery in Dec. and she wasn't sure she said she knew that Margie had started scheduling for Jan. but she said that could be because some didn't want to have it during the holidays so we will see?  I was hoping to have a date by the end of this week so I can plan for it so I'm now praying that Margie will call me today or tomorrow? HAPPY BIRTHDAY DEBBIE D. I hope your having a wonderful day! I can't believe it's already time for Thanksgiving next week!  I only have to work one day next week then I have 6 days off wish I could afford to take a mini trip somewhere. I'm worried about my dad he is supposed to get the results of his xrays today and then tomorrow he is supposed to know more about his stress test.  I guess if it were real serious they would have already contacted him to do something about it? Well, I hope everyone enjoys today, stay warm and God Bless. Bev~  

Good Morning Jan and OH Peeps~ Well, I got done with my first post-and POOF, it was GONE! Not sure what that was all about. I HATE it when that happens! So, lets try this again. Please remember Jan, Vesta and Trudy in prayer today. Jan is having stress test, Trudy and Vesta are having surgery. Lets pray that they have safe surgeries and speedy recoveries. Cant wait to hear everything went great for all 3 of them! Cant wait to have Trudy on the bench with us-that poor thing has just been through years of hell trying to get this surgery and being approved, insurances changing, surgeons telling her that they cant do it and so on-she has waited a LONG time for this and I, like many others-have been praying her through this long, hard rollercoaster ride, so I am glad it is coming to an end today and she will be sitting by us!! WOO HOO....and Vesta-well, she is having a lot of health related things this month, I know she is a trooper, but with all of us praying-I know all 3 will be fine!! Well, yesterday when I went for testing, I had put my phone on silent, and after we went to town and I was going to get Jons meds, I saw that I missed 2 calls from the doctors office and when I called back, because I didnt have a name of who called or whatever, they didnt know who to connect me to-so I am waiting for another call. While I was getting Jons meds, I did a little Christmas shopping. Thank goodness Megan was with us, so she could take Jon away from me, since I got him 3 of the things on his santa list-and they were on sale-because ordinarilly, I wouldnt shop with the kids there. Too risky, LOL. I did get Jon and Stephs stocking stuffers all taken care of and Jon also picked a gift for his little girlfriend, Clair-the little girl that Mel has right now. He adores her so much and she likes Jon too. Its cute. So-he asked if he could buy her the present and I let him. He even paid for it himself. He wanted to. He was so proud when he handed the cashier his money!!! Anyway, so then we left and I stopped at my parents place to use their fax machine......thats when my day got interesting. My dad had signed up to feed 40 needy people for Thanksgiving and he was talking about ordering these pre-made turkey dinners from Walmart. Each turkey dinner feeds 10 people, comes with the turkey and 3 sides for $38 plus tax. I said, your gonna pay $160 to feed 40 people, why on earth would you do that? He said-I dont care about the money, we would cook it, but we dont have a big enough kitchen, stove etc.....ok...well-guess what I did? I volunteered my kitchen, oven and smoker...LOL...AND I am taking and making a ham dinner for 10 of them. So-the day before turkey day, my mom will be here for the day to make everything we can do early, and then we are going to smoke one turkey, cook one in the oven and do the ham in my parents oven. Megan is going to come that night after work and her and my mom are going to spend the night. Megan and Aaron volunteered as well-so after we get everything done-we are loading it up and taking it to Joplin and all my kids are going to serve the meal and we will all do clean up. Im pretty excited. Feel like I am doing something good. I am also making 2 home made pies. 2nd time in my life I have baked from scratch. I make those no bake yogurt pies a lot-but they dont count-LOL..I am making pumpkin and then a pecan pumpkin and Megan is making an apple pie from scratch. So, I am excited about that, but then this morning, the insulation company called-that WERE suppose to be here TODAY and wanted to reschedule for, yep, you guessed it-day before Thanksgiving. I told them that if they werent here EARLY, before noon-not to come until the day after. I have too much going on in the kitchen and the part of the attic they will need to get to-well, there is one place in my walk in closet-and the other place is in my pantry-yep-right off the kitchen. That will be too hectic. So-told them before noon or NO....Im on a mission, cant be delaying it or having all that commotion. LOL...its gonna be bad enough with all of us in the kitchen. Thank goodness I have a huge kitchen, I bet we use every single inch of counter space and bar space. Anyway, pretty excited about the chance to give to those who are less fortunate than us. Most of the people on the list-dont have family and such. Its so sad. There are several single people, but there are a couple of couples and then a couple of families. 2 of the families have small children. Its sad. I really hope that we make their day memorable and that they have a good holiday that they wouldnt have otherwise. So, since the insulation people wont be here today, Jon and I are staying in and staying quiet. Want him to feel better. My older 2 are now sick as well. I am getting antibiotics for them today. That superbug that has shut down schools in the south, that MRSA, well, they have had 5 cases of it at Diamond Schools. I sure dont want that here. Have bought the kids those individual hand sanitizers and told them NOT to handle things other kids have had-if possible and NOT to drink after others and not to put their lips on the water fountains at school-things they know, but never hurts to remind them again, right? I am going to do some laundry and then, if I still feel energetic, may pull out some of my christmas decorations and go through those. Will see how that goes later on. I fell asleep at 2:30, but slept really well until about 6:30, so that was nice for me. Jon was coughing on and off all night and I had to keep going in his room and getting him elevated back onto his pillows-once he was elevated, he did fine. I also had the vaporizer going in there. **Jan-please let us know how the stress test went. Am praying it all goes well. I know it will.  Im really not borrowing trouble. I know that something is wrong, this just hasnt been normal to be this sick for this long. It certainly has helped with the weight loss-but its been a terrible year between the back and being sick every time I bite into something. It starts to make you depressed, no matter how happy you are that you can get on the floor and play with your son or get into clothes at walmart-when you are sick constantly, you just dont know how to feel. Happy for this, sad about that. Am really glad it will finally all be coming to an end though-I just want it to be an easy fix. In and out and on my way to feeling better. I know how to deal with my back pain and how to prevent it from being really bad-most of the time, but with whatever-gb or whatever it is-I never know if I am going to be vomitting or having an attack that makes you feel like your gonna die-or wish you would, so you wouldnt hurt like that, thats all I meant-I just know there is something-just want it to be easy-thats all. I also know with gb-its a day surge, in and out-and within a couple of days, you feel much much better-actually, most say that as soon as they get that anesthesia out of their system, they feel much better-just sore for 3-4 days. I can handle that. I just want it over and done with so I can finally enjoy the holidays this year-healthier than last year and Im excited about the shopping and all that-without elec carts and without thinking Im gonna die-if they dont have carts and I have to walk more than 10 minutes. It was horrible last year-and I am excited to be able to do all that this year. So excited. I know, when that guy ran the stop sign, I definitely was thankful and know that I am here for a reason, 1 second, either way and I would more than likely not be sitting here posting today. It opened my eyes and scared the crap out of me at the same time. I had a lot of thinking to do yesterday, thats for sure. Thats only happened one other time, that close. My chest hurts today and I have a bruise on my left breast. Megans car is so small-and he was in a yukon/blazer-had I been in the suburban-I would have never been able to stop that fast-but its so huge-I wouldnt have been hurt more than likely anyway- On that little girl-they are saying that someone from her school had hotlined the child welfare MORE than once-with nothing being done-AND it was before she was killed. So-someone was concerned about her welfare long before this happened and how sad that maybe she would still be here-if they would have protected her-like ALL children should be. That ****** me off so badly. I wonder HOW long her stepdad and his friends were hurting that sweet little girl? Maybe God took her to be an angel so she wouldnt have to suffer anymore. I do so hope that those men get whats coming to them. You know that they will-and I cant believe they have the nerve to plead not guilty when there is a confession. I think once they found out that the state is going for the death penalty, that they changed their minds. I maybe shouldnt post this-but I dont think we, as taxpayers, should pay for them to live out the rest of their lives by paying to feed them, give them healthcare and so on-when that sweet little girl didnt get a chance to live. I say give them the chair and be done with it. Darrel talked to Mike and I last night and said that he really doesnt want to go and see his mom. He said that since I had been asking him, that he thought he should, but that he had been thinking a lot about it and really didnt want to. Told him that I wont bring it up anymore-and that IF he decides to-than to let us know and we will arrange it. He also said that he felt like if he didnt get his sisters christmas presents, that they wouldnt get anything-because his mom takes their stuff back to the store too and so they really dont get anything nice. Darrel has always bought his sisters presents at Christmas time-and even his mom, but he always gets her stuff she cant take back-like home made gifts and such and thats the reason he does that. We told him that IF he wanted to get stuff for his sisters, we will take them over to them before Christmas and he can spend a couple of hours with them and we will hang out around town and then pick him up. He said he would rather drop them off at his moms moms house and leave them there for the girls to open, we can do that. **Renee-I got your email, but ran out of energy last night to email you back. I will try and get that done today. LOVE your picture!! Thanks for taking the time to open up to a stranger and I hope to see you at the meeting as well! **Traci and everyone else-thanks for the prayers and well wishes. I sure appreciate it. I pray for all of you as well. Well, I am gonna get off here. I have a lot of emails to catch up on and I will see you all tomorrow.  As always, your in my thoughts and prayers and take care. Janet

 Hello everyone.....   I'm not sure what my problem has been today, I've just been so lazy and felt so drained. I guess all the running and stuff I've been doing lately has finally hit me, so I've been being lazy today.   OMG!! I have a mouse (that now has babies) that I just can't get rid of. I put the cat on the counter, the cat looked at it and jumped down, I put out the sticky trap's, lol it walked clean over them like the wasn't even there, so then I had the bright idea to put out decon. I hate putting it out because they go off and die and then if you don't find them you have to fallow the horrible smell until you do (if your lucky enough to find them). Well this silly mouse has now ate the whole box and I think it's made him faster. LOL I'm at my witts end with the silly thing. Jan good luck with the stress test, I sure hope everything comes out ok, and that you get to feeling better soon.  I've had such a time with putting up my picture on here. I put the ladybutterfly on (I plan on getting it as a tattoo when I reach goal), and then I've been trying like crazy to put my picture on there and for some reason I can't get it to change.  Bobbie I'm so glad everyone is safe from the brake's going out, I would have been scared to death.  Brenda wow I thought I lived a long way out, but you have me beat by a longggggg shot. I'm like you I don't want to live anywhere else but in the country. I tried living in town it lasted about a month, and then right back to the country I went. Bev I hope you get your date soon, and that it's in Dec. It would be such a nice christmas gift for you. I also hope that your dad's x-ray's come back good, and that he feel's better soon. Janet it's so nice of you to be making thanksgiving dinner for all of those people. You'll be making the day for each and everyone of them. Just think of all the fun you and your family will have making it for them. I'm so glad you are ok from that guy running the stop sign. Driving can be so scary anymore. It worries me everytime my girl's pull out of the driveway, not because I'm scared of what they will do, but because you never know what someone else will. Poor Darrel it sound's like he is having such a time with his mom and with the way he feel's. It's good that he talked to you guy's about it, and that you guy's let him decide about it on his own. It's hard to watch our kid's fight through their feeling sometime's. Hey no problem about not answering back yet, I know how it is when you get busy or run out of energy.  Thanks about the avatar picture, I've been fighting to get mine up there instead of the butterfly lady. It was my pleasure to open up to you, thank you for listening.  I hope everyone has a great day.

just popping in....nothing new here.  Had a lovely evening over a glass of wine with my neighbor while two out of three kids went with my husband to Tae Kwon Do.  That was so nice.  I think we could have talked all night...too bad the kids needed to go to bed.  We are heading for KC tomorrow for a Tae Kwon Do tournament on Saturday.  My oldest is competing!   We are headed to Minneapolis on Wednesday for the long weekend...10 hours in a car with three kids....lovely, but we haven't been home since last christmas. Work is a pain.  Found out today that the co-worker is telling the owner all we say in confidence to her...YIKES.  I think I am ready for something new.   Also found out that the owner's wife and son (my new boss) have taken over running the company and that the owner no longer has any control.. How does that happen???????????  when we had three partners..life was better, I wish I could call my old boss (one of the former partners) and tell him that I am sorry and that no matter what I thought, it can get worse!!!!!!!!!!!! Sorry for the vent... Until Friday.... Tina

Helloooo Mo! today I spent the day with one of my "kids" and I took along Miss Pixie to play with hers we spent the day doing up Pumpkin for fresh pumpkin pies for the holidays. I now have 6 bags of Pumpking in my ffeezer. awaiting wed and pie making day. although I am not cooking the whole shabang this yr...I will still cook the hubby's free turkey from work and pumpkin pies making my self one with splenda....I hear it is not bad that way.  tomorrow Im off to my MIL for a look through her ceramic shop....I am going to pick out a few projects for my Christmas List. today I also pumped my own gas and went to the dollar store....every day I find myself returning to the life I had before the weight took control!   I too am looking forward to the Christmas shopping....just because I CAN! Have a great day/night nutti oh and Jan...YES I am CLUMSY....sometimes its like being drunk! it really is crazy...I did ask the Dr....He had a chuckle.....said that was one thing no one talks about before surgery...... I think it should be pointed out! LOL