It's Monday and the weekend is OVER!

This weekend, as most, was extremly busy. My sister, my friend Tina and I went to a Tyson chicken sale and filled our freezers! Mark and his friends put the roof on our carport, mowed, did errands and all the normal stuff. It seems like the weekends just fly by, as I am sure it does for everyone.

I am really looking forward to next week. I have decided to sign up for a 4 week "Boot Camp" at my gym. I am really hoping that this will help me start seeing more results than I have been seeing from going to the gym on my own. I am thankful to a dear friend Tina who has met me at 5:15 am to workout for the last several months. Our mornings will soon end, and I am sad, but looking for ways to continue in the afternoons if at all possible. We have worked to hard to let it go.

To all who are familiar with Baby Sam, he has just finished his 2nd round of chemo and did a little better this round. We are hoping and praying that he and his family will be blessed with good news and healing for little Sam. It just doesn't seem right for an adult to have to go through what he is going through, what alone a child.

Looking forward to this weekend at the lake with friends! Thanks for the invite John & Kelly!!! You all are awesome!

Happy Anniversary to Mike and Jen!
Happy Birthday to Shawn!
Happy Retirement to Pap!

Well I will wrap it up for today! Hope everyone has a wonderful week!

Wednesday 5/19

My cousin and his wife are expecting their 1st child, a baby girl to arrive today.

Life has been a little busy these last several days. Mark mowed all day Sat., so we didn't get our garden in. Then, it rained ALL day Sunday, so again, we didn't get the garden in! Maybe this weekend. We really want to get our deck started so we can open the pool.

Thursday! WOOHOO!

The weather has been beautiful all week and I just feel a sense of peacefulness in life. It's a great feeling and I am not really sure why I have it. I think I just feel really blessed to have such a happy and healthy family. It's nice that when you have friends and loved ones, they love you unconditionally, even for your faults. You take so much for granted until you realize how desperate you COULD be. Desperate for healing, desperate to have a loved one back, desperate for so many things. No matter what you have going on in life, SOMEONE has it worse than you. When things can't get much worse, know you have friends and loved ones that would do anything for you!

I hope everyone enjoys Mother's Day, I wish my mom could be here! I miss her often, but holidays just bring it more to the forefront. I hope that everyone makes time for their mom, and if your mom is not here, make someone else's day pleasant! (Because that is what your mom would want you to do!!) My mom had such a kind and gentle heart!

On a happy note, my cousin Matt will be coming home soon from Peru, where he is a missionary who has committed a minimum of 5 years to the people of Peru, for the birth of his first child, a daughter. Congrats Matt & Charla!

My neice Lindsay has a baby on the way (due in August) and her husband was admitted to the hospital yesterday. Please keep them in your thoughts!