Christmas....

Well another Christmas has come and gone. I got spend some time with my brother and sister and their families.  We also got together with  the Farmer's family. We had a great time at both gatherings.

My brothers family

My family

The Garners, Reavis and Thomas family

My Sisters family

The Garners'and Brewers 

The Farmer sister family

Me and the Farmer

We had a really good Christmas but it felt like it all went by way too fast. Now it is time to get my act back together and nutrition under control and make 2020 my made life time at weight watchers year!!

Thanksgiving

I hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving. We spent the afternoon with the Farmers family. We had a table full of food. I forgot to take a picture until after we had already starting eating.

I have to brag just a little I have been trying to make meringue for years and could never get a peak I bought some cream of tarter and look.  I made my moms coconut pie and chocolate pie for thanksgiving. Never been so happy that Henny Penny had the recipes. My mom had never written them down. Last Christmas I taught my sister to make the pie. She was so excited.

Coconut pie with meringue

I did not take any pictures of anyone at Thanksgiving but I got the Farmer to take a selfie of he and I

Oh I forgot to share my cute little chicken I bought at local shop. I love her stuff. I have just got to find the perfect place to set her.

The Farmer and I got out on Friday and got up the leaves in the yard.  We used the leave blower, the rake, the bobcat and the lawnmower.

 

I have gotten back into exercise. A lady (accountable friend) from our beachbody group asked me to do 21 day fix real time with her. I was so excited to have a new program to start.  I am still committed on leaving these year with more weight loss I only need to lose about 3 pounds and I will have 25 pounds off for 2019. I can do this I know I can.

Today I made thanksgiving meal for my little family. I love my cooking because it is like my mamas and granny cooking and I miss them and their food so much.  I had a turkey breast, cream potatoes, collard greens, sweet potato casserole, shells and cheese, and stuffing. I bought stove top stuffing added some onion and a egg. I put it in a mini-muffin tin and browned it in the oven. They were yummy.

Well if you stayed with me this long I appreciate it. I need to do better with blogging but I think most people are doing you-tube now days. I am just do not like to hear myself talk. Yall come back now.

Christmas OOPS wrong holiday

I love Christmas. I have been struggling with my weight loss and exercise. I have lost all motivation, So I put up my Christmas trees. 

This one is in my  den

This one is in my living room

And this one is in my living room

Thanksgiving is approaching and I have been losing and gaining the same 3 lbs for the last 2 months. I have got to stay focused. There are 40 more days left in the year and I have got to lose some more weight before the end of the year. I will not let myself gain. I can not manage to keep a promise to myself to stay on track with nutrition and I am about to lose motivation to exercise but I am going to push forward and conquer this.

This is a pitiful post but my family is ready for bed. Night

November has started

Wow it is so hard to believe it is already November. Not a lot is going on around here but it is so nice that the weather has finally cooled off. I love fall weather. I am still in a funk with my exercise and nutrition but I know I will get it back together. This time of the year as much as I love it it also makes me sad. Yesterday was the 30th anniversary of my sweet granny passing away. I love and miss her so much.  This is her at the beach she loved to go to the beach.

 

 

 

My granny❤️

I went this Thursday and had my hair fixed for the first time in about 8 years. I would probably be gray headed like my mom if I did not keep it colored but I wanted something different and I went and had some highlights and lowlights put in it.

This is right after she finished fixing my hair. I love it. I was worried if I could ever style it like this ever again. I bought me a curling iron and attempted to do my own.

This is my attempt it is not to bad. I wore my leggings and riding boots today. The boots zip up the back. Last year I could not get the zipper all the way to the top. I have lost enough weight now that I zipped them all the way!

Well that is enough about me LOL. Well one more thing I bought me a cute pair of converse today.

On to other stuff. My oldest son has gotten into painting. He loves watching Bob Ross so he wants to paint like him. As most of you know my sons have Fragile X syndrome and the little things mean a lot to me. He tells me that painting helps calms him.

Well I guess that is about all I have for now. Thanks for stopping by.

Halloween

Wow I can not believe it is already November But back to Halloween. Me and my oldest son went out to our church for trunk or treat. We had a great turn out and lots of fun! 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I dressed up like a Perdue chicken farmer

My salad patch has grown so much I have decide to sell it by 1/2 bushel for 5$

Today is my youngest sons birthday. It is still hard for me to believe that he is 24 years old.

 

Not much of a blog but I guess it is something. Thanks for stopping by. 

Feeling low.....

I am feeling so low. The feeling is hard to explain. I think it is the time of year. As much as I love the holidays this time of the year is really hard for me. You would think after 26 years of my parents being passed away I would soon get over this sinking low feeling I have every years. It is not really trying to think about it but it just creeps up on me and I search my mind trying to figure out what is making me sad or out of sorts. I have feeling of anger and of sadness. I have eaten bad for the last few days to the point of feeling sick. Oh well I need to pray and give it to God.

Oh I have a thank you God moment Tuesday evening we went out to eat after our WW meeting. We went to a mexican restaurant. Me and my friend share a chicken fajita plate. When the food comes out it is on a sizzle cast iron dish that is sitting in a wooden platform thing. Well anyway I held it up for my friend to get her half up and I had a really good grip on it and decided to go ahead and get my half on my plate. Well I just had finished getting my part off the hot sizzle pan and it slides right off the wooden platform heading straight toward my bare legs in shorts. God had is hand in this because somehow it landed on the floor I did manage to burn my finger and my arm but it did not hurt really bad.

This did not blister

 

 

 

 

this one blistered big time though but it never really hurt bad. 

I am so grateful that I did not get burned worse. I stopped right after it happened and said a quick pray telling God how thankful I was.

My persimmon business has went well. I have sold a lot. I have actually sold out and had to start taking orders to keep up. I am so grateful for this also.

I finally after 30 years of marriage bought myself a waffle maker, I have always wanted one. I love this thing so far.

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My first protein waffle

Well that is about all i have right now. I will try to do better Thanks for stopping by.

Feeling the year slipping by....

Well here it is September almost October. and I still have not meet my weight loss goal. I know everyone tells me that losing slow will help me keep it off but I can be impatient sometimes. I try to remember how far I have come but I just keep looking toward where I want to be. I had a WW meeting tonight and I had gained 4.4 pounds. I knew I was going to have a gain but was not expecting this much. I am on that wagon again losing 3-4 pounds and losing the same 3-4 pounds. So frustrating. This is the lowest I have been on my scales and I was so excited but it did not last long.

 

Well I will get it back off and get to my goal It is time to get strict again. That is enough about that. 

Let's get caught up with things on the farm. I have been canning and tying to keep things moving along in the house. When we got back from Seth had to have some dental surgery. He did really well and I was proud of him.

Me and Seth waiting to have surgery

Seth also had a birthday he turned 27 years old. How did that happen???  I remember when the boys were little and I thought it was so hard to take care of them. Could not wait until they would get old and be able to reason with them better. The reality is that it is actually harder in lots of ways. When they were little it was easier to know when they were sick, when they were in pain because I had to do everything for them. Now Seth is so independent and worries all the the time about everything. He makes me worry more know then when he was little. He will not tell you when he does not feel good or if something hurts. Oh well I try my best to take care of him and I pray everyday some time several times a day to have guidance to do the best I can.

 

The Farmer found a perfect snake skin up at the chicken houses in the generator building.

 

The persimmons are falling and I have started selling my pulp. 

 

Canning a few tomatoes

 

Air fried some okra.  I used this salad dressing to toss it in and it is really yummy.

 

Also been enjoying stuffed pepper. I use Perdue ground chicken browned and some salsa that I canned to it. Cut the peppers in half and roast in the oven until tender. Then I fill them up with the meat and top with colby jack cheese. I put it back in the oven to melt the cheese. Yummy!!

 

 

Well that is about all I have. Thanks for stopping by

Trying to blog....

I had to switch servers to get back on blogger. Not sure what is going on with safari but all is good now. Not a lot has been going on around here. We had a beach vacation which was nice. We did are usually things and it was relaxing. I am still doing WW and I have lost 20lbs It has been a slow go and I have been off track every since we went on vacation. I am still struggling and I have got to get back on track. Here are a few pictures from the beach.

When we got home we had garden stuff coming in.

Blueberries

Blackberries

Onions and green beans

zucchini

Made some zoodles

 

 

 

 

Froze 13 quarts

 I have also made some dill pickles I forgot to take pictures of and we have a lot of yellow squash coming in. Today we rode out to grandmas house and I took pictures of the sunflowers.

 We also rode over to the pasture and I saw something climb up a tree in the pasture. I got the Farmer to go and see what it was.

Isn't he cute!

Well that is about all I have. Hope all is going good for yall. Thanks for stopping by.