Christmas 2018 has come and gone...

I have had my trees up for a while and now Christmas is over. I am happy that all of the family got together this year was only missing Dalton. He is on deployment. We started off Christmas Friday with my family. Everyone showed up this year and it made me so happy.

Jack and his new nerf gun

Judson, Mason, Jack, and Clay 

Judson in his Knight costum 

Tyler and Seth

Kinda of sad that we forgot a family picture of me and my siblings. Sunday the Farmer's family got together. Everyone came except our nephew Dalton was on deployment. Only a few pictures were taken at that get together also. 

The Farmer and his sister

Me, mother in law, and sister in law.

I made a few more things with my cricut

Nativity boards

Love this for all the people I am missing in heaven this Christmas

Just because I love NC

My youngest son wanted to go see his friend in her Christmas play and he got a big hug from her

I almost forgot that I taught my sister how to make my mama's chocolate pie. I was so proud but I dropped the pie crust on the floor and broke it.

Well I guess that about sums up Christmas! I hope everyone else had as good of Christmas as I did. Thanks for stoping by.

A little snow

Well they have been calling for a snow storming to hit NC and it did. We did not get as much snow as much as some. It was pretty falling and it did not stay here long. On Saturday the snow and wind blowed the pine tree over on our pasture. On Sunday more snow came in. it was so pretty falling.

On December the 6 it would have been my dads birthday. He would have been 75 years old. I miss him so much.

The Farmer and I celebrated our 29th Anniversary on Sunday. The day we got married we had 3 inches of sleet and ice. 

December 9 1989

The ice and sleet on the ground.

Well I guess that is all for today. Thanks for stopping by and reading my post. 

Age and Anxiety.....

This might not be the most interesting blog post but it is something I need to get off my heart. The older I get the dumber and less confident I feel. I had to do a survey year ago when we bought our Honda Pilot and the salesman did not like the scores I gave him. but I was not a 10 approved by having to wait all day long sick with FX sons who had no patience. I did not give them bad scores but not all 10s. Well I promised myself I would never do another survey again. But yesterday I thought I can do this. We got a call from our REMC co-op and wanted a survey about them cutting some limbs in grandmas yard. Well for some reason I did not give all 10 once a gain. I mean I am satisfied very satisfied with our power company. I bragged on them for how fast they get out and restore power during power outages, but why can I not make myself say 10 every time. My mind tells me it is wrong that no one is perfect 10 all the time and I should not expect to get perfect 10s because I am not perfect at anything I do. For some reason we have become a society that everyone wants perfect praise, trophies and all 10s. I mean don't get me wrong I don't want to be put down about what I am or do but I don't think I deserve any rewards for it either. Ok that is enough about me. I know service people work hard and I appreciate everything they do and I only have high praise for the REMC. I should have gave them all 10s They deserve it and I am getting crazy in my old age. I have worried and prayed about this. Thinking what is wrong with me??? I have a bible verse on my fridge to try to make me remember before I speak.

I try hard to remember this and while I was dining the survey I thought I was doing good until I stopped and thought about it. I have had knots in my stomach all night worrying about what I said I have even thought about calling them and telling them I am a crazy person and I should not even agreed to answer the survey. Oh well all is over and I will learn. 

December is coming.....

I guess I should have said Christmas is coming. I love decorating and all things Christmas. I love The Christmas true story. I love all the Christmas movies and cartoon. I decorated my house before Thanksgiving this year because I found a new tree I wanted. I have already told my mother in law that she can not get rid of any of her Christmas decoration until she ask me if I want it first. She has some great things too. Well I guess I need to go back a little. We had a great Thanksgiving lots of food and good company. We ate at my mother in laws and the farmer's sister and her family was there. Both nephews were able to come. They are both in the Marines and one of them is fixing to be deployed for 8 months. My sister in law is improving from her heart attack but it has been a long slow recovery.

I finished up my latest Beach body workout LIIFT 4 and started it over for a second round. I I really enjoyed it. It looks like I am going to finish this year with out losing a pound that I gained last year. it makes me so frustrated with myself because I do workout so hard. I am so committed to exercise and just can not commit myself to eating healthy. I love food what can I say.

The Farmer's green thumb is still working just look at the collard he grew this year.

It has been so cold the last few days. It was nice that it warmed up some today. I have been making stuff with my cricut. I finally figured out how to use it. The older i get I have more anxiety and it makes me feel like I can not do anything. Well the Farmer sat down with me one evening and he and I made some things and ever since I feel more confident with it. Here are a few things that I have made.

my water bottle

a decal for the Farmers gun

a window decal

a window decal

a sign I hung over my bed

water bottles for my nephews 

tanks

Christmas ornaments 

 

The Farmers new shirt

Well this leads me back to Christmas decorations.

I found this beautiful Santa at the Albemarle market place I wish you could see the details. The picture does not show.

My new tree

Well If you lasted this long thanks for stoping by. 

It is already November

Where in the world has this year gone???? Here it is already November and this year has been a doozy!! We have had all kinds of crazy weather. We survived 2 hurricanes here in NC and we had the same flock of chickens through both hurricanes. We have had lots of rain and lot of hot temps. It has just been a crazy 10 months

The apple trees are blooming again Nov1

Frost came and the rest of the persimmons stuck to the tree

This tree lost all of its leaves and already grew them back

The peach tree is also blooming Nov 1

Yesterday we went out to our church for trunk or treat. I love seeing all of the costumes I took a few pictures 

This is my neighbors car Candy Land My car is beside it 

this is some of our cousins dressed like cows

This is our cousins so cute

Little red riding hood hat muffins in her basket for grandma

Dorthy wants the Farmer to give her more candy Toto was in her basket

He wanted to arrest us

Cutest little duck ever

this pirate was one of my favorites

Well if you made it this far thanks for stopping by.

What a week!!

Well tomorrow will be 7 days since my baby boy had his oral surgery. It has been so stressful worrying about him eating foods that will not hurt his mouth. Making sure he is not in pain. But now I think he is playing me. I am not sure if I have ever explained exactly how fragile x syndrome affects my youngest son. He is 22 years old in week he will be 23. He has difficulty with communication skills. He talks but a lot of receptive talk. When he wants something he knows how to figure out how to tell you what he wants. I know him pretty well also so a lot of time I know what he wants. He has a high tolerance of pain but when he feels pain it makes him mad. He bites his hand a lot when he is frustrated or mad. Ok now that I have explained a little he is telling me every night when he wants to go to bed he starts saying tooth... tooth and then he wants medicine. I feel like his mouth should be healing pretty good after 7 days. He has not had any blood and he is happy all day long. He will not let me look in his mouth so I have no idea how it is healing. It is very worrisome but I know that God is in control and that he will take care of my baby boy.

Alright I got that off my chest on to other stuff. He has felt good enough to go and watch his daddy cleaning out the chicken houses this week. This is something that he loves watching the tractor and the bobcat.

Here he is with his hat, gloves and glasses on watching from the mule

He has also been begging for presents. He wants presents from the mailman, He wants presents from family for Christmas, He wants movies, gloves hats, and to go to the store. He wants to make list for the store. He is really pushing the sympathy he is getting from us. He is a mess but a good mess. Love that boy to the moon and back. He is my baby boy!

I have been trying to get myself back on track with my eating but with some stress still going on  I have not been as successful as I want. I really want to get to 189 by November 1st but it is not looking good. Here it is almost November and it is not good. 

We went and voted today. My oldest son loves to vote. He does an awesome job. Both of my sons are such a blessing. 

Thanks for stopping by and go vote!

Finally found a dentist..

My plan to get my act together in October fell all apart. I think I have already talked about my baby boy having a abscess tooth. It began September 20th. taking him to urgent care on Thursday evening and Dentist on Monday. No success at the dentist office. I have explained that my baby boy has fragile x syndrome which prevents him to allow a dentist to open his mouth to look, x-ray or anything without being put to sleep. Was told I would get help and an oral surgeon would take care of his tooth. In the mean time his tooth swelled up again and had to go back to urgent care for another round of antibiotics.The same I explained to them the situation and they said they could take care of him. Have a very early morning appointment and we get there and was sent home because they could not take care of his problem there either. During this time I have been trying to get him into Chapel Hill. There the person who I needed to talk with only works 2 days a week for a few hours. I spoke with her one time and she said she did not have the referral and could not help me with out this. After that I was not able to speak with them again only left messages. In the mean time I prayed and tried to find some one to help him. So the Farmer joined the mission to find someone. We called a pediatric dentist in Southern Pines whom referred us to call a pediatric dentist in Sanford NC. I called them and explained our situation and  they gave us an appointment to  bring him in for an evaluation. I did not feel the nervousness I had felt with both of the previous appointments I felt like God had lead us to the right place. The appointment went great. The dentist is very nice. He explained that he would do the procedure at the hospital and they would fix every thing that was wrong in his mouth. This was on Monday 15, Thursday 18 I took him to his physician and had his physical for the surgery and the dentist office called that afternoon with a cancelation on Friday 19 at 6:00 am. I could not believe that it happened so fast. He did great and all of his teeth are fixed and he is getting better from the surgery. God is good and lead us to this place that took care of my baby boy and said they could see him for all of his dental needs.

before surgery. 

If you read all this thanks for stopping by. God is good!