midThoughts

I think I shall make this a weekly little post and just let you all know the thoughts running through, around, and up and down in my head.  Not that you would be interested or even care but sometimes I just need to write it down to clear a little room up there in the nether regions of my head.  I need to make room for all of the new stuff coming in.  Ouch, it really sucks getting old.


The month of April has gone by like a whirly wind and has lefts us all wondering, 'Is spring real or has it always been an illusive dream of warmth and sunshine after a dark, cold and dreary winter?'  And what was up with this weekend, snow, hail, and more snow.  Come on it's May.  Spring, spring, please we need spring and we do not want to just jump right into summer.  A little transition time from cold to hot would be greatly appreciated.

(snow on blossoms, beautiful blue sky, snow and hail on the ground)

This past month I have had a lot going on, probably not really but it sure felt like a lot.  It seems that every weekend we had to do something, be somewhere, or take care of something else.  The whining midRae shall appear.........now!  What ever happened to mmmmmeeeeeeee timmmmme?  I want it nooowwww!!


Oh wow, she's gone.  Man that was fast, good thing she left, I have been working on the pity party's and banishing them from my life forever.  Not quite there yet.  But someday.........I promise you all, there is always hope.  Say it with me..........Pity Party Gone!  Pity Party Gone!  Pity Party Gone!  Now just keep repeating that until it becomes.....Pip Pat Goo!  Pip Pat Goo!  Pip Pat Goo!  Now exactly why am I saying Pip Pat Goo?  HUH!!??


Moving on.


This past weekend was Graduation for my daughter-in-law, Ada.  What an amazing girl.  English is her 3rd language and she still manages to pull out a 4.0 GPA across the board.  Amazing!!  She has such an amazing work and study ethic and will always do her best to be the best in what she has chosen to do with her life.  She finished her Bachelors Degree in December of last year but decided to walk in the Commencement Exercises this weekend with her friends.

She will be finishing her Master's Degree this December and both Ada and my son will be graduating in the Spring of 2011, him with his Bachelors.  It is nice to see such drive.  Along the way this year they will bless us with our first Grandson this July.  We are so excited and I still find it amazing how much they do each and every day.  They have a lot on their plates but always manage to enjoy life and make great friends and memories.

(check out the old lady with the grey hair......SCARY)

It was a crazy busy weekend. 

Sunday we took midMan's brother and his wife on a tour of our fair little city to get them familiar with what the area is like.  midMan's brother has started working for the same employer, and they are actually working together today on the same route.  Let's hope midMan show's Jeff the right way to do the job along with some tricks to make the job easier.  Jeff's first week out on the truck was pretty hard especially the day the guy that was supposed to train him slept in.  Picture this:  It's 4:30am and Jeff is at the yard waiting for the other guy.  No guy.  Call midMan.  Get 2nd boss's number.  Call 2nd boss, get voice mail.  Call midMan.  Get 1st boss's number.  Call 1st boss.  1st boss calls guy.  Guy shows up at least 2 hours late, he slept in.  Not a great start to the day.  AAAHHHHHHHH!!!  So far this week has gone much better.  Let's hope it stays that way.

So I want to leave you all with a preview of the next month.  This weekend plant the garden and see if the boys remember its Mothers Day.  Next week & weekend, send tailEnd to Lagoon for a day, prepare for baby shower and have baby shower on Saturday.  The next week looks free so far, workouts here I come, and we'll see what happens.  Gotta squeeze those workouts in every chance I get.  The next week is my niece's Graduation and then it's on to a three day weekend, maybe camping.  YES!!  I can not wait to sleep in.  Let's hope midMan doesn't decide to get me up at 3:30am for a French Vanilla Coffee, no French Vanilla on the mountain.  I keep telling him I don't want any but he still makes me get up.  Whoops, I am hearing a little bit of noise from Whiny midRae.  Hurry kick her so she goes away.  hehehehehe  Hurt her bad, we do not like Whiny midRae.

I'll give you all an update as to how this month goes.  I am sure it will rock and I will have a blast all month long.  I really do dislike being bored.  Oh, and middleSon should be moving forward with a partnership in business this month.  Cool for him!!  I know he can do this.

I shall keep you posted.

Love to All,

midRae

HI!!!

I have to confess that I feel that I have been very remiss in my blogging.  I have been unmotivated and uninspired, frustrated and mad at life, and I could add quite a few more but I better stop before this turns into a pity party.

Moving on.

What is up with me?  Is it Spring?  Is it the end of Winter blues?  Is it camping withdrawals?  Maybe, just maybe, it's a little bit of it all.  And let's not forget that we all have our lives and the chaos that can ensue right along with everything else.  What to do?

First I wanted to do a little more update on the jogging aspect of my life.  I have been told that I can not jog for a while because I did too much too soon after the knee surgery.  What!?!  Me do too much too soon?  That would never ever happen. 

Anyways, I was stuck walking the 5K as fast as my bigger than little legs could carry me.  What a bad attitude I have, stuck?!, I should feel blessed that I could actually do it.  I was doing so good, at least I think I was I even managed to pass a few joggers.  But then we got close to the finish line and 5 people behind me decided to jog.  I found myself getting very upset and mad.  How dare they?!  How dare they pass me when I worked so hard and kept the same pace and passed them?  How dare they save up to the end and jog, when I couldn't!?  I found that to be very unfair and then I got a hold of myself and slapped me upside the head.  I decided that I needed to be thankful that I could even be there.  I decided that I needed to cheer them all on and tell them what an amazing job they did.  I decided that I needed to get beyond myself and be happy for them.  So yeah, we did it!!  We all finished, and finished with pride.  Good for us! 

Next we have a few changes going on in our lives.  We are adding one new member to our family, one more member to our household, and losing one member of the household.  Now did you all keep up with that?  Let me explain.

My oldest son and his wife are expecting their first child, my first grandbaby, this July.  It's a boy and we are so excited.  We know how to do boys.  They are both enrolled full time in college, with the daughter-in-law getting her Bachelors Degree this past December, graduating Summa Cum Laude, and getting her Masters in Accounting this December 2010.  Ada, my daughter-in-law, just became a citizen of the United States, also.  And to top that all off, her parents are coming to America before the baby is born.  Crazy.  My son should also be able to graduate next spring, yeah for him, 4 years of college in three years.  Motivated and busy!!

As for adding to our household, midMan's younger brother, Jeff, will be moving in.  He has been unemployed for a while; he got hit with a layoff, and was finally able to get a job doing what midMan does.  He and his family will be moving to our fair city in the near future but right now they just need to be able to catch up and we are so happy to be able to help.  So with all of that we needed to clean out midMan's hunting room.  Where oh where are we going to put all of that stuff?  The deer head had to stay but I am sure Jeff will not mind.  Anyways we figured it all out and he should be here in a week and a half.

Now on to losing a member of our household, my middle son's girlfriend will be moving out the end of this month.  She has decided that she needs to move forward with her life and that working at Subway was not where she wanted to be.  I am excited that she is looking towards her future.  Sometimes it is so hard for our children to make that move and I am glad that we have been able to be here when she needed us.  I hope that my son can see where she is headed and that he can figure it all out for himself, too.  I do have to say that life is hard when you are starting out and sometimes you just need to make that JUMP and see where you land.  Family is always there when it's needed.  So JUMP away, we will catch you if you need us.

Now for our other news.  tailEnd just turned 15 and is all ready to get his driving permit.  Oh boy, please help me.  Am I ready for this again?  I don't know.  But he sure is, so I had better get there and get there quick.  tailEnd also just took his ACT.  No score back yet but we are praying, he needs to pass so that he can take college classes next year. 

So my life has been flowing over with moves in and moves out, new arrivals, graduations, even a wedding coming up, working, working out, cleaning house, cooking lots of food, visiting with old friends, worrying, and ............... I sure feel like there should be more.  Oh I almost forgot photography.  I have had a few photo shoots lately with a few more planned for this week.  Can't wait.  And it's only the beginning of summer.  WOW!!  I am sure that I have missed more, but.......

I think this summer is going to be amazingly busy and fun.  What blessing we have received to be able to take part and enjoy all that we have.  We have been smiled upon and I guess I need to be reminded of that sometimes.  Good thing I got this blog, it seems to work really good when it comes to needing to be reminded of what blessing I have been given.

Love To All,

midRae

PS.The oldest son has promised me an updated blog layout.  I think it's time to push it a little harder.  I mean how many free haircuts does he think he gets anyways?  It's time to earn that perfect look that he has.

Pleasant Pheasant's

So most weekends midMan and I go on our little rides to see what we can see.  And we always see something. 

A couple of weeks ago we saw this:

Isn't she beautiful?

Then we saw him.

Even more beautiful.

Some times it just doesn't seem fair that the guy animals are always so much prettier than the girls.  I think the girls should always be more prettier, (is that right?).  More pretty, more gorgeous, more beautiful, I don't know.  But what I do know is that all men should definitely tell us that we are always the prettiest and the most gorgeous of them all.  At least if they know what is good for them.  And no, our butt will never look fat in those pants!

Love to All,

midRae

Random Thoughts

I saw this on my friend mommassoapbox and just had to share...........



Random Thoughts for the Day
(my thought added in PURPLE)


1) I think part of a best friend's job should be to immediately clear your computer history if you die.

2) Nothing sucks more than that moment during an argument when you realize you're wrong. (been there)
3) I totally take back all those times I didn't want to nap when I was younger. (can I take one now?)

4) There is great need for a sarcasm font. (that would be for me, I want it)
5) How do you fold a fitted sheet?!
(I think I figured this one out, big ball in the corner of the closet)

6) Was learning cursive really necessary?

7) Map Quest really needs to start their directions on #5. Pretty sure I know how to get out of my neighborhood. (what is MapQuest?)

8) Obituaries would be a lot more interesting if they told you how the person died.

9) I can't remember the last time I wasn't at least kind of tired.

10) Bad decisions make good stories. (so true, I have a few to tell)

11) You never know when it will strike, but there comes a moment at work when you know that you just aren't going to do anything productive for the rest of the day. (I do this quite often)

12) Can we all just agree to ignore whatever comes after Blue Ray? I don't want to have to restart my collection...again.

13) I'm always slightly terrified when I exit out of Word and it asks me if I want to save any changes to my ten page research paper that I swear I did not make any changes to.

14) "Do not machine wash or tumble dry" means I will never wash this -- ever.

15) I hate when I just miss a call by the last ring (Hello? Hello? Dangit!), but when I immediately call back, it rings nine times and goes to voicemail. What'd you do after I didn't answer? Drop the phone and run away?
(I think they just retought talking to me)

16) I hate leaving my house confident and looking good and then not seeing anyone of importance the entire day. What a waste.
(I gave up doing this a long time ago, comfort is where it's at)

17) I keep some people's phone numbers in my phone just so I know not to answer when they call.

18) My 4-year old son asked me in the car the other day "Dad, what would happen if you ran over a ninja?" How do I respond to that?
(Who still has a four year old?)

19) I think the freezer deserves a light as well.

20) I disagree with Kay Jewelers. I would bet on any given Friday or Saturday night more kisses begin with Miller Lite than with Kay.
(been there, long, long, time ago.  See #10, also can ask midMan)


I think we can all relate to more than one of these!  I sure did!!!

Love to All,

midRae