Its almost time for my first real vacation. See I have been a mom for years and years...sense I was 16yo. I'm now 32 years old. I am going on my first vacation without any kids in just over a week. Its only 5 days, but that 5 days will be amazing. I'm heading to Texas to see my best friend that just moved there not too long ago.
I cannot wait to get out of California to a state were there is warmth!!! Its hard to believe that this is the first weekend of June and its stormy and yucky out. Feels like winter!
Normally on this weekend I'd be at the LAC but this year I just did not have time to try to win any tix. Working 6-7 days a week does that to ya. Plus, my other best friend (the one still local) son's graduation party is today. Hard to think he is a high school graduate and in 3 years my oldest will be doing the same. time sure does go by fast!
Which is why its ALMOST TIME.... must get packed because the next week is action packed with VBS and then next weekend with work. Boo leaves for her camp the day before I fly out. Time will go by fast!
What is your summer plans for this month?
xoxo,T
Saturday, June 4, 2011
Saturday, May 28, 2011
Summer Vacation 2011
Wow, as of Friday the 27, I now have 2 kids on summer vacation. And I now have a Sophomore in high school and a 6th grader. My how times do go by so fast. Summer time means warm temps...or at least that is how I take it. Right now we have about 70 degrees here in Cali. When normal temps are in the upper 80s to kissing 90's. I would like the normal temps please!
Summer vacation for the kids will be a long one this year in my opinion. Boo is only gone for a couple days with church camp. While Austin will not be leaving at all. I think he should go to Scout camp again this summer and at the rate things are going he will be going if he likes it or NOT. Raising a teenage boy is beyond frustrating.
My part of summer means I will be in Tx soon and spending 5 whole days with my best friend and my two young buddies. I am so looking forward to the time away from work (both jobs) and time away from kids and family. I'm hoping to come back with some new perspective on life here. And where I would like to head the rest of my future. And beyond that I would like to take a couple of days here and there to go hiking and bike rides. I am praying it does heat up soon here because I should be in the pool swimming by now.
But for now...I get to spend the next few weeks working non-stop. I have VBS at my church I work for and I am so not ready for it. Or that is what I keep telling myself! Its just over a week away. The week following VBS is when I get to go to Tx. Whew... not much time left and I'm super excited to be heading out!!!!
So what is everyone else summer hold for them?
xoxo, T
Summer vacation for the kids will be a long one this year in my opinion. Boo is only gone for a couple days with church camp. While Austin will not be leaving at all. I think he should go to Scout camp again this summer and at the rate things are going he will be going if he likes it or NOT. Raising a teenage boy is beyond frustrating.
My part of summer means I will be in Tx soon and spending 5 whole days with my best friend and my two young buddies. I am so looking forward to the time away from work (both jobs) and time away from kids and family. I'm hoping to come back with some new perspective on life here. And where I would like to head the rest of my future. And beyond that I would like to take a couple of days here and there to go hiking and bike rides. I am praying it does heat up soon here because I should be in the pool swimming by now.
But for now...I get to spend the next few weeks working non-stop. I have VBS at my church I work for and I am so not ready for it. Or that is what I keep telling myself! Its just over a week away. The week following VBS is when I get to go to Tx. Whew... not much time left and I'm super excited to be heading out!!!!
So what is everyone else summer hold for them?
xoxo, T
Saturday, May 7, 2011
Ever feel like your failing in the mist of success?
Really! Have you ever felt like you are getting a big fat "F" in the mist of things being very successful? That is how I'm feeling right now. May be that I am just having an "off" day or something. Not sure. But I sure feel that way.
I just saw that a review I had done for BlogHer had been posted. I felt fantastic that something I wrote is out there for others to read. Maybe one person will read that post and say, "Hey, I like how that review on that book spoke to me. I should go read that book." Such a great feeling.
I am working hard at both jobs. Bills are all being paid and we have a bit of extra money for things. I'm leaving for Texas to visit my best friend. Things are GOOD. But yet I feel like I am failing.
Its nothing major, just little things. I maybe taking some of the wording wrong too. But you get an email from you boss about something you forgot to do, but also did not know you were to do it. You get offered a day off, but not sure that you want to take it. Your SO says the choices are yours but I want you to do this. You ask for opinions and people say I dont want to tell you what to do. *SIGH*
Its little, annoying, bugger of things. I guess its just an off day for me, but I am sure feeling like a failure in all of this.
xoxo, T
I just saw that a review I had done for BlogHer had been posted. I felt fantastic that something I wrote is out there for others to read. Maybe one person will read that post and say, "Hey, I like how that review on that book spoke to me. I should go read that book." Such a great feeling.
I am working hard at both jobs. Bills are all being paid and we have a bit of extra money for things. I'm leaving for Texas to visit my best friend. Things are GOOD. But yet I feel like I am failing.
Its nothing major, just little things. I maybe taking some of the wording wrong too. But you get an email from you boss about something you forgot to do, but also did not know you were to do it. You get offered a day off, but not sure that you want to take it. Your SO says the choices are yours but I want you to do this. You ask for opinions and people say I dont want to tell you what to do. *SIGH*
Its little, annoying, bugger of things. I guess its just an off day for me, but I am sure feeling like a failure in all of this.
xoxo, T
Monday, May 2, 2011
A month later....a year older!
A month late and I am a year older than the last post.... A year wiser? Probably not. But it is what it is. This last month has been so busy...I hardly had a minute to be at the computer unless it was work related.
But its now May...and its one month closer to my vacation to see my best friend Christy and her kiddos that I miss oh-so-much! I'm so excited to see them...its only been 4 months, so I was reminded today from her. :) and when I see her next it will be 6 months sense I saw them last. And I get to see Texas beyond the airport and flying over it as I had a lot as a kid.
This month will be busy and so will June. I'm running the Vacation Bible School at the church I work for. That takes place the week before I leave on vacation. I'm pulling extra hours here and there for extra money. We are looking at moving soon too. Much larger place is in need. 2 kids and 2 adults in a 2 bedroom condo...ouch, its tight living.
I will keep up with this as much as I can, but please forgive me if I miss out on some days of posting.
xoxo, T
But its now May...and its one month closer to my vacation to see my best friend Christy and her kiddos that I miss oh-so-much! I'm so excited to see them...its only been 4 months, so I was reminded today from her. :) and when I see her next it will be 6 months sense I saw them last. And I get to see Texas beyond the airport and flying over it as I had a lot as a kid.
This month will be busy and so will June. I'm running the Vacation Bible School at the church I work for. That takes place the week before I leave on vacation. I'm pulling extra hours here and there for extra money. We are looking at moving soon too. Much larger place is in need. 2 kids and 2 adults in a 2 bedroom condo...ouch, its tight living.
I will keep up with this as much as I can, but please forgive me if I miss out on some days of posting.
xoxo, T
Saturday, April 2, 2011
Been bad about posting...again
Okay really, I think I should set a reminder to POST here at least once a week. Life is just so busy when you juggle so much.
It is now April... in 27 days I'll be turning another year older. 2 days ago, my daughter turned 11. Hard to imagine that, that much time has gone buy already. Come the end of the year my son will be 16 years old. Wow! I don't feel old enough, don't look old enough, to have a almost 16yo and an 11yo.
Oh and speaking of feeling, I'm doing so much better than I was a month ago, or even at the first of the year. Things are going good. I'm working a lot, working out more now that the weather is turning nicer. Cant be happier!
I don't have too much to write about today. I'm at work right now, and we have friends coming over when I get home. So nice to have company!!!
Hope everyone is well!
xoxo, T
It is now April... in 27 days I'll be turning another year older. 2 days ago, my daughter turned 11. Hard to imagine that, that much time has gone buy already. Come the end of the year my son will be 16 years old. Wow! I don't feel old enough, don't look old enough, to have a almost 16yo and an 11yo.
Oh and speaking of feeling, I'm doing so much better than I was a month ago, or even at the first of the year. Things are going good. I'm working a lot, working out more now that the weather is turning nicer. Cant be happier!
I don't have too much to write about today. I'm at work right now, and we have friends coming over when I get home. So nice to have company!!!
Hope everyone is well!
xoxo, T
Saturday, March 12, 2011
Time...so little time
I wish I had more time to do the things I love to do. I wish I did not have to stress to make sure I work every single day so I can focus more on the good things I have in my life. I hate having to make an appointment JUST so I can do something that makes me happy. And then, have someone say something to stop that from happening.
I hate having to re-learn things too. I have a filter, I swear I do. But sense being on this meds, its gone. Or switched off. And I don't know where the on switch is. I see myself doing things that I dont like me doing, but no control to stop it. Its like the meds have taken away my control over myself and my actions. And I hate that. I regret things I am doing WHEN I am doing them and I try to stop, but I cannot. Very frustrating.
Another side affect, I have NO desire to eat any food at any point in time. When I do force myself to eat, I eat about 1/2 of what is served. And I normally eat 1/2 of what a normal person eats. So you take a meal you would eat, and eat only 1/4th of that and that is what i'm down to. And 2 meals a day. I really try for 3 but its too much food. I have breakfast and dinner.
So, we are at 2 weeks on the meds. Energy is okay. I would not say its way up. It is higher than what it was but not anywhere near normal. The only 2 side affects that are bothering me are the ones listed above. In the big picture, they are really not that bad. But living this, its horrible. But I am also one that put really high expectations upon myself. Sometimes they are totally unachievable because I set the bar so high. And I have never learned how to lower it so I can be happy with who I am.
Thank you to those reading this and following me on the journey and being so supportive. Most of you I could not do this without.
xoxo, T
I hate having to re-learn things too. I have a filter, I swear I do. But sense being on this meds, its gone. Or switched off. And I don't know where the on switch is. I see myself doing things that I dont like me doing, but no control to stop it. Its like the meds have taken away my control over myself and my actions. And I hate that. I regret things I am doing WHEN I am doing them and I try to stop, but I cannot. Very frustrating.
Another side affect, I have NO desire to eat any food at any point in time. When I do force myself to eat, I eat about 1/2 of what is served. And I normally eat 1/2 of what a normal person eats. So you take a meal you would eat, and eat only 1/4th of that and that is what i'm down to. And 2 meals a day. I really try for 3 but its too much food. I have breakfast and dinner.
So, we are at 2 weeks on the meds. Energy is okay. I would not say its way up. It is higher than what it was but not anywhere near normal. The only 2 side affects that are bothering me are the ones listed above. In the big picture, they are really not that bad. But living this, its horrible. But I am also one that put really high expectations upon myself. Sometimes they are totally unachievable because I set the bar so high. And I have never learned how to lower it so I can be happy with who I am.
Thank you to those reading this and following me on the journey and being so supportive. Most of you I could not do this without.
xoxo, T
Tuesday, March 8, 2011
So tired yet so busy
Yep... you read that title correctly! I'm very tired. Should be in bed. But have been so busy that i have not had time to spend with my honey. So i rented a movie (thank you Redbox!) and we watched it tonight. Well mostly watched it. I was working and watching at the same time. Which is what you get when you are with me! Multi-tasking queen bee.
I got to, Monday night, scrapbook for the first time in a few months! It was so much fun and I have missed it greatly. I'm going to be starting up my own group soon, so if any local people are intrested let me know. Once a month for a few hours... We all need a break like that!
Well short and sweet again!
xoxo, T
I got to, Monday night, scrapbook for the first time in a few months! It was so much fun and I have missed it greatly. I'm going to be starting up my own group soon, so if any local people are intrested let me know. Once a month for a few hours... We all need a break like that!
Well short and sweet again!
xoxo, T
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