Let's start with my list I created yesterday.....
Here is all that got done.....
I picked up over 3/4 of the living room floor, and was going to sweep, but Travis used the broom outside, and I don't like using the inside broom outside, and the outside broom got left outside a few months ago and got ruined, so I swept the living room "swept" with a carpet cleaning brush. I got several loads of dishes washed, and dried. Got one and a half more "days" readings done in my Bible reading plan, got supper started, and I'm sitting here now, blogging, and catching up on some of my podcasts, I've got so so so way to many to catch up on lol, and steady adding new ones lol. Travis DID bring in the clothes in from the outside clothesline thank goodness, so I plan on folding them and putting them up today, and added to yesterday's unfinished up list from yesterday I need to go to Wal-Mart, I desperately need to get a new broom.
Becca is starting to play more and more in her little bouncy exer-saucer I got her I'm so proud of her, she is growing up WAY to fast!!! I can't believe my baby is 4 months old.
I guess thats it for now if I have time I'll blog again

Well, its now day 10 of my Bible reading plan, and I'm finally finished with day 3! Last night I was laying there reading and Travis kept trying to talk to me, then finally he said just read it out loud, and so I did. Then he got up to go to the bathroom, and so I started reading to myself again, and he said keep reading, so I had to go back and start reading out loud from where he had left off. I am so upset with him this morning though because he is out of all of his most important medicines, and woke up at 11:30 and in order to get his meds he has to be there before 11! I was downloading some pictures to send to my Mama, and I found this picture, of me that Travis had taken of me walking at the park lol. Ok so back to my life........... I worked Friday for overtime, and for the first time got Mothers Day gifts from my children, via my husband instead of someone else. I got the most beautiful flowers, and an iPod accessory kit, which I wish they had not gotten, b/c I only wanted/needed like one or two things out of it, and the rest was a waste of money that now is causing my doggone power bill to be late getting paid, b/c he spent so much money. And while I'm on my complaining kick, I'll keep going at least it hopefully will get it off of my chest. When I was a stay at home mom, everything was my fault as far as the appearance of the house, the laundry, the meals, the appointments, etc. Now that Travis is a stay at home dad, and I'm working, for some reason the house cleaning, cooking, laundry, appointments, etc are still all MY responsibility for some reason thats not adding up for me. He can go hunting, fishing, and go hide in the bathroom and read for hours on end, b/c he needs some time to himself, but if I dare to pick up a crochet hook and some yarn, I'm wasting time, that there are much more important things to be done. Ok so enough complaining for that paragraph.
I have been really slack with taking pictures here lately, I was doing very good taking at least one picture of each of the girls weekly on Wednesdays since they were all born on Wednesdays, but its been almost a month since I took some pictures, so I took a couple of Lydia and Becca today :) I sent my sister a list of things I wanted to get done the other day, and I only got like one or two things off of it done :(
So I need to get busy now, here is my to do list for today, and not sure how much will get done, b/c Katie Grace will be home in 10 minutes now.....

• Wash dishes
• Put up clean dishes
• Clean off table
• Fold clothes on the line (inside line, Travis put the clothes outside yesterday and knows I'm not going to go get them, b/c I don't like clothes hung outside its a big argument around here)
• Work on the bar
• Read in my Bible
• Read in my Joyce Meyer book
• Clean off the couch
• Put clothes up!!!
• Work on computer area
• Sweep living room floor then vacuum
• Clean off porch
• (hopefully) Take a bubble bath
• Try to catch up on podcasts
• Price color ink for printer so I can print some pictures
• Sweep kitchen
• Work on the bathroom some

Ok so I know that I've got way more on here than I could possibly get done in one day, but usually when I'm upset about something I get quite a bit of cleaning done, Travis used to joke and say that he would make me really mad if he wanted something done right, b/c I get so mad at things not being done right, and then I have to "do them myself"
Ok so let me get started

Well, Katie Grace just got off the bus, and her Kindergarten graduation is June 3 at 8:30 am and I called my mom, and (am I the least bit surprised no, I knew she wouldn't come) she has something else to do. I found out over the weekend that my step brother is thinking about moving up there where Mama lives, and I know that they will do everything they can to make that happen, but yet, I've tried several times to get them to help me get my family moved up there and they keep trying to find ways to keep me from moving up there. Oh well, I guess I'll just forget I have a mother, my mother died in December of 2005 I guess, I guess she wasn't my grandmother she was my mother.

90 days to read the Bible

I am starting the 90 days to read the Bible today. I will pray that I can stay on track. I'm not sure if I'm going to church or not, I really need to, and so does Travis, he woke up in a very bad mood and has been cussing already this morning and hasn't been up for a whole hour yet. I found a picture of my senior prom yesterday and I can't wait to be FAT again, lol, I was so much much much smaller, and thought I was just the fattest thing on the face of this earth. I'll take a picture of the picture later and upload it. I also came across the picture of me and Mema when we went to get glamour shots together, I swear I miss that woman more and more each day. However, I think she would be proud of the accomplishments I've made, and the ones I continue to work on. Well, if I'm going to church, I need to go get ready.

I listened to a podcast called Marriage for Dummies, and they suggest that one of the best ways to improve your marriage is to kiss for 10 seconds at a time, twice a day minimum. I guess it couldn't hurt huh..... for 1 -how can you kiss for 10 seconds long, if you are upset with each other, so you will be creating less friction in the relationship.
I had quite a weird day yesterday. Let's start with Thursday, I woke up at 7:10 am to feed Becca, and didn't get to take but a 15 minute nap throughout the day. Well, that was no biggie, I just knew that I would be that much more tired when I got off work. Well, Travis decided at like 1ish that he had to go to town to do a few things that HAD to be done, I just wish he had gone earlier in the day. So I told him that I needed him to go to Wal-Mart to get me a new uniform b/c I only had two of them fit, and they were both dirty, BUT that he HAD to be home by 5:15 b/c I have to leave by 5:30 to make it to work on time. Well he got here around 5:20 and I left at 5:35 which I was thinking that would still be ok, that I should still be able to make up the difference with a few over the speed limit areas, well, of course what happens EVERY TIME that you are running late????? You get behind someone that is going 10 miles per hour less than the posted limit. So I got there and clocked in at 6:03, which by the way is the last time you can clock in and not be tardy. So I got there and was frustrated about being late (mentally, I knew I wasnt' tardy, but I was still late in my mind) and when I saw my assignment I got super hyped up to be able to handle the load I was given. I was given 8 patients, when the most I'd had so far at this new job was 5 patients, and that was a rough night, I knew 8 would give me a run for my money. So I went and got ice to pass out to all of my patients, after getting report on all of them, and as usual I delivered ice, and introduced myself, and got an idea of what each would need and when, and see if anything needed done right away. Well lo and behold they everyone wanted to do something RIGHT NOW. So from 6:03-9:30 I never slowed down a single bit, and didnt' get to go pump until then. I normally pump at 9, 12, and 3, and I was so behind, but when I get behind on my pumping schedule I get frustrated and it makes my whole night seem out of whack. So I finally got back on schedule by going and pumping at 12 and even got started early by taking my vitals at 3 instead of 5, and I had already given one shower at 8 last night and so I still had one bath to give, so when I planned out my last round, I figured I would take everybody's vitals except for the lady I was going to give a bath to and take her vitals last so that I could just go right into her bath. Well, everything went picture perfect, until............. I went back after the ladies bath and did another quick check over all of my patients, and one of my ladies had peed up her whole bed, all night long she would say she didn't have to go to the bathroom, and I had been given in report that this lady was continent, and alert and orientated, but it turns out that she was alert and orientated, but not times 4, mostly I'd say times 2, and we were having to do bladder scans before and after she peed, well, we scanned her bladder, and got over 350 ml of urine in her bladder, so ok, we took her to the bathroom, and she said she didn't have to pee, and so we had to scan her again, and of course that same amount of urine was still in her bladder, and she kept saying that she didn't have to pee, but then would pee up her bed and her pull ups, so I made sure that in report that I passed on that this lady was NOT continent! So that got me behind again and I was almost late clocking out.
So then I came home and fell asleep very quickly! Travis woke me up and said he was going to do something and was taking Lydia with him, and I asked him to please be home in time to go walking with my sister, I need to leave by 5:30 to be there by 6. He got home at 6, and my sister was not feeling well anyways so of course I didn't get to go walking. BUT I had slept all day long and fell asleep again before 7:30, so apparently I was to tired anyways.
My phone kinda freaked me out yesterday, back in the winter my space heater, almost caught on fire, but instead burnt the power strip in that particular socket, the plastic around the socket on the space heater alone, was disfigured. So my phone was acting really weird, and so I went to try to put it on the charger, and instead of it saying charging, it kept saying needs charging, so I was like why isn't it charging, and finally looked at the plug in and it was plugged in, but was covered with clothes, and was getting hot, so I figured, that it had gotten to hot, and wouldn't' work any more. But I tried to plug it into another socket just to see if it would work, but it still wouldn't work, then all of a sudden, I heard my phone ringing, and went in there and it was saying charging by then, so my assumption is that it had to cool down, but of course I was freaking out thinking that my phone was completely gone.
So now its Saturday morning, and I'm not in the best of moods, and not in the worst either, just hoping that I can get something done today. I am fixing to do my checkbook, and am not looking forward to it, b/c I think I'm a greased cat hair away from being overdrawn

Let's see if I can remember..........

Let's see if I can remember everything that I need/want to say from the last time I posted......... Sunday, April 6, we tried out a new church, its the same one that my sister, and several others we know have recently moved to, and have told us about, and we ALL really enjoyed it. Travis liked it, I liked it, and the girls not only liked it, but actually came home "teaching" me back what they had learned, I was very pleased and impressed with the church. Monday, April 7, Travis met with the disability lawyer, and she told him that he really needs to be hounding the doctors, and that it was still looking somewhere around 1-2 1/2 years before a disability court date would be set. I went back to work :( My first day was Tuesday April 8, for orientation which was supposed to be two days, but they let me split it up, and take day one in April, and I will take day two coming up next week I think it is. Then, Travis had court on April 9, supposedly to show proof that he was being seen for his disabling condition, and that he had two lawyers working for him, to help him. One for disability, and one for workers comp. Well, that didn't turn out the way we had wanted. He had all the proofs he needed, so we thought. The judge gave him 45 days to find a lawyer, stating that letters proving he has lawyers doesn't prove that he really has workers comp, and disability cases in the works, and so he has to file a suite against the child support. Then, so that was Tuesday and Wednesday of that week, and Thursday night April, 10 was my first night of orientation. It also was my sisters birthday. I went to work that Thursday night, and I really liked it, the job that is, not the fact that I had to be there, b/c that I still don't like, I'd much rather be at home with my babies. So then, I was off that Friday, and trained Saturday and Sunday, and was on my own that Monday. Monday, April the 14th was also the starting day of a walking program at work, and I am on a team, the team that has walked the most hours by June 1 will be announced on June 2 and will win the "pot" of money (it costed $2 to be in the walk) I walked 15 minutes at work that night. Then, on Tuesday April 15, my sisters Mom (we are half sisters for anyone that may be confused) had surgery, and I think she is starting to do a little better now. Tuesday I walked 15 minutes. Wednesday night April 16, I walked for 30 minutes with my sister, my three girls, and my sisters good friend, and walking buddy. Thursday April 17, I walked 30 minutes, and I worked that night. Friday the 18th, I walked for 30 minutes with my sister and Allen again. Friday was also my first payday with the new job. Saturday, the 19th I walked for one hour. We had been kinda puttering around the house, and trying to get some cleaning up done, and had wanted to go to a free BBQ at a local gardening nursery and we missed it, so we called Tina, (my sister) and asked her to come eat with us. So she met us out there, and believe it or not, we actually got there right at the same time. Well, supper was good, and the waitress played a very good prank on Travis, me and Tina were just laughing like crazy (after we figured out it was a prank, lol, at first I was kinda like man this girl has some nerve) . Tina and I had been saying how she looked so much like a cousin of ours, and Travis being the cut up type of person he is, turns to her and says, I don't know WHO you are, and without skipping a beat, she says, you dont'? I know you. You should have seen his face, he got beet red. She said you really don't remember me? He said um no. Then she said, I feel really bad now, I cant' believe you don't remember me, I'm hurt. And he said oh shoot, I don't remember anything after having my embolism, and she was like oh I'm sorry to hear about that, did everything come out ok, and he said yeah, but I still dont' know who you are. And it kept on for what seemed like forever, and then she finally said, no I'm just playing I dont' know who you are...... you should have seen that face too lol. It was fun, but the chairs were very uncomfortable, and as the dinner progressed I could tell Travis was in pain. Well, we went to Wal-Mart, and Katie Grace rode with her Aunt Tina, and we were in Wal-Mart for over an hour, and then when we got out to the car, Travis was in so much pain he was sweating like crazy, but he tried to fake it (the pain that is) and we went home, and bid Tina good night, and told her we would see her tomorrow at church. Well, things didn't quite turn out that way. We got a little over half way home, and Travis just started hurting so badly he tried to lean back a little bit in the seat, but he was driving and he couldn't. So he said he thought he needed to go to the hospital, but that the girls needed to be in bed, and so he wouldn't' go. I said well lets just go home, let me call Tina, I know she is still up, b/c she said she was going to go ahead and get her bath tonight for church in the morning. So I called her and she agreed to keep the girls, well just Katie Grace and Lydia I kept Becca so I could feed her, and she took them to church the next morning. Well, Travis and I went to the ER, when we got there it was 11:10 pm, but didn't get called back to a room until almost 1am, b/c there was a shooting, and boy it was scary in that waiting room with all the people that were with the shooting group, they were running in and out, and barking orders at everybody, and I really felt fearful at times. So we finally get taken back to the room, and sit and wait for a while, and they come in there, and talk to him, and order an x-ray to make sure he doesn't have anything wrong with his hip or his back. Well, as Travis and I already knew the x-rays came back negative, and so it was on to the next task. They were telling us that "this is the ER we don't diagnose problems, we just fix emergencies" so they said there main objective was to ease the pain, they brought him a shot, and it didn't' even phase his pain. So we would go long periods of not seeing anyone, then they would come in and give false hopes. Once they even told us we could go home shortly. Well, finally around 8am they came in and said they were going to admit him, and so I said I'd just stay and see what room he would be going to and then I would go to church, well the male nurse that was in there when I said that got an attitude and told me that if I felt like I needed to go to church, that I just needed to go, and not wait on him to be admitted, just to go now. I had wanted to go to Sunday School which started at 9:30, and so I stayed for about a couple more minutes, and mind you I had had very little sleep, just mostly dosing off here and there in that hard chair at ER bedside, so I went by McDonalds, and got me two biscuits, and a dollar tea. Well, when I got there Becca needed to eat, and I was already about 10-15 minutes late for Sunday School, so I just went and fed her (so I thought, she got sleepy and fell asleep)and then went back to the sanctuary and Tina wanted me to sit with her, and so I did, and she held Becca, who had woken back up when I stopped feeding her, due to her falling asleep. Well, she fell back asleep within no time, and slept through the whole loud part, the Praise and Worship and almost immediatly when it got quiet and the preacher started preaching she woke up, and was playing, and happy, but I knew her quiet cues that she was hungry, and took her out and went to feed her. After church, Tina said she didn't want the girls to see me, b/c she and Allen were going to take them out to eat, and so I could go get a little rest, and change my clothes, and go see Travis. So since I had been in the same clothes since mid-day the day before, I came home, changed my clothes, I called to see what room Travis was in, b/c several people were wanting to know, and when I called he was still in the ER, so they transferred the call to him, and he said they just came to transport him up to his room, and that he would be in room 601. So he was finally getting admitted at 1:45pm after being in the ER all night long. So he told me what he needed me to bring him, and I went to get the girls, and was at Tina's for a few minutes, and Becca needed to eat again, so I fed her and while I was feeding her, I fell asleep, and slept for over an hour, I guess, and when I woke up and realized I had been sleeping, I felt so badly, b/c Tina was wanting to take a nap and she couldn't' b/c the girls wouldn't take a nap and here I was falling asleep in her house. I felt really badly, that I did that to her, even though I had been up for so long, and had fallen asleep trying to drive to her house to pick the girls up, I didnt' want to sleep at her house, b/c I knew she was tired, but it happened and I can't change the past, and she didn't get mad , or if she did she she didn't show it, probably b/c she saw how upset I was at myself for falling asleep, lol. Ok so that was our busy Saturday and Sunday the 19th and 20th, and I almost forgot, I walked 15 minutes Sunday too. Monday the 21(walked 35 ,minutes), and Tuesday the 22(walked one hour), I was supposed to work, and had to call in b/c I didn't have anyone to keep the girls, and Travis was still in the hospital. Wednesday, the 23rd, I walked 15 minutes and Travis was discharged from the hospital, and we met Tina and Matthew at Ryan's and had supper, and these really creepy guys kept staring at my sister, and trying so hard to flirt with her, and one guy gave her his phone number, lol he was very spooky. So then we went to Bi-Lo to get some diapers, and home we went. Thursday the 24th, Travis' workers comp lawyer from Alabama came up to take Travis' deposition. We were to meet him at the lobby of his hotel at 8:30, well, Katie Grace missed the bus, and we had to take her to school, so we were late getting to the hotel, but nonetheless, we got there, and had continental breakfast, well me and Lydia did, Travis, and Pat (the lawyer) sat out back and discussed how he should act, and what he should say and not say when they get to the deposition which was being taken at another hotel, where the companies lawyer had stayed. So we showed his lawyer where to go, and then dropped Travis off and I went to the craft store, and walked around in there for over an hour, lol didn't realize it took that long, but it did, and I came out of there with 3 packs of thank you cards, and 3 activity place mats. Then I realized it was the time the lawyer had told me to come back, actually he had said in about an hour to an hour and a half, so I went back, and they were not done yet, so I took Lydia to Taco Bell, and then to the park, and I had to feed Becca, then we played in the park for about a half hour maybe an hour, and then I didn't want Travis to be stuck there and since we don't have cell phones, I drove back to the hotel, and sat there for about a half hour more then Becca got hungry and hot, so I changed her into some cooler clothes, and fed her and about 10 minutes after I started feeding her, they came out, and by now its like almost 2pm and so they said they would drive over to where Travis' old doctor was so he (the lawyer) would know how to get there to get his deposition, and for me to finish feeding Becca then come get Travis. So I did, then we went home, just in time to catch Katie Grace off the bus. So I walked an hour in the craft store, and then all that stuff I just said, then that night, I went walking with Tina, and Allen, and Becca, Travis kept Katie Grace and Lydia, and we walked for an hour and 15 minutes. I stayed out until very late that night, there was no school that next day, and was planning on being home by 10 at the latest, but ended up staying at Tina's until after 11pm which is crazy late for her. Friday like I said there was no school, we piddle paddled around the house, and then Travis, Lydia and Becca went to the park part of the Civic Center, and since I was working the weekend I "chaperoned" for the "In the Spotlight" performance dress rehearsal so that I could see my baby girls first ever performance. I cried knowing that I would miss it, she did so good in practice, just didn't smile enough to be seen so I told her to please smile and keep her head up for the "real night" and Travis said she did a good job. Saturday I already mentioned was the Spotlight, and so Travis and the girls dropped me off at work, and then went on to the Civic Center, and I had told him he better not be late picking me up, and lo and behold I was late leaving work Sunday morning lol. I am counting 2 hours walking time for the walking team for Saturday night, but it was a very hectic night and the only times I got to sit down all night was when I went to the bathroom, when I pumped, and at the end of the shift, when I had to chart my vital signs. Sunday I slept off and on most of the day, and then went to work and had a much nicer night, one less patient, and one less hard patient at that, so I was very grateful. My sister and I also walked Saturday morning in the Wal-Mart for 2 hours. Sunday I didn't' get any recordable walking in, but 4 hours on Saturday, and a lot of my walking Saturday night at work was technically after midnight Saturday night. Monday night April 28th I worked. Tuesday, April 29th, Travis had a doctors appointment to follow up from his hospital stay. When he got back from that, we had a few minutes before we got ready to meet with the advertising staff at www.gwdtoday.com to possibly see about putting an ad in about our candles. We did sign a 6 month ad contract, but its not valid until we can pay for it lol. I didn't see any since in paying $100 a month for a side spot, when you could get one larger and at the top for $150, I'm not even sure if we will be able to afford that I havent' gotten a full check yet, and the one I get tomorrow won't be a full one either, b/c of missing two days when Travis was in the hospital. Then we came home and got Katie Grace off of the bus, and went back to town, Travis was supposed to drop off a wholesale flyer and brochure to someone that possibly wants to put our candles in there shop, and after there we went and looked at some cars, and vans and trucks. All of a sudden I realized it was almost 6pm and thats walking time if you walk with Tina and Allen, so I told Travis, if I'm walking with Tina, we need to get there right now, and if I'm not walking, I'd still like to go over there, b/c she got something for the girls and she wants to give it to them, so we went there with just the intentions (so he thought lol) of just getting the Bible's she had bought each of the girls, but when we got there, he had planned on going to the store anyways so I said why don't yall go to the store, and we will walk, and so thats what we did, we walked for 30 minutes, and got back before him. Wednesday April 30, Becca was 16 weeks old. We, Travis and I were subpoenaed to court for a civil dispute between two of our neighbors. We got there, and I was in so much pain, I'm not sure what was causing it, but I was almost doubled over in pain. The whole court thing was a hoot, it started late, the neighbor that was being called in by the other neighbor was drunk, and poorly dressed, and got away with lots. It was just crazy. Then we went to Wal-Mart, and walked around in there for over an hour, and bought some notebooks, and coloring pencils, and Travis bought a fishing pole for me and the girls thats pink and purple. So we left Wal-Mart and came home to get Katie Grace off of the bus, then we went and got worms, a fishing license, and hot dogs, and went fishing. We came home just in time to get the girls ready for bed. Lydia decided she wanted to work on her "schoolwork" and so we decided to let them stay up until 9. I watched American Idol results show, and even though I know Brooke's time was running out, I think Jason Castro should have gone before her, I was sad to see her go. Now for today, Travis got up and put Katie Grace on the bus, I got up and fed Becca, he went back to bed, and is still asleep right now (10:15) and Lydia just woke up, and Becca has eaten and gone back to sleep. So now I need to go fix Lydia something to eat, and then I would like to get a few things done today before I have to go work tonight. I'm glad I got to update and even more glad that I remembered as much as I did. Oh yeah I forgot to mention that I have started reading the book "Be Anxious for Nothing" by Joyce Meyer and I also bought the study guide for it. I might get to blog again soon hopefully
Make it a great day!!