26 years ago today....

I had a beautiful baby girl who has grown into a beautiful young lady.  

She who is my Daughter

I loved you from the moment I saw you.  I adored every little thing about you.  In you I saw all my hopes and dreams, for the future begin to blossom.

I tried to teach you to believe in yourself, to trust your inner voice, and to believe in true love. I gave you wings and taught you how to fly the best I could. I wanted for you to have it all - see it all - to do it all!!

When the day came for you to fly solo, I suddenly had second thoughts.  Had I taught you all I should? Could you really spread your wings and fly alone?

With part of me holding on and part of me letting go, you spread your magnificent wings and soared.

With our shared dreams, as well as separate aspirations, you became everything, I ever hoped for a daughter to be.  You are smart, strong, and independent with a kind, tender, and passionate heart.

How grateful I am that regarless of time or distance  you are still and will eternally be my daughter!

 - Suzy Toronto

I love you .....forever, for always, and no matter what.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY HEATHER, My baby girl.....

Hoping for a dry and warm office tomorrow.....

Tomorrow it’s back to work and I hope, actually I’m praying my office is dry, warm and smells ok. Why you ask….. This is what I walked into Friday morning at 7:30a….





I walked into a raining office and when I say raining….I mean literally a light misty rain was coming down in my office. I called the maintenance department and about six men came to the rescue. How many maintenance men does it take to fix a leak?? Six, one to climb the ladder and five to watch; it was comical, my co-worker and I watched from across the hall as five of them stood there watching the one guy climb the ladder and shut off the valve. When I left on Friday afternoon they had brought in a de-humidifier and about four commercial fans to dry the floor out. On the left of me is an office and on the right is another office. The water got just inside those offices too. It truly was a mess. Besides the pipe that has to be replaced there is also a coil. They told me it would be fixed in two days if they have the coil on hand....well knowing them like I do – I’m guessing I won’t have heat for about two weeks. I may have to take a heater with me. So…I’m not planning on getting much work done tomorrow, because I’m sure I will have to deal with the mess again.

Feeling very overwhelmed...

I am feeling very overwhelmed….I am inspired by so many of you and I have a list of projects big and small that I want to get done.  My problem….I don’t know where to begin!  I want them all done now.  I must admit, that there is no way I am going to be able to stay afloat with the best of ya!!  I have not really done any major projects or remodels in a very long time and my house needs it all.  So this should be fun.  Guess I better get started, because when summer gets here…all my free time will be spent at the pool.

Well, I’m off to check on Buster (the baby), my furry four legged child; had to take him to the vet yesterday afternoon.  He had a really bad cough that started Saturday evening.  Turns out he has tracheal Bronchitis also known as kennel cough.  Seems he may have picked it up a few weeks ago at the groomers.  L  

Until next time - stay warm!

~Pam

The Diet is officially on….

Well…I have played and ignored the fact long enough that I am on a diet… Through the holidays I didn’t really stick to my diet, and boy am I paying the price now. 

In February of 2010, a co-worker and I decided we were going to follow the weight watchers plan.  We went - weighed in got our materials and off we went.  We both have done really well.  Then the slow down hit for me.  I was like a roller coaster with the weight! I would be up a pound one week and down two the next, then I might be down two pounds the week after and then back up a pound.  It was crazy!! Well….. we decided that we were going to go back to weight watchers, they have this new plan called “PointsPlus” we thought it would be a good idea to sorta start fresh again.  She had hit a plateau herself so we thought why not?

We went tonight, weighed in and I was very disappointed in myself.  As of August of last year I had lost 30pds with 10pds to reach my goal weight.  I hate to say it but after our weigh in tonight I now have 17pds to lose to get to my goal weight. Urgh…. how could I let myself fall back like that? I have decided not to sweat it….I am going to start over and hopefully by the time summer gets here I will be at my goal weight.  So…everyone say a pray for me, I am going to need it.  Eating is one of my favorite things to do. And sweets are at the top of the list.  lol…..

Merry Christmas to all….

I wanted to wish everyone in Blog Land a very Merry Christmas! 

                              

My daughter has to work on Christmas day (we are really bummed about that), this is a new job and because she works weekends, it just falls that way.  It’s all good though she came over last night and we cooked dinner and opened our gifts. It seemed a little strange because it was out of the norm, but we still had fun.  We let our furry babies open their stockings first (to keep them occupied).

Then we proceeded with our gifts. By the time we were finished both of our furry boys were ready for bed! Nibbles was out of it,  we kept piling on the wrapping paper and he didn’t even care.

Buster, was pretty tired as well.

Tonight we will have Christmas with my family and my husbands family, we are expecting it to start snowing around 8:00pm and by tomorrow we should have about 2 inches of snow .  I am so excited and can’t wait for a white Christmas.  The only bad thing about it is my daughter has to work on Christmas Day.  She does live about 15 minutes from work, but she has about a 30-45 minute drive from our house to hers tonight.

Hope everyone has a safe and Merry Christmas.  I would like to leave you with some more Christmas pics. 

 

 

Merry Christmas from the Dennis Family!

Let it Snow, Let it Snow, Let it Snow…

This is what I seen today when I looked out my front door and down my street….beautiful!
             
I love it when it snows…especially when I don’t have to get out in it.  Our Christmas parade was tonight.  I could feel the Christmas spirit with the snow falling down and the cold temps. Made me want to be by a nice warm fire with some hot cocoa..
I wanted to share with you some of my new Christmas decorations this year.  I decided to decorate simple with just a few things.

Santa is new – I found him at Marshalls and I love him:
           

I collect snowmen – this is a new little guy I found him at TJ Maxx                

 I bought this boot.  The picture really doesn’t do it justice; It’s really cute in person.

And this Santa arrangement. I bought it at a local flower house in town.

Well, that’s it for now.  I will share more of my Christmas decorations next week.
Hope everyone has a great Sunday.  Stay Warm!!
Pam ~

Over done it……

Hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving!  I have over done it this year for sure!  On Wednesday the night before Thanksgiving my family and I went to my sister n law’s for Thanksgiving dinner; this is a tradition she started several years ago.  She is a wonderful cook and I always enjoy eating with them.  We had all the fixings and as usual everything was wonderful!!

On Thanksgiving day at noon we went to my mother n laws for Thanksgiving dinner.  My husbands birthday is November 28th and it’s always tradition that we have birthday cake – white cake, red trim and roses.
            
At three we went to my sisters for dinner – AGAIN!  By this time I was about to explode, but….I didn’t stop.  I ate again then we sat around and spent time together.


               My sister and her son.
            
          My nephews and daughter – Jonathan, Heather and Joey
            
                        Me, Mom and My sister
            
I am almost 100% sure I gained about 5pds this Thanksgiving, but that’s ok – I had a great time doing it!!


Did anyone go out on Black Friday?  Yep, the hubby and I did.  We left the house at 4:45am.  The first stop was Wal-Mart; Then I dropped off the hubby at Lowe’s.   While he was in Lowes I went to Office Depot to get a camera that was on sale for my mother for Christmas.  I have to say we got everything we went after and then some! Yipee………

Today is my hubby’s birthday – we spent the day at the Mall and then went out to dinner. 

Hubby and his brother. ( hubby in uniform – yep, he had to work Thanksgiving day. It was all good, he got to eat and spend time with the family)