Hi, everyone! It's been such a busy week or so. DS2 had a freshman orientation day at his college (couldn't believe it was so early!), then his 18th birthday (when exactly did I get so old?!), so we had a little graduation/b-day party for him-just family, then, meeting to get ready for VBS next week, & cutting sod in our back yard for a new flower bed. I forgot that the hardest part is moving the sod after it's cut out-I'm exhausted! Fortunately, we have some low spots in our yard, so we were able to use all the sod we cut out, but now must go get some good peat, compost, manure for the new flower bed. On top of that, I'm trying to plan a vacation for the week of the 14th and DH's boss finally tells DH that he should go to a conference in IL next week! Now, DH has known about this conference for months, but his good-for-nothing boss would never let him know whether he was to plan on going or not. What kind of boss waits until the week before to make a decision? DH's plant has 3 managers and all 3 need to be fired, along with 2 of the union guys-they've all formed some kind of back-stabbing, brown-nosing clique where the 2 union guys get lots of "extras" while everyone else has to watch their own backs very carefully
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With all that going on, I'm just wiped out. I really need a vacation. We're going to the Black Hills, which we just love-so much to do, so we choose a couple things to pay for on each trip and then just do hiking and other stuff that's free. We'll get through VBS next week (I get to work on snacks in the kitchen so not too much activity with kids-love the kids, but like I said, I really need a break). A couple of my step-grandkids may come down for the week, but not sure yet.
I've been struggling with my eating so badly these last couple months since my dad died and I've gained 15 pounds!! I'm so disgusted with myself, but I can't seem to quit eating carbs. I know I can't cut them completely, but I can't remember ever craving carbs as much as I have lately. Trying to replace the junk carbs with fruit and whole grains as much as possible this week. I know part of it is emotional eating, because I have felt really let down by people who I thought were my friends. Even my church simply ignored the fact that my dad died. None of the youth pastors even asked the boys how they were doing. We've actually been thinking about changing churches. That's not the only, or even the biggest, issue, but it's kind of brought the fact that we're not accepted to the forefront, I guess.
Well, enough of my rambling....Keeping you all in my prayers, even when I'm just lurking and not posting
Hope you all have a great weekend!
storms up here with all kinds of lightening etc, so we had to disconnect our PC for the last few days. We lost a modem once before as the charges go right through your lines and damage them (and we also lost 2 VCR's that way too). Now we don't chance it anymore, as those modems are expensive ...
I believe that ... we had some double ones here too (two of them side by side at the same time or within nano-seconds of each other); it was kinda pretty, but the spit-spat and crackle'n pop was kinda scary at times ... 
ROSEBUD....I have been lurking 
