CRISTI--No special weekend plans for us. My DH has to do some work today and tomorrow. We used to go to the rodeo on the fourth, but it's gotten so expensive. I used to love going every fourth, but we usually just stay home, or go out to dinner somewhere. I hope your weather has cooled down for you now.

SUSAN--How are you doing this morning? I'm so glad our weather is supposed to cool down today to about 80, and be this way atleast through the fourth. I'm sure you'll be living at your pool all weekend.

KATY--Please drive safely and enjoy your trip to your mom's house. Yesterday when DH and I went over to the Beaverton area, we were stopped on I205 forever, because of everyone heading towards I5 South to get out of town.

SHAWNA--That's too bad that you can't go on your vacation now, but I understand that you would have a guilty feeling leaving your DH home to get things unpacked. Atleast you don't have to go into work, and you can do the unpacking at your own pace and rest when you want to.

JULES--Your DD and her friend sound like they have it made where they're at! That's great that the landlord is helping them out so much, but it probably does help being cute and a college student!

BEP--How did your dinner party go last night? You're one busy girlie who is always entertaining!

SASSY--Hope you have a good day and are feeling better.

Good Morning!

I will drive by your house Katy. lol I have the address, I just never could find it. Not that I was stalking or anything - lol anywho.....I shall go look and give you a color!!!!!

Sassy - I have had a couple of really down times. Just recently it lasted 3 weeks. It was scary when you don't feel like even doing normal stuff and I wondered it it was even going to get worse. I couldn't even do my job and so that added stress to....just hugs.

Michelle - Gabster and I spent the morning at the dog park, we had fun. Happy Rock has that cute wadding pool, I thought of taking Gab there today but with gas prices I might just have to brave getting in myself. Though I would really like to grab a book and the wadding pool has someone on duty.....I could sit in the sun and read,,,,,have to think about that!!!!

Picked up another 5 grain banana muffin, it is so good! Think I will go spend what money I have on salad fixings and graze on that all weekend.

So, do you all like this new format??

QUESTION: If you had to take 1 dish to a potluck what would you take??

Susan--I don't even notice anything different with the new format. I am subscribed to our thread so that's how I find it. For a potluck dish, I usually take eggs, but you could also just take some veggies and dip because people always love them!

hi yall,
just checking in while im in the middle of all of these daggum boxes. at least we have our cable and internet already lol.
the potluck dish i would take would be green bean casserole, its easy and yummy too.
another thing ill be able to do while im on vacation is get back in the gym. i havent been to water aerobics for 2 weeks!!! i know im getting my excercise in with all of this moving but i miss going.
well back to the boxes, check back later.
shawna

I haven't been to your house yet Katy - maybe tonight I will take a stroll through the village and find it. I can walk around your house and sit on your patio.....mmmm, you have ice tea in the fridge?? I will find the key under the mat and help myself to some tea and frozen strawberry cheesecake ....omg- you have Napolean in the dvd!! I will have to watch that and *yawn*,,,,I am tired now and really need a nap.....haha jk.....

You mean deviled eggs Michelle?? I love those too....what about the warm weather and the mayo?? Think everyone would get the runs?? That would put a damper on things.....lol....course I could always go back and get the fried chicken out of the work fridge...

Green bean cass?? Is that with the cream of mushroom? You are like me Shawna (scary, huh??lol) I always have to unpack asasp.....can't stand boxes all over the place.

It is just in a different location Michelle. I don't really like it but Suzanne didn't ask me,,,lol

anyway, gaby is getting cranky....chat later tonight

Awwwww ladies.

I didn't even want to get out of bed today. But I somehow managed, got up, showered, got something to eat and off to work. I just think I need some me time. Hopefully if everything works out, I will get it on Wed..........

Have a Great Weekend/Holiday

ok so our 7 year old foster son is getting ready to see the wrath of miss shawna.....i have been pretty passive with the discipline with him and let dh deal with most of it, but i am so over his mouth!! it all started this morning with the "fine" comment.....which absolutely drives me nuts!! my own kids dont get to talk to me like that. so we started out with being in time out for 5 minutes, then 6, 7, 8, 9, and by the time it was all over with he was grounded to his room for the whole day. he just doesnt know when to stop. we had his child therapist appt this afternoon and the therapist agreed with me on what i did and told dh and i to stick with it, dont back down. that made me feel better because i wasnt sure if it was really fair that he had to be there the whole day but i was going to stick with it no matter what. he then asked dalton what he should do to not let this happen again, and what do you know he knew the answer. he is so used to everybody backing down and giving him chance after chance after chance, well that dont work with miss shawna daggumit!!! wow i sound really mean dont i.....lol!!! well i just needed to vent a little bit, he started again tonight after dh had to leave for work, we started with not going to the park tomorrow, and by the end of it all hes grounded all day again tomorrow.....grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!!! maybe by the end of my vacation we will have one day of not being grounded ......lol. well enough of this stuff, i hope everybody is having a great weekend, im not sure what were doing for the 4th yet, i guess we will see if were grounded to our room again.
nite nite,
shawna

Hi Chickies.

Well the rollercoaster has been here again. As I'm feeling lots better. Weird. Very weird. I even got up and did some cleaning. Maybe that is the answer. More exercise? Get that blood a flowing maybe?

Shawna, when my mom watched my step sisters kids at first they were absolutely out of control by the end she had them behaving nicely. She didn't back down either. I think kids respect you more if you don't give in. Hang in there!

Ladies!

Hi all...just checking in really quickly again. I have been terribly busy.

Hmmm....menu the other day was simple stuff because I was on the run ALL day and only had a couple hrs....spiral glazed ham, mashed potatoes, corn bread, caesar salad, and dessert was a chocolate sour cream ice cream cake I made. Does that satisfy your curiousity?

Oh, speaking of food....Susan...potluck. I make different things all the time, but a few things that EVERYONE seems to love is cold veggie pizza, brownie pizza, caesar salad, cobblers, ugly cupcakes, berry cheese puffed pastries, buckeyes, etc.... I had better stop....I will ramble all night long on food. I actually have a potluck tomorrow (well...I guess I should say TODAY because it is about 1am already).

I am 'off' the diet until after the 4th. I have been running around like a chicken with my head cut off lately and it isn't going to stop until after the 4th so I am giving myself a short break. If I am not back here dieting my butt off on the 6th, then you can come here and give me a butt-kicking!

By the way...TOM showed up so that explains my mood drop the other day...and the pizza craving. ...which, by the way, I still haven't had.

I can't wait until my family starts getting here Monday night!!!!

By the way...we finished the guest room! It is so nice to have that done! Now I have to figure out how I want to decorate it!!! Oh well...I don't need to do that now...just have the plain room with them bed all done up sitting in there.

Oh my.....I am completely pooped! I have to get up early so I had better get to sleep soon! I have a few more things to finish before I hit the hay.

Have a great day ladies! I'll be back soon!!!!

Well I guess I'm the only one that doesn't seem to have much of a life. I check in here and still nothing going on, so I guess I'll go get a life and keep busy myself.

Shawna--I feel so bad for you and what you and DH are going through with your FS! That situation would require so much patience, and I don't think I would have it in me every day. Hopefully he straightens up so all of you can enjoy the fourth, but if he doesn't, I would certainly hold my grounds with him.

ty michelle and sassy, it definitely takes alot of patience and sometimes i dont always have any left at the end of the day lol. he has had a much better day today, now we just have to wait for bed time, since he is adhd this is the time when all of his medicine has worn off and he has a hard time making good decisions. he also has to take medicine to be able to sleep. poor guy has to have these meds to get through the day, and then sometimes they dont help......he has definitely become a better person since he first got here. hope everyone is having a good day.
shawna

**Just a warning I copied and pasted this so I do appologize for those of you reading this twice..........just was easier than retyping the same thing........**

Hey all.

I am still feeling good. BUT our car is having major issues now and it's the "Good" car of the two vehicles we have! We were driving along, going to work, and we passed this Harley (motorcycle), if you have ever heard a Harley, they are pretty loud. Well it passed us but we still kept hearing it. It was our CAR! We have no idea what it is, as we had to swap cars at the in-laws (was closer to their house) and get to work.

Hub seems to think its something big though. So that makes me a bit . I always figured it was going to be our truck to go first. Oh well, we knew eventually this day would come. Both of our vehicles are older and have many, many miles on them, but the car was in "better" shape. So now I think we are FORCED to buy a new car. Don't really want a car payment, but I think we have too.

Our mechanic friend has a newer Chevy Venture van he has fixed up and is selling for $3,000, I don't know if he'd take payments on it or not. I know a brand new vehicle we'd have the warranty, but I hate the thought of financing a car. But we'll just have to do something one way or another.

I know that our mechanic friend could most likely fix our car, but even if its not too expensive to fix, it still makes me uncomfortable now. Cuz like I said it was the "better" (or so we THOUGHT) of the two vehicles we have.

Well anyways, that is the "saga" for today.

Just popping in really quick--last load of DD's stuff will be early Tuesday morning. They have the kitchen, living room, bathroom and both bedrooms set up. Everything is looking sooo cute!! The last things being moved are the dining room table and chairs, dd's computer & stand, her grill and she may end up taking her couch--all have been in the storage garage. DS didn't get the house that they really wanted that had the basement--the landlord called to say that he was going to let them have it until a relative needed it. They have looked at a couple of other places. DS is really stressing, even got into it with DD about all the stuff she was taking until she reminded him that it was ALL her stuff. She has given him alot and her roomate had nothing so she needs to take her stuff. DS's girlfriend said that she would go ahead and bring over her kitchen stuff since her lease is up July 31. DS's gf's friend is going to move in to the 2nd bedroom and the friend was living with a guy until he left her and she has a whole household load of stuff in storage that they can use. I think DS is just stressing about the whole moving in thing with the gf and her friend. At least when DD was the roomate he knew he could count on her and he has been burned by other roomates. I told DD & DS that they needed to work it out, they will always be siblings and have always been there for each other and to not let this come between them.

I'm off to bed, it's been some late nights for me and I am beat!!

YUCK!!!! I am up two pounds!!! ALl that painting and moving I would have thought I would at least maintain, but then we munched and ate junk!!

Weigh In Day!!!!!: