Making some changes...

It's been a while, I know.  Although I'm not sure that anyone reads this, so I guess no one has missed my random blogs.  =) 

I've decided to make some changes in my life.  I've tried to make some of these changes time and time again, but I'm really tired of putting off what I can get started on now.

First, I am back on Weight Watchers for about the 113th time.  My goal is to lose 20-30 lbs.  No deadline...I just want to work my way there.  Even if it takes a year, two years.....I want to lose 20-30 lbs.  That's it. 

Second, kind of in conjunction with WW, I want to exercise more and get fit.  More like I used to be.  Part of this is spurred on by the fact that in the next 5 weeks I have to prepare to be in a show choir reunion show from high school.  I am so excited for this, but know that I am in no way the same shape I was in when I was singing/dancing on a regular basis.  But even after the reunion is over, I want to stay more fit.  I just FEEL better when I'm doing a regular fitness schedule - I think most of us do.

Third, I want to save more money.  I LOVE LOVE LOVE couponing, but I want to learn even more about it.  I am going to go to a class/meeting with someone who is phenomenal with her couponing, and I hope to save our family several hundred dollars each month by doing this.  I am considering this to be part of my job now. 

Finally, I want to be a better mom and wife.  Don't you just get tired of constantly complaining, yelling, nagging, and not being able to have FUN with your kids??  I do.  I want to have fun with them - they won't always be little and innocent.  God has given them to us to raise, and I am honored that He gave us the kids that we have....they are amazing little creatures - smart, funny, adorable, talented.  I am a mom and could go on and on, but I need to go on and on about them TO them.  So that's what else I want to change.  They deserve a mom who disciplines, but who also shows them how to live, laugh, and love unconditionally. 

I'll let you know how all of this works out.  =)  Until next time, whenever that may be...

Almost February?

Long time, no write...

I guess I just haven't felt like blogging. Or maybe I've been too busy to blog. Life has moved on, at a fast pace, and we're already facing Valentine's Day. Which means spring is on its way!!!

I've decided to take a bit of a sabbatical from the worship department at church. It's been a really rough couple of years, and I needed some time to just "reprocess" and get back spiritually to where I was a few years ago. I think sometimes all of us need to stop, take a breath, and evaluate where we are in our lives - who we are, where we're going, who our friends are, who GOD is, etc.

Unfortunately, during this sabbatical, my daughter has decided to enter....Tweendom. UGH.....for those of you who have daughters in the dreaded 8-12 age range, I am praying for you. How will I ever live through this? I know I will, only to enter the dreaded....TEENDOM. She's such a sweet girl, but some alien has inhabited her body at certain points of the day. Trouble is, you never know when the alien will show herself!! LOL

Also during this time of reflection during the holidays, we lost our beloved dog of 13 years, Murray. He got sick Christmas Eve, and steadily was getting worse until we decided to take him to the Emergency Vet on Christmas night. Turns out the vet thinks he had a tumor that ruptured, and he was internally bleeding. There was basically nothing they could safely do to save him. It was a horrible evening, and I miss Murray terribly. He was our first "baby."

However.....two days later we went to see some puppies, and on New Year's Eve, we brought home our newest addition. Dottie Mae Pullen has got all of us wrapped around her tiny little paw. She is a dachshund (like Murray), but she is white and has one big dot on her back...hence the name. =) While she doesn't take the place of Murray, she certainly has brought some joy and excitement into our home.

Speaking of my home...maybe I should stop catching up for now. I hear my son...or I should say, I hear my son trying to be quiet. That can't be good...