HAPPY BIRTHDAY

Guess who's 38 years old today? Yep, this chick right here.

Had I been in another place in my life I'd be freaking out right now. 38 is just two years shy of 40! But...I'm where I'm at and being in place, I'm glad to be 38. I am happier, wiser and free-er (that's a word isn't it?) than I've been in my previous 37 years. I feel good about what's ahead of me. I feel the future is full of opportunity.

2010 will I'm sure, be full of obstacles but even more than that, it will be full of joy. I'm looking forward to this next year...IT'S GONNA BE A GOOD ONE as I continue to learn to fly again.

On the 15th Day of Christmas...

Just a short entry. Precious performed yesterday in the District-wide Orchestra performance. It was a very long but good program.

Maxwell's Addition to the Christmas Decorations

I LOVE CHRISTMAS! Everything about it and my boy is just like me. He wanted to add his own personal touch to our decorations and so he spent hours making 30 homemade snowflakes (while watching Dirty Jobs w/Mike Rowe...which is why it took hours...lol). These five are his favorites.

This Made Me Happy

LIVE THE LIFE YOU IMAGINED

I was doin' my ususal this afternoon, cruisin' around the internet and ran across this quote. Not sure who it's by or I'd give credit where credit was due. Anyway, this quote spoke to me. This is exactly what I'm working on doing...living the life I imagined. No doubt this is a hard time for me, I miss my babies terribly when they are away from me but I'm fighting hard for both them and me. But in the meanwhile, incredibly, I'm enjoying myself. I am so much stronger than I ever could've imagined.

I'm learning to fly again...and it feels good.

Shenita Lynn's Birthday Celebration

This past Saturday (Nov. 28th) Shenita had her 28th B-day party at Razzoo's. This was the first time at this restaurant for me; I've heard of it before but never wanted to go because they serve spicy seafood dishes (oh and they serve alligator too...what the hell?!) and I like neither spicy nor seafood. Luckily for me they had chicken tenders on the menu...mmm...mmm.

Top Left: The birthday girl was tipsy...look at her eyes...lol. I actually took way more pics than this but am not posting them because I don't know any of the people in them.

I've known Shenita since she was 15-16years old. Hard to believe she's grown now (and a new homeowner...CONGRATULATIONS SHENITA)

Spending Thanksgiving w/Family

This was the first Thanksgiving that I've ever spent without my babies. It was hard but I was still able to enjoy myself because I know it won't always be this way. I spent this Thanksgiving with my In-Laws, Lia and Terry. Lia and I cooked most of the food the night before. She had the fireplace going and Christmas music playing as we did what we needed to do. When we were done, we layed around watching movies. We went to bed around 3am.

Top Left: Samantha and Taysia (my nieces). These jokers spent the entire time on their cell phones. Middle: Me showing Little Terry (my nephew) how to correctly peel potatos. Bottom Left:Lia jacking with the fireplace...as usual.

I woke up the next morning around 10am to find that my brother-in-law, Terry, had already been up for a few hours but everyone else was still sleep. By about 10:30am I guess he got tired of waiting for them to wake up because he got two pots and commenced to banging them together while yelling "clang-clang-clang" at the same time. Unfortunately for him, my sis-in-law, Lia (the main one he wanted up), was wearing ear plugs and didn't hear a thing...LOL!

By 3:30 Shenita and Colette had arrived and we were ready to eat.

Despite my very strong objections, everyone was eating Chittlins. I kept trying to explain to them that we weren't slaves anymore so we can eat the good part of the pig (I mean, I know Texas found out about the slaves being freed late but "Juneteenth"...heard of that) but kept right on eating...DISGUSTING! I think Auntie Colette was the only one that had some sense and didn't eat any...and maybe Taysia.

See me representing the Buckeyes? That's what's up!

These pictures were taken on the friday after thanksgiving. Terry and Lia's rottweiler's, King and Sheba, had a litter of puppies. I just thought that they were so cute that I should share.

Little Terry getting puppy kisses

SNOWING IN TEXAS

YES...THAT IS SNOW YOU SEE!!! It actually snowed today. I took this picture today after dropping Precious off at school (this is her pictured). Not really sure why it would be snowing (this is being said with much eye rolling), I mean, yes it's winter and yes it's December but this is LANCASTER, TEXAS! It doesn't snow here in December. This is some straight Tom-Foolery. They (they being "The Man") should've listened to Al Gore. Damned Global Warming!!!