Happy Birthday!

You have grown into a wonderful woman. I’m so proud to have you as my daughter.

You have enriched my life in so many ways. Who else would I learn things about animals and minerals from? Your knowledge is amazing. You are one of the smartest people that I know and you are 20 years old.

You are an amazing mother, you have such a warm heart.

You are a strong woman with a mind of her own. Never change that about you, you have that in your fiber, in your core.

Live life knowing that you are always loved, always treasured, always thought of.

I wish only happiness for you in your life.

I’m proud to say that you are my daughter. I love you! :heart:

Mom

Weekend

Is the weekend nearly over already? I have no idea where it went, seriously. It’s been really nice today, windy though. It was 76°F here today!

I did some work with hubby around the house this weekend. We’ve moved the chair from the living room to our bedroom, just to see the scale of it up there. It’s an old Lazy-Boy recliner. We bought it about 15 years ago. It’s a little bigger than I thought it was! At least we have it out of the living room. We also took the bookcase down to the basement. All my books will somehow make it down there this week. I think I will just take a few stacks a day downstairs. It’s nice to have my dolls on display again. I really would rather have them there than anywhere else.

I put up a “wanted” ad on Free Cycle today and got a reply! We’re looking for cabinets for our laundry room, they are SO expensive! So, I just asked if anyone will be remodeling their kitchen this Spring and to please think of us. I got a quick reply from a gal that will be tearing out the cabinets this next month! Yay! She’s going to contact me once they are out and we’ll go and pick them all up. I cannot wait to have more cabinets in there. Even with a purge there’s still not enough room for everything I want to store in there. We also got rid of some craft things and a storage cabinet. It looks so weird in the basement without it. We’ve had it for about 10 years, so it was time. Been through a few moves!

I’ve been making copies today for the hearing thing on Tuesday. Turns out it’s just the youngest and I and the interstate person, since we live in MD and he is in VA. He will not be there. This actually starts everything rolling. Which makes me wonder what was happening for a year. I guess a subpoena and a court date will be decided sometime in the near future. I just pray it’s not while we are in Vegas. Hubby will be staying here with the little girlie as there’s not really room for him and the two of us in a 5 x 5 room. Plus she was told that the gal will be asking info. about their relationship. Ack, I don’t want to hear this either, but, he definitely doesn’t. I printed out the photo from the last time he saw her. July 2008. Really? Really. Also made copies of the two check copies that I told her to make at the time. Glad I did that now. I’m almost done, just have to copy her 2006 and 2007 tax returns and W2′s as she doesn’t have any bills.

Still no word on a job for the oldest. She may be applying for one if there’s an opening, in Ohio. Express corporate is there. Columbus is really close to his folks, so I’m sure my MIL will have fun seeing her here and there if she gets the job. She said that in a few weeks she will know something. Her last day at work is quickly approaching and she’s booked the U-Haul already. I just wonder where she will end up living. I think she’s going to try to crash at friends houses so she can keep her cat, Ziggy. I’ve been praying for her, I just don’t know what the future holds.

I’m back to the gym tomorrow after taking a few days off. I need to start running a little and doing more weights and I want to get back into yoga. I did the shred for a week. Hm. I don’t know if it changed me at all to tell you the truth. I do have awesome thigh muscles from all the lunges! I did have some sore knees though, I wonder if I was doing the lunges wrong? I would like to lose 5 more pounds before May 1st, we’ll see. I have yet to get a new bathing suit, that’s on the list for next month.

The gal canceled the Easter photo shoot on Thursday night while I was in class. They cannot afford it according to her hubby. Oh well. She isn’t rescheduling either. Wednesday morning I’m going to a breakfast mixer sponsored by the Chamber of Commerce. I hope to hand out a lot of biz cards there.

TTFN! :kiss:

Day 4

Yesterday was day 4 on the 30 day shred. I turned down the volume on the tv, as I know her script practically by heart and just want to do the workout. I did a run at the gym along with the bike beforehand, so I still had on my heart rate monitor. It got up to 150 during the workout, which isn’t too bad considering it’s powered by me vs. a machine.

On day 14 I will switch to level 2, just to see how different it is.

Today is the elliptical and then weights, home to shred. It’s day 5!

The weight is coming off again, so, I must be doing something right! I’m off of the JC food and have been for 3 weeks. I’m not as bloated as I was when I was on it. I cannot stay on it forever, so, it was good to eat real food on our trip. I didn’t gain or lose on our trip at all, which is amazing to me as I wasn’t nearly as active as I am at home. There wasn’t a gym in the hotel, so I just did that one run with hubby and tried to keep busy outside when I could with the little girlie.

News

She has a court date next week for child support! Only took a year. We’re probably going to leave the little girlie with a good friend, hubby’s taking the day off as it’s the youngest’s birthday as well. I think that it will work out better that way. We’re presenting a united front along with all the receipts over the past 2 years. He only paid 2 1/2 payments of our verbal agreement. I totally blame his father for raising him to not be responsible. He’s texting her at 2 a.m. trying to talk to her. We’ve instructed her to not answer or talk to him at all. He can see the little girlie anytime he wants, he’s just never wanted to! Halloween, 2007 was the last time until last August.  That’s it. She will be 2 in May. So sad that he’s missed out on things. Please think good thoughts that morning as we live through this. Her appt. is around 11 a.m. Thanks. :smile:

In other news, she will be keeping a diary of all symptoms. The doc saw her today and has given her a diagnosis of IBS for now. She’s running blood work on her to see her iron levels. Stress isn’t ever easy to handle, is it? Whenever she eats BEEF she gets a very upset stomach and cannot eat for another day. Nothing else bothers her. Just one meatball will upset her stomach. I guess it’s the enzymes or something. She used to be a vegetarian, remember that? For 3 years no chicken, beef, pork. She did drink milk (we insisted) and ate eggs now and then. I think that after that there was only a gap of a few weeks before she got pregnant. Then she started eating everything under the sun! I think that her hormones are changing.

Day 3

After cussing at Jillian yesterday during the workout, I was really worried that I couldn’t finish it! I really pushed myself though. I am on day 3 and my muscles don’t hurt as much. I DO NOT like lunges, never have, but, they are great for every part of my body!

I did the shred and then some fun on the Wii Fit. I couldn’t go to the gym today, had to take the youngest to the doc. Tomorrow will be treadmill and then shred.