This is the day...

that the Lord has made. Let us rejoice and be glad in it! Amen! I say this every time I get out of bed. I've got so much to be thankful for. I've got a roof over my head a husband who works hard and much, much more! I'm thankful just to be able to get out of bed every morning because there are many people who can't. I'm really thankful for the warm weather we are starting to get. I'm glad winter is behind us. Aren't you?

I've had a pretty good week this past week. I got another scrapbook page done in Michayla's scrapbook. I'm so slow at scrapbooking because I have to really work at being creative,plus I'm working 40+ hours a week. But I must say the pages are pretty good! I think I'm hooked on scrapbooking. Every time I see a coupon for Joann Fabric's or Michael's craft stores, I cringe, because I know I will just have to use it on one more scrapbook item. I get them in the mail, there in the Sunday newspaper. They seem to be everywhere. I should start getting coupons for Archiver's soon. (Ugh, another coupon). I went through all of my scrapbook tools, stickers,embellishments etc. yesterday and got them all organized. I labeled all the drawers. I bought an over the door student dorm organizer on clearance at Kohl's awhile back just for the purpose of organizing my scrapbook tools in it. It work's pretty good. I put a punch or two in each pocket and labeled each pocket as to which punch is in what pocket to make them easy to find. We'll see how long I keep it organized.

I've dropped out of TOPS and I am going to focus more on exercise. I went back to aerobics on Friday and I took two walks yesterday. I've noticed I sleep better when I exercise. TOPS hasn't been working for me for a couple of years. At work, Cheryl has organized The Biggest Loser GMG Boot Camp. It starts on April 1st and runs for 6 weeks. Several people have signed up to do it. She weighs everyone in once a week and she leads a walk one of the days of the week during our lunch hours and I will lead a walk on another lunch hour. They will be only 20 minute walks, but its a way to help people get motivated.

Yesterday was a really good day! I talked to Erica for quite awhile on the phone and I talked to SallyRose in the afternoon on the phone until she had to go get Allyson from climbing. I'm glad I'm still getting phone calls from all of you and these blogs are not our main source of communication. See, I just said something else I'm thankful for!

The one sad thing that happened this past week was one of my favorite patients went into cardiac arrest and last I heard he was on life support. He was coming in everyday for B12 injections because he has anemia. The last thing he told me was he was going to a specialist to have his throat looked at for Cancer. I told him I would pray for him.The next day his brother called me and told me the sad news. It brought tears to my eyes.

Well, I gotta go. I'm going to start my exercise blog to see if that will help me stay on track. Love you all!

What a Week.....

I've had at work! I could tell my stress level was way up there, because on Friday I was just wiped out! Not only am I the manager over the front office, I am also the manager over Medical Records. What a challange Medical Records is! I'm about to step down from being manager, period! The Med Info Tech the person in Medical Records,is fairly new, she has been with us for less then six months and she is already going to give here two week notice. I had the hardest time getting her to take a lunch hour. Finally, I had to put my foot down and tell her if she didn't start taking her lunch hours that I would get in trouble for approving her time cards without them. I told her since I have never really worked in medical records I needed her to write down what she is doing and how long it is taking her so I can try to get her some help. She doesn't want to do that, she doesn't want to be micromanaged! That wasn't what I was trying to do, I was trying to get the office to understand that she needs some help, so now she is going to give her two week notice. Then on Thursday morning I want in and the whole front office had been rearranged without my knowledge! That just pushed me over the edge and Lisa the back office manager got to hear my ranting, but I'm over that now and I left it like they had arranged it, but they better never complain to me again about things being down on our work counters! By the end of the week I was ready to step down from my position. Poor Larry like to have never heard the end of it. Now tomorrow, the front office is going to be short staffed and the medical reacords person is going to be off. So I don't have an extra person to put back in medical records so I called Lisa the manager over the nurses and she is going to be short a nurse on Monday, so I won't get anyone from her either. I'ts going to be an interesting Monday. This position definatly has its challanges!

Yesterday I went to Brown County to Lisa's,Ralph's fiance, bridal shower. There were alot of people there. She received a lot of nice gifts but no lingere. Which I think is good. Its better to get things you need when your starting a new home. Then I went to Marylin's and she got to hear about my week at work and other things. When I got home Larry had dinner fixed and Joelle White and her family came over for dinner. We ate dinner and then we played Uno Attack. We had a good time! Uno Attack is a good family game because their two kids got to play with us too.

I'm going to church today. I haven't been to church for three weeks so I'm looking forward to it! Gotta go!

My Scrap Booking..

These are the pages I have scraped so far for Michayala's scrapbook. I'm having so much fun with this. These are out of order so, the fourth pictures is the first one and thefirst picture is the second one, the second one is the third one and the third one is the fourth one. I'm finding after you start doing this your hooked! I love it! SallyRose told me about a store called Archives and I went over there and bought flowers and other things. I signed up to go to a basic scrapbooking class also there. I'm excited about this! I didn't know I could be so creative! Whenever you all come at the end of April, bring some pictures, maybe we can find some time to srapbook. Gotta go. Its bedtime. Love ya all!!

Aunt Jessie's 100th Birthday Party

Yes! I finally had success in posting pictures after several tries!

We had such a good time at Aunt Jessie's 100th Birthday Party. I met cousins I didn't know I had. One from Nevada, one from Montana and one from Idaho. We exchanged addresses etc..We had an exciting time and I think A.J. had a good time also.

The ride there and back went well with Marylin and Mike. I hope Larry and I didn't get on their nerves to bad.

Well enjoy the pictures.

What attracted me to Larry

Erica asked me one day what attracted me to Larry and I didn't give her an answer as I have to really think before I can give a good answer. Well, my thinking about this is over and here is my answer! One time when I was a single mom I asked God to bring me a husband that would be good to me and my girls. That's all I asked, nothing specific, just some man who would be good to me and my girls. God brought me someone who is more then what I asked for. Larry has a big heart for people and God. He is emotional and caring. I think at times he gets more teary eyed and emotional over things then I do. He is honest, doesn't cheat and he loves the Lord. He doesn't smoke cigarettes either. Granted, he has his faults, but the good in him out weighs the bad in him. He doesn't do very good at home repairs, which I have learned over time that if you don't nag your husband about things they do eventually get around to getting things done. This past weekend we reset the toilet together in my little bathroom. Isn't that a good husband wife thing to do together! We worked well together which is an accomplishment over time. Just recently I pulled the refrigerator out and vaccumed out the back of it and vaccummed the floor under it and he fixed a bar that has never been in place at the bottom front of it. Our next project is replacing the caulk in the bathrooms and fixing the dripping water faucet in the kitchen. There are always home repairs to do in an older home. Well thats about it. I could go on and on but I've got to get things done around the house to get ready to go to Aunt Jessie's 100th Birthday party. I'll see Erica and Aaron there and I look forward to that also.

I got that bench done and It looks pretty good! I've started scrap booking pictures of Michayala and I'm really proud of that also. I'll have to take pictures of the pages like SallyRose does and post them if I can figure it out. Love ya all!