Happy New Year

I hope you all had a very happy holiday.  Over here in Graceland, we are spoiled  rotten.  Everyone got exactly what they wanted.  It was a wonderful day.  We all got along wonderfully and we just had a really nice time.

The mus*lim came over on Christmas night.  She was quite pleasant until she wasn't.  That's pretty much how it goes with her.  Luckily, Bossman but her in her place and she backed off and we all survived without drama.

The wildchild and her husband left the day after Christmas and The boy and his girlfriend both leave on New Year's Day.  I'm happy they are here, but it will be nice to have my house back.  I forgot how much work it is to keep the house clean and people fed.  So much work!

I hope everyone is having a happy holiday season.  The new year is almost here and I am ready for a fresh start.  I won't make resolutions because that just sets me up for failure, but I am planning on doing some freshening up on my life and my house.

One more things before I go.  I mentioned to Bossman that I would like to start some things up after everyone leaves and he agreed and when I asked him if he knew what I was talking about it said, YES!  So, there is that to look forward too!

Happy New Year Everyone!

Optimistically yours,
grace

Holiday craziness

The boy made it home.  It normally takes 16 hours...it took 24, and they didn't stop.  It was bad, bad, bad!  I was so happy to see that boy walk through the door.

The boys girlfriend came for the holidays.  She is from Indiana.  She got here the same day he came home.  The wildchild was here already with her husband.  She is a wedding photographer and was here to do a wedding.  It is a FULL house here.

As Donkey, from Shrek says, it's not Christmas unless someone is crying and well...the day after everyone came home, the boy and the wildchild got into a fight.  Oh brother.  I thought I was over refereeing my kids fights.  My daughter ended up in tears, then I was in tears.  It was super fun!

Luckily, the next day, I made them all sit down and make up.  I told them they didn't have to like each other but they had to get along for christmas.  I didn't want a gift, I just wanted that.

After that, everyone got along fine.  They even hung out together.

Whew! Christmas was saved!

So Christmas Eve is at my house.  My whole family is coming.  It should be a good time.  Christmas Day will be just our immediate family.  It is going to be a great weekend.

I'll be honest though, as happy as I am to have everyone here, I'll sure be happy when they leave! HAHA!

I hope you all have a very Merry Christmas.  Or whatever you celebrate, I hope you are happy!

Love and good wishes,
grace

Happy Birthday PK!!!!!

I've been friends with this lady for a very long time!!!!  We've even met in person.

I sure hope PK has a great birthday!

I know you are 60 now.  If it's any consolation just know, I'm younger than you!

You're welcome!

Love you!

HUGS!
grace



Me worried? NAH!

So, how are your christmas plans coming along?  Are you finished shopping? Wrapping? Cleaning? Cooking?

Yeah, me neither!

In other news, the BOY is coming home.  He's 16 hours away and he's leaving today.  He's driving with 2 other boys.  Here's the problem.  It's suppose to snow 4 to 6 inches right on his path home. Needless to say, I'm a tad worried.

HA! Who am I kidding?  I'm really, really worried!  These boys are california boys.  They don't have experience driving in the freaking snow!  I am so nervous for them!  I am glad they will be together and I know they will be going slow.  But, it's a long drive and I will worry until I see his smiling face tomorrow! I mean, I'm a mamma, that's what we do.

If you have a spare prayer today, could you say one for these boys?  Thank you!

I gotta run, there is presents to buy, food to cook and a house to clean.

Anything to keep my mind from worrying!

Not-worried-at-all,
grace

Warning, depressing post.

Ever since I had cancer I've been a little paranoid about health issues.  I like to call it canceritis because every pain or weird thing is cancer. (In my mind).   One of my biggest fears is having some sort of health problem and not being at home.  Things my stupid brain thinks about is...what if I'm on this trip and I have a heart attack?  What if I'm far away from home and I need a doctor?

I know it's useless to worry about stuff like that.  If it's going to happen, its going to happen.  I really don't have any control over stuff like that.

On an even more depressing note.  My brothers best friend died on Saturday of a heart attack.  He was only 40.  I personally didn't know him well, I only met him a handful of times, but, as you can imagine, my brother is devastated.  I'm just really sad for my brother.  And for his friends family.  And really for everyone involved!  It's just SAD!  Things like this shouldn't happen and it really shouldn't happen right before the holidays.  I am terrible at handling sad.  I'm sure we are all terrible at it, but it makes me anxious.  When I'm anxious I tend to curl in a ball, hide under my blankets.  BAH!

Well, that's all I've got.  Tomorrow will be better! 

Depressingly,
grace



Christmas already?

We've been busy, busy, busy!  When you have 17 bins of Christmas stuff, it tends to take many many hours to set it all up.  Every evening we are busy doing things.  Tonight we worked outside.  Our house is coming along, but man, it's a chore! We do love it though, so we aren't willing to throw in the towel yet.

I can't believe it's almost Christmas.  It seems like this year has gone so fast. My son graduated, started college.  My daughter moved 2 hours from me. Life is crazy.

So, MIL... can we just talk about her some more?  She is nuts.  I think I've said that before.  She called me a couple of days after she came to our house.  So, do you have anyone in your life that repeats stories over and over? (Besides me..HAHA). Seriously, I haven't talked to her in 3 years and honestly, she is telling me the same stories she told me 3 years ago.  It's sad because it means she has no life!

So how are your holidays going so far?  Are any of you as crazy as we are?

Ho, ho, ho,
grace


We may have a problem...

We have a Christmas problem.  We just pulled 17 plastic bins from the attic.  17 bins.  Of Christmas decorations! Good grief, Charlie Brown, THAT is a lot of decorations.  

I was going to try and defend this travesty but honestly, I love it!  Now some of those bins hold our Christmas village.  A couple of bins hold my nativity sets. ( I just love collecting them) and quite a few of those bins are for our outdoor decorations.

Fine, just call us the Griswolds and call it a day!!! HA!

Now you know what we've been doing today.  How's your Sunday been?

Christmasy,
grace

Crazy MIL

The last 6 months have been so crazy for me.  I know I have shared some of it but there have been some developments that I haven't shared.

I don't know how many of you remember, but Bossman has a crazy mother.  I mean, the woman is bonkers!  A number of years ago she became a mus*limThe woman raised Bossman and his sisters in a strict christian family.  Suddenly, she meets some guy on facebook and decides to become mus*lim.  I am afraid she would find this blog online if I use the M word so I'll try not to use it much.

In any case, I'm all for people having their own beliefs in life, but her transition to M has just thrown the entire family for a loop.  We have gotten used to it, but honestly, she's a old white woman in a head scarf.  I know what it's called but I don't want to say it here.  Trust me, it's weird.  When this all first happened, she was very pushy with her new found beliefs.  She would talk about Moha*mmd a lot and it drove us crazy.  We didn't want to here it and she wouldn't stop even after asking her to stop.

6 years ago we lost Bossmans sister.  It was a traumatic time for all of us but there was a ton of drama when it came time for the funeral.  Since then there has been tons MORE drama and for the past 3 or 4 years we have had no contact with my MIL.  We have had limited contact with Bossmans dad, and YES, he is still married to the crazy one.  But we only saw him at church.

ANYWAY, I tell you all that so I can tell you that in June my FIL had some medical problems and Bossman felt we should go see him in the hospital and of course, we knew we would be seeing HER. We sucked it up and went and everything was ok.  Bossman wasn't interested in having a full blown relationship with her, but over the months, they have needed some help with yard work and stuff and well, we've had some contact.  On Bossmans birthday, she came over to our house.  She hasn't been here for 4 years, so it was a little weird.  Everyone got along fine, but they were here late and that is why I missed posting that day.

So, that's been going on and it's a little bit good and a little bit scary because although things are good, you never know when the drama will happen again and Bossman and I are not getting involved in the drama again.  I'm praying there won't be drama because I think even though she's bonkers, she is Bossmans mom and she's getting older so...you just never know what will happen in life.  Bossman's dad has a bad heart and who knows what will happen if he has a problem.  She literally has no one in her life except Bossmans sister and she's pretty useless.

Well, this story could go on but I guess I bored you enough for today.

I am very thankful Bossman and his mom are on speaking terms.  And right now that's all I can ask for.

Opps!

Oh dear!  I woke up at 3 this morning and realized I forgot to post!  I was so close to the end of the month too!  I was so mad!  I was so disappointed!  GAH!

Oh well, life goes on.  And I think it was pretty cool that I managed to blog 29 out of 30 days!  I think I'm going to keep going.  I mean, I may not post every single day, but I am going to keep going.  I mean, some of the days I couldn't think of anything to blog about but I did it anyway.  It made me think and stretch my mind a little.  I know some of my posts were probably boring, but at least I tried.

Ok, the reason I forgot to blog yesterday is because it was Bossmans birthday.  I am so thankful for that man I don't even know where to begin.

Bossman and I met when we were in high school.  I was a senior and he was a junior.  (I know!  Such a cradle robber I am!)  I asked him to roller skate and the rest, as they say, is history.  One thing I know for sure is, asking him to skate was hands down the BEST decision I ever made!

He and I have been through a lot.  But through it all he has worked his butt off to make sure I was taken care of.  Well, me and the kids!  We are in a comfortable spot in our lives because of him.

I can't imagine my life without him.  He is my soul.

So many things happened yesterday that I now have stuff to tell you about in another post!  YAY!

Have a great day!

Forgetfully,
grace

Baby it's cold outside!

It's been cold here, which is unusual for us.  It also rained again this weekend, so that was nice. We can really use the rain here on the West coast.

Today I was very thankful for my ugg boots.  My feet were nice and toasty!

I haven't had that conversation yet with Bossman.  I know you all are saying to just come right out with it.  I suppose that is the best option.  I just find it hard to ask for something like spanking.  I'm sure its just how life is.  Spankings have such negative thoughts associated with them that it's hard to remember that it's ok to want them.  My brain doesn't want to wrap around the fact that its ok and it doesn't make me weird or odd.  (Ok, I'm rather weird and odd, but not because of spanking. HA!)

I wish the world would just understand that it's ok.  I wish my brain would understand that it's ok.

I will talk to him about it.  I promise, I will.

Late

We finally made it home from the airport.  I am very thankful for that today.  The traffic was great, there wasn't much, UNTIL, until we got about a mile from the airport.  THEN it took over 45 minutes to go a mile.  It was terrible.  But we survived and the boy made it to his flight.  He has actually landed and is waiting for his second flight.  It's only an hour flight to his college from where he is now.

So, I didn't talk to Bossman about spanking.  We were tired and Bossman was listening to football on the radio and I just couldn't get the gumption to talk about it.  Honestly, I didn't know what to say.  Half way home he told me something and I said something back and he got testy with me and I decided talking to him wasn't such a good idea.  I'm not going to chicken out, I will talk to him, I just have to figure out what I want.  I can't just say, hey spank me.  I have to expand on that.  But what do I want?  That is the million dollar question.

Any suggestions on what I should ask for or how I should ask?  I'm always open for suggestions.

HUGS!


One day left

I'm so thankful that I had this week with my son.  We've had a fun time and it is always fun to spend time with him.

Tomorrow will be spent in traffic taking him to the airport.  I'm not looking forward to that.

Today we spent time just hanging out and then he went surfing one last time before heading back to school.  It was freezing and raining here today so I spent time at home watching the Gilmore girls!  I love that show so much!  I have two more episodes. I'm already sad that it's going to be over.  I want watch them, but I want to save them too.  It's such a first world problem.

I hope you all had a great weekend.  I know I did.

HUGS!

Leftovers

We made it home and all is well.  We have to take the boy to the airport on Sunday and trust me when I say that traffic will probably be a nightmare.  It's normally a 2 and a half hour ride but when we picked him up it took us 4 and a half.  UGH!

He's coming home again in 2 weeks or so, so I wont have much time to miss him.  BUT, he's decided to drive home and it's a 16 hour drive, so that won't be worrisome, AT ALL!

I feel like this holiday season is going to fly by and it's going to be over before we know it.  I plan on enjoying every second I can.

Today I am thankful for the Thanksgiving leftovers.  I personally don't have any, my daughter kept them all.  It's seems weird that I would be thankful for them, but honestly, I am thankful for them because I miss them!  Does that even make sense?  Probably not, but I think I will go to the store and get a turkey and make one this weekend so I can have leftovers.

I'm also grateful that we made it home safe!

Also, I'm grateful for the weekend.

Ok, I think I'm done now!


Happy Thanksgiving

We had a wonderful Thanksgiving.  I am super full and super happy.  It was a great time for all of us.

I am so grateful for my family and I am very thankful that we were all healthy.  About 9 years ago I got super sick on Thanksgiving and ended up having an ambulance take me to the hospital.  It was a very rough time and it was by far the worst Thanksgiving and Christmas I ever had.  It makes me appreciate the holidays where I am feeling great.

I hope you all had a great day!  I'm am thankful you stopped by to read today.

HUGS!
grace

Family

I'm thankful for my family today.

We came to my daughters house to celebrate thanksgiving.  We've been here a couple of hours and we have been having fun.  We set up a Christmas tree in the back yard and took some family photos for our Christmas card.  We had a blast.  Sometimes we are just so silly!

I hope you all have a happy Thanksgiving and for those who don't celebrate, please have a very happy Thursday!

Love and HUGS!
grace

A quick talk

I'm thankful that I have a husband that will listen to me and not make me feel embarrassed when I ask for things.

Specifically when I ask for a spanking.

It was a quick talk.  I just said that when the boy went back to school I'd like to revisit the whole spanking thing.  He said he would be happy to talk about it.

So...YAY for me!

He's going back on Sunday....is Sunday night too soon to talk about it?

Book Bub

Today I am thankful for Book Bub.

Book bub is this website that goes through all the e-reader sites and sends you an email everyday telling you what books are on sale.

You go on and pick your which types of books you like to read and it will send you a list of books that are free or marked down to a low price.  My kindle is full of books I haven't read that I have gotten for free or almost free.  It's so amazing! I have read some amazing books that I probably wouldn't have known about if not for this website.

I don't get anything for telling you this..except the satisfaction of knowing that YOU too can have books for free or almost free!  Got to book bub and try it.  I think you will like it.

Any other websites I should be going to?  Tell me your favorites!


Rain

Today I am thankful for the rain.

I live in a drought area.  We have certain days we can water our lawns and we have to do everything we can to save water.  Today, it rained and rained.  It was a beautiful thing.  Everything gets nice and green after a good rain.  It's a nice fresh feeling after a good rain.

This rain will do nothing for the drought, we need it to rain for a good 40 days for that to happen, but it's nice to have the rain.  Our weather gets so boring sometimes.  It's nice for it to be cold and rainy!  It's perfect for getting into the Thanksgiving mood.

Hope you all had a great weekend!  I did! My boy came home!

HUGS!
grace

LOL

I just love my lurkers!  I am so grateful for all the people that stopped by my blog yesterday and today and left comments for me.  What a wonderful group of people.  It was so nice of you all to drop by and say Hi!

Someone asked about our dog, Sadie.  I am happy to report that Sadie is doing GREAT!  Her leg is completely healed and she is a happy, happy girl.  We took her camping with us last weekend and she was in doggie heaven.  She was so happy to be with us.  For the last year or so, we haven't taken her with us anywhere because of her leg.  She couldn't believe that she got to come with us.  She loved it.

Anyway, thank you all for stopping by.  I am so thankful for all of you!!!!

HUGS!
grace

I love my Lurkers


Welcome to my blog!!!!

Today I am thankful for my lurkers!!! I consider myself a professional lurker.  I have plenty of blogs that I go to and read on a daily, or at least weekly basis.  I very rarely leave a comment.  Seriously, I usually feel like I have nothing to contribute.  I'm not sure why I don't comment more often.  As a blog writer, I LOVE getting comments.  I guess I should try to comment more.

See, commenters  are the way to make friends.  When I was a regular commenter I made some great friends from this blog.  

I guess what I'm trying to say is Thank You for reading my blog.  I love every comment and I appreciate the effort made to make a comment.  

I love the lurkers too!  I know you are out there and I am grateful that you are here reading my dumb words!

Happy LOL day!!!  Happy lurking!

HUGS!
grace