In My 30's

My mom has been diagnosed with Breast Cancer.  My mom is my best friend...we have been through everything together...and we'll go through this together also. I am so sad that she has to go through this but I have faith in God and know that he will bring her through this...He will heal her from this illness and give her an awesome testimony. My mom goes for an annual mammogram, and last year something showed on the results but the doctors didnt think it was cancer so they just figured they would keep an eye on it and check it at her next visit...well, here we are a year later and she is in stage 3b cancer, she is undergoing chemo right now and then she will have a bilateral mastectomy in November followed by 6 weeks of radiation and 6 months of medication administered through a port in her chest. After all that they will continue to check her to verify that the cancer has not spread anywhere else in her body (which it wont) then they will tell her "Pearl, we have been checking you and we dont see that the cancer has come back so you are now cancer free"...we will celebrate and give thanks to the Lord (which we do anyway) and that will be it...but in the meantime we go through the steps, one step and day at a time.

What's Next!

Finished "Bless Me, Ultima". It was a great book. Good thing I finished at home and not at school in front of my students because the ending made me cry.  Now, I'm done with my college class so I don't have any studying, and I'm done with the English class books that my students are reading...So I can totally read my own book now for leisure and fun, but I dont know which one to read.  I was thinking to re-read "Odd Thomas" by Dean Koontz but do I really want to re-read a book i've already read, when I can start a new book. I think I might re-read "Odd Thomas" in September before the movie comes out.  I have also been wanting to do some serious Bible reading, like in depth studying...Maybe I'll do that instead of starting a new book.  I think i'll start crocheting a scarf while I'm deciding what i'm gonna read.  We'll see.

Happy To Be Alive!

God has protected me.  I recently had gall bladder removal surgery.  It's supposed to be on outpatient surgery, i however was in the hospital for a week.  I began bleeding internally after my surgery. I ended up getting three blood transfusions till my bleeding finally stopped and my blood level stabilized.  It was scary but Thank God His blood healed mine.  A week before i went in for surgery, i was hit by a car while walking across the street in a cross walk.  I saw the car making a left turn and realized that she did not see me and so i put my hands out hopeing to stop the car (thought i was Edward from Twilight) instead my strength pushed myself out of the way before she hit me and instead her car swiped the side of my body and hit my wrist and shoulder.  Again, Thank God i was not badly hurt.  I walked away from it with a sore wrist and nothing more.  The devil is real, and he is looking to hurt people, but by the Grace of my Mighty God, i am protected.  God has taken care of my family.  I thank Him every day for all He does for me and my family.  With the way the world is today, we cant afford to be without GOD. 

What book i'm currently reading!

I'm reading "The Help". This book is so good, i have not seen the movie yet but i'm sure it will be good, not as good as the book but hopefully close. I dont get much time to read here at home with two toddlers running around. I do most of my reading at work. The high school that i work at has a 20 minute reading period set aside for the entire school to read something of their choice, thats when i get to read my book without interuptions :). I just finished "Water for Elephants" a few weeks ago...the movie was far far from being as good as the book. I liked the actors in the movie but it just wasnt even close to being as great as the book was. I'm half way done with "The Help" and i got to say, many times i come home "wanting" to clean my house instead of just doing it because i have to...The maids in the book had it so much harder than i ever have and they managed to clean other peoples houses and then come home and clean their own..i feel lazy compared to those ladies :). I really enjoy reading this book, it's funny, sad, and its all in a southern accent which i enjoy reading aloud sometimes just to hear myself sound southern :).

Who's that in the mirror?

Everytime i pass by a mirror or window i get a little startled by my reflection. How can it be that i dont recognize my own reflection...well because i finally had my hair cut today, and not just a trim or a couple inches, my talking about my hair going from below my butt to above my shoulders, i had 26 inches cut off, 20 inches of it is braided and placed in a ziploc bag on top of my shelf waiting to be mailed to Locks of Love which is where i'm going to donate it so that it can be made into a wig for a young girl to wear one day. So that brings me to face my problem of PROCRASTINATION, which is what i blogged about on my very first blog.  I do not want my hair to stay sitting on top of my shelf, i need to mail it out asap...so when do i do this...my goal is tomorrow. All i have to do is go online which i'm already on, get the address for Locks of Love write it down, go to the post office, purchase a padded envelope and put the ziploc bag that contains my 20 inch braid inside the envelope, hand it to the post person, pay the postage and walk out...So tomorrow after my family wakes up and gets ready for the day, i will have my husband take me to the post office before we go anywhere else...then we will do whatever else we need to do and i will come back here and post whether i sent it or not...that is my challenge. Now you may be reading this and think "thats so simple, why is she making such a big issue about going to the post office?" because thats what i do, i put off even the simplest of things, i suffer from procrastination, no matter how big or small the task is, i dont do it. So we'll see what happens tomorrow.

Hmm, lets try this again...

So i didnt end up cleaning last night when i got of the computer like i was supposed to. But today is a new day. My son is content in his swing for a little while and my daughter is playing with her dolls and following me around singing me happy birthday :).  So i'm gonna clean stuff that i have been needing to clean for awhile but havent, like the mantel on the top of the fire place, and the bookshelves. I have a couple of piles of papers that i need to go through on the floor next to my desk but i am afraid of spiders, and since these piles have been sitting there for awhile now i fear there might be a spider of two chillin in them, so those piles might have to wait till later when my husband gets home so he can be there to kill whatever comes out. So i'm gonna sign off while the kids are calm so i can clean...wish me luck.

My very first blog ever!!!

This is my first blog. Please bare with me i'm just learning. I watched Julie and Julia a couple weeks ago and i got motivated to want to start a blog. I just turned 31 yesterday and want so badly to do something useful with my life. I am a wife and mother of two...i would not trade that for the world, i love my family so much, i never imagined motherhood would be so fun and so much work at the same time. Something i would like to accomplish in my thirties is to stop PROCRASTINATING, i am a huge procrastinator...i have lots of great ideas of things i want to do, and things that i need to get down in my home and life BUT i just never do them. I'm not sure if i am suffering from laziness or procrastination. I'm gonna say procrastination for the sake of not putting myself down too much...i mean realistically i can't be that lazy with a 4 month old son and 2 year old daughter. In my thirties i want to become a better homemaker. I dont cook very often and i dont really like to clean.  I watch the Food Network all the time on T.V and i get so excited to cook but then i just dont.  So thats definatley something i want to start doing, at least to start with i want to start making 1 full dinner a week, and by full dinner i mean three course meal. I do some cooking but its basic cooking like spaghetti, and thats all, just spahetti...but next time i make spaghetti i will add a salad and bread...little things like that.  I also want to learn to sew, i want to make aprons and cute pillows. My grandma is supposed to come show me how to use a sewing machine. And last but not least i want to become more crafty, i want to make cute hair accessories for my daughters hair...i find all these cute bows and ribbons for her but they're so expensive and when i look at them they seem so easy to make i just have to stop procrastinating and go buy the stuff, sit down and make them. So thats it...things that i want to do in my 30's. I'm not getting any younger you know.  I dont know if anyone is reading this but at least if i make believe someone is than hopefully i will stick to my goals and report my outcomes here on my blog to you...a motivator not procrastinate. Now i must sign off so my husband and I can clean the house.