Thankful Thursday

We are now 17 days into 2013 and although I don't do resolutions, I am trying to make some changes in my life so I can get back the happiness that I have lost over the past five years.  Since we lost our little boy I have not been the same.  I know that I will never be the person I was before losing him but I want some of the happiness I had.  After my Mom got sick and passed away I lost a little bit more of me.  I can't remember feeling true happiness in a long time.  Oh yes, I put on a smiley face and pretend like everything is peachy and sometimes it is but sometimes it isn't and I really don't like that feeling.  I know that to get that feeling back I have to remember that everything that has happened is God's plan and that things will happen in his time if it is his will.  So to do that, I am trying to be more thankful for the things I do have in my life.  Today I am going to focus on the two people who call me Aunt.  I love these two people more than they will ever know.  I love spending time with them doing nothing or watching them play their sports, watching movies, or whatever.  They make me happy.  I love getting a call from my niece asking me to by cookie dough for her band fund raiser and I love getting a text message from my nephew just to say hi.  They make me happy when they give me big hugs for no reason and when they snuggle up next to me on the couch to watch a movie.  I love these two stinkers more than anything and I am so thankful to have them in my life.  Aren't they just the cutest? They look a little more grown up these days since they are now in double digit ages!  

Wordless Wednesday

Keeping It Real With Some Friday Ramblings

For the next month I may actually blog every day.  You may be asking yourself why?  Well, when you sit in a room from 8:15 am until 3:12 pm with no one to talk to because nobody else in the room is supposed to be talking and you can only surf the web so much or read or gaze off into space before you are bored out of your mind I decided that I would try to bore I mean entertain you more often.  Ok, I may not ever entertain you and I might possibly put you to sleep with the mundainess of a day in my current job. 

Since I am back at work for a while I am trying to figure out what to do about lunch.  Since I am not located in the school building it isn't really feasable for me to buy a hot lunch because I wouldn't have time to eat it (and school lunches just aren't always that appetizing) so I am trying to come up with none boring lunch ideas (I am not a big fan of sandwiches, especially meat sandwiches) and so far I am not having much luck.  I only cooked one night this week so that didn't really help either.  The spaghetti I did make, my husband ate it for lunch for three days.  I have been searching Pinterest but haven't really found anything that just jumped out at me.  Next week we are supposed to have colder weather so maybe I will make some soup this weekend.  First I really need to buy some groceries but payday is not until Tuesday so that will have to wait until Tuesday after work (yuck, I hate the grocery store).  Maybe I will make some chili. . . . .that sounds really good!!

Any plans for this weekend?  As far as I know we don't have any.  I have got to do some housework but I really don't want to do it.  At least we don't have to replace another bathroom faucet!

Have a great weekend.

What's For Dinner

Believe it or not, I actually know what we are going to have for dinner this week.  Hold onto your hats because it will know you off your feet!!!!

Monday:  fish sticks and mac & cheese  (yes, we are grownups and no we do not have kids)
Tuesday: homemade chili dogs ( this chili is homemade, not the hot dogs)  I may have to make a trip to the grocery store before I make the chili for tomatoes and tomato sauce
Wednesday:  the famous fend for yourself night
Thursday:  Frito pie
Friday:  out to eat with Dad and Rae (?)
Saturday:  fend for yourself
The weather around here has turned off pretty cold (for us anyway) and I want warm food.  What is your favorite cold weather food??

Have a great week.

Something to Remember

Be where you are, not where you think you should be.

I know I have written about this before but it is something that I really struggle with every single day.  I look at my life and wonder why.  It isn't that my life is bad, I have a great marriage, a close knit family, my husband has a job that he loves (well, maybe just likes a lot), we have a roof over our head (and we keep our fingers crossed that the roof stays where it is), we have food, clothes and transportation.  We both work hard (yes, I work hard at subbing and still hope to find a teaching job), we aren't frugal with our money but we don't waste it (not much anyway) either.  I see all the "things" that other people have and I want some of that too.  I want a house that I can be proud to invite other people into.  I want a new(er) truck.  I want two kids.  I want to be in the place that I thought we would be in by this time in our lives.  We have been married for 15 years and I thought we would have at least a few of those things.  Anyway, I am going to post this saying on my mirror so I can see it every single day to remind myself that I/we are where we are supposed to be.

And now on to more exciting things!  I finally took pictures of my new bathroom vanity/sink/faucet that we (the hubs) replaced last weekend AND our 2012 ornament. 

New vanity/sink/faucet

2012 ornament

Close up (in case you couldn't tell!!)

And the ornament I got at our annual Christmas party

For the rest of this month and for about a week in February I am in charge of two students who are in DAEP which is District Alternative Education Program.  This is for students who have gotten in trouble at school and have surpassed in school suspension.  The students are supposed to complete their class assignments on their own and I turn them in at the end of each day.  So far it hasn't been too bad.  I do have one student who thinks that sleep should be allowed to pass the time but sadly for the student, it is not.  Not sure how to keep the student awake for the next 6 days!!

For the last two years our area has been in a drought and the last two days have brought us a nice amount of rain.  Because I am working in a rural school and it tends to flood, we all got to go home early yesterday and got to come back to school an hour later this morning.  It was AWESOME (well this morning was, because I rode to work with the hubs yesterday I had to wait until he was finished with a meeting but we still left by about 3:15)!!

And this is what the sunset looked like after two days of hard rain.  It was very beautiful.

Back to it. . . . .

Tomorrow is back to school day for everyone around here.  Even me. . . .I have a month long job at my hubster's school.  Should be interesting.

Today we actually got to see the sun for the first time in a long time.  It was beautiful.  It was still cold (to me anyway) but I really enjoyed seeing that big ol' yellow ball of sun!

This weekend turned out to be ok.  The Aggies beat OU. . . . . . . .Gig'em Ags! but my Bearkats didn't do so hot.  Maybe next year?  Third time's charm?

Well, I had better go iron a shirt for tomorrow so I don't have to do it in the am.  I am not looking forward to getting up at 5 am.  REALLY not looking forward to it.

The DIY project is finally finished.  I may post a picture of our new little vanity and sink.

Hope you have a great week.  I think I will now that I have seen some sunshine!!!

2013

Well. . . . .2013 has been ok so far with the exception of the DIY project we started today and should finish tomorrow!!  Here is what has been happening so far in 2013.
New Year's Eve we spent the evening with my in-laws and ate good food and played The Big Bang Theory trivia game (my hubbies gift from the nephew and niece). New Year's Day we stayed in the house (never even unlocked the doors), snacked and watched movies.  The next day the hubs had to go into work for a few hours and I met my Dad and my little sister at Cracker Barrel for breakfast.  I had the fried apples, cheesy hashbrown casserole and a biscuit.  YUMMY!  I hadn't gotten our ornament for 2012 and I was afraid that I had waited too long but I stopped at Kohl's and got the last Hallmark ornament they had left.  It is so cute.  I would take a picture and post but I am being super lazy tonight!!  Thursday we went to the big city to eat lunch with the hubs Aunt and Uncle and then we did a little shopping and when I say a little I mean, we ended up at Big Lots and got some odds and ends that we needed and then headed back home.  And today we began a simple DIY project.  Hahahahahahahahhahahaha!  Our faucet in our bathroom has been leaking for a couple of years and recently it has gotten really bad.  Since I don't like the plumber my Gmom uses we decided that we could change the faucet ourselves and save her some dough.  Getting the faucet off was not going as planned and the hubs ended up having to pull out a rubber mallet to knock the faucet out of the hole which ended up (with the last tap of course) causing the sink to break.  So now the faucet and the sink needs to be replaced.  Tonight we (I really mean the hubs) got the new vanity, sink and faucet installed, turned on the water and the cold water line is leaking so we will have to go t Lowe's tomorrow.  And hopefully that will be the end of that project. 
So, that is what has been doing on in our part of the world for the last four days.  OH, I almost forgot. .  . . Texas A&M beat OU in the Cotton Bowl tonight!  GIG'EM AGGIES!!!  Tomorrow my alma mater Sam Houston plays North Dakata. . looking for bowl win # 2 for my teams!!

Happy, happy, happy in 2013!