2015 A New Year...A New Year

I was wanted to do this yesterday to start off the New Year, but no luck. So here I go with the 2nd day of January. I will start with resolutions. Here we go.......a -Start my weight loss journey AGAIN. - Stay away from Diet Soda as long as possible. - Make my lunch everyday for work. School lunch can add up. Not sure how healthy they really are - Learn the word "NO" to those who only need me when they need me - Start a budget for the family -Read more with Donovan - Write letters to friends instead of text or email for out of city/state friends - Do some type of charity work - Go to church with Donovan - Limit time on the computer playing FB games. Addicting - Read at least 50 books this year since I fell short last year - Stay away from those who have drama in their lives - Stay in my cubby hole at work - Watch who I trust with what I say - Concentrate on my job and my students - Try to make Reading fun -Celebrate the milestones in the students life - Work on my Thirty One business -NO eating after 9 PM - Chores chart for Donovan - Try not to spend so much on craft items that I don't use - Do one good deed for someone a day. - Leave work by 5:30 the latest - Get all my lesson plans/data sheets/ESL mods/Dyslexia mods done on time. -Do another fun run, weather the Gritty Goddess or 5K - Save at least 100.00 a month. - Be a better Blogger. Not sure how that is going to work. - Find inspirational quotes to share online with friends a day. - Declutter the house. I think those are all for now. I might start a bucket list too. Not sure what to add on that. I will blog something for January 2 later today. However, this is to make up for yesterday. Hello January 2. Make this day one of the best ever.

Catching up

Today has been a day. I am ready for the weekend. I have tried to exercise and do not see it working out for me. I ned to get on the ball. I have to start training for 5 K at the end of Feb. I hope I can get motivated. We will have to wait and see.

Went Back to Work

Well Wednesday was back to work day for me. It went well. It was not as bad as I thought it would be. I was upset that one of my students was leaving. I had Steven since 6th grade and he was an 8th grader this year. I didn't realize how attached to him I was. What a blessing to me he was. I hate knowing that he is in a gang. I pray for him and hope he is able to get away. We are finally packing up stuff. Scott wants a majority of it done so all we have to do is put the boxes in the truck and be done with it. I don't think Donovan is taking it too well. Since we have told him about moving he has been attached to my hip. This is the only place he has known and it will feel weird moving. I pray this move was the right decision. I know Donovan having a yard will be great. The house will be a little more in rent, but in the long run well worth it. We will be on a budget for sure. We will be watching everything we spend. I think Scott and I need to put ourselves on a budget of 20 dollars a week. We will have to make once a week out to eat night, but it cuts into our 20. I think we can do it. It will be hard, and we will be eating at home more. I think we are doing a lot better than we usually do. Baseball season will be starting soon. I am not sure how that will effect our budget. Baseball is going to end up costing us more than I would like. I will be trying to figure out ways to fundraise, and to save money for this activity. Baseball is taking a lot of time. I pray we are able to do all this and not be out too much money. Not much to say, but want to make it a goal to post once a week about the week.

After Thanksgiving Thoughts

Well,it has been a while since I blogged. What can I say? Actually nothing about it. I just have been lazy. I know what a horrible excuse but true.

Since my last blog my sweet Donovan had umbilical hernia surgery. I felt so bad for him. He did well up until after the surgery. After surgery he was very loopy from the anesthesia. He told me he missed me. Donovan did freak when he saw that he went in with no bandages, but came out with two. He tried to pull them off. Thankfully we were able to calm him down. When we came home he was in so much pain. I am so glad we were able to get some pain medicine down him when we were at the hospital. He was trying to walk to think it would ease the pain. No such luck. We did realize that Donovan was afraid to go to sleep. He did that at the hospital and came out with bandages. My poor little man. I definitely was a rough 5 days for him. We did overcome it all with many prayers from friends.I am so lucky that Scott was able to take vacation at that time so we could stay with Donovan.

Donovan had his team party. It was great. Everything went wonderfully. I am glad he was able to go and see his friends. He just couldn't overdo it. He had a great time.

WE did take Donovan to see SantasWonderland. It was so much fun. Donovan enjoyed the hayride to see the lights. He got to do s'mores over a campfire which was a lot of fun. We also rode a pony and fed the goats. It was the best time ever. This so wore Donovan out that he slept till 10 the next day.

All is well here now. Donovan has returned to school. He loves telling the kids they can't be rough with him. I love my Bubba.

Now as for Thanksgiving. I so need to diet. I see my stomach getting bigger. I did workout to Biggest Loser tonight. I think I will do it in the morning. I will try my best to lose some weight before we go to Brenham on Dec 24. That is my goal.

Photos of the weekend

I have a great few photos of my weekend. One of me and my and Donovan before I headed out on Friday. Then on Saturday Donovan had a visit from his cousins. The last picture is of Donovan in his costume.

Drinking...The evils of it.

I have realized that there are people who can drink. Then there are those who really have no business drinking. I am so pissed right now. Where should I begin.

Today has been a good day up until Scott and Donovan broke the window. There were throwing the football in the house. Of course I have told them not to, but what I say doesn't matter. Well Donovan threw the ball and busted the window. So Scott starts to blame Donovan. To me they both were to blame. However, nope. Scott blames Donovan. To make matters worse he had been drinking since he got home this afternoon which was about 2 pm. He quit about 8 this evening. I am so done.

Now my next problem is that tonight I posted the cutest picture of Donovan. He was in his Robin Teen Titans costume. A friend of mine said cute. My husband writes he has responsibilities as lead off hitter and make believe is now over. What the hell is that all about? I wrote the only responsibility my son should have is playing. He is a idiot. Then he posted the ends justifies the means. Alcohol seems to bring out stupid. I am not sure what his problem is but I am really getting tired of the drinking he does and just does stupid stuff.

I am not sure what to do, but God there has to be an answer to this. I will figure it out. I am thinking of seriously thinking of dumping out all of his beer. However, I am not sure if I want to deal with the consequence.

Tuesday

I am finally writing in my blog. I am doing a lot better than what I usually do. I mean it takes more than about two or so weeks to write on here. Doing my best. I will have to take baby steps.

Last Wednesday I turned 41. I had a wonderful day. I brought cupcakes for my students that were well behaved that day. I also brought some for the Life Skills students that I have come to adore. They come by to see me everyday and make teaching for me wonderful. They made me birthday cards, which I will cherish forever. I cried when they sang me Happy Birthday. What sweet children. I am so blessed to know them.

My husband sent me flowers for my birthday. They were absolutely beautiful. I love them. As I sit here and blog I am staring at them. I will post a picture of them in a few. I hope I have them on here. To top the day off my beautiful daughter sent me roses too. They were beautiful too. An autumn bouquet of roses. God has blessed me with a wonderful family.

School is going fine. I am trying to stay to myself, but no such luck at times. People find me. I stay in my hole. I like it that way. I hate that I can't see some of my friends, but I guess there is facebook. LOL.

My friendship with Charlotte is no longer existent. I have decided that her type of friendship is not worth it. I cannot have her as a friend who only is a friend when she needs me. I understand that she is going through some stuff but treating me like your dog is not worth it. Besides I am tired of hearing how horrible she is treating everyone else. I think she is quitting in December and as far as I am concerned that is good for her. She needs something other than work. I don't know what has happened to her and think she has put herself where she is and she can stay there by herself.

Yesterday I made the cutest little pumpkin jars for Donovan's daycare class. I can't wait to give them to his class. I will post a picture. I saw a lady selling them for 6 dollars a piece. I made them with baby food jars, paint, raffia, spray acrylic, and time. I made them for less than 2 dollars. I love them. I have tons of ideas for baby food jars. I am so excited about what I can make.