Good Bye Nemesis

There it was.

In every good picture I had, this truck, well this hunk of metal would just loom there ruining my picture.



Here's one.... There's my youngest finally riding the dirt bike.

And behind him?

That truck.

There's sooo many more. I even posted about it awhile back.

I even had bad dreams about it!!

Well I'm happy to say that as of today, "that truck" is history!!




Yeppers! The guys loaded it up.....



Oh!! Look, there's Wade steering!!



And it's outa here!

Now, who's cleaning off that muddy dog??


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I will miss you sooooo much my friend

Last Thursday started out like any typical day.

I woke up.

I drank a cup of coffee.

I realized I needed a lot
more coffee.

A lot. A lot.

I then realized I had to go to work. I added Bailey's to my coffee.

Not really.

But it was a nice thought.

I cleaned up around the house.

I tried in vain to get the boys to do their school work.

I thought about Cheyenne coming home from visiting her grandma in Texas.

I wondered if I lost any weight. Was my hair getting dryer? Would my bedroom look better moved around? Is that guinea pig pregnant?? What is that smell? Oh, the dog is trying to gas us out in his sleep.

These are just some of the things that I might think about at any given moment.

Are there pills for that?

I get ready, go to work. I'm running my behind off and my phone starts vibrating in my pocket. Sshhh it's not supposed to be there. I kind of look at it, and it's my friend Shelly. It's okay she'll leave a message.

She didn't.

Weird.

Then Cheyenne texts me. Something like "I have to talk to you. Call me when you can."

I look around, the coast is clear, I tell her whatever it is, just text me.

Gosh, she knows I'm busy.

She texts back and writes "no you need to call me".

This is getting weirder.

I go to my supper break and call her.

My world as I knew it stopped.

Let me go back a few years.

When we moved to Fleetwood, Cheyenne made friends with Amanda,Iesha, and Ashley. They were pretty tight. So it was just natural that their moms and I became pretty tight friends too. It was the eight of us and we would and always will do anything for each other.

We had mother daughter sleepovers at Ashley's house after school was out for the summer. We watched the girls in parades twirling their rifles and silks. We went to Delaware together.
You get the point.

Well we moved to the farm about 3 years ago. We still keep in touch. My goodness we're not that far away. It's just not a five minute drive, but a twenty five minute drive.

Which brings me to last Thursday.

The reason Shelly (Amanda's mom) didn't
leave a message.

The reason Cheyenne wouldn't text me.

Crystal, Ashley's mom took her own life.

Let me tell you about Crystal, you needed anything, a ride, money, a stiff drink, a place to stay, a shoulder to lean on. ANYTHING. You could depend on Crystal. She bent over backwards for her children. She loved her family more than anything in the whole world.

None of this will ever make any sense ever.




This is the eight of us. Crystal is all the way in the back on the right.
She was like that. There always but not wanting to be in the lime light.

Or it could be the fact that my daughter is on her legs.

I remember during one of our sleepovers I made Crystal "gasp" walk down to the Turkey Hill to get icey tea.

She never let me forget the cramps she got in her legs. Ever.

I've been reading her obituary guestbook. There's some great things everyone said about her.

But I wonder... Did we ever take the time to tell her when she was alive?

I honestly can say I don't think I did.

If I only had one more day with her. I would tell her what a wonderful wife, mother, person she was. I would let her know how much I appreciated her and thought about her. I would tell her she was one of the most giving people I knew. I would let her know how if she ever went away forever, we would keep looking for her every day and never stop until we told her how much we loved her.

I can never say goodbye. Just, I'll see you soon my friend, may you finally be at peace.

Please, please take the time to tell your friends, family, co-workers how much you appreciate what they do and how much they mean to you and others every day.

Before it's too late.

You never know what someone's thinking.

Just seeing if this crazy thing actually works!!!

So I added a blog app to my iPhone. I'm just trying this to show myself how easy it is to blog from my phone!!

What's that??

Supper??

Yeah don't get your panties in a bunch I'll get it going as soon as I'm done with this....





This is where I was today, in a see of black and gold. Waiting patiently for my youngest to wrestle. Guess what ??

He got a forfeit. Yeppers.

Then he wrestled an exhibition match and got pinned. But the point is, he got to wrestle today, right?

Yeah tell him that!!




He' somehwere in the middle of the sea there!!

Ok making cookies now.

Does this mean I have ADHD ??




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Haven't got a clue............

My mind has been in a fog for the last 6 weeks. I"ve been learning a new job, day shift of all things which doesn't help with the homeschooling part of my life.

To the kids, it's a 6 week vacation of "hmmm maybe I'll do my math or tell mom I read my history and science and understand it all!!"

The little buggers they know how to work the system.

It seems everything has been let go. The laundry (was it ever caught up in the first place?). The dishes: we have a dishwasher, but they're never done! The piles of mail that the kids clean off the table.

OH my, now I'm depressed.

But today, as soon as I get home from sitting on my butt for 4 hours to watch my youngest wrestle 1 match, I'm really gonna come home and tackle everything.

Yes, sir, I am.

All of it.

Really.................

And make supper.

Umm, I gotta go, I have alot to do.

Alot. Alot.

Hey!! HE's LAUGHING at me.

What the heck??

IT"s not that funny, I"ll really do it................

I think I will anyway............

Okay, I"m trying to do my best. Geeze, go clean your own house, Cody.

And stop laughing at your mother.

It's not very nice at all.

I still love you.

Wanna come over for supper tonight??

Oh, right, I gotta go make it!!

Bye!

Is Your Pork and Sauerkraut Ready??

If the counter part to the pork is not spelled right, I apologize. I really need to bring the dictionary into my computer room. Right  now, I'm just too lazy to go look up the right way to spell sauerkraut so I'm pretending I'm right.

Is it ready yet??

Mine will be on the table by 6:00 sharp.

Maybe.

There's a good possibility it will anyway. 

When I say sauerkraut, I use the term loosely.

We really don't like it. Not any of us. But every year, I make them all have at least a little spoonful of it.

I don't care if it comes from a can, bagged, fresh, or frozen.

To us it's all gross anyway, but we try!!

I know it's a superstition, but really, ................oh crap, how do you spell superstition??

Now I HAVE to get the dictionary.

Hey, guess what? I spelled sauerkraut right!!!!!!!!!!!

I spelled superstition right also.

Go me!

You know the first word I read when I opened the dictionary??

Ranula which is a noun, and means; A cyst on the underside of the tongue caused by the obstruction of a salivary gland duct.

This is important because.., why, you ask??

Well it just so happens I forgot all about that word. You see, Laramie, when she was a baby had a ranula. She looked like a little lizard baby when she opened her mouth and stuck out her tongue.

We took her to King of Prussia to pediatric specialists, and they wanted to perform surgery when she hit the 8 month old mark.

What did I do??

I took her to old doc Robertson (the best doctor on the planet) and he looked at it, looked at me, and said, "You want me to pop it and see what happens?"

I said "Sure, why not?"

He did, she screamed, it bled, and guess what??

The darned thing went away. Without surgery!

Imagine.

I wish life were that easy, just pop the problem, and it goes away.

Kind of like an easy button.

But when you think about it, if life were so easy, why then would we even be here?

It's true, "What doesn't kill us makes us stronger."

So with that, welcome 2010.

I look forward to getting stronger.

And I  hope it doesn't kill me in the process.

Now, go forth and enjoy your pork and sauerkraut, you can always diet in the morning!!!!

Love always,
me