tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-89425128172544055862012-02-19T02:58:58.268-05:00Loriehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11544545369813826447noreply@blogger.comBlogger2761100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8942512817254405586.post-41519425219603048562011-10-20T10:00:00.000-04:002011-10-20T10:00:47.104-04:00

Yesterday was such an odd day at work... we had 3 dementia patients in getting chemo. One patient just slept through the whole thing, the other patient kept calling me over and trying to tell me she has a "young woman problem" (her period) and need me to help her get up and go to the bathroom. We kept assuring her she already had a pad on and was ok.. (she couldn't walk so there was NO way we

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I absolutely love my job in the infusion center. I love my hours, my co-workers and my patients we come in contact with on a daily basis. I don't even mind giving chemotherapy and all that comes with it. This week though has been tough and made me think question about what I am doing. I have worked here for a year now. My roots are in med/surg where I worked for 13 yrs and I while I do miss it I

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Well I finally broke down and went for a sleep test last night. My husband has been complaining for over a year now about my sleep habits.. the worse is snoring that had suddenly started. Well after showing up at 9pm last night and getting wired from head to toe I was informed this morning that I have moderate sleep apnea. I have to say though that I slept good last night  considering the 100

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I can't believe it has been since Feb. since I have posted. I am still alive and doing great but life has been so busy this year that I have barely had time for me. There have been a few changes and I should have more time... knocking on wood!! So many things to catch up on since Feb..... still working at the infusion center and absolutely loving it my youngest, and recently diagnosed with

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I can't believe it has been over a month since I have posted on my poorly abused blog!! Things have been so crazy around here and I honestly feel like a chicken with her head cut off sometimes...   Let's see... in the past month a lot has happened: I am now a certified chemotherapy nurse!!!! I took the 2 day chemo course and passed my test to become an officially certified. Let me tell you that

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  My neighbor made us a rum cake for Christmas and brought it over. I think that was the first time I had one, other than a quick sample in Grand Cayman! My family devoured it and asked for more so I went on a search for a good, easy recipe for one. I tweaked it a little and here is my easy rum cake recipe! Rum Cake1 package of yellow cake mix1/4 cup dark rum (this equals one of those little

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  This is one of my favorite meals and my kids too and it is so easy to fix. I got the main idea from a Paula Dean recipe and made it into my own! Country Fried Chicken and Gravy6 chicken breastseggs flour/seasoned saltoilcountry style gravy packs (I use 2)mashed potatoes (a must for this dish in our house) Pound out your chicken breasts as flat as you like them and dip into beaten up eggs in a

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Do you have any New Year resolutions?? I don't really make any or if I do I kind of forget them a few months into the year when other things happen and I lose focus (not hard for me) but I can tell you I did start the year eating my black eyed peas.. didn't have the collard greens (can't stand them) and I did NOT take down my tree until the 1st! Both of my grandma's are/were superstitious. Last

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Wishing everyone out there in the blog world and Happy New Year!! May your new year be filled with happiness and joy!!

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I am late once again (story of my life) but I hope everyone had a wonderful blessed Christmas filled with family and friends! Having been a military family for the past 21 yrs we are used to having major holidays with just us and we have learned that Christmas is not about being at Grandma's (even though that would be very nice) but making the most of the holiday with the family you are with. We

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I tried something new yesterday and oh my goodness... these will be on my yearly Christmas baking list. They are so easy to make and taste like a million bucks!! I went to grab a few for my lunch box this morning and noticed a bunch of them gone. I thought the boys had eaten them but then later I got a text from one of my son's friends at school saying thank you for the truffles. Matt

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I had something very scary happen to me today at work. It really kind of shook me up. When I work in infusion on the weekends it is just me. I badge myself in and turn on the lights and lock up when I leave. It is in the hospital but I am really kind of secluded.  I had weekend call in the infusion center and (of course) on the weekend I had tons planned I had to go in both days. I was there 4

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   I love the holidays but I hate the business and hustle and bustle that comes along with the month of December!! It seems like everyone gets sick and needs to come to the hospital too. We have a full house at the hospital where I work and the Infusion Center has been busting at the seems all week. I could have worked every day if I wanted to but Wednesday I realized that I had not even half of

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I am still alive!!! I looked today and saw that it has been a month since I have posted. This past month has been a difficult one for our family and I have found very little time to be on the computer. Oct. 25 my daughter had a seizure and I did not realize it. It was in her sleep and I heard her making this noise and thought she was getting sick in bed. 2 weeks later, Nov. 7, my daughter went

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  Join Sandra over at her blog for Cooking Thursday! I found this recipe from a Family Fun Magazine and tried it this past week and it was a HUGE hit with everyone, even my picky eaters.  Chicken Lo Mein

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First we have been looking for Wooly Bear Caterpillars.. we found some and guess what??? They have the same stripes as last year... in case you don't remember the Northern Va area was pounded with tons of snow! Wonder if the Wooly Bear will be right again? We now have Sandy the Wonder Hamster! After months of begging Daddy gave in and let Ash have a hamster. I have to say she is a cutie

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I looked at my blog today and I didn't realize it had been that long since I have posted. Other than being busy I guess I have been in a blog slump lately. Have not had too much o post lately and didn't want to bore anyone with pretty boring, routine days! Husband has been working very late and dinners have been pretty boring so no new recipes to post. My middle son turned 16 last week. I tried

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It is FALL!!! I can't believe fall is here.. now if the temps would show it. Today and tomorrow it is in the 90's here in Northern Va! One of my favorite fall desserts to make is this cake. I found the recipe years ago in Southern Living Magazine and since we have tons of apples to use this is what is for dessert tonight! The recipe says 4 Granny Smith apples but I usually only use 2 large

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I was wondering what to post about because lately it is the same ole stuff here. Me working during the week, being taxi mom in the evenings and trying to play catch up in the house and laundry. Then it happened again tonight and I am so frustrated I want to cry.For 20 yrs I was a military wife. I stayed home and took care of kids, animals, home and any crisis that might come up. I did this all

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That is what my house is right now!! Total chaos... Everyone is having to adjust to mom not being home during the day to do EVERYTHING!! I have only worked weekends since Ashley was born (9 yrs ago) and I would stay home during the week and the house would be clean (most of the time), laundry always caught up, nice dinners on the table by 6pm and my husband thought I was his personal secretary

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FALL is coming!!!! With fall comes one of my favorite things.. football!! My youngest is cheering for one of the Jr football teams this fall. She is so in her element and is having a blast!With fall coming that means cooler temps!! After this scorching hot summer I am so ready for cooler temps! One thing that always starts the changing seasons is apple picking!! We went this past Sunday and

Loriehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11544545369813826447noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8942512817254405586.post-42620506633899084682010-09-08T08:59:00.002-04:002010-09-08T09:05:55.407-04:00

Well I had my first day in the Infusion Center yesterday. I was so nervous (I don't take change well when it comes to work) but I put it all in God's hands and told myself I really feel this is the way he is leading me so he will carry me through this!I loved working there yesterday but I also found out that there is a lot of new things I will have to learn! You would think being a med/surg nurse

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I want this hamster!!!Things have been so busy around here lately and I did not realize I had not posted in so long!!! School has started and going great so far. Middle son was asked to join the high school fall soccer team.. the next week he rolled his ankle and fractured his fibula at the growth plate! Of course this was after we spent a chunk on fees and equipment!!For ever my youngest has

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I can not believe summer is over and school started today!!! Summer went by WAY too fast and we didn't get to do near what we wanted to. This morning I sent off the middle son for 11th grade. I remembered about 30 seconds after he walked out the door to the bus that I had forgot to give him lunch money..... so I ran out, with my hair up and wet, hollering his name and waving $5. I realized my

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I have had this recipe for a while now and didn't know if I it was really going to be good or not. I decided to go ahead and give it a go and boy am I glad. It is like Hamburger Helper cheeseburger macaroni but with no powdered ingredients and hopefully less salt! The pictures really don't do it justice. My picky eater went back for seconds!Cheeseburger Macaroni2 cups elbow macaroni, cook and

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Yep.. Saturday, August 14, is my birthday. Let's just say that I hope this Friday the 13th is not an omen of my birthday to come! Today has been one of those days... took Matt to the orthopedic dr for another check up on his arm. This is on his wrist where he broke it November 4, 2008 at the growth plate. His growth plates still are not closed (dr thinks he will be over 6ft) and a part of his

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Well after debating for over a year I am finally doing it. I have my interview for the Infusion Center at 2pm today. They have offered me to come in after my daughter gets on the bus and be home before she gets off and weekend call would only be when I want it and from 8am to the latest noon. Did I also mention they are closed all major holidays?????My two biggest hesitations over the past year..

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Join us over at Sandra's for Cooking Thursday!Here is my easy as can be pineapple upside down cake. Made this for dessert tonight.I melt a half stick of butter in the bottom of 13x9 panI cover the bottom with brown sugar. You can add as much or as little as you wantThen I drain a can of crushed pineapple (you can use rings if you want) and spread over butter/brown sugar mixtureTake a box of

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Join us over at Sandra's for Cooking Thursday! Here is what we are having in our house tonight. I have made this recipe many times and we love it. I got it from the April 2007 Southern Living magazine. I changed how to make the brisket a little and I mix up all the ingred and pour over my brisket in the crock pot and cook on low all day. You know your brisket is done when it pulls apart with a

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I am back!! I have been back almost a week now and have been so busy catching up that I have sadly neglected my blog. While Ashley and I were in Florida with my mom, the middle son was in Florida with his grandpa which left my oldest and husband to man the house and take care of the dogs. Lets just say my clean is different than their clean!Ashley and I had the best time in Florida. It was great

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Tomorrow my baby turns 9!! It seems like yesterday she was a baby. I have been a little melancholy lately thinking about my kids growing up and how much I miss the old days when they were young. Life was so much simpler then.Enough of that! Ashley and I are taking a mini vacation to Florida to see my parents. It will be just the two of us and I am a little nervous. I have not flown since 2000 and

Loriehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11544545369813826447noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8942512817254405586.post-87212448569798254122010-07-16T13:45:00.003-04:002010-07-16T13:55:50.944-04:00

I love summer. I love the sunny days, the hot temperatures, endless days of nothing to do, sleeping late and my favorite is NO homework to worry about!! Nothing too much going on in my corner. We have done nothing too much other than going to my morning exercise class, Ashley playing with her best friend up the street and just relaxing! I wish I could say I even have some wonderful new recipes

Loriehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11544545369813826447noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8942512817254405586.post-62936184171550429252010-07-07T15:58:00.003-04:002010-07-07T16:06:56.446-04:00

Ok I don't know about your neck of the woods but here in the DC area it has been just plain hot. The van thermometer read 104 today!!I tried a new grilled shrimp recipe this past holiday weekend. The old family favorite is to grill (in a grill pan) shrimp with butter and tons of Old Bay seasoning. That is still my favorite and to satisfy the family I made a pan of Old Bay shrimp and a pan of the

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Happy 4th of July to everyone out there!! We usually don't do anything real big for this holiday other than... you guessed it.. grill out! We live near DC and I would love one year to go see those fireworks but from what I have heard from the locals it takes hours to get home and I kind of dropped the ball this year and didn't think of getting a hotel room in DC until too late.So for our great 3

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I can't believe it has been a week since I have posted! We have had problems with our wireless router.. so replaced that.. then our modem went out and had to replace that! Things have been busy here this summer so far with this week being VBS at our church. I am in charge of crafts so that has kept me busy. Ashley is taking swimming lessons in the afternoon too and with those 2 we barely have

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I am home after the big test!! I say big test but the actual procedure of the colonoscopy was the easiest part of the whole thing! The day before was the clear liquid diet part.. which to a huge food person was a killer!! The corn dogs and french fries the kids ate for lunch looked like gourmet food to me and made me drool lol.....The prep started at 5:30pm and let me just say WOW.. I was in the

Loriehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11544545369813826447noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8942512817254405586.post-42559130033951047202010-06-23T10:47:00.004-04:002010-06-23T11:00:04.359-04:00

This past weekend we went to Great Wolf Lodge in Williamsburg with my daughter's Brownie troop. Our troop is dissolving and we used all the money we had made the past 3 yrs from cookie sales and went to GW for the weekend. We had a blast. Saturday I was resting in a chair at the inside waterpark and I looked over and saw this sight.....I looked around and everyone was just as mystified as I was.

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It is Thursday and that means another Cooking Thursday over at Sandra's . So pop on over and see what others are cooking!!This is a recipe that was given to me way back when I was a newly wed and we had just moved over to England (military). This is an easy recipe and one I have used many times over the years.Country Style steak and gravypackage of cube steak2 jars brown gravy or 3 if you want

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School ended here yesterday!!! Today is the first day of summer and so far what a great day it has been. The kids slept til 830.. we had a cool front come through and it is upper 80s and low humidity and the sun is shining beautifully! All extra activities are finished til the fall... my to do list is so simple...read the stack of romance novels I have piled uptry not to kill the tomato

Loriehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11544545369813826447noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8942512817254405586.post-46734353840570667152010-06-13T18:05:00.002-04:002010-06-13T18:15:57.876-04:00

I finally got to work again today!!! Since November I have only worked 2 shifts on my med/surg floor. I have worked a handful in the Infusion Center but that is it. I have kind of started enjoying not working and my family has gotten too used to me being home.The hospital filled up Thursday and my phone has rung off the wall with them calling me trying to get me to work extra but I wasn't much

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The wonderful pain scale... it does come in handy a lot while nursing. Sometimes it gets annoying when I am doing my daily assessment and they ask what the number was.... didn't ask the patient when they smiled at me and said their pain was great... or when the patient is crying in pain and can barely talk.. those times I wing it (think I am safe to say the first number would be 1 or 2 and last

Loriehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11544545369813826447noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8942512817254405586.post-77329559175390051822010-06-08T20:30:00.004-04:002010-06-08T21:32:11.783-04:00

Last Tuesday Ashley went down the street to play with her best friend. She came home about 6pm and said her right foot hurt a lot. I asked her what happened and she said she had tripped. Now this is coming from my Ashley who is such a well behaved (very welcome and appreciated after the 2 boys) little girl who is pretty honest. I looked at the foot and saw no swelling so I said "your foot can't

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It has been a while since I have joined in with cooking Thursday over at Sandra's place I tried a new recipe this past week that was wonderful so what better time! This is from the recent issue of Taste of Home.Fiesta Beef Bowls1 1/2 pounds boneless beef top round steak (I used 4 boneless, skinless chicken breast)1 can diced tomatoes with green chiles1 medium onion, chopped2 garlic cloves,

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How was your Memorial Weekend? We had a wonderful one. With my husband being retired military this holiday is special for us. The men and women in uniform (past and present) are some of the best human beings I have ever met in my life. There is a bond we military (and dependents) have with each other that lasts through thousands of miles and many years and I am so blessed to have had the

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We have just 2 1/2 weeks of school left and I can't wait!! 3rd grade has been tough for all of us and I am just ready to relax. Karate is finished, baton is done, Wednesday church wrapped up last night and softball and soccer end next weekend! I can almost feel the endless days of summer with no homework or having to rush somewhere. I plan on just taking it easy, read some of my romance novels

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I have mentioned here before that for the past year I have hardly worked. A little over a year ago the health care industry in our areas started to see a decline in patients for various reasons. I am PRN (as needed) at the hospital where I work and usually just work weekends and for the past 5 yrs (since we moved here) I have worked every other weekend with call offs being rare. The past year I

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These glasses are my new companion! Lately I have been having trouble reading small print.. well the print seemed small to me but actually I don't think it was that small! I went and had my eyes checked last week and told the lady that I was only there for reading glasses that I could see just fine otherwise.....She put me in the chair and said she was going to check distance first. She put the

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I had not realized how long it has been since I have posted!!! Too long! Life is so busy sometimes and I have been making myself walk away from the computer. I could sit here on the computer all day and that amounts to getting nothing done!I have been subbing at the clinic at my daughter's elementary school and being mom which all of you know means doing just about everything. It does not help

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Today while the man from Lowe's finished up our back door I decided to make myself some black bean soup. I am kind of the only one in the house who likes it, ok loves it, so I tried a recipe I have been eying for a while. It comes from Cooking with Mickey and the Disney Chefs cookbook that I picked up last month at downtown Disney. I have to say it came out great!!Black Bean Soup1/3c olive oil1/

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Here is the new front door. The picture came out kind of dark (using camera on phone) but it is a pretty white. I love the sidelight windows and fan one on the door. Ella is now out of her kennel and relaxing.. Brittany is free from the bedroom lol... but bad news for the girls it all starts again tomorrow as they finish the back door and put on our storm doors! They don't like strangers in and

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We are making some changes here at home. We have lived here for 5 yrs and when we first bought the house our plans were to stay here until hubby retires from Air Force then move south (closer to family). Well who would have known the housing market would crash and we are stuck here for a while now. We debated on what to do since the house we bought was a fixer upper and decided since we will be

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Happy Mother's Day to all you Moms out there! May your day be filled exactly as you would like! This is sad one here. I am keeping it low key and not making too much of a fuss over it. We have been back a week from my mother in law's funeral. It was a very emotional week. I am so proud of my boys though. They were pallbearers for their Grandma and did such a wonderful job. I still can't

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After 10 long months of courageously fighting lung cancer my mother in law, Sue, passed away this morning. She is now at peace and no longer in pain up in Heaven with God! She was a strong believer in Christ and I know right now she is up there running free through fields of flowers and in no more pain. Prayers for our family would be greatly appreciated.

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Ok here is my tip for Tuesday.. When I went away for spring break my husband couldn't go so he stayed here and watched the dogs. Well my baby, Ella, decided to be naughty to teach me for going away. Every day hubby would put up the gates to the kitchen and when he got home from work Ella would some how have knocked them down and caused a riot in the house.She ate things she should not have, peed

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See that house there on the left? That is one of the houses I see when I stare into my backyard from my deck. There is another house behind the sheds too that faces it. Friday morning I let my dogs out and happen to look out the bathroom window and see Ella starting to dig under the fence so I opened the window and hollered at her. About that time I noticed an older kid on a bike ride back

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We have been home almost a week now and while I love going on vacation I hate playing catch up. Seemed like a million things to do this week and so little time! Here are a few things taking up my time but first let me tell you our brush with fame at Disney. Does the girl in the picture above look familiar?? Well we were in the Castle gift shop and there was only this group and ours in there.

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Everest at animal kingdom. My last roller coaster of this trip!!! That is me in the front row on the right... my middle son is beside me and my daughter is the one right behind him with her friend. Can you tell I don't like heights??? Especially when they are in the dark and going backwards??We have had a blast... 2 days at Disney parks.. today at Sea World and tomorrow we are in Downtown Disney

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I can not believe it has been almost 10 days since I have blogged!! Life has been so busy around here I am lucky to remember who I am. I have been so stressed and frazzled that people have stayed away from me. Between working weekends, skating lessons, Brownies, cookie booths, baton practice, now softball, Matt's karate and now soccer my cup is over flowing.. on top of that I have been going to

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Happy St. Patrick's Day to everyone!! In my corner today is turning out to be a beautiful St. Patrick's Day full of sunshine and gorgeous temperatures!Life has been so busy here lately and sometimes I don't know whether I am coming or going! I am sooooooo happy to report that cookies are over for our Brownie troop!!! It turned out to be so hectic and a few parents made it plain miserable! I made

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I am here... just have been so busy lately. It doesn't help that today makes day 3 of sunny, beautiful 60 degree weather!! Who wants to sit inside when you have all the beautiful, warm sunshine outside. See my backyard? See all the grass? We have not seen that in a while. If you look close enough you can see my Ella sitting by Ashley's swing set. After months of this....Who would want to sit

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Here is Ashley and the neighbor kids playing the new Wii game.. Just Dance. My neighbor took this video and sent it to me so I apologize for the poor quality but you can see the girls and get the idea! The bottom right hand corner is her mastiff, Zeus. The girls played this for hours and I am thinking we need it for home. I really get into the Sing It game but my family does not appreciate

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Today has been one of those day... you know the ones where it seems no one will leave you alone and nothing seems to go right! All the nut cases I have been associated with (whether I wanted to or not) have come out of the word work to contact me today and bother me. Like my nut-so neighbor, who I try to avoid like the plague, wanting to buy a box of Girl Scout cookies for 3.50 and wondered if I

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This was Ashley last week snow jumping.. they were jumping into piles of snow... that would hurt this old body but the young ones it didn't even phase them.... I might try this tomorrow though despite the damage it might do... I might do this out of joy of school finally starting back up after 3 weeks!!!! You read that right... 3 weeks of snow days.. they went to school for a half day Feb. 4 but

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That is right... the snowmageddon... or snowapocolypse is still on. We have not had school in over 2 weeks and I don't see us going back until at least Wednesday or Thursday!! If I had only known I could have taken off last week and enjoyed Disney now instead of the "maybe" spring break we "might" get to have!! Even us parents are getting stir crazy!! The picture above is the snow fort my

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Join us over at Sandra's for cooking Thursday! This is something I saw in the recent issue of Cooking Light magazine and it looks so good! It will hit the spot tonight while we are snowed in under the mounds of snow. I will serve it over egg noodles.Steak Tips with Peppered Mushroom Gravy Ingredients 2 cups uncooked egg noodles

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This fort was built after the last snow this past Saturday. The official report was 29 inches of snow. This Florida girl only has one thing to say.. that is a LOT of snow!!!! I had to work this past Sunday and my husband's 4 wheel drive truck could not make it out of the driveway. The snow in the street was too high for his truck to clear so hospital security had to come get me. Work told me to

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Here are the boys trying to keep ahead of the monstrous snow storm that has hit Northern Virginia! It started yesterday morning but started to get real messy around 4pm. We have gone out and shoveled a dozen times. We will start at the front door and work our way down to the end of the driveway and turn around and there are about 2 inches on it again. We even had Ashley out there for a while :)

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These were some of the ponies. They were too friendly... they wanted to nip at our jackets, pull one of the girls pigtails rather then be loved on! One leaned over the fence and nipped my son's arm before he could pull away (that is him in the black jacket). He pinched his skin and "almost" tore the new jacket... but they are babies so you can't get too mad!This guy tried real hard to lift the

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We took our Brownie troop the a local horse rescue today to learn about horses. Today was a teacher work day so it was perfect. There were a lot of horses at this rescue and the best thing about it was almost all of them were very people friendly and wanted to be loved on. What is more perfect for 3rd grade girls?? Even my 15yr old son (who had to be forced to go) loved it. We plan on going back

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Join us over at Sandra's for her Cooking Thursday. Today I am trying a new recipe. I found a recipe for Swiss Pot Roast and added my own twist! The picture here is the roast cooking since that is what is for dinner tonight. If it tastes anything like it smells it will be SO good!Swiss Pot Roast1 boneless beef chuck roast4 medium potatoes, peeled and quartered8 med carrots cut into chunks1 med

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The earthquake in Haiti is so horrendous and heart breaking my mind has a hard time wrapping around the whole thing. I can't help but watch the tv coverage and look at the pictures on the internet. The more I watch the more my heart breaks but I just can't seem to stop. Out of all the pictures I have have seen the one above haunts me the most. The look on the little boys face calls to the mother

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I had an unexpected work free weekend. I was suppose to work both Saturday and Sunday in the Infusion Center but got canceled both days! Yesterday it was in the mid 50's and sunny and a little bit of spring cleaning fever hit me. I scrubbed out the van and scrubbed a few areas of the house. I couldn't help but grill out dinner too. I had gone into our local grocery store a few weeks ago and found

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This is what I lived on this week. Chicken soup! I worked this past weekend and on Saturday I had this cute little 15mo old who was pretty sick with respiratory issues and it just so happened both of his parents were sick too. The whole family was on isolation precautions and I was very careful but none of that mattered and Sunday morning I woke up feeling a little yuck but chalked it up to

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We are enjoying a snow day here in Northern Va. We only got a little over an inch last night but it was cold enough it all stuck to the roads so everyone got to sleep in today! Right now we have a Mario Wii tournament going on with the 2 neighbor kids and Ashley. They really get noisy sometimes and you would think a million dollar prize is at stake lol.. they take their Mario seriously! I work

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This is how I feel today! I have had this yuck headache for 4 days now and it never seems to fully go away and I am sore from my head to my toes from exercise class yesterday. I just can't seem to get motivated today and get the things I need done... done!It does not help that it is cold and windy here today. We are in a deep freeze/cold pattern here in Northern Va and it is suppose to last until

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Happy New Year to everyone!! I hope everyone has a wonderful and safe New Year and may you stick to your New Years resolutions! You know the ones.. the ones we always make and kind of never stick to.... Last year I was going to lose weight and get more healthy. I did kind of stick to it until October when I hurt my foot and was in an orthopedic boot for 2 months. I am happy to say I officially

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Well what took hours to wrap and put together nicely only took minutes to tear apart lol.. see the mounds of boxes and torn wrapping paper?! We had a great Christmas despite everything right now. My husband was able to have a good one with his mom in Florida and the kids and I had a peaceful one here in Va. We opened presents, ate good food at noon then the oldest went to his girlfriends, the

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I want to wish everyone a Merry Christmas from our home to yours! May you not forget the real reason for Christmas, the birth of Jesus. I know a lot of times we get caught up in all the hustle and bustle and excitement of the season ( I am just as guilty) but this year I have tried to take a little time each day to really think about the why! I hope everyone has a wonderful day filled with love

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I think this picture says it all.. this is my neighbor's house and their cars are almost buried!! I think the official count for our area was 22 inches with drifts higher. Yesterday after lunch Ashley wanted to go play with the neighbor girl. We suited up.. took a few steps off the front porch and then could go no further. The drifts were up to my waist in some places and you could not tell how

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It started snowing last night and it has not stopped since. Last I heard it was well over a foot we could get up to 25 inches. The dogs had some trouble trying to go outside this morning. My son had to shovel a path off the deck so they could just get to the yard. By lunch time we had to shovel again!! The younger dog, Ella, does not like to go in the snow. Not sure if she has gone all day lol..

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I really need to start back my kickboxing!!! Hopefully this Wednesday I will get the all clear and go back. It is horrible how it takes about 4 months to lose some weight and tone up and only 6 weeks to gain it back! Of course the holidays don't help!I was really motivated the other day and baked some snickerdoodles, spice cookies and cranberry/chocolate chip cookies. I have some spicy oatmeal

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I sat down on the floor today and tried to get the Christmas presents wrapped. I got a few done when one by one the girls creeped over and made themselves comfortable. They are laying right where I was spreading out the paper!! I didn't have the heart to move them so I gave them some love and tried to wrap in a much smaller space! I guess they thought they were going to miss out on something....

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Tonight was brutal and heartbreaking!! Hubby was downstairs in his man-cave, I was upstairs. Our cheers were loud enough to make my anxious dog start to have an anxiety attack so had to break out her anxiety pills to help her.. almost had to take one myself but resisted!!We lost.. Tim cried.. hubby had a huge grin.. I cried.. at least the dog is very happy right now (meds have kicked it)..... no

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Was not suppose to start snowing until lunch time but when we woke up and looked outside the rain had turned into snow by 8am! It has been coming down hard and heavy all day and suppose to continue until late tonight. Our morning parade was canceled so we are all snug in the house awaiting the big game at 4pm!I can't think of more perfect football weather. Nice comfy recliner, hubby going out to

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It is war in the house this weekend. I was born and raised for the majority of my childhood in Florida and for as long as I can remember our family has been Florida Gator fans.. then when I met my hubby I didn't stop to think (it was young love) that my hubby being raised in Alabama and being a huge Tide fan would ever come to play a part in our marriage until now 2o yrs later..Last year my

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My poor dog with the million dollar knee... the knee that cost almost $3000 to fix earlier this year.... my middle son tried to love on her last night and she yelped and bit his face.. and now this morning she won't even put weight on it. That is the leg that she is sticking out. This is the most lovable dog who has never shown any aggression in any way except to the pit bull that tried to

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I hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving filled with great food and full of family!! I can't believe the holiday weekend is over and we are back to school/work tomorrow! We had a great Thanksgiving. This year we decided to go on a little vacation. We went down to Williamsburg and spent a few days and it was wonderful. We stayed at Great Wolf Lodge and let me just say if you live by one and

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I hope everyone has a wonderful Thanksgiving Day filled with lots of good food and family!!We got out of town for a few days. We drove to Williamsburg and are staying a few nights at Great Wolf Lodge. Wednesday we toured Williamsburg and Jamestown. Today we are doing things at the hotel and just finished the Thanksgiving buffet. I ate way too much, of course, and can barely sit!!! May all of you

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Had to go have an MRI the other day and this is the new hand dryer in the bathroom.. it is made by my favorite maker of vacuum cleaners.... Dyson!! You put your hands down in it and slowly pull them up.. it dried them perfect the first time!! I thought this was the neatest thing!

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This is my sis and I (me on the right). You can't tell that she is older huh?!.... ok I am older by a year and a half!! Her boyfriend and her drove up to Charlottesville (about hour away from me) to see the Jimmy Buffet concert. I had the great idea to eat at Cheeseburger in Paradise and then we could go our separate ways... well when I rolled into town there were 3 tour buses of crazy Buffet

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I love fall and watching the leaves turn and the weather turning cooler! When I was a kid I don't remember Christmas stuff up in the stores before Halloween... really even before Thanksgiving. Seems like the past few years they keep bringing out the stuff earlier and earlier! We shopped Halloween and the next isle over was some Christmas! I noticed Christmas commercials playing now.. I think I

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This is Ella today sleeping in the living room today. I was relaxing in the recliner watching the memorial on tv for Ft. Hood and the girls were relaxing. How dogs sleep like this I will never know. It can't be that comfortable... but then why do dogs eat some of the things they do....Ashley has bounced back great and the antibiotics are working without any side effects so far... crossing my

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It is Gator time here in our house.. .well ok upstairs is Gator time and Jim hides in his man cave downstairs and down there it is Alabama time... but we don't go there! Since I am from Florida I was raised a Gator.. hubby was raised in Alabama so that is where his loyalties lie... fall and football season in our home is pretty interesting! Last year Florida beat Bama in the SEC championship and

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Where has the time gone?? I looked at my blog and couldn't believe it had been almost a week since I have blogged! This has been another busy week and I am looking forward to life slowing down at some point. I learned this week I am highly allergic to latex and had to get my first ever epi injection. Boy did that make my whole thigh hurt for 2 days. Now I will definitely have to carry my epi

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Here is our neighborhood gang at the boys high school Thursday. Ashley is the 2nd from right. The high school puts on a great trick or treat party every year. The different clubs take a classroom, decorate it, make up a game of some sort and the kids go around to the classes play and get candy! There is always a great turnout!This week has been so busy again this week. I had my yearly

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Well after almost 5 months of not working the sickness has set in our town and our hospital is full of flu patients and guess what that means.... they remembered my name!! They wanted me to come in today but I couldn't so instead I will be working all weekend and on Tuesday after Ash gets on the bus. I suppose to be on our med/surg floor and the Infusion Center BUT I have this sneaking suspicion

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What a weekend!! Friday night Ashley started to complain of not feeling good, headache, stomach ache, fever, cough and sore throat. Her little friend, who lives next door, had come home early from school that day with the same symptoms so no surprise. Saturday found out that little girl has flu, possible H1N1, so I take Ashley into urgent care and find out she probably has the flu (even though

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Last night was homecoming at the high school. Here is Matt all dressed up and ready to go! He didn't officially have a date but a bunch of friends met at Applebee's and had dinner then went to the dance together. He says he had a great time! The worse part of it all was having to go out at midnight to pick him up in the very cold rain!Here is Ashley doing her steps for her yellow tip! We have

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Thought I would share a few snapshots from our lives the past few weeks! Last weekend we ate at a Seafood buffet by downtown DC. When we left we missed our turn and had to drive through downtown DC to get back to the interstate. To my kids delight... ummm I mean disgust I whipped out the camera! Again I heard "Mom we live here and you look like a tourist"... the first picture is of the WWII

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