Round Two - Almost

Fedex finally brought my HCG drops! I have been waiting & waiting & WAITING!! Wanna know how my head works though? See I have 3 "gorge" days. And if I started taking the drops the morning after I got them (Tuesday)...my first real diet day would've been Friday. You know, Friday...the day/night we are going to see Rodney Carrington??? (They serve beer at the AMP!) And if I started on Wed...well then Sat. night at our "watch the fight - have friends over - catfish fry"...well, I couldn't eat after I worked so hard to cook it all. And then Sunday, we're going to watch the fireworks & cook out at my Aunt Bev's...so see, it makes PERFECT sense in my head to hold off a few days....sense to ME anyway! Ha!

The Creek.........

This creek runs behind my work & has turned out to be the perfect place to train the dogs, let them play & bathe them. And they LOVE it! me

The Crowd Continues To Grow

Okay, so this is how we spend most of our afternoons....working Boogie & Bam. Lately, the neighborhood kids have all started to come out & watch & ask David questions. They want to know if they can take turns throwing the bumpers or can they pet the dogs, or how he's taught them to do all they do. I have to say, David is better with these kids than I am. And the dogs love the attention. Plus, with this many helpers, my job is to sit on the tailgate, drink a beer & relax....I love my job! me

Good Times

We had an amazing weekend! I love David working days!!! Saturday morning we got up & had our coffee then we hit the neighborhood for garage sales. Unfortunately, there weren't many, but we stayed out for a couple hours & really had fun just hanging out together. Sunday was a busy day. It was our niece Gracie's 7th birthday, so we went to her party at Chuck E Cheese in Fayetteville. We had so much fun! Hunter-man figured out real quick how to get his Papa to fill his pockets up with tokens! Oh, and he's started calling David "Pee-paw" which I just love & think is SO cute! I'm still working on "Nana"....sometimes he calls me that, sometimes it's meemaw, sometimes mama...the poor little guy is just confused! Anyway, after the birthday party the kids came up & we grilled hot dogs & hamburgers & Hunter played in his pool. It was just good times!
I can't wait til this weekend. Our 24th anniversary is Thursday and we are going to see Rodney Carrington at the AMP on Friday night. Saturday night is the big heavy-weight fight between Hayes & Klitchko that we've been waiting for and Sunday night our plan is to go to my Aunt Bev's & watch the fireworks. As of right now Monday - it is for REST & RELAXATION! I am trying to plan on having NO plans on Monday...we'll see how that works out! Til next time...me

The Dog Ate It......

Bam sabotaged my diet! Really he did! I started my drops on Monday morning...I still had a few days left in my old bottle. I figured I'd do the 3 days of eating everything while taking the drops, and by then my new drops would be here...wrong! See, Monday we decided to try leave both Bam & Boogie out of their kennels while we were at work and see how they'd do. Bam ate my HCG!!!! Seriously! Thank goodness there wasn't much in there, and they didn't seem to phase him! But now? I'm waiting to get my new ones in the mail....so...I'm in a holding pattern there.
Tuesday I put him in the box...and told him when I left it was because he was a bad dog on Monday. Today...Wednesday, I left him out & tried again. With the exception of my placemats & napkins on our formal dining room table....he did fine! I fussed at him a little bit, but my plan is to try again tomorrow (and just put up the place settings ha!).
David & I are trying to adjust to his new schedule. The first morning we got up at five, had coffee, watched the news & I fixed him breakfast & fixed his lunch...it was smooth sailing. However, he's had a horrific toothache so I got him an appointment Monday afternoon & they ended up doing a root canal. So I had to drive him home & we left my truck at my work. So he had to take me to work yesterday morning....we had to leave early & he go no breakfast & no lunch to take so he had to eat out. This morning I overslept...no time for breakfast or to make his lunch. I love being able to wake up and us drink our coffee together & talk about our plans for the day. I'm hoping by the end of the week we'll be a little more acclimated to the new schedule.

Round Two

Today I ordered round two of HCG! I was supposed to start back last Monday but since I hurt my knee & wasn't sure if I was looking at surgery or what, I held off. (Oh, and I forgot that I have to take the drops for 3 days while I eat any & everything I want & let it build up in my system, so instead, I just ate any & everything I wanted - ha!)
Anyway....enough with all the excuses. The drops should be in sometime next week, and it's time to get serious again. This diet really works - I am on it! me

Time for a little update......

I know I haven't been very faithful about blogging lately and I am going to try do better. But it may not happen, because David goes to days on Monday! Last night was the last Wednesday night I would send him off for his 11pm shift! He still has to work tonight & tomorrow night, but unless things change, I will have him all to myself this weekend. It will be an adjustment for him...for us too, but it will be a good adjustment & life should get back to normal now, and I am so thankful & feel so blessed that God has taken care of this for us.
I saw the knee surgeon yesterday. Good news? No surgery - at least not for 5 more years, and then he said I most likely will have to have a knee replacement. (He also said unless something else takes you out like an illness or accident-gee thanks!) The bad news? There's not really anything he can do for it in the meantime. It's bone on bone, it's very painful, and basically he said, if it hurts - don't do it, take your pain pills when you need to, and if you just can't bear it, call me in a week & we'll start cortisone injections. He offered to do that yesterday, but followed up the offer with - they're painful, expensive & once you start you'll probably have to get one every three months or so until we do the surgery. So uh...no. I will tough it out & see if it gets better before I commit to something like that.
I kept Hunter man again Saturday night (and no, he's not 12 yet ha!) And I've tried to download a video of him at the bottom of this post...hope it works. He loves to climb on on the couch & turn the lights off & on. Thought it'd be nice to preserve the sweetness of this precious baby boy. Anyhoo, the kids brought him up & hung out with David & then me after David went to work. We had a good time. That baby is just so precious & funny & such a sweet little boy. Until - UNTIL - it's time to go to sleep. And then I have a wee bit of trouble with him. Trouble like...being up with him at 3 a.m. walking him, trying to feed him, trying to sing to him, play with him, take him outside...anything to make him quit crying! Wanna know what works? Sitting with him in David's recliner & watching cartoons until 5:30 am! Needless to say I didn't get much sleep, and I called Eddy @ nine the next morning & said come get your son-Nana needs some sleep! But I wouldn't trade it for anything in the world. It's so hard to imagine that in six more months, I'll have a new little grandbaby to love & cherish & think the world revolves around. It will be interesting to see how little Hunter adjusts to not being the center of attention-cuz right now he's the only grandbaby in both families & he is a little spoiled! Well, gotta get to work....til next time....me