I really need a "Life Alert"

I spend a lot of time alone.  Well, not all alone....I do have Penny.  So when I have the occasional home accident...like y'all don't fall down or fall out of bed or tumble either up or down your stairs???!  I fall down more than the average adult.  I am either going too fast or not looking where I am going or most likely I am doing 2095 things at one time.  So yesterday I thought I would help my daddy get up the wood he has laying in piles all over his yard from the recent ice storm and the damage it left.  I helped him haul the wood away and then I thought I would just pick up some of the 74 million pine cones that are all over their yard.  I needed a bucket.  If you know me then you know I am somewhat considered a bucket hoarder.  You can never ever have too many buckets in my opinion.  The uses are endless!  So I saw a really good one with a handle and everything in front of my car in the garage.  Instead of thinking....I kind of crawled over the girls little John Deere tractor wagon to reach for this bucket when what do you know???  My foot caught the trailer part of this tractor and the next thing you know I was on the garage floor.  And did my knee and thigh and well...my whole entire left side of my body hurt.  Hurt???  It was screaming!  Or maybe that was me??  Whatever.  Let's just say I was writhing in pain as much as I could in about an eight inch space.  And no, I am not eight inches wide so my writhing was limited.  So did someone come to my rescue?  Nope.  Penny did come and look at me but that was about it.  Stupid dog...see if I pet her again.  So I hefted myself up and I hobbled out to the driveway where I did see my mama.  I put on a brave face and even picked up a few pine cones but then I said I needed to take a bath and get ready for bed.  It was 6:30.  I limped to the bathroom and just the effort to sit down in the tub was awful.  I scarfed down four advil and wrapped up in a throw on the couch.  I did get to watch my two favorite shows...The Voice and The Blacklist and then I hobbled to beds where just turning over was awful.  All day it has just throbbed and my knee is swollen and kind of squishy.  Good grief.  I not only need life alert I really need assisted living.  I do like living alone.  I mean I get to do what I want, when I want.  I don't answer to  anyone and I set my own schedule but there are times when I do wish someone was here to at least pour me into bed when I take these tumbles.  Or maybe I just need to slow down, look over sketchy situations and choose my approaches a little wiser.  That would be smart and a lot easier to explain than a big ole life alert hanging around my neck.

Guess Who's back????

Oh My-lan-ta!!!  It is so good to be back in blogland.  I have been MIA for almost three weeks and do I have a ton of stuff to say.  First off, there was this huge ice storm that knocked down a ton of trees in my yard but PTL I did not lose my power.  But I did lose my computer.  I am now typing on a new one that is super smart.  And guess what??  I'm not.  It has taken me three days to figure out how to sign into this blog.  I still can't upload photos and that is driving me bonkers.  Erica says that technology is not out to get me but....she is so wrong.  Everyone else I know did lose their power but my house was lit up like a Christmas tree.  All my kids and grandkids came over for a sleepover so can we say "Funtimes at Mimis"???  It was fun and everyone was great.  The girls power came back on the next day so they all got back to their homes really quick.  We did miss three days of school and went in two hours late for two more days.  I suppose we will get out of school this summer about three days before we are to go back to school.  I am just praying that we miss absolutely no more school.  I want warm weather and sun and blue skies!!!  Did I mention that are calling for snow on Tuesday?  I am crying....crying so hard I really can't even see to type.  Please no more snow!

A few other things that have come up.  My sweet, sweet niece Brittany and her husband Aaron are going to have a baby!!!  I am so excited and so pumped up about a new baby in the family i cannot stand it!  She is due on September 14th and they are finding out what the gender is at the end of April.  I cannot wait.  I will be the best Great Aunt in the whole wide world.  Well, maybe not the whole world but surely in the tri-state area.

As far as anything else in my life going on....well....lets just say I am as boring as always.  I do have a few things going on but they really aren't worth writing about let alone thinking about.  I have joined a book club that meets once a month.  I love it too.  We are reading Lysa Terkeurst's "Made To Crave"  It is an awesome book and has made me realize that in my own life I do crave other things more than God.  Mostly food.  I am a food addict and this book has made me face that harsh reality.  If you do not struggle with eating or food then you don't get it.  But if you do .... then you get it.  Drug addicts and alcoholics can quit their habits.  Go cold turkey.  Food addicts will eat their cold turkey.  I am learning to place prayer on my plate instead of pie.  It is hard.  Really hard.  I have spent a lot of time just sitting and staring.  Thinking...okay God, what do I pray when I just want to eat junk that is so not good for me.  What do I pray?  Who do I pray for?  I have even spent time almost in tears because I do not like this part of me.  At all.  But slowly the Lord is changing me and honing my own prayer life.  Making it better.  I have also given up teaching my Sunday School class.  That was a hard one too.  I love, love, love teaching but I knew God had been closing this door for quite some time and I knew that I needed to be obedient.  I don't know what He has planned for me but it can only be for my good.

No school....again

Well we are out of school again today for the 2045197 time this year!  Not really, but I do think we will go to school until we start back to school this summer.  AAARRRGGGHHH!  As I stated in my last post I hate winter.  That sounded really harsh and mean.  I am truly sorry...but I meant it.  And side note to Joey...Thanks buddy...you made me cry...a lot.  So you would think I would be super ambitious today.  Uh...no.  I did straighten my kitchen up.  Cleaned out the dishwasher.  Washed and dried a couple loads of clothes.  Took a nap.  Caught up on my Bible study.  Wow...that does sound kinda busy.  Right now I am fixin' to take a shower to head out to the cell phone store to probably either get in a fist fight because my bill is so messed up or break down into tears because I am too stupid for a smart phone and I want a smart phone.  Just one that can be operated by a complete doofus.  Do they make those??  I did just see something interesting though.  I have my tv on in the background and am listening to a an old episode of Criminal Minds and as I turned around in my computer chair I saw a strange white Ford truck pull inot my parents lower driveway.  Then an older man got out and went around to the passenger side.  He opened the door and got out a rifle.  He was wearing Carharts and a camo hat.  Now this might alarm some people.  Especially while Criminal Minds is on but not me so much.  My daddy is a gunsmith by hobby and a very good one at that.  So I am assuming this old man needs his rifle fixed or something.  His truck is still there and I have heard no gunshots nor has my mom made a desperate call to me telling me to come and rescue her and her dog, Bella.  So things must be okey-dokey.  This past Sunday afternoon my daddy walked over with this huge rubbery glove on his hand to see Piper and Savannah.  I asked him what he was doing and he said he was bluing a gun barrel.  Like I know what that is??  I love living out in the country!  Well I suppose that is enough ranting for one day.  I am just praying that my friend Tracy's husband is SO wrong about another snow coming in Thursday night.

Short and to the point.....

I hate winter.  I want summer.  Straight up hot, steamy heat.  I Cannot Wait!!!!!

birthdays

This past week I celebrated my 49th birthday.  I always made a big deal out of other people's birthdays but not so much for my own.  It really is, as an adult, just another day.  Now I am not one of these women who gets all out of frame because I am another year older or reached a milestone birthday number.  Who cares??  It is just that....a number.  Turning 30 was no different than being 29.  Turning 40...same thing.  I am now 49....big deal.  Next year I will be 50.  Half a century.  It really does not impact me all that much.  I am happy and pleased to be getting older.  I am healthy.  I have a great family and I have wonderful, wonderful friends.  Too many blessings!  This year I did get something that was such a nice surprise.  My dear friend Kelley has a birthday 2 days before mine and we always either go out to breakfast or dinner.  We usually buy the other ones meal and that's that.  This year we went to Olive Garden.  I had a coupon.  When I picked her up and drove to the restaurant we just chit chatted away.  When we got there I said 2 for dinner and she just smiled and said...."Huneycutt party".  Well, around the corner were all my friends from my ladies Bible study!!!  I was so surprised!  It was such a sweet time together.  Just 8 middle aged ladies out for a great meal and some sweet fellowship.  I just love my friends.  The next night my 2 wonderful daughters took me out to eat.  We went to Bonefish Grill.  I had the crab cakes and they were wonderful.  We had a marvelous time together, just the 3 of us.  My daughters mean the world to me and I just love spending time with them.  They have grown into such wonderful women and I could not be prouder.  I truly just thank the Lord for my birthday and for the many, many blessings He just keeps heaping on my life.