It's About Time Don't Ya Think?

For over TWO weeks straight life has been beyond busy. Waaaaaay beyond.

I've been squeezing about 10 hours of work a week in. Yes I said squeezing in work. And only 10 hours of it.

I have a little fact for you all. The afternoon hours that take place after school are not long enough to get all the kids needs met with doctors offices, dental appointments, therapy appointments, court appearance, and sports activities. Well when you have 6 kids that you are running around, anyway.

1. Diet update. I'm still going. Not strong. See, these boxes of Girl Scout cookies showed up at my house and well, they are pretty darn good. Good enough to eat a box of them. Now I only open a box when the whole family is home. Assures that one box will not be consumed by me. The calories in those morsels of deliciousness are insane!

2. More diet update. Think you can eat just one? Yeah, I though the same thing. So while I was doing my grocery shopping I let Sassy choose some Pringles. They have this limited time only flavor called Honey Mustard. What they should be called is "Lay's has nothing on me and you won't eat just one chip, but you will eat one can." Yep that's right. I ate the whole can of chips. No more of those coming in my house.

3. So needless to say I am eating more raw right now to try and cleanse the badness, that tasted so very good, from my body. I am getting more energy as time goes on. My Fibromyalgia pain is decreasing. My arthritis pain is not affected by my diet. I had hoped it would be, but the positives are enough to keep my going and who knows . . .Maybe in the longer run it will have an affect.

4. We now have a total of 3 foster sons. Caseworkers are asking if we could make room for one more. Are you kidding? I would have to quit my job and add on to my home for that to happen. It's big enough and we'll work with our 3 and then we'll take more, just 3 at at time.

5. Monkey J (our oldest foster son) took 3rd place in the 200 yard dash on Tuesday the 17th. Good thing the school colors are green. Kept 'em from getting pinched. He is really a sweet kid. His grandparents and his aunts and uncles are great and provide him great support. We had a BBQ over at his aunt and uncle's home and got to meet them all.

6. We celebrated Monkey Wrench's 18th birthday! That will need to be it's own post.

7. We also had just over 40 people come to our home for a BBQ on hubs birthday. It was awesome. We have such great friends and family. They truly are a blessing in our lives. It was so great to have those who could come and celebrate with us. I have a funny video of the pinata break. So funny the men who were supposed to be holding the pinata couldn't.

8. Thanks to you all for being patient with me. I'm trying to get caught up but that means more reading than commenting. Sorry.

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Monkey D

Monkey J

Monkey E