Whewwwww What a Day...

And thankful that it is over. Princess Olga is about to turn into a Pumpkin. It is 11:26 p.m. and here I am blogging. I will update the good stuff that happened today on tomorrows blog, but just wanted to let you all know that I was still living and breathing after today. I haven't shot anyone, cussed anyone and haven't started drinking(yet), however, it has been mighty tempting.

Please visit this site and do all you can to help fill Jacob's Stocking. I know that it would mean a lot to Heather and her entire family during this Holiday Season. http://faithfulfroggers.blogspot.com/2007/11/jacobs-stocking.html

I am going to bed since it is so late and I really didn't want to get up early in the morning, however I am going to a Ladies Christmas Breakfast and taking Court to a friends house for her to go to a local parade.

Sleep well, Love to you all,
In Him,
Kelly

One more day...

Until I finally get to "relax" for the weekend. YEAH!!!!! Another week gone. I know, I know, I am not supposed to be wishing my life away, I am just ready for a looooonnnnnngggggg vacation..... no kids, no husband, just me and some girlfriends at a spa resort with our cabana boys fanning us with very large palm leaves, feeding us grapes and let me not forget the most important part of this vacation, a massage every morning, noon and night. Anybody with me? Stace, Tonya, Jules, Kelli, anyone????

Another day, another dollar. Again, this morning started off almost as if I were living in the Groundhog Day movie. Talk about De-Jae-Voo(sp?). I woke up late again this morning and started the same 'ole routine . Getting myself ready, hollering at Court to get her things together, and of course rushing out the door. I once again assumed that Joey was going to take her to school, however I was wrong, or was it him. Late to work again....the never ending saga. As I was driving down our road, I saw what I thought to be MawMaw's coming toward me. A light bulb went off in my tiny brain, and I flagged her down. Ok it wasn't her, it was Joey's cousin, Ty coming back from taking Brookie, his little girl, to school. After a little pleading, he said that he would take her to school if I would call them and let them know that he was bringing her in late. She was going to be late no matter what, but him taking her to school kept me from being even later to work and the McDonald's calling my name again this morning. We left the house late so what do you expect. When Ty agreed to take Court, I said, "please don't tell Joey I asked you to do this, he will be so mad at me". Now really, who do you want more mad at you........the person whose payroll you are on or the person you live with? I can go to another room and ignore the person I live with(just joking Joey), but it isn't all that easy to go to another job, especially in the same day.

I did manage to get to work at a decent time, only 10 minutes late this morning. That is about what my boss has come to expect. My parents say that I will be late to my own funeral. I hope not, because I am not having one. I told Joey that when I die, I don't want him to spend a bunch of money on a funeral, just tie me up in a plastic bag, build me a nice pine box and ship my fluffy Princess Olga butt down the Mighty Mississipp. There is no reason to spend all of that time, effort, money and emotion, for people to be crying over my dead body, when I am having the time of my life in Heaven. Do I hear an Amen? AMEN.

So onto the start of my day. Again, I dealt with our TAC people that you heard about yesterday for another 3 hours trying to get the Loan Documents that were supposed to be printed yesterday to print this morning so my customer could start paying the interest on his newly purchased automobile. Finally, I got it. Customer is happy, TAC is very happy(that they don't have to talk to me for awhile) and I am ecstatic because I don't have to talk to them, well and that I am finally done with this loan and can move on to the next set of problems and circumstances.

By noon, I am just whipped. I had 2 cups of coffee, a large sweet tea from McDonald's,(someone else went) and a 3 hour conversation about a printer that wouldn't work. What am I supposed to do now? Well I have this "Celebration" after work tonight and I just don't think that I have the stamina to be "my perky little self" to go. After another cup of coffee, I pull out of it. I get to the "Celebration" and have a great time. I am finally home and once again I have seen neither of my children(I know I just said in the first paragraph that I needed a vacation, but it really isn't from my children or husband, I just want to go on a girl trip to the spa resort with cabana boys fanning me with large palm leaves and feeding me grapes and don't dare let me forget the many massages that I intend to have), my husband is watching football, and I am barely awake enough to write this blog. I do apologize if it doesn't make much sense.

Well, I guess it is about time, or should I say about 2 hours past time for me to be getting to bed, so I will update again tomorrow night. TGIF - Thank Goodness it's Friday.

Hope you all have a great weekend and keep the comments coming.

Love to you all,
In Him,
Kelly and Family

Here we go again......

Old Business - How long does it really take for people to start reading this thing and respond????? I am getting bored here. Can you tell my attention span is that of a 3 year old when it comes to things like this? Start Posting you silly readers. I need confirmation that you are reading and are enjoying the posts.


New Business - Ok, today was not such a great day for Princess Olga (my new nickname, thanks Chelsey:)). I guess that I shouldn't say that it wasn't a great day because I am still alive and well and have so many blessing that I can not even count, but for a day in the life of Princesses it was kinda stinky. It all started off when I woke up late this morning, while getting ready for work, Court brings me a pair of her uniform pants and says "Mom, I need these ironed". Well anyone who knows me or any of my family, we kinda fly by the seat of our pants on most things. If I had to describe our family I would definitely call us spontaneous. So anyway, I have the curling iron stuck to my head and go to iron the pants, that should have been done the night before, all while yelling, "Court, do you have your shoes and socks on....Court, are your teeth brushed....Court, have you even thought about brushing your hair....Court, do you know where you took your belt off last night.... and I think that you get the picture. So I finally get my hair done, her hair done and start contemplating the dreaded decision of what am I going to wear. I finally pick out what I am going to wear and it is now about 15 minutes before I am supposed to leave to get to work on time. I finally get ready and now is when I find out that Joey thought I was going to take Court to school. I accept the responsibility with great pride that I, the blessed mother that I am get to take my precious baby to school (something I don't get to do often), however I have a hidden motive, McDonald's is just down the road (ah ha, I get breakfast this morning). So what if I am a little late to work this morning. I did call the office and find out if anyone else wanted anything and to let them know that I was going to be late. I finally arrived to work about 8:15 this morning.

On to lunch, can you tell I have been awfully hungry today? Eating lots of chocolates as well. I went to lunch with a friend of mine Lesley, and when I got back to the office, I promise you, it was the devil, all heck broke loose. I was one busy chick. I was supposed to get off today at 5 and well that didn't happen by any means. As I was trying to print some loan documents, I realized that when they set up the new computer system, I wasn't linked to print loan docs. Awww man, what do I do now??? I have a customer coming in at 5:30 to sign, and no one, and I do mean no one can tell me how or who to contact to get this problem resolved. I have never wanted to throw a computer tower out the door as bad as I did today. I finally get in touch with our personal TAC guy and he tells me that he is out in the middle of the country and doesnt have any access to his lap top to fix this "little" problem that we have, but that he would call a couple of people and get right back with me. Princess Olga is not a happy Princess at this point. The customer gets to the office and of all days to be early, yup, you guessed it, he was early. He had to wait until I finally got a response back from our TAC guy saying that it would be first thing in the morning before he can do anything with getting me "rebooted" on the correct server. I now have the pleasure to break the news to my very patient customer who has been waiting on me close to an hour to get something done that it will be first thing in the morning before he can sign the papers. Whewwwww, what a day at the office.

I leave the office at about 6:40 and come home for a few minutes and then head to Bible Study, to finally get to see my children, one of whom I haven't seen since last night. I needed that time to spend with God. I need to find more time to spend with God. I know there is time, because how does everyone else seem to have time? We all are given 24 hours in the day, we just have to choose how we are going to spend them. I obviously haven't chosen so well. I am going to do my best to spend more time with Him and be a willing servant to be used by Him. That is my commitment to all of you, if there are any of you, to be a God Fearing, Word Spreading woman. Please keep me reminded of this.

Now on to the Husband, the preacher man, he is also gone when I get home from work. He has to drive about 25 minutes to get to his Bible Study. We would love to go to the same place for Bible Study, unfortunately, there are no children where he preaches so Craig, Court and I go where Joey's parents go and where he grew up. He finally gets home to kiss the kiddies good night and since I was blogging, he went to another room to watch TV. So I haven't seen him all day either. WOW what a long day. I am really tired now, wonder why that could possibly be? I don't have any idea, so don't bother asking me, because I will be asleep for the next 7 hours.

I will try to post something positive tomorrow night as I know that you all don't want to hear a whining 32 year old grown fluffy woman. Yes I call myself fluffy, I cant bear to think of myself as FAT or OBESE or whatever those people with a PHD or MD want to call me.

So here is wishing you all a good night and peace to all.

In Him,
Kelly and Family

P.S. Please keep the family of Max Nance in your prayers. He was the 8 year old little boy who ran out in front of traffic and was hit and killed by a taxi-cab on Saturday on his way to the Vanderbilt Football game. I think that his funeral is tomorrow. His family needs the prayers right now and for some time to come I am sure.

Second Attempt......

Well, here goes for the second day. I am not sure that I can keep this thing up daily or not, but I will do my best. I feel as if I have a new-born baby and I am constantly being required something of them, as if 9 months of them feeding off of my body weren't enough. Again, I will do my best to keep this up, but please let me know if I am boring you.

Enough of the blah blah blah, here is what is happening in our neck of the woods.... Craig just celebrated his 12th birthday this past week, Thanksgiving Day to be exact. Before his birthday, he kept asking me if he could have a Birthday Party and I kept telling him that I would think about it. We went to my grandmother's house for Thanksgiving, and we weren't around any of Joey's family so I didn't really think that we could pull one off since we weren't going to come home until Saturday in our original plans. Well in our family, plans change about as often as the television station. We ended up coming home on Friday night due to another funeral that Joey was supposed to attend. So I called Faye (my wonderful mother-in-law) and asked her what she thought about doing a surprise party with some of the family. She agreed and we pulled it off without a hitch. Craig was very surprised. He was also overwhelmed by all of them yelling Surprise as he walked in the door. He got lots of nice things at the party. Thanks everyone :)

Today he went out to the Parent - Teacher Store with Maw-Maws (Darlee) and got more stuff, then the neighbor brought him another present this afternoon. MY MY, the house is starting to look like a toy store. Anybody for shopping at the Dixon-Mart? No lines at the checkout. Ha Ha, what would Craig think if he saw this post??? While we were at Grandmother's house, we had a little party for him there as well. He got his favorite Oreo Ice Cream Cake, some fun toys and the all time favorite....$$$. He is expecting a package from Nana and Paw-Paw in the next couple of days since his Remote Control Dukes of Hazzard car didn't come in before they came down. I think that we are just going to have to make this a Birthday week instead of having just one day.

Heather, I hope you check this out. I did get to put a picture on the post today. I was quite excited learning how to do this. Thanks for your help. Heather's blog is located at the bottom of mine and if you get a chance, go and look at it. She has the most beautiful babies in Florida.

Christmas is only 4 weeks from today...... Have you been naughty or nice??? Are you on the good list of Santa's?? I will have to ask Joey as far as my name goes.

I will post more tomorrow if I get a chance after work and Bible Study. Have a great evening and keep the positive comments coming.

Love to you and yours,
In Him,
Kelly and Family

First of Many...

Well, this is the first of many to come hopefully and I hope that I don't bore you all to pieces. While talking to one of my friends, Kym, last night, I realized that I too could set up a BLOG. I have been checking out a few and thought that it really cant be that hard, why not try it myself. So here it is.

With that being said...... Isn't God Great? Have you thought lately what a wonderful world we live in with all of its conveniences and luxuries, but that this is only a glimpse of what Heaven will be. WOW is all that I can say. Have you thought that we are such a blessed group of individuals to have the "things" that we have? I know that I for one take these "things" for granted. As I read in Elizabeths blog the other day, I too strive for the contentment of life.

Ok, Thanksgiving has come and gone and here we sit upon Christmas only 4 weeks from tomorrow. I haven't even begun to get any decorations out, much less anything else. I received a Christmas card/photo in the mail last week and it wasn't even Thanksgiving yet. Are we just going to start celebrating right after Labor Day next year? I don't think that I am up to that, I like having all 10 of my Federal Paid Holidays.

I hope that I didn't bore you too much this first time and if I did, I'm sorry. Setting this thing up has taken longer than anticipated and I need to make sure the little darlings are ready for bed, so I must go, however, please send your comments and feedback for what I need to do on this thing they call a BLOG.

In Him,
Kelly and Family