Just another Thursday Morning

Life is good, I think? Is that a positive statement, I am not sure anymore. Life throws a lot of things at me, but it just doesn't seem to ever throw lemons,so I can't make lemonade. Three more weeks until school is finished and four more weeks until the dance festival and then freedom! The weather is clearing and I need to start thinking of getting the garden in, but thank heavens for procrastination, because the people that already planted have had to replant twice because to the rains.
I keep pulling out my box cutters in my Post Offices and one of these days someone is going to throw me down on the ground and then kick me out. But it is Pink and it is easier than using my teeth. Oh rules, rules, rules. At my Toy R Us stores, they just think it is a toy.
Buying another bribe today. Keeping my last child in school with good grades is a lot harder than the first ones.
Well life is good, I think and with that I am going to start the day!

Mothers Day is over, does that mean they don't love me anymore?

Oh that wonderful day Mother's Day, when flowers,cards and gifts end up at our feet and we are told we are wonderful and get to do whatever we want to do (at limits) for one whole day.
I woke up and they all said, I think I am sick, I think I am sick. When you are down to just two people at home to spoil you, you start thinking, does this mean I go to church alone, fix my own breakfast, make my own homemade card, find the flowers that Michael has given me for the passed 28 years:I do think they may be the same flowers recycled, but I know I get them, there was one year I checked the neighbors roses.
But no one got up but everything was there the beautiful flowers were there, the breakfast was passed, but the homemade card sat there and was a beautiful from a 15 year old as it had been from a 3 year old. The phone calls came in and the information that my gifts would come during the week, just like their mom, sometimes time ran out before the great ideas and thoughtfulness.
So it is Tuesday and all the cards and gifts are here and it is beautiful and I am full for a day or two. And then at noon, my sweet husband called and said, I am having my $2 lunch at Walmart and all the flowers are half price wouldn't you like some more flowers. Sure, that would be lovely. Now why do I want half price flowers, because this is the man who has gone from having lunch at Costco sample area to Walmart $2 lunch,he is coming up in the world and he wants to bring me more flowers in the same week. How far he has come. Hanging onto these moments for the days he drives me crazy.
Well the week speeding by fast as all weeks do these days and the phone call from my missionary still is clear in my ears, he is still serving and loving it. That is all a mother can hope for.He is still worried that I can't live without him, but I am going to let him always believe that, because as his brothers before him, he is a sweet man.
How grateful I am that I listened to a wise and great man who said I needed to be at home 23 years ago. No I will never be interviewed by Ophrah or be on Saturday Night live,or be a Rock Star,except at family parties, but I have lived the life. I am a Rock Star to Five children and now to three beautiful grandchildren. What could be better. Only I should have done is buy stock in Diet Coke!
Happy Mothers Day! Carleen you and all the moms, You done good!

I feel achey, but it's nothing six to ten Tylenol can't cure

I remember when I thought it was so terrible when those women would say, they wake up and felt so old and they were 30. Then at 40 they would say they woke up and hurt everywhere. Then a fifty they had something wrong that hurt, I should have been sympathetic, instead of thinking they were big babies. Because now at almost 60 my body hurts. I should have gotten in on what they were doing to ease the pain. But, finally I have to say I found the cure, One Diet coke, 2-5 Tylenol and I am good to go. Bring on the pain, I can't feel anything. But those other women they found this out years earlier and because I thought they were whiners they never shared the cure, so to anyone else now you know the cure.
I remember the women in my ward that was twenty something that went on the chocolate chip and diet coke diet after each baby and lost all her weight. I bet she was downing Tylenol with each diet coke.She never mentioned pain or anything, she was happy all the time and thin and eating big chocolate chip cookies.
Well the day is going good so far, Matthew went to school and all is good, this is all I require in life right now. I have not had enlarged veins in my eyes today nor has by blood pressure hit the ceiling, so this is a good day.
I found a new bike at the gym yesterday that is made for me. It pedals easier, big seat and I am away from the bikers that stand up and pedal the whole time and make me feel uncomfortable. They make me think I should be going faster, stand up and not be counting the minutes until I can go to the treadmill and watch the Home and Garden Channel. I know I have problems when I even like the channel when I forget my headphones. I can just pretend I know what great advise they are telling the people. And everyday I say I am going to go home and redo a wall or copy something I saw and I go home and can't remember what they did or any clever thing that they did. But tomorrow, I may take notes while I am watching and walking. But then again, while I was cleaning yesterday I watched, they Wedding Planner, for maybe the 20th time and I had forgotten it and that doesn't seem to bother me.
Well just a few more days until Mothers Day, that is a big calendar date to a Hallmark Rep.,because after this date we don't make much money until Fall when the resets start and then nothing until after Halloween. Oh well I have paid for the strollers and no one else is pregnant so I am safe except for my spending problem.
So it is off to work, then the gym, then check out the new pizza place at the country store, which I know is not weight watcher friendly and then off to Matthew's play and then it starts all over again.
The kitchen table is full,because I am down sizing the office, which means I am throwing away all the junk I wasted all my money on over the years. I should stop, but the deals, I can't pass up the 10 for a $1 sales, even when I only need one.
Oh well. Life is good the Tylenol is kicking in and I feel great!

It is Friday and now I have to start all over again

It was a great week. Lets see I worked, did my visiting teaching, got the laundry done, cleaned, read two books, did young women's, was in the principals office a few times, went to a wedding, went to the temple, went to the gym, started weight watchers, went on splits with the missionaries and mothered and wifed. I wonder why I have no me time.
The house is full of teenagers and Michael is upstairs, trying to figure out how he can get out of a business trip so he can go to the principals office and get ready for Matthew in the school play this week.
Peter is still out there and advised me that he will stay the whole two years because of me, the Lord and the good people of Illinois. I can see changes like no other in Peter Bennett( from this side of the country). He is just grateful he is in a car mission right now and will be ready for a bike mission soon. John is talking with Facebook and Google people to get them involved with Plasma, that is all I want on Facebook! Samantha has more girls nights out than I have nights. It is a new generation. My groups idea of girls night out was seeing each other at the grocery store at night. I remember when we did Bunco at night and we kept saying this is the last month and then we did it for three years and felt guilty every month.
James is still working 95 hours a week. This is the kid that hated to work. I think it was all the hits to the head in football.
So here I am on a Friday Night thinking I should be at the gym, but having a grounded teenager, with all his friends eating Pizza and and carrots and begging me to let him be semi grounded for the night. because we have no TV, computer or any other electronic devises available to them for a month. Logical Love, Is that what they call this.
Well I am feeling the effects of healthy eating, I am starving to death, I know my body will love this in 5-6 weeks, but right now it is calling out to the donuts on the counter, that one of Matthews friends brought from Track. So we have a Track star, Crew star, Dancing star and Matthew the class clown and actor. Oh well at least last night he stayed on the treadmill for a hour at the gym so he could watch his show.
Well a week is gone and I am going to rest up for the next week. But it restarts tomorrow. A wedding, then a Stake revision and so on and so forth. Have to get my stores and Post offices ready for Mothers Day only to destroy them the next week for Fathers Day. Oh well, I love the money, or I could always go back to Insurance, ick!
Well, got to go somewhere where I am not thinking of food. The garage, in the new car, with the hot seats should do it. Or the Lounge with the rope and Col. Mustard.

The computer crashed and I have a lot more time

I kept saying that I didn't need the computer, that I could live with out it. I am a fibber! It is true I am just learning what ram is and that a firewall is not in my barbecue, but I know that I need my computer. I need to communicate with my missionary, to get my information to work, to get a paycheck, to see my grand kids to get recipes from Samantha, to know what is going on. The Phone is great, but it is so much better to read it and to print it and to know what I am going to do. So the diet was a bomb, so I am back to Weight Watchers on Monday. I hate to give someone money to weigh me, but if it works it works,that is good. Forever is a long time, but I have got to work on this forever. I am tired of being a fatty and I would think everyone else is too.
I love the Blog, I never lose it even if my computer crashes and no one reads this but me,myself and Samantha. I was a born blogger.
Well it is off to the gym. I have already spent as much money as I can before we sit down and work on the budget. I figure it was better to have everything before I have to give anything up.
Obviously that is the reason I have to sit down and work on the budget at my age.
Spock out! That is one talent I have, I can part my fingers like Spock.
I guess that means I can't beam myself out before the budget talk.
Love and kisses to my grandchildren that read this.
Grandma is off to the gym and then to a wedding and then to a budget talk, yuk.

Driving around in my shiny new car

This new car thing is a good thing. It is helping the diet I know for sure. I am afraid to drive in through drive-through so I am being good at what I eat. Couldn't move yesterday, but am feeling good today. Put on my sports bra and am ready to hit the gym or at least drive by it. I ate healthy and keep reading stories that scare me about health issues and that makes me keep my mouth shut. I just get depressed when someone tells the truth and says that you have to eat like this for the rest of their life, it's true; I really thought they would have a vaccine by now. After 58 years of dieting I believe that they are right. So here's to another good day. Samantha keep it good today, Heather you can do it and Ashley you are watching 7 kids just try to survive.

I do believe if I didn't still have a fifteen year old, this would be a lot easier. Just forget everything and think I don't want to fight these love handles or whatever they are at my age and get moving. I thought that by now I would have figured this thing out. Got onto my high school reunion post this week, it was depressing, it was like there are still people who are still in high school, very interesting. Would love to hook-up to some of those wonderful kids that got me through the easy years, but I have a feeling they are all to busy to get onto the site. Life goes on. Don't want to work today, so tomorrow I will be a crazy women flying through my stores wondering why I didn't' do it earlier in the week and wondering why I do this every week. Oh well, this will help me with the keep moving part of my diet and if I drive the new car, that will help me keep my mouth shut.

Just another day at the Bennett House, love you all

My body hurts, there has to be some muscle there!

After Two hours at the gym, my body is dying. When asking Michael, why does my body hurt so much, he said it is my lack of muscles. My Kidneys hurt, are there muscles in my kidney area. I am pretty sure I am dying from some element that some of us have who are probably not suppose to exercise. I am sure they will fine this disease in the near future and tell us not to exercise more than 10 minutes a day. But I had to exercise more, because there was a TV screen and head phones and after I started exercising I have to finish the TV show, which I can't remember what it was, but I remember it was very interesting, obviously not earth scattering. Oh well back to the gym today. Did OK on my mouth thing, I still have real trouble after about 5 pm and after 8pm. I should just end the day at 5pm and I would be fine.

Heres hoping for a good day.