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Hi everyone!! Just wanted to let you all know that this blog will be moving soon. I feel with such a change in our lives, its time for a fresh start in blogging as well. I am soooo excited to get back to all of you and I am ready to be blogging more often. If you can, please leave me a comment with your email or shoot me an msg @ Mistee41605@gmail.com to let me know so I can make sure to have you rerouted to the new blog. I will not post it on here so this will be the only way to make sure you can follow us. I hope everyone is doing well. I am soooo soooo happy with my life right now. Its great to know such a happiness can be found and lived after such a long time of uncertainty and heartache. Here are just a couple of pics of me and the girls. I will have more soon, I am sure of it! Ball season has started and I now have 2 little girls to cart back and forth to the ball field! Some other things have also happened in my life that make me smile, but that's a post for the new blog. Can't wait to catch up with everyone. Have a wonderful weekend!!

Hello all...

Sorry it has been so long since my last update. It's alot harder to find time to sit down at the computer when you are doing all the mom/dad things on your own. :0) We are all doing well. The girls are adjusting more every day and I am as well. I have lived on my own for over 6 weeks and I must admit that is the longest I have ever lived on my own. I know, I was never very independant in the past, but now its something I almost crave more than I ever knew.

My divorce was final as of last month. Seems surreal almost, we get along better now than we ever have and we are both trying to pick up and move on.

He has been transferred back to Huntsville and is moving back this week which will help alot closing that 120 mile distance between us all. Emma Grace is excited about having her dad close and I am not going to miss the drive to meet halfway every other weekend.

Thats really about all my news for now, I hope to get back to all of you wonderful girls soon! I miss each and everyone of you!!

Wow what an update!

Ok, I know it has been awhile since my last post. Life has been busy and alot of things have changed! Here goes, with an update!

We are no longer living in the big city of Birmingham, Alabama, well, when I say we, I mean me and my girls. January 23rd, of this year, I packed up our things and I walked out of our home. It was inevitable and it still broke my heart. I love my husband and always will but not the way I did 8 yrs ago. It does not matter what he did to make me pull away, it just matters that the damage was irreparable and it was something I tried to come back from daily and just could not seem to do it. We had been down this road before and I thought we were on the downhill slide when it happened again. I dont hold any hard feelings towards him, if anything, I think it is a stronger connection now, just not on the level that husbands and wife connect. I wish him all the happiness in the world and want us to be happy apart even though we could not be happy together.

The girls and I are living in an apt above my grandmothers shop right behind her house, so I have help from my Memaw. :0) She is happy to have us home and she does anything she can to help me get thru each day. Brooke is adjusting well, Emma is having a tough time because its her daddy and she doesnt understand at 6. We are just taking it 1 day at a time and praying for the best.

I am happy being back home. It is not what I envisioned for my life at 30 to be a single mom but I feel I am ready to face it with all I have and I will make it. This is not a sad post by the way, I am really looking forward to a future with my girls. We do silly things already like dance in the kitchen with pens as microphones and eat cookies (we dont need) waaaaay past bedtime. Its all gonna be ok, because I have them and I have the will to make it all the way.

I know you DidENT!!!!!!! Oh yes I did!!

I went to the Dr yesterday. You know the infamous OBGYN kinda dr??? Ewwww, yep, yuck. So I had to go to the Dr for just a general checkup and all that jazz and to talk to him about my issues that I have whatever whatever. So I get in there and he talks to me for the longest time and does his exam and I feel like I could so curse whoever invented stirrups at that point? Had to be a dang man! Anyway, he does his thing and we talk some more. I get up to leave and he hands me my chart and I make my way to the front desk, to get my next appt set up. Well, my goofy loudmouth self, gets all the way to the waiting room and walks up to the desk and says in the most horrified voice "I feel violated". BaaaaaaaaaaaaaaHaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa! The poor woman behind the desk almost choked on her gum and her face turned white as a dang ghost. I then realized what I said and I felt like a complete idiot!!! Open mouth, insert foot! hahahahahahaha. I so just gab way tooo much and sometimes it comes back to bite me in the backside. It is really funny thinking back on it now, but you know they are gonna talk about me everytime I come in from here on out.

Anyways, on a more serious note, they did find some complications during the exam and it seems that he wants to take all my baby making tools away asap! :( I have 2 gorgeous healthy little girls and I believe God blessed me with them every day but you never want to be told you cant have any more children. I cried my heart out yesterday and today but I think the tears are starting to ease up. It could be so much worse.... I am thankful that I had children young enough so this did not prevent me from having any children at all. It also makes me sad for all the women out there that cant have kids at all. :( UGH! Life is so not fair sometimes! Anyway, he really needs to do 2 other procedures while he is in there, because of some other issues that could turn out to have severe results. He will do all 3 procedures in the hospital with down time of about 6 weeks. I go back in 2 weeks to schedule my surgery so I will update about that when I can.

On all other notes, things are looking up in other areas and I am so glad to be almost to the top of my mountain!!! :0)

Update on my BIL

I am so sorry for not giving an update sooner. We have had cable and internet issues all week. :0( I am hoping they got the problem fixed so I can get back to all my little things I need my computer for! ;0) (Which yes, means keeping up on all of your blogs.) ;0)

My brother-in-law is home from the hospital and resting at home. He will be out this week and the next as well, I believe, trying to recover and get some strength back. He has tons of meds that they sent him home on, but we are hoping with his young age that he will bounce back and be as healthy as ever before we know it! Thank you all so much for the prayers and comments you sent. They could be felt from far away!!. :0) Oh and thanks to Khadra for reminding me to update. :0) Love you guys!!

What's a mom to do?

Ok, so guess what this is???? Well yes, its a stuffed animal. (See and you thought you would never use that college education! ;0) No, its the story BEHIND the stuffed animal that has me going this morning.

I went to have lunch with Brooke at school yesterday. Steve was off and he went to have lunch with Emma so they both had a day! :0) Anyways, back to my story, So, I am sitting at the lunch table and talking to Brooke and all her friends when I noticed she had a something BIG stuffed in her pocket. I grabbed her pocket and asked her what it was and she starting grinning and blushing. (Remember she is 10!!) She said it was from Stone (our next door neighbor that 12) and he gave it to her to be his girlfriend! GEEZ LOUISE! I almost fell off the lunchroom bench RIGHT there! I had to explain that she was still too young to date and she had to remember that she had made a promise at age 4 or 5 that she would not date until she was 40! ;0) Yes, I pulled that one on her. She said "Ok, but Mom can I keep the bear?" I told her yes, I thought it might be rude to make her give it back! lol!

Whew, I am so not ready for all this, ladies!!!!! :0)

*URGENT Prayer Request* UPDATE AT BOTTOM OF POST!!

Steve got a call from my sister-in-law this morning and his brother had a heart attack this morning. They have him in the hospital now checking him out. We are not sure whats going on and all we can do is sit and wait since we are so far away. They live in Northern Virginia, up close to D.C. so its hard when you can't just jump in your car and get there when you need too. We are waiting to hear back once the Dr comes in and decides what the next step should be. I will keep you all posted.

Friday 2:00 PM
I just talked to my SIL and she said they are not going to have to do any major surgery. The put a cathetor in and determined there was minimal damage from the heart attack. He has a severe headache from one of the drips they have him on, but other than that, he is doing ok. Thank you for the prayers and please continue for him to be out of the hospital soon.

Finally a bow!

I forgot to include this too darn cute photo of Miss Lilly in my last post. When I went to pick her up from Petsmart the other day, the groomer had put a bow in her hair. She is almost 8 months old and I was beginning to wonder if they were ever going to put a darn bow in her hair. She looked soooooo cute and who cares that the bow did not even last the drive home and that we live less than 2 miles from Petsmart. I made Brooke take a pic with my camera in the store because I knew it would not last. I also threatened Brooke within an inch of her life if she got my face in the pic! I left the house without makeup or a bra for that matter and was trying to not be seen! Did I really just admit to going bra-less to Petsmart on the good ole internet?!?!? Oh well, guess that's as juicy as it gets on this blog!! ;0) Here's the pic!

*Update*

Whew, it has been so long since i did a REAL update. Most of you know that life around here has been yucky. :0( I happen to be going through the same things I went through this time last year. This is definitely not where I saw my life 6 months ago but I was blindsided the first time as well. I am moving on and each day is getting better. Still not sure what the end result will be when I am done healing or where we will be but I am professing drastic change in my life and only good things in 2009. The Lord is preparing me for something big in my future and I am going to embrace each and every obstacle. I have to remind myself to do this on an almost daily basis. Its really hard to sometimes remember the sun when all you have seen is rain for so long, but it has peeked its face from time to time and I know there is more to come. ;0)

Enough about all that, On another note, I have decided to go back to work. I know I can hear each of you gasping. You are not alone, I gasped as well, when the idea first came out. It seems everyone, (kids, husband even dog) are all ok with me going back to work. This mom needs to do some things for herself and know that I can contribute! I am super excited and ready to meet more people in this BIG city!

Speaking of BIG city, I have lost misplaced my portable GPS system for my car. :0( Thank gosh we have been here for a few months and most places I need to go, I know where they are. The bad thing is when I don't know where I am going and I get lost! (Which happened today, when I was looking for the wondermous local Super Suppers in our neighborhood. That place is a an entire post in itself, go check out their website and let me know if any of you use a service like this, I just bought a few entrees today to test it out!

Not much else really going on here, the girls started back to school this morning and what a blessing that was. ;0) Christmas break was longer than usual or so it seemed to me. ;0)

Our wonderful children's pastors were in church on Sunday. Yes, she was there, shot on a Thursday morning and in church by Sunday! What a blessing! :0) It was so wonderful to see her and to hear her stories. She talked about cursing the devil and forgiving the shooter before they ever even loaded her into the ambulance. She said that some of the nurses in the hospital were telling her she was crazy for forgiving who did this to her so quickly, her answer to them was that there was no way any grudge was going to interfere with her prayers. :0) She is such a woman of God and it was wonderful to hear her account of fighting with the devil and Monica winning. :0)~

I also have to say that we are so blessed to have such a wonderful pastor and church family. I have said before how much they have blessed MY family and they are so giving of their time and kind words. I can't imagine my life without the Davis family and I am so happy to have found our church home. Yes, I know, this is a shameless plug for Chelsea Community church and if any of you are ever in this area and want to come to a place that is full of Jesus in every aspect, stop on by. :0)

So, anywho, I think that's all my update, its doesn't say much, because we have not been up to a whole lot around this house, just relaxing and trying to get ready for a new year. Here is a few pics that I had on my camera. I have STILL not even LOOKED at our Christmas pics from this year. My camera is still in the chair by the tree where I sat it once the gifts were opened. I hope to have them up soon. Enjoy the pics!


Can you tell I'm a Bama fan with my 3 same only different color shirts!?!?!? :0)


Lilly laying on the laptop. Spoiled!

Our float in the Christmas parade. That's Emma cheesing for the camera!

WoW!

Happy 2009 everyone! I hope everyone had a safe and happy new year! We stayed home New Years eve as we do almost every year. We grabbed dinner and headed home to watch TV and play the Wii since that is EXACTLY what Emma asked for. :0) Brooke was at her dad's. (Trying to spend all the time, she can before school starts back) We were asked to go to an event at church for fellowship, food and fun but we decided, we would rather stay off the roads. We got a message New Years day that one of our youth ministers had been hit by a stray bullet on the way home from the church new years gathering. Praise God, it went into her left chest and came out under her right arm, hitting nothing but muscle and she was released from the hospital later on that morning. Talk about God's protection! Please pray for her as she recovers, she has to be sore. We are hoping she will be in church on Sunday morning!