Sick of Being Sick!

2011 started off with my husband being sick. He has since improved and passed his "bug" on to me. I am so grateful to him for that. NOT!! I have suffered with body aches, runny nose then a stopped up nose, head aches, and cold chills for the past 5 days. I am sure hoping this thing runs its course soon.



During this time of sickness I have had to laugh at myself a few times. I find it amazing that adults can revert to such childish behavior when we aren't feeling well. It happened to my husband. He would lay in bed with our two faithful pets at his side, watch TV, and yell at me to bring him medicine, water, food, etc. while he wasn't feeling well. I even had to slather Vics Vapor rub on his chest and feet. Now that is true love! Then I got sick.... of course I had to act a little like a child as well. I mean, seriously, I had just gotten done taking care of him why can't he take care of me a little bit? Needless to say, I am certain that adults act worse than kids do when we get sick. We all just want someone to take care of us in our time of need. I am grateful that I found a man who treats me well, even when I am acting like a kid. :)

Good Bye 2010!!!

Here we are at the end of 2010. The year treated my husband and I well. It brought a new car, new kitchen, and new landscaping for our yard. My husband got his long coveted country club membership, which provided me with a nice pool to enjoy during the summer months. We enjoyed a wonderful vacation to Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. Plus we celebrated our second wedding anniversary. Fall brought with it an opportunity for my husband to cut down trees for his mom. He LOVES using the chain saw. I think we would be right at home living in the country. We both enjoy getting back down to Southwest Missouri, and the country, every chance we can. Winter brought with it a wonderful holiday season with plenty of food starting with Thanksgiving and not ending until after Christmas. Now for New Years eve....

My husband is sick so we will be enjoying the evening at home. I made sure we had lots of junk food and finger foods to snack on this evening plus movies to watch. I doubt either one of us will be awake when the new year arrives, but it will be nice to be at home with each other.

I look forward to 2011. Hopefully we will be able to add to our family in 2011, God willing. Maybe, just maybe, we will make a move back to Southwest Missouri as well. I know that we have given it much thought during 2010. Whatever 2011 brings I know that I will be blessed and thankful for each and every day that God gives me.

Happy New Year!!!!!

Christmas Memories and More...

I am HORRIBLE at keeping up with this blog, but hopefully I will get better at it.

Today I was working from home and had the Christmas music cranked up all day long. Song after song made me think back to my childhood. Spending Christmas eve at my grandparents house, which was filled full of aunts, uncles, and cousins. Occasionally there would even be a family friend thrown in the mix. That is what I loved so much about Christmas eve at grandma and grandpa's, any and everyone was welcome. There was always enough food to feed an army. No one left the house that night without a "to go" package.

Some of my best memories come from me being a little kid, one of the youngest of the grand kids, and having to sit on a coffee can at the "small" table because there were not enough chairs for everyone.

The anticipation of opening presents was so great. We could not even think about opening presents until after we had eaten dinner and the dishes were all cleaned and put away, which meant that we normally waited at least 4 hours from when we got to grandma's house to when we opened presents. Of course there was the occasional spat between kids (fighting over a coveted toy) and the mini-melt down from the overly excited and tiered child. But that was family. Things were always messy, load, and out of control but they were always wonderful as well.

I look back so fondly on those Christmas eve's spent with family and friends.....

Now faced with the fact that my husband and I may not be able to have children this Christmas ways heavy on my heart. I want so badly to have children and share with them the experiences of my past. I want to be able to create family traditions with my kids and grand kids similar to the ones I had has a child.

I pray each day that God sees fit to "surprise" Mitch and I with a child of our own. Until then I will look fondly on my past and hold tightly to the memories of my childhood.

Long Time No Write

It has been a long time since I have posted something on my site. I think I am going to try and get better at posting.

I have been debating changing the name of my blog.... since I no longer travel for a living but I just don't know what I would change it to. If any of you out there have any suggestions please let me know what they are!

As for now, I will leave it the way it is. Keep checking back though. I am getting ready to change several things on here and hopefully post more often. Hahahahaha!

Home Sweet Hotel, again.....

Here I am sitting in another hotel in the middle of Missouri away from my home and husband yet again, however, instead of feeling sorry for myself I am actually going to appreciate this week on the road. You might find it strange that I am going to appreciate this time alone. I mean, I love my husband and miss him dearly but this time away from him and my home makes me appreciate HIM even more.

Instead of worrying about cleaning the house, doing dishes, doing the laundry, etc. I just spend time enjoying my husband when I am home. I see him for the wonderful man that he is and I love him even more.

I think this is God's message to me. I am still traveling for a living so I appreciate my time at home that much more. One thing is for sure, my husband and I don't get stuck in ruts because I am not home during the week to actually start any routines. But when I am at home we just spend time talking, laughing, and loving each other.

What a great life!!!!!

Love / Hate Relationship with Spring

OH how I love spring. New life, beautiful flowers, the smell of a spring shower in the air. I love it all; however, spring does not love me. I am sitting here today in misery! My allergies are causing me terrible pain. I feels like a party is going on inside my right sinus cavity with all the throbbing it is doing. My sinuses are draining into my chest, causing horrible mucus..... I could go on and on about the horrible allergies I am having, but all I can say is that I REALLY LOVE SPRING!

Men!!!!

Ok.... I have to preface this post by saying that I love my husband dearly!

Once we got married I added my husband to my insurance policies at work. We did this because I had the better benefits package through my place of business. One of the reasons my insurance was better is because I actually have a dental plan, his work did not. Well since my benefits cover dental it was only logical to send my husband to the dentist, right.....

I have to tell you that he has not been to the dentist in 5 years! He does, however, have very good dental hygiene practices. He just did not get regular checkups.

So I scheduled his first appointment. It was a Tuesday morning at 8:30 AM. Thinking it should only take him about 45 minutes, since that is how long it takes me at the dentist. Boy was I wrong. He called me 3 hours later to tell me that he was out of the dentist and that he felt HORRIBLE! This is were it gets good. They only cleaned HALF of his mouth, the left half, because they had to perform the deep scale to get all of the built up plaque off of his teeth. This required him having 4 shots to numb his mouth. They also found 4 cavities that needed to be filled. They had to schedule a 2nd appointment to finish cleaning this teach.

Today he went back to the dentist to have the right half of his mouth cleaned. Another deep scale. PLUS.... he had mercury fillings that had to come out and be replaced with new fillings. $2,900 and eight shots to numb the mouth later (yes I said $2,900) his mouth is now clean; HOWEVER, he has to go back in a month to have the rest of the mercury fillings taken out. Seems that eight shots to numb the mouth is not enough to deep scale clean it plus remove mercury fillings.

Apparently the dentist wants a new pool this summer and my husband is going to single handily pay for it!!!!!!!

I can't wait to see how much of this will be covered by the insurance company, lets pray a lot of it!

I should tell you that I feel sorry for my husband. He called all numb and sour from the stuff they did in his mouth. It almost sounded like he wanted to cry because the numbness was paying off and the pain was setting in. Poor guy........... But now he is going to the dentist regularly.