MY FIRST AWARD

I'm so excited! In 4 years of blogging I have never been nominated for an award..I'm actually touched. Thanks T from It Matters To Me. Now of course their are rules and such.

The rules for this award are:
1. Put the logo on your blog
2. Add a link to the person who awarded you
3. Nominate 10 other blogs for this award
4. Add links to those blogs
5. Leave a message for your nominees on their blogs
6. Give a reason why you consider their blogs cool.

1. Mal, He was my very first blog reader and I find him a very interesting.

2. Mom come on...i need a reason other than she is my mother?!

3. MrsDof I love reading her because she can really tell a story. She is also very crafty and loves to show what she makes.

4. Karmyn, I think she is hilarious!

5. Cheryl, I love her strength! She may think that she is not strong, but I think she is someone I could look up to.

6. Savanna, She is Freaken Hilarious! I just wish I had an ounce of her energy. It comes out even in her writing.

7. Liz, very friendly, funny, girl next door type of read. I like that.

8. Stacie, Omg Funny! Even the simple stories could have you laughing in tears.

9. Musings of a Middle class mid west mom, she just seems like we could hang out and chat about our kids.

10. FoxyMoron, I have only just started to read her, but she is one intelligent lady and really want to get to know her.

Well there...that was not as hard as I thought it was going to be.
I'm not going to all of your blogs and commenting..most of you read my blog and

If any of my blog friends that I listed do not want to participate, I understand.

It just made me feel good that someone thought I deserved an award :)

Betty Crocker has nothing on ME...LOL

Starting at about 10 a.m until 10 p.m. my oven has been on and cooking away. I have all the cookies that i am going to cook for now done. Amber took a shot of me preping cookies.

Amber was my chef's assistant. We got so much done together. She was really enjoying mixing all the batters and getting her hands into everything. Thank's Amber!
It was one great way to spend some quality time with each other. I was impressed how much she knew about measuring and stuff that she learned from school.

Between the both of us we got the following baked today.

1. An orange and cranberry cake (this is just from a box mix that i purchased)

2. A banana bread (also a box mix that i purchased)

3. brownies

4. chocolate cookies

5. thin mint cookies

6. pumpkin cookies

7. butterscotch oatmeal cookies

8. Krinkles cookies

9. banana bars

Here are some pics of what we got done...also some of you don't know that I belong to a recipe blog and have posted some of the recipes to these cookies on there.

Always a favorite for everyone here, neighbors, co-workers and anyone else that takes a bite.

MMMMMMMMM Pumpkin cookies

w/0 frosting

triple batch was made because everyone wants their own.

with frosting

Thin Mint cookies

Inside each of these cookies is an "ande's mint"

single batch

Krinkles..these are just the whip of Krinkle cookies ever!

double batch was made

Sadly these did not turn out like I was hoping.

this recipe i got from the nestle butterscotch morsels bag...it was the new cookie of the year.

I'm not diggin them like I wanted to

I think if i make these again I am going to follow the chocolate chip recipe and put in the butterscotch chips instead. Hubby says he doesn't mind them.
Only made a single batch.

double batch of chocolate chip cookies!

who cares what these look like...lol they will be gone in a few days if hubby and son has anything to do with it.

I made 2 frosted banana bars. One for our home and one to divide up.

yummy goodness of bars :)

I made 5 trays to hand out

1. for mom

2. 2 for special neighbors

3. one for frank's work

4. and this tray is going to my work.

That face has the look of "I love you mom"

Yep that is my heart kitchen in the background...I told you I loved hearts..LOL

Now don't get to thinking that I do this all the time. For some reason in December I get the bug to bake.

IN OTHER NEWS

Darin got his report card for second semester and he is doing shall we say "AWESOME"

3 A's

1 B

2 C +

GPA of 3.222

Honor Roll student! Wooohooo...

Can't wait to see what Amber is getting...I am praying that she is doing just as well!

OUR THANKSGIVING

The Wednesday before Thanksgiving was my only day off for the next 11 days, so I had to put up my Christmas decorations. I find myself putting up decorations more simplier every year. Could be because the kids are grown, could be because I am old and can't take the cold anymore.lol Usually my yard is full of stuff. I still think my little house looks cute :)









picture window


left side is a snowman and it says let it snow and the middle is a candy cane and right side is santa saying ho, ho, ho.

left window is a snow flake, and the right is a snowman.

My Christmas tree...we used to have a 7 1/2 foot tree..but like i said...things got a little simplier thru the years. I just got this 4 1/2 foot tree last year. It's so simple and i don't have to make special room for it!

Darin feasting at Grandma's

On the left is my cousin Steve and on the right is my Uncle Ed...he is 95! He don't look a day over 65..and to this day would go up on his roof if he had to! He is one busy guy for a retiree

My Aunt Sally is 88 years old, she is truly a god send! She is very charitable! Humane Societies, poor people, She even supports family in Poland by sending care packages all the time. She is truly a Saint and has a special spot in Heaven!

I know you all were waiting for a photo of moi! ..now moving on.

The troop is here...yeh...like i can get a descent photo of all of us...Darin sticking out the tongue and Amber had her sights on the TV. great!

I got Amber to dress up a bit...I love this outfit...it's so her!

I had to laugh after seeing this pic...J-Lo would be so jealous of her bootie :)

My Mommy :) She Loves us so! Great Dinner MOM!

My card holder waiting to be filled...Ain't he cute!

The top of my entertainment center...This is not everything that I would put up there...but yet again...simple is starting to be my middle name :)

Amber recieved one of her Christmas presents early...she wanted a digital camera and she is snapping photo's left and right for her "my space" page..lol She has taken like upteen pics of herself.

Thanks at Thanksgiving

Over at Stacie's Madness she has a beautiful story about her memories of her grandparent's and Thanksgiving. I don't have any wonderful memories like that.

I do LOVE going to my mother's every Thanksgiving and enjoy stuffing my face. I am grateful for what she does to put together such a delicous meal. I do my fair share by coming over on Wednesday and help with alot of the prep so it makes the day a little easier for her. I do appreciate that she has us all over, since I am usually the only person that has to work on a freakin holiday. LOVE IT, NOT!

Anyhoo.....since no major story is coming to mind about Thanksgiving I thought I would list some things that I am Thankful for.

1. My husband, he is a wonderful man. He is good to me and he is good to his children.

2. My children, God Bless them...Darin is so funny, and kind. Amber is beautiful and I love her spirit.

3. My house, as of November 22 we have lived here for 10 years!

4. My job, it's not the most glamorous of jobs..but thank God i am working!

5. I'm thankful for still being alive. (the heart attack 5 years ago might have made things different today)

6. I'm thankful that Frank recovered from his stroke so that he is able to work.

7. I'm thankful to be going back to church.

8. I thank my lucky stars that my children are doing pretty good in school.

9. Friends, I have very few...I like it like that ...but those i have are very special to me.

10. Thankful for my mother.....there was too many times where i thought i was going to lose her and I cannot bare the thought of that.

11. Thankful for my father, my kids adore him...and I love him!

12. Thankful for my blog friends....there have been many of times you guys have cheered me up when i was down.

I just now thought of a happy memory of Thanksgiving and that is taking the children downtown to see the parade in person. They would get so excited to see the clowns and catch mardi graw beads and candy. Yelling at the balloon handlers to spin the huge balloons. Dancing to the bands, and waving hello to Santa! When they were younger it was worth sitting in the freezing cold.

As you can see I am thankful for quite a bit. I hope that you all have a wonderul holiday...Eat lots of turkey and sleep!

THANKS

I have to Thank my friend Mal for the wonderful CD I received in the mail all the way from Australia. It is his first CD with this great up and coming rock and roll band called "THE NIGHT BEFORE. I am hoping for the best in everything that he will do. Please feel free to check out their website and see for yourselves.

Not much has been going on around here worth blogging about. Amber has caught the horrible cold that we all have already had.

Darin took a lawnmower that was given to us to his school to fix because it would not start, he cleaned the carburetor and some kind of "O" ring had to be replaced and he says it is working fine now. He loves the class "small engine repair" out of all his classes this is the one that he talks the most about.

Frank and Darin took off on Friday night to make their way up north to go hunting. It was a horrible weekend to go, but it was opening weekend! They camped out in the van on Friday night and bright and early Saturday they headed deep into the woods set up the blind and waited in the rain, more rain, and even more rain....I don't think it ever stopped raining on Saturday. So they fed themselves dinner and camped out in the van overnight again. Sunday they went back out to their blind and it snowed, more snow, and even more snow, lol....BUTTTT They did see a doe and Darin even fired off a shot at it! But just missed it! After all the hunting my neighbor (that went with them) put up a milk jug in a tree and told him to shot it, he did and missed. He asked my son which eye were you looking thru on your sight...he told him and my neighbor told him "your shooting with the wrong eye try your other", sure enough he nailed that jug in one shot! I feel sorry for the next deer that crosses my son's path. "poor bambi"
It was a horrible weekend, but my son said that he enjoyed himself. AWWW a little father & son bonding...(enough to make you puke, right?)

Amber had a little drama at church this week. We haven't been to church in about 12 weeks because of my schedule with work, so when we did go last Sunday one of the boys came to Amber and asked her why she helped "Lisa" steal a nail file from CVS. WTF! Yes, Amber was with her friend "lisa" but had nothing to do with it....she was with another girlfriend on the opposite side of the store when Lisa got cold busted doing it. Found out Lisa told the church that Amber helped her, and Amber stuck drugs in her drink one day and also that Amber is an alcholic. This is what your "so called best friend" tells the church when your absent! Yeh, so I went to work right away with fixing that whole situation. I was all over Lisa's butt about lying and told her to apoligize to the church and us and fix it. It was already fixed but really wanted Lisa to face what she had done.

So she calls some of the people from church and tells them the truth about Amber and then conjures up a story that I said that she was no longer aloud to go to church. WTF!!!! `I know this because one of the boys said to my daughter "your mom should not be telling people not to come to church, this is god's house not her's" HOLY CRAP! (literally) So in any event...I got the whole mess fixed (I think) I just told the boy, "ok she called you to tell you that she lied about Amber, so what made you believe that I would say such a thing?" Anyhoo...Amber is really not hanging out with Lisa anymore. They are civil because we are neighbors, but they are no longer close.

That's pretty much it for now...

I Think

Makes sense to me!!!

SCATTERGORIES

I got this in an email and thought I would share it with all of you.


SCATTERGORIES...it's harder than it looks! Hit Forward, erase my answers, > enter yours. Send it on to 10 people including the one that sent this to > you. Use the 1st letter of your name to answer each of the following. They > have to be real places, names, things.... nothing made up! Try to use > different answers if the person in front of you had the same 1st initial. > You CAN'T use your name for the boy/girl name question.>>

WHAT IS YOUR Name: Caroline

4 LETTER WORD: Care

GIRL NAME: Crystal

OCCUPATION: Cashier

COLOR: Coral

SOMETHING YOU WEAR: Camisal

FOOD: Cabbage

SOMETHING FOUND IN A BATHROOM: Cloths

PLACE: Carolina's (North and South)

REASON FOR BEING LATE: Careless driving

SOMETHING YOU SHOUT: Crackhead!

NOT SURE-UPDATE******************************

You all know Amber had some tests done last week. Well tonight there was a message from our family doctor to call him in the morning...I was not home so now I get to freak out all night about what they found.

1. He never calls unless they find something wrong.

2. Amber says that when they did the ultrasound the woman concentrated alot on one side of her ovaries. Taking lots of meaurements of something black on the screen.

3. It could be blood test results revealed something.

I'm totally freaking out!!!! I am feeling like a failure of a mother. I should have gone to the ultrasound, but I had to work that day. I would have asked a million questions if I were there.
I should have been home for the phone call. so many things are running thru my mind but all I keep thinking is I SUCK, I SUCK, I SUCK!!!
This is complete torture!! I'm panicking and I don't even know what's wrong yet.

I could use some positive thoughts and prayers for my daughter...PLEASE!! I pray it's nothing serious. The not knowing is going to freak me out the whole night!


UPDATE:
At 9 am and one second I made my phone call to the doctor, that's when they answer their phones. About 10 minutes of being on hold and chewing every finger nail that I have, I finally talked to him.
This is what he told me:
1. Amber has a very small cyst on her right ovarie, he says that he is not very concerned about it and that he does not think that is the reason the poor girl is bleeding so much, he says that he will keep an eye on that tho.
2. Her blood work came out normal. No anemia, and her thyroid is normal.
3. He wants to know what this month brings to her and if she has another abnormal period he will make an appointment for her to see a woman gyno.
He is not sure what the gyno will do to her at her age and all but he will do it to make certain.
So in other words not really any real answers why she is hypermenstrating.

Yeh, I know it was silly to Freak out last night, but the not knowing was driving me crazy.
Thanks for your nice comments...

RARELY EVER SEEN AROUND HERE

This is maybe the second pray mantis that I have ever seen in my entire life. I just had to get a couple of pics of it. My neighbor found this in his backyard and I just had to get my camera...yeh..I know it's a little blurry because getting this creature to sit still was not easy.

Halloween pics of Amber...Look her hair in pig tails....you may never see it again, she is such a tom-boy!

Tomorrow's parent/teacher conference for Amber, I pray that she is doing good. I don't forsee a huge problem, but with her anything is bound to happen.

On Tuesday the kids and I went shoe shopping. Amber was easy, she picked out the same exact shoes she had...but now they are new. Her reason is because "she likes them". Ok...I'm flexible and they were not all that expensive, size 9's. Now Darin, ok...first store he did not like anything they had...moving on to a store that he suggests, it just happens to be in a "skater boy" place...

He looks over the shoes and someone comes over to help, he asks what size are we looking for and Darin tells him a 13.....the guy helps by pulling out everything that he had in a 13...yeh, Darin trys to put a shoe on and it's a "no go"!!!!! Folks, my 14 year old son is sporting a size 14 shoe!!!! The guy tells me that they are going to be like $70.00...but when we checked out, they must have been marked down to $50.00 BONUS!!!!! They are white with black skulls on the sides. He loves them, and I look like the cool mom without spending too much dough-ray-me.

(although I have never spent more than $30.00 on a pair of shoes for myself)

If my son's feet get any bigger I will have to find the nearest CLOWNS-R-US store.

I rock!!! ,signed Darin

HAPPY BELATED BLOGOVERSARY

Did you know that I had a 4 year anniversary and It completely slipped my mind! As I was reading back in the archives..Just because I had some time on my hands I realized that I did infact forget an important milestone for Caroline's Thoughts! October 24, 2004 was my first official post.





So I've added a little blogoversary gadget to my blog so that i will never forget again.. Go Me!

Happy Halloween

I hope everyone had fun with their kids trick or treating! Darin stayed at home helping grandma pass out candy at my house. My mother passes candy over here because she lives on a one block neighborhood and barely gets any trick or treaters over there. I think she enjoys seeing the kiddo's dressed up and likes to pass the candy. In years past Frank and I would walk with our kids but now they are getting older and that's just not cool anymore. Like I said Darin stayed home, but Amber at the last minute decided that she really wanted to go with a couple of her girlfriends around the neighborhood. So she quickly put together a baby thing...I put her hair up in pig tails and drew on some little freckles and there, go get some CANDY!

I got a couple pics of her with her hair up...It's rare that she lets me do anything to it. I will post them when I feel up to it.

Still trying to get over being sick. It's more tolerable to work with now but still lingering. Frank says his is more in his chest. It's taking him longer because he is still secretly smoking.

I had to work tonight, but still got to see some really cute costumes. A 3 year old dressed like a boxer, a 8 year old dressed like Indiana Jones and a 13 year old dressed like little red riding hood, oh and I forgot a 10 month old dressed like a penguin, the most adorable thing I had seen!!!

I was hoping that I would have got home before it all ended to see some more cute costumes but it was a no go...lights were off and mom said it just stopped. I remember when i would go trick or treating it was from like 5:30 till at least 10:30pm. My legs and feet would be stinging so bad when we got home but it was worth it!

Does anyone have any memorable costumes or Halloween stories?

I have a few costumes that I remember being my favorite.
1. Mom made me and my sister into big flowers. we dressed in green and around our faces we had huge flowers.

2. I made it myself and it turned out really well. I made myself into the queen of hearts...I took some cardboard and copied a queen of hearts card, colored it and tied it onto my body. Made myself a crown and drew hearts with lipstick on my face and made myself a staff to carry. I got so many compliments it made me feel really good.

3. Some fun costumes were when we dressed like hobo's. We would wear some really old clothes of my fathers and stuff our butts with pillows and blacken our faces like we had beards.

Well these are the costumes with the fondest memories.

WHATEVER MY LITTLE HEART DESIRES!

Today was a peaceful day off. I took Amber to the doctors, she is still having problems with her monthly. He is running tests on her thyroid and another to see if she is anemic from bleeding so often. She is also going for an ultrasound on Monday to check for possible cysts on her ovaries, just to rule everything out. Otherwise she is just D.U.B. (dysfunctional uterine bleeding). Since April it's been like the following:

April- 2 periods lasting about 8 days

May-same

June-same

July-3 periods lasting 5 to 7 days

August-1 lasting 8 days

September-1 lasting 8 to 9 days

This month she had 1 period but she was on it 13 days straight!!!

So this is why I took her just to see if there is anything that can explain why this poor girl is going thru so much.

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My daughter says that her school had a mock election and her principal announced to the whole school that not 1 vote went to McCain! Not one teacher, not one student! That's pretty impressive that a whole middle school would not touch McCain with a ten foot poll!

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Darin had his parent/teacher conferences and he had me thinking that he was in big trouble. The kid got mostly A's and B's...1 C+ and 1 D+ ...The D was in physical science and his teacher said that all he had to do was study a little bit more and he could be a C or B easy!

My worry was that he comes home with not one piece of homework. Turns out he is telling the truth and getting his work done and is turning it all in...but one teacher said that his grade would be much better if he turned in more quality work.
So to those teachers I told them that Darin was an honor student for a full year and I know that he can do better. Darin did not like me telling them that because he now knows that they know he can do it...yeh...I kinda put the pressure on Darin to do better.

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Work is hopefully going to get better for me. I'm not holding my breath. My boss has been promising me that she will give me more hours with less days. In a 10 week schedule I had worked everyday but 6 of those days. It's starting to wear on me.

I hope Frank's work goes back to full time soon. Bills are mounting, I am trying really hard not to panic...But with Christmas around the corner and Amber's trip to Washington I just want to run and hide. Amber is trying so hard in school just to keep her grades up so that she will be able to go and I have to make it happen...Darin got to go so I have to find the way to save $675.00 before March. Darin loved the trip, he learned and saw things that I haven't even seen yet.

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Anyhoo...The past couple days have really sucked. Frank and I are dealing with being sick! Pretty sure it's a horrible cold. Runny nose, congestion, muscles hurt, drained. Yucky!

Well I'm off to ZZZZZZZZ land.

HIYA!

Today was my day off after a 2 week stretch!! I can say that I did not do much during the day while the kids were at school, other than laundry. I definitely made sure that I did not go anywhere near the hospital!

After school I took Amber, Darin and myself to the hairdressers for some much needed haircuts! Amber of course got a trim, just to get the dead ends off and then later in the evening I colored her hair by myself...I spent $16.00 to dye it rather than another $80.00. And I think it looks just as good! GO ME! Better yet she says she likes it too!

Long day...we are a bit tired.

I just got my hair trimmed to even it out. I'm growing my hair out for something different.

Mr Handsome here..He was dying for a haircut! Did I tell you that he is already shaving at 14?!!!

Yep, He's shaved about 4 times now. He had to, the facial hair is coming out everywhere! I won't let him shave his mustache...lol... I like mustaches. He looks so grown up!

Now in other news...He recieved an early Chrismas present from his grandparents...Because Mr. Handsome has grown up and decided that he wants to bond with his father and do that manly thing that they call hunting! Ewwww...So He got a nice 20 gauge/22 caliber rifle...Full of safety features...which eased my mind a tad. I hate the whole idea of hunting myself...but he did gut a deer with my next door neighbor while up north with him and he said that he enjoyed it. I just fear for his safety and others. But his dad assures me that he will only hunt safe.

He is happy, his father is happy to have another buddy to hunt with, and I am going to do lots of praying!!!!

I cooked dinner tonight. Something I have not done in a long time with the way my schedule is. I made some fantastic baked whole chickens with mash potatoes and green beans. There wasn't much left when we were done. Even Frank said to me the chicken was great tonight. I think it was because it's been so long since I took the time to fix a good meal.

I'm going on another 2 weeks of straight work now. We are starting to hire a few people, it's taking so long because out of the 9 people that they wanted...all of them could not pass the background checks...lol I guess we have a couple now that are going to start this week.

The night shift really needs it.

I did stop to enjoy the beauty of the full moon we had tonight!!! These pictures just don't do it justice. My camera just did not capture what I was seeing...but it's pretty close.

I'm just not ready to give up my day off..lol

Just amazing. The nice sunny day we had with the beautiful crisp night that we are having is just what the doctor ordered for me.

Now I can go back to work with a smile on my face.

One of the patients grabbed me and said "Thanks for being so nice to me". I told her "You don't have to thank me, I'm just being me!"
Hope you all had a Fabulous Weekend!

A FRIEND SENT THIS

50 ODD Things about you! If you opened this, FILL IT OUT! Learn 50 things about your friends, and let them learn 50 things about you!
This is more like 48 as I was answering there are a couple missing numbers...but oh well it was fun to do.

1. Do you like blue cheese? dressing yes, cheese no.

2. Have you ever smoked heroin? I didn't even know that you smoked heroin, I thought you injected it..lol...the answer is no either way!

3. Do you own a gun? I don't, Husband does, and I guess my son want's to start hunting.

4. What flavor do you add to your drink at sonic? Sonic?

5. Do you get nervous before doctor appointments? No

6. What do you think of hot dogs? They are ok for a quick meal

7. Favorite Christmas movie? Rudolph of course!!!

8. What do you prefer to drink in the morning? Orange Juice

9. Can you do push ups? Hell to the no!

11. What's your favorite piece of jewelry? my wedding ring

12. Favorite hobby? I really don't have a hobby, I guess bingo?

14. Do you have A.D.D.? no

15. What's one trait you hate about yourself ? having to be in charge

16. Middle name? Jean...(from my grandmother)

17. Name 3 thoughts at this exact moment... 1. Work 2. bills 3. need a vacation

18. Name 3 things you bought yesterday? did not buy anything!

19. Name 3 drinks you regularly drink? water, pop, ice tea

20. Current worry? bills

21. Hate right now? I hate worrying about bills...lol

22. Favorite place to be? home with the kids

23. How did you bring in the New Year? with friends

24. Where would you like to go? Florida, Universal Studios!

25. Name three people who will complete this? anyone that want's to

26. Do you own slippers? Yes

27. What shirt are you wearing? blue striped shirt

28. What year would you go back in time to? 1986...me and my first car!!! that was the most fun in my life!

29. Can you whistle? yes, regular and with 2 fingers or 4 fingers

30. Favorite color? black

31. Would you be a pirate? no

32. What songs do you sing in the shower? whatever is playing on the radio

33. Favorite girl's name? omg...so many, Amber, tiffany, savannah, Sela,

34. Favorite boy's name? again, so many, Darin, Kyle, Leland, Levi,

35. What's in your pocket right now? not wearing any

36. Last thing that made you laugh? A joke I got in an email

37. Best Halloween costume? It was the Queen of hearts that I made by myself with cardboard, I got lots of compliments and because I made it myself it was special.

38. Worst injury you've ever had? Torn all my ligaments in my left arm

39. Do you love where you live? Yes

40. How many TVs do you have in your house? 4, 3 of which i use.

41. Who is your loudest friend? Jackie

42. How many dogs do you have? 2, Torro and Hershey, sadly Mini is gone

43. Does someone have a crush on you? Don't think so....I'm married so it really don't matter if they did.

45. What is your favorite book's)? I love informational books.

46. What is your favorite candy? snickers!!!

47. Favorite Sports Team? Red Wings

48. What is your favorite meal? I've answered this so many times...my mom's stuffed cabbage!

49. What were you doing at 12AM? Sleeping!

50. What was the first thing you thought of when you woke up? Do I have to get up!!!!

So much to talk about

Saturday finally came and went...My 20 year class reunion! Look, I'm not in a uniform for a change...It was nice to get all dressed up and I have to say that I didn't look half bad...If I could subtract the fat it would have been better... I think i look just fine in this pic...This dress has little rhinestones that went down the side of the dress where the slit up my leg is...It's only the second time I ever wore this dress..and thankfully i fit right in to what everyone at the party was wearing.

This is only a portion of my graduating class.."88"

Our class is 364 people...this is maybe 100

Frank is out there trying to mingle with the ladies..trying to do the cuban shuffle? or something like that. He gave up soon after.

This is me and an old buddy Erich, He lives in Hollywood now and has been in a few movies. He said he has not been in any speaking roles but is working on a few projects...He is such a sweetie. He invited me and my family to come to Hollywood and stay anytime we can get out there. How nice!

Me and Frank sitting for dinner. Yeh...that's a face only he can love..lol remind me no close ups ever again...lol

The reunion was a big success for alot of us. I unfornately did not meet up with alot of my "click"

I was still happy to see some of the people.....It was worth going, just to say I did. Lots of nice things that they did...They had name tags with our maiden names and had a photo of us from the yearbook on it to help "jog" our memories...It sure helped in my opinion. They passed out memory books...those that registered on the website were in it. A few people I am going to email shortly to say hey and see what is going on in their lives. Also in the memory book they had a cd with alot of pictures that people donated to be put in there from our high school days. And I was suprised to see that they had the whole "88" yearbook towards the end...that was awesome to see everybody in the yearbook...since I was not able to get one this works for me.

All in all it was an awesome night..would have been made better with a few of my special and dearest friends.....

Now...on to the better part of my life

I'm a proud mother of a 13 year old!!!! Two teenagers! Lord help me!

After our night out I spent Sunday cleaning the house and getting ready to celebrate my little girls special day. I wish her all the best and hoping that life will be easier for both of my children. It's amazing the Love for a child, and the Love that a child gives is just as amazing! You want to do more for them than for yourself...Isn't that always the case?

Well back to the reality of life in the morning..(work)

Hope everyone had a spectacular weekend!