I feel so blessed to have received such sweet "welcome backs" from such sweet people. My thanks to you all.
Today I heard someone at a meeting at work use that old saying " All things in moderation". I got to thinking about blogging. I have loved meeting so many kind and caring people here and have learned a lot and been entertained by some of the best writers on the web.
I think though I was spending to much time on line and in the stream there for a while. Which brings to mind another saying "To each his own". What might have seemed an excessive amount of time to me may not be for another.
I got to feeling like I was starting to live my life more on line than in "real" life. I decided I needed to limit my time. Miranda's surgery and my getting sick made it easier to ween myself away from it. I missed my friends, I thought of many of you often and wondered how you were.
Then I got to missing hearing from and about you so I've decided I don't need to write everyday I can write once a week or so. I can catch up on blogs as time permits instead of trying to read everyone's EVERY time I came to the stream. That is really hard to do because there are so many I love to read. Whether your writing stories or about what you made for dinner last night I like to read them all. But you all know how long it takes to read all your own favorites right? So I will read them as I can.
I will spend time here when I feel like I won't be taking time away from Rog or my family. I still have my "me" time, it's not like Rog wants me to spend every spare minute with him. He'd be sick of me I'm sure.
Now I think I'll go catch up on a few old friends. Oh and Thank you to the sweet lady who sends me ecards with the friendly notes ,your a gem!

"First you forget names, then you forget faces. Next you forget to pull your zipper up and finally, you forget to pull it down."
George Burns.

There are times in my life when things seem to roll along and the road is clear of potholes and detours. Other times the path is bumpy and hard to navigate. I am thankful that right now the road seems smooth. Things are going well, Rog and I are getting along better than we ever have. You'd think as long as we've been married things should be easy for us, but it hasn't always been that way. We've worked hard at our marriage. I credit God for what we have now. Things have improved so much since we joined the church and asked for His help. We pray for our marriage now. We pray for each other.
Miranda and Chris are happy and she is doing so good after her surgery. Chris is a wonderful son-in-law, always ready to lend a hand. He is just a good guy.
I feel peace and happiness in my life. I am grateful for it. There was a time a few years ago when I thought our marriage was over. I just didn't see how we were ever going to fix things. I wanted Rog to change, to make me happy, to figure out how to solve all our problems. I thought he was the reason I wasn't happy. I was wrong. We had our share of problems together there's no question, but I finally learned that I was the one who needed to change. I needed to change the way I was thinking. I realized what I was looking for for a very long time was God.
I started to grow. I looked for a long time to find a church that felt right. I never expected in a million years it would be the catholic church. I spent 9 months going to class and learning about God, my relationship with Him and learning about the church. It was a time in my life I used just for me. After I joined the church Rog started going to mass with me. That fall he decided to go through the class. I went again too, as a sponsor for a dear friend this time. I am going again this year as a sponsor.
It hasn't been easy for my family or Rog's that we converted. We changed our views on many things. We changed our lives in many ways. We stopped going out and partying and drinking every weekend, just because we felt better when we didn't and it felt right for us. We go to mass every Saturday night. But they see how much happier we are and they are glad for us.
So I've learned a lot and grown a lot and I'm glad to be on a smooth road again. Thankful. Happy.
Ending with a quote again.

"If you have faith the size of a mustard seed, you would say to this mulberry tree,'Be uprooted and planted in the sea,' and it would obey you" Jesus Christ

Today my nephew the electrician and son-in-law the electrician in training and hubby (not an electrician) will be working on some of our wiring. We have been having some strong power surges due to some outside wiring problems that they are going to be taking care of along with installing a new circuit breaker box.
Since we will be without electricity for several hours I decided it would be a good time for Miranda and I to go shopping. She is doing really well in her healing and has been feeling pretty good so I think she is ready to get out of the house for a few hours today. She is getting bored staying home so much. She is usually on the go all the time.
I am starting to feel better. Finally. I had to go to the doctor again yesterday when the antibiotic I was taking for the ear infection started causing an allergic reaction again and I ended up covered in hives once more. I got a couple of shots in the butt and new medicene that seems to be working so I'm a happy woman today. I tried your peroxide and warm water solution Pup but I think the infection was still to bad at that time so it didn't work this time but it felt good.
I thought I'd finish with another quote today. It made me smile I hope it does you to. Have a good weekend friends.
Before you criticize someone, walk a mile in their shoes. That way, you'll be a mile from them, and you'll have their shoes.
--Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
Hugs.

Miranda had her surgery this past Wednesday. It went very well. She did much better than I expected her to. She usually has a low pain tolerance and so I thought for sure she would be in a lot more pain afterward than she was. I'm sure glad she got through it all o.k. Now she will have her jaws banded shut for several weeks and absolutely no chewing at all for at least six weeks. She was having to use a syringe to get her liquids but graduated to a straw on Sunday.

I had a rough week of sinus and ear infections. I'm better now except for one of my ears still feels like it is full of cotton and has a loud ringing that is about to drive me crazy. I never had an ear infection in my life so getting one now at my age seems silly.

The facilitators and union stewards at work are having to take leadership classes. I haven't minded them to much (except for having to shift my hours around so much) because they've been very interesting and I've learned a lot. I ran across this quote in the handbook and thought it was a great one so I'm going to share it.

If a man is called to be a street sweeper,
he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted,
or Beethoven played music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry.

He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say,
here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.
Martin Luther King Jr.

I hope what ever job your doing today your giving it your best. Hugs.