Vicki’s Blog

Family Time

I think spending good quality family time is becoming a lost thing in so many families!! I remember as a child, our family spending hours playing board games, and card games on quiet evenings..I remember watching movies was a special event, not a daily habit! Or nights, when my Dad was working, my Mom, sister and I would all be gathered around the kitchen table doing various craft projects..In all likelyhood, we would all be working on something different, but we were there together, chatting and talking….A lot of the time, my sister would be reading out loud, as Mom and I did something….Doing puzzles together was also something my family did quite often…I’m not talking little ones either…I’m talking 500, 1000, and sometimes bigger ones…Sometimes, especially with this one Bear puzzle, it would take us weeks, sometimes months, to get it together…

I am trying to encourage those family activities with my girls!! I think it was a very important part of my childhood, and some wonderful memories that I have, and that I want the girls to have.

Plus Size

I remember a few years ago when plus sized clothing was near impossible to find at regular stores…My Mom had to order hers out of catalogs, because places like Walmart and Kmart just didn’t have what she needed. And things like plus size lingerie I can’t say you could even find a lot of that in catalogs.

I’m happy that plus sized stuff is easier to find these days. But I do have an issue, especially with children’s clothing…Even the stuff that is not marked plus sized seems twice as large around as when I was a child, which makes it virtually impossible to find clothes that fit my skinny children!!

Animals

I have had animals for as long as I can remember…They have always been an important part of our family. When I first moved out on my own, I didn’t have any animals, and I have to say that my home just didn’t seem right without an animal or two…

I don’t know how you all feel about your animals, but they are like my children…There is very little that I wouldn’t do, for my animals…*LOL* Like the time when a chicken of ours had been picked on by other chickens, and had a very nasty wound in her back…Long story short, she spent MONTHS in the house, recovering….

Right now, my dog King, as he is getting older, has been having some problems with arthritis, which entails that we give him some pills to help…That’s no big deal really, except the pills are kind of expensive…but he has also taken to having accidents in my house…I’m NOT pleased about this…but he is getting older, and has less control…So out of loyalty to him, I bear the accidents….Just can’t see getting rid of him, when it’s not something that is his fault!!

Ahh, the stories I could tell!!! A rat that I nursed back from the edge of death, because he had pnemonia (and later had a stroke)….A duck that was attacked by a racoon that was brought in the house and nursed back to health, countless cats that we’ve nursed back to health, and still other animals that we tried our very hardest to bring back to health, but just wasn’t able to…Instead they died, with us right by their side!!

Raymond Weil Watches

Here she was, searching through hundreds of raymond weil watches for just the perfect one for her father. This weekend was his birthday, and she was going to make the 3 hour drive to spend the day with him. She did this quite often, as her and her Father were very close, and always had been.

She had never been that interested in her Mother’s hobbies, and activities, but had gravitated to the outdoors with her Father. They had hiked around, worked the fields, and cared for the animals, all the while, forming an unbreakable bond between them.

Her Mother had been a bit taken back by her daughter not wanting to where fancy dresses, and not being interested in tea parties, or any of the various volunteer work that she found so fulfilling, but had come to except her daughter’s wish to be outside all the time.

Today

Well, I have a couple of phone calls to take care of today…Schoolwork with the girls. Dishes and picking up around the house a bit…And some computer stuff…Other than that, I don’t have much planned.

Of course, I’m sure that what I have listed will keep me busy enough…Oh, I also need to do my devotionals, and Bible reading. I am still reading in Jeremiah, but am making progress. I am getting better at reading my Bible every day, although I still haven’t mastered getting it done all the time.

Anyway, that should pretty much be my day.

Cruises

Taking cruises, seeing the world was her passion. Nicely enough, she had the money to afford her passion! She had been taking cruises at least once a year since she was 10 years old…Now that she was nearing 30, well, she still felt the thrill and excitement of taking cruises!

She was currently sitting on one of the top decks of a beautiful cruise ship, headed once again out into the world of water. She had been many places, and yet still hungered for more.

Quiet Weekend

Not much going on this weekend. Friday I had a staff meeting to attend…after that, I took the girls around to get orders for Girl Scout cookies..Than it was a quiet night at home.

Saturday, we spent most of the day out at my Dad’s and sister’s house. Watch a couple of movies, visited..ate yummy homemade pizza..and that was about all…We came home, I washed, dried, and folded all my laundry, and got it put away…read for awhile, did some stuff on the computer…Stayed up all night I did..*L*

Sunday, I finally went to bed about noon, and slept until time to go to work…

I’m sorry if I am repeating information…I can never remember all that I put in my entries…so sometimes I repeat stuff.

Hoodia Diet Pills

She stood in her bathroom, gazing into the mirror over the bathroom sink….She knew she was over-weight, but she didn’t understand why people had to be so cruel about it. There was so much more to her, than just her size! Why couldn’t people see that? Why couldn’t people see that she was honest, trustworthy, responsible, funny, and caring?

She had had a weight problem ever since her early teens. A rough couple of years, where she used eating to comfort her, and ever since then, had never really tried to lose the weight. She had several failed relationships under her belt, that had all ended with her being hurt.

Now she was determined to lose the weight, but she wouldn’t do it with hoodia diet pills, or anything like that…She would do it with old fashioned hardwork, and good eating habits.