I have made no secret on this blog that I was a victim of childhood sexual abuse. So when my good friend Momma Fargo, a former cop, wrote a book I was all excited to get it, and read it , from cover to cover. What I was not expecting was the fact that it would be an opener to a can of worms I thought I had long since buried. She gets real with us. She tells us the truth about child sexual abuse and the perverts that perpetrate it on our children. Who did it to me.. As a child we have this … [Read more...]
Helpless but not hopeless
May 21, 2013 by 1 Comment
I am the wife of a firefighter.. 16 years of it. Most of the people we know are part of the emergency services in some form or another and many cross over from fireman to paramedic to search and rescue. It is a family. I sit and watch the images out of Oklahoma and am devastated. Tears roll down my cheeks for the loss, the damage and the scenes that play out. My husband and so many others in his field are helpless. So far away and yet chomping at the bit to get there to do something and knowing … [Read more...]
I was going to complain .. then Oklahoma got hit by a tornado…
May 20, 2013 by 2 Comments
Putting how blessed you are in perspective can be so difficult sometimes. Especially if it feels as if everything you attempt gets shoved back at you and you cannot win for losing. I am currently looking for a job, the kids are out for the summer so the ones oldest enough to work are looking as well. It is just impossible to make it today without both working. I could complain that my AC is still shot and the fans are a pain and not enough.. but I have a house and windows to put fans in.. My … [Read more...]
When I was younger I wanted to …. FTSF..
May 17, 2013 by 8 Comments
It's time for FTSF, simply click the button above and behold the list of entrants and the super awesome hosts.. This week's sentence is When I was younger, I wanted to.. I wanted to travel the USA, if there was a way to avoid the mountains. Those curvy roads and steep drop offs leave me hanging onto the oh crap handle of the car for dear life. I wanted to make it as a singer.. I wanted to be a psychologist specializing in victims of sexual assault and abuse. I wanted to have lots of land … [Read more...]
Last week of school keeps me jumping
May 16, 2013 by 2 Comments
So this week has been a full one to say the least. Along with me looking for a job outside the home to help with bills and the like it is also the last week of school here in our area. This of course means a week of awards banquets, field days, parties and tons of other stuff. We had a band banquet the other night, and my son was very hurt by the fact that he did not get any type of acknowledgement. While SOME of the juniors got a letter, he did not. That part I disagreed with, lettering when I … [Read more...]
Everyone loves a parade… small town gatherings
May 13, 2013 by 2 Comments
So despite Sunday being a hard day for me on Saturday we got to take punkin tail to his first real live parade. I could not wait to see his reactions to all the lights and noise and the like, because you know we are small town so our emergency vehicles are automatically part of every parade. So we loaded up Brody's stroller and all the kids and headed for town.. He loved it. I was surprised that the noises and sirens didn't startle him but they didn't. He watched it all like a pro and that he … [Read more...]
Mothers Day without your mother here…
May 12, 2013 by 6 Comments
I realize that today is Mother's Day. I also realize that I am a mother, and a grandmother now. But somehow it seems surreal to me. This is my second Mother's Day since my mother passed away and it doesn't get any easier. I realize there is so much more I needed her here for, like the birth of my first grandchild. A cousin of ours recently lost his wife, well its been about the same time Mom has been gone. He remarried and the other day had his first child. I can remember when he got married to … [Read more...]
There’s a snake in my Tub !!! Or how I nearly went into labor at 6 months
May 10, 2013 by 2 Comments
Many moons ago, when I was pregnant with our last child *yes we knew he was our last because Daddy got the snip while I was pregnant* I apparently had an issue with wild animals. The post from the ladies on Dose of Reality lead me to post about this incident, despite the fact it still makes me shiver. I was about 6 months pregnant and my best friend and I had been watching the movie 'Cleopatra'. You know the last installment where she kills herself by allowing a King Cobra to bite her. We … [Read more...]
Dear Mike Jefferies.. to be catering to the ‘beautiful people’ you sure are not one of them
May 8, 2013 by 4 Comments
Have you seen the uproar in the media.. Mike Jefferies, the CEO of Abercrombie & Fitch has openly admitted they will NOT carry anything over a size 10 in their stores, simply because that is too fat to fit HIS image of beautiful. Ummm seriously?? Mr. Jefferies, I am a mom. I have never been a size 10, nor would I want one of my kids to be that small simply to fit into your overpriced line of apparel. Unlike you were apparently raised, my children have been taught they are no better … [Read more...]
Missing a friend and more
May 7, 2013 by 3 Comments
I know I have been basically invisible in the last week. Lots of things have been going on, some I can talk about on here and some I cannot. The one I can is my friend Renee went back to Australia. With her smile and laughter and adorable accent no longer behind me as we worked on our computers together I realized how quiet my days can be. Taking her to the airport we talked as if she wasn't really leaving. Cracking jokes at the counters about turning around and finding a place to hide … [Read more...]
