Apartment Living and Decorating

We are lucky enough that our apartment complex allows us to hang as many pictures as we want as long as we do not create big holes. Well we have a wall opposite our couch that was very plain. E and I found a vinyl wall decal on Etsy that we loved so we bought it for the wall. It came yesterday and E and I put it up.

Cheap and easy new tablecloth!

So our Walmart is remolding and so they have a lot of things on sale. I found this adorable tablecloth for $3.50 but it was too big for our table. So I came home and E and I cut it and I sewed a new hem in it. Tada! New tablecloth!

Excerise, Games, Walking and Happy Days!

So yesterday was a very good day. For me and for Mom. I did the 3rd day of the 30 Day Shred and am felling pretty good today, I'll work out when I get back from class today though. Mom is starting to walk in the house without a cane! She walked the stairs outside of the house and to the top of the drive way and back yesterday. She is doing great. I just hope she continues to do well and feeling good.

E and I went to Best Buy to see if his computer was fixable but its not :( I had one bummed out boy on my hands last night. We are going to save a get a desk top now, which I think will be good. But while we were there we bought Little Big Planet. We had so much fun playing last night and laughed the whole time we were playing!

I am reminded yet again every day how wonderful my life is and how much I love and am loved.

Meet Wendy! My niece puppy!

This is M and A's new baby! Isn't she precious!

Canes, Flower Pots, and Happy Days

I called mom tonight. Today was a good day, she told me about 3 times that today was a good day. And it was for both of us, I am so glad! She slept great last night, enjoyed her dinner yesterday too. Tonight when she called I told her all I did today, 30 day Shred this morning, got my TB test checked, went to Home Depot and bought two flower pots and some potting soil, made Salsa Chicken, did E's laundry, potted my flower bulbs she gave me yesterday, went to Costco by myself. I was so proud of what I accomplished today, but it pails in comparison to what she did today. She walked with a cane, she walked up and down the 14 stairs in their house with a cane! She WALKED WITH A CANE!!!! She was so proud of herself and I am so so proud of her! I wish I could have reached through the phone and gave her a hug!

Blue Days

That's what my mom calls her bad days. I think I am starting to agree. Its not that it is a bad day, its just that its one of those days that you would really rather not have so therefore its a blue day. Yesterday was a good day, then it turned into a blue day. Mom and I had a few chats about some things. Mostly getting ready for if something bad does happen. Her best friend J bought one of those recordable books from Hallmark for me, to have mom read and record her voice in. It made both of us cry. But I know that we both need her to do this, so that I have it if she does have to become one of my angels. Goodness I really love my mom.

Baby Blankets and Tears

Dad and M both have afghans that Mom has made for them, I don't have one yet. Dad and I mentioned this to her a little while ago because we thought it would give her something to do. She just started one for me, its blue because it was started with some of the yarn that she had. Its going to be one big granny square. I think its really neat that she is making it just for me.

Tonight she told me my aunt told her to that maybe she should also work on a baby afghan for me too, that way I had one for when I have babies made by her, you know in case something happens before then. I told her I thought it was a good idea. So I think she is going to make me a yellow one. I am really excited to have one, I just wish she could make it closer to when I actually have a baby. And who knows maybe she will be able to.

Good Bye for Now J

Last weekend my three best friends S, T, and J came to visit, A couldn't come because she lives so far away. It was a fun girls weekend and E didn't complain at all, even when I forgot to buy enchilada sauce and he had to go buy it and I didn't have dinner ready until 8pm!

I love all of my dear friends, I am glad we got to spend this time together because J is heading to Morocco at the end of the month for 2 years. She is defiantly needed there and will do well, but we will miss her. We love you J!

Love

Love is waking up with your best friend by your side, and knowing there is know place in the world either of you would rather be.

Love is watching him make breakfast and laughing at his idea to make an enchilada omelet but being grateful when it tastes amazing.

Love is spending the day in your pajamas curled up on the couch, kissing, and just spending the day with the one you love.

Love is eating dinner in the candle light and toasting each other with stemmed ice tea glasses filled with milk.

Love is everything he gives me every day.

Love is knowing he was put on this earth just for me and me just for him.

Valentines Suprise

E suprised me on Friday morning with my Valentines gift. He just couldn't wait. It was so sweet. He had 4 gifts for me, and set it up like a treasure hunt.

God's Will, Grace, and Angels

It's amazing the things that God has destined for us.

Last night we had our taxes done by a family friend that has always done my parents taxes. He and his wife have known me for all of my life. Ironically when we moved to where we are now, we live about 10 minutes from them. M showed me around town about a month after we arrived, we met up with her daughter S, it was a great day. Any ways, it was a blessing is disguise to me that we had to go there to do our taxes last night, as my mom had a bad fall yesterday. It was so nice to be able to tell M what was going on and get a big hug and be told it was going to be okay, God had it under control. When Dad called to tell me that Mom did indeed break her hip, M heard me on the phone, the first thing she did was grab me up into a hug and then she grabbed my hands and man did we pray. We put my little, broken Momma in God's big wonderful hands and said "Okay God, please please please get her through this surgery. Please put your blood over her and protect her. Give A your peace too Lord." I haven't had someone pray with me in a long time. The peace that washed over me was amazing. I went back into E and G and we finished the taxes(happy dance!) and then as we got ready to leave G reminded me that they are always praying for my family and that my parents are great people. It was so nice to have that comfort.

In the last few weeks since the diagnosis God has given me a few angels, and they have all been important to my own healing process. His Grace is amazing, isn't it?

Weekend with my Mom!

Last weekend I went home to spend some time with my mom. While I was there we took a few pictures.

Heart Shaped Bunt Pan

I got the cutest cake pan as a shower gift from two of my best friends and finally got a chance to use it!