Doctor update

I know I said I would update on how the doctor visit went this past thursday, but I wasn't able to get online until late yesterday. Just to warn you, this will most likely be a long post so if you would rather not read, please just exit now.....LOL

So we had our appointment on thursday at 12:15pm. We get there, get checked in and wait to see the doctor. They actually took both Zane and I back together, which helped alot since we had Tyler with us. So we're in the room and Zane decided he would get checked over first. They check his pressure, then ask me to sit up on the table to be checked. The nurse is checking my pressure when she says.."whoa, something's not right....." then proceeds to check my pressure again on my other arm. Then she asks me how i'm feeling, if I feel dizzy or have a headache. I told her I felt fine, which I did. She said my pressure was awful. So she takes Zane to get some blood from him for other tests and while he is gone, the doctor comes into where I am to talk with me. He was super nice!! He went over what the nurse had put into the computer, and when he saw what my pressure reading was, he said "WOW, that can't be right!!!" I get back up on the table for him to check it himself, and sure enough it's still high. They ended up checking my pressure 7 times on two different blood pressure machines, and they even had other people try the machines to see if they was possibly something wrong with them. Bottom line, my pressure was high.....270/160! When they told me how high it was, I was freaking out!!! I could not believe it! He asked if I had been feeling fine the past few days and I told him I had. He assumes it's been high like that for several days. They did a urine sample and he checked my vision. There was protein in my urine, and he "thinks" he saw a tiny bit of pressure in my eyes. He sat us down and said what we had both feared....that I needed to go to the emergency room right away. He called ahead for us, and by the time we got to the hospital they already had a room ready for us....we didn't need to go through the ER at all, just right to my room! That was SO nice. We filled out paperwork and got me all settled in. My sugar is still out of whack, but my pressure is doing awesome. They let me come home yesterday afternoon. I checked my pressure last night while we were at walmart filling my prescriptions and it was perfect!!! Speaking of prescriptions, I am now on 2 blood pressure pills, 2 sugar pills, a cholesterol pill and an 81mg aspirin....thank goodness for walmart $4 prescriptions!!! I was reading the paperwork that comes with the meds and found out the one that was supposed to be for cholesterol was the generic prozac!!! I'm thinking, WTH?!?!? So I got to reading the papers the hospital gave me about the meds and did some research online....come to find out, walmart gave me the wrong medicine!! They mis-read what the doctor put on the prescription!!!! I only took one of the pills last night so I should be fine, but I was so ticked off! Why the heck can't the doctor's write so people can read it?!?!? Just crazy......

So anyhoo, I am home and SO glad to be here!!! I missed my men so much. Zane had to work yesterday but Tyler was at the hospital with me. Thursday night I was alone in the room and missed them both so much.......

That should do it for now. All kinds of exciting things going on, huh?!? LOL Hope everyone is having a great weekend!!!!!

Monday

Here it is, monday again. This weekend went by so quickly! It was so flippin' hot out there, too! I filled up Tyler's pool on saturday and let him get in for a little while. The water was so warm it felt like bath water.....ick! He didn't stay in long because it was thundering pretty good outside. We only got a little rain out of it, although my mater plants appreciated it! Last night we got much more rain, which is a good thing. Saturday we did get to do a little shopping, but I didn't get my external hard drive I wanted. I want to do more research on them before I decide on what I want. We did however stock up on things needed around the house. We went to Sam's Club and then to the Walmart Supercenter. Yesterday we went back to Sam's to get what we forgot on saturday, and I bought a really nice rug for the downstairs bathroom......it is SO soft and heavy!!! I can't get over how nice it is.....or the price. It was only $12.47! All the rugs we saw at Walmart saturday night were no where near as nice as the rug at Sam's. They were so thin and cheap....but cost anywhere from $20-$25! I ended up going back to Sam's a second time yesterday to get a second rug! They are so thick and soft, it's like walking on a cloud!! Tyler walked into the bathroom and was standing on the rugs and said "Wow mommy, this rug is nice!" He then proceeded to dance on them! LOL Silly.......

So for dinner last night we had bacon cheeseburgers......can I just say YUM!!! The last time I made bacon cheeseburgers I had cut up the bacon into pieces, fried them in the skillet, then added then into the ground round and mixed it all together. Then I made the hamburger patties and cooked them on the grill. Now THAT was yummy! Although, next time I make them that way I need to make sure I cook up alot more bacon. Last night I couldn't make them that way because Zane had already made the patties up....but they were still super yummy last night!! I think tonight i'm going to make a meatloaf, mashed potatoes, gravy, corn, green beans and some fresh baked bread from the grocery store. I also think i;m going to brew some more sweet tea......yum, yum!!

Friday!!

WOW, where did this week go?!? It feels like it was just monday morning and here it is, already friday! This weekend is supposed to be pretty warm here, so i'm going to make sure I fill Tyler kiddy pool up both days!! I love to sit with my feet in the cool water while he swims.....and he just loves having it, too! The downside to relxing near the pool is, sunburn. YUCK!! I got burned on my shoulders and upper back pretty badly earlier this week. It is now peeling and super itchy! I've been making sure Ty has good sunblock on, I neglected myself. :( From now on I will be sure to put something on myself as well as Ty!!

So, my brother in law rolled in last saturday afternoon. It was really nice having him here, but boy can he drive me crazy!! He acts just like a 3 year old at times......I had to get on him and Ty both several times for fussing back and forth with each other. Ugh, it was NOT fun! He stayed saturday and sunday, then went to Pigeon Forge for a few days. (we only live about 25-30 mins. away from Pigeon Forge!) He came back here yesterday to spend more time with Tyler, then went back to MD early this morning. It was nice having company. I sure do miss being close to family. :(

I got some AWESOME news yesterday........ZANE AND I HAVE GOT DOCTOR'S APPOINTMENTS FOR NEXT THURSDAY AT 12:30PM!!! Why such big news, you ask? Because we haven't seen a doctor in almost 3 years, and we both have high blood pressure and are diabetics. So that is almost 3 years without meds, as well. Yes, I know that is bad but the cost of health care is outrageous!! Now I just lied, we did see a doctor earlier this year at a free clinic. Boy was that ever a joke!!! Talk about making you feel like a worthless human being for not being able to afford health insurance. I have never in my life met a doctor as cold and uncaring as that man was. But, we have the insurance now and are finally going to see a doctor and get back on meds! I will be sure to let everyone know how it goes next week!

Hmmm, what else?!? Oh yeah!! We started christmas shopping already!! I've been doing survey on and off and for the month of June I earned over $200 in Amazon.com gift cards! I got a $100 GC just on wednesday! So, we ordered two dvd's (the 4th Harry Potter movie and Home For The Holidays...love that movie!!) plus a new waffle maker that makes heart shaped waffles. I also ordered 3 batteries for my digital camera....for under $6 a piece!!! Plus ordered some flea & tick stuff for the dogs, and 4 cool trucks for Tyler for christmas. For what I paid for all 4 trucks, was the price of one of them at regular price!! And not one penny was spent out of pocket for any of it!!! Gotta' love those gift cards!!!!

As for dinner tonight, I honestly don't know what we are having. I *think* we are going out tonight.....Best Buy has an external hard drive I want to get for the computer on sale, which should help my computer run SO much better. I guess we'll probably pick up something to eat while we are out. I did make some yummy fresh brewed sweet iced tea this afternoon.......nothing beats the heat better!!

HOPE EVERYONE HAS A WONDERFUL WEEKEND.....STAY SAFE!!!!!

The weekend is over..

Boy, did it go by fast!! It was nice, but SO warm here! Saturday I got a little cleaning done, but it was just so warm I didn't get a whole lot done. My brother-in-law is supposed to come for a visit this weekend so I want to try and get things in better shape around here. I have SO much to do! (and yet, here I still sit...crazy, huh?!?) When Zane came home from work Saturday we went to the grocery store to get a few things, then got dinner out. It was so nice to not have to cook! Granted it was McDonald's, but it was still nice not to have to cook in the heat. Yesterday we scrubbed our front porch and got it nice and clean. It looks SO much nicer now! On Saturday I discovered we now have a mouse living in the kitchen again....so unless it is the same mouse from the laundry/bathroom, we now have 2 of the little buggers in the house!! UGH!!!!! I'm assuming since it's so warm and dry outside they are deciding to come in and seek out water......fun, fun, fun!!! NOT!!! >:-( We have plenty of traps set so now all we have to do is catch them. You would think our little "killer" cat MeeMee would catch them......she's caught 2 since we've lived here, plus a lizard that got in, and a chipmunk that SHE brought into the house for us!! Wasn't that so very sweet of her?!?!? Goofy cat. Anyhoo....hopefully if the traps don't catch the mice, MeeMee will. Time will tell, I guess.....

So last week we had Ty's iron levels checked and they also check his height and weight. He is now 33lbs 7 ozs and 38" tall!! I had been telling Zane it seemed like Ty was getting taller, but I didn't know he had grown like that. Since I see him every day it's hard for me to see a difference, but it really looked like he had gotten taller...and I was right! My little boy is growing up......:-(

This morning I was sitting at the computer, enjoying my "child free" time (Ty was still asleep) when I hear our dog Licorice (Licky for short) do a deep, low "woof". I peeked into the living room and saw she was looking out the sliding door......usually when she does this, it's either a squirrel or a deer. Or on a rare occassion, a raccoon. I told her to hush and didn't give it much thought. Well, she did it several more times, so I get up to look out the door......and there is a wild turkey in the backyard!!! OMG, this thing was HUGE! It was almost, if not as tall, as Tyler is!!! I went tor grab my camera and when I got back to get it's pic it had started over the hill to the field....I did snap a pic, but not a very good one. I've seen one in the yard before, but never that close!!! Too cool!!!

For dinner last night I fixed spaghetti with meatballs and garlic breadsticks....SUPER YUMMY!!! I also had a salad with it that was delicious as well! I hadn't had a salad in so long. We also had sweet tea that we brewed earlier that day......it was a perfect dinner!!! Tyler tore up the meatballs!!! Zane rolled them for me and made several small meatballs just for Ty...he loved them!!! I think he ate about 6 of them! He'd rather eat just meatballs and no spaghetti at all! LOL Tonight for dinner i'm fixing boneless pork chops, mashed potatoes, corn, pork gravy and biscuits.....YUM!!!

Hope everyone has a great day!!!

And we have.....

A TOMATO!!!

I can't believe we already have a tomato on one of our plants. They've only been in the ground for about 2 weeks!!! I rushed inside to get my camera and got a good pic of it......Zane was just shaking his head at me; he thought I was crazy to be so excited over a tomato!! LOL I so can not wait to bite into a homegrown tomato........

Wednesday

HAPPY HUMP DAY, ALL!!!

Whew, I am wiped out! I have been so busy trying to catch up on things since we've been back from vacation....I can't seem to keep up! I did my best to make sure the house was in semi-decent shape before we left....I SO didn't want to come home to an already messy house. Needless to say, I can't catch up! Everytime I clean somewhere, a new area gets messy.....so I go to clean the new mess, and the last place I cleaned gets destroyed! Ahh, the joys of having a 3 year old!! AND having two dogs and a cat!! Who, by the way, shed so much that if I could find a way to make money off their fur, I would be rich!!! We have a shetland sheepdog, who has long beautiful hair, and a lab/mix who has very short hair....and I think the lab/mix sheds worse than the sheltie!! LOL I still have so much I want to accomplish around here......maybe if I get off of this computer I could get some of that done, huh?!? LOL

Another problem I seem to have run into is, somehting is living in our laundry room, and I can't for the life of me catch it!! And neither can our cat! We put a mouse trap in there about a month or so ago, and whatever is living in there ate the peanut butter off of the trap, but didn't set the trap off. So I said, "ok, i'll catch you you little bugger!!!" I put done 4 snap traps, all baited with peanut butter. They have been in there for several weeks and we STILL haven't caught whatever it is that lives in there. Every single night, the cat will either sit inside the laundry room, or just out side of it, and just watch. She knows there is something in there.......I just wish she would catch it! My laundry room is a mess because I had to move things around to set the traps up, and also block them so Ty and the cat or dogs couldn't get to them. If we don't catch it soon, I told Zane we are going to start charging it rent........

On a MUCH happier note.....WE PLANTED OUR TOMATO PLANTS!!!! Finally!! I am a major happy camper now. I can not WAIT to bite into a juicy, yummy home grown tomato. They have been in the ground for a week as of today, and they are doing great!! It won't be long and we'll have to put those metal cage thingies around them. I just hope rocky raccoon and the deer leave them alone. I will be highly upset if something gets into my tomato plants!!!! I'll post a few pics of the plants that I have taken sometime today.....

Ok, I think I need to get moving.....time for lunch soon!!! I still have no idea what i'm fixing for dinner tonight.....however I did figure dessert out. I made a yummy, super delicious strawberry shortcake this morning!! MMMM, it looks SO good! I can't wait to have a piece!!!!! I also post a pic of that sometime today, too!

Hope everyone is having a wonderful week so far!!!

Home again!!

I am SO sorry it's been so long since i've made a post!!! Zane surprised Tyler and I with our very first family vacation! We went up to Maryland to visit with family, and it was SO much fun! We left on the 23rd of May around 4pm and got to the in-laws house a little after midnight. We made awesome time!! We even stopped several times to stretch our legs and let the dogs out. Tyler did amazing the entire ride! We borrowed a portable dvd player from a friend of ours, and boy did that make a HUGE difference with Ty! He was so excited that he could watch his movie Cars and his Little Einstein dvd's while being in daddy's truck. We are really hoping to get our own portable dvd player soon! It was really nice seeing everyone again. We had not seen the in-laws since earlier this year and they had a blast with Ty! On Saturday the 26th, we went to visit my parents, and they had not seen Tyler in over a year! No one could get over how much he has grown and how well he is talking....I was definitely a proud momma! It was really nice for me to see my parents as well....I love living out here in the country, but I sure do miss being close to family. :( Anyhoo, later on Saturday we went over my oldest sisters house for a cookout....and one of my other sisters surprised us by coming over as well!!! It was just awesome! We had such a great time, I hated to leave! Everyone was amazed at how Tyler was talking and how he had such good manners....he is just growing up SO fast!! We left my sisters house around 6pm that night and went back to spend more time with the in-laws. We spent all day Sunday with them so they could get in as much time as possible with Ty. He is their first grandchild, and boy do they love the little guy! (and how could you NOT love him?!? hehe) Monday the 28th, Memorial Day, we packed up all of our stuff and went back to my parents before we headed back home. It was very hard on the in-laws to say goodbye to Tyler...and I know he will miss them, too. Hopefully they will be able to come down to visit us real soon. We got to my parents house around 12:30 in the afternoon and had a great time! My dad and Zane talked about how the traffic will be when he we head back home and when the best time to leave would be. Well, we decided to get up as early as we possibly could to head back home. I let Zane sleep in the bed by himself so he could get all the sleep he could, so Ty and I slept upstairs in a recliner. Zane woke us up around 2:30am on Tuesday and we finished getting things put away, including getting the dogs in the truck, and we left for Tennessee. I tell you, it felt SO good to be back home!! We may have been born and raised in MD, but TN has offically become our home. Being in MD was great, but it felt a little....awkward? I don't know....we both felt a little out of place being there. I guess it's because we've been away for so long. We got home a little after 12pm on the 29th. Zane and Ty took a nap when we got here, and I just sat on the sofa, enjoying being in my own home once again. I am in no hurry what so ever to take another long trip like that again! LOL

THERE'S NO PLACE LIKE HOME!!!!

The weekend is here

And it is pouring down outside!! I'm actually glad to see a little rain. It has been really warm and humid the past 3-4 days. Poor Tyler has been wanting to go outside but with it so warm out, i'd rather he not be running around like he does. I have been letting him out a little at a time, though. With it cool and raining out, I can let him out today to play on the front porch......although the day he can go out and play he wants to sit and watch some of his favorite shows. Disney Channel is his favorite channel anymore! I don't mind him watching Little Einsteins or Mickey Mouse Clubhouse....I kind of like them myself!

This past week went by SO fast! Thursday is Zane's day off, so we did a little grocery shopping. Well, the grocery store here, Food City, has little shopping carts just for kids. They are SO cute! Ty loves pushing them around the store. Well, the last time he used one, he did just awful. He kept looking at his feet instead of where he was going, he was running into Zane and other shoppers, and running into shelves because he was running and goofing off. Needless to say, I took the cart from him and took him out to the truck while Zane checked out. We had a nice long talk about how he can not do all the things he did, and that he would not get another little cart unless he could use it the right way. Well, this past thuraday we get to Food City and lo and behold, there is the little carts. Tyler got so excited, and asked me if he could please push the little carts. I told him if he promised to be good and not push it like a maniac, he could use one. He clapped his hands and was SO excited!! He ran to the cart and was just so happy, how could I NOT say yes?!? So, Zane pushed a regular cart and I walked with Ty and his cart. He did such a good job!!! I only had to fuss with him a few times about running or not watching where he is going.....but I was so proud of how well he did. SO we go to the self checkout and while Zane is scanning, I told Ty we need to put his little shopping cart back. When we came back over to where Zane was, Ty decided he was going to sit under the big cart. I told him he really shouldn't sit there because he could get hurt, but of course he tells me "no, I be fine..."(my big fear was him jumping off and running from us!) So I let him sit there, but told him he needed to keep his hands up and sit very still and NOT get off of the cart until I have his hand. Zane finishes scanning and we headed out the door. We're going across the parking lot talking when all the sudden the cart stops and Zane says, "what in the world did I hit?" He pulled back on the cart and I looked down at Tyler.....he is climbing off of the cart and starts screaming. Apparently while Zane was pushing the cart, he decided to put his fingers on one of the wheels and it got pinned. I scooped him up and put him in his carseat so I could look at his fingers. He was crying and screaming, saying "ow, ow, ow..." It broke my heart. :( We asked him to move them and he could which was a good thing. I put some ice in a napkin and put that on his hand and he said it helped a little. When I got to really look at his fingers, only his middle finger was really hurt. Part of the skin near the nail had a cut on it and the finger was red, but not swollen or purple. It also looked like a blister was starting under the finger. When we got home, we cleaned it up more and put some neosporin on it with a big band aid so he couldn't bend the finger. I also gave him some Tylenol for the pain. By dinner time he was using his hand just fine. Zane felt so bad, and of course I did too. I should NOT have let him ride on the cart like that. I should have known better, that's for sure. :( When we were in the truck right after it happened I was talking to him and said, "That's why mommy told you not to ride under the cart, sweetie..." And he tells me, while still crying his little heart out, "I sowwy, mommy...." I hugged him and told him he didn't need to be sorry, it was not his fault at all and accidents happen. I then said I should not have let him ride under like that and he tells me, "it's otay mommy, its a accident..." I just wanted to cry right along with him!!! As of today his finger is just fine. It looks a little rough on the underside, but he says it doesn't hurt at all anymore. He got so very lucky. And he now tells me he can not ride under the shopping carts like that anymore......I told him you got that right!!! LOL

So with this being a rainy weekend, I think i'm going to make some oatmeal raisin cookies. mmm, I love warm, homemade oatmeal raisin cookies!! I add extra cinnamon to my recipe and they turn out SO yummy!!!! Speaking of yummy, for dinner last night we made bacon cheeseburgers. Instead of using hamburger rolls to eat our burgers, we use regular toasted bread....SO GOOD! Well, last night Zane brought home some thick texas toast bread. We toasted that in the toaster (it barely fit! LOL) and we ate our burgers on that.....talk about YUMMY!!!! I just wish we would have had a tomato to go with it! LOL It was delicious, though! I'm not sure what we are having tonight.........i'll need to look in the freezer to see what to take out.

I'm also hoping to get the ground ready for our tomato plants this weekend. I think tomorrow is supposed to be nice, and with the rain today it should make it pretty easy to pull weeds and till the ground up where we plant. I can't wait to get our tomato plants going!!!!!

Well, I guess that is it for right now.....I need to go pee and get something out for dinner before it's too late. I hope everyone has a wonderful, blessed weekend!!!!!

Made some cookies

I've been wanting homemade chocolate chip cookies for awhile now, so this week I finally made some!! For some reason though, they didn't turn out like they normally do at all....they were SO flat! I'm not sure if they butter was too cool to use, or if the eggs had something to do with it or what. They sure were yummy, though!!! I'm hoping to get a few things to make some homemade oatmeal raisin cookies this week, plus make more chocolate chip cookies that will hopefully not be so thin!! LOL

I'm always looking for some new cookie recipes to try so if anybody has one and would like to share, please let me know!!!

"Brown Bear, Brown bear - What do you see?"

We just love that book in this house!! I read it to Tyler just about every night and he can now read it to me!!!! Yesterday he asked me if he could read to me and of course I said yes. Well, he opened the book and started reading it! Ok, so it's not really "reading" since he goes by the pictures of the animals in the book....but he gets every word right since he has it memorized! He is getting so big. He's really into dressing himself lately. Plus, there is nothing that this kid can't say now! I can understand him so clearly....and when he talks to my mom or Zan'es mom on the phone, they can pretty much understand what he's saying, also. I look at him and still can't believe how big he is......the first 3 years have been SUCH a big blur!! They've been amazing, that's for sure. I am just SO proud of him......and just SO, SO in love with him!!!!!!!

Ok, enough of being mushy......I know I promised to update here daily, but i'm having such a rough time with the internet connection we have. Plus, this computer is so flippin' slow!!!! Ugh, it's awful! It's my own fault, though. I have well over 3,000 pics on the hard drive, plus videos of Ty and slideshows i've made. I also have a game or 2 on here, so i'm sure that has alot to do with it being so slow. I've been researching external hard drives and am thinking this is what we'll need to get until we can afford a new 'puter. I'll talk more with Zane about it and hopefully we can start saving up for one soon.........

This week i've really been getting into some deep cleaning around the house. Considering my wonderful monthly friend decided to show yesterday (and it's early, darn it!!) i'm just glad I got accomplished what I did!!! I moved our bed so I could vaccuum under it.....I swear there was 4ft of dog/cat hair under there! Ugh, it was nasty! Once I moved the bed, I got to looking at the walls and saw how dusty they were. Where the hell does all this dust come from?!?!?!? We have wood paneling in the bedroom, so it was showing pretty bad.....I pulled out the vaccuum and did the walls with it! LOL I just love our vaccuum.....we have a Dyson Animal, and that bad boy is AWESOME! It's the only vaccuum i've ever owned that has actually put up with all the dog hair and dust we get. I was going through a vaccuum a year before we got our Dyson.....and we've now had the Dyson for going on 4 years now. I don't know what I would do without it!!! (is it strange to love a household appliance so much?!?) Anyhoo, I got the bedroom nice and clean, then moved on to the playroom. I got quite a bit of it clean before Tyler asked if he could play outside. It was SO warm out!! It got to almost 90f here yesterday.....and there was a beautiful, warm breeze.......just perfect! Today is just as beautiful, but not quite as warm. I love it!

UGH, I am SO crampy today. I will be so glad to finally see a doctor so I can get this IUD out. I can't wait to finally start trying for baby #2!!! Hopefully we'll find out something within the next week or so about health insurance. Supposedly it is in effect, but they haven't taken anything out of Zan'es check yet, and we haven't got the insurance cards....nice, huh?

Well, I guess this should be it. I want to finish up the play room and living room, plus try and work in a little scrapbooking time for me!!! Hope everyone has a great day!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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My first post here!!!

Well howdy!!! How the heck are ya'?!? Before I get started with this, I must warn you.....I am VERY boring!! LOL SO with that, on with the post!!!

I guess I could start this with a little more about me. I am a stay at home mom and just love it!! I couldn't imagine not being around my son as much as I am able to be right now. I mean, sure I have days where he drives me insane and I can't wait for Zane to get home so he can deal with it all!! LOL But for the most part, I feel so blessed to be able to be home with him. He is such a loveable little boy....oops, I mean BIG boy, as he calls himself!! LOL I tell ya', I wish someone would have told me just how fast time would go by.....I can not believe he is 3 already!!! We're already talking about checking into preschools for him.......what?!?!? That is so crazy!! I mean, didn't I just give birth to him?!?!? *sigh* He is such a little pickle. We are SO hoping to try for baby #2 sometime this year. We have to talk with the doctors to even see if we can try at all. I have Type 2 diabetes, and have high blood pressure so I guess we'll wait and see what the doctor tells us. I had HBP before I got pregnant with Tyler, but I kept it under control with meds the whole pregnancy. I did develop gestational diabetes, which I was told led to me developing Type 2 diabetes so soon. I kept the GD under control with insulin shots while pregnant and it worked out just fine. Now, diabetes runs in my family so I would have most likely developed it when I was much older, but because of the GD (and some stress) it showed up earlier. I'm just hoping have diabetes now won't prevent us from having another baby.....I would love to add another blessing to our family!! And Zane wants another baby just as badly as I do!!!

In my spare time (what is that?!?! LOL) I love to scrapbook!!! I've been scrapping for about 3-4 years now, but still have SO much to learn!!! I also love to cross stitch, read (especially anything by Stephen King...LOVE that man!!!) and do some gardening. I just love being outside in general. I can't wait until it's time to plant our tomato plants!!! I love, love, LOVE fresh homegrown tomatoes!!!! Hopefully this weather will finally figure out what it wants to do! For the past 2 weeks or so it had been in the upper 70's to 80's....it was SO nice to let Tyler run in the yard and burn off some of that 3 year old energy! Tuesday we started out in the upper 60's and by the time Zane got home it was only in the low 50's!! That night it got into the 30's.....and wednesday night and last night we were only in the 20's! We actually had to light the woodstove again! I was so glad to get the wood out of the house, but it seems as though we took it out too soon. Gee, think the groundhog was wrong this year?!?!? LOL My hubby Zane and I are both from Maryland, so we are pretty used to winters/springs like this. Although, since we mnoved to Tennessee, we got spoiled by the mild winters here. Since we've been here, the most snow we have seen is maybe 2 inches?!? If that! I don't miss the big snow storms at all! We live in the "boonies" here in TN and our road is VERY narrow, so i'm sure a snow plow will not come down this way.....Maybe our neighbor would use his tractor to plow the street! LOL Heck, we live so far out, we don't even get trash pick up down this way! We were taking our trash to the local dump, but now Zane takes it to work and puts it in the dumpster there. Plus,the only internet we can have as of now is dial-up....YUCK!!! But we love where we are living now! It's a very old farm house, built in 1912. It sits on maybe 20 acres, if not more?!?!? We are currently renting here, but I would rather rent this home, then be a home owner some place else. It's so quiet and peaceful.....everyone who comes to visit always says how much they love it here and how they don't want to leave. My best friend and her daughter just visited a few weeks ago...she is now trying to work it out so she can move her permenately! The only downside to living here is that we had to leave family behind. I miss my parents so much.....and I know Zane misses his parents, too. My parents try to visit at least once a year, though. And Zane's parents come down every chance they get! Tyler LOVES when we have company!!!

Ok what else....oh, I LOVE to cook and bake!! On wednesday I made my very first strawberry shortcake.....and it turned out SO yummy!!!! (I know, just what a diabetic needs...right?!? )

So, that is pretty much us in a nutshell. I'll post as often as I can...sometimes more than once a day! Thank you for taking the time to read about myself and my family, and I hope you enjoy the glimpse into our crazy lives!!!!!!