My bloggy friend Jenny joined the Photo a Day Challenge and inspired me to do so as well. I think I AM UP TOTES TO THE CHALLENGE!!!!

So, here are my first 5 photos!!!

Cause I am a rebel and will not be coerced into posting daily!! Cause that’s how I roll, yo! Or it could just be that I have been spending 24/7 setting up my new site for by Cupcake Biz over at Jo-Lyn’s Cup Cakes N’ Candies.  Go check it out! I’m pretty excite about it!!

Aaaaannnnywho….

February 1: Your View Today (looking out my back slider)

February 2: Words (recipe)

February 3: Hands (my daughter’s hand makin’ the love sign)

February 4: Stranger (peeps I don’t know…blurry cause it’s an action shot taken at a basketball game  at ‘The Girl’s’ school.

February 5: 10 am (making soup for ‘The Girl’, she’s sick today)

Well, there you have it, a picture for every day of February 2012! BAZINGA!  Sadly, none of my pictures are taken with a nice fancy camera because I don’t have one.  I have a simple little digital camera that takes average photos most of the time and below average photos sometimes when it wants to give me grey hairs and bleeding ulcers irritate me.

It has been a lil’ crazy here the last week or so.  We went to my dad’s Sunday after the morning service at our church and we got back to town just in time for the Wednesday night service.

Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Dip (It’s so good!)

We pulled into the motel down by my dad’s and realized our car was leaking radiator fluid (always a good sign, or NOT).  On a positive note, we knew going down that we were coming back with a new (to us) Honda CR-V.  My dad decided to give my step-mom’s van to my brother and sister-in-law because they have been looking for another vehicle and he thought that would work great for what they needed. And because he did that, he thought he needed to get us a vehicle too.  I assured him he did not, but he was having none of it (Thanks Daddy, you’re the best).  So, immediately, he started looking for a suitable vehicle for Buster and I.

Find This:

• 1 stick butter, room temp
• 1 cup packed brown sugar
• 1 (8 oz) block cream cheese, room temp
• 1-2 cups powdered sugar, depending on how sweet you want it
• 2 teaspoons vanilla
• 1 cup chocolate chips + some for ‘garnish’ (or more depending on how many you like)

Do This:

1. Melt butter in a small saucepan over medium heat. Add brown sugar and whisk until sugar dissolves and mixture starts to bubble. Set aside to cool, and whisk in vanilla.
2. Cream together cream cheese and powdered sugar for 60 seconds. With mixer on low-speed, add in brown sugar and butter mixture. Mix until combined. I added the chocolate chips at this time so the mixer could break them up into pieces. You can do that, or just fold in the chocolate chips.
3. Garnish with additional chocolate chips. Serves with fruit, cookies, crackers, pretzels or a spoon.

This stuff is really good.  I think I found the original recipe on Pinterest but I didn’t stick to the original recipe because, well…. I’m me!!  Of course now that it’s the new year and I am now on a mission to lose another 40 pounds in the next 5-6 months, sugar (and flour and anything processed) is the enemy and I can no longer eat yummlies like this.  Sigh.

So my dad got online and searched for an all-wheel or 4-wheel drive car that would get as good or better gas mileage as we were getting with our neon.  He and my brother actually looked a couple of Honda CR-V’s, but ended up getting the one we drove home. It’s a black ’99 Honda CR-V with 91,000 miles on it.  It’s in really good shape and even has a remote starter on it! It’s an awesome little truck/car.

When we left my dad the reality of his loss was setting in, but he seemed to be doing well.  I texted him this morning to see how he slept last night and to make sure he had a good breakfast this morning.  He said he had a rough evening but slept well once he got to sleep.  He had fed himself a healthy breakfast and was having a fairly good day.

I just hate the thought of him being lonely.  He is going to take the rest of the week off I think and go back to work on Monday.  He could take Monday off and have it paid, but I told him to be careful not to sit around and stew too much and he agreed.

He has a good support system in place.  He is already plugged into a Promise Keepers group through his work and He is a member of a church and has a good Pastor who will look after him.  I wish I lived closer so I could be there more.  But I will just have to pray a little harder! He will be fine, I know God will take care of him!

I didn’t really make any New Years Resolutions to speak of, but I did decide I needed to work harder at keeping my home uncluttered.  I live in a very small house and it’s very easy for it to become cluttered in a very short amount of time.  I also have decided to get more exercise this year.  Even with my heart murmur and breathing difficulties, I want to lose weight and be healthy and SOME exercise is a must.  So, I have decided to do what I can and call it good.

This morning I went in for the 24-hour Heart Monitor test.  Last week I had a Pulmonary Function test and my Dr.’s office called and said they got the results and want to see me so they scheduled an appointment for Monday.

I haven’t heard anything from my Dr. about the Echocardiogram yet.  I will ask about it when I see him Monday.  I still laugh every time I think about the lady’s reaction when I asked her if the sound I was hearing was the murmur I wasn’t supposed to have anymore.  She said, “A murmur means you have a leaky valve and that’s a loud one!” LOL I knew what it meant.  I was told years ago that I had Mitral Valve Prolapse and that eventually I would probably have to have that valve replaced.  but a few years ago before having major surgery, I had a physical and they told me I didn’t have the murmur anymore.  I guess they were wrong.

Anyway, that’s what’s going on here.  What’s going on with you? Are you well? Did you have a good New Years?

Depending on what goes on here in the next few weeks, I may be closing up shop here at blog-diggidy.com and I may be blogging only over at Jo-Lyn’s Cup Cakes N’ Candies.  Nothing is final yet, we will see what happens.  Whatever it is, I hope to see you around!

I know just enough about my blog to get me trouble.  Seriously.  I can get into a lot of trouble.  I have deleted important stuff trying to change fonts.  I have deleted important stuff trying to change wording.  I have deleted important stuff trying change pictures.

It’s crazy up in here.  I have no idea what I’m doing.  Well that’s not exactly true.  I know enough to get on here and write a post and publish it.  I can check my stats. I could probably add a fancy pdf page counter if I really wanted to.  Fun stuff like that, but I have been known to do some crazy stuff like delete the whole blog somehow and then I have to get in through a back door somewhere and reload the whole darn thing!

It scares me cause I really don’t know what I’m doing some times.  I love blogging and I like to think I know what I’m doing, but I guess I really don’t know much.  I have tried to get into all that HTML stuff but, I just don’t get it.  My brain just isn’t wired for it, I’m afraid.

Maybe someday I’ll smarten up?!?

I know I haven’t been blogging much lately…

I have been super busy…

Wanna know what I was doing???

This is what I was doing…

Photo’s are Property of Jo-Lyn’s Cutie (Cup) Cakes

And we had a wedding to go to and the girl was sick and I was sick (and I’m still sick) and so on and so forth…

So I have been a lil’ busy.  Happy and Busy!

See ya soon,

Seven years ago today my life turned upside down.

Seven years ago today my life turned inside out.

Seven years ago today my worst nightmare came true.

Seven years ago today I had to say good bye to my ten year old son forever (worldly speaking, that is).

Seven years ago today God took that precious boy home to live with Him and forever changed me.  I wish I could say it was for the better, but I just don’t know that I can.  Maybe some day…

I know God has a reason for everything he does.  Things don’t just randomly happen, I know that deep down, I do!! But I just feel so broken sometimes.  Sometimes I just feel like there is nothing that can fix this, ya know?

But God can…

He won’t bring Eli back, it’s not that He can’t, but He won’t.  There is a reason.  We don’t know why, but it’s for our own good that we suffer.  I know it sounds strange, but there MUST be something good that comes from this or it wouldn’t be happening.

I know that’s how God works.  I feel God working in my life.  Most times I feel the energy He puts off like I can reach out and touch it! It’s awesome and I love it.  I love to tell others about Jesus and what He’s done for them!!

Other times I feel like it’s this crazy roller coaster and I just wanna get off for a while cause it’s making me dizzy and sick! Like it’s all just too much.  I think that is the devil just wanting me to give up!

Well, I just want to tell the devil, you can’t have me…I am on the winning side!  I have Jesus and so did my son!

So for all those out there who have lost those you love or who are suffering in some way, please, don’t suffer alone.  God loves you and He sent His son to show you that!  Please see My Romans Road page for more information!!

Then…

As of yesterday I have been married to the same person for 18 years.  By many standards that is a long time.  Considering half the people that get married this day and age end up getting divorce, I would say that is a long time.  Of course, I don’t know how long the average marriage lasts.  Hang on I will look that up….

OK, according to Google, the average marriage in the United States lasts 8 years.  So The hubs and I have “out wed” the average marriage by ten years.  Not bad, not bad at all.

Marriage is hard people.  It’s not all candy and roses all up in here every day (or pretty much any day for that matter).  It’s ugly and hard.  It takes a lot of  “I’m sorrys” and “I’ll do better next times”.  We have called names and yelled and I think even thrown things.  I can’t be sure, but I think so.  I mean, for goodness sake, you can’t live with someone almost 20 years and not chuck something at his head at least once, right? Right?!?!

Marriage is about committing to your life, body and soul to someone forever “til death do us part”.  People forget that part when it gets hard.  I have forgotten that part sometimes.  I have wanted to throw in the towel when it has gotten hard and I’m sure my husband has.  Lord knows I have given him plenty of reasons to! He has definitely had it harder than me in this marriage, I will tell you that!

I am not perfect and neither is he, but we are perfect for each other! God has made that clear to us.  And even if we weren’t,  we became perfect for each other when we made our vows and become man and wife before God and everyone at our wedding.

But I believe God made my husband for me and me for my husband.  Buster is the most patient man I know.  He is so patient with me with all I have been through in my life and with my Bipolar and Borderline Pers0nality Disorder and other challenges I have.  He has been patient with me with the issues I have had with my adoptive parents.  He has been the best father our kids could ever ask for! I love that about him.

Now…

Where has the time gone? Doesn’t seem possible that 18 years have come and gone…

So, if you have someone who knows all about your pain-in-the-butt-ed-ness and still wants to call you his, hang onto him.  And if you’ve got someone who’s worth fighting for, hang onto ‘em and fight for ‘em! Cause these days, they are hard to come by, someone who will stand by you and stick with you through the hard times…

I found mine more than 20 years ago and somehow, by the grace of God, he’s still here…

Til next time friends,

So, I finally went to the Dr. yesterday.  It’s been weeks since I felt like myself.  My chest has been feeling very heavy and recently I have had some burning and coughing.  Day before yesterday I finally made an appointment to see my doctor.

They said to come in yesterday and if it got worse overnight to go into the ER.  So that’s what we did, we went into the office yesterday.  Doc says I have Pleurisy.  Which is basically just inflammation of the protective lining around the lungs.  This is odd to me because normally an infection or some sort of trauma occurs to cause such a thing to happen.  None of which has happened to me recently.

Disease can also be a factor, so now I am left to wonder if I have something else going on with my body.  Rheumatoid Arthritis and Lupus were the two that stuck out in my mind, but I’m sure there are others.  I have been having problems with a lot of joint pain an weakness lately, but I don’t want to be one of “those” kind of people, you know the ones who think every ache and pain means they are dying of some mysterious illness….

Anyway, there it is.  I finally went to the Dr. and there was something wrong and we are hopefully fixing it.

See you around, til then,

I know someone who is dragging her feet every step of the way as far as technology goes.  She doesn’t like cell phones, computers, ipods, mp3 players, or pretty much any other piece of technology that is “intelligent”.

She refuses to e-mail unless she has to.  She hates using the Internet.  She will not make electronic payments because she is convinced that everyone is trying to steal her personal information.  And she thinks any one who likes computers, Internet and blogging (me) is silly.

Me personally, I love the internet, blogging, technology, the nine yards, I think it’s fun and exciting all that we can do today.  We can keep in touch with family and friends that don’t even live in the same state we live in!!  What with the social media and all!!

Each to his/her own, I guess…

Til next time friends

I have been thinking about selling my wedding ring set to pay off our last bit of debt that we have.  It is just over $4,000.00 and if I sold my set and my hubby’s band, we could pay it off and be done with it for good.  I really don’t want to sell them, but it would really help us out financially.  In fact, it would save us almost $200 a month in payments.

That might not sound like a lot to most people but when you rely on support checks every month to pay your bills and you are only at about 10%, that’s a lot…

And since I don’t want to be without a wedding ring, I have been looking at getting a simple titanium wedding band.  Nothing, extravagant, obviously, but it would have to make a statement, cause, after all, I am ME!

So, how about it? What would you do if you were this close to being debt free??

How in the world is it that I have over 10,000 page views every month but only a hand full of comments on this here blog??

HHhhmmm??

That tells me that I have a lot of people that come and look and read but they don’t tell me what they think!!

I wonder why that is?  Is it because you don’t agree with what is being said here and don’t want to be confrontational? Are you afraid you’ll hurt my feelings?  Don’t wanna ruffle my  feathers?? 

Or are you just shy and don’t wanna say Hi??

It’s okay, you don’t have to be shy, I won’t bite!! I promise! You can say Hi!! You can share your opinion here! I like to “hear” other people’s opinions on things.  It takes all kinds to make the world go ’round friends! If we were all exactly the same or all thought exactly the same how boring would that be!?!

So, please, if you stop by, don’t be shy, say Hello and leave me a comment…if you try one of the recipes, let me know how you like it…if you have a great recipe I might like, leave it for me to try!! I love gluten-free, sugar-free recipes!!

Come back soon, and as always…

Here at camp we have a “petting farm”.  We have two miniature donkeys, two miniature horses, a couple of goats, some chickens, and two full size horses.  The fulls size horses are June and Katie.  We often just refer to them as “The Girls”.  They are so pretty, but they are a lot of work.

As a kid I remember wanting horses.  My parents were always telling me no.  Giving me excuses about how expensive horse equipment is, blah blah blah…when in reality, I think they just didn’t want to deal with it.  Not that it isn’t expensive, it can be.  They just thought I was going to get the animal and then decide I didn’t want to take care of it a week later, which may or may not have happened.  I guess we’ll never know, because it never happened.

And I’m still bitter about it, can you tell? 

No, not really, I’m kinda glad I didn’t get everything I wanted as a kid, it make me thankful for the little things and grateful for what I did have.

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