Weekends

Well mama's girl has made it thru the first whole week of work. I am keeping my eye on the job list board so I can hopefully transfer to another less physical job. I went to see my Mama twice this week and on Friday she ask if she could come home too with me. That is still on my mind. It is really hard to explain. If she comes back home I will be exhausted again but happy that she is here with her loved ones. If she stays there I know she will get further and further away from me. It really is the hardest thing I have ever done to have her there. I am so thankful that I can go and ee her anytime I want too and believe me that helps so much!
Ed and I just love the weekends. It is so quiet here as the kids are mostly gone somewhere. We usually have a movie marathon and yesterday we watched House. That is our favourite show, he is so incredibly rude but so smart at the same time. We enjoy just hanging out together. Jerry and Austin (our adopted son who is 18) went with Jake out to therir hunting camp yesterday and shot the guns. Daddy's old gun was shot and did just fine. It is amazing that something so old can still work so good when called upon. It kicks like a mule but shoots straight on. This was the gun that Jeff gave Daddy one Christmas. It was given to him I believe because daddy gave him the old spurs that meant so much to him. After Daddy passed away I offered to trade the gun back to Jeff for the old spurs. He declined so I will keep the gun!
Natalie went over to her Best friends house and they swam and sunned all day and night.
Today Ed and I were suppose to park cars but for some reason he is not into it right now. So we are at home for the moment.
I am going to a McCain rally today at 3 over on the island at the conference center. We have to get the vote out and keep Obama out and away from the White House. We just have too.
Anne and Mike left yesterday for Miami. Maddie called me last night before she went to bed and told me "Mimi, we are a long way away from you and you may have to come over here to see me cause I miss you" It was precious and made my heart swell with love. Then Wyatt got on the phone and said "Mimi, Mimi, Mimi,Mimi...yes Wyatt..what doin? Just watching T.V. ...Ok he said...then a whole minute of a sentence or five that only he understood! I just love those two precious babes so much. I wish them a wonderful cruise and lots of fun and great memories. They will head to the Keys then Cozumel and probably somewhere else then return to Miami on Friday morning. I am so glad that Mike is taking a break to be with his family. Dear God, Thank you fro my Mama, thank you for my job and please keep our babies safe while on their vacation.

New job, new thoughts

Well Mama'a girl is back at work! I am slinging hash for the kids and then doing the washing up of like a kizillion pots and pans. Man, I did not even know there were that many pots and pans made on the earth! Any way Mama's girl is really doing great physically and not experiencing any great amount ofpain. That was a great concern as to how my back was going to hold up with me being up and on my feet steppin and fetchin it. It has been a year in Oct since I had the back surgery. As long as I can handle it and not have any great amount of pain I will continue onand work towards my goal of moving back into a school secretary position. I actually feel so revitalized being out and about and feeling like a productive member of society. It has been a good move for me.
Mama's girl got to see and visit with the mama (gotta love her) this past Friday. She looks really good and is staying as active as can be. About an hr after I arrive and start chatting she emerges. She knows that she somehow knows me but not sure sometimes. On other days she knows me right off the bat. We sit and chat about nothing and everything. I remember everything she says and does. I always tell her 2 things. One is that one day soon we will all be together in Heaven and Daddy and Rachel and she and I will be there. I always add in Mike and Rebecca too. The second thing I tell her is that I love her and will always be back to see her. She always tells me that to please be careful because if anything ever happened to me she would die. We always say these same things to each other. Its familiar and comforting to both of us. I am often reminded of Jim Croce's song..time in a bottle. It reminds me of my feelings for my Mama. She is the lady with the biggest heart I know. Dear God, Thank you for my Mama and dear God thank you that I can be a Mama's girl!

Daddy and the rocking chair

Mama's girl was sittin outside this morning on the back porch rocking away enjoying the cooler weather. Daddy came to mind, I am sure because I was a sittin and a rockin. Daddy loved his rocking chair. He would sit for hours and hours just a sittin and a rockin away. He would discuss and topic you would bring up and sometimes he brought up his own. Mostly he liked to discuss the Bible and religion and sometimes he would discuss politics, mostly because of Mama. He liked to tell anyone he would meet when the decussion would turn to religion that it didn't matter what title you put on yourself. Titles were for politicians and beauty queens and folks like that. In Daddy's opinion the only title anyone needed to carry was " I am a christian". I have to say I agree 100% with him. He was a very smart and educated man. He went to Wake Forrest school as he liked to call it then on to Southwestern Theological Seminary. He became a Southern Baptist Preacher, by denomination. I believe that he heard so much about this denomination and that denomination that later in his life he just preferred to be called a Christian Pastor. Daddy was like that. Now on the politics it was a different matter entirely. He could not stand Bill Clinton and for some reason Mama thought that Bill Clinton was God's answer to prayer. She never, ever believed he had anything to do with Monica L. and almost every day I would hear them arguing over the Dems and the Reps. I tried not to engage Daddy in any political conversations as I knew I would not win! So I remained neutral when asked my opinion and this was my way of saying "I am not discussing this today" Daddy. The more he and Mama would argue the faster he would rock! I thought many times that the rocker was going to become airborne at any moment! I could just see the headlines in the Farmville News...."Preacher gets airborne as wife fusses on". God love him and he did, ....a wonderful man with so much knowledge to give and a rocking chair to preach from! Dear God, thank you for my wonderful, loving, gracious, Father and thank you for our rocking chair talks.

Cooler weather

This has been a glorious morning! First Mama's girl opened the back door and then all the windows and doors! Yes, finally it's here cooler weather where we can open our doors in the morning!!!! I am so stoked! You may think me crazy, but when you live in Florida and the windows and doors are closed about 7-8 months a year then you know what I mean. It is HOT here and to the point of opening the door to enter or leave at break neck speed! You can just touch your front or back door from the inside and feel the heat . So today I celebrate the cooler weather in the mornings, it just makes you feel re-energized and ready to tackle anything.
Mama's girl has gotten her appointment changed for the finger printing to Friday a.m. at 9:00 and as we get paid on Fridays this will work out great. Also I have been scheduled for the all day orientation on Oct 1st at 8:30. Thank you dear God for working all this out for me. You are so good and always answer our prayers...one way or another.

Teenagers

Mama's girl wonders why you love your teenager one minute and are ready to hang them out to dry the next minute. She also wonders why they love you one minute then are mad at you the next minute! Case in point..... Tonite Darling Son (DS) was suppose to be home from a friends house at precisely nine o clock. Mimi calls him at 9:05 at friends house and he says..oh, is it nine already...to which I reply NO it is now 9:05 get your A## home rather loudly. So DS shows up from friends house at 9:10 with another friend that needs a place to stay for the night. Mama's girl goes back over why I want him to learn to be on time for like the 11millioneth time and can feel her voice rising while she is trying very hard to keep it at a normal tone. DS appologizes and we kiss and makeup as only a Mom and Son can do. In the next minute DS friend calls his Mom to let him know he is staying at DS home and that is cool. Then DS friend calls his Dad...a well known alkie and spends the next 10 minutes trying to talk to his Dad while his Dad is hammered. It is all very sad. Mama's girl gives DS and Ds friend kind words of loving your parent no matter what. Next we go into the ..it's not your fault that Dad drinks every nite, you did nothing wrong etc etc etc etc. It is all very exhausting and yet in the midst of all this tormoil and emotions I feel I am at my very best. I do what I do best and that is love on people, kiss their boo boos and hurts away. My dear friend Lisa A. told me last week that I take care of alot of people and she is right. I do what I can with what I have right where I am because this is what God has planned for me to do. Love makes the world go round and right here this very night I showed a angry young man love, the kind of love and understanding that only comes from the father up above. I am his vessel and he flows thru me to touch others. Thank you dear God for teenagers.

Busy day

Mama's girl had a very busy morning! It started out with meeting a pretty sweet lady named Pearl at Ruckle Middle School. She had called me yesterday about a very part time job in the cafeteria at the middle school. I went to see her this morning, she seems to be about 65ish. The job is for 3 hrs a day helping out with keeping the food supplied on the serving line, I think as maybe a line backer. Then helping to wash the pots and pans. It will be a very fast 3 hrs a day and I will only work when school is in session. No weekends and no holidays and summers off, just what I need....a 3 hour deversion everyday. It will be therapy for me..Ha...I should pay them! The hrs may be 10-1 or 10:30 to 1:30, she, Miss Pearl is still thinkin on that one. So I am suppose to go to training tomorrow at the county offices from 8:30 to 3:00 and have $62.00 for the fingerprinting charge. Well this will be a challenge cuz I do not have that much in my account....so I have prayed and ask God to please somehow send me some money today so I can show up tomorrow. If not I will have to beg off and do training next week. Miss Pearl needs me right now...oh, decisions decisions. I will be so glad and eternally thankful when we can keep some money in our checking account and not be overdrawn. This job allows me first dibs on any new jobs in the entire school system in Okaloosa County. So, I can stay and work with Miss Pearl for 3 hrs a day for now and watch the board everyday for the new vacancies. I am ready to return to work, so, so, ready!
Yesterday Ed, my Dear Husband (DH) went for his annual review of his AAA. The scan was done several weeks ago and he finally got to see Dr. Haney His AAA has grown and is 4.5 now. The magic number is 5.0 for the surgery which when done will render him home for about 6-8 weeks. So Maybe by then I will be working fulltime and it will all be ok, God has this all in his plans. His blood pressure was way up and this is causing the AAA to get bigger because of the pressure flowing thru his veins from the BP. He is taking 2 meds daily to keep the pressure low and he said that is all he can take right now. I pray God will keep him safe and not let this thing blow out. He is my best friend and I need him to be with me for a long, long time. He has a very stressful job as he has to keep Lockheed happy and the Airforce happy and get everyone on the same page so the planes can be modified and on time! What a job. God has all this worked out so I am not to worry over this..... Dear God can I worry just a little bit........

A time to write

I have been intrigued by my Daughter's blog for quite some time now. At first I was not too sure about it, but I have to admit that new things can sometimes overwhelm me. I have enjoyed her post so much and all those wonderful pictures of my grandbabies. I always get a chuckle or too from her writings. A month or so ago my Sister started a blog on this same site inspired by Annie's writings. Both have encouraged me so here I am! I wondered what I would title my Blog and Mama's Girl came to mind. You see at one point or another in my life I was called a Mama's girl by my Brother and Sister's that I thought I was a Mama's Girl! I decided long ago that being a Mama's Girl was A-ok by me. I love my Mama so much that sometimes I can cry just thinking about her. I will try to remember some of the stories she has told me over the years. I think I will start with the first one that she ever told me and that was how I came to be...... Daddy was done havin kidz and after seven years Mama just had to have one more baby... so she did what any self respectin southern woman would do...and as it was told to me...she left the no baby cream jelly outside on the freezin back porch so it would freeze up even tho used and....get her the baby she was a wantin! In her words it worked, Daddy was dumb founded seein as how he knew the jelly cream was used and Mama.....well...she was just as happy as could be and oh say nine months later baby Grace Leigh Goodwin was born to the Preacher and Ms. Goodwin! Thank you God for cold weather and a freezin back porch. Remember these are mama's stories and as told to me over various and assundry times and again and did I say again???