Sunday's Newsflash!!!!!

Hello everyone!!!!! :) Today is a brand new Day ~ today is a better Day. I am having a good day today. I am done being sad. I woke up and realized that God has plans for everyone and everything and everything happens for a reason. We may not know why but they do and we just have to accept the reason and live with them. And become stronger by living through God. So hopefully I have a better week next week. One thing that will be on my mind all week is one of my best friends (Margaret) is having surgery on Tuesday. Female stuff. I hope and pray everything works out for her. I will be by her side as soon as I get off of work.
We have no students this week at all. Their last day of school was Friday. Now we have all week long to prepare our rooms and stuff for summer school which starts on Monday June 15th. Most of our students come to summer school because of need for PT, OT, and Speech services that they get. Plus the fact of it being really hard to find someone to stay with them while their parents work. So I am working summer school this year. It is extra money and HELL yeah, who wouldn't work for extra money right?? :)

So I am have a huge Yard Sale with my friends Doris and Donna next weekend. We are gathering all kinds of stuff and even posted the ad in the paper. Hopefully we can get rid of a bunch of junk. If anyone wants to come to our yard sale, come on down!!!! It will be at Donna's house behind Dover High School on Wilson Dr. I have spent most of the weekend, cleaning closets out, toys from the boys room, junk that I just do not need. I am the farthest from a pack rat and the more junk I can get rid of the better. I hate keeping STUFF just to Keep it. I don't see the point. If I don't use it in 6 months or more, I do not need it. I live on the motto ~~~ less is more~~~ I hate clutter, I hate mess, I hate junk!!! LOL.

Today is my weigh in day too. AND I FEEL FANTASTIC!!!!!! I have lost another 1 lb. So that brings my total weight loss to 131 lbs. YES I said ONE HUNDRED & THIRTY ONE POUNDS!!!! Can you believe it? It has been 10 months. JUST AMAZING!!! I just can't say enough about what it has done to my life, my self esteem (which was high enough to begin with) LOL, my body, my mind, my spirit, JUST MY OVER ALL BEING!!! How much more happier can I get right now? If only I had money to help with my bills I wouldn't need anything else. LOL.

Hey guess what??? ONLY 24 Days till my NEA Conference in SAN DIEGO California. I can not wait!!! Hey I need to get one of those counter things that mom and Peg have on the side of their blogs too. I don't know where they get them? Mom, Peg help me get one of those things.

Ok everyone~~~~HAVE A GREAT WEEK!!!!

ENJOY THE BEGINNING OF SUMMER!!!!

KEEP ON SMILING!!!! :)

What a SAD week I have had

HI Everyone. I tell you, life sure does have a way of slapping you in the face and fast. I have had such an extremely sad week this week. I am emotionally drained.

On Saturday last weekend, one of the girls at work, her son got murdered. YEAH what a mess. He was 28 and lived in New Castle, De. He was married. Wife upstairs sleeping, him and his buddy down stairs playing Xbox and they got robbed. Three men came into the house to ROB the house, did not expect people to be awake, shot my friend's son in the head, and beat his friend to death. SO EXTREMELY SAD. Then on Monday, one of the girls at work got rushed to the hospital in an ambulance, having severe chest pains, respiratory, and head ache. Said it was an anxiety attack. She didn't come back to work all week. Then on Tuesday, we found out that one of the girls at work, her son has Terminal Cancer spreading through his whole body. He is only 14 yrs old. So we are trying to fix meals and collect money for her and her family. He has to go through all kinds of treatments and chemo and all. Also on Tuesday, the little boy that I take home with me sometimes, his grandmother has custody of him. Well she called me on Tuesday night and told me that she has Breast Cancer now. So she is going to have to go through chemo and stuff. I told her I would be there to help her with our little boy. Then on Wednesday, one of our former students who graduated from our school, passed away. Heart attack, she was 26 yrs old. Friday was the funeral for the girl's son who was murdered. That was the most saddest funerals I have ever been to. And today was the funeral for the former student from our school. It is so hard when you get so attached to our students and they pass away so quickly and so young too. As long as I have been working with Handicapped Children, I have been through loosing so many of our students. I have actually lost track of how many. I know in the 24 years of working with these children, I have been to well over 15 funerals for our students. It is just so hard. :( It is just part of our job. A Part we don't ever get used to or ever want to have to go through but a part that Has to be.

So tomorrow I am doing nothing. I am emotionally drained, physically exhausted, and just plain tired. :(

Happy Tuesday!!!!

Hello all my blog friends. I have not had any appointments or meetings or anything this week and It has been very nice. So I have decided this week to start reading another book. I LOVE TO READ. But when I am so busy it is hard to get into a good book because it takes so long for me to get through it. So I have not been on the computer, I have not done too much around the house, I have not done too much of anything. I have been working and coming home and absorbing myself into this book. I know it is not anything special and it is not a book everyone will go out and buy. IT is just the fact that I have been so relaxed this week and enjoying reading a good book.
This past weekend was RACE WEEKEND HERE IN DOVER!!!!! OH MY GOSH!!!! It is the weekend that WE ALL STAY In our houses. LOL. If anyone has never experienced Race Weekend in Dover, come visit me sometime in June or September and I will be glad to show you around town ~~~ NOT!!! LOL!!!! No it is just so crazy here, there are THOUSANDS of people here during Race weekend, the traffic is nuts, the people are EVERYWHERE, the campers are EVERYWHERE, it is truly a sight to see. I don't see what people see in Nascar except when there is a crash or something. But everyone likes it. So to each his own.
So my cousin Marleen and her husband came to visit us this weekend. NOT FOR THE RACES though. They came in to visit cus we haven't seen each other a while and she wanted to come to my pampered chef party. They came in on Saturday morning and they left Sunday afternoon. I sure do wish they could of stayed longer. They may be moving here in the next few months. They own their own business and they are trying to expand. So that will be great if they do move here so that me and Sam can help them and get some business for them and we will all be working together. That would be really nice for everyone. It was a nice visit although we didn't have too much time together. I made a really nice Beef Stew in the crock pot for dinner on Saturday and on Sunday Morning, we had our own IHOP here. We made LOTS of Pancakes, blueberry, banana, chocolate chip, and apple cinnamon. IT was wonderful.. We all had a great time making them and eating them. They were so yummy.

Well I have to get off here, I am making dinner and my BOOK is calling me LOL.

Talk to you all soon. Enjoy your Tuesday Night Everyone!!!!!!!!