~Playing Catch Up~

Ok, I know I can never stay on top of my blog, what is a woman to do? LOL I know I said I would be be better but I really do not know where all of the time goes! Ok last post, the fair, the was funny! Maybe for you to read but I had to live it! Above is my Macayla we were hanging out at the park and she wanted her picture taken. Can you tell she is not shy!

Here is my baby McKenzie. We found wild raspberries her fav. She is seeing how fast she can eat them! She did a pretty good job!

Well where should I begin. Oh ya here I am everybody is sleeping I just got with housework and now I am unwinding. I have to open the store in 9 hours so I will go with my eyes feeling like gravel that's ok I am use to it.

The store is doing ok for it being open for 4 weeks. I have had sooo many compliments. Big Grand Opening next week! I am soooo excited but lots to do before that. I am having fun though. I really feel so relaxed sometimes I just do not want to leave my little nest that we have created. We already decided if this store takes off we want to move closer to Albert Lea but still live in the country but not too far out. So we shall see what plans God has for us.

It is so funny too how I have to pay for all this advertising for radio and papers and I am finding out that word of mouth is still the good ol fashion way. Yaaa for the ones who enjoy shopping at more store! I really hope they all feel like they are at home and in a very relaxing atmosphere. Another funny thing I pay for advertising but you would not believe all the people visiting me as well to sell their products. Funny how that works. Phone calls I never knew that there are so many card machine sellers, Endless! Oh well I guess it keeps my hopping!

Well two weeks ago we took the girls for a hotel swim. That was actually pretty nice and the girls loved swimming. First I have not swam in awhile because I do not tan I do not want to scare people who might think I am a ghost! LOL Also, I could not seem to find a swim suit I really liked. I do not have my girlish figure anymore and the 2 piece, well lets just say I would not be CAUGHT DEAD IN IT! LOL I will tell you JC Penny's have some really nice one pieces that can make you LOOK GOOD. So thank you to them! HA The sweetest was my Kenzie seen me in and said "Mommy, you look beautiful!" That was so sweet! And she says she likes all my spots on me. Funny. Kids are just so innocent!

Well my Macayla will be starting the big K oh my I know I will cry that day! One of my babes is leaving the nest. She sometimes wants to go and then she will cry and says she wants to stay home. She says she is also never getting married and she is going to live with me forever and take care of me. I will remind her of that when she is 16. Maybe I should record her saying that.

Kenzie is going to start Jumpstart, a program that gets them ready for the big K. She seems excited but says she will miss me. She is really my little baby peanut and I remind her that she has to only go 2 days a week so she can still be with me. She likes the sound of that and smiles.

I can not remember if I told you all this but I go back first week in September to re-do one of my moles. The biopsy came back positive and it is already growing back so that will be cut out and hopefully be gone. Then just regular check ups every 3 months. I am also having big problems with my feet. I got shots of Cortisone in them yesterday and actually I worked myself up for nothing. My Dr. is soooo good. He sprays the spot so it will freeze then injects with Novocaine, then just changes the tube and puts the cortisone in. The only down fall was that I had the worse hot flashes that were 5 times worse than my regular ones! Believe me I needed to shower! My feet are feeling way better hey at least I could get out of bed and walk. I did not need the bed and the walls to help me crawl the first 5 min. of my morn! I am still walking funny still walking kind of the front pads so the heels do not get hit so hard. Fun!

A friend of mine asked me what will I be like at her age, she is about 10 years older than I. I told her I will be in one of those electric cars chasing her around. Ha Ha Ha she laughed her butt off!!!!

Well since my last writing my sister, my nephew and my niece have all had Birthdays and I did not post. Well I actually forgot to post so I apologize for that but I gave presents and cards. So I did remember. I always do. So HAPPY BIRTHDAY~ Tonya, Courtz and Jordan!!!!! I baked it for all of you MMMM yummy!!!!! I hope you guys enjoyed your fun day at Chuckie Cheese!!!

Also, my mom sounds like she is doing better. I know it has been a long haul. Little by little. She got to go to the fair so yaa for her. I know she likes the fair. My step dad rented one of those electric chairs for her so I am glad she got to hit the fair. I bet she did not have as much fun as I did with my monkeys HA. (if you read my last blog you will read how much fun we had) Ya right.

I promise to get pictures taken of our Grand Opening and put them on so you will have to check back. Almost 2 am have to hit the sack morning comes toooo soon.

As Always, Wishing you all ~Peaceful Blessings to You and to Yours~

Tammy

~Just another Manic Monday~

Ok I know I am behind again! Always a day late and a dollar short. LOl Well, I have our shop up and running and it feels like home! Our names Scrapping on the Go and Pictures Delight.
My part is the scrapbook end of it with all the products you need to scrap those keepsakes. And my hubby's part is the photography end. Portrait studio, Kodak picture Maker and some photo restorations. So I have my logo as,"Create a Memory~Scrap a Keepsake". I figure they go hand in hand. We also sell a few other goodies like Beautiful sayings that are wall clings. Oh my , do they ever add art to the walls. I have mmmm yummy smelling candles and I have to work on the chocolate end of it yet. I know when I am scrapping away it is coffee or latte please, the flickering and relaxing fragrance of candles, soft music and tantalizing sweet chocolate. YUM YUM!!!!

So anyways, we have been busy and then of course the house slacks off and on our days off we clean house. Oh how fun!


We went to the fair yesterday. The girls had a lot of fun! Good old fairs hot weather, greasy fat foods, drippings of malt down my pants, sticky stuff on my arm and hands, balloons hanging off of my bag because after the girl's beg for them they do not want them, and then the I am hot and I am tired followed by carry me~ Oh yes the fun days at the fair we will always remember. But you know what, it would not be a memory if all the same rituals did not go on every year. LOL

Today the girls are pooped out yaa for me because I found time to write in my blog.

After the fair we went to visit my mother who had hip surgery. I will just say she is doing ok. The hospital has traumatized her to no end and I feel bad for her. I will not go into details about it but I can say she is not the same right now. I hope she gets better but I do hope she has a speedy recovery with her hip and has no more pain in it.

On the way home it was kind of funny. It is a trip home on old back highways, eyes squinting into the windshield watching for deer. We did run into two deer at separate times too. Then we heard a ding oh ya that means we are running low on gas and forgot to filler up! So we were also so thirsty! Our trip home is about an hour and a half and it is about midnight and we are half way there. Do you know how hard it is to find a pop machine anymore? We finally did find one into the third little blink of the eye town. Thank goodness.

So today feels like Sunday but it is really just another Manic Monday. It is so humid you can cut it with a knife, it rained out earlier so it is dreary. I am actually glad I am not seeing the sun today because my skin does not like it. Speaking of the sun and my skin maybe some of you would like to hear my results from my biopsy. Another subject.

I had had the one biopsy done and that was a re-do. The Dr. got all of the Stage III Melanoma out and now I just have about 3 inch scar. I will live with that it sure beats the alternatives. I had 3 more separate moles removed and I only have to have 1 of them re-done to get the roots out so that one will all be gone as well too. I will get that one done in September and then I will be checked out every 3 months. Thank you God.! God listens to each of us. Sometimes we may like the outcome but he does listen.

So with a book now written, my coffee got cold, one child is sleeping and a house to finish cleaning because there are no fairies here to do it I shall close. I bid you all a wonderful week and HAPPY MANIC MONDAY!!!!!

As Always~Peaceful Blessings to You and to Yours~
Tammy

~Tick Tock~

Tick tock, so it goes on and on. Went back to the Dr today. I thought it was suppose to be Tuesday, thank goodness for reminder calls because it was today. Lucky me! I am starting to look like a stitched scarecrow!

Now three moles were taken out today. Waiting game started and I go back on Tuesday to find out the results and to take my stitches out. He said if these ones come back ok then they will only take out a couple more and then I will just have to be looked at every 3 months instead of every month. Plus he knows I know what to look for so we will just keep in contact.

I tell ya there is no modesty going in to see him! See all tell all! LOL We laughed about it today while I was trying to hide under the sheet they gave me. Now if I looked like one of those hot Victoria Secret's Models I could just flaunt it all. Ya right! Actually I like my Dr. and his nurse. He has such a good bedside manner.

What really bites is one of the moles was taken off on the right side of my shoulder blade. So I move the stitch does not and it feeeeels so good. I am still praying and being strong. I do not feel worried about this one but I am still not letting my guard down.

Well I suppose I better get to bed it is 3 am and I will be draggin in the morn with the kids bellowing for chocolate milk. Who invented chocolate milk anyway?? Thanks a lot. HA

As Always ~Peaceful Blessings to You and to Yours~ Tammy

~ Little Helper ~

I do not really have anything to write about but I felt like writing something. The kiddies are tucked into bed, while visions of sugar plums dance in their heads! LOL I know way tooo early for Christmas but my girls are in bed and it is PEACE and QUIET right now. LOVE IT!

I have all of my windows open and the beautiful music of crickets is playing in the back ground. It is so nice to hear the nature. Someone must be having a campfire because I can smell a faint hint of it. MMM smells so good. I just love nature!

Oh, I know I have a real good one for ya. Tonight we grilled out burgers Yum! But guess what lead up to that. I asked my hubby if he was going to get the burgers on so we could eat supper . He asked Macayla if she wanted to help but he still sat around a couple of more minutes. Macayla then came and told us she put the burgers on the grill. Well ya never did see two people move their butts so fast and go flying outside to lift the lid on the grill. I expected to see all the burgers on the charcoal and not on the grill. My hubby expected to see the whole plate with the burgers on the grill. LOL Guess what??? She placed them on the grill perfect! We went back inside and told her what a nice job she did but proceeded to tell her that she could never do that again because she was too little and she could get burned and that it is very dangerous. I asked her if she got burned anywhere and she said no. I asked her how she put them on and she said with the spatula. Then she said the plate got too heavy and that she dropped 3 burgers then changed her mind and said 4. I asked her if she got grass on them and she said just a little but she picked it off. LOL I have to admit they were mighty tasty, no joke. I told my husband that it was probably no worse than eating out somewhere. I guess I really did not mind, I did not see any grass and I figured the grilling burned off what might of been left on them. :)

So that was my excitement for the day. Not too much else going on except I am enjoying the cold front coming through. In the 90s yesterday and so humid that it could even make curly fries go limp. Now today breezy and perfect! Tonight in the 50's YAHOO!!!! I can sleep like a baby wrapped in a blankie with my windows open! Gotta love it only in Minnesota, don't ya know. HA

As Always~Peaceful Blessings to You and to Yours~

May the crickets play you a peaceful lullaby

Tammy

~ A Happy Tear ~ A Happy Dance ~

I called my Dr. today and got the results .... They got all of this one!!!! So that deserves tears of joy and a happy dance!!!! Tuesday I will go and get these stitches out and get more moles taken out. So I will keep falling asleep at night praying to God for all of my other ones to be negative. God really does answer my prayers. Thank you God!

To any of you who have a dark mole, raised, changing in color, size, itchy or bleeding ... please get them checked. You would not believe how quick these things can take over your life. They are very life threatening if not caught early and treated. If any of you have questions about this or what the Dr does please do not hesitate to email me. I am no expert but I can tell you what, where and how they do it. I know sounds scary it really isn't. The scariest part is the waiting.

I wish you all a happy, sunshiny day!

As Always, ~Peaceful Blessings to You and to Yours~
Happy Dancer Tammy ~j~
(that is my angel watching over my shoulder)