My booty is dragging!

Don't you just love my title?

This is what I probably look like..... This is how I feel...

And this is how I look for sure tonight...

Cute huh? I'm sure I don't look half that cute tonight. I is tard, very tard. Just having one vehicle and potty-training, working, and running is killing me. I think I saw a gray hair this morning, and I almost died....I mean dead, right there!

But enough whining for tonight. How are you? I haven't had time to visit you, so I have no clue who is doing what or even how you are doing. I've been a bad blogger, but I truly don't feel too bad about it. Real life has just been so crazy that all I do is take care of my little family and our home. I haven't painted my toe-nails in weeks, but I do manage to shave my legs regularly! Ha!

Did you notice that not many people come around for my devotionals? That's okay too though...they were as much or more for me as they were for you. I learn something new every day about God and even from my child and husband. You know...I think alot of bloggers are really busy or tied up in real life these days....traffic has really slowed down on my blog, has it yours?

I'm going to ramble a bit....I know how you enjoy all my thoughts!

Did I mention on my blog that I did not want to be a nurse ever....and that I wanted to be a phlebotomist....but that they didn't make much money.....Well, I have found a new thing I think I would love......Massage Therapy.

People tell me all the time how good I am at massaging.....so I think since I'm good and since I enjoy it that I may do it for a living. What do you think?

More of my rambling, but I need to lose weight. Really. Not necessarily fast or a while bunch, because truly I have never been skinny and I'm being totally realistic, but I know I would feel tons better, besides looking better, if I lost 20 or 30 pounds. How am I going to do it you ask? Well, I have a plan.....a simple one. I drink tons of sodas, eat junk food and snacks, and tons and tons of carbs and starches......I need a total diet change. First I'm cutting back to one soda a day for a week then no sodas....plus low carb, low sugar, low starches. Then in a couple of months I'm sure 20 pounds will be gone if not more....then I might....might...maybe....start exercising. But truthfully I probably won't because of how much I walk and run and work my butt off at work. I just don't feel like doing anything else when I get home.

For all of you wanting an Emmy update....she is perfect. She's doing great potty-training....almost there thanks a bunch to my MOM. She knows her ABC's and numbers to 10 almost to 20. Knows her name, age, colors, shapes (when repeating), and says more words than I could ever count. She can jump now, and she loves to dance. She enjoys church and has actually memorized a book or two. She is so full of knowledge and is constantly learning and is hungry for words to put with emotions and actions.

Jason is loving his job, and working very hard too. He has Sundays and Tuesdays off. I have Saturdays and Sundays off. My Aunt Lisa keeps Emmy most Mondays, Jason keeps her on Tuesdays, and then right now Mom keeps her Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday. But hopefully soon I can find a preschool or daycare program for Emmy that I like and trust and that's "in town"...that's a biggie! I want her to learn with other kids, to potty with others kids, and to share....that's also a biggie!

Today we went to church where I learned something new (more in a minute), then we went to eat at Ta*Molly's Mexican Restaurant, came home, napped, played in the kiddie pool, swung on the swingset, cooked a huge meal, at the huge meal....which was baked squash, fried okra, fried potatoes, corn on the cob, fried bologna, sliced tomatoes, sliced cucumbers, and iced sweet tea...what a meal huh? I love summertime though because we always get fresh garden produce! Tomatoes are my fav....peeled, sliced, with salt please....but I do enjoy it all!

Now for what I learned....Todays message was on Repentance...Lord knows how we all need that. But anyways...the scriptures he used were Luke 13:1-5 and also Matthew 5:23-24

Luke 13:1-5 (King James Version)
Luke 13
1There were present at that season some that told him of the Galilaeans, whose blood Pilate had mingled with their sacrifices.
2And Jesus answering said unto them, Suppose ye that these Galilaeans were sinners above all the Galilaeans, because they suffered such things?
3I tell you, Nay: but, except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish.
4Or those eighteen, upon whom the tower in Siloam fell, and slew them, think ye that they were sinners above all men that dwelt in Jerusalem?
5I tell you, Nay: but, except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish.

Matthew 5:23-24 (King James Version)
23Therefore if thou bring thy gift to the altar, and there rememberest that thy brother hath ought against thee;
24Leave there thy gift before the altar, and go thy way; first be reconciled to thy brother, and then come and offer thy gift.

I had never thought that if you were mad at someone else or had anger in your heart toward another that you shouldn't repent. You need to go to that person, ask their forgiveness (even if you didn't start it or wasn't your fault) and make things right, then go to God. If you can't get along with others and be at peace with them, then how can you expect to be at peace with God?

Well enough preaching and enough babbling. It's time to put the kiddo to bed (she's been watching a Sponge*Bob marathon if you were wondering how I got this done) and time to go to bed myself! I will visit you guys through the week. Love you all and be by soon!

Jess