….  I haven’t been a very good blogger the last few months, but let me give you an update

In October, my kids and I moved in with my parents and are going it solo now

Yes, it’s a long, scary road – but I *WILL* make it and we’ll all be alright   I don’t plan to blog much about all that stuff, but I just thought I would update and let my reader(s) know what’s goin’ on

In the interim, I managed to finish my first semester back to school with a 4.0 GPA and …… **drumroll**  Made the DEAN’S LIST!!!  Woo-HOOO!!!

I am loving school and enjoying the opportunity.

Tomorrow I have a job interview at one of the hospitals in the area, so prayers and positive thoughts would certainly be appreciated!

One of my New Year’s Resolutions this year was to be better about updating my blog.  So I’m going to try.  I’m leading a Bible study (well, not really leading, just … ok, kinda leading ^.^) with the Good Morning Girls and it started today and I am SOOO excited!  I. NEED.This!

I’m sure I will post an insight or two here from my study, so I hope you enjoy them.  If you’re interested in joining the Facebook group for the study, please email me and I will be happy to add you.  It is a closed group on Facebook, so you’d need to be added – but we would love to have you!

I’m leaving you with a new pic of me for my new life.  Here’s to a wonderful new beginning!

Good (early) morning, ladies and gentlemen of the kingdom!

Today I have the most EXCELLENT of guest posters!

Lucy Adams, author of Tuck Your Skirt in Your Panties and Run!  has graciously offered to “visit” the blog today!  I also will be giving away an adorable Tuck Your Skirt in Your Panties and Run!  tote bag.

Lucy AdamsTuck Your Skirt in Your Panties and Run!

You can purchase the book from Amazon here or find it at most book stores.  She is really a super lady and a VERY funny writer!

A little about Lucy:

Mother of four, wife of one, teacher of many, writer of sorts, some days self-critical to the point of paralysis, bossy since birth, Lucy trudges through life wanting a pool in her backyard so badly she can see the chlorine rainbows around the streetlights. Sometimes she wakes up in the morning thinking only of getting back in bed at night.

Her home is well organized. Everything has a place on the floor where she can easily find it, or die tripping over it.

She’s played taps for hundreds of withered houseplants.

She has a B.S.Ed. in education, as M.S. in experimental psychology, a graduate certificate of gerontology, and all of the classes, but none of the dissertation (ironically), toward a Ph.D. in developmental psychology. She knows a little bit about a lot of nonessential stuff and is a certified expert in nothing.

Lucy didn’t begin writing professionally until 2003, when she talked her way into a weekly newspaper column in a local paper. From that, Lucy’s first book, If Mama Don’t Laugh, It Ain’t Funny, spun off in 2007. The publication of If Mama resulted in gaining freelance work for magazines. In January 2011, her second book, Tuck Your Skirt in Your Panties and Run, was released. Both books were published by Palm Tree Press.

Lucy invites you to visit her at www.IfMama.com where you can read her If Mama blog and her Southern Girls Living Fearlessly blog, as well as view videos, download podcasts, and get a free ebook readers’ guide for Tuck Your Skirt in Your Panties and Run!

 

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To enter the giveaway for a Tuck Your Skirt tote bag, just comment on this post!

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I’m thankful that I am able to make good grades!

an "A", you say??

Two years ago today, I received the biggest surprise of my life.

I went into surgery, expecting to come out hysterectomied…. but when I woke up, I was being whisked to an emergency department because I had crashed during surgery.

Long story short, after all was said and done, we found out I was 5 months pregnant. And that it was a girl.

Talk about a change in perspective!

This Thursday, my thankful thursday is about Sadie… my beautiful baby girl. She is almost 20 months old and is absolutely the funnest (yes, I know that’s not a word) kid on the planet Well, one of the 4 funnest

She’s my miracle, my snuggle-bug, my nursling… she’s my heaven on earth and I wouldn’t trade her for the world.