3 cheers for our truck drive, our truck drive, our truck driver

3 cheers for our truck driver. He's with us today! If you have been reading my blog you know that Brian and Carla are buying Dave and Shan's camper. Well on Saturday Dave hooked the camper up to his truck and off we went. Dave has only pulled the camper 4 times before and NEVER on the interstate. Now, there were times when he told us, afterwards, of some scary moments. Like when a truck passes it sucks the camper over to the fast line into the truck!. I, sitting in the back, was quite unaware of any of these problems and thought things were going very smoothly. But, Dave handled it like a Pro and we made it to the site. Set up - different matter. All the other times Dave has just pulled straight into the space and unhooked the camper. Not so lucky this time. This one was a back in. Do you know how confusing it is to turn the steering wheel the opposite way you want the camper to go? Add to that lots of trees and two huge rocks in the way. After more attempts than I care to remember finally the camper was in place! It is all set up. Brian and Carla are happy little campers - no pun intended - and I want to give a big cheer to our truck drive. He did a great job and I am very proud of him!! So, if ya need your camper backed into a spot Dave's your man! Great job, Dave. Your mom loves you!!!

It's Offical

Got home from school today and there was a message from my CNA instructor congratulating me on passing my test. I felt pretty sure I had cause when I finished the test the monitor was very positive and said I did fine, but ya never really know until it's official - well it is! So I should be getting my license in the mail soon. Now to decide what to do with it. Do I want to work a few hours in the nursing home or do I want to drive to Hope and work in the hospital. I prefer the hospital I just don't know if it's worth the drive. It's not like I will be doing it 5 days a week and the nursing homes work 8 hour shifts where the hospitals work 12 hours. Just something else to think about. At least it keeps me busy!

I'm in with the IN crowd!

I don't know if I have mentioned this before, but the week end we came back from Little Rock my TV broke - picture tube gone. So since then I have been watching a small 13 inch I have in the back room until I could enough money to buy a new one. Well, Brian called to say he and Carla are coming down this week end to clean the camper they are buying from Dave AND since it won't fit in the camper they are giving me their big screen TV. How great is that!!! I told ya I have great kids!!!

My heart is with the State Board

Went to the cardio doc and I have a short circuit in my electrical wiring. For some reason at times instead of the electrical impulse doing what it should it gets stuck in a loop and that causes my heart rate to go from 70 to 95. So I am taking medication and hopefully that will take care of it. Doc has a partner that specializes in the electrical heart stuff and he will be calling me - hooray. I've been trying to take less pills and now I have a new one to take. Oh well, part of old age I guess! Did my State Board today and passed! The lady was much nicer this time - in fact she told our instructor, Judy, that she was too hard on us the first time. Of course things were not organized so there was a lot of running around looking for things! I had to do teeth brushing, blood pressure, and walking with a gait belt. I took my time and thought everything through before I said I was done with the skill so that helped. I had some much adrenaline going that I tightened the valve on the blood pressure cuff so tight I could not loosen it when I was trying to get a reading. So I had to stop and start again, but the monitor said that it will come with practice and it was no big deal! Yea!!! Only other thing going on is Brian and Carla are going to buy Dave's camper. So that helps him and them! They bought Jerry's car when he died and it has worked out great for me. Thank heavens for great kids! and I sure have two great ones!!

one down one hundred eighty nine to go

First day of school! It went very well. I think since Jill and I know what to expect and Jill knew what materials to order for us for the year they are going to make a huge difference. The kids seem great and Jill and I are much more relaxed this year and I think that will reflect on the kids. I am trying very hard to not give too much help so Jill can ascertain exactly what they know and what they need help in. Coming home today was much easier than it was this time last year so all my supporters were right. It does get a little easier with time. I know there will be things I want to share with Jerry - like how well today went and how good I feel about the year - and that makes it hard not having him here. I go to the cardio doc tomorrow for the results of all my tests. I am not expecting any problems so my being radioactive may have been for naught. But better safe than sorry I guess. Dave won a "gift bag" from some tech thing and in the bag is the neatest print of Terry Bradshaw - which means nothing except to us Pittsburgh people. Tyler and Emily both seemed to have good first days. I pray with everything I have it continues. Especially for my Tyler. So if you're listening God could ya lend him a hand please? I will post the heart results tomorrow so stay tuned!

And so it begins

Tomorrow starts the first day of school for the kids. We have been in school all week in work shops, but tomorrow the kids come. Seems like I was just covering all the stuff in the room for the summer and now here it is. The room ready again for the kids to come. Emily to 1st grade, Tyler to 8th. Where does the time go. It will be a big week. First day of school, Tuesday get my heart test results and Wednesday take the State Board ....again. This will be my second school year without Jerry and I miss him now as much as I did then. Will it be easier to come home with no one here? I don't know. I know it was very hard last year. But, with chin up and smile on my face I will go forward and do the best I can!

Got the word

Got the word I will be taking the State Board on Wednesday, August 20th. Good thoughts, please! I see the cardio doc on Tuesday the 19th and will find out about all my tests then. So it will be a big week. Monday first day back to school for the kids (we've been there all this week), cardio doc on Tuesday and State Board on Wednesday! Whew - I'm tired already!! I have noticed that my anxiety level has gone up the last few days.Jerry is always on my mind, but last couple of days it has been constant and the missing him the last few days has been almost unbearable. I came past the cemetery today on my way back from Wal Mart and just broke down crying as I drove past. That has not happened in a while. I don't think there is a rhyme or reason for it to be so strong now it just is. Maybe so many things going on and no one to really share it with. School starting, the TV breaking, going to the cardio doc and the State Board. Everyone is so busy with school starting and all that involves I may just be feeling sorry for myself and I need to stop that. There are people with much worse problems than I have. So keep good thoughts! I appreciate them!