One of THOSE days!

Everyone has them! One of those days that everything that can go wrong does! Today was mine. Started bad, ended even worse.
Mom and I went to Target near Brooke's to get a KitchenAid mixer for the shower AND it was on sale! EXCEPT they didn't have it. So, we went out east to that Target, then Turkey Creek Target then back to the west Target. NO mixer! They only had red and silver... no imperial grey!
We meet Brooke for lunch and afterward, as we are completely defeated, decide to move on to the next gift. So, back east to Knox Center to Belk for dishes. BUT they don't carry the Denby dishes at all! Back in car heading west BACK to where we came from. Get to that Belk and they carry them they just don't have very much of them! Not even one complete place setting. So, we had to order them online and we have to pray they make it to us before the shower.
Last stop- Hobby Lobby. Have to get the ink for the pen to do the wedding invitations! Almost no choices- blue, red and black. No grey, not even a good choice of pens. So I spent over 20.oo and it's not really what we wanted at all.
It wasn't a very good or productive day. I don't know what was worse, the fact that I got so little accomplished or the fact that someone made me feel as bad as anyone has ever made me feel about myself. Oh, well it's a toss up but I think the latter would win hands down!
Here's to a better tomorrow.... Lord willing. Enjoy your Sunday.

The Shower

I am so excited about the very first shower for Brooke! It is February 26th and it feels to me like the kick off for the wedding festivies! I am going Friday to gift shop and me shop! Need something to wear to the shower! Well, maybe not so much a NEED, more like a want! Am hoping all this dieting will pay off and I will have gone down a size! This is going to be a busy month and I am sure it will absolutely fly by!
I know exactly what I'm getting she and Josh for the shower! Something that took me YEARS to get! Plan on getting all things needed for shower completely done Friday... and what I'm wearing! Hopefully that plan will fall into place!
I must also mention how proud I am of Brooke! She is becoming quite domestic! A great lil' cook - just ask Josh! :)

To say I am getting stressed over my weight is an understatement! February is HERE! Brooke and Josh's shower is 3 weeks from Sunday and only 7 weeks and 2 days until the WEDDING! I should have started the diet months ago! I have set a shower weight loss goal and a wedding weight loss goal. I only hope there's enough time! I have to clothes shop, which I hate. I am going to wait until the last minute and hope I go down a size! (riight) Brooke has also been dieting by watching her sugar and carb intake! She lost 10 lbs.! Yah! That is great! Way to go Brooke!
We have so much to do and our goal is to have everything we can do ahead of time DONE by March 1st. I keep looking at the calendar and wondering where the time went?!? Seems like yesterday she came home with the ring! So for us it's full speed ahead. Have to stay focused! Get in wedding mode and stay in wedding mode! We can sooo do this! :)

Birthday 52

I had a great birthday! I am now 52. That is hard to believe! Do I feel it? Sometimes. Do I look it? Probably most of the time. I am thankful to God, as always, to celebrate another birthday.
Today it hit me I hadn't blogged in several days- 6 to be exact. So I decided to birthday blog! I loved all my gifts and the time spent with my family, which has dwindled alot these days! But I'll take what I can get and not complain. Well, I might complain :/
The book Brooke got me was the sweetest thing and it made me cry, timing I guess had alot to do with it and the fact that she is so dear to my heart. The wedding is 8 weeks from today. My how time flies. August doesn't seem that long ago. Then again birthday #51 doesn't seem to have been a year ago.
Alot has happened in the last year. Justin took the job of head football coach at Campbell County High School. The boys bought a house in Andersonville. Josh got the position of head football coach at Clinton High School. Brooke got a teaching job in Anderson County. Brooke and Josh got engaged. The boys found their "own" church. Brooke goes to Baneberry more than she comes home. (had to throw that in there!)
I am praying for a good 52. I know they'll be alot of changes and I'm praying about those too. 2012, 52 and wondering just where the time goes.

Just sitting here and my thoughts are going in a dozen different directions. The wedding, the diet, the bridal shower, what to wear, what to eat, what to buy, what to do next, missing Brooke and the boys and once again hating change.
Not to sound like a broken record!
I guess it's just been that kind of day. Not so long ago I was cooking around the clock for my family and they were all in and out and I loved every minute of it. Today at one point I was trying to stay busy but the house was clean, laundry done and supper cooked so I actually cut open the little packs of Truvia and put them in one container... yep!
All the things I have loved doing, I don't do anymore, the things that to me were me. If that makes any sense at all. I don't even bake anymore. I use to do that almost everyday. As the wedding gets closer they'll be alot to do. No time for a pity ME party. That will be a good thing. I must be having major empty nest symptoms.
The diet is not far along to see if it's working but hopefully it will. I have to shop for my dress to wear to the wedding and that's not very long now. :)

Thursday is my Friday

I work a 4 day week. So when Thursday rolls around, it's my Friday. I am especially tired this p.m. I think it's a combination of the new diet and back to Zumba. My plan for tomorrow is to sleep late and do very little! I think everyone needs one of those days every now and then! That is why we love snow days sooo very much.
Am hoping to get to Brooke's Saturday. I need to take things to her and pick up a few things at Hobby Lobby but most of all I want to spend time with her, won't be long until she will drop the last name she has known since birth and officially be Mrs. Jennifer Brooke Kerr.

Wednesday

Lastnight I finally made it back to Zumba. I had been going faithfully and then Christmas happened! Was tough getting back on track! As I get older having "something" every night is too much so sometimes it's pick and choose. I don't like that either. The wedding invitations came yesterday! They look great and although I am happy I couldn't help being a little sad. Things will be different. Which translates into I have to share Brooke and it won't be 50/50... more like 80/20... me being 20! I have to say how happy Brooke made me with one of her blog comments about she and Josh seeing the need to find their own church. That made me smile.