Merry Christmas!

First off I need to apologize for neglecting my blog for so long, I should be ashamed.

I AM SO SORRY!!!

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Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

From our home to yours we wish you all the best that this blessed season can bring!

Life!

Well I haven't posted in a while. I haven't been doing very much other than work and Girl Scouts. I missed the actual reunion but I went to the game. There wasn't much of a turn out I thought that there would be more of us. I do think those that were planning did all that they could but the rest was really up to the class to make a good reunion. I wish that I could have gone to the reunion I would have loved to see some people again.

I attended Lauren's baby shower over the weekend. I haven't seen her in years and let me tell you she looked amazing! If it wasn't for the prego belly I would not have known she was pregnant. She does still have her "dancer's" legs. I loved seeing Connie too she looked so happy! I loved seeing old friends again. I would love to get together again soon. I am definitely going to see Lauren once things have settled down and she feels up to visitors. I wish that I had pictures to post but I had left my camera laying on the table at home (figures).

Girl Scouts has been so much fun and it really takes up a lot of my time but I feel it is totally worth it. I love being a girl scout. I think Anna likes it too, it's our time together.

Happy Halloween

I want to wish every one a happy Halloween! We have been looking forward to this for a while now and I have one extremely excited little girl. I also have one that has no idea why we insist on putting weird things on her and taking pictures (she's a little pink lady in her poodle skirt!) Anna is a hippy chick complete with custom bell bottoms! I will have pictures up later! We (Michael and Anna) carved pumpkins SCARY! I took pictures. One thing good I can say about this Halloween is we got to wear our PJ's to work today!!!!! I completed my look with minimal makeup and rollers in my hair-talk about scaring people!

I went to the family event last weekend and was so glad to see some old friends! I was nervous about nothing! It really was good to see some old friends. I will admit though the band well sucks (in comparison to its glory days in the 90's) I was also disappointed in the flag corp too.....shame!
I didn't get to got to the actual reunion because I had a Juliet Low Birthday Party/Halloween Carnival to go to for the Girl Scouts. I kind of wished I had gotten to go but next time I will.

I am getting excited about Lauren's baby shower next week! I am so happy for them! I know that she'll be a great mother! She has a good role model to look to for advice. I wish them all the best! I do hope that I will get to see the baby after the empress arrives too.

TO ALL A HAPPY AND SAFE HALLOWEEN!!!!!

• Michael hurt his back last weekend working out and has been on overtime all week. I have be in agony watching him hurt and knowing there is nothing that I can do about it. I finally convinced him to go to the doctor. I really hope that it's just a pulled muscle and not something serious.
• We had our Girl Scout investiture ceremony last night and had blast. Scarlet has become our troop's mascot and will be helping us sell cookies this year!!!! I love being a leader and I am growing s much as a mother and a person, I would recommend scouting to anyone.
• My grandfather had surgery last night and is doing OK. He had an enlarged prostate but all is well now.
• The family event for my 10 year high school reunion (I assume) is still on for tonight. I am very nervous about it for some reason. I am excited to see old friends again but I am still very nervous. Michael on the other hand thinks that I'll be fine and that it'll be fun for me. He is trying to be supportive and calm my fears. I guess he's right I do have a great life full of friends and family, I have a career and a beautiful home. I am still nervous about it though.
• My girls are growing up so fast and I just can't stand it.

Family

I was up last night just thinking about how blessed I am. I went and checked in on the girls as they were sleeping and thought about how lucky I am and how wonderful they are. Even though they can stress me out faster than anything else in this world but they bring greater joy than anything else as well. I am going to post some pictures of them just because I love them. They are pretty darn cute too if I say so myself!!!!

I also want to give Thanks to Colleen for her inspirational post about KY and curly hair. I passed the info on to Michael (who has super curly hair) and with a smirk decided to try it out last night. I will let everyone know that stuff is great, his hair looked so good. He was even happy with the way that it was in the morning after he had slept on it. I have included a picture of his hair right after he did all the stuff to it last night.

Ain't he cute!!!!!

HELP NEEDED!!!

To anyone that breastfed I need some help. I have been breast feeding my daughter Scarlet who is now 7 1/2 months old and this weekend she refused my breast and then bit my nipple. Since I returned to work when she was 3 months old my supply has dropped. Recently though it has severely dropped and we have had to supplement with formula. I have visited a lactation consultant, taken herbs, pumped after the nursing and so on and so forth with no success. I have started to come to grips with it emotionally but when this happened this weekend it broke my heart (not to mention hurt like hell). I am going to assume that it is because there is instant gratification with a bottle unlike with a breast, and with my supply problem she might have just gotten frustrated. If anyone has any advice please share it, I am not real sure I am total ready to give it up just yet.

Its Friday!

Yeah! It's Friday! Thank God! I have so much that I want to do this weekend. I made my first batch of baby food on Tuesday and I have so many recipes that I want to try out this weekend and I cannot wait. Scarlet seemed to enjoy the homemade stuff a whole lot better that the store bought stuff.

Anna will be Acolyting for the first time on Sunday and we are all very excited about it. Anna seems to be a little nervous but will not admit it. My mom even bought her some new earrings for the occasion.

Girl scouts is getting easier for me and I am loving every minute of it. I am so excited about everything that I am getting to experience through the GS. Anna has already read the first three sections of her handbook and has kind of taken charge in the troop. I hope that personality trait sticks it will serve her well later in life.

We are getting a new cat in a few days that will make the pet total 6. We have 4 turtles, 1 dog and now 1 cat. I am trying to convince Michael that we need a big dog too. That isn't going so well right now though. We have no fence for our back yard on with our creepy neighbors I don't want to let them just run loose to use the rest room. Maybe when we get an invisible fence next spring we can entertain the big dog idea.

Troop 767

Well it is now official, I am a Brownie troop leader. I am so excited that we ended up having enough girls to start our own troop! Anna is so excited she wants me to order her the brown knee socks and beanie to go with her vest and khaki skirt!! She is going to sell a boat load of cookies looking so cute! How can you resist a brownie complete with knee socks, a beanie, and the pig tails!! I am going to have to get used to the extra time away from home though, I am such a home body.

Michael and I have started to talk about another baby. We are thinking about trying for number three in February. I am still debating because he is throwing me a big 30th birthday party in 2010 and I know that I would still be breast feeding if not still prego.

Our kitchen looks so much better but we still have to finish the cabinet doors and the drawers. I hope this will be that last weekend!! I am so sick of the mess and of paint. I would love to look at my kitchen and not see every dish or spice that we have in the cabinets.

This weekend I am being confirmed at our church and I am so excited. After the ceremony we will be having our annual pig roast yummy!! Anna is going to be an acolyte. I am just so thankful that I am at a church that I am so welcomed.

Me and some of the girls from work have decided to do weight watchers. I am actually glad that I am a nursing mother because I have to add an extra 12 points to my daily amount. Monday is the big day for that. Before and after pictures will not be take well the before pictures anyway.
My goal is to lose at least 4 sizes. I will have to lose weight before I decide to toss the birth control, I want to be cute and prego next time!!!!

Tootles

5 on Tuesday!

I am going to try for 10 but I can't promise anything.
1. To start with I hate painting and I can't wait until it is over and done with. I didn't realize how much of a hub the kitchen is to our family. I miss it so much. I will be posting before and after pics soon.
2. I had my first Girl scouts service unit meeting last night and I loved it. I am so excited about being a girl scout leader. Right now there is a possibility of 20 girls in our troop OMG!!! I can't wait to go camping!
3. I am excited about our high school reunion coming up. I should have plenty of time to plan for a slumber party at Nana's house for the girls. Now I just have to figure out what to wear!!
4. My Grandmother is doing better so I am relieved about that one and my grandfather had to be put in an assisted living home.
5. Pitiful but I haven't anything else to really talk about I am a real home body.
SORRY only 5!

Today is Monday in every sense of the word. I am tired, worn out, and fed up. Michael and I started the kitchen project Saturday and I am so ready for it to be over. The kitchen is a disaster and I just want to clean it but I can't. I have no where to put the clean dishes to get to the few that we have dirtied and there is so much piled on the washer that I can't do laundry right now. Michael said that after today we should be able to put things back in the kitchen but we will have to live with no cabinet doors for a while. I just want to clean the mess up. Thank God I have a handy man that can do it himself so at least we don't have to pay someone to do it for us!!!
Tootles

Friday

Today is the big Friday! Today we are going to start the kitchen project. I am looking forward to it but I am also looking forward to it being done. I would much rather redo the master bedroom than the kitchen but since Michael does all the cooking I guess I'll live. I have a bit of advice: if you want to test your marriage then remodel your home. God knows I still love him.
Tootles

Wacky Wednesday!

It was a great weekend but I had to return to normal life sometime.

1 Friday night my mom in law, Anna, and I attended an ice cream social for girl scouts. I have never been a girl scout. Anna decided that she wanted to do. Well Melissa and I decided that we were going to start our own troop and become leaders!! I am so thankful that she has had years of experience with the girl scouts. I am so excited to be getting the opportunity to make a huge impact on my daughters life like this.

2. Scarlet has cut her first tooth!! Thank God that is finally over. I did learn a little secret about the world's best tether (easy and cheap). You take the big bone from the drumstick (chicken leg), of course you have to make sure it is completely cleaned (no gristle etc..). We gave Scarlet one from the BBQ we were having Saturday night and I swear that was the quietest dinner that we had in two weeks time. A miracle!

3. We have decided to remodel our kitchen (not a total remodel). I will have before and after pictures later. I am honestly looking forward to the new colors and lighting.

4. Scarlet was in her first fashion show on Saturday at Babies R Us. No pictures but she was so cute.

5. While I was on my shopping trip Saturday I decided to talk with a lactation consultant about my on going supply problem. I ended up spending money on this horrible tasting herbal supplement that I am taking twice daily. I also have to dink two glasses of Ovaltine and eat 1 pack of oatmeal daily. I feel better about my decision to continue to breast feed (pumping) since returning to work. I am actually considering making my own baby food too.

Doctors Visit

Poor Scarlet! Today was her 6 month check up and shots. All is well and she is going to be tougher than her big sissy that's for sure! She doesn't have to go back to the doctor until Dec. and doesn't have to get shots (I am sure she won't mind). That's all for now.

Tootles

Wacky Wednesday

This is my second Wacky Wednesday post. I hope its not to whinny.

1. We are repainting at work and I think the paint fumes are getting to me. I was extremely tired and cranky but now I am feeling a lot better. Also who new painting the office could cause so much drama-are we back in high school here?! Smells funny!!!

2. Scarlet has reverted back to being a newborn. She was up every 2 hours last night. It is just her way of letting us know that she is in control. Actually we think it is because she is cutting her bottom two teeth (poor baby).

3. My grandmother is still hanging in there but my family has gone off the deep end and I am beginning to think they would rather her kick the bucket and take the money. Needless to say we are not spending time with anyone (except mom, sis, bro, and grandparents) on my side of the family for Christmas.

4. I am wanting to start loosing weight but it is very hard since I am still breast feeding and have to have so many calories per day and all. Might try some exercise though....maybe. Would like some pointers if anybody is out there.

5. I am totally anticipating going shopping this weekend even though Michael doesn't know yet. I am going baby shopping yeah!!!

I think that is all for now.

Tootles!

What to do?

I am just going to ramble because I am bored stiff. I have finished everything that I had to do today and it is not even 5:00 yet. Work has become so slow. Our accounting department makes a great team. Sometimes I think that we maybe a little to efficient. We really fight over who gets to open the mail on most days and everyday I actually welcome filing. My desk is completely clean and organized. Even the end of the month isn't busy anymore. Please don't get me wrong I am not complaining but I am a little bored. I do have a lactation nurse to contact about my diminishing milk milk supply, after that nothing but the Internet. Thank God I get off work pretty soon.
Tootles

HELP!!!

Okay the cat is out of the bag I am technologically retarded. I can't for the life of me figure out how to add blogs under fellow bloggers! I am assuming that it has to do with linking but I am absolutely clueless. I have gone to the help section and I can't even understand some of the terminology there. I am asking for help from anyone who can explain it in more than lay terms, I am dumb monkey terms! Please help!
Tootles

Thankful!

Yesterday I was moaning about how Scarlet thought she didn't need sleep anymore. Well I took some time and reflected on that at about 2:30 this morning while I was nursing her. I must say this: I am eternally grateful that I have those wonderful sleepless nights with her. I was informed yesterday evening that an old friend's baby girl (only 7 months old) passed away late Tuesday night. Landon put his little girl to bed Saturday thinking everything was fine. Him and Amanda were woke up by her cries and a 103 temp. She was diagnosed with bacterial meningitis and was rushed to a hospital in Atlanta early Monday where they had to put her on a ventilator and Tuesday died. I ask that anyone who reads this please say a little prayer for the Wildes family. I know that I am looking forward to being woke up in the middle of the night tonight because it means that I get to spend just a little more time her, who knows I may wake Anna up and have a little mother daughter slumber party! God Bless!
Tootles

Wacky Wednesday!

Today is really crazy boring! Even so I feel like it is completely out of control. I have so many things going through my head and I have so much that I want to do.
1) I am getting ready to go to the dreaded "yearly" checkup.
2) I got a picture message of some chicks boobs on my cell phone which totally upset me and Michael considering it used to be his number.
3) Scarlet has decided that she doesn't need sleep anymore and therefore no one does.
4) Our Wedding Ceremony is in less than 6 months and I haven't done a thing in fact I have gone to try on dresses only once.
5) I have been very stressed out lately and it has taken a terrible toll on my breast milk production. I have had to start supplementing which is breaking my heart and my wallet.
I think that I will have a glass of wine when I get home tonight.

I am a little bummed out today. Last week Michael and I exhausted all of our babysitter resources for this upcoming weekend. We are not going o be able to attend my 10 year high school reunion. Okay we will be able to go to the family event at Delano Park but that will be it. I was really looking forward to seeing my old friends. I will admit that I should have kept in touch but I can't change the past. I am really hoping that some of them will be at the park. Well I am still hoping that something will change and we can pay at the door. That is it for the time being.
Tootles!

My girls!

Here is a picture of my daughters. Anna the oldest is holding Scarlet her sissy.

The reason why.

Okay Michael thinks that our blog name is stupid and so girly. Well for anyone who might be curious as to why I chose "Destiny's Hand" this is why. Michael and I met at work and we began our relationship by just talking on our breaks. I was in school at the time and really didn't have a whole lot of free time (working full time, a full time student-15 hours, and a single mom). Well when the week of finals arrived I was so excited and told him that I would be going out that Friday to celebrate, he asked if I wanted company. We had the best time and actually spent the entire night together (sitting by the pool and drinking beer). Well as our relationship grew I started introducing him to my family. He was at my apartment one night and my sister and her girlfriend came in. Michael's mouth dropped, as did theirs. I found out that night they had all been neighbors down in Cullman at Wallace St. In fact my sister's girlfriend slept with my husband's roommate. Michael and I could not believe that as much as he hung out with them and as much as I visited them that it took 2 years for us to meet. I believe with my whole heart that we are meant to be together therefore you could say that we were destined.
Tootles

New at this!

Hello everyone! I am new at this but I had to try it out for myself. We will see how it goes!