Rain drops on roses...

......and whiskers on kittens, Bright copper kettles and warm woolen mittens, Brown paper packages tied up with strings, These are a few of my favorite things..... I love this song.... used to sing it to my kids when they were so little.......so many years ago. "My favorite things" this time of year is one of my favorite things, football season, fall, the smell of crisp air outdoors. getting ready for the holiday season.. cold nights and warm beds...
I would really like to start blogging again, So Patti, i will try and keep this thing going. My life is starting to settle down slightly. i must admit a couple of months ago, i was very stressed out, to the point that my health was being affected. I knew i had to make some changes. I was working too many jobs, dealing with my foster son who got into some trouble, and dealing with my mother in law, after my father in law died unexpectantly.... My hair started coming out in chunks.....started packing on the weight again....... couldn't sleep, and couldn't stay awake..... I knew that i had to make some changes........ so i quit the most stressful of my three jobs. I sent my mother in law down south with her daughter for a few months. And i put the brakes on my foster son and fast..... he didn't know what hit him, but under my roof, MY RULES.... when i buckled down on him he told me that "his mom never loved him.... the homes he lived in where bad....ects" I told him that was his past, I am his mother now, and this is his home. he wasn't going to use his past as a crutch. there comes a time in life that you have to say okay.... my past sucked.......... but there is nothing i can do to change that. and start living for tomorrow instead. .... so all this occurred towards the end of August. I must say, I did finally get a grip on things. Mother in law is still down south, have the one job at Kiski Prep Boys school, hair growing back very fast, very thick, and very curly :) Weight is creeping back down. now don't get me wrong, i am very busy just having a job, a house, 4 kids, a husband....... but it is manageable, and i am learning to use that word......... "NO" .

I am supposed to have surgery on my foot on Dec 8th, and i just heard from the doctor that it might need to be sooner Dec 1st. I have been dealing with this foot for 8 months now. and it really is beginning to slow me down, I still go for hikes, but they are fewer and far between. after a 3 mile hike, the next day I can't use my foot without much pain and tears. I have tried, cortisone shots x3, wrapping the foot, custom orthotics for my shoe, a cast, Physcial therapy, but it is getting worse........ so last resort is to cut open my foot, cut the tendon, pull away the major nerve and set it into place, scrape the bone spurs away, and remove any damaged superfical nerves that may be in there... for two weeks i am NOT allowed any weight baring at all. and then for 4 weeks, mimimal weight baring.. and then hopefully all will be well again.!!! Like i told the doctor, If i were 80 years old, i could just live with it, But i am young and busy, and i need my feet.

I'll try really hard blog, to keep you up to date from now on.