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Titles are not my specialty - but I do get tired of recycling the same ones so I think I'll just start using odd ones that fit nothing in the post. That will be my "thing" when it comes to the blog. Well other than the attitude LOL!

I can't believe Thanksgiving is next week - where the hell did the year go?? Soon it will be time for my year in review post. Which I am contemplating in not only doing the Questionnaire RadioViven shared years ago I will toss pictures of this years events as well.

Usually this time of year I panic - not this year, I am almost done with ALL my Christmas shopping and I went simple this year.  I am just a few pounds away from my goal weight.  Life is good and I am as relaxed as I ever get.  I do have a few things on the "do before the end of the year" list but none of it is major.  Mainly I am going to go through closets and donate that shit. My goal for next year is to simplify life and to tone up and keep off the weight.

I am now 2 weeks post op on the knee and its getting better - still stiff and swollen but I am less inclined to carve it off and beat my wonderful Ortho surgeon with it now.  I have progress pics of that and a few other pics at the end.  I have been doing the exercises they send me home doing - I should be more regular at accomplishing them but honestly I forget to stop every hour and flex and extend that leg.  Its a process that takes 6 weeks so 4 to go!

Lil Man turns 6 months old this month (the 21st) and I am just floored by that. It doesn't seem possible - oh hell it doesn't seem possible his Mama is 21 but she is.. He is growing like a weed and we are amazed by him on a daily basis - these days his favorite thing to do is grab his toes then lay on his back holding them while alternating between blowing you raspberries and laughing. Cutest thing ever! (yep I'm biased.... SHUSH!)

Now for the pics!

Knee surgery 

Happy New Year, a look back and hopes for the year to come.

Wow another year comes to a close. Time sure does fly the older you get..

Today marks 6 years (3 dating and 3 married) that my darlin Banker Boy and I have been together, it seems like it was just the other day that we were hanging out in what used to be Orlando’s, and you were drawing faces on my arm with my lip-gloss, telling me a string joke.
When I look back over the past 6 years I see how blessed I have been. Even when times are tough there is no one I'd rather be traveling this road with than you.

My daughter has come along way this year, I am very proud of the young woman she is turning out to be. Its taken a lot of hard work to get to this point, at times we have had to drag her kicking and screaming through this journey, but she’s making it. I know that one day it will be all worth it and on the other side will be one strong graceful lady who will be one for the world to reckon with.

My hopes for the year ahead are that we continue to take what the world throws at us with grace and dignity. I hope though that things are a little easier and that fate is a little kinder to us. I wish my husband more happiness and my daughter more self-awareness.

As for me I plan to start working on things that have been ignored for to long and left to lay dormant in hopes that it would just fade away. I know now that after seeing the journey my daughter has been on that its just not possible, things have to be sorted out and questions answered before they no longer haunt us. I hope to be able to tackle it with as much courage as my daughter has shown, so that I may come out the other side a better person with a stronger understanding of myself.

My wish for all of you is that you find what you need and that you do what makes you truly happy. Life is either to long or to short to be unhappy..