My good friend got orders the other day.  She is only moving about 2 hours away from here.  She is not happy about it at all.  I can't blame her.  I would not be happy either if we got orders to Wichita Falls.  That is almost as bad as being here.  The up side of this is we can meet up once in a while and we can still go shopping together in the Metroplex.

My other good friend here ( I have 3, ha!) is going to be moving soon too.  Her hubby works in the metroplex so this 3 hour commute is not working for them anymore.  At least we can go and visit and shop! She wants Bob to retire, get a job up in Dallas so we can move there and open a shop together.  I would like to do something like that.  We would be a specialty shop with flower arrangements, decorations for the holidays, maybe even do some party planning.  Kind of a boutique of some sort.  We are still scheming and dreaming about it.

So my last good friend here, is not moving.  She is pregnant with Baby #3.  More power to her.  Please keep her in your prayers, she has to go and see a specialist because the baby has a few issues that hopefully mean nothing, but we should know more soon.  Just pray that the baby girl is healthy and that mom remains healthy too.

My BFF from high school is pregnant too!  She has wanted a baby for so long.  She is 40 and just did IVF.  It was a success. Please keep her in your prayers too so that she has an easy pregnancy with no complications.
Bob is still working crappy hours.

Jake wants to go to school now everyday.  I know he is missing MDO but there was to much drama at that place that it was time for us to get away from it.  Soon school will be completely out and then he will really drive me crazy.  I am already looking into summer camps and swimming lessons for him.

As many of you know, we want to move...the sooner the better.  But sooner does not seem to be happening.  That is okay, I know that things happen for a reason so I figure it will happen when it is suppose to.  That being said, Bob asked me last night if I wanted to move to Minot, South Dakota....NO!!!!! I will live here in Abilene the rest of my life in order to stay away from that bitter cold state!  That is what is going to happen to us, I just know it.  We want to move so bad, that if we are not careful, we are going to end up in a place that is actually "worse" than here. Not that here is bad, as I have said, it just isn't a place I want to be living in.

Today I have to go to the doctors.  It is for a follow up on my blood pressure.  Most of my life I have had issues with blood pressure.  First time I was told I had high blood pressure I was 9.  9! Can you believe that?  I was not over weight or anything like that.  Nothing was done and never heard about it again until I was 18 and since then I have always had issues with it.  I have been on medication since I was in my 20's.  Here is the bad thing about being in the military system.  You never keep the same doctor for to long.  We would get my BP under control and then a new doc would come in and want to change the meds.  One time my bp was really low, lowest it had been in a long time, so the doc decided to take me off the meds completely, he was my new doc.  I told him this was not a good idea because it would sky rocket again.  It did ,so had to start all over...new meds and then a new doctor. Since then it has never been back to normal!  What really bugs me is that right now the doc I have had for about 2 years still has not gotten it under control.  I really like this doctor.  I know that right now I am over weight and I am sure that it plays a part in all this.  But I have lost weight , been much smaller than I am now and still have had high blood pressure.  So today I go in knowing that this will probably be the last time I see him since he is leaving soon....knowing it is still high.  I am tired of "playing" with the medications, trying this or that...I want to know what is causing this and fix it.  I don't believe that weight is the main cause of this problem...it is in my family so genetics do play a part here...but seriously, why can't we get my BP down?  So frustrating.  Maybe it is my age but I am tired of just a quick fix, I want a permanent fix for all my problems that I have.  I am tired of worrying about my health.  Just fix it! 

Today is the start of Lent.  I was going to give up my computer time and limit it to getting on once a day, but I can't do it...I just can't because then I would turn to food rather than the computer when I was bored or procrastinating and let's face it, I am big enough!  So I have chosen to give up my bad eating habits, eat only good snacks etc.  Maybe that will help me with my weight loss, that is virtually nonexistent right now!.

I have also decided to go and buy a woman's devotional book today and read it each day.  I need to bring some more spirituality into my life so I thought by reading a devotional each day and reflecting on it, that would be a good way to start.

Not much else is going on.  I actually have to go now and prepare to visit the dreaded Dentist.  It is for a cleaning, but I have had a tooth pain for quite sometime, and although I mentioned it before to the doctor, they never found any problems so maybe today....I would like them to just remove the tooth that is bugging me weather it is cracked or not.  It is way in the back and came in at an angle so it does not do anything for me anyway...so we will see what the Dentist says.  Wish me luck for no cavities!

Bob and Jake are napping right now so it is so nice and quiet in the house.  I love when they both are napping.  Bob has to
because of working so late at night.  I don't mind because this quiet time is my time.

This week for some reason Jake decided to pee on the playground school at his mother's day out program.  When I asked him why he did that he said that there wasn't a bathroom out there for him to use.  He knows where the bathroom is at school, and has been going there for a few years now so there is not excuse.  My kid is not that nasty little boy who does those things...so I think it wasn't really Jake, it couldn't have been!

The next day at his preschool program Jake was being blamed for things out on the playground.  Two little boys were being mean bullies to him.  Jake did not do a thing and his teacher knew Jake was innocent of all charges.  Jake was oblivious of it all.  I asked him if they were being mean to him and he said "Oh no, mom we were all just playing."  Sometimes I worry that he is the one who is going to be bullied in school because he really is a sweet child and does not get upset (to often) when others are bothering him.  He is way to easy going sometimes.  I wish I could just be with him to hold his hand and defend him from all those mean bullies that he will meet through out his childhood.

Last but not least I have to let you all know what an awesome husband I have. This morning I was going to go shopping after church,  Bob did not come,  so I asked him if he would either clean the oven or our bathroom.  When I came home he had done both Just another reason why he is a keeper!