Another day in the life of

That's all I could think of today......the last few months have fallen into a day by day thing. Not much going on since school started back. I never see Jax or Jalen, and Miss Ella Grace is sick. Lanie Elizabeth is tooooooooo little to do much with except feed her, change her or burp her. I saw a cute little onesie the other day that I almost bought her. It was pink and on the front it read "Does this diaper make my butt look big?" I tried to call Davy to see if it was the right size but couldn't get him on the phone, so I didn't get it for her. Of course it was the only one. If we go to Wally World Saturday and it's still there I will get it because it was just so funny! The hurricane season has been rough this year and even though we live in Oklahoma we are socked in with clouds and rain. By Monday we are suppose to get about 4 to 8 inches. Here it is September and everything is green and lush unlike so many dry Septembers. I love it. I love the cool temps. also but not the bronchitis that I get each year at this time. I am quilting like a mad women and I still have a snowman book for Jax, and three tinkerbell books to get sewn by Christmas for the girls. Boo is having a Nannie sleepover on the 19th and I am taking her to the North Pole for her first time. She doesn't know it yet and I can barely keep it a secret. Cowboy and I went on our Anniversary and we were the only ones there........I got a new tree for this year!!!!!!!! Plus we got some Christmas houses for the little grandkids, like the gum factory and the candy house and a Santa with all eight reindeer that have lights blinking all over. The houses light up also. I am a BIG KID when it comes to Christmas and Cowboy loves helping me get the house ready. He also foots the bill. LOL!!!!! That's it for today. Love and Hugs momma aka nannie

30lbs gone

At least some of the skin is shrinking with the weight loss so Lord willing I won't have to have any excess cut off. I fear all I could afford would be cowboys pocket knife and a huge fire to sterilize it before he

Post Lap Band

It has been one week since surgery and since July 24th I have lost 22lbs. I am not hungry and that is new for me.......I LIKE IT !!!!!!! I wish I would have watched my weight years ago and not have to have resorted to surgery. I did in a way watch my weight...I watched it go up and up and ........ect!!!!!!Nothing taste as good as I feel right now. I pray nothing ever taste as good as this feels. I am sore, I get tired easily but hey for me a week after surgery has never felt this good! Well can't sit here all day and say how great it feels not to feel hungry but it's true for the first time in my life. Love cj aka momma aka nannie

I have finished

The 4th and final book of Twilight [4 book saga] and it was W O W !!!!!!!! I had been waiting since last year to get my hands on this book and it was sooooooooo worth it 700 pages in 48 hours [okay i had to sleep some.ya think?I love the Bella and Edward love story and the books are all cliff hangers. I can't talk about any thing on line because some of my blogaphobics are not finished reading it yet!!! Shannon and I got my niece hooked and in 2 weeks sha has finished all of the first 3 books. She is sooooooooo into it!!!! The three of us are texting or calling each other a million times a day just to ooooh or oh no or not they didn't kinda of stuff. However she has to wait for the 4th book until this weekend. I couldn't wait for Shannon to deliver mine so she is bringing it to the hospital Thursday and I will bring it home and Teresa will pick it up here [provided she brings her uncle mike some food] Ha!!!!! Well, gotta go so until next time take a moment all to yourself and do something nice. love cj aka momma

This is the second blog

I had the most wonderful blog ready to post and OOOOOPS somehow this computer ate it!!! Well yes it could be the person typeing but I don't think so! Anyway I wrote about the newest love in my life and that is Miss Lanie Elizabeth. Saturday cowboy and I got to hold her and love her and hold her and did I mention love her and hold her?????LOL!!! Babies are just the cuteest, sweetest, most innocent like creation ever put on this earth. I love her smiles, her coos, her spitting up all over the dress I wore, the poopie diaper i had to change [okay mabe not so much the poopie diaper] but soooooooooooooo much love wrapped into such a tiny little body. Next Miss Ella Grace entertained us with all her little 15 month old tricks. We got there at 11am and left around 3pm but it wasn't enough time, they just grow so fast. I hate missing a minute of any of my babies, whether it's Boo or Jax. Ella Grace, or Lanie. I miss my own babies even though my youngest just turned 29 on Aug.1st! I have been getting ready for yet another surgery but this time I am wanting it to happen. Lap-band surgery is this Thursday at 1pm and I would ask all friends and loved ones for your prayers. Also pray for my Zambian babies since there has been flooding as well as an outbreak of HIV and other dieases taking the lives of the babies! I will catch ya later and you are always in my heart. love cj aka momma

Todays thoughts

Can it really be July 30th 2008 already? Am I really gonna have lap band surgery? Can Davy be 29 years old this Friday, what happened to my baby??? Can I get any more into the Twilight saga, duh????? Two more days and my final book will be in and I am afraid it won't end the way I want. Although, I am not too sure at this point how I want it to end. Why is it soooooooooo cloudy and humid and it's not raining? I wonder if the mailman forgot our house today? Boo is at 6 Flags and I miss her so much my arms ache! Am I really gonna pay $40 to have my entire house cleaned before surgery? Can I be more bored than I am right now? I am going to go work on a baby quilt for Miss Lanie Elizabeth before she finishes high school.LOL!!!! I am going to also call my mom, read my email and make my bed [maybe, after all it is 3pm]. I wonder what my life will be like after surgery? Wonder where cowboy is right at this moment? Well, that's just 2 minutes of thinking and I am tired so till next time. hugs and love momma aka cj aka nannie

Twilight

Oh my goodness look at the picture of Edward and Bella...I put that on my blog all by myself!!!!! I called Suzanne because I got only 1/2 of the picture on one side to stay on the page and then it just came to me!!!!! I rearranged a few things and TA DA there it is in all it's beauty! For those non readers out there or those that have somehow missed out on the Vampire [teenage love]stories by Stephanie Meyer, what can I say??????Read the books a set of 3 with the 4th and final book of the set due out Aug.2 this year!!!!!! Ya can't put it down....No ya can't!!!!! At least not if you have ever been in love, lost love, regained lost love or whatever! Ya can't miss out on these books. The first movie comes out in December and Sissy and I have our tickets, Phillip and cowboy are keeping Boo and we are gonna stand in line to get in with all the 14 to 70 year olds. LOVE LOVE LOVE and not scary except for Bella, she's human. Edward is her one true love...he's a vampire......it's complicated but ooooooooooh sooooooooo worth reading. Gotta go for now. Proud of myself for getting the picture to load. hope you are too Suzy love momma aka cj

July???????

Where has the time gone?????? Oh yes, I was in the hospital again and again and.....oh well you get the picture! I am now in physical thearpy for my right foot an ankle and will have a very important surgery August 7th. I am having a Lap Band procedure and have excepted the fact that for me this is the tool I need to help me reach a goal. I am nervous, I hate hospitals, needles, surgery.....ect! I am praying and believing that all will go well and in 1yr. I will look and feel and be healthier than I have been in years!!!!! All the kiddos were here on the 4th of July and we had a great time other than the fact that cowboys brother passed away on the 3rd of July. His funeral was on the 5th so it was good all the family was together. I just wanted to write an update so let me finish with Lanie Elizabeth is growing and is healthy and now 1 & 1/2 months old. Miss Ella Grace is 14 months old and refuses to walk [but we don't put her down enough to let her learn] LOL!!!! Jaxon is 3 and potty trained. Jalen is 6 and 1/2 and in level 4 swimming class, still loves sleepovers with nannie and going to be a first grader this year. Cowboy is working on his 39th year with THE Phone Co. and Sept. 3 will be our 37th anniversary. I love him more today than I did at 17 when I fist saw him. NO ONE WILL EVER CONVINVCE ME THAT THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS LOVE AT FIRST SIGHT!!!!!![or, that God didn't send him to me!]!!!!! Love momma aka cj shout out to Ali and Katie bug

Long story - short

The cast came off, I had heel surgery, it got infected with MRSA [really bad staph infection] I went back into the hospital, during which time I missed the birth of our 4th grandchild. Miss Lanie Elizabeth was born June 10 weighed 7lbs and is 19 and 1/2 inches long. Unlike Miss Ella Grace her thirteen month older sister she came home on the 3rd morning. All are doing fine. I just got a DTP booster shot and am fussy HA!!!!! Maybe Lord willing I won't get whooping cough again this year!!!! I have one more surgery on my right ankle and then maybe I will get to walk for the Arthritis Foundation in December. Just a quick update for anyone still left out there who remember me.......Hugs cj aka momma aka nannie

Its been tooooooo long

Where has the time gone? Oh yeah, I have been busy busy busy!!!! Today marks one solid year with a cast on my right foot.....no, not the same one silly. I have worn black, red and now blue. Those were my favorite colors but now it is getting to the point of no return. This cast must stay on for ONE MONTH!!!!! UGH!!!!!! Update... Jaxon just turned 3, Boo had her top baby tooth knocked out at school [if you remember she is our drama queen] so it was tramatic to say the least. Miss Ella Grace will be 1 May 12th and I am hopeing that Miss Lanie Elizabeth will stay inside mommy until closer till her June due date! I am in the middle of finishing two baby quilts for her. Cowboy and I lost a close friend last week to an OOPs at the hospital he was in. He should not have died, He was doing great and within 4 hours he got a blood clot in his lungs and was gone. He was the kindest, funniest, most loveable guy and his wife is way tooooooo young to be a widow. The pain of seeing her hurts so bad because she loved him as I love my cowboy. They are younger than we are but we have been friends for over twenty years and it hurts so much!!!! Getting older and seeing friends pass on really hits home but yet we believe we will meet again in a far better place then we can imagine. Gotta go for now, just some thoughts from me to you, love momma, aka cj aka nannie aka friend and a great big shout out to Liz, Ali and Katie bug

Boo and a sleepover

As most of you know Boo is my oldest grandaughter [all of 6 yr.] and she is wanting a sleepover which is not a surprise to anyone. We have to have a sleepover at least twice a month or we both get out of sorts. The new part is she has made a list of 25 things to do for Friday night. I told her we would save some for Saturday and she sighed and said "Nannie, you are suppose to make a list of 25 things for Saturday". Do yall remember how OLD I am?????? Oh well, I told PawPaw he gets her from 7am until 9am Saturday morning because I need my sleep. He wanted to know if he needed a list so I said Yes, of course!!!!! He had written 3 things......make her pancakes, watch cartoons, wake up nannie! She is very good to let me sleep til a little before 9 but after that it's head um up move um out {cowboy lingo for go go go].I am soooooo glad she was in kindergarten this year because any time I wanted to go get her on a Thursday or Friday it was fine. Next year I guess I'll have to go see Miss Ella Grace and Miss Lanie Elizabeth. [13 months apart in age] I'm not getting any younger ya know. Boo is already planning for Ella to turn 5 so she can teach her about sleepovers. I hope I last that long, LOL!!!! Well, gotta run just me being me tonite. cj aka nannie

PRAYER REQUEST

Dear friends, family and passerbyers, I am asking for prayers for Miss Amanda right now as she has just lost her grandfather plus she is due to have Lanie Elizabeth in June but has had a few contractions. She is sad and stressed and we have all been there at one time or another. If you are just passing by my blog please have a kind thought as you are on your way. Thank you all. Today is hard......even though I didn't personally know her grandfather I know her daddy and I am sooooooo sad for him. I lost my daddy some 10 years ago and have his picture, dog tags and flag above my computer and it seems like it was just yesterday. When a loved one passes it touches more than just the family. There are people that you don't even know who your loved one touched by example or deed. I like to think of an added star in the sky when someone passes. I am rambling but again, MY BLOG! I write to get the hurt out. My hurt is not equal to my friend but knowing what he and his family are going through just hurts. I can't do or say anything to fix it. I hate not being able to comfort, or have words of wisdom so great that takes their pain away. God is the only one that heals this kind of hurt. I can only sit back and pray which is the best thing. Still I want so badly to help. I will ask again for all of your prayers, thoughts and prayers as you pass by and I know some of you will email but that's not needed for my benifit. I just want you to pray for The Simpson Family including Amanda and Lanie. In Zambia they say "Let God Be The Final Medicine". In Him I know all things will work out but I am still sad for my friends. Just me, Hugs and Love cj aka nannie aka friend aka momma

56

Yep, yesterday was my 56th birthday and I spent it in OKC all day going from one surgeon to another. Remember way back on January 1 when I said no more surgeries!!!! I had 3 last year. Well looks like i am having 2 this year. I feel like I am not really believing it so maybe if i write it here and reread it I will get the idea that "Yep, I am having 2 operations this year"!!!!!! The good news is it isn't my back but my right ankle, and right knee [torn ACL]. Two different doctors and two different hospitals. I am soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo scared to be put to sleep, not because of dying but because I already have so much scare tissue in my throat from the last 9 surgeries. Again, the good news is it isn't my back!!!!! I hope it is over before Lanie Elizabeth is born so I can help Miss Amanda out. Yes, I still called my daughter-in-love Miss. Only because I called her that when I met her and found out she was going to become a teacher. She is adorable and I love her like my own daughter......I keep forgetting she is not my daughter. I tell people that I have three daughters and three sons and three grandchildren. Really, there will be 4 with Lanie. I count Phillip as a son, and Suzy as a daughter as well as Amanda. God has blessed me soooooooooooooooooooo much and I feel sooooooooooooooo unworthy. I am trying harder to be a better mother-in-love and that is hard when you consider them your children. I am working hard on communicateing better and not giving advice that is truely not needed. Shannon has learned to say "Oh Really" and we laugh and I know that she doesn't need any advice. She doesn't hesitate to call when she really needs me. I think my abandonment issues from childhood cause me to need to be needed. I am trying to work on allowing God to take over and I just take care of me and spoil the grandbabies, not raise them. It really is that much more fun when I don't worry all the time.As usual this was just me being me and getting it in writing. Shout out to Ali and Katie bug and Liz, Hugs and Love cj

Quilting Time

I picked out the most girly of girl material [pink,cream, greens and rosebuds]pinned it and have started Lanies first Nannie handmade quilt. That was two weeks ago....duh! Lanie is coming in 3 and a half months. I just can't believe that she is really that close to coming. With Miss Ella Grace we prayed and waited prayed some more, and waited so I made about 4 quilts. Now I must get busy because Lanie is really coming. I think it has finally sunk in to Davy and Miss Amanda too,because they are finally looking at baby furniture. This time Miss Amanda was about 3 months along before any of us knew about this wonderful surprise. I can't wait.....yet I guess I have been waiting but only because we found out she was a girl in January and the really cute summer baby material isn't out yet. Today is sunny and cold and I am feeling like getting down to business. I had a 3 day 2 night sleepover with Boo last weekend and I am not sure which of us had more fun [even PawPaw joined in].LOL! It is hard for his big hands to hold little tea cups but he is great when the building blocks come out of the box. I want to THANK all of you for the emails and the love that came with each one. I know you don't want to end up as a comment in my book but come on guys, it's only a book for my 3 kids and their families. Anyway I love all my little blogaphobics so keep on emailing. Hugs and Love and shout out to Katie bug, Liz, and Ali. cj aka nannie of 4 [Lanie is already in my heart so I tell people I have 4 grandbabies] and soon she will be in our arms. Okay, enough said, I am going straight to the quilting chair [of course it is a recliner that vibrates and heats my back at the same time] and no I don't feel sorry for the older folks that sat in hard wood rockers. I believe that picking cotton made them sturdy!!!!HA! I guess every one can't live in my happy little world.cj

Busy, Busy, Busy

I can't believe it is the end of January already. Of course being sick for two weeks blew most of the month. We went to see Miss Ella Grace Twice but the first time my back was hurting so cowboy got the pleasure of holding her and we left after 2 hours. Last Sunday we helped Davy and Miss Amanda get the final Christmas stuff put away and this week I am trying to finish putting up my snow men and women, although, we are being teased by the weather man with the promise of snow tomorrow. Okay, the weight watcher thing is fun online an I lost 8lbs the first week. Awesome for me....PAT ON THE BACK!!!! I am having to learn this new way of living because I just found out that I have some Kidney damage....I KNOW...WHERE DID THAT COME FROM????? Well after my dr. appt. last week and blood taken I got the results yesterday along with a note saying I have an appt. Feb. 7th to talk about whats going on. SWELL, I said to myself and then I said OH well, why not. So today I have a baby quilt to work on, the sun is shineing, the wind is blowing 60 miles an hour [normal for OKLA.]and the happy thought of a new grandbaby in June although I think she might come last of may. I picked the 6th of June so we will see. I guessed Miss Ella Grace would be born May 12th and she was. Okay you are right Ali, I am stalling. I am going to put up the snow people and then work on the quilt. Wait, I have a funny Memaw story about my mom. She called yesterday telling me about the cutest baby material that she bought. I had her describe it and i said "Mom that will be so cute" to which she replied "When can you start on it?" Yep, she wants me to make it and give it to Lanie from her. Does anyone see the humor in that? I have two quilts going already and now a third one from memaw. My fingers just don't work that fast so Lanie may get her memaw quilt for Thanksgiving, ha! Hugs and Love cj aka nannie aka Ethel aka momma

Weight Watchers

I did it...I finally did it! I joined Weight Watchers on line and am loving it. No more meetings unless I want to go, but lots [or should I say tons] of information, success stories, recipes, and place to write down what I am having for a meal. This is where it gets really good...it calculates your points for you. It has a chat room or rooms that is secure and goes from needing to lose 10lbs to over 200lbs. This is my year to finally get the job done. Last year I wore a cast on my right leg, knee to toe for a achilletendinitis [that may be two words] anyway it is finally getting better. Two years ago I was walking 5 miles a day...dropped to nothing last year and packed on way too much weight to be comfortable sharing. I know, I can hear you Ali, but sissy you share everything. NOT THIS TIME...I am mortafied, horrified, and angery for letting myself get this heavy. However, with lots of prayer, my new thyroid medication and walking I am gonna suprise even me!LOL!!! If anyone passing through today and needs some inspiration then just comment to your little hearts content! I've been on diets since I was 15 years old and now I am not dieting. Weight Watchers is a life change. We can all get through this so email if you r not comfortable commenting on the blog. To all my little regular blogaphobics, see ya on the email later! Love and Hugs to all who pass by.Psalms 100:1-5 shout out to Katie bug and Liz [long time no hear from yall].

LANIE ELIZABETH

Isn't that the most precious name ever? Yes, you reply!!!! Our newest addition to the winn family is a little girl. She is due in June and there are 46 people in Oklahoma still waiting to meet her big sister Miss Ella Grace. Babies are just the happiest news ever in my happy world. They are so new and sent from Heaven so pure and beautiful. Each one so different and so special like a snowflake. I love the name Lanie [pronounced like Lane with an ie].What a wonderful child so full of love and getting to come to earth to bless all our lives and all she has to do is get born. That's all, just be born and have hundreds of people waiting and praying and loving her. Love really is that easy and I for one love to love so color me the happiest Nannie of 4 in the whole wide world!!!! Lanie Elizabeth and Miss Ella Grace we are gonna have a big ol party this summer to welcome you both to the Oklahoma side of life. [I secretly wish I could also introduce you to the Arkansas side] but that's a whole nuther world.HA!!!!! Please every one who passes by this blog, take a moment to pray for the safety of my daughter-in-love and our new baby Lanie, or just spend a moment thinking of a happy thought for your self. Thanks for passing by, Hugs and Love to all and a shout out to Ali and Katie bug

Oh My Word

I am losing my immune system....how can that be? I have lost car keys, check book, clothes and pets and possibly my mind from time to time but how do you lose an immune system? NO I DO NOT HAVE AIDS !!!!! The doctor can't explain it but my test came back as almost nil, nada, neyt,[neyt is Russian]. Okay forget the Russian word for not happening but have you ever heard of anything so bezarrrrrrrr. Yes Ali that is spelled wrong but u get the drift. If not email me as usual and we will talk.HA!!! I just got through having Whooping Cough in Nov. [had it in 2005 also]and now I am getting over a Staph infection of the stomach lineing. Who gets that??? Me of course. What was my new year resolution.....well it was to stay out of the E.R or Hospital for at least the first 6 months of 2008. So far, so good. Oh My Word, I could be a poster girl/woman for any number of dieases and some not even thought of yet. Bear with me here...let's review. I have had a broken arm, been locked in a ice box on a back porch in 1954, I have been in 3 car wrecks [none my fault, one head on],have had 5 back surgeries, had pnemonia [spelled incorrectly]. I have had a cancer tumor behind my right eye that turned out to be not cancer. I have had knee surgery three times on same knee and yet they missed that I had a torn ACL. I have a flu shot every year and still manange to get the flu every year. I am told by the doctor that I had somewhere in time the German Measles[ those I remember] plus the regular measles. I had chicken pocks but only about 1/2 a dozen so I have been told to avoid any children that have them. I now have chronic bronchitis and if I am lucky the pain in my right big toe is gout. LOL...LOL...ROTFL!!!!! No wonder I am afraid of lightening. Okay some of those don't have anything to do with immune system and I forgot to mention I have been carjacked, my point is......well my point is....I don't have a point. I am just freaked out by an immune system that is going whacko...[WHACKO,A SHOUTHERN TERM FOR CRAZY]. Oh well it could be worse, I guess! Hugs and Love from a woman in a bubble somewhere in OKLA! LOL LOL LOL cj

Yikes

New word....Ha! Let's see, where am I? Oh yea, I lost my old blog spot. That's okay I like my new one better. Yesterday was a shocking day to say the least. Our oldest son Joseph [Joey to me]and wife got robbed at their home. Someone or more, kicked in the front door while they were at work and stole their 52 in. t.v. They had saved forever to get it, their movies, Jaxons movies, all the movies and the x box, controls, any jewlery left in the living room and the feeling of being safe. I hate that but like Joey said "Mom we are safe and things can be replaced"!! By the way I was suppose to be there keeping Jax and his friend Danny both 3 years old. I have a gun permit and keep a gun in my purse at all times. I would have shot them dead probably and I thank God I wasn't able to be there. I have often wondered if i could shoot a live person and the answer is yes. Not to kill unless my grandbabies or self or cowboy is in danger. I have practiced and am really good but I still would have hated to take a life. It took an hour for the police to get there after my son called it in.....so what does that say????? Ha.....a side of me you guys didn't know I bet! All three of our kids grew up around guns, have been taught gun saftey and we keep all guns locked up while we have company, be it family or friends. Cowboy and I go shooting since we live on 20 acres [which on a happy note, this land and house will be paid off this March]!!!!!!!!WOOOOOOHOOOOOOO as Ali would say. Well gotta go greet my cowboy at the front door, been doing that for 37 years this Sept.3 and plan on doing that for a few years more, Lord willing! Hugs and Love to all, cj aka nannie aka ethel aka carla [and maybe Annie Oakley]NOT!!!!!

I lost me

As you can tell by my spelling I am better at talking than writing. Same goes for using this computer. I lost my original blog "Nannieof3" and now somehow I lost my first "Heartwithwings". If you find me let me know because now I have to make a new profile and stuff. If I weren't still sick I would do it now but I am not getting much better so this will wait. I will find me again soon...until then email me like most of you do anyway. Love and Hugs to all my little blogaphobics, cj aka nannie aka ethel aka just me