Happy (?) Labor Day

Seriously, how can you even say Happy and Labor in the same sentence. So Welcome to Labor Day. I hope you have plans to celebrate a day off today in honor of how hard you work the rest of the year. 

As for me, I will be laboring on Labor Day. But it is a one show day so it will be a short, easy day. Of course, when your job is to greet tourists and help them find their seats to enjoy their dinner and show, it never feels like work. I really do have fun when I go to work. 

I have even been laboring at home this morning. I've done two loads of laundry, straightened up the house, baked a white cake with chocolate icing, made a few deviled eggs and some baked beans.

Next thing on my agenda is to head to work and get in my hours and head back home to enjoy my food. I knew if I didn't make it this morning, I'd talk myself out of it tonight. 

Almost time for good-bye....

It's about that time when we tell our whites goodbye for another year...if you grew up in an age when it was taboo to wear white after Labor Day.

I personally don't care one way or another. I never, ever wore white shoes or white pants after Labor Day when I was younger. But as trends and styles change, I try to go with the flow. When you are going to the beach soon and you have some beautiful white capris to go with your bright yellow top and white flip flops....that rule flies right out the window. White is allowed on the beach...no matter what season in my book.

I will be looking forward to fall and officially summer is till here till the 3rd week of September so my whites aren't going anywhere just yet.

Faith Filled Friday

I wanted to update you on my friend Stephanie who had the double lung transplant. She did go home to an apartment in Nashville close to the hospital a week ago yesterday...just 6 days after the transplant. The team of doctors continue to tell her they have never seen anyone move forward as fast as she has. One doctor told her "I don't know who you have praying for you, but tell them to keep it up. It is apparent God is listening."

She is continuing to amaze everyone. Today it has been two weeks since the transplant. They give her goals and she is bypassing each one. When they released her, they wanted her to do daily breathing and the goal was to be able to breathe out at 800 and within days she surpassed that and was breathing out at 1200. Way to go Steph!  

On Wednesday, she posted this.

Guess what everybody??? I WALKED A MILE TODAY AT PULMONARY REHAB AND MY O2 STAYED 96-97 THE WHOLE TIME!! I am so thankful for my husband who walked with me and helped me get that mile,if he wasn't there I would have stopped half way through! #lovingmynewlungs - I can't believe it's only been 12 days since my transplant!

But my favorite post of all was yesterday morning at 6:30 when she posted 

"Loving not being on oxygen!" 

She looks amazing for someone who just had a double lung transplant. She continues to give God all the glory and never fails to thank the family who made a tough decision to allow her to be so blessed. God is good!

I am getting hungry...

I have been looking on Pinterest at food ideas. I haven't had a Mississippi mud cake since I was about 16 years old and mom made one. It was delicious I may have to try to make one.

I also want to make some homemade meatballs and brown gravy. Allen used to make it a lot and I helped them so this is something I do know how to make. I just haven't gotten around to making any and long time. And I want it with mashed potatoes but this picture has carrots. I would have an ear of corn on the cob if it was me.

And I would love to eat it at this table that I saw on Pinterest. Isn't that

neat.

 L

Hump day!

Just a few things to update you from my week so far...

It is hard not to smile when your friend beside you in Sunday School has finished her bagel and decides she wants to rearrange her fruit on her plate. She nudged me and I looked over and I just had to get a picture. Yes, they feed us in Sunday School and me and Debbie were enjoying our breakfast before class started.

Monday, it was a busy day at work. With all the college kids going back to school and some other shift changes, my schedule is changing some. I do believe I better pay better attention to it because I was late for work the other day. But they understood. I got there in time to do what I needed to get done for the day so all was well in the end. I just hated it because I am never late for work.

I was off Tuesday. I went with a friend to a couple of shops and while we were at Walmart, I picked up some mums to put in a flower box on my front porch. Just .97 cents each. I love mums.

Then I just messed around the house the rest of the day. After supper, I just laid on the couch and read my book. It was a great day off.

Too cute...

If this doesn't put a smile on your face, I don't know what will. I stopped at Shoney's Saturday to have breakfast on my way to work. This was parked beside me when I came back out to my car. Shear genius at work on whoever designed the layout of the headlights on this vehicle. For some reason it just struck My Funny Bone. I just couldn't decide if it looks like Lightning McQueen from Cars or a deranged a bull. Either way it is just the cutest thing I have seen in a long time. I could ride a motorcycle if it looked like this.

I choose JOY

I have come to a conclusion. You can live your life by letting your attitude be affected by others, or you can choose to rise above the situation and make your life better rather than letting their anger become yours. I dealt with a few situations yesterday that left me drained. Not emotionally, but actually physically drained. Too many trips up and down steps. Too many times being pulled in too many directions. Rushing to get too much done in too little time. As a result, I ache all over today. My feet hurt. My ankles hurt. My legs, hips and back hurt. Even the side of my foot hurts. It took me a little while and a lot of peppermint lotion, but I'm up and about and ready to face the day.

I was whining and moaning in my head about wondering if it was a full moon since people everywhere I went yesterday were just downright acting out. Then it hit me. With God's help, I made it through every situation with flying colors. I didn't get mad. I didn't get upset. I didn't get down. I got THROUGH it. I put on my happy face and my big girl panties and I made it through the day.

My daughter-in-law has said it in many ways over the years, but to sum it up she always points out that some people react rather than take action. Well, my day was so full and packed that I didn't have time to react. I had to keep taking action. So thinking about all that this morning, I realize that yesterday was not about everybody being in a mood or having a bad day or bad moment. Yesterday was about me being totally AWESOME in the way I handled it all.  LOL. Well, at least that is what I'm telling myself to keep me sane and get me through another day.

Have a happy, blessed Sunday.