I am sad for a good friend of mine today...


There was an accident.
It killed a mother, a son and his girlfriend.
My dear friend is her best friend. I can't console my friend and it hurts me for her. This woman was her rock and her lifeline. She was everything to her. She picked her up and dusted her off after her divorce. She has pulled her out of depression a few times and was always willing to do anything it took to make my friend's life as full as possible. My friend is getting ready to move and this woman was landscaping and painting, anything that needed to be done was getting done. Her son was a mentor and a father figure for my friend's son (who is 13). He is devastated. Not only did he lose a woman who was like another mother but his "big brother" as well. I didn't realize it until it was brought to my attention, but I also know the mother of the girlfriend that was killed.
So tragic.
So sudden.
You will be missed.
I wish there was something I could do.

TEENAGERS..... (a followup)....


Someone once told me that you are only as happy as your saddest child. I believe that with my whole heart. Last week Babygirl was gliding through life happy as can be. She had a little friend who (up until now) I like very much. She is at our house at least once a week if not more. She comes from a good home. Her parents are really sweet. She makes good grades and has lots of friends. Up until Sunday this girl was my daughter's BEST BFF ever. She left Saturday and everything was just fine. All of a sudden she got a hair across her ass and started being really hateful to my daughter. I asked Babygirl what was going on. Now, BG has lots of friends, boys, girls and different ages of each. She hates drama and is a total straight shooter. She always tells everyone exactly how she feels, no holds barred. She has this one guy friend that lives down the street (who is also friends with my son). She tells this boy to his face that he is weird and they laugh about it, big deal right? Well, this friend and she were going to play with the boys and the friend decided that she doesn't like this boy. BG stated,"that's O.K. he's weird anyway...." not another thought to the whole thing. Well, that was until this little girl brought it up and said,"If you said that about him, what do you say about me behind my back? You're two faced and I never want to play with you again...." My daughter was stunned and hurt. This is her best BFF ever. She would never say anything behind her back that she would never say to her face. Now when BG tries to text her or call her, nothing. My daughter has every class with her and she hurts every time she sees her. I told her that if she is really a real true friend she will miss you come back to you eventually. I told her the best "revenge" is to be happy and act like it doesn't bother her. In the meantime I want her to branch out and invite other friends to the house and start making new BFFs. I have a feeling that another little girl who is friends with them both has started the whole thing. Nothing a mother can do to relieve the pain. Growing pains suck!
Ahhhh, teen drama. The rotten middle school days. I remember them not so fondly.
If anyone has some words of wisdom, please clue me in. I am sad and lost for my baby.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TY!!!

I hope this is the beginning of the most wonderful time of your life!

You are very loved, thank you so much for taking care of one of my best buds!

HAPPY TUESDAY!!!

Yeah, I couldn't think of anything grand (for a title) either. Hope everyone had an awesome weekend. BBQ's and fireworks, friends and family, sounds like a blast. I had none of that. Nope, my bud and her fam went out of town and I was lost.... We fed their animals and talked/emailed each other, big whoop! I did manage to play in the kitchen (yes my state of the art awesome kitchen). I made Philly Cheese steaks Saturday night and they came out perfect! Sunday I made a wonderful breakfast for the hubby. Oh and not to mention I made my first pork roast, again a successful venture. Monday, hubby worked 7:30-4:00 & I worked 9:30-3:00. I got home around 5ish. Our friends came home and we all went out for Chinese food. Now that is an all American Labor Day celebration! I have actually been feeling dizzy and pukie since yesterday afternoon. I realized this morning that I hadn't taken my blood pressure meds yesterday, oops! So I guess my body is kinda mad at me. Oh and YES Penni, I have learned my lesson so please don't yell at me or lecture me.... *grin* wish I had fun pics to show, but nope, not this holiday weekend.

Although the hubby is having his 39th birthday on September 10th. Do you HONESTLY think that I plan on celebrating that, after what he didn't do for me? I am still bitter about that, thank you very much! My bud (T-mom) did happen to hook our hubs up for an awesome weekend the end of this month..... No! This is NOT for his birthday either!

I AM IN SUCH A BETTER MOOD TODAY....

Babygirl is staying at a friend's house and Littleman is staying at a friend's house. AAAAaaahhhhh......

My friend Scott SO TOTALLY ROCKS! He made my day today by photoshopping me and making me look like my inner DIVA! Of course it was inspired by n0ne other than my bud Tysgirl....

Love you guys!

DIDJA MISS ME???

No need to fear, Big Mama is here. I had a stressful week at work, glad it's over! The rents came in for the weekend to celebrate their 46th wedding anniversary. That is a very long time!!! They still like each other, I have hope. The kids did pretty well their first week of school. I am proud of Littleman for doing his homework every night without hassles. I am proud of Babygirl for doing the same and starting to really get in to the whole middle school groove. I knew she would. We went out yesterday to celebrate a dear friend's 36th birthday (yes he is the baby of our group). We went to the Wild Wing Cafe', service SUCKED but the food and the company was good. Of course while we were eating it started to thunder and lightening. All of a sudden rain started dripping through the roof on to Tallman (Littleman's best friend). After the rain died down the Hubby shuttled everyone to their cars and we went to the bowling alley. I don't care for bowling, my pop can't bowl because he's 70 and has health issues, so we hung and watched them. My mother who is pushing 70 won the second of the two games they played. Yay MOM!!! It was fun, but for some reason I am so fatigued today. I got up at 9:00, took my Bp meds, ate breakfast, chilled and I am ready for a nap. Oh well... I'm sure that this will pass, I don't have any reason like this. Maybe because I don't have anything I NEED to do, I can be lazy today.

Maybe I'll paint.

Yes folks I paint and I am good at it and no, you probably won't see my work on here. We shall see.... But I doubt anytime soon.

SO....LET ME GET THIS STRAIGHT............

My dear friend Tysgirl who happens to be the bestest photographer ever has come down with Lyme Disease.

I looked it up and this is what I found;

Lyme disease (līm) Pronunciation Key A disease caused by the bacterial spirochete Borrelia burgdorferi, transmitted by deer ticks and characterized initially by a bull's-eye-shaped rash followed by flu-like symptoms such as fever, joint pain, and headache. If untreated, it can result in chronic arthritis and neurologic or cardiac dysfunction. It is named after Lyme, Connecticut, where it was first reported.

Ummmm... I don't like the sounds of that at all!!! I am glad she is taking care of it, but that's scary and I don't like that at all!!!! Time for soup with no chicken in it!

On a much brighter note, I am starting to come out of my mini-funk. I have no idea what has been washing over me like waves of sadness. I have felt like I was drowning, like I couldn't breathe, just overwhelmed I guess. I am starting to feel better. Thanks in great part to the fam. They are a great support team for me when I get the blues. The thing that totally pisses me off about the whole stupid thing is...... there is absolutely NO reason for me to feel this way. AT ALL!!!

I am happy that Tysgirl is going to be O.K., that SoozieQ is back and Moto is O.K. Not to mention Scott FINALLY came home and immediately posted pics. He also has the blues, please show him some love too....

Oh there is a blog that I like to check out at work. Just so happens she is a Savannah blogger and she seems really sweet. I have blurked there for quite a while. She was getting worried because she could see in her blog roll that a "law" address was spending time over there. Every time she would ask that I show myself, I never could. Something about the security settings. Well, I FINALLY was able to let her know it was me (yay me). So pretty soon I will be able to put her in my sidebar and you can bother her too... Well, again, I am feeling better and not so blue...

Love you all and thanks for keeping me going....