HI EVERYONE!!!

Hi Guys and Gals!!! It feels like it's been forever since I last posted. I tried my very best to read most of the more recent posts. I missed a few. But just to say: Marilyn: Congrats on the 7 lbs... I'm strugglin myself!!! ( sheesh am I! ) Pamela: SMILES for you and your guy! I love hearing about thoughts of marriage and romance!!! It's my writing genre after all! Best wishes!!! :wink: Judy: So sorry to hear about your sister. I hope everything goes well for her and she starts feeling better. My prayers are with her. Happy: What can I say, Your posts are SO DARN FUNNY! I swear girl, I'm gonna make you a heroine in one of my romance novels!!! You crack me up everytime, speaking of...I want some crack to when I'm 102. No hoarding!!! ROFL! Ever think about writing? You're so darn good expressing yourself. Just love your posts!!! Reenie!!!: I missed you most of all Scarecrow. (sniffle). Hugs, Hugs, and more HUGS! Then some more hugs!!!!!! The ultimate sweetheart of the board. But ROWL!!! Watch out when she's miffed!! Makes me luv ya all the more. Don't take that crap lying down. (I know, I know, turn the other cheek and such...'sigh' but sometimes thats so boaring!) 'laugh' (Whispers: I was routing you on!! ) You go girl! (and you hang in there. We all love you so much!!!). OK... sorry I missed some people Didn't get a chance to read enough posts. I wil though. Welp...I've been busy being mommy to a new addition. Katelyn will ALREADY be a year in 2 weeks!!! June 19th!!! She is trying to walk and is just as boisterous and smiley and rough as she wants to be. She is a little spit fire!!! It's been so much fun. My son Matt will be 10 on June 29th and my dads B-day is June 24th! It's proving to be a busy month! Happy Birthday Reenie!!!!! ((HHUGGSS!!!)) I've gained twenty three pounds!!!!!!!!!! AAAAHHHHH!!!! geez, I guess I just rolled right on into that confession. It's so scary and sickening. I had dropped 8 pounds when I was pregnant because in the last 2 weeks I couldn't eat anything! The baby was pushing against my pouch somehow and blocking things. SO PAINFUL! So I rarely ate. so in hinesight. I guess I actually gained Thirty one pounds. 'SIGH' i stopped gaining. Thank the Lord in Heaven! (thank you God). NOw I'm begging Him to help me get it the heck off!!! SOOOO Hard!!!!!! and very depressing. I know if I stopped and focused...It would devastate me. Really it would. BUt I'm trying to ignore it best i can. Even though I KNOW I can't fit into my clothes hardly. I refuse to give in though. I won't get down... Wont let that demon in. Just have to bru**** off and pretend that it's nothing and that I'm just GONNA loose no if ands or buts. It's GOING TO COME OFF! So easy to say and type. But thats what I'm sticking with. Even though It sickens me to dress in the morning. ANYWAY!!! 'wink' I wanted to throw my myspace link at you guys so that you can check out my pics of the baby and matt. if you have a myspace account add me as a buddy! drop me a line! I'll write more soon. Love you guys and miss all of you!!!! myspace.com/redzzrealm.... let me know if you can find it. or if it doesn't work. I may have messed up the address. ((Hugs!)) Elizabeth M

Hi Elizabeth, Good to see you back with us Marchers. I am back and forth as I just started training for a new job after being unemployed for 9 months. What name do you write under? I love to read and thought I might try to check your books out when I get a little more time to read again. We are in the canning mood right now in Georgia. I bought a box of Vine ripe tomatoes and hubby is thinking about starting to can them tonight. (I am supposed to be ononline taking an Insurance course for me to pass the State test.) haha...We canned squash pickles last night and put some in the freezer. He is finishing up the squash as we speak. We have made all kinds of pickled stuff..... Your daughter has the same birthday as my husband. I know she will have a great party...take lots of photos........ Again, we are glad to have you back with us. Martha

Martha! I meant to tell you that I work for an insurance company. Not health insurance though and not an underwriter. I work for ACE USA. It's a big property and casualty business that insures the bigger companies... coke, honeywell, johnson & Johnson...etc... im in loss collections. Fun fun fun. 'wink' I wish you all the best in the field. Hee hee... I would LOVE for you to read one of my books...except, they aren't published yet I'm working on that though... I have about 12 written and my mother keeps screaming at me to get a move on. As if it were that easy!!! I'm getting ready to send it off to the publishing companies. I need to tweak a few more things in the first book then its off. It's scary! I know I'll be turned down a thousand times like most authors are. My favorite author was cool enough to actually post her rejections. She's a best seller now so I feel better about that. It is my passion though. I absolutely LOVE writing. I hope and pray I get published and can make a little money out of it. That is my dream anyway. I'll be sure to stop by alot more often. I sure need the weight loss support right about now with gaining so much. But aside from that I miss everyone here. and good luck with canning! My family is from VA (mountains) and they all can... beans, tomatoes, you name it. My favorite of course is the apple butter! My aunt and uncle was supposed to visit and they always bring canned green beans. SO GOOD! unfortunately they just found out that my uncle had a stroke, he hadn't been feeling very good and had trouble speaking, after tests mri etc...they found he had a stroke. He's doing ok but it's so scary. So we've been talking with them all week and today. Keep us in your prayers. Talk to you soon! ((Hugs!))

'LIZBET!!! When I start reading "whelp" I know you've come home and my step is a little bit lighter and my smile is a little bit brighter! So glad to hear the kids are doing well, I remember when we were all trying to help you name your little girl while she was still snug as bug in utero! Listen, don't sweat the gain! Every day I learn the same thing over and over again...the less I concentrate on my weight and what I'm eating, and the more I concentrate on my life and how I'm LIVING - joyfully, passionately, truthfully, with great compassion and care for the world and everyone in it - THAT'S when my weight stabilizes. You'll be fine if that's what you choose to be - we can all stay normal sized if that's what we chose - like Connie says, happiness is a choice; sometimes it's the most difficult choice in the world but it is a choice. Health is a choice. Living, loving, laughing -- all choices. Ah, I'm so happy to see your beautiful face again. Please stick around, "Dorothy"!!!! Love you, Maureen