LATE Coffee Talk

I'm so sorry this is late!  My appologies.  Ya'll are a great group.  I appreciate Dana posting for me while I was on the cruise.  You guys are so blessed to have her here.  You are also blessed to have my awesome sweet friend, Lucy.  I look forward to meeting them both in April.  Any of you are invited to come be with us at the Bariatric Support Reunion at Oak Mountain State Park in Birmingham, Al on April 19th.  For more info, check out the Bama Board.  We'd love to have you guys.  Please promise me you will all take care of Lucy for me!  She's kinda special!  So is Dana!  I love these gals!  Good morning my friends!!!  BOY!  It sure is good to be home, but I miss everyone SO BAD!  I wanna go back.  Let's all just  pack up, grab our kids and go again!  LOL  If it were only that easy.  I am good to be back home though.  Back with all my wonderful friends.  BACK HOME!  No place like OH and HOME!  We DID have a blast, but I thought about you all so much.  HONESTLY!  Coffee talk is a blessing to me and coffee talk wouldn't be to me what it is, WITHOUT YOU!  YOU GUYS ROCK!

Our challenge today is to appreciate what you have.  I saw so much poverty this past weekend in Freeport and Nassau.  Much of the island is beautiful because of tourism and the stars that own property there, but those places are gated and limited as to who can enter.  Beyond those gates, beyond the stores and straw markets lies poverty and ruin.  We in America are so blessed.  I saw much of the same thing in Mexico last year.  We have so much to be thankful for.  We complain and take things for granted.  Gas here is at an all time high, but there, gas is $4.85 a gallon.  Milk is $6.00 a gallon.  Why do we complain?  Why do we whine?  Let's learn to appreciate our homes and what we DO have.  We may not have it all, but we have what we have and I LOVE MINE!  I love what I DO have!  How about you?

So, who's up?  What cha sipping on?  Me?  OH BOY!  I'm enjoying some awesome Island Java coffee that Shelia aka Shebnana bought for me whilen in Freeport, Bahamas.  It sure is good.  Thanks Shelia!  You are the BEST and so sweet. The coffee IS better in the Bahamas.  I sure would love to be at the coffee shop there.  We actually had coffee talk in Starbuck's in Nassau.  LOL  It was short and sweet, but we did talk.  Look for our pics in the next few days.  I forgot my digital camera but was able to take 3 rolls of disposal pics and they are at Wally world now getting put on disc.  

Love you ALL and again, it's good to enjoy coffee at home today with YOU!!!

We do take what we have for granted. I was just thinking that last night. I have a small townhome; but I HAVE A TOWNHOME. So, I am happy. I just read your story. You are such an inspiration. Thanks for posting on our boards.  I am not a coffee drinker; but I do like my tea ****d tea, that is). I don't drink tea that often (I'm trying to avoid caffeine). But on coffee days I will have some ice tea.  Anyway, I have to take a nap now as I have to work tonight. I just wanted to pop in and say, "hi".  Lori

I am so thankful for my baby boys even if they keep me up all night. I never truely understood what I was missing until I had them only 14 months apart. I gave up my full time job being in charge for the last 10 years to have them. Scared that this extreme change would be to hard. But nothing seems hard when you see their smiling faces. With that kind of love you can do anything.