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I’m just testing the “scheduled posting” feature to be sure it works.  Since Jan never posts anything, I figured I’d post something here and test the upgrade at the same time.  –Allan

update on Jan

Well since Christmas not a lot has changed with my back issues.   I still have problems with my back.  In July 2004, gosh I can’t believe it’s been that long ago, I ruptured a disc.   I had a back surgery in November 2004 and another surgery in March 2005.    I have other disc that are messed up, they just haven’t ruptured.

I don’t sleep anymore.    I don’t know what’s going on there….. I guess old age.   All of that started when the back issues started and the sleep issues have just gotten worse.   There’s a lot more to my back stuff I just don’t feel like writing about it right now.

On to other things, I stay busy being a somewhat stay-at-home wife and mom.   I work for a friend of ours in his veterinary office.  I work  about 9 hours a week as  his  office manager.   As I mentioned in another post I am a Creative Memories consultant.  I’ve been a CMC for about 9 years.  I’m somewhat of a amateur (very amateur) photographer.  I love taking pictures.  I’ve taken pictures of some of my friends for their Christmas cards and such.   I love just going to the Botanical Gardens or around town and snapping away.

I’m back helping out in Sunday school at our church in the baby class.   Before I hurt my back I taught the 1-2 year olds for several years and really enjoyed it.   I’ve missed it a lot.   I can’t lift those kiddos anymore but I can hold babies.    I’ve been the preschool coordinator for our VBS for I don’t even know how many years, maybe 8 or 9 years??   I really enjoy VBS.  It’s so much fun and the most important thing is watching God work in those kids lives.   The kids that come to Christ during VBS is what makes it worth it all.

I’ve been trying to get my scrapbooks up to date.  It seems like that’s a never ending  job with all of the pictures I take.

I have a reading problem though so it gets in the way of things some times.    I LOVE to read.   I’m so excited that I get to hear Karen Kingsbury speak this weekend at the Ewomen Conference in Birmingham  (this is a Christian Ladies Conference).  She spoke at the conference last year when I went.  If you haven’t read her books it’s a must!!   She’s awesome!   I’m really looking forward to all of the speakers and singers.   I’m a little bummed that Mark Schultz isn’t going to be there.  He was there last year.   I really enjoy hearing him sing.     There are about 10-12 ladies from my church going this weekend.  I’m really looking forward to the fellowship with them.

Hopefully this year I will not get a ticket going to the conference!    Last year I was pulled over just as I was turning into the church parking.   I wasn’t speeding or anything.  I didn’t have a clue as to why I was beening pulled over.   The lady riding with me was as puzzled as I was.   As it turns out my car tag had expired 2 weeks before that.    The dude gave me a ticket!!   He was very rude!!   She and I couldn’t get over how rude he was.    My friends in the cars in front of us had no idea what was going on.  Lisa called my cell.   I told her that he thought I was drunk.   ( I was kidding of course).   She thought that I was telling the truth, b/c we’d changed lanes back and forth several times on our way  to the church.   They didn’t know until I got into the church the real reason for me getting pulled over.   They couldn’t believe that I’d gotten a ticket either.   Apparently there is a “grace period” and I’d missed it by one day.   Beware of Vestiva Hills policemen, they’ll flat out give you a ticket.    I can laugh about it now, but I wasn’t laughing then.   Needless to say, I’ve bought our car tags for this year.  I’ve got it in my Google calendar to come up every April 1st – Buy Car Tags!!

Allan….

Allan has been really busy at work, that’s nothing new.   He’s busy at church on a committee that he’s been serving on for quite a while.   He also stays busy doing the sound at church.   He really enjoys doing sound.

He started a podcast about 6 months ago.  It’s called Two Chairs No Waiting.  The podcast is about all things Mayberry. He’s done 31 episodes so far.  He’s doing a great job and he’s really enjoying doing them.   He’s done several Mayberry events already this year.    He flew down to West Palm Beach a couple of months ago for a event.   We were in Tuscaloosa a couple of weeks ago for a wonderful charity event called Eagles Wings.    There are several more Mayberry events coming up this year.  In July there’s the Squad Car Nationals in Graysville, AL.   He’s got another event in NC and a event in August in Mississippi.   There’s the 20th annual Mayberry Days in September in Mt. Airy, NC.   Then in October the 4th annual Mayberry Cruise.   The cruise will be out of Jacksonville, FL.  It’s going to Key West and Nassau.   There’s George’s birthday in December and  that will just about wrap up the Mayberry stuff for the year.

Lastly, he’s still active in TKD (Tae Kwon Do).  He’s a 2nd degree Black belt.  He stays busy teaching kids TKD while continuing to work on his own mad skills. 

Our trombone player…..

We’ve been busy with work, school, etc.    Adam is enjoying band.   He started trombone lessons about a month ago.   He has his final band concert this Thursday night for this school year.    He’ll be going to a couple of band camps this summer.   He’s looking forward to those.  The band director at Mt Gap is Awesome!    To think that Adam was dreading band when the school year started.   He couldn’t wait for his “obligation” for the year to be over.   It didn’t take him long to decide that he really enjoyed it.    He’ll be marching with the MGMS band at the football games this fall.

CM

I’m still active in my Creative Memories business.   I  attended CM regional convention in Birmingham in January,  had a CM retreat in March, just a few weeks ago held my NSD (National Scrapbook Day).   My crop attendance has been really poor, but thankfully my retreats and NSD attendance has been good.   Looking forward to the rest of the year to see what happens…..

Long time no see…

Well I said that my post wouldn’t be that frequent.  Of course when I said that I didn’t think I’d let it go 5 months between post.   Not much going on in our lives right now.   This school year is almost over.  It’s hard to believe that Adam is finishing up 6th grade.   It seems like it was just yesterday he was in Kindergarden.    I’m trying to remember what’s gone on since Christmas…..

Here we go….

First, I’d like to say thank you to my wonderful husband for setting up this blog for me.

I can’t promise that my post will be clever like my super son’s blog. It’s pretty much about whatever’s going on in Adam’s world. You can visit it at adamnewsome.com or entertaining post like Allan’s blog called  Two Chairs No Waiting. It’s a internet show about the Andy Griffith show and all things Mayberry.

As Allan said in his post, I was trying to come up with something clever to say for my first post. Well, you’d probably be waiting for quite some time. After days of pondering, I’ve got nothing. So, hopefully I’ll find some great things to say soon. If I don’t post again before the new year, Happy 2009.

Wonder how long I’ll date my checks and other things 2008?

I guess I’ll post something

Well, it’s been a few days now and Jan hasn’t found the words to say anything. Boy…a feller works his finger tips to the bone fixing up a place for his wife and she doesn’t even post anything.

Actually, Jan says she’s trying to think of something good to say. I thought of something.

Buy scrapbooking stuff from Jan! She has LOTS of it and you need it. Call her and she’ll sell it to you….call ME and I’ll sell it….cheap ’cause I don’t know what it actually cost her/us.

There!  Maybe now she will snap to it and start posting things herself rather than waiting on “something good to say.”

Oh…and listen to my podcast if you like Mayberry stuff. I make Jan listen.

–Allan