HAPPY HALLOWEEN

I hope everyone has a fun day. I am not handing out candy this year. I actually stopped during the pandemic and just can't get back into it. 

I don't have any pictures yet of James in his costume today. I will share when I get one. We saw them on Sunday and I did bring him his Halloween Treat. It had natural gummy bears from Sprout and dark chocolate balls from See's candy which he loves. 

I'm posting today because there is an issue with blogger. I'm not sure who is experiencing this issue but you are unable to answer blog comments. Sandra has helped me with this and she has the same issue with her blog. I am extremely frustrated with this. I love to comment back to people. 

READING BLOGS

...BLOGS

I have made so many wonderful friends. I love you guys. I know that you understand what I'm about to say and I appreciate your kind words each time I have mentioned this. 

I am struggling to read all the blogs I follow.  Some of it is depression and some of it is because I have to start working on this house. I've truly put off things for way too many years. The house has become over whelming to me. Overwhelming means I hide in my office and watch something or I'm on the computer. 

I am working with a therapist who has given me great direction but I'm not finding the time to do that. That of course is definitely my own laziness. I got into the habit of watching a Hallmark movie each morning with my coffee. I'm finding it difficult to stop that routine which started with the pandemic. 

Now I know that all I have to do is one project a day, even if it is just a drawer. I also need to exercise and I find myself not being done with reading blogs until 1 or 2 pm in the afternoon. I come on my computer and I usually have about 70 blog posts to read. Of course I have a ton of emails too. 

So if I don't visit please know that I care about you and will try to read when I can. My best bet is to maybe not read blogs for a day or two and then just read one blog from each person. Honestly I would find that hard to do for some of my closets friends. 

I'm just in a place now where I'm trying to move forward but I can't seem to do that. Please be patient with me. I don't need you to comment on this post. I know you all care and understand like I said earlier. My goal is that if I could get the house in order than I would have all the time in the world to read everyone's posts. 

God Bless Each and Every One of You......

Love,

Debby

I'M TRYING......

I am trying to get caught up on reading your blog posts since I was gone but it isn't an easy task! If I miss yours I'm sorry. 

Was hoping to do a post here today but that's not going to happen. I haven't even downloaded my photos to my computer yet, they are still in my camera. If you follow me on Facebook you saw some photos from my phone. 

Let me just say that things have not been good since we have been home and I'm ready to run back to the beach. Your prayers would be appreciated. 

What I am going to share is a little post I put up on Facebook last Monday morning. I thought it was kinda funny: (copied from my Facebook page)

"Okay, here is the funny thing that happened yesterday. (not all of it was funny but you'll get a kick out of the ending) So it was a few hours before we were going to leave for Carlsbad, CA. Mark mentioned that they had a lot of rain in Texas and that he should call his mom. I said why don't you call her before we go. He said no I'll wait until I'm outside those stupid shops your going to go into when I'm boarded to death!!!!!

Well you can imagine my reaction to that comment. First of all there are not a lot of shops and we were just going to walk around town, get that out of the way before we checked in at 4 pm and basically did nothing while relaxing and being on the beach, only to leave to get dinner later on in the days we will be here.

So before we left I told Amber what he said to me and I told her I will not go into one frickin store! Well guess what.....when we got to Carlsbad they had the biggest Fair going on I've ever seen. I mean every street in town was closed off, it was street after street, side street after side street of vendors. Couldn't park anywhere but far far away.

Guess what, I didn't need to go into any stores. The whole town was my oyster so to speak!!! We walked for a few hours, grabbed lunch at our favorite place in town and then finished up looking at the streets we missed on our way back to the car. Tell me that wasn't a perfect comeback to his attitude !"

Hope everyone has a nice weekend.

A CLOSE ENCOUNTER......

OF THE BEST KIND!

I had an opportunity to meet up with a blog friend of mine. I have known Alexis for over six years now. Alexis and her husband surprised their boys with a trip to San Diego. They are going to the San Diego Zoo today, Sea World and of course visiting Legoland in Carlsbad this week. 

We were able to meet up in Escondido yesterday for an early dinner at Ramono's Macaroni Grill. We talked for 2 1/2 hours and it was wonderful. I had my favorite Penne Rustica and Alexis had my second favorite Pasta Milano.....delizioso! 

It was so different. It's like you know this person so well because you have been emailing each other for years yet sitting at dinner with her felt surreal, like being in a dream.  

We are really a threesome when it comes to our friendship. Our friend Amy who lives in Wisconsin is a part of that. We all became friends at the same time and we still talk about having a girls trip someday. Alexis lives in Washington and we haven't meet Amy in person yet. (Of course I could be their mother's)

Alexis, it was so wonderful meeting you in person and I know that this meeting has proven that you can be best friends with someone you had never meet in person before! Thank you for a great time and taking the time from you vacation to meet up with me.  xoxoxo