things are ok

grieving with my best friend on the death of her daddy- he was killed last thursday in a freak accident, he fell 7 floors, such a sad time

wanted to update on my presents of the day

they can all be found here

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not feeling like much else, ill be back, life is just sad right now 

forgive my absence

im recovering once again 
got taken to er on Monday night with what nurse and drs thought was ecoli poisoning

come to find out it was just a severe case of stomach flu. 

I need to rest for now

Some pic of presents to make ya smile 

Day 7 to bring color into my life 

Day 8- to relax and unwind- head massager

 

 

Day 9- to find joy in every day

 

Day 10 

 

Day 11 i think she is trying to make me sweet 

Day 12- to clean up the messies that life brings

 

 

Day 13 to celebrate my greatest blessings 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

i really hate when i am trying to get the words to flow correctly to get across what im trying to say I have a heavy heart tonightMy Dear Cousin Marcie who is only 25 is suffering with a cancer, it is growing very rapidly- she has started Chemo but she is in a lot of pain- my heart goes out to her, my heart breaks for her, i remember growing up with her- she was also born with spinal bifida- i always stop and ask why her, didn’t she have enough growing up- she could never run and play like all of us did, she was confined to leg braces, crutches and a wheel chair- she has had so many surgeries thru out her short life… It is a good thing we cant just call to Heaven on a telephone because people would have the line worn out just by asking questions. My heart breaks for her mother and father- her older sister also has MS- she has a bad case of it.The Whole family is upset as they would be. Not sure where to turn or what to do, so a close friend and i are having a benefit concert/silent auction to raise money to help them get her to apts etc, the closest hospital is 2 hours away and she goes once a week.  We are hosting it on Nov 24, if any of you feel inclined to give a donation, email me please: terrigrothe@gmail.com or comment here

Days 4-5

 

 My Favorite choc bar

 I love hot tea and cozies

 

  

This has been an awesome weekend.Friday- I turned 30- First phone call came at 7:15 am- i wanted to slap her but seeing as she is my mother, i figured id suck it up and talk to her, after we got done talking, i got Brooke up for school, i was off today so we slept an extra hour when im off.Got her off to school and i went back to bed, because i could ;p I slept off and on til 11:30- yes i am a person who prefers day time sleep to night time sleep.Once up i checked some blogs out, checked facebook, email and twitter, decided i wanted chocolate for breakfast and because it was my birthday, i didnt feel guilty at all, husband gave me my favorite ones, these chocolates are amazing.

I decided i would do some laundry because birthday or not, laundry needed to be done. Brooke needed me to come to school and bring her saxophone home wor her, bc she finds it very heavy and so do i.
I took a shower when we got home to get ready for birthday dinner, we went to Hilltop bar and beverage, i wasnt impressed with my food, but it was nice to be surrounded by people who are important to me, we had 14 people show, they got me balloons and cake for dessert after dinner, then we did presents and i am so spoiled, here are some

Cake off course

 

 

some presents…candle, tupperware( personal rice maker, i love it, choc, friends thing, skirt

 

 

Mel( my adopted sister) , Tim and Olivia were also there for dinner, she gave me a huge box full of presents, there were 30 items in there, each individually wrapped and numbered, she wants me to open one a day for next 30 days. The one i could open today was a notebook- so i can record my next 30 days.

(the 30 presents)

 

I had a great birthday with my friends and family.

The first present today was a notebook to document the next 30 days with :

Here it is

 

 

I cannot wait to open all 30 days Each day i will share a photo of that day’s gift

Brooke has been asking to take the guest room for her room, so we did it- i dunno why she wanted to switch but she did like her room.

Hung out with my amazing husband after that was all done, he is such an amazing husband. I am blessed.

 

Saturday: as usual we ran errands… we are such procrastinators- we spend most of the day sitting around, hanging out and doing nothing- so just before 3 we went to super store for groceries, also ate lunch there because we did’nt have any before going- Never Go Shopping On An Empty Belly:p

We then went to Costco( like Sam’s club), bought our first ever membership for Costco, i am was a big anti costco shopper, now i am all about it, i also went with 10 days meal planned, first time to ever do this and i am hoping it works well.

Brooke has a project at school- “Rock Band” so she needed some supplies for that, so we went to Dollarama ( like dollar tree, except Dollar Tree is much better), came home, our friend Faith came over for dinner and i made nachos, she also gave me a sweet Birthday card, such a sweet girl. I am so blessed to be her friend.

Made brownies, did laundry and met my new friend Michelle - she also re-decorated my blog after i had it all messed up, thanks so much Michelle for coming to my rescue.  She is new to blogging as well, so nice of her to help me out.  Blogging has allowed me to meet so many awesome people. Go by her blog and say hi to her.

 

Day 2 present was:

 

 

Sunday

 

As usual we had sunday school- i love our church more and more every day. Everyone is so nice and friendly there and our pastor is an amazing speaker. 2 of the kids from bible school came for lunch and to do laundry, they are sweet kids, I took my sunday afternoon nap and oh did it ever feel good. My hair did exactly what i wanted it to do today, i love good hair days.

Here is Brooke and i today :

 

Sunday PM- back to church- yeah we go to church 2 x on Sundays, not a lot of people do anymore and they dont do it back home anymore, but i love it, so refreshing to go 2x on sundays.

After Service we ended up going to Wendy’s- its what people do here, they go out to eat on sunday nights, i didnt eat anything but had a cold diet coke( not as good as pepsi but ok )

Now i am home with lunches packed, clothes picked out, laundry going and ready to face another week.

 

Today’s gift was:

When they come to visit im gonna get Olivia to help me get her momma.

 

Have a great week

 

 

 Well I officially feel old, Happy 30th to me…. 

When I turned 20- I didn’t feel nervous at all- I was already a wife and momma.
When I turned 25- I was beginning to feel the anxiety Now today I turn 30
I’m seriously grateful to God first and foremost because he has let me live these 30 yrs.As a teenager thinking about 30 felt so old… But here I am
In celebration of me being 30- I am gonna list things about me 1. I love to entertain
2. I am a notepad hoarder! I have a drawer that’s pretty big almost full and yet I buy more.
3. I’d like to be a professional traveler
4. I only had one boyfriend and I married him
5. I need to loose weight
6. I’d rather work full time over part time
7. I’d rather fall and winter all year long
8. Sleeps with fan blowing on me all the time- year round.
9. I struggle with self esteem
10. School was difficult for me
11. I play(ed) clarinet
12. I’m a clean freak
13.  I don’t have my drivers license
14. I find it hard to make new friends
15. Have never ever cut my hair
16. I like to try new recipes
17. Used to have panic attacks now I fight them :p
18. I’m addicted to my cell
19. I like to clean and drive myself crazy at times if something is messed (OCD perhaps)
20. I’ve yet to figure out what to do with life.
21. I like twitter more then fb
22. I have a low tolerance for pain
23. Collect pens
24. My keychain is heavy from so many key chains from places I’ve been
25. Don’t wear make up
26. I blog for my hobby
27. Love scrapbooking
28. I prefer pepsi over coke
29. Love road trips
30. I feel old now that I’m 3030 is the new 20 or so im told. heres hoping for the best year yet.  

Please forgive me if im not around to blog for a while…

i turn 30 on friday 

and i am very depressed

not over my birthday

but over a lot of things

maybe ill do a protected post about it.

 

until i feel like writing

i love you all 

I hate to admit this but….I am HOMESICKIt hit me hard todayI have never been away from home for a Thanksgiving, yet today we didnt get my mom’s turkey dinner, we , had my aunts, it was good and almost like mom’s.We have been left home (Newfoundland) 3 months on the 21stit seems like forever ago, we now live in Fredericton, NBWe do plan to go home for Christmas but not until Dec 20th- it seems to far away yetLife here is so goodwe are happier then we ever have been back homebut the way i miss my family today, really sucks.Brooke and her best friend talked tonight, they miss each other
Brooke cried as well, she said she dont want to ever go back to NL but she misses her friendsLife without family is hard, my aunt is only 1 1/2 hrs away but it isnt my momthey look alike, cook alike, but are very different.What have you done to relieve home sickness if you ever had it

 

 

 

Happy Thanksgiving ( here in Canada anyway)

I feel like my thankful list is so big this year- some are below

1) God ad his love

2) my health

3) my strength

4) my husband

5) our baby girl

6) new life we have here since we moved

7) church

8) our pastor

9) my job

10) family

11) new and old friends

 

I could go on, but ill stop there.  love you all. 

 

So two years ago today I had the scariest thing ever…

MY LUNG SURGERY to remove a 4 cm cyst that was continuously growing – thankful today for my husband who was beside me all the way, thru sickness and in health- he was there, he never left my side at all. My beautiful daughter who always said she loved me and she was praying for me, my amazing family who was there from the time I was diagnosed with leukemia (even though we later found out it wasn’t) an amazing group of nurses, an absolutely amazing and knowledgeable surgeon who was not only a doctor but she actually cares about her patients, her receptionist makes calls to her patients to see how they are doing. Thank you to all of you for your love and prayers . When my family gathered to pray with me before i went into OR, i felt such a peace and i knew it was gonna be ok, the surgery lasted 12 hours, i dont remember much the day after, but then slowly but surely i came around, got moved from ICU to my own private room, then i was surrounded by friends and family. I am so blessed to know so many people cared about me, my room was like a beautiful floower garden, i had flowers every where…
 It means a lot to me to have so many people who care

I feel so blessed to have made it thru this time of my life its been 2 years and all is well.