Christmas Old N New

Looking back on my younger years of Christmas I always had a huge imagination of what Christmas should be like. Growing up in a not so wealthy family I feel really makes me appreciate all of my gifts and shows me what gift giving is all about. Now being the mother of two beautiful daughters I want to give them everything I feel I really would have loved to have. I have worked very hard to make sure my children are the focus of every holiday and venture. Now this year as my oldest daughter is thirteen, I think that she would love to celebrate in the gifts that our great God has bestowed on our family. Until the other day I really have had a great sence that my daughter really felt the same as I. I was told out of my daughters mouth that she doesn't like Christmas...!!!! WWWHHHAAATTTT??? My favorite HOLIDAY??? Is she CRAZZy??? I am not getting it. Or maybe I am.. Spoil the kid so much that she doesnt like it anymore? seriously??? I am going to have to pull out all of the stops of Christmas this year. Show her the true meaning.. Giving, Love, True Happiness of people.. What else does a mother have to do???

Just Life Right?

I know I haven't been blogging as much as I anticipated I would.. I had a major set back in the giving up the friend.. I had a person tell me some things that I took personal and I need to get back into the swing of possitive life style again.. Ow well just life right?
Besides that.., my life is going great.. Friday is the first of many Bunko game parties and I am so excited.. Have a bunch of friends old and new come over for a few drinks, games and food.. All of my favorite things... I will have to get pictures of it.. It is going to rock...

Broken Arms..

Friday afternoon Brooke decided to go scootering with one of her best friends. . Not even a half an hour later she walked in the door crying.. Went upstairs to find that she had road rash on the back of her shoulder, head, both knees and hand. She was then holding her little arm crying that it hurt really bad. Granted, we have been through this in the past with this child (one a year to be exact).. She quit crying about it and just held it like it a dog would if it had broken its leg. I was extremely used to this behavor being an expert in my child breaking her arm and all. I knew she broke it but I didn't want to make her worry. So, I asked her friend to go home and got my little girl a Tylenol and went to the Urgent Care for Children.. Granted its nothing like the ER. We got the prescription for the xray, walked to registration got registered and then went to xray to wait for 2 hours.. After getting my babys arm hurt again from the exray tech moving it around we got the xray and low and behold I was right. (of course)..Her little arm had a buckle fracture right above her wrist on the inside bone. We then walked back to the Urgent care to let the doc look at the xray to tell us it was broken. (didn't see that one coming).. He splinted it and sent us on our way.. Poor kid though.. Ibuprophen and Tylenol.. She has lived on that for pain meds since it happened.. I just hope that seeing the xray we dont have to have it reset. The bone was a tiny bit off.. Well, now the biggest thing to her is what color of cast she should have.. If it matches her clothing all perfectly.. I am just greatful that it wasn't worse..

The Gym....

Going to the gym has been quite an experience. I love it, I think I have found my new addiction.. God knows I have to have some kind of addiction.. I am quitting my bad friend and working on getting back into school, so I need that total release of working my body until I leave shaking. I love it... I really want Sterlin to go with me.. I think it really does give you more endorphans (no, I didnt pass english)... I am greatful that the city of Tooele actually has a great gym now.. If any person has ever gone to the gym for the first time, you really can feel better there.. You look around and think there are going to be all these buff people walking around and there will be great looking people everywhere.. I felt so great about myself going there, tons of people there for excatly what I am there for also... To actually loose fat.... Yea to all the fat Americans that go to my gym.. I am yours and my own biggest cheerleader.. Holly Crap, I am finally a cheer leader. And dont even fool yourselfs in to thinking I can touch my toes in the air, maybe on the trampoline.. But seriously, I am feeling great.
Going through quitting my friend is a hard task but making small progression. I am down to lights.. But, I feel like they aren't enough for me. I am working on eliminating them one by one

Christmas 2008 is over and all is well in the Grill home. Christmas tree taken down and presents finally all put away. We have had a busy new year though.. New Years was quite on the quiet side of things. Which now and then isn't so bad.
Our family has had a few changes, Brooke has asked to change schools which I understand we all need change once in a while. So, as she wished I wisked her out of the dreery old elementary and into the famously (round here) brand stinkin new one with a new teacher and friends and all. I feel like such a hero to my child. Today actually was her first day and can you believe it? I got my child into trouble on her very first day. I texted her at school!! I am hearing the sounds of the bad guys in the old western shows..dun dun dun... God forbid this, that children actually have a life outside of the prison of our public schools. And their parents of all actually contacting them so cheer them on inside of the punishment of learning. Ow well, I will take the heat.. They can string me up and even try to light me on fire.. Little do they know as my husband says, I am "Cold as ICE".. Ha ha joke is on them...
As for Marrisa,... She has caught the eye of a young man at school.He walks her to class and holds her books with one hand and holding on to my babys hand with the other. I picked her up at school the other day and as we were driving by, he actually blew her a kiss. So, I blew a fist at him. Yep, hopin I scare the young lad.. Mean momma, I know but I don't want her grow up!! Understandably I cannot make that stop, but I will try to make her relize that boys are just well they are just...TROUBLE!!!!... Marrisa is trying to grow up to fast.. Don't sound like anyone I knew at her age.. ;)
Sterlin, well the mechanic handy man of the year is still the same.. Fixing up the ol Jeep to go to Moab with his parents for Easter.. I am glad he has ambitions if not, he would probably drive me crazy..
As for myself, this year is the year I finally quit procrastinating (done it so long probably misspelled it).. I have joined the local gym and have taken a vow, a vow that is the hardest in the world for me to quit smoking and get healthy.. So, this year is year of blogs of my desperation for food and nicotine.. So, if you know me on a personal note, please try not talking to me about it.. That is the hardest of all.. People saying ow, smoking its so bad for you and smoking is bad for what ails ya. Ya, I freakin know this, I do have a television in my home and I do work for a hospital.. Seriously, don't tell smokers what they are doing isn't good for them, for hell sakes it says so on the package... Ok done venting over smoking irritations.. I am not doing the take them and throw them away, nope one less a day until I am down to none. I feel like that is my only hope.. The only hope to loose the friend I have had for to many years that has done nothing but make feel like crap... c-ya bye to the ol friend that wasn't much of a friend at all... I am looking forward to a new me and a new sense of independance from the bad in my life...