Author: julesfarm@yahoo.com

Mike and my mom and I left our house at 7;00 am as planned yesterday morning. We arrived in the small town of Augusta, Kansas just before 10:00 am. My mom and dad both grew up there. As a kid, we made many road trips there to visit my grandparents, so making that trip brought back a lot of great memories. We went to the restaurant where we would be inviting those interested to come join us for lunch after the grave side service for my cousin, Anna Lee. At the restaurant, we set up a small table with pictures of Anna Lee and photo albums and a few of her favorite things, then we went to the cemetery. We had no pastor or clergyman of any type scheduled to be at the service. Anna Lee hadn’t lived in Augusta in a really long time so we didn’t really know […]

It was a Friday work at home/errand day. I saved my walk for the evening and I’m glad I did. The humidity was almost gone by 6:30 which made it perfect outside for walking circles around the neighborhood lake until I met my step goal.   Tomorrow is the funeral for my cousin Anna Lee and we have about a three hour drive each way. My mom should be here by about 7:00 in the morning, then we’re on the road. I’m thinking a long day ahead. Tomorrow evening our daughter Anne and her family will be here from Oklahoma and we’re going to dinner with a group to celebrate Anne’s birthday.  I have NO idea how I will get my steps in tomorrow, but it HAS to be done by midnight! 😬😬😬 Here are Friday’s eats…. Breakfast – 8 SP Big Ass Waffle recipe, but in pancake form. Topped with warm […]

I had planned to get back to routine a couple of days ago, but it just wasn’t happening. Yesterday, routine came back! Yesterday in a nutshell… I worked, I babysat little Miss Wrenley for a few hours, I took yesterday as a StepBet “rest day” and I made dinner, kinda. After working my At Work WW Meeting (This is the group that I have talked about that I love SO much! They had a week off between the last session and the one we started yesterday, so I have really missed them!), I stopped by Whole Foods to grab a Rotisserie Chicken to have for dinner. I also grabbed several things for lunch because nothing sounded good, yet everything sounded good. Make sense? When I got home, this little cutie arrived shortly after.   She was a real sport while I played Snapchat with her!   Those eyes are beautiful, just […]

The last two weeks have been filled with some unexpected emotions and I found myself crawling into a little hole where I could just be alone. I had a few things to deal with that just sucked the energy right out of me. I’ve lost track of the days of the week and the time of day. I’ve slept a lot and kept fairly quiet.  On Saturday, I started to come out of the hole that I had crawled into. I grocery shopped and spent the day in the kitchen listening to music and cooking. I have done very little cooking over the last two weeks. I spent Sunday getting my house back in order and reconnecting myself with my routine. On Monday I ran several errands. One stop was an early morning oil change. I decided to take my backpack instead of my purse and walk to breakfast. It’s […]

Thank you to so many of you for your thoughts and prayers for my cousin, Anna Lee. Anna Lee passed away today. I had planned to visit her at 2:00 in the afternoon with some of her friends, but we were too late. My mom told her on Sunday that it was okay to go if that was what she was wanting. I found out tonight that one of her friends had told her the same thing. Maybe hearing from loved ones that it was okay to go, made it easier for her to do so. Now she has no more pain, no more worries, no more fears. Now she has peace. Thank you again for your comments, text, phone calls and prayers. Julie

In February, my mom and I moved my mom’s cousin, Anna, into a nursing home. She has early signs of dementia, but is very alert, walks with a walker, and mostly knows what is going on. We had some difficult decisions to make as far as what to do with her apartment, her dog and her belongings, but we are her only relatives and they were decisions that simply needed to be made. Anna was not happy to be moving into the nursing home. Slowly, she began to adjust. She likes the staff and the food and seems to be making some friends. Recently her best friend (her next door neighbor from her apartment that she lived in right before moving into the nursing home) fell and hurt her leg and was now in the same nursing home receiving physical therapy. Bad for her friend but great that Anna could visit […]

If you’ve been reading the blog for a while, then you know that I really prefer to blog daily for accountability, but when I miss a few days of blogging, I have this OCD thing where I feel the need to catch up on at least what is going on in life every single day. It just completes my brain. I tried to do an update the other day, and I couldn’t seem to log on to my site via my computer, but I could on my phone? Blogging from the phone takes forever and if you read, you saw all of the typo’s. After a long chat with the tech guy and me feeling really really dumb, all I had to do was clear my cookies. It’s a miracle that I even know what that means. Anyhow, problem solved. Here goes an update with life, and a few pictures […]

While I’m on hold with the internet folks (who do not seem to understand that I am really dumb about tech stuff. They keep asking me questions via chat and I keep replying….”huh?”) I’ll tell you that I successfully completed the first official week of the StepBet! That was a lot of steps!  Some last minute steps were in pj’s. One day I was so busy running around that I only needed 300 steps to reach my goal so I did that pacing back and forth in the living room while sipping on a glass of wine. On Sunday night I was shy 8,000 steps and Mike came with me! He’s sore today. Okay, I need to focus on this dude named Jamshid. I know he thinks I’m an idiot. He just asked me if I even had an account. 🙄 “Love the life you live, live the life you […]

I can’t get on my website to blog and I could possibly die from blogging withdrawals!!! If I have to write a long post from my phone tonight Inwill, but this is killing me!! I have to tell you about the Step Bet! I have to tell you how I got another At Work Leader Job! I have fun Foods pics to share! Ugh. Be Backnsoon, I hope!

I am writing this post super quick and no time for proof reading, so I’m sure my thoughts all over the place and lots of errors. Sorry. Yesterday was just busy enough that there was no time for snacking and no time for three meals. Ha! I was even just busy enough that I completely forgot to walk to get my steps for my StepBet until after I had put my PJ’s on! I was supposed to meet a friend to walk yesterday afternoon, but it was super hot and I ended up having to go see my cousin at the nursing home. That took most of the afternoon. I had a WW training class last night until after 8:00, and by the time I got home I was ready to chill for the night. At 9:30 I remembered to look at my steps. It was a busy day, so […]