My daughter

I am just so damn proud of my darling daughter. Yesterday was her last day of school, after God only knows how many years. I would have to stop and figure it out and we all know my math is terrible. Michelle is finally, after all these years, graduating with her Masters Degree in social work. She is now an MSW LSW and I sure hope I have those initials right. Michelle has done it on her own and we are so proud of her. She has sure had some ups and downs in these years, getting married, moving to Seattle, her husband going over to fight in the war, moving to Vegas, losing her beloved father to cancer, and finally here we are graduating. What a road it has been, but she has persevered and she has won! We are so damn proud of you dolly. Now, sit back, relax and enjoy reading a good book just for the fun of it. I love and miss you dolly and will see you soon! You are my darling daughter and I am just so damn proud of you!

Heaven

Read this on facebook and loved it.

"I wish Heaven had a phone so I could hear your voice again.. I thought of you today, but that is nothing new. I thought about you yesterday, and days before that too. I think of you in silence, I often speak your name. All I have are memories and a picture in a frame. Your memory is a keepsake, from which i'll never part. God has you in his arms.. I have you in my heart."

Busy

My life has changed about 190% in the past few months. It seems I don't have a second that my mind is not on the business. We are planning a large two day open house/ribbon cutting for June 16 and 17. CDS requires it to be "party like" which should be a lot of fun, plus a lot of work getting it all ready. I am brining in different vendors. have asked Lia Sophia, Silpada, Pampered Chef, Kettle Korn so far and they are all making arrangements to be involved. My mind is constantly thinking what can I do for the open house, plus what needs to be done now, plus still taking all the training classes to learn everything from working the machines to maintaining them to brining in new members to keeping them happy with incentives. Some days you will find me cleaning the toilets, the next minute on the phone scheduling ribbon cuttings or new appt. I absolutely love it!

Family Health Day

Today is quite different for me, actually the entire weekend has been. I closed the club at noon on Friday for Good Friday. Didn't reopen until this morning at 7 am so we had a long weekend. Mine was actually even a bit longer. Paula worked Thursday night and Frday am, so I have been off since Thursday afternoon. Something unheard of in my previous world of retail.

Today, I will be at the high school for Family Health Day 2010. We are setting up at 10 am and it starts at 1 with senior citizens, followed by the general public from 2 to 6. Should be an interesting day. Cheri is coming up to help me set up and I wish she could stay, but she will be leaving about the time we open. We are taking over the chest/back machine and a board and of course tons of literature. We are giving away free month certificates so I hope to drum up some interest.

The weekend was beautiful, sunny and warm. We spent a good part of it working in the yard and cleaning out the pond.

Hope to see some friends at the health fair today!

80's

How did we ever manage to get a day like today and to get two in a row is unbelievable this time of year. 80's, sunshine, pond is running, fountain going, spent the weekend outside cleaning up the yard. How wonderful! Now going to study if I can see the laptop screen enough to do that.