I wanted to have kids?

I wanted to have kids? Are you sure I ever said that? Well of course at some point in my life I know I said "I want to have at least 100 kids". But then I also remember saying "and a nanny to help care for them". See even as I kid had some sense.LOL I have to admit they are driving me nuts today. When it's hot as it is today and you have no shade(thank hubby for the idea that planting trees will make mowing harder...men), well the kids can't really be outside for long spans and they are bored. They are picking at each other, which is really getting on mom's nerves. LOL

Kids you just gotta love them!

We had to leave early this morning for Speech therapy. Then hit the store for groceries and such, then Sam's club. All with two kids who were constantly aggravating each other. I swear between gas prices and food prices, we're all going on a diet. It's just outrageous. And sadly we didn't do a garden this year, mostly due to the loss of my motherinlaw. But I certainly miss it.

I do have to say,if I can keep it off, according to the scales, I've lost 25lbs this month. Can't tell it really, but then if I lost about 40lbs you wouldn't be able to tell it. LOL I still look like me. And nope I'm not dieting. Just eating only when hungry and once the hunger is appeased I stop. I'm also not nibbling like I tend to do. I've been chewing gum instead. And it's just tooo hot to really cook and eat alot. Please I've been eating more Subway subs, and I'll say it, I do think eating there helps people loss weight. I mean really unless you eat a footlong by yourself, it's really a lot healthier than a burger.

The kids have even started to branch out in what they will eat. The love sweet and sour chicken now. And baby girl loves tacos.

Well time to go. Gotta see what they are into, they got quiet and any one who's a parent knows that can only mean trouble.......

WendyK*and yep I'm still writing. I've been really good about either writing a scene or working on some part of the story at least an hour each day! I'm proud of myself. LOL*

Weekends over

Well the weekends over. We spent most of Saturday from about 12pm until around 5:30pm at the R.C. racetrack in Wilson,NC. It was interesting. Me and the kids went into the hobbyshop and looked at the model train set up. They are wonderful, so very detailed and the guys up there are willing to talk to the kids and my son had a ball. He didn't want to leave them, even to return to the races. And this is a kid who's worked to get his own RC race car. The plan is for son and daddy to race at the dirt track in Wilson, which as it turns out runs on the weekends the paved track doesn't run. Hummm, funny that huh?

We never made it to the beach. But anyway......life goes on. We went out to eat,but for lunch and for supper.

Okay gotta run,
hugs,
WendyK

A good day

Well today I got up and had to fix hubby's computer and a program he uses to do home inspections on. David at HomeGauge was really great. Then wash clothes and dry and put up. Then be in Greenville before 12pm to get a package hubby had ordered that came UPS and was waiting to be picked up. Hubby has decided it'll be great fun for him and our son to RC race. He did this about 10yrs ago when the old mall used to have an indoor track. But then stopped. And now he's found an outdoor paved track, a couple of dirt tracks, an off road track and an series that is partly sponsored by Tony Stewart, his favorite NASCAR driver now. So I just shake my head. He races I read. Our son is all for it. He's ready to race. So we went today to pick up one of the cars he'd ordered. Now we are awaiting the 2pack of trucks and I believe another car. I can't complain he doesn't spend much on other things. Hunting, fishing, and racing are his things. I'd rather him do that than go out drinking and stuff.

Well anyway, I got home from that and had to rush to get things together to ride with hubby when he went to deliver flyers and candy to real estate agents. It's become our time. We got with him, and then go out to eat and browse or shop or just spend time together. Today we went to the hobby stories, visited the tracks, ate at Dennys then went to BAM and home. Didn't even buy a book today.LOL Instead I bought a WRITING BASICS magazine and hubby got an RC magazine.

Tomorrow he's got a re-inspection, then we go watch an RC race a friend of his is racing tomorrow and hubby wants to get a better feel for the track. Then we plan to head to the beach house, hopefully. LOL

I have mailings to do tomorrow, so I have to get up early to get to the PO before they close and get some 20 or so packages out.

Now I'm off to read some more. Hope everyone has a great night and weekend.

hugs,
WendyK

Our 12th Anniversary

Me and Hubby

I thought I'd post some pictures from our wedding 12yrs ago, this Sunday. I'll try to post more either this weekend or Monday. We plan to enjoy our anniversary so I may not be online much.

1st picture is of course me and hubby.

2nd picture is us eating cake

3rd picture is my mom and his mom

4th picture is me and my cousin, James. He gave me away and has always been like a dad to me.

5th picture is us not long after we said "I do"

and the last picture is me at Fort Macon on our Honeymoon.

hugs,
WendyK

I just don't get some people

Recently we had a young boy to be killed by his parents. They tied him to a tree overnight as punishment for not doing as told. Basically for being 13. I don't get the parents. I really don't. It makes no sense to me. I mean what exactly could a kid do to deserve a punishment like that? And as a mother I'd never let my baby stay outside! Apparently I'm just a weird parent.

I just don't understand this world. I was thinking of the boys mother. She passed a few years ago from cancer,I believe and it was his dad and stepmom who did this. But I could see his mom up in heaven crying for her baby. Now she's holding him. I'm sure she's happy but sad as well.

What has our world turned into?

Wendyk

Happy Father's Day

Happy Father's Day to all that dad's and that includes our heavenly Father. We didn't do much today. Just spent time with my fatherinlaw.

We watched the race, or they did. I came back to the house and worked on some reports. We did watch the Fast And Furious Tokoyo Drift movie tonight. It was good.

There's nothing on TV now and has gotten to where there rarely is. I adore BONES and Army Wives, out side those I don't really care what's on TV anymore.

Well I'll go back to reading. Ohh I did get some writing time today. But I don't think I'm happy with what I wrote, at least I did write. That's a major step for me. I plan to write more each day and to write SOMETHING everyday.LOL

And yes I do mean something more than this or reviews or what knot.

Hope everyone has a great night and have a great day tomorrow. May if full of bright happy moments.

hugs,
WendyK

Like this song

I really really like this song!

I couldn't resist

I got this image from Jenn, Gennita Low. She had it on her blog and I couldn't resist posting it. Now that's a bad day at work!

hugs,

WK

The Airshow

We went to the Cherry Point Airshow this weekend. And it was wonderful! I'd recommend everyon attend at least once. We plan to go next year and be better prepared. We plan to have more time to do the extras they offer. We plan to see more and do more and to sit in the bleechers. It was a great show and wish we could have attended all 3 days, but with the heat we just couldn't do it. I'll post a few pictures later. We took pics and videos and some of them were really good.

I'll add the pics now. Just a few.

Help we can't decide is she male or female?

LOL yes we are having problems determining if the 8/9 week old kitten is male or female. We kinda think female. But dang if we can tell. So far no one can tell. So how do you tell? I swear in the past with kittens we've had it was much easier to tell. With Sassy, well it's harder.

My mom has had all kinds of adventures with this kitten. I'll have to see if I can get her to post and share them here.

hugs,
WendyK

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Hollywood Screenwriter Takes On Real Life



"I thought my life was over."




Hollywood's Dirty Little Secret
by Misty Taggart

I was living my dream. To be a Hollywood writer was everything I had wanted since I was a very young child. There was never a time in my life when I didn't know absolutely what I wanted to do. And there I was, a member of the WGA, a working Hollywood screenwriter. It was glorious. My life was so exciting! Each day was an adventure full of running to studios, pitching stories, writing and rewriting. Location shoots and lunching with Hollywood insiders.



I was so very fortunate to meet William Hanna of Hanna/Barbera fame. He told me he liked my "drive" ... my passion. It reminded him of his own. Bill quickly became my mentor and very good friend. He believed in me and my talent so much that it was this famous and very generous man who made it possible for me to be one of the first women to ever write for animation. Until then, it had been a closed boys club ... and yet, there I was writing dog dialogue for Scooby Doo in my own office at Hanna/Barbera Productions! How incredible it was to be sitting in the many recording sessions with all the big name voice-over talent.


I was so proud as I watched my talented husband, Joe, appearing on Days of Our Lives, General Hospital and Three's Company. Our friends were all in the business. We were surrounded by lights, cameras and action, all the things I had dreamed of and worked so hard to attain. It was an exciting time in my life. The strange thing was, I thought it would go on forever.



But under all the glamour and the fun, if you are in this industry very long you will find Hollywood's dirty little secret. What is that? Well ... Hollywood will not allow you to grow older! They simply won't allow it! They don't say it ... but it is made very clear. Opportunities to pitch stories stop coming your way. Meetings are difficult, if not impossible to get. It is heartbreaking and irreversible. You are on your way out! It is as though the "Hollywood Powers-That-Be" believe a human brain stops working, in any cognitive fashion, when you near the BIG 50! (A testimony to that thinking can be had by simply watching current TV.) I laugh when I think that just perhaps their skewed thinking has come back to bite them in the behind!


When it was clear that my life as a Hollywood Screenwriter was over, I was truly devastated. I felt my whole life finished. Depression and fears set in--stealing any joy I had left. Hollywood had done a good job on me. I bought all of the lies. And those lies almost killed me.


I was convinced my dream had been stolen. I was too old to ever have other dreams or to truly enjoy my life ever again. Going on living that way, wasn't an option.


But I was so very wrong! God simply had new dreams for me in this season of my life. But I didn't come to this discovery easily. It's taken time and the willingness to work with my own Life Coach. No, she didn't do it for me, but she listened to me ... gave me new ways to look at my life. Things I hadn't thought about in my devastated, crisis state. She asked the hard questions and I found answers. It was an amazing process.


Could it be that I was getting excited about life again? Together, my coach and I made a PLAN OF ACTION that fit me perfectly. I began slowly but surely to move toward a new dream.


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Would I give up on the rest of my life, brokenhearted over the past? Or would I find new vistas to conquer? I had a choice to make and I chose LIFE! I chose TODAY and all of my tomorrows. I looked at my life and all of the many trials and victories. I longed to share that with other women. To let them know they could achieve their dreams. It all became so clear! I began the study necessary for me to become a Certified Christian Life Coach. With my faithful readers, like you, at Ordinary Woman/Extraordinary God, who had been with me for so long, I began my practice.



Now, I want YOU all to experience the POSSIBILITIES for your lives! Don't give up! The definition of life is CHANGE. Helping other women walk through transitions using what I had been through myself became my passion ... My life is once again filled with excitement and I get up each day with true joy. I look forward to the day.


God had not taken dreams away, but given me new ones.

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