ABE'S AMAZING ANGELS ANNOUNCEMENT

Easter Hop In To Crop for JDRF 2013
Is being held Sunday March 29, 30, and 31, 2013 at the Super 8 Motel in Brooklyn Michigan!

This is going to be awesome!!! I am sooo so so excited to put this together with my friends, family, and team mates!! We have just started putting this together and all this help sure shows you, people will help when there is a good cause and lots of fun! Thank you everyone for helping us help too many kids find a cure for this dis ease in their little bodies!

There will be table gifts, door prizes, huge baskets with scrapbooking supplies of all kinds, including Peachy Keen Stamps , Cricut cartridges, stamps, inks, and oh so much more WILL be raffled!!

 

The cost is $35.00 for Friday~ 10am - 10pm
The cost is $55.00 for Friday 10 am thru Saturday 10 pm
The cost is $75.00 for Friday 10 am thru Sunday 6 pm
We will have an extra basket on Sunday for those who stay all weekend to raffle!!! There is also going to be a 50/50 raffle that you do NOT have to be present to win! We hope to have so so so much more to announce later!

 

To Reserve Your Table  and more info CLICK HERE 

 

You will not want to miss this one!!

 

It's just a couple hours more!

What you ask is just a couple hours away?  FRIDAY! That's what.  And doesn't everything look good on Friday?  What a week this has been and I am so ready for the weekend!

Nothing like being down in your back and having lots of doctor appointments.  I have a couple of bad disks in my lower back that sometimes decides to act up.  Thank the powers that be, it only lasted about 5 days this time.  Last time I was down for 3 weeks!  That bit a big one!  All my doctors visits were very productive and I am very much on the right track!!!  Down 9.2 lbs since going vegan and my A1C has dropped a couple of points!!  Yay! Still have work to do but it's getting easier!  I have noticed that I now rate restaurants according to their salads!  Not many have vegan dishes.  If I was a chef.....here is where I would open a vegan/vegetarian eatery! HINT HINT HINT! Enough about me! lol

We celebrated my Mother in law's birthday on the 31st.  She turned 88!!! Her son, my hubby, picked the first batch of fresh strawberries from our ever growing patch and I cleaned, sliced up a cup or so, then added a little sugar so we could get that beautiful syrup.  When we got there, the three of us sat down with a desert of strawberry shortcake with whipped cream.  Those strawberries were so good!  What great spirits she was in and she was really with us for most of the day. She has dementia and what a great day she had!

I was just getting back to work this morning and I was having issues uploading my newest cards.  I tried everything and kept thinking it was me.  I guess I worked on it for about 3 hours just reading and trying this and that and that again because I just knew I was missing something simple! Well I gave up and cleaned the house for a minute or two :) !  I ran a few errands, picked up hubby, and on the way home got a very nice invite to dinner by the best sister in the state!  It was so nice to see her and have some stimulating conversation!  We always have fun when we are with her!  Do you have someone in your life that is always smiling and just at peace with what is?  I strive to emulate!

Well here are a couple of cards that I have made recently. Enjoy!

Please enjoy every minute your day and smile! someone is needing it!

Just a beautiful day!!!

When there's a bunch of sunshine doesn't it make everything ok again?

Had a very busy week. My son came out on the train and I picked him up Tuesday early afternoon. We had a nice visit with Grandma while she got her hair and nails done. Then we picked up the hubby and helped out a work friend with his truck that had broken down. Later we had roasted chicken, taters, corn, carrots, and green beans! Big dinner for a Tuesday night!! Then we got ready for the big appointment at U of M. Got the showers, the paperwork, and everything the child brought with him together cuz I was takin' him home after the very early appointments. Only that's not what happened!.......He woke me up at 12:30 AM with what he thought was a heart attack!! Yikes!!! OMG I was as freaked out as he was! His blood pressure was 205 over 105 and we were both scared! So EMS was called and he described his pain as pressure just right under the sternum. We (hubby too) went to wait with him in the ER to get the results of the tests. Good news was nothing showed on the EKG but the chest ex ray did show a bubble of air just at the bottom of the sternum. Then we knew, IT WAS GAS! Thank goodness! They kept him overnight to observe him. When the heart doc came in with the news that the enzyme tests had showed no damages to the heart occured they released him. We were lucky enough to get an appointment at U of M with the kidney specialist on Friday. At least he didn't waste his trip and we got ok news from the specialist. He can go ahead with the heart cath with the understanding that it may put his kidneys at risk, but the odds are in his favor about 70/30. He says if it puts him into renal failure, he can be put on the transplant list and receive a new kidney and pancreas, and that will make him DIABETIC FREE!!! From his mouth to God's ears! He was told by the heart doc, the kidney doc, and the mom (me), to never hesitate to call EMS if it happens again. He is at high risk for cardio problems because of the diabetes, so he should never feel bad about calling EMS if he feels strange or different! He said he felt like an idiot and hubby just came up with a new nickname (bubble boy) for him after assuring him better to be safe than dead! Let that be a lesson to all of us!

We also learned that his step daughter may have cancer again! She has to go to Children's Hospital on the 11th for a MRI. We are praying that the nose bleeds and headaches are from something else. I hate to see her fight that battle again! Please keep Breanna in your prayers.

As always, when it rains, it pours. What we must remember is how we observe and deal with our challenges is very important to not only us but to the world as a whole!


Everyone remember to ENJOY every second of your day!

Just another day in paradise!

I know it's been a little while since I've written, I have been at a bad place. Just kind of going with the flow, not really living. I go there sometimes when that mood hits. I could blame it on the sugar. LOL It's just that I'm having such a hard time keeping my eating under control. At this stage I can only blame the eating, cuz if the eating were under control wouldn't the blood sugar follow? Oh if that were only true!! lol

So last time I wrote I expected the doctor to call and she did. She made no changes so I guess I'm on the right track and hoping I land in the right place! This morning, as with most mornings, I had a good bread source with egg whites on top and added some 2 % cheese to make a sort of egg "mc"muffin. And for lunch it will be some veggies, "hard chews" as a doctor in New York wrote about. That book is CARB CAREFUL SOLUTION by Dr. Adele Puhn. I think I am going to dig it up and start that "diet" again. I did wake with normal sugars and I was eating every two hours. Yep, I think that is what I will do!!

My hubby is eating London Broil, potatoes, and broccoli tonight! I will be eating the broccoli part of the meal!! LOL And he gets a cake tonight for dessert! Wow am I a good wife, or what? lol

After I did up that book, I have several birthday cards to make for March! The last week in March is known as "birthday week" around here! My daughter's is the 22nd, mine is the 26th, and my son's is the 28th! Then we sprinkle in a granddaughter, a niece, a couple of nephews, and a couple of friends! Yes it will busy in the craft room!! LOL Good thing I love that kind of stuff!

I received some more pictures of my newest cutie pie! He is growing faster that a weed! I can't wait to kiss those scrumptious cheeks!















Well everyone remember to ENJOY every second of your day!!

We made it through the snow storm! The roads are treturious! I haven't written cuz we flipped over to day shift and I'm still trying to get turned around. I feel like a newborn who keeps getting their days and nights mixed up! I didn't have this much trouble last time. I wonder why. Hopefully he can stay on the one shift. They did call back a couple of people that had been laid off for over a year! So that is a really good sign

Well my numbers have been all over the place this week. As low as 119 in the AM to as high as 331 in the AM. That's quite a spread! I'm thinking seriously about going raw for a couple of weeks and seeing how that works for me. All boils down to, can we afford that? Fresh veggies are really getting soooo expensive! I am still doing research on the subject. I took some celery root soup out of the freezer for lunch today. Yum

I will come back later to give a synopsis of the food I ate today and with a recipe.

Everyone remember to ENJOY every second of your day!

Well today is turning out not so great :-( I had a reading of 89 last night before my snack of 22 chips and homemade salsa. I took the appropriate amount of insulin and woke up with a 365!!! Holy cow that's high. What the heck is going on? I am just taking loads of insulin trying to get it back down to reasonable! Any suggestions besides not eating??? I am just going to eat salad today and hope it comes down before I add any more carbs!

I did find this soup that looks so good I am going to try it this weekend! It comes from the Whole Foods website:

Zesty Mexican Soup


This spicy vegetable soup is full of flavor and easy to prepare. Our Healthy Sauté method of cooking makes this recipe healthier since you don't have to use heated oils. This soup is a great way to get many vegetables into one meal. It actually gets better with time, so feel free to make a big batch to have around. It is a perfect quick meal on a cold day.

Prep and Cook Time: 40 minutes

Ingredients:
1 medium onion, minced
4 medium cloves garlic, chopped
2 TBS red chili powder
3 cups + 1 TBS chicken or vegetable broth
1 small to medium green bell pepper, diced into 1/4-inch pieces
1 small zucchini, diced into 1/4-inch pieces
1 cup finely chopped collard greens
1 15 oz can diced tomatoes
1 15 oz can black beans, rinsed
1 cup frozen yellow corn
1 4 oz can diced green chili
1 tsp dried oregano
1 tsp ground cumin
1/4 cup chopped pumpkin seeds
1/2 cup chopped fresh cilantro
salt and pepper to taste

Directions:

Heat 1 TBS broth in a medium soup pot. Healthy Sauté onion, garlic, and green peppers in broth over medium heat for about 5 minutes, stirring often.
Add red chili powder and mix in well. Add broth, zucchini, collard greens, and tomatoes. Cook for another 5 minutes and add beans, corn, green chili, oregano, and cumin.
Bring to a boil on high heat. Once it begins to boil, reduce heat to medium-low and simmer uncovered for 15 minutes longer. (Simmering uncovered enhances the flavor.) Add chopped cilantro, pumpkin seeds, salt, and pepper.
Serves 6

Serving Suggestions Serve with

Romaine & Avocado Salad
Healthy Cooking Tips:

For the best flavor it's important to chop the collard greens very fine. In doing so, their flavors blend better with the other ingredients and are easier to eat. If they are too big, they may taste too bitter.

Everyone remember to ENJOY every second of you day!