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Taking Baby Steps

Life has been a roller coaster these past few weeks. I’ve tried really hard to see the joy and blessings in all of it. Trying to keep all of it on track has been like baby steps. Not letting anything fall through the cracks has been hard but I’ve managed the best I could. Not keeping my promise or not getting my stuff done doesn’t set well with me at all. I’m a worker, a busy bee with a drive...

Simply Overwhelmed

Blue Happy is now in 4 stores and all doing very well. Selling out like there’s no tomorrow. Special orders that are sitting and waiting for this dang rain to move out. School is in full force headed straight in to the fall art show in one week. Greg has been in the hospital twice in less than a month. Housework, bookkeeping, wife, mom, Lolli, friend and my gym routine. So much on my plate but that isn’t why I’m...

Work Is Unfinished

Always on Thursday before the sidewalk sale I’m down to the finishing touches. A few final coats of Defender and all the items are ready for the sidewalk sale. Today my studio was silent. No work was done on anything. I sat at a doctors office waiting on a doctor to tell us why Greg still isn’t feeling well. The news came that he will have surgery again. It’s exploratory so I really don’t have answers to give you. I...

6 Years It’s Been A While

I’m rounding the corner to my 6 year mark from having my first surgery. I have not had one regret. I look back on the past 6 years and realize what has happened saved my life. Obesity is more than massive amounts of fat cells attached to your body. It goes way deeper than fat cells.  It is a head thing and a heart thing all wrapped up into one.  It starts with those 5lbs that you gain without really...