I'm not home right now I'm outside living my life. Leave a message after the beep

I am going to start with a Cancun update....... First let me welcome an old friend. Stephanie is donating her mileage to the Cancun cause. Last week she did the Warrior Dash and she donated a total of 7.5 miles to the cause. She has also joined us weekly. So our sombreros go off to Stephanie. So our leader board looks something like this

• Dana with 101.5
• Micci with 59 
• Mom with 42.25
• Tina with 37.5
• Kristin with 32.5

 So our grand total with everyone else involved comes to 319.79 We are now officially in Chester, Missouri!!! YA That is music to my ears. I will tell you I am so proud of my sister Dana. She is doing laps around us all. My newest friend is Runkeeper.com. If you haven't heard of it. Look into it. It is awesome. you can track where you have ran or ridden your bike. You can make maps. You can do all kinds of things. Its great. do it!!! That's how we found out that Moms to church and back 1 mile!!!! church and mileage, who knew!!!!!

So I have been busy this past week. Kind of a slow busy. Like Eeyore. I take Ritalin. I know a lot of people have that 1980's stigma about it. Oh your a zombie. You drool. It destroys your brain. All the stuff that you hear parents say as to why they wont put there over hyper a.d.d kid on medication. I hate that, its just under educated people repeating a bunch of crap because they aren't willing to get off their asses and get the facts so they can give their kids a better life and a better future. Instead they will let them sit there and eat a bag of Frito's and play violent video games til their eyes pop out of their heads, they smell, their failing school, and they throw stuff at you. Then you say well I don't know what to do he doesn't listen to me. Educate yourself!!!

Rant over. Back to the beginning. I take Ritalin. It helps me focus. (Did you see my lack of focus up there. I so did not plan that rant)  It gives me energy. Not crazy ninja energy. But common everyday people energy. The kind of energy you have everyday. But right now. Well I don't have it, and I miss it. A lot. I have been rationing my Ritalin lately because I knew it was on back order. But I finally ran out. I was hoping the back order wasn't going to last this long. But they have said August now. I cant wait that long. I go to the Dr Tuesday. I have to try something new. But despite the lack of meds. I have been outside and I have been busy. My skin has smelled of sunshine and rain. It has smelled of cobwebs and hay. Dirt, sweat, tears. I have cried a lot this week. Mostly because I don't know how to deal with a thirteen year old teenage girl who is in all honesty me. I have also smelled like black powder.

Black powder? Why yes. this week we went to a Civil war Event and it was really cool. Ya know I feel like I have it tough and I hate things some days. But I go to things like this and I think about things and I go to the museums and I look at life and I am reminded just how different life is now than it was then and I tell myself how spoiled I am. The kids aren't going to like it and I am not going to tell them right now but when my contract is up I am canceling dish network and I am getting rid of the land line. I might have vonage because Dave has to have a phone line like that for work, but other than that I don't need it and it cost to much. I have so much stuff. My house and my stomach and my garage and my life is filled with stuff I don't need and it is weighing me down and I am done with it. I liked what I saw out there. I liked the simpleness of it. I liked being out there and living my life. Leave me a message, right?

Well I think it is time for a little prayer and a lot of spell check
Dear God, Thank you for today!! Thank you for the wonderful people in my life. Those who donate their mileage and those who donate their time and their efforts to see to it that the people around them are loved and taken care of. Thank you for the gift of life. For loving us and welcoming us and embracing us no matter how old we are, we are all your children. Thank you for ties that may stretch but do not break. God please look over those who are struggling. Whose bodies are week but whose minds are strong. Let them know that you have not forgotten them. Please comfort those who ache, those who struggle to conceive, and those who are recovering, sometimes their pain cant be spoken. Please be with those whose battlefields are in their heads, those who fight depression, addiction, disease. We thank you God for all you have done. We love you with our whole hearts. In your name we pray. Amen

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