Let's play catch-up. I'll go first.


Our weather here is just nasty, high nineties, or one hundred plus every day for weeks now. Things are starting to die, turn brown, get ugly but I don't really care. The bugs in Oklahoma are always bad, this year they are horrible. You can't walk outside anywhere without coming back with new bug bites of some sort. So, I have gotten where I refuse to go out. My yard looks bad. My spirits are low. My energy - non existent.

My health has been pretty good except for the occasional sinus problem I feel okay most of the time. I am officially in menopause, I haven't had a period in over six months. The symptoms are about the same. The hardest thing I deal with right now is that I feel like I am drying up from the inside out. You know how your skin feels in the dead of winter when your back is so dry that it hurts to lay down at night... I feel like that all over and itch, itch, itch. Sometimes I feel like I am going to lose my freaking mind. I don't know what else to try. The most recent thing I have done is to increase my Vit E and flax seed oil intake. I think a big part of it is just nerves. I am taking 5HTP every day and getting ready to order some St John's Wort to go along with.

The kids are all good. Levi turned 23 on Wednesday of this week. He is still so young. He is still just working with Mark and barely getting by but he loves being home with his kids.

Zoe is getting to be such a big girl. When she comes to the house she wants to watch Pooh or at least have Pooh running on the tv while she and I sit at the table and do "Z's" When we write our letters or draw or color it is always doing "Z's" because she and her Daddy are working on her learning to write her name. She can spell it for you :)

Travace is growing like a weed. He weighs 14lbs 10oz and is 24 inches long, which means he is gaining almost a pound and an inch a week!! The Grandma connection has been a little slower with Trav, probably because I spend all my time trying to make sure Zoe doesn't feel left out.

Seth will be starting his senior year in a couple of weeks. I have NO regrets or sad feelings whatsoever about school being almost over. I will be tickled pink to never have to do this again. He has established himself at his new church. He was only there two weeks before they ask him to be the full time drummer .. not only at youth services but also Sunday mornings. He has a new crush, she is really pretty and 19.

Emily is fine. I think she is losing weight,she looks like it to me but she can't balance on our scale good enough for me to weigh her and when they went to the doctor the other day Mark didn't ask them to weigh her.

I am reading several books at once. WWRWW slowly. The Artemis Fowl series for something lighter and some dumb book club book that can't keep my interest but I don't want to give it away until I finish it. It's like having to stay awake to see the end of a bad movie but you just have to.

We haven't been watching a lot of movies. The last one I watched was Bounty Hunter and was pretty disappointed with it. I have Legion sitting there but just haven't gotten around to watching it yet.

I have really been in the mood to buy fall clothes, so, I started buying a few new things for Zoe. She's the most fun to shop for! I am only going to buy her play clothes this year - jeans, sweats, tees, and hoodies. I'm tired of all the really pretty stuff never getting worn. I think she needs some boots this year and of course I've got my eye on a new raincoat/rainboot outfit for her :)

Okay... your turn and I WILL be by soon to check your blog... so get busy.

I love you women.