Happy July!

I can’t believe it’s July already!  I’m sure I’m in good company there- it seems that the days are just flying by.  I have been trying to get inspired to work in the house and move things around and tweak and create….but since I’ve been home from vacation, it’s just not happening!  Ugh!!  I keep thinking of this day….

and I wanna go back!

Maybe I need a little more sun on my face and sand between my toes to inspire me again.  Nah.  That probably wouldn’t work.  I just need to get my mind back in ‘the real world’ again.  Can’t afford to take another week off work.  :(

  I will show you a couple of beautiful RAK gifts that I received recently.  This is one I received from a wonderful lady by the named of Dora of Reedy Creek Primitives.  It came as a total surprise on a day that just was not going very well and it really lifted my spirits :)

The doll is dressed in blues and I just love her little sheep!

This next RAK , from a very talented gal named Deb, was waiting for me in the mail that my neighbor collected for us while we were away.

I really ♥ this too :)  What a great surprise to come home to!

  I have been stitching- which isn’t something that I could concentrate on while preparing for vacation.  I did start one before we left, so I could take it with me-just in case I had a lot of free time while there.  Yeah right.  I am almost done with that one and have already started 2 more!  I NEVER start another before I am finished…and now I have 2 more started.  Very weird for me.  I am doing 3 of the 4 pieces from Stacy Nash’s booklet Merry Hallowe’en.  Love them.  I guess that is why I couldn’t wait to get started on the next… and then the next :)  Such fabulous Halloween designs and I have several Fall themed patterns that I am hoping to get stitched also. 

So I guess I can’t say that I have not been creative.  I just haven’t been inspired to tweak and decorate.  My fireplace is still undecorated.  I don’t know where I want to go with that yet.  I am going to have to take some time and browse the internet for pics of fireplaces for inspiration.  I have a few furniture pieces that I need to get moved around first (one being right beside the fireplace) so maybe if I get working on getting that settled, I can be inspired to start working on that whole area.

Hubs went to the doctor the other day.  He woke up with a severely sore throat the other morning and wanted me to make an appointment for him- which I was glad to do.  It turned out that the throat problem doesn’t seem serious and he got a script for that (his blood counts were fine too), but he found out something that I think in the back of his head, he already knew.  His blood pressure was high.  Kind of off the charts high.  I think he said it was 168 over 108 – second stage hypertension.  Granted, he was nervous about going to the doc.  He never goes so when he does it’s for a reason and he always thinks it’s going to be bad.  That morning, he was in ‘worry mode’ and kept saying that there was no reason for his throat to be sore, his tonsils were probably infected,  and that he probably needed to have them taken out…just blowing it up in his mind.  So I’m sure that contributed to his pressure going up- a little.  Fact is, his dad has been on blood pressure meds since he was in his 20’s, so it was no surprise since Hubs is now 41.  Last time he had been to any Dr. was last May when he cut his fingers, and his blood pressure had been fine for those few visits, so it’s probably only been getting worse in the last 6-8 months.  Thing is, he said that he had a few occasions where he had been feeling ‘funny’- almost like panic attacks.  Did he mention that to me at the time???  No.  So I know he knew that something else was going on and probably contributed to his ‘worry mode’.  :)  He has to stop in at the Dr’s in a week to have them check his pressure again, and then again at the end of the month for another appointment where they will probably decide if he needs meds to help control it.  I think ‘diet and exercise’ is in order until then!

Since I have started eating healthier in the past few months, I have been trying to encourage him to jump on the bandwagon.  I told him that I was concerned about his weight and his health also.    He is and always has been a meat and potatoes kind of guy, so resorting to chicken and veggies was not something he was jumping-up-and-down-happy-to-try when I suggested it.  He does love vegetables and would eat a salad every night without complaint, but he prefers the biggest portion of his meals to be some sort of red meat.  Now he’s looking at things a little differently, and I am extremely thankful for the sore throat he woke up with.  He needed a ‘wake up call’ and he finally got the one he needed.  Now I can finally fully concentrate on making healthier meals for the whole family and not just myself- which was a pain.  When he was eating what he wanted to eat, then the boys were wanting to eat that too- not the healthy stuff Mom was eating.  I will be spending some time looking through healthier recipes this weekend.  Tonight on the menu- Turkey Taco Salads :)

If I don’t get to post before the weekend is over, I hope you all have a wonderful 4th of July weekend with your families and friends!