WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR NOVEMBER 2013

Good afternoon ladies!!!!! It is glorious sunshine out there. I'm sure all those kiddos are anxious to get out and do their thing tonight since they weren't able to last night.

My thing I am thankful for today. I am thankful for my sister. I know she can be a royal pain the the butt at times but she is my sister. And all the physical problems she has gone through helps her have insight into mine. Even though I don't always appreciate how often she shares that insight, sometimes you have to get your feelings hurt in order to grow a little bit. I know God has had to kick me in the butt at times to get my attention and my sister does the same. We loved our Mom so much and were her care givers here in town many times since my brothers lived out of town. Because of her vision to be a nurse, I followed in her footsteps to become one. Her vision didn't work for her but it started me on my journey. She has a lot of strength in ways that never can be measured even though she has many disabilities. I love you big sis

I forgot to add yesterday that I did get my colonoscopy scheduled yesterday, Nov 14th.

Joyce, Indiana

Sisterly advice!





Andelane is starting to have some personality in her pictures. Olivia is such a good big sister.

Robin, Bodi and Ritter.

PNW

Welcome to November.

My goal for November is to participate in 30 days of thankfulness in this thread. Right now I am thankful for MFP friends who support me unconditionally although my efforts lately have been less than wholehearted. My 9 month plateau was starting to have a gradual slope in the wrong direction, but you guys continue to cheer me on. Thank you!

In preparation for Thanksgiving, Advent, and Christmas I am attempting the Advocare 24 Day Challenge. I have attempted it in the past but never been 100 % compliant. Well, this time I am giving up coffee and diet soft drinks, at least for the 10 day "cleanse" phase. I am looking on this as a spiritual journey of fasting and devotion. I don't want to preach to you guys, or try to sell you Advocare, but it was amazing to me how my morning devotion and scriptures reaffirmed that I need to do this. This is my third day and I've been compliant so far. In the past I continued to drink coffee and Diet Dr. pepper when I tried it, so I'm wondering if that contributed to my falling off the wagon. I never coupled it with a spiritual journey before either, so we'll see how that works.

Just putting this out there for accountability. Thanks for listening.

Goals for November:

Minimum 3 days a week of exercise. Had slipped down to two and it shows.
Stay at or below goal - currently below a bit.
Break up with BF - for mental health ;-)

Sylvia, do they send you home the same day as the cardiac cath??? I wouldn't want to have a cardiac cath and then drive home 100 miles. Since stents were done to a large extent when I had to quit work so I don't have any advice on that. But I always hated it that we would send those people home the same day knowing they had a long drive. I totally agree with you about the family support that you would have close by but yet if it is another stent over previous stent you want good the best care. WOW, what a decision. Do you have a trusted family doctor that could guide you? I don't envy you and your hubby in making that decision. Good luck.

Robin, what wonderful kids. Priceles!!!

Joyce, Indiana

For some reason it surprised me tht we are already in a new month. October went by so fast!
Sylvia - sorry to hear of your heart issues. I really can't advise you but we live in a small town about 90 miles from major medical centers and we always go there for anything that isn't routine. Even my internist said we should go to Dallas for procedures.
This is the month to be Thankful and I am so thankful for all of you. You are in my thoughts as I make my way through life.
Had a great day golfing today. Started off cold (46) and ended up at 75. We had a great time and got lots of exercise.
Congrats to all the losers and hang in there to the ones who are struggling (like me).
Barbie - hope you're getting better. I had to use a walker for about three days as I couldn't walk at all. Take it easy and get well.
Robin - your babies are adorable!
Sue in TX
November goals:
Be thankful everyday
Do a RAK each day
Be good to myself.

Last night we made spatzel for dinner for the first time. These are German noodles. DH loved it, and I liked it. Boy, was it a lot of work to get the spatzel dough pushed through the colander and into the boiling water. I ended up on a stool. Next time, I’m starting on a stool. DH had this dish at a German restaurant last week and wanted to try it at home so he found a recipe. I come from a German family, but this was my very first spatzel, and very first time making noodles of any kind from scratch. If anyone has recommendations for spatzel making tools, I’d love to hear about them.



Sylvia: I am so sorry you’re having heart problems. You are in my prayers. I vote for the hospital with the best record of good patient care and positive results. Of course, I’m not the one who is affected. My dad went to Portland for heart surgery because the best surgeon and hospital were there, and that involved a long drive for my parents. His surgery was successful and he had many more years with good quality of life. Back then stents had not been invented. I think they are wonderfully helpful with much less trauma than the open-heart surgery Dad went through. Best luck.:flowerforyou: :flowerforyou:

Dr. Katie: We’ll be here to cheer you on.:flowerforyou:

Jb: It is good to see you posting again. You were missed.:flowerforyou:

JaquelineG: Welcome. This is a great group of women. Let us know where you’re from. Good luck with your goals.:flowerforyou:

Molly fro WV: Enjoy Colorado. Do I remember correctly that you’re in the Denver area? Is the other person in the picture your daughter?:huh:

Kerry from Saskatchewan: Welcome! I hope you’ll stop by often so we can get to know you and vice versa. :flowerforyou:

Robin: Your granddaughters are beautiful and seem full of personality.:flowerforyou:

Jodios: I’m sending you warm thoughts. Western Oregon isn’t a hot spot, but we’re not in the icebox, either. Stay warm.

Sue in TX: It didn’t occur to me to add thankful to my goals. What a lovely idea.:flowerforyou:


Katla in Beautiful NW Oregon

November goals:
1. Log every bite
2. Focus on fitness: cardio and strength every week
3. Drink 3 or more glasses of water daily

Joyce, it depends on how things go. I was supposed to go home that afternoon the first time, but wound up staying more than two days. I had some bleeding they were worried about at the insertion site. I stayed in ICU the whole time. I hope this time will go better. Our main worry is that if something goes wrong during the procedure they don't have the facilities to do the emergency heart surgery here, so I would have to be transferred to a bigger hospital anyway. KU Med Center has all that.

We are thinking of getting a second opinion.

Sylvia

Bump for later:happy: Sue in SD

Hi,all,

Teral........great pic!

Have to say I've been enjoying all these baby pictures, thanks everybody.

Finished up scrubbing the lower floor of the house vinyl siding; this is something I never would have attempted last year this time. It does look nice.

Got one more set of pies to make yet---the sweet potato..........as it turns out, I am not transporting the cinnamon buns; the woman who bakes them says she wants to see our ride as they have horses and are thinking about doing the next.

Pies, then an early bed for me.
Take care all!
yanniejannie

I been doing quite well eating and exercise but today. I'm messedup tired. I actualy went to the gym today did yoga light and 25.05 minutes on a rowing machine. My eating is crazily out of control.

katla - if the candy isn't open, return it to the store, that's what I'm doing tomorrow. Or else say hello to the soup kitchen!

yanniejannie - now why didn't I think of cutting off the corner of a zip lock bag? Here I was, wrangling with a baby food spoon. My FIL was a ham operator. I still recall his call letters (is that what it's called?) W2STS. I think at first you have 2 letters, a number, and then 3 letters. But after you've been an operator for a certain period of time, you get to drop one letter. He was an operator for over 50 years.

susan - yea getting into the size 8's! I especially like you goals of helping others joyfully and accepting defeat.

Joyce - sometimes people need to hear from another that they look awful. She probably should have stayed home but didn't think she looked that bad. Next time she might think twice when she feels bad. I don't think you did anything real bad. Colonoscopy's aren't any fun, but I'm glad you got yours scheduled.

christchild - I'm so sorry you had so much to deal with this month. I'm so glad you are looking on the bright side. I do hope you make your visits here more frequent

tazgirl - I must have had a pastry bag deep in my subsconscious, because I was trying to use this decorator thing from Pampered Chef, but evidentally the cheese is too thick. The idea is that you can squeeze it and there are tips you put in so things like potatoes come out decorative. Same idea as a pastry bag, only I never thought of useing one!!! Now how dumb can someone be??????

DeeDee - we actually worked on bringing in the Halloween decorations today. Yea for you losing!!!

Sylvia - do you buy special bags, how do you go about making them up? What kind of bags do you use? That probably wouldn't be a bad idea for us to do. Vince is always complaining that I give too much candy to the kids. I give a handful (that is, except if the kid is a cute little kid, then they get a BIG handful, sometimes two). Last night he was saying that I'm giving away too much candy, that we're going to run out. So what am I doing tomorrow? returning bags of unopened candy! Happy birthday to your hubby. Would he like tickets to a sporting event (hockey, football, etc)? So sorry the heart stress test didn't go that well. I'm sure someone on here can help you out, we have a few cardiac nurses who know much more than I do. Good luck on the cardiac cath

mousemom - how I wish we had Thanksgiving like you Canadians do! To have it so close to christmas makes it so rushed. I'd like to really enjoy the holiday.

jb - your neice looks so....neat. I'm truly impressed. So sorry about the oral surgery. Greek yogurt is soft, too. And applesauce for dessert. Soups work, when I had oral surgery I put some oatmeal into the soup to make it more filling.

Kerry - welcome! Good thoughts for you to heal real soon.

Robin - what adorable girls! Thanks for posting

grandmalle - I love the greek yogurt cream cheese. WalMart had it but discontinued it, fortunately Lowes foods started carrying it.

sue in TX - what's RAK?

Well, I WAS going to take this bosu class, but the lady I usually see at the Y called to say she wasn't going to be there, so to save time I went to the Y near me and did 1 hr of HIIT on the elliptical (30 sec sprint, 1 min recovery). Hadn't done that in a while. Then I went and did a bit of food shopping, stopped at the vet on my way to mahjongg, maj'd once and then bought Vince 2 Dunkin Donuts (he likes them, doesn't interest me in the least), stopped at the Salvation Army but they don't have any inflatables out yet, then went to Aldi, then home. Unpacked everything and then helped Vince bring in the Halloween decorations. He'd already had the inflatables in the garage to dry out. We had the neighborhood little kids "helping" us....lol Had dinner, finished stuffing the manicotti for tomorrow night, made these pizza logs for tomorrow night. I need to make the salads and bake the garlic bread. Sneaky me will make the salads in individual dishes but I'll measure out my salad so I can log it.

Tomorrow is yoga then I'll stop on the way home to return the candy and get some bleach for the pool.

Yikes - look at the time!

Michele in NC

bump!

Katla, when both our parents were alive and at a time when all of us kids were t home, probably a holiday, they sat us all down and we talked about all of their furniture and heirlooms and we decided as a family what we wanted. As our own children got older we did change that some but it was mutual between us all. I have asked both of my daughters the same thing while they were here at the same time. So when we die and the home becomes theirs, there will be no hard feelings about anything. Both know what the other is getting. If they want to trade, buy or whatever then it is between them at time. As our lives change, our needs change. So we have to be open for different things. The things that I wanted of Mom and Dads 15 years ago was different 2 years ago when Mom died. Also when Mom moved into the retirement home she couldn't take everything with her and some of the things that was in the will for us was given to us a lot earlier than expected. I think it became more precious to us because of that. Mom was able to visit our home and see some of her precious family things in her childrens home. But our family has a unique family love and respect for each other that I wish others could experience.

Joyce, Indiana

Bump to mark my place.:flowerforyou: