"Spa Day"

Today Michael  and Elizabeth (and of course, Ava) had some shopping to do and Addy decided she wanted to stay home with me.  We decided it would be a perfect day for the two of us to share a "Spa Day"!

We gave each other shoulder massages, manicures, pedicures and fixed each other's hair and did each other's make-up!  As you can see from the picture, we had a great time and don't we look great!

I'm so thankful that I am able to spend time with Elizabeth's girls.  Grandkids are a special gift from God and I cherish each moment I have with them. 

My Own Parking Space

This past two years has brought many changes in my life.  Some good, some not good!  I'm so thankful to have a relationship with God.

This past year God has blessed me in so many ways!  I am finding who I am and finding that I am a capable, strong woman.  I actually like myself so much more than I did in the past.  I feel that I am becoming my true self once again and it's a place I feel most comfortable!

In October last year I started a new job - with a roofing company!  I started part-time, just a couple of days a week and am now full-time wearing many hats!  I never knew that I would love the roofing industry as much as I do, nor did I know there was so much involved!

I am an executive assistant to the Safety and HR manager.  He's a great boss and has also become a good friend.  I feel very "at home" where I am in my job!  The president of the company is great too . . . and, oh yeah he's my brother!  I feel honored to work with him everyday and I'm learning so much!

And . . . I have my own parking space!

I've never had my own personal parking space before!  What do you think?

A couple of weeks ago, my brother sent me to Florida for some training.  I was in Delray Beach for a full week and it was beautiful!  My hotel was two blocks from the beach and 7 blocks from school.  I walked everywhere I went in town and loved every minute of it - although the first day I walked to class, I carried my backpack with my laptop inside.  By the time I made it to class, I was pretty tired of carrying it.  I weighed it and it weighed 22 LBS!  I left my laptop at the hotel every day after that - much more enjoyable walk!

Here's the view from my hotel room!

I also took pictures of the drawbridge (which I walked over everytime I went to class).  We don't really have drawbridges in Oklahoma - at least that I've ever seen and I knew my granddaughter would like to see it.  It opened every day about 7:45am, as I walked TO class and then again about 4:45pm as I walked back to the hotel after class.

The training was great!  I learned how to read blueprints, a lot of roofing terminology, how to draw plans to scale and a LOT about the different types of roofs.  Where I work we do only commercial roofs - no residential, so it's really interesting to me.

God has truly blessed me and I am thankful!

In His Love and Blessings annb

I may be back!

Never can be sure, but I may be back.  I haven't posted in a very long time, but it's really because I just haven't had much to say.  Things are going well - really well for me and I feel blessed that God has carried me through the past two years.

I am working - since October last year.  I have an amazing job and enjoy getting up every morning to go to work!  I started out part time - two days a week.  Then, I went to four days a week and have been full time for several months now.

I am an assistant to the Director of Safety and HR and have learned so much about the industry for which I now belong to with this company.  My boss is great and has become a good friend.  It feels like it's been a very long time since I felt "comfortable".

My daughter and her husband, my daughter's girls and my son have been so great to me all this time and I'm just not sure what I would have done without them.  Thankfully, that was never a worry!

I'm thankful that I've been able to spend such close, quality time with them but am beginning to feel that I'm ready to start planning - within this next year - to make my own home.  I am now at a place financially and emotionally that I know I can handle living alone.

God is good and I am blessed!

In His Love and Blessings