Baby Hart ..is Today the Day???

Sydni and Joshua are in Iowa for the Hart family reunion.  It is always the first weekend of August and Harts come from all over the US to attend.  Apparently the newest Hart, my granddaughter wants to attend too.  Sydni called me this morning to ask what it was like if your water broke.  She explained her symptoms and it sounded suspiciously like labor.   They were on their way to the hospital as she was talking.  Well they have admitted her and will keep her till the baby comes.  The princess Hart is 6 weeks early but I believe that God is there in the room and womb and all will be well.  What is serendipitous is that a year ago they were planning to get married in mid September and moved the wedding up to the first weekend in August to get married in Iowa at Hartland Woods, the family campground.  Well the baby was due mid September and they felt safe to travel to the reunion and now the baby is going to be born during the Hart family reunion time.  Except that it is a little early it couldn't be more perfect.  I wish I was there.  I imagine her mom will fly up and Steve and Peggy, Joshua's dad and step-mom will be near-by.  My heart is so full and it is taking all I can not to get in my car and go.  OHHHH  I just remembered... I don't have my car, they do!!! So sometime in the next few hours or days my little granddaughter will enter the world.  My little sweetheart when you make your presence known and enter this cold hard world know that you will be surrounded by love.  You are wanted and loved already.  I look forward to the first time I can look into your eyes.  You have such amazing genes.  Your great grandmother Ina is in heaven and I believe is watching and will be in the room with your mom and dad.   Oh Lord just surround their room with your peace.  Give them the strength and surety that all will be well.  Take care of Sydni and keep her in your loving embrace.  Oh Lord keep Joshua in  your  arms and provide him the words to express your greatness.  In Jesus name I pray.

Sore Knees and the Quest for Fitness

Yesterday an attractive young lady(30-40 yo) said to me as she was showing me through her business  "okay then young lady you just come this way and you be careful that you don't hurt yourself".  I was momentarily insulted to be addressed in such a patronizing manner.  I decided that I needed to join yet another gym.  I work in Opelousas part-time and I am in Breaux Bridge full time.  My favorite gym that I don't attend is Sure Fit.  The people there are wonderful, funny and seem happy to see me every time I wander in.  I have been giving them my money for two years and haven't seen the inside.  I figured that I needed another gym  not to attend on the days that I am in Opelousas so I joined Community Fitness.  They were running a special for 99$ a year including the use of their pool.  This need for fitness came about last week when I was working with my daughter in the ER.  On our break she talked me into walking around the outside of the hospital a total of 2 times.  It rather felt good to stretch my legs and I was sweating just a little when we went back inside.  Then my knee started to hurt. It continued to hurt into the  next week and still hurts.  I am sitting here typing with an ice pack on it and feeling really old.   Anyway, so yesterday Stan drove me to the gym and I limped in, filled out the paperwork and then asked if they could show me around.  My knee was killing me but I managed to keep up and got the 50 cent tour.  I can only ride the bikes for now and she suggested not much resistance.  I will also do some upper body work.  I am in the worse shape I have been in in years.  When I was at my highest weight at over 300 lbs I was in better shape.  I have been just floating along getting older, more stiff and feeling the arthritis move around in my body.  I haven't put on any weight recently but I haven't lost any either.  The young lady comment was meant to be nice but it stuck in my craw like a burr.  I say stuff like that to my older lady patients in the ER.  I never knew that I was being patronizing.  The thing it did for me was wake me up.  I am not a young lady, I am a sixty year old grandma-to-be who is hiding a bikini clad body under 100 pounds of adipose.  If I don't do my level best to get rid of this fat I am going to be using a cane to get around and I will be damned if that happens before I am 75.  I figure that for the next month if I can ride a stationary bike for about 30 min or start a slow walk for a mile 5 days a week that will be a start. I am really anxious to see my peeps at Sure Fit.  I know they will be happy to see me and will help me in any way.  I just have to dig deep to maintain the motivation.  Someone asked me if I wanted an exercise buddy.  Not now.  For now I am on a solitary journey that will take all my concentration.  I have found that talking and walking aren't such a good mix for me.  I tend to be competitive and in about 50 lbs will find a partner to work out with but not now.  I can do this.

Rebekah May 4, 2012

May 4th represented an educational triumph for my daughter. She was awarded her Masters in Nursing and is a Family Nurse Practitioner or will be when she sits for her exam. I am in awe of her. She knows so much and is able to put into practice all that she has learned. She is a credit to the profession and will be a blessing for those she treats. Her husband, in-laws, mom,dad, grandmother Thelma, and her brother and sister-in-law all were there to witness her graduation and celebrate her success. We had a blast. Congradulations sweetheart.

Happy Birthday Joshua 35 Years of Pictures

Happy Birthday to my son. I had a blast looking through boxes of pictures and had to really limit myself. I had added several from his wedding to Syd but took them out because I already have the same pictures on a previous blog. Josh you are such a gift from God and I thank Him daily for allowing me to help you grow.

Aunt Edna: RIP

Edna was my mother's younger sister. She was the daughter of Cleo and James White. She was Paul Bagley's wife, Billy and Judy's mom, Kimberly,Michael, Molly and Julie's grandmother. She was aunt to Barbara, Patti and me. She was a hoot. I can still see her at my niece's wedding dancing the stripper song with a feather in her hand. Edna was a registered nurse, graduating from Grant Hospital School of Nursing in Columbus, Ohio during a time when nurses wore caps and capes, scrubbed floors and actually cooked the patients meals. Her daughter and niece(me) and great niece(Rebekah) followed her career choice into nursing. She worked for Dr. Layton Schaffer as his office nurse for over 25 years and retired in his service. She and my mom shared holidays and we grew up with our cousins, sharing special meals, laughter and love. She really had a wicked sense of humor, anything and everything was fair game. I remember times when I laughed till I cried around her.

The last time I saw her was a year ago. She was smaller, older but she was still Aunt Edna. I started to cry and she said "I'm not dead yet, don't cry".

I believe that sometime this morning there was a party in heaven. Her sister Inalee, her husband Paul, her granddaughter Julie and her mom and dad were there to welcome her home. Good bye Aunt Edna you will be missed.

Baby Hart

About a week ago my son Joshua and daughter-in-law Sydni came to see me. Joshua said I have a present for you and as he was talking he kept fiddling with something in his hand. He then handed the object in his hand to me and I looked at it. It took a good 10 seconds or longer to me to process what I was looking at. It was the positive pregnancy test that they had taken. I was stunned then I bent over and cried. I was beyond thrilled. What a wonderful day. I was so honored that I was the first that they told. What was most amazing was that I was able to keep their secret until they wanted others to know. I will never forget when they came into the ER and had a pregnancy test done. I was not at the station when the results came in and no one else knew why they were there. When I came back in Heather had a lab result paper in her hand and her expression was like a deer in headlights. She had the paper clutched to her chest and she was just staring at me. I nodded to her to let he know that I knew and she started to laugh and hugged me. The big deal was to keep it quiet in the ER so that "Taunt" Jill wouldn't find out till the kids could tell her. A few days later Josh came by to see Jill and asked her if Grande Taunte Jill was the proper term. Apparently that meant 'big' aunt Jill and not great aunt. Took her a minute too, to figure out what he was trying to say. She thought that he was telling her that Ellie the dog was having puppies(Jill owns Ellie's mom) Now everyone knows and all are thrilled so when, years from now, Baby Hart reads his or her grandma's blog he/she will know that from the first there was an abundance of love.

Nutrasystem Day 1

No I am not going to blog each day about my diet. That would bore the crap out of me and anyone who reads this. I have another blog that I will put entries on that hopefully will keep me motivated. I hate being fat. I am just cumbersome and it irks me that I cannot move like I used to. I have short and long term goals that are measurable. I am going to have breakfast now and I will be happy!!!