Life has been awesome!

Hello all! I know I am not on here as much as I have been in the past. Life is busy! Alison continues to grow and grow...We have gone 2 days without a bottle (no I am not starving her..lol) we have just transferred to a sippy cup since she now has 2 chompers on the bottom (her little weapons is what I call them) she has decided to chew the nipples on her bottles so I thought what a great idea and time to start her on the sippy! Yeah I know great mom skills..lol....She loves to play patty cake and I cant believe she is 9 months old now!

Dustin got all B's on his report card (big yay!) If he keeps this up he will be headed for student of the month at his school. His tuba playing is going well also and he had his 1st concert last week and I think I have some pictures that I will post on here soon as I get them published off my camera.

Matt continues in 1st grade. He is having some issues but we are working with him and he is getting better! Its amazing how having stability in his life is changing him. I cannot believe he is 7 years old now. I am seriously going to have to post some pics of him and the kids (they are already on my facebook)

As for me, I cant complain. Life is awesome. My divorce has taught me how to be a stronger more confident woman. It also allowed me to love again and I do love Rey with all my heart. I actually enjoy spending time with him...Halloween weekend we went back home with the kids and we had such an awesome time just kicking back with my family plus thanks to my ambitious sisters who took the kids trick or treating Rey and I got to spend the evening together..something that doesnt happen very often...that was the bomb for me. I am starting to enjoy shopping and makeup and getting my nails done...kind of sprucing up the outside package to match the inside. Its so funny..I see these beautiful women but in actuality they have very ugly insides and so they dont seem as beautiful. An example would be the show "Ugly Betty"....I admit the glasses and everything the outside isnt that pretty but her heart she just has this amazing heart that when she walks in she lights up a room...Its just like us we can spend hundreds of dollars on makeup and clothes and everything but if we have an ugly heart then it isnt going to matter.

God is a God of 2nd chances. I know I went through all the hell I went through because God had something better for me in the end...God had Rey a man who knows how to treat me like a woman and honor and love me and cherish me. I didnt understand how awesome 1st Corinthians 13 was until now. This love is awesome, its this true love...no wonder he makes my heart skip a beat when he walks in the door at night. I have never had love like this. In my marriage my exhusband was all about himself even now with his life its all about him. REALITY CHECK! Life doesnt work that way...no matter how much you think you are in control, no matter how manipulative you become to get what you want you will never get to your "mountaintop experience". The sad thing is that some people never learn that and its so sad when they come to the end of their lives and realize how many doors could have been opened how many opportunities could have been given if they had just taken their eyes off of them and put them onto God and others. I realized it thank God before it was too late and now I am enjoying my "mountaintop experience." For the first time in my life I am in love with the love of my life who calls me his "superwoman" I so love that. Loving him has made me want to be the best mom, girlfriend, sister, daughter,friend, and niece I can be. I took control with God's help and got rid of the drama and chaos in my life. Its so nice to be able to come home at night and make dinner and help with homework and keep up the house and the finances and take care of my family...yes ladies I dont stay home...I work full time and lately even more than full time. Yeah go ahead and bash me but this is my blog so I will say what I want to say and if you cant take it then you dont have to read it. I have survived cancer, divorce, reposession, and forclosure and I have done it and still managed to have a job and keep my family stable. I dont buy this garbage that a woman's job is to keep her home and family and she isnt to work outside the home..that to me is a line of bull. I hear so many women gripe because they have no money and they are struggling and here is the husband/father working 2 jobs and not taking care of himself or his health and worrying about his family 24/7, sorry ladies but you need to be out there too. blah blah blah the welfare system would be alot less crowded if they made women get out there and work..I know of someone who's husband worked 60 hrs a week at one job and 40 hrs at another so he could support his wife and 3 kids. One day a freak accident happened and he died leaving his widow with 3 kids and massive bills and boo hoo she had no skills so she couldnt work...she couldnt get any government assistance because with the kids social security she made too much...did she give up..nope she pulled up her bootstraps and got a job at McDonalds and went to school and now is a nurse and is remarried but working. Women need to be able to make a living for themselves and not depend on a man. After my divorce I could have wallowed, etc but I didnt I dove into my job dove into my family, found a church, joined divorcecare, got proactive with my life and getting proactive thanks to my awesome son allowed me to meet Rey and even now I dont live on him. He pays his bills and I pay mine but it is nice for the 1st time in my life to be saving money and getting to splurge once in awhile...it has put this awesome inner peace within me. And also by having that inner peace within me has helped me to give even more to others. And the doors Christ has opened are truly awesome!