CORRECTION

In my previous post I made a SERIOUS mistake.  I had a sentence that read "I am not Miss Calvert..."
It should have read "I am NOW Miss Calvert."  I just needed to make sure that was clear.  :)

Updates

It has been a long time since I last blogged.  But it has been so so so busy.  Now I am going to do a quick update.  Hopefully I will blogging about some of the things more in depth later (with pictures).  Hopefully I don't leave anything out.

First thing... DISNEY...  I surprised the boys Dec. 16 when I picked the boys up early from school.  They had no idea where we were going... just that I had their bags packed and we were on the road.  We got to the airport and to the gate and they knew.  Well they thought they knew.  :)  They only knew they were going to Florida. 

We got to Florida and Aunt Leslie picked us up.  The boys were so excited.  She took us back to her AMAZING new condo in Tampa where we stayed with her.  Friday we went to the dog beach and St. Pete beach.  It was cold but the boys still swam in the ocean.  Wait this is supposed to be the brief synopsis.  Here it goes.  Leslie and I surprised the boys later telling them we were taking them to Disney.  So on Saturday off we went, to Disney.  Even Diesel got to go!  He got to go to Disney's Doggie Daycare.  We had an amazing time.  I am so glad I was able to take the boys to Disney World.  Truly a magical place.

Christmas was great.  We got to see all of the family.  Aunt Windi and Family, Aunt Leslie, Granny Hallie, Aunt Angie and Family, Aunt Faye and Family, Nanny, Ma, Ninny, Uncle James, Dad, Uncle Brendan and Granny Mary.  No -- not all in one day, but over all and we all had a GREAT Christmas. 

My Biggest NEWS!!!!  I am not Miss Calvert.  Not Ms. -- but Miss.  I can now say I was NEVER married.  My annulment was finalized on Monday Jan 13.  I can't tell you how I feel about that.  Now I can move forward.  Only looking forward and no looking back.  That chapter of my life is finished.  I never have to deal with any of it again.  There were people that did some really terrible things during that time.  They will never see or understand what they have done or that what they did was wrong.  And that is ok.  I will never let what they did to me or my children keep us from being the best we can be.  In order to truly move forward I have to forgive them.  I can't say its completely done because it is a process and takes time.  But I can say that I am now on that boat and working towards that.  I have let go of the anger, moving toward forgiveness.

Jonah and Cameron are on an indoor soccer team together.  That is going really well.  We are having so much fun with it.  Cameron had never played a day in his life (and indoor soccer does not practice) until his first indoor soccer game.  It has been a lot of fun watching.  Jonah is doing really well.  He is definitely best at defense and I think he enjoys it the most. 

I think I forgot to mention we got a puppy!  The day before Thanksgiving.  We got a puppy for the boys.  He was SUPPOSED to be a Christmas present for the boys.  But really he was my Christmas present.  He is a full blooded Golden Retriever and his name is Rush.  He is so great.  I love him with all of my heart (well the part not already taken by my boys, Pierre and his boys!).  He is only three months old (almost 4) and he knows how to sit, to go to his crate and is pretty much house broken!!!  He even knows he's not allowed to chew shoes.  We leave them out and he doesn't touch them.  Now to teach him not to eat EVERYTHING else in sight.  :)  He is beautiful. 

Ok thats a big enough update for now.  I will blog more details and pictures later.

Happy New Year.

Amanda

thirty, boobs, pores, pimples and wrinkles

I remember when I thought thirty was old. It wasn't that long ago. Ummm... 4 months ago. :) Seriously, I remember growing up how old thirty seemed. Then I turned thirty and realized I was still young. Really young. Especially compared to millions of others that are over thirty! But then today I started noticing something. Then something else. Then something else. It just kept going!

I looked in the mirror today while I was putting on my necklace and realize, in horror!!! that I have GRANNY BOOBS! They are like my ex-mother-in-laws!!! I have WRINKLES above my cleavage! And they sag. They have sagged for a while. But the wrinkles above my cleavage. That is just wrong. Just wrong. Finished looking in the mirror.

Then in my car on my way into work I was looking in my mirror to get something out of my eye. And there they were! Just there. Huge! Just there. My pores. MY PORES WERE ENORMOUS. Never in my life have they been big. I have never even noticed my pores before. But here they were just starring me down. I couldn't even get away from them. Thank GOD I could just close that mirror up.

I get to my office and sit at my desk. I start stretching a little and rub my face from exhaustion. What was that??? I felt a bump on my face. It was a pimple! What is up with THAT??!! I never had pimples when I was young. Pimples are a teenager thing. I am NOT a teenager. Why the heck am I getting pimples at thirty?!

I am really thirty now. Literally, physically and almost mentally. Now its time to move on. I hear it only gets worse.