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Hey everyone!!

Just wanted to update everyone on how I have been doing. First off, I'm almost caught up on all tag offers from this journal. I only have the "Surfer Looking Out To Sea" tags left to fill. I do have A LOT of new tags to post but they won't be posted till we return from our vacation. We leave June 28th and return late July 7th so after that tag offers will resume.

My marriage problems are resolved and we are doing very well. Thanks so much for all that has kept me in your prayers.

My oldest son....this is another story....problems just seem to get worse and worse with him. He bought his new car which I told you all about and the car is now trashed thanks to his so-called friends....they are not friends they are just a group of people that have been using him pretty much for money.

Recently, they beat him up because he refused to hand over money for beer.....sad huh, in the process of them beating him up, they stole his Ambercrombie & Fitch jacket from his car and also stole the portable navigation system we bought him for Christmas....o-well, I told him to not worry about those kinds of things, they can be replaced in the future. We filed charges against the kids who beat him up.

Some friends huh? They managed to ruin his car which he has NOT made the second payment on....there are dents in the roof, there are key scrathes ALL OVER the car as well as one boy putting his grandmothers car in reverse and backing into my son's car causing over $1100.00 worth of damage to it. SUCKS! All this time he "thought" these were his good friends when we tried to tell him they were using him. He didn't believe us at all.....well, now he said since being beat up he believes us, so we will see over time if this changes him.

So far he "says" he wants to join the Navy to honer his grandfathers name. My mother in law is very excited by that.

Well, just wanted to update you all so you didn't think I fell of the face of the earth!! We are getting ready to go to Hershey Park today....my husband's company picnic is held there so it's a day of fun for us!! Well, have to go and put the icing on the cinnnamon rolls I made for breakfast and then time to get ready to leave.

Have a GREAT day everyone and miss you all....look for new offers after July 7th!!

Hugs, Angela

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HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY!!!!

Just wanted to take the time and wish all the Mom's in j-land a Happy Mother's Day!

I hope each and everyone of you get spoiled and pampered as each of you are special and deserve it.

Sorry that no one has heard much from me since my last tag offer. Right after that was posted, I starting having some very rough marital problems to the point that I thought it was the end of my marriage.

So, I think things are back to being good, only time will really tell. I can tell you this though....he has made Mother's Day really nice so far!

Love you all

Angela

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Ok, before I post my new tag offer just to let people know what I have been up to....besides trying to get the family well. Matthew did have strep and got done with his meds last week and guess what.....today he was home from school with a very sore throat, he can't swallow, can't eat too much....he fell asleep last night around 8:30 pm, which is rare for him.

So, tomorrow we are heading back to the doctor as I believe he has strep AGAIN, this will be the 3rd time!!! I think this poor kid needs to be on a preventive med for about a month to kill whatever is in his system.

Then on top of that, we have been preparing our yard for new seed. Well, my sifted topsoil was delivered on Friday and low and behold we got most of it spread and since Saturday it did NOTHING BUT RAIN.....I have a huge pile of topsoils covered over with a tarp to salvage that.....you can't walk in my yard because the soil is so wet that you step in it and you sink....oh joy! So, hopefully once this rain stops and my soil dries out some, we will be able to finish, lay the seed and the straw and wait for grass to grow.....after that is established, we are going to get 3 trees to plant and start gutting and re-doing our shrub beds.

Ok, some GREAT news, Saturday wasn't a complete waste of time.....lol.....my son Anthony (18) bought his first car this weekend!!! He was looking to buy a 2008 Hyundai Elantra SE (after seeing the one my neighbors bought) BUT he was debating on this other car he found on the net at a dealer 2.5 hours away in VA. It was a 2007 Hyundai Tiburon GT V6 for a really good price!! It was a repo and this dealer had it since January and wanted it gone....he called Anthony all day on Saturday so Anthony and his father took the drive out there and my son came home with it.

It is an AWESOME looking car! This car is soooo freaking sweet and he looks so good in it! He is having a little buyer's remorse right now but I told him not too...the car is awesome and he got such a good deal on it. If he bought the 2008 version of this, the car would have been 21,600 and he paid 14,990......GREAT deal.....I'll share some pictures of it once he gets it all detailed up nice....right now its been nothing but rain so its dirty.

I get to drive it whenever I want....he is so sweet, he said you co-signed for me to get the car so when ya want to drive it let me know....he let me take it today down to drop off some cookies at my friends house...lol....Sunday, he took me for a nice drive in it....took me on some winding roads so I could drive and see how it handles.......NICE RIDE!

Ok, if you made it this far without being bored here is a new tag I made several days ago...this one and the surfer one will be filled soon....life has been hectic here so please bare with me.

If you like this tag and would like one or a few just leave me a comment and let me know the name/s you would like.

Have a great night everyone

Hugs, Angela

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Well, the past couple of days for me has not been fun. Early Tuesday morning at 4 am, my 12 year old son Matthew woke me up crying saying it hurt to swallow and he had a migraine. He woke up at 3 am and suffered till 4 because he hates to wake me up.....I said NEVER EVER lay there and suffer, I'm your mom and if you come and wake me I'm going to get up and tend to you.....he was miserable all day yesterday, the headaches were bad, he had a high fever and he slept most of the day. So, today we were in the doctor's office cause when Matt sleeps during the day.....Matt is very sick because he just doesn't nap......the verdict is...................STREP! He still has the high fever.

He just had this last month....poor kid.....she put him on antibiotics that he has to take 3 times a day till gone.....he can take the Naproxen 2 times a day for the headaches (it's normally 1 tab every 12 hours, she said to bump him up to 2 tabs and Tylenol if he needed that extra pain reliever to help the headaches) I just feel so bad for him.....we left the doctor's office to go to Target and get his meds and he just burst into tears and said Mom, please take me home, I just can't go to Target.....the sunlight was bothering him causing the headache to be worse.

So, my friend & neighbor gave me some gel ice packs and she told Matt to put them on the back of his head/neck and they would help the headache....I got him all settled down, gave him the headache medicine and went to Target to get the antibiotics....my friend Jen was right around the corner if Matt needed her for anything.

Other then that, my day is consisting of cleaning my house from top to bottom AGAIN in hopes to get the germs out!! All my windows are open and fresh air is just flowing through my house! Nice to have the windows open for a change.

Well, enough of my rambling....lol....you all wanna see the tag, not hear about my sick kiddos.....lmao....I made this last night and I wasn't so sure if I liked it but maybe someone will.....not one of my personal fav's but maybe that's because it's a little different for me....been trying to work more with graphics then tubes.....I don't have the kind of money I want to really buy the tubes I want so I just have to wait for buying tubes....lol

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Today is a really boring day for me. I got all my housework  done over the weekend so all I really have left is my laundry and ironing....both my dreaded jobs!

Then on top of I'm dealing with my sassy teen son and his attitude.....grrrr, o-well, I decided to sit here and play in PSP and see if I could come up with something that I like and hopefully others would like...lol

I have also been having some people ask "If this offer is still open can I get one with this name on it" just so everyone knows I NEVER do expiration dates because not all people get their alerts right away due to vacations, busy with life in general, heavy mail in their mailbox so I just have never done expiration dates since I started doing PSP almost 5 years ago....I know how I felt when I missed out on great tags due to expiration dates so I always said I would never do them and I never have....if I EVER do it, it would be written for all to read and it would be very rare thing for me to do....lol

Onto the tag I made up today =)

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Here is a new one that I just made tonight. I love waterfalls! They are just so pretty and to me there is just something relaxing about them.

Thank you to everyone that said they hope my family gets better! We are trying...lol....my teen went back to work today and the youngest is still just in the starting stages of a cold so I know he will have it for awhile longer and as far as me......well, I hope it runs it's course quickly....LOL

If you would like the below tag please just leave me a comment and let me know the name/s you would like. Have a great night all!!

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Here's another one that I made awhile back. It was a secret pal goodie...lol

If you like it and want it just leave me the name/s you would like in comment form.

Have a great weekend to all my J-land buddies!

Hugs, Angela

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Well, guess who is sick again.....2 of my 3 kids =( my oldest is really sick with chills, fever, sneezing, cough and a runny nose. My youngest son has the sniffles and a fever.....when is this going to end! I too, am feeling a little under the weather. This is insane.....whatever is going around is really hard to clear up.....I'm so over being sick and having sick kids, just breaks my heart when any of my kids are sick....they get so miserable!

Anyway, this is one I was just playing around with. It was made with a blinkies template but I chose to not make it blink.....lol

Have a good weekend everyone!

Hugs, Angela

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This was a word art challenge in the same group I made the other tag in....lol....hope you like it and if you want to request please let me know the names you would like.

There is never expiration dates on my tags. Please give me time to get them back to you!

Have a great night!

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This was a graphic challenge in one of my psp groups that I'm a member in.....I love when they have like daily challenges and stuff cause some stuff just inspires you to create. Hope you all like it and if you want it please just leave me a list of names you would like in comment form.

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