Friday Friends - When I Was Bored Out Of My MInd!!

Today is a new day! This is the only day that counts!

I have decided to use Friday to highlight some of the great things I've read this week, or thank people who motivated me.  I have now been around for a few weeks and have found a few blogger friends.  Each week I will be linking a few of the people who have been helpful to me with weight loss tips, or blogs I really enjoy.  Sometimes, I will highlight a post I found particularly good.   I really enjoy reading blogs and seeing what is going on with other people.  I like posts that just make me smile, sometimes.  Please take a moment to visit the links and see what you think!


The Wondering Brain - Weight Loss The Mommy Way!

Frazzled Shell

Crazy Little Love Birds

Menopausal Mother - I Need a What?

Mom to 8 Blog - Ask! Ask! Ask!




Finish the Sentence Blog Hop #12

I am participating in the Finish the Sentence Blog Hop #12 from Janine's Confessions Of A Mommyaholic.  I thought this sounded like a fun thing to do!

The sentence this week is "One time when I was bored out of my mind, I didn't stay that way very long.  I have never been someone who spends much time being bored. 

When I lost my job a while back I was wondering what in the world I was going to do to fill my time.  It didn't take me long to figure out.  I started researching my family history.  Years ago when my mom was still alive, I had spent time asking her to help me fill out my family tree in my Bible.  She did a good job with what she could remember.  I used the information she gave me to get started.  

I found more information on the computer, at Ancestry.com and FamilySearch.org  and then started going to libraries and courthouses to find more.  It wasn't  long before I decided I needed to get more information.  I started calling my cousins who I hadn't seen in years, or some I had never met.  They were all happy to hear what I had found so far.  I asked them all to dig out pictures and allow me to copy them.  Well, there were so many more pictures around than I had imagined.

After talking to all my cousins on the phone, I wanted to see them.  I called up my brothers and sisters and talked to them about what all I was doing.  I told them I was ready for a family reunion.  I spent most of my summer working with them and putting together a family reunion.  In October we had a family reunion, we had over 75 in attendance.  It was great!  I went to Europe in the fall, I had been to France in the spring.  

After returning from Europe, I was at the point where I thought, okay, I have run out of things to do again.  So I had been reading about other people researching their family history, and they were writing blogs.  I decided, maybe I could do that.  Well after Christmas, I started my first blog.  I started writing about My Mother's Family History.  

Soon, I realized I was leaving out my family on my dad's side, so then I started The Plummer Gang Revisited.  

I was spending time at the libraries going through old newspaper, and I found the articles so interesting.  I thought about that and decided I could put some of them on the internet.  The papers in that time frame, in my local area, have never been put on the internet.  So, I started another blog Indiana News From the Past.

Well now we get to this blog, I thought about needing motivation for weight loss and I was already blogging so I thought, why not do a weight loss blog.  So I started this blog and now I have decided to make it more of a blog about me.  So here we are now.

As you can see boredom isn't a problem for me.  I usually take on way too many things and spend time trying to figure out how to put them all in one day.  I still have a husband, a son still in high school, 3 grown children, and 2 grandchildren to keep up with.  

I am the team mom for the baseball team.  I always volunteered at school on my days off.  I was busy feeding the football players before every football game.  

I don't know if I am ever going to have time for another job.  I have recently been thinking maybe I should try to make money blogging so I have time to do what I have come to love.

Next weeks sentence to finish is "If I could hang out with any celebrity, it would be..."

That's a fun question, I already know who that would be!