I think, with Rob’s help I have figured out the blog again, LOL.

It has been a bit since I posted and things are going well. Rob and I spent two days this weekend painting the back room at the studio again and it looks great!!!

We have a busy first of March, it always feels like the first quarter of the year is so busy for us. We have a couple basketball games, maybe a spring training game and I’m shooting a video or two with an old friend.

What have you been up too?? I promise now that I know how to post pics again to the blog I will do better, LOL.

Until then, Dawn Marie

Got the phone call from my dr office and my CT Scan came back great!! There are no signs of an issues going on, woohoo.. Almost 4 years to the date I was officially diagnosed.

I did go back to my GP for the cough, I just can’t seem to get rid of it. She gave me a breathing treatment yesterday and gave me an inhaler to use for the next 10 days. Fingers crossed that this clears it up, thankfully I do not feel bad, just an annoying cough.

Hope y’all have a great weekend!!!

Hugs & Kisses ~ Dawn Marie

Been a minute since I updated y’all and what is going on with me, so here it is. Not a lot is new, I had a great visit with my family and Ky and Chicago. I have NOT been in cold weather like the Chicago weather in a very long time. I did get home the night before the big freeze, lol. I also go to meet my little nephew in Ky, it was so bitter sweet.

We watched the Super Bowl with our friends, a low key day and a boring ass game, LOL.

Thinking about doing a contest for Valentine’s Day, who will be my special Valentine??

Hugs and Kisses ~ Dawn Marie

Just wanted to update you all on my recent check-up with my oncologist. All my blood work looks great. My Vit D is GREAT, so that is a little different. When my current script for Vit D is out I will go to Over the counter. My iGg levels are still low, which is expected and they are going to try to get a treatment authorized by ins, especially since I got sick last month. Lastly, they are going to see if insurance with authorize a CT Scan as the last one I had was March last year, just to make sure there is nothing going on that doesn’t show in the blood work.

Thank you all for your support and encouragement, y’all mean the world to me!

Hugs & Kisses ~ Dawn Marie

Happy Holidays!! The holidays, especially Christmas are always so special to me as that is how I was raised. My Mom LOVED Christmas and she passed that on to her kids and grandkids. And it is not about the presents, more about Family, the decorations and sounds. Many years ago my Mom sent me a book of photos of me sitting on Santa’s lap as a child and some with some of my other siblings. So, I LOVE Christmas.

I want to thank everyone that thought of me and sent me something during the holidays. You all know how to make a girl feel special. I did have someone tell me my list needs a little updating, so I’ll do that soon.

Hope you all had a splendid holiday!!!

As you may know we recently went to Chicago to have Christmas with some of our family that lives there.  We arrived on a Wednesday evening and came home Tuesday morning.  Thursday we went to ZooBrew which is like our Zoo Lights, except your ticket include beer samplings.  Oh and did I mention it was in the low 20’s and I have Arizona blood?

Friday morning I woke up sounding like I gargled with sand and like I was trying to cough up my lung.  I was sick the entire rest of our trip.  I was in my dr within two hours of arriving home.  She game me scripts and said if I didn’t feel better within four days, give her a call back.  So yesterday I called back and now I’m on my second antibiotic and cough suppressant.  And Rob started getting sick on Tuesday.

We had our Annual Ugly Sweater Party scheduled for tonight and we had to postpone it.   Kind of hard to get in the Christmas spirit when you are not feeling well.

I can not believe how quickly this year has gone by and now we are in the midst of all the holidays!!  I am just not ready for Christmas this year at all.  I’m not sure what it is, but I just feel like the older I get, the more I am not ready for it, LOL.

We have had some busy weekends recently and more coming up.  We had a 50th Bday party at our house for our friend Robert.   We have been to a few basketball games.. oh and there was Thanksgiving for 7 at my house and I did all the cooking.  This weekend was no exception, we went to a Sun’s game on Friday, yesterday we went to a Balloon Festival with friends and today we went hiking with some of our other friends.  And I’m not going to lie, the hike kicked by butt a little bit, lol.  But it was so nice to get up and get moving so early.

We are doing an early Christmas celebrating with some family and then next weekend we have our Annual Ugly Sweater Party.  So yes, busy, busy busy..  

What do you have going on over the holidays??

Hugs & Kisses ~ Dawn Marie

We are invited to a 50th Birthday Party this weekend for a friend.  It is a Redneck Theme party and we are asked to dress up.  Well I HATE dressing up in costume, even for Halloween.  I will not be dressing up, but I am taking a “Redneck” gift basket and this is where I need your input..  NOW if I am offending anyone, I’m sorry..

This is what I have for the basket so far…

Pork Rinds

Slim Jims

RC Cola

PBR

Vienna Wieners

Spam

Redneck Payday (candy corn & peanuts mixed)

Redneck Margarita (Mt Dew & Tequila)

Redneck Back scratcher (Paint stick with soda lids glued on it)

Redneck Tattoo Kit (package of markers)

If you have any ideas to add, please do so.. Remember to keep it to something I can pick up at the grocery store or Angel’s favorite store Wal-mart…

Thanks a bunch…

DM

This is the Redneck Goodies we gave our friend.

I’m sitting here watching the Cowboys/Giants Game as I type this and fingers crossed my boys can get the win.

Most of you are heading into fall and we are still in the midst of summer and will be until at least mid October, we are still over 100 in temps.  I sure miss fall and the cooler weather with changes of color.  Football doesn’t even feel right in these temps.

Friday night we had a couple of friends over for dinner.  Lee who is one of our BBG guys that have become a very good friend of ours brought over and cooked marinated steaks on the grill.  Our friend Robert joined us too..  Such a fun evening with great friends.

Saturday was a chill day and we watched F1 Qualifying and a couple of movies.  Today, Sunday we watched F1 race and my guy won!!!  Woohoo #TeamLH and I went and got a pedi and now we are watching the game.

I started a new book that my friend Wendy gave me and so far it is a good book.

Friday I also went for my labs, I have my dr appt tomorrow and we shall see how they are then.  Good news is that they were able to get me with one stick!!

Just wanted to give everyone a heads up regarding comments on my site.  We are no longer using Disquis (not sure of the spelling) for comments.  I will have to approve everyones FIRST comment and then after that, you can post freely without awaiting approval.  

Why are we doing this??  Some comments were not be posted and such.  This way we believe if you have something to say, you can post away.

Thanks so much for your interaction y’all!!!

DM

What do you do to relax or in your downtime?  Rob and I watch a bit of tv in the evenings together.  I love reading, I just need to make it more of a priority.  Thinking I need to set a time in the evening and just read for like an hour :)

Do you listen to music?  If you have spotify, do you have playlist that you like?  I have a few I love.

Share what you do.. besides checking out my site, LOL

DM

So if you read my blog, you may have come along this post:  https://www.dawnmariesdream.com/sw/peace-sign/

So when my little brother passed, he was engaged to his girlfriend of five years, but the knew each other from High School.  Since Nic’s accident he had lost control of all function from the waste down.  He and Has G/f decided they wanted to try to have a baby.  So they went through the process of insemination and had tried it prior to his death but it did not take.  Apparently they still had samples at the drs office and his g/f after a lot of counseling decided that she wanted to give it another try.  

I had no clue they still had samples and today was over the moon when I got the call from family that she is three months pregnant.  So I am going to be an auntie in November.  

Feeling Blessed,

Dawn Marie

Oh my gosh have you played this game??  We had a game night at our house on Saturday and we played this game for the first time.  I literally had tears running down my face from laughing so hard.   It is similar to CAH but with Pictures instead of questions.  If you like to play games, I highly suggest getting this one… 

Hugs,  Dawn Marie

Rob sometimes wears nasal strips when he goes to bed.  If he has been drinking or is overly tired he will snore.  So to help me with my sleeping he will sometimes wear a strip.  The other day I was going to get in the shower and something caught my eye on my arm in the bathroom mirror…  One of his strips, right there on my arm, LOL.    Seriously, I don’t think it could have helped him to much if it came off, LOL.