Lá Fhéile Pádraig Sona Duit

I am so lucky to be part Irish! I love it!

I send out an Irish Blessing to you all-

May the road rise to meet you.
May the wind be always at your back.
May the sun shine warm upon your face,
the rain fall soft upon your fields.
And until we meet again,
...may God hold you in the palm of his hand.















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JMFK 11/27/2010 Gone but never forgotten

Day 4 of the 30 Day Blog Challenge

My parents.

My parents had two children in their short marriage. Me and 13 months later my brother.
I am sad to admit that I don't really know my mother. She is alive and lives in the panhandle of Florida. But that is all I have to say about her.

My father. He was a single parent from the time I was in mid 8th grade on. He did the best he could as a single father who was a full time military man. My father is now retired from the military and works as a bus driver in the Orange County School District of Florida. He is the type of person you either hate or love. There is no in between with him. He is old school. Our sense of humor is the same and many outside of our family don't get it.





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JMFK 11/27/2010 Gone but never forgotten

Day 3 of 30 Day Blog Challenge

First Love

My first love. Most would think that it would be an ex or my husband or my children or grandchildren but no. My first love is


I can remember as a teen I had pictures of Elvis stapled (YUP stapled!) to my bedroom walls. There is just something about his voice that still makes me weak kneed.

On a side note- I knew my husband was the one for me because his mother collects Elvis memorabilia too.






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Day two of the blogging challenge-

is talking about the meaning of your blog name.

Lola's Place was named because my nickname is Lola and it's my blog.. :-) Just a simple reason to the name of my blog...





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Introduction

I was reading Ich liess mein Herz in Deutschland's blog. I "met" her in a Christian online group I am on. I liked what she was doing on her blog and thought I would do the same thing on mine. Thanks Rena for sharing the 30 day blog challenge!

Day 1

Introduce Yourself


I go by Lola. This is a special name between my husband and I. Frankie and Lola is the name of a Jimmy Buffet song. He is Frankie and I am Lola. Jimmy Buffett "brought" us together.
I am a 30 something newlywed. Mother of two. I have a wonderful 16.5 month old grandson that I refer to as "Little Man." I also have an angel grandson "Lima Bean" who was born and went home to his Heavenly Father this past November. I have a furry daughter named Gemma aka The Pup (or affectionately called Satan.) and a furry grandson named Tiger aka Professor Sebastian.

15 Random Facts about Me-
1) I am a vegetarian
2) I used to be a big meat and potatoes type of girl
3) I am part Irish, German, French Canadian and Blackfoot Indian
4) I am the oldest of six children
5) I am the only girl out of six children
6) I am left handed
7) I am a beginner quilter. I have completed one quilt and working on another (have been working on this one for 2 years. LOL)
8) I home-schooled my daughter from 2nd grade all the way to couple months into 6th grade. Then from two months after the beginning of 7th grade until January 2011.
9) I LOVE Country Music
10) I collect Elvis Presley mementos
11) MY bestest friend has been my friend for over 25 years.
12) I attended high school in Hawaii
13) I love cooking and baking
14) I LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE the BBC America channel and spend hours watching/listening to it.
15) I am addicted to the Sims game

I hope you will join me in this 30 Day Blogging Challenge.








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JMFK 11/27/2010 Gone but never forgotten

Best Night Sleep

* FYI- There is a curse word in here. I changed it in earlier posts but not this one. Also this book contains cursing.


Last night I had the best night sleep. Best in a very very long time. I actually slept from what I would say was 1030 pm until 5am. Didn't wake up once. Woke up feeling refreshed.. Oh I guess I should mention it was night two of my sleep study and I had a c-pap machine on. Talking with my sleep tech he told me that my apnea was really bad. He said that as soon as I would move just a tad bit I would have episodes. This would cause my legs to "run" and I would wake up. But even he said I did great with the machine. He told me that not all sleep apnea was weight related that some times it is age related. The older we get the more relaxed our muscles get. I told him he was better off sticking with the weight thing! LOL. However, I now have marks from where the leads were placed on my neck and shoulders. We are thinking it is from the adhesive on the pads. So back to the doctor on Monday for my results. Hopefully, it wont take too long to get a c-pap machine as much as I hate the way it looks I loved being able to sleep.

So this just reiterates my need to lose weight. I always said I never wanted to be on one of those machines to sleep. I am 3/4 of the way through the book Skinny Bitch. I have to say I love this book. It makes so much sense to me. Frankie and I went out shopping yesterday and started reading labels and realized it is harder than it looks. But we are preparing to be vegan by the end of the month. I haven't had diet soda in a few days. I did have a regular orange soda (sugar is so bad! But there is no caffeine in orange soda). Today I had my first iced coffee in a long time (my first coffee in over a week.). I am finding that I am not enjoying it as much. I will be switching over to organic decaf green tea. I can drink green tea with no sweetener added. I am buying Frankie a juicer for his birthday (he knows this already so it isn't a surprise.) and we are looking forward to fresh "squeezed" juice. We have no issue with vegetables in our diets. We do however, have an issue getting fruit. This is something I plan to work on. I have plans to purchase a chest freezer. When I do this I plan on starting to make meals a week in advance and freeze them. I figure this will also help since I want to start baking the bread we eat. I also plan on finding recipes for vegan cakes (for birthday's and such). I also will be working on "reworking" recipes into vegan recipes that we can eat.

My ultimate goal for my family is live off the "grid" as much as possible. We are talking about buying a house with a yard. If we do get this accomplished then I will try to get a vegetable garden growing. I also plan on having a clothesline. I love the smell of line dried clothes. I also am on the lookout for all natural ways to clean my house. I hate adding chemicals into the house. I bought a steam mop Thursday. Used it in my little kitchen for the first time yesterday. Holy Cow I was shocked at the dirt it picked up (I had just mopped my floors Wednesday).


I hope everyone has a wonderful blessing filled day.





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JMFK 11/27/2010 Gone but never forgotten

A couple of Pictures

Here are a couple of pictures from the session I had with Little Man on Monday the 7th. He was such a ham and such a good sport.


U of L t-shirt from Mamaw and Great Papaw.

Gator outfit from Sha Sha and Papaw.

I was disappointed that there were no backgrounds offered. Just a plain white. I definitely spent more than I wanted but I can't wait to get all the pictures back. The girl did a couple of collages and I can't wait to see them.

It hurt loading Little Man, his momma and her bf in a cab this morning to head to the airport. I was happy and sad. Happy because I know that his momma was missing her home and other family and friends. Sad because I wanted to keep them with me forever. It is so hard living more than 1000 miles away from them. But hopefully we can make a visit a yearly thing. Either us going up there or them coming down here.












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JMFK 11/27/2010 Gone but never forgotten

Sad for this week to end..

My wonderful grandson, Little Man, and his momma and her boyfriend have been here for a week. It has been a great week. I am so sad to see them leave tomorrow morning. It has been so great having them here. The laughter of a little baby is so contagious! It is so neat to see the expression on my grandson's face as he experiences things for the first time. Bubbles, animal crackers, cookies, and so much PBS. It has been so great... Have I said that it was a great time. We didn't do much. We stayed around the house. We only have a small truck. We had more people than seats. So we went out in shifts. LOL.. Took Little Man to get his pictures done. I can't wait to get them back. They will be back on the 18th... We were only able to get ten pictures which only seven were keepers. 16 month old little boys do not sit for long periods of time.

-Updates-
-Mammogram- was clear
-Sleep study scheduled for Thursday and Friday nights.
-Back to sleep doctor on Monday for results.
-Been reading Skinny Bit#$. This book is funny. The language is frank. It hits the point though.
-We have decided that once all our dairy and eggs are gone then we will not be replacing them. We are going vegan. It will take a little more diligence but we feel it will be worth it.


The Monkey has received the following grades for the 4th grading period at her school. 104%, 102%, 100%, 100%, 100%, 98%, 97%.






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JMFK 11/27/2010 Gone but never forgotten