Cheryl Beckham

Monday is the beginning of another school year for my 12 year old daughter, I am finding it hard to believe that she is now a 7th grader and is in middle school, and what ever happened to calling it Junior High School anyway.

She is such a shy one and she is very nervous about the whole thing, I wish I could go with her and make sure everyone is nice to her, I’m sure their are millions of mothers (and fathers) who feel the same way. Kids can be so incredibly cruel and I just hate thinking of anyone being mean and/or nasty towards her in any way. This is one wonderful little girl and is full of such goodness and humanity, she has the soul of an old Native American woman and deserves nothing but the best!

It isn’t often enough that I get good news waiting for me in my email inbox, but this morning I was so happy to see an email from a very, very good friend that moved away so long ago to some god forsaking place in South America, with the subject line stating “Moving To Virginia” I couldn’t seem to open that email quick enough to see if this was a joke or what. I’m so glad to say that it isn’t a joke at all, she is really coming back home after all these years.

She tells me that her hubby finally got the transfer that he had been after in order to get them back to the United States, closer to family and friends because the next good piece of news is that she is pregnant with their first child. Funny how when we find ourselves far from home and a baby comes into the picture how that makes us want and need to get back to our roots. This is just too good to be true and I shot her back a quick reply telling her how happy I am about the news and I can’t wait to see her and her cute little baby bump, and meet her hubby as well of course!

She has to take it easy with all of the packing and moving since she is in her 2nd trimester of her pregnancy and all. Her hubby is going to do a lot of the heavy lifting and all that of course. Her main concern right now is finding the right Virginia International Movers to get them and all of their belongings safely back to the good old U.S. of A. The Internet is going to be her best bet  and the best tool in finding Virginia Moving Companies that will do the job for them. Can you imagine trying to find Virginia Movers without the Internet when you are totally in another country, no way dude! I’m just glad that where she has been living in South America has electricity and the means to have Internet access because from the pictures that I’ve seen throughout the years that she has sent me, it looks pretty remote and it doesn’t look like there is a heck of a lot of modern conveniences that we have all gotten so used to and rely on on a daily basis. And don’t get me started on the subject of modern doctors!

This is going to be so cool!

I remember how excited I was when I was planning my wedding, oh so long ago. Funny to think that I didn’t use the Internet for anything to do with that memorable event and funnier that I can’t imagine planning a wedding without the use of the Internet. One of the servers that I have worked with for several years now, Heidi is getting married and since the of rest of her family lives on the other side of the country, she has asked me for help. There is a lot to planning a wedding, so I couldn’t say no to her, but I know that it is going to take up a lot of my time and I’m sure I’ll be experiencing several headaches throughout the whole process. She is a good gal, a good worker and she deserves to be married and live happily ever after!

My all time favorite TV game show blooper goes to the lady who was given the question that was asked 100 men – “What body part is bigger now then it was when you were 16?”  She didn’t seem to even think twice before blurting out “Penis!”  Steve Harvey, who is the current host of this long time, long running TV game show, looked like he was going to pass out and for the first time, was speechless, the look on his face was priceless. It’s just too bad that no one who participated in this survey gave the same answer, because I would have loved to seen her win with that answer, she would have deserved it as far as I’m concerned.

I can’t believe that I have started watching “Say Yes To The Dress” that comes on The Learning Channel, which I have been watching more and more of lately. I never used to watch anything on TLC but then my TV started having issues with so many channels that I was limited to just a few of the higher channels for a while. Most of the channels that I usually watched were in the lower channels, like 36 and under. So when I could only get 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63 and sometimes 70 it put a real cramp in my TV viewing routine.

But with anything else, it is all on what you get used to and after while I started getting into the only programs that were being made available to me. The Cake Boss, 19 Kids and Counting,My Strange Addiction, DC Cupcakes, Extreme Couponing, LA Ink,Freaky Eaters, Hoarding: Burried Alive, Sister Wives and my newest one discovery My Big Fat Gypsy Wedding are all on TLC along with Say Yes To The Dress. That’s a lot of shows on one channel from my experiences.

Along with TLC there is MTV, VH1, E and MSNBC, BET and The Animal Planet which have all been getting a lot of my attention these past months. Sometimes change is good, at least in this case it was.