I am exhausted. My brother had a stroke two days ago. I am so tired of being strong for everyone. I love my family very much. I am the back bone for everyone. It is so hard to ser someone you love go threw this. I  know I am venting. But I don't know what else to do.

I was at the Er last week with very hi blood pressure. They done a lot of test on me. I am ok now. Put I am very exhausted.

Will next week we are going to have are final exams. The last day of all classes is Dec. 17th. I am

excited I only have 4 classes left after this semester. I am going to take  2 next semesters and 2

the semester after that. I will be graduating in June 2014. The actual graduation is in July 2014.

I hope to have a job in my field by Oct. 2014. If not by the new year 2015. I want to start a new life

with a new job by 2015. I am looking forward to not being in school. I will miss all the new friends

I have met. I will keep in touch with them and see how their lives are going. 

The day after Thanksgiving I made the turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes, gravy, deviled eggs, green

beans, and biscuits. Wednesday night I made four pumpkin pies and Thursday my son made the

ham. All the kids came over Friday afternoon. We ate around one pm. After we ate all the boys

went outside to play with the sling shots with paint balls. One of the bigger boys hit my youngest

son to hard. He got made and went after him full force. After he tried to hit him three times the older

boy threw him on the ground. I was holding the baby I went outside when I herd my son crying .

I yelled at the older boy for throwing my son to the ground. He got mad and left walking down the

street. If I wasn't holding the baby I would of hit the older boy for throwing my son to the ground.

After all that the other kids cleaned the kitchen up. The boys went back outside and played.

Today would of been my husbands 52nd birthday. I miss him so much. Tomorrow is my brothers

birthday and Monday is my daughters 21st birthday. We will have a great party for Angela and

Chuckie. The 20th is my oldest son's birthday he will be 19. This month is a lot of birthdays for

are family. I have a nephew and his son birthday is the 19th. It is almost Christmas. It is my

grandsons first Christmas. He is three months old. I am so blessed to have all my children and my

grad child with me.

Today we are talking about Thanksgiving. I will be working on Thanksgiving Day from 9-5:30. I

work as a Activity Aide in a nursing home. I love my job. I love working with the elderly. We play

games watch movies, have singers come to sing for them. They love to do different things each day.

I wish my mom was back home. She moved to Michigan two years ago with my sister. My oldest

daughter moved up there too. I miss them both a lot. My other two girls are going to their boyfriends

family's for Thanksgiving Day. My three boys will be at home. We are doing are Thanksgiving on

Friday as a family since I have to work Thursday. The kids love to have a family day. We don't do

that much since the girls moved out. We have a big feast I cook a turkey, sweet potatoes, mashed

potatoes, cranberry jelly, stuffing, veggies, salad, pumpkin pie, and ice cream. My kitchen is so little

we have are dinner on the dinning room table on the back porch. I always get the turkey leg. My

husband use to make fun of me. One year he got a picture of me with the turkey leg. I was holding

it up and I was dressed in a leopard house dress. The kids said I looked like I belong in the stone

age. I laughed so hard my face was real red.  

     Today is been a weird day. We done class work which I was able to do fine. After that we had a quiz that I thought I was reading right. But I didn't. So when we read stuff we have to read every word of it or you will get it wrong.
     We need to teach our children to read each word to. My youngest son doesn't like to read. He don't like to pronounce the words out. It is very hard for him. Also my oldest daughter had a hard time learning how to read. They are very much a like.
     It is a struggle for me as will. I do not comprehend things will. I have been working on it all my life. I read all the time. My husband wasn't a good reader.

    Yesterday would of been my 15th Wedding Anniversary. My husband passed away three and a half years ago. I truly miss him a lot. In January we would of been together 21 years. He was my rock my everything. I am blessed with four beautiful children by him. We have come a long way in the past three years. I have got four children through high school and all of them has graduated. The other two is in fourth grade and ninth grade. My son Michael is the ninth grader he already has a four year scholarship for college when he graduates. I am so proud of my children.
    We adopted two children Rhonda and Rj that is my husbands cousins children in 2000. They both are two of the ones that graduated. Our two girls Angela and Aliesha are the other two.

Here is a picture of my husband Allen Sawyer (Bucky) is what everyone called him.

     There is seven of us Rhonda, Angela, Rj, Aliesha, Michael, Sidney, and me (Lisa). Rhonda lives in Michigan the rest of us live in Florida. My daughter Angela took my son Sidney trick or treating last night with her son John. This is John's first Halloween. He is 7 weeks old. Sidney is 10. Sidney was a Ninja and John was Super Man.
      I worked last night. The residents had a great time passing candy out to the children. We had about 50 children come to the Nursing Home. I dressed up as a pirate. My boss was a pirate too. The residents was all dressed up too. There was a Raggedy Ann, Pumpkin, Fairy, Baby Doll, and a whole lot more. We started getting ready at four pm. We put candy in buckets for the residents to pass out. The residents were already dressed. We sat them up in the hall and we started at six passing candy out. We finished around seven thirty. The residents were getting tired. We cleaned up every thing and was done by eight thirty.