Empty-Nest!!

We are adjusting (slowly) to being empty-nesters! Having my weekends free after all these years of non-stop going during hockey and football seasons is a little unsettling!! My house is constantly in upheaval as I'm moving furniture around, painting rooms, and hanging different things on the walls... Anything to stay "busy"!!

We did go for a very LONG hike today... 2.7 miles ONE WAY on a mountain and it was brutal... So I'm thinking I need to get exercising back into my normal routine!!

I am very excited that Clemson Ice Hockey starts games this coming
Weekend!! So look out rinks, this hockeymom is ready!!

I'm very proud to be sporting around a new sticker on my car (given to me as a Mother's Day gift by my son!)

And I also wanted to show some
Pics from "move-in day"...

Hope you all have a blessed week! Thanks for stopping by:) This Hockeymoms Life is going thru adjustments, awakenings, and realizing life is way too short to sweat the small
Stuff!! Live each day to the fullest and tell the ones that mean the most how important they are to you!
"Laters" :)

Football ... Prom ... & Cupcakes:) Life is grand!!

Sorry I haven't posted in a while ... I've been BUSY:)  ... Aren't we all?? 
Spring football practice is in full swing, and that means fundraising is in FULL SWING too!!! 

Prom was this past Saturday night ... and I have to post a few pics:)))

 This is my son who is a Junior this year! *SIGH*

Our neighbors and my son have literally grown up together:) 

We love them like our own!!

This is my son and his beautiful girlfriend!!!

Off to the Prom .... they ate at Larkins in downtown Greenville and said it was fantastic!

(Of COURSE it is!!!) The Shrimp-n-Grits there are awesome!!!

Not a great pic of the entire group ... but you get the idea!  It was an awesome group of young men and women!!!

We also had "AWARDS" night at the high school last night ... and wooohoooo, way to go with getting the top 10% of your class award, son!  We are SO VERY PROUD of you and your many accomplishments!!!

We are also having an 'in-house' show at my work this week ... which involved me cooking cupcakes tonight! HUH??  ANYWAY... the "theme" for the show is "Grilling out," and we were asked to make a dozen cupcakes, so I decided to take the theme literally ... take a look for yourself!!

Do you get it??  It's cupcakes aka "CORN ON THE COB" :)))))) 

Gotta LOVE Google .... !!!

Unfortunately the lighter colored jelly beans are "Buttered Popcorn Flavored" ... yeah, um ... not really "GOOD" with cupcakes!!  But the cream cheese icing on these are AWESOME!!!!  I will have to post that recipe tomorrow!!! I will DEFINITELY use that icing in the future!!

Anyhoo.... it's almost Friday, and I'm ready for the weekend! 

Hope you are enjoying life and living it to the fullest!!

Lineman's Wife

A Journeyman Lineman's wife...

My hubby has arrived in AL due to the recent devastation from tornadoes. I started thinking of all the destruction, devastation and heartbreak he has seen first-hand over the past 25 years ....

I also realized there is a whole group of women out there who feel the way I feel in times like this and who experience the exact same frustrations I do during these storms.... The constant whining on Facebook about how long the power has been out and I literally have to walk away from it, the accusations that the linemen get their family's power back on "first" (what.a.freakin.joke), the list goes ON and ON. I will say over the past few years, my FB friends have been much better about not whining so much... :D

Do I worry about him working with electricity buzzing all around him and one wrong move would kill him instantly? DUH!! of COURSE I worry! Do I "fret" over it? No, I can't or I don't think I would have lasted this long. I say a prayer for him and his crew everytime he goes out on a storm call. Being the wife of a lineman, You have to be strong and independent! The linemans wife holds her household together during the worst weather times so he can focus on his job. The lineman's wife goes to the children's events or parties alone, when she must. The lineman's wife is proud of her husband and the unbelievable hours he works non-stop without complaint. The lineman's wife is so very thankful when she gets the text letting her know he loves her, misses her and is okay ...but goes for long stretches of time before hearing HIS voice...The lineman's wife knows her husband is a special man who was born for this job, 365 days a year 24 hours a day. I am proud of my lineman and the life he has given me... I am proud of myself too, a lineman's wife:)

COLLEGE ... already?? WOW!

I'll go ahead and be the first to admit ... I'm hoping this blog will be like my "therapy" in the coming year:) ...and save me $$ for therapist bills!!! 

  

My one and only child will be a rising Senior in High School in just a few short months, and we have kicked the college search into HIGH-GEAR around our household.  Did I mention I'm a hockeymom?? ...lol.. That means out of his top 5 schools, the majority of them aren't located anywhere near "home":( 

For you moms out there who have gone thru the anxiety I'm going thru ... talk to me girls!  To those of you with toddlers running around, and you can't even go to the bathroom without having a "family meeting" while mom is on the potty ... ENJOY this time in your child's life!!  Funny I say that, eh? The Sleep Deprivation? Diapers? Baby food? Your child thinking his name is "NO..[insert child's name here]"? Well I mean it ... it goes by WAY TOO FAST!!!  Don't blink .... or you, too, will be looking at colleges, my friend;) 

I have wonderful support from family and friends ... they love me even on my "moody" days which seem to come more and more frequently these days, with my anxiety kicking in, but just like all of the other challenges in my life, I will get thru this too:)  

I worry about the cost of college and how in the world we will pay for it (have you PRICED college lately?? WOW!!), I worry about our son being away from home (gosh, he will have been in my house for 18 years at that point ... I'm going to really MISS his daily hugs and smiling face)!!  I just want him to be happy, which means he has some really difficult and important decisions in the next few months of his life.  I just thought having a newborn baby was hard all of those years ago ... he's still my "baby boy", but it's time to take a step back and let him make his own decisions.  I'm still waiting ... talk to me girls ....tell me what kind of meds you took to get thru this!! (lol.. just kidding ...er, uh ... not really... lol)

So.... please bear with me if you have personal contact with me ... I'm on that roller coaster called "life" (as I know we all are) BUT BOY, is it taking me for a RIDE these days:)  I'm overwhelmed now more than I've ever been in my entire life .... And trying to remind myself to ENJOY this time of my life too;) I'm so blessed with such wonderful family and friends.  Life.Is.Good!!!