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This is my daughter, Rachel, and me at the Quarter Horse museum in Amarillo, TX.  That was the first stop on our trip.   I enjoyed spending time with her.  We used to do so much together, but life has kind of interfered.  She has a 12 year old son that is into to a lot of activities and she has a live in “partner” that like to do the horse thing with her.   Not being able to barrel race anymore has cut out a big part of the time we shared.  But, she is happy and settled into a great job she loves and if Josh doesn’t drive her crazy, thing will be ok. 

We are  sort of lost, Josh has always been such a good kid, happy and nice, well mannered,ect–his Mom stays on him and it showed.  but in the last 3-4 months, he has really started to change.  Really bad attitude, mouthy and can’t remember  if his his head is on his shoulders.   I don’t know if it is just that he’s getting older, if it’s being in the 6th grade,or what.   His parents are divorced and his Dad lives close enough that Josh gets to see him often.  The Dad isn’t a very good influence, doesn’t make Josh follow the rules and has a tendency to put Rachel down.  Nothing nasty, but sly remarks that Josh is now old enough to get.  Anyway, Rachel is about ready to pull Josh’s head off and even his doting grandparents are worried.  We only had one child and boys are sort of a mystery to me.  So if any of you all have boys, tell me is this typical behavior for a 12 year old 6th grader .                                                                                                  The weather has been really weird here, it was 80 yesterday and 70 this morning at 5:30 when I got up.  We’ve been under a tornado watch all morning.  The rain finally came and it has already blown through and now it’s in the low 40s.  I’m glad we got the rain and no bad storm, but I wish it would get somewhere and stay.  This hot and cold is the pits.   I have to tell you that the hot is better than the cold as far as I’m  concerned, I don’t do cold very well.                                                                                              I have to confess I have not been very good about exercising, just can’t seem to get motivated, but I have been watching what I eat.  Tony is gone, last deer hunt of the year, so I’m really having to be careful to eat meals and not just snack all day.   I’m going to get back at the walking and get that 1 lb off, then I’ll have 10 down!  Hope you all have a good weekend.  Stay warm.