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If you’re like me you probably saw the word in the title and tried to pronounce it. NMEDA actually stands for National Mobility Equipment Dealers Association. And again if you’re like me you probably have never heard of them before now. They are a non-profit trade association: they assist consumers and help educate them on buying products from a NMEDA qualified dealer.

NMEDA does not sell anything. They do however help to promote safe driving and equipment for disabled people. And they are the only association that does this. They are the ones that help disabled people by helping them find handicap vans and vehicle modifications by going through NMEDA dealers.

NMEDA has two types of dealers: Regular dealers AND Quality Assurance Program (QAP) Dealers. The second type of dealer is the only one recognized nationally which is an accredited program for the Adaptive Mobility Equipment Industry. Which basically means in order to satisfy customers companies must have a systematic approach to quality.

I did go on their website and type in my zip code just to see out of curiosity how close a dealer is to me and there’s one in Ft. Meyers which is about 3 1/2-4 hours from me. Not too bad I guess. Why don’t you go on their website and have a look see as to how far one is from you?

Why is it when I’m not on a diet or trying to eat healthier I’m almost never hungry…..but when I am trying to eat healthier, (I started trying to eat like a Vegan this past Monday), I am hungry allllll the time!!!!!! All day long! Seriously! Is it because I started eating breakfast again? I found these great Vegan smoothies which I’ve been eating for breakfast. I’ve been eating lots of fruits and veggies and even had a great veggies/rice dinner Monday night and a bean burrito last night. I’m just so hungry now all day long.

Like for instance I had my smoothie this morning and within 30 minutes I was starving. I plan on having a salad for lunch, but I can’t wait for lunchtime now. I keep looking at the clock. And I don’t want to eat lunch too early because then I’ll want dinner at like 2pm! LOL UGH!

I have been doing really well though. I had one slip up on Tuesday when I went out to a last minute lunch with a friend to Cantina Laredo and had maybe 3 bites of chicken in the Enchilada de Avocado that my friend and I shared. (IT was SO delicious and I’ve been craving their Guacamole ever since.) But I went into this knowing I’d slip up so I wasn’t upset at all. I’m not doing the 100% Vegan thing just yet – so many different ingredients to look for! But I’m not eating meat or fish or dairy – nothing that I knowingly know comes from an animal.

Baby steps!

It’s been a little while since I last posted on here. Since the kids started school back up it’s been a whirlwind of events! We had both schools (elementary and middle) open house/back to school night where I got to meet all the teachers. In the middle of all of that we had our good friends from NJ arrive on Friday, August 19th and stay for the weekend. They left that following Monday for St. Pete and then came back here the next Friday for one last “hoorah” before heading back to NJ that Saturday (this past Saturday actually).Had a blast yet again with them – as usual. Not liking the fact though that we don’t know when we’ll see them next. I do however know we will see them next year at some point!

In the middle of all of that we’ve had soccer! Four nights a week! I seriously had to write it all on the calendar because their training/practice schedules are so crazy this year! Caelie is now on 2 teams – her normal/regular U11 girls that she plays up on and is also playing up even more on the U12 girls (they don’t have enough players so some of the girls from our team will be playing up when they can to help). So she has 4 practices a week! Then there’s Kieran who is also playing up on U10 but only has 2 practices a week. And then there’s Tristan playing his age group on U13 with 2 team practices a week and 1 goal keeper practice a week. And the days aren’t easy ones like Tristan on Tuesday and Thursday (like it was last year). The days are all scattered all over the place – which is why I had to write it all down on a calendar to keep track!

Add in there birthday parties (which I finally booked Caelie’s birthday party – almost 2 months after the fact but better late then never right?), friends birthday lunches, a possible new business deal for me and a few other things and its just been hectic!

If so I have just the place for you to go to buy your scrubs! It’s a website called Blue Sky Scrubs and they have some really great looking ones! They sell plain one colored ones and they sell ones with prints on them (I particularly like the ones with the prints – not so boring).

A good soccer friend of mine just got her nursing degree and is in the process right now of applying for jobs. But she’s also looking for some scrubs while she’s applying to places so I told her about this website. What she really likes about the website are some of the great looking nursing scrubs on sale there. That will really help her out since she hasn’t landed a job just yet.

I have another friend who has been a nurse for years now so I led her also to this website figuring it might help her out too. She likes the hospital scrubs for sale since she works as a nurse in a local hospital. Both ladies were very happy and grateful I showed them this website.

What I think are cute (and my daughter could quite possibly be wearing them someday in the future) are vet scrubs. I can just see my daughter wearing them one day. Her and her best friend from soccer keep saying they’re going to go to a vet college together and then open up their own practice once they get out. I can definitely see my daughter doing that too because she’s so motivated and competitive and knows just what she wants and goes for it!

Found this guy/gal this morning on my back porch (oh wait excuse me…..back ‘lanai’) and you can see by the 2nd picture just how be he/she is! I’ve had the heebie jeebies all day! It’s a good 2- 2 1/2 inches long. Reminds me of that mean spider from that cartoon “Miss Spider’s Sunny Patch Kids”.

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I was going to start eating healthier once we got back from New Jersey but that kind of fell by the way side. And now that we’ve got our good friends from New Jersey coming this Friday, I decided to just hold off all together with the whole diet thing until after they leave. Which will be 1 week from this coming Saturday! So, on Monday, August 30th my eating healthier (diet) and my detoxing will start!

I have a friend of mine whose been dieting for a while now and from the pictures I’ve seen on FB she looks great! From what I can tell she’s been going to the HCG weight loss Austin clinic and she’s lost alot of weight. She was brave enough to post a before picture of herself on FB and just the other day posted another one after 4 months of being on her diet. And wow – she looks like a whole different person! Good for her!!!!!

As for me, like I said in my title – my diet starts NEXT week. (It’s always next week or tomorrow right?)

For 2 years in a row our family met up with another family in the Outer Banks in North Carolina and we all had some of the BEST times of our lives. We’d rent a huge house (which I believe was part of Carolina Designs) each spring (that fit all 11 of us – and comfortably too I might add) and we’d meet up for a week. Our friends would drive down from New Jersey and we’d drive up from Florida.

Above is a picture I took of an area that was maybe 100 feet away from the house we rented. This is the Sound part of OBX and it’s gorgeous as you can see. We did so many different things there – took a tour of the tip where the wild horses are, ventured around the Currituck Lighthouse, swam in the ocean (and in the lovely heated pool or jacuzzi back at the house), played miniature golf, toured the Wright Brothers Museum (which the kids and my hubby LOVED), got pedicures (the moms did) – but best of all was just hanging out with our good friends in one of the most relaxing, beautiful places in this country!

And I am SO SAD!!!!!!!! We had such a great summer – I don’t want it to end!

The reality of it all hit yesterday when I took Tristan to his school to get his schedule and bus assignment, pay school fees, etc. We were told when we got there to make sure we walked through his schedule and went to each room because all the teachers were in their rooms – not ONE teacher was around. All rooms were shut and locked and lights off inside. So why tell us they’d be in there?

Then today the younger two had “meet the teacher day” at their school and we got their teachers names, paid school fees, got bus assignments and went to their rooms and actually got to meet their teachers. And we’re all so excited because Kieran got a teacher who Caelie had for 2nd grade and we loved (and asked to have Kieran in her class) and Caelie got 1 out of 2 teachers that she wanted.

I think despite all the crap I’m getting from family about Tristan (which I was about to bitch slap someone last night at the dinner table because of what she said IN FRONT OF MY KID about him being in the lower math class when he gets to high school with the kids you don’t want to be with – losers) – it’s going to be an awesome 7th, 5th and 3rd grade year for my kids!

This is a Sponsored Post written by me on behalf of Boost Mobile. All opinions are 100% mine.

Our contract is up the end of this month and my cell phone is looking pretty shabby! I’ve had it now for over 2 years so I am in need of a new one. I started looking online and came upon a website for Boost Mobile – a company I had never heard of before but am glad I came across. You can sign up for monthly plans or pay as you go. The latter is something I’ve been seriously considering lately – so tired of our HUGE monthly cell phone bill!

They have this cool thing called Re-Boost which is where you can sign up to set up worry-free automatic payments, make a one time payment or sign up your card for future payments. Also, friends and family members can add money to your account if the want to as well – or vice versa. You have the option of paying online, paying in person or paying with your phone.

The variety of phones they have is awesome! I was looking at the Blackberry for myself while Sean just needs something simple! It has all the features I need and want – digital camera, full Qwerty keypad (LOVE the keypad!), email access, enhanced web browser plus an enhanced MP3 music player! And for $60 a month you get unlimited nationwide talk, text and web! They also have an iDEN series by Motorola which I guess is like an iPhone. I was looking at that one too! That one has email access, is Wi-Fi capable, is powered by Android, messaging and nationwide boost walkie-talkie. And that one is only $50 a month which includes unlimited nationwide talk, text and web!

I have to show this to Sean! I’m thinking we need to switch to this once our contract is up!

Cannot believe she’s 10 and now in double digits!!!!! She will always be the 2 year old little girl walking around in her footie pj’s with the binkie in her mouth saying to me (when I’m telling her dinosaurs will get me) “I save you mommy” and running up and giving me a huge hug!!!!!

I LOVE YOU MY ANGEL!!!!!!!!!