The Youngbloods Podcast

Today is surgery day!

Did I eat? NO! Why? Because I didn’t get up when Devin’s alarm went off! I had the chance to eat, but did not! Totally Bummed out! I wasn’t supposed to eat anything past 5:30am due to surgery being at 1:30 pm. I am STARVING!!!!! Get me a Swig and a Jersey Mikes sub ASAP! hahaha… In all seriousness, I am hungry, but will be ok!  I’ll just watch everyone else eat.

Nerves are kicking in. I have to remember to take my pre pain Rx. and a Tylenol so it eases the pain when I wake up from surgery. ( Ohhh, I get to have a sip of water when I take my medicine ) . I have my button down shirt ready to wear home, comfy pants on, hair washed! I know I won’t be able to wash my hair on my own for a week or so, so need clean hair the day of!

Had to wash with “special” soap that the nurses gave me. I guess it helps with pre-opp stuff. Wasn’t the best smelling… and to top it off, I can’t wear deodorant today…..  SO. GROSS!

Anywho, I’ve done all I can… I’m ready to “go under the knife” and get my boobs I’ve been wanting! Nervous, but excited!

Stay tuned for post-opp pictures, how I’m recovering and what it’s really like!

It’s not often that you get a chance to sit down with your father and record a podcast with him. Especially since we live over 2000 miles away from either one of our parents. So, When we knew we were heading to Alabama, Devin got a great idea to bring his podcasting equipment so he could sit down with his dad and record stories.

This is definitely something Devin will cherish. It’s not just the stories, but the time of the two of them sitting down, laughing over these stories…. because really, they are good and they are funny.

What a Week it has been!

It seems after a trip it is always to catch up . there is always a lot to do and you dont seem to have the time to get it all done. That is this week. from the minute we got back we had a list a mile long of things to get done, But like always time is very limited. with all the normal catching up with the normal routine we had rugby games almost every day practice everyday. I had to go to work  while shannon took care of everything else here at the house. Then to top it off Shannon had her Pre opp visit for her procedure, but i will let her tell you about all of that.  needless to say it has been a crazy week. and now currently as i type this i should be packing to go out of town for work but this all has to be done before i can get my stuff together and go.

No matter how much we have to do we seem to get it all done and everything seems to work out just right. but i think that’s all because of how we are.  I was told once that my personality type is not the type that would be able to adapt to the way i am but this was forced on my because of getting older and my environment. i call bs to that because i have always been this way. its funny what people thing when they are trying to figure me out. but i guess i like to keep  people guessing.

But anyway. back to what i was saying, this week of catch up has been interesting but nothing that we couldnt handle.  Confession time we usually have a clean house every night  before we go to bed but due to the nature of the week we let the dishes slide till the next morning hahaha i guess that may not see like a lot but for us to do something like that it just isnt in our nature, we love waking up to a clean house everymorning. just something about waking up to a clean home just makes you feel better about the day you are about to have..

It’s been years! I’m not joking when I say that! We as a family have not been on a family vacation in over 6years! I know, it’s sad and something that has taken a long time to do!

we decided on a spur of the moment… actually, a month from leaving, that we were going to go on a vacation!

it really started when Ethan was on a FaceTime call with his uncle and grandmama. He really thought that his grandmama and granddaddy were at his uncles and broke down after excitement that they were not… and that his uncle was at home with them.

We made plans and didn’t back down.

Parris, Jacob and Logan ended up flying out a week earlier than us ( who drove ) to spend time with friends… the boys in Tennessee ( luckily on the same town ) and Parris was actually 10 minutes from her grandparents for a week… we do g know how she didn’t end up not going.

The drive out was ok… but I was ready to be done driving. It took two days, normally we would do 3, but  needed to make good time. The kids slept 95% of the time. Shocked us…

Devins parents had no clue we were showing up! Really, the only people who knew were his brothers. What a great surprise! When we walked in on Saturday night the look s were priceless and his parents were completely speechless!

We had Easter with them for the first time in years! We spent time with family… and we were even able to see old friends, record a podcast with Rob West ( check out his channel, Cigar Store Idiots )

Being back south makes me desperately want to move back. I miss the south so much, it just really feels like home.

Devin being home hasn’t changed, he was able to help His parents with so much… like old times.  But like all things, they must come to an end.

after being with them for a week, we had to head back to make sure we were home in time. We were able to head to Nashville, meet up with friends and had to enough time to drop the boys off to fly back home.

Our friend Nathan met us in Nashville… we were supposed to go tour Jack Daniels but had over an hour wait for a tour… so off to BELL BUCKLE CAFE!!! YUMMMM! Met up with old friends and had a blast!

From that, we went to Ohio to see Devins brother! What a BEAUTIFUL place he has! It was so nice spending 2 nights there. Kinda a nature get-a-way  needed.., even though we were in nature.

We are now on our way home and I can’t wait! I want to see my kids!!! Yup, they made it back before us. I’m jealous.  Now I’m sitting here in the hotel knowing home is 12 hours away.

….until tomorrow

We all have the things that we all would love to change or things we struggle with. It’s the thing that prove that we are human.

I for one, have what seems most of my marriage life have struggles with my weight. It causes a lot of internal struggles and self confidence, and with that I have tried to not be so self conscious about how I look and focus on the health aspects of it.

So here I am 42 years old I weigh 250 pounds. The largest I have ever been. I have high blood pressure, don’t feel well a lot not because I’m sick but because I’m tired. I over eat, I stress eat… and then I usually hate myself because I keep going over and over in their vicious cycle. So a couple of weeks ago I decided to take control of my stupidity and treat it as it is. I did something I never said I would do.

If you know me you know I hate, actually… I loathe MLM’s (multi level marketing) companies. I think they are scams. They are only out for themselves and only out to take money away from the people that sign up for them. But here I am I found a product that will help with my weight loss goals. But it was tied to one of these companies. So after a lot of research I bit the bullet and bought in. So I bought in not for the so called money making opportunities but for my own needs. I bought into the company. If you don’t know who they are they have a product that aids in ketosis. Most everyone has heard of the keto diet. His company has a product called ketones that helps keep your body in ketotis. Which simple put causes you body to burn fat. I am now 10 days into using this product. I am down 12 pounds I feel great. It’s amazing I am on my way to being back in charge of my body. I have been using self control and every time I feel the urge to dive into the binge eating due to stress I drink some water. This is all a mind game. A game that if I do what I’m supposed to do I will win. If you would like to know about ketones feel free to message me I will get you set up with product so you can try it out. I bit the bullet to join this MLM so you don’t have to. Unless you see it is something you fee the need to do. But I will get you hooked up they the product and you can start your better health journey.

As you are reading this you probably are wondering about what all this has to do with Boobies well this is Shannon’s part to talk about that part. …. and, I’m going to explain! I, like Devin, have body issues. I have always said for the past ) years that I was going to get a breast augmentations. If I don’t do it now, I never will. I called a local Plastic Surgeons office and booked an appointment. Super excited! I went to my appointment and it was nothing like I thought. I met with an office assistant and she asked me a hole bunch of question about family history, illnesses, surgeries I’ve had and if I drink, so drugs or smoke. ( all a no )

After meeting with the assistant, I met with Doctor Howland. He went through the the details of what’s going to happen during surgery, how long recovery will take and whomping until they will start to look normal. I was sold! Yes, I will be in A LOT of pain after and during recovery… I will have A LIT of post op visits and I will be bruised. Not able to lift heavy items or do my normal day activities for awhile. I was able to “try on” implants to see what I liked best. What I felt comfortable I. And what size I prefer. That was actually kinda fun! after everything was talked about, talked over and my questions answered… I set my appointment for the 23rd! Can’t wait and I am finally, after ) years making ME.., not my husband happier about my body image issues I have!

Our friend Nathan comes over and Shannon and Devin talk life surgeries and more in this fun field laughable podcast.

Shannon and Devin talk about a man that married his sex doll and then ended up cheating on the doll while it was out to get repaired.

If you have ready our past blogs, or even listened to our Podcast, you know that I ( Shannon ) am having surgery.

WHY? Because I went on a scooter ride! Something I told my kids I won’t do… because something stupid will happen if I do! Well, guess what? Something stupid happened! Elizabeth wanted to go up to the store one afternoon and I didn’t have our car… Devin had taken it to work. I have told the kids that I WILL NOT go on scooter rides because something like loosing control or getting hit by a car would happen… Well, I was hit by a car!

Shannon and I have a big fight and here are my thoughts.

My gosh!

You know, some days a mom ( and a dad ) just wants the house to be quiet. I get it. People will most likely disagree with me and say “ Your kids will one day be grown and out of the house, then your house will be quiet”. OR… “ You’ll regret wanting quiet time now, you’ll miss the noise later”. While this is true…. I want quiet time now! We have been home with no car ( it’s in the shop getting fixed) the kids are not in school right now and all I hear is “ can I “ “Will You” “I don’t wan’t to” and “Can I later” NO!!!