Mother Teresa - FreddaBranyon.com

Mother Teresa - FreddaBranyon.com

my other second job

http://fetzers-sausage.com/

life in the city

Hillsboro Farmer's Market
http://www.hillsboromarkets.org/

or I am at Beaverton Farmer's Market
http://www.beavertonfarmersmarket.com/

My other job

http://www.hannahshandscleaningservice.com/

I am so tired and so sore....but life is real good at the beach and you won't hear me complaining.

I love this picture of my mom!

Wedding reception 1998
Ann, Brandy and Bill

This cracks me up every time!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGeKSiCQkPw

Lindsey, Brandon, Me, Brandy

Yeah, God's working on me. I clearly have a thick skull.

75% of my children. June 2012, L-R Brandy,Lindsey, Brandon

Ann Blumenschein Martin, my mother, in 1966

visit me at facebook

https://www.facebook.com/laura.landisparks?ref=tn_tnmn

it's funny and full of blessings, just like me

Rockaway Beach Chamber of Commerce

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http://www.rockawaybeachor.us/VisitorInformation/RockawayBeachChamberofCommerce/tabid/5972/language/en-US/Default.aspx

Me and 75% of my children

 L-R Lindsey, Brandon, Laura and Brandy

My brother, Robert, was 18 and I was 21. This was 1987.

Summer fun - why does this have 275 hits?

I will be working for Fetzer's Sausages at the farmers markets in the Portland Metro area! This is going to be a blast!

http://www.fetzers-sausage.com/

You can feel GREAT!!! coming out of my cave

Laura Parks age 44, mother of 4 children ages 20, 17 and 12 yr. old twins.


Jus and I

Update April 28 2011

Started taking jus about feb 15 2011

I have been on every kind of anti-depressant offered since 1998.

I used to cry all the time couldn’t get out of bed to go to work I have been fired for being late too much

I was so sad

Slept all the time I was not at my job

The high cholesterol medicine and blood pressure medicine had too many side effects so I quite taking them the end of 2010

The feel of clothes on my skin made me irritable and cranky

I didn’t want to live and didn’t know why

Everything was miserable it took every ounce of energy I had to drive across the street to buy groceries

I couldn’t cook meals for my kids

Couldn’t clean the kitchen, bathrooms, do the laundry without being in physical mental and emotional pain

I would cry just feeling the weight of all I had to do in a day, I had to hide in my room under the covers, and life was just too much

I just couldn’t do it.

I would wash dishes on the weekends and then have to take a two hour nap

I couldn’t help my kids with their homework or even get them to school on time

I did not have the energy to care

I couldn’t take myself to the doctor to get my medicine changed, my mom would drive two hours to take me in, and I would be in my pajamas

I couldn’t talk or think for myself, my mother had to tell the doctor what was going on with me and that my anti-depressants weren’t working, again.

I don’t think I ever smiled

I thought everyone in the world hated me and that I didn’t even have one friend

I would not talk on the phone or send letters or emails

I would never go visit people nor have people to my house

I was a social recluse

I let people treat me like a doormat because I had no self-esteem or power to say what I needed or wanted or how I felt.

I have been dancing and out danced a 22 yr. old, she got tired, and I wasn’t sore the next day

I can run up and down stairs

My hands do not hurt from arthritis

The psoriasis in my ears is gone

I talk calmly to my children

I do not shake

I can laugh

My blood pressure is down ten points and I have lost five pounds

I had my cholesterol checked yesterday and am anxious to get the results

I wake up before the alarm rings and look forward to each day

I have renewed my friendships

I enjoy my family more than anything

I call my mom to see how she is doing

I call my brother to tell him that I love him

I went camping with my son

I don’t cry when the bottle of laundry soap falls and spills all over floor, nor do I yell at my children to clean it up while I run crying to my room

I call my children and spend time with them

I want to go to Mexico on a real vacation

I feel 20 years younger! click here

I can dance for hours, run up and down stairs, and my kids say my skin is so soft! I have been living in a cave of depression for 25 years years and it feels so good to be alive again!

Got My Dancing Shoes On

There is more fun than one girl can handle at all these dances at some terrific venues in this area! The price is so affordable and the live music is so great!

The ones I go to most often are The Refectory http://www.therefectoryrestaurant.com/
and
The Red Lion
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=-&sll=45530443,-122661149&latlng=45530443,-122661149,11752391508997972130

There are dinners and dances for the holidays that look especially fun.