Mar 20, 2011
365: A photo every day for a year!
Mar 19, 2011
The REAL Confessions of a Shopaholic.
Shopping Addiction - I don't know that it's an actual illness/disease, but it is an addiction. It's one that is very close to that of a drug addict or alcoholic; a shopping addict or shopaholic. They definitely do exist and I am living proof! I am here to tell you that is is just as damaging and just as debilitating!
Not actually remembering when the addiction started bothers me. When I was younger, of course I wanted every toy there was, but I learned the value of what I had. We were a middle class family and since I was adopted, my mom spoiled me rotten. I didn't get everything I wanted, but I got my fair share of things that were on my "want" list. A lot of the kids in my neighborhood envied me because of how my mom spoiled me. Of course, that meant that I always had to bring my toys out for everyone to play with. I hated that, as did my mom! But I digress...
Random Thoughts...
This post is going to be very random, but just things that I thought of throughout the day and jotted down. Today was definitely a very lazy day. I worked my full time job from 2pm-10pm, but that's about all I did do! I had to take off from my morning job because Alayna was sick and stayed home from school. We thought Olivia was getting a stomach virus too, but she seems to be ok now. Maybe it was all that yummy ice cream cake yesterday! :)
Mar 17, 2011
HAPPY 26th BIRTHDAY TO ME!!
Mar 16, 2011
Light bulb off for Easy Bake oven in 2011?
My daughter got an Easy Bake Oven this past Christmas from Santa. She absolutely loves it, and has already made me a "birthday cake" and many other goodies with it. We got it for her because I remember the fun I had with my own Easy Bake Oven as a child! Of course, mine wasn't as sleek and modern looking as this one is, but then again, that was the 90's! ;)
Mar 14, 2011
AWESOME iPhone App: Mercury Browser
I love searching for apps for my iPhone and absolutely love to search for apps that make my life and business easier. While browsing through the app store, I found something called Mercury Browser.
The icon looked eerily the same as FireFox, but I thought to try it anyway. I've tried numerous browsers for my iPhone and Droid and found nothing that really worked as well as I hoped it would work. When I am doing something for my blog or for work, I need the data fast and a lot of browsers don't load as fast as I would like.
Mar 12, 2011
Hurricane Olivia and Alayna, Overwhelmed with the mess!
My girls thought that it was a novel idea to completely trash their room last night. Well, actually, they were trying to play "department store" (Yeah, my kids are learning the good stuff from me - Shopping addiction how to shop smart.) By the time I got off from my second job last night, I was absolutely exhausted and had no strength to actually go in and clean up. I did try to get them to clean their room, but for some reason whenever I suggest my kids cleaning their room, it's like my suggesting that they take medicine, or eat veggies, or walk through a field of bumble bees... Yes, it's that torturous to them. So when I walked in their room and saw what looked like a hurricane, tornado and every other natural disaster hit the room, I turned around and walked right back out. Working two jobs, making dinner in between, packing Olivia's "daddy weekend" bag -- It was all too much and totally exhausted me. I put that cleaning off until this morning.
Mar 11, 2011
Got picky eaters? How to get them to eat.
My 5 year old claims she likes salad and vegetables...
That usually consists of maybe snacking on 2 baby carrots and a few leaves of lettuce out of her bowl. Sometimes with French dressing, sometimes just plain... That is her view of a salad. She claims to her teachers and her friends that she eats healthy -- That would be her opinion of "healthy".
Both of my kids are very picky eaters. Their meals are very predictable. Once they wake up my oldest usually eats toast, waffles or pancakes before she goes to school. Usually. There are days where she just doesn't want to eat and breakfast is a battle. Occasionally I win the battle, but more often than not I end up just packing her more of a snack and send her off to school. Battling with your kids is exhausting and sometimes you just have to pick your battles.
If she's going to have a snack at 10:30 AM is breakfast that important? Well, yes, but I justify it to myself so I feel better about packing her a heftier snack. (Which most of it usually ends up coming home anyway.)
My youngest usually has a bowl of cereal, waffles or pancakes for breakfast. She is a great breakfast eater and will eat quite a bit, but put eggs on her plate and she'll complain to high heavens about having some protein on her plate. (They will eat bacon. Yum, fatty, fried artery clogging bacon.)
Mar 7, 2011
Stay-at-home moms are lazy?
While at work (haha) I was browsing through some blogs and saw this post by http://herbadmother.com/2011/02/they-said-shut-up/. She brings up some valid points that I have thought about many times before. There are so many people who frown upon being a stay-at-home mom. Trust me, I have been in the middle of that argument before. When my oldest was born I had been thinking about being a stay at home mom for as long as I possibly could. I was criticized and put down about spending time with my daughter (how dare I!!) from many colleagues, friends and even family members. I was told that with my smarts and my education, why am I going to waste my talents being a stay-at-home mom?
Mar 5, 2011
Expulsion, Termination and Compensated Blogging
Occasionally, mommy bloggers will get a bad rap for many reasons. Some say we are too demanding, others say we should not get paid for our hobby and some even say that we neglect our children in order to either get good "material" for our blog or to spend hours on our blog. None of which is true! There are also mommy bloggers getting fired from their jobs or even children getting expelled from school because of innocent things bloggers are saying. Is this a reasonable reason for expulsion or to be let go from your job? Not unless the things being said are damaging to the children involved or something fiercely damaging to the job or employer. With some of the stories I'm hearing, parents are being penalized for writing such innocent stories about their children, about school functions or even a simple statement about their job. To me, it's absolutely absurd! True, there are some people who do not understand blogging or even the internet, but they are making rash decisions without even consulting with the parents or employee. There was one story I recently heard, where a pre-school aged child was expelled for her mother venting about an ordeal she had gone through at her daughter's school. The mother wrote nothing damaging and she did not name any names or specific places. Blogging is for venting and is an outlet for emotion and writing how you feel. Just as an artist paints or a musician sings or composes music. If we can't write about how we feel and if we can't let our emotions out through our writings on our personal domains, how can we do it?
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