The New Year

Me
Jan 042012

Man every blog I look at has a whole big yadda yadda recapping last year and what they are planning for the new year … yea for all of them but it is so not my style … rather I have been thinking of things, ideas, notions that I am going to let go of this year …

- Craft blogs
I have lots of them in my google reader … and enjoy them … but there has always been something that has bugged me about almost all of them … these freakin perfect projects that get completed in their awesome house that is so put together … everything has a place and if it doesn’t they freakin craft something to hold whatever it is that is askew … don’t get me wrong … they inspire me … but the inspiration leaves me feeling like a failure … you know why … cause this is what they do all day … this is their job … making these projects … and blogging about them … this is how they make their money … they can dedicate their time to it … I can’t … I can’t even keep my house clean … so I am no longer going to compare my house and life to those that are getting paid to present theirs … I do cool stuff but with all that is going on it is on a much smaller scale … and that is alright … I’m going to let go of the feeling of needing to compete …

- Slacker Parents
I have to deal with them all the time … and it can get me totally twisted … No one is going to care about doing things the way I do … we are all different … and all care about things differently … and there is no way I can project my dedication for things on to others … so since I can’t do anything about how those around me participate in things like class parties … scout meetings … outings … whatever it may be … I’m just going to smile and move on … do all I can to help but not expect the others participating to give as much as me … and it won’t get to me …

- My Messy House
You would never know it by looking at it but I occasionally get all stressed out over my messy house … I wish I had the neat and tidy DNA … but I don’t … I have lately been trying to purge a cabinet or drawer when I am already looking for something and have an extra moment … and it is a great feeling but I am not going to make myself nuts about it … I debated taking the advice of some organize blog that had a calendar of organizational tips for every day of the year … IE “today clean your night stand” … “today clean the top shelves of your cabinets” … but then reality hit me and I know myself … I’m not going to do that every single day and then I’ll start feeling bad … blah blah waaa waaa … I don’t know how people have the time to keep up with these things … my daughter reminded me of something very important yesterday … it was so good I had to write down the conversation …

David: This room is a mess again – time to clean up
Schuyler: Mommy is cleaning the most important thing in the world? Or is it love? Cause there is a lot of love here.
Mommy: Yes Skye love is more important than cleaning.
Schuyler: Daddy mommy said we don’t need to clean. It isn’t that important.

 

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2012

Family, Me
Dec 312011

So looking back at my blog it looks as if it has been since July since I have posted regularly … I try not to worry about it because I know in the 10.5 years I have been keeping this one there have always been times like that … gaps in writing …

It has mostly been this time that life has gotten so busy that I have to decide where to spend my time … if I am not working then I want to be hanging out with the kids and husband … or sleeping … of which I haven’t gotten much of in the last year …

I am never really one to make new years resolutions but this year there are a few things I want to accomplish … the craft room is getting done … I am pretty sure it has been a storage room for a year now … not good … I need a place to work … to store stuff … and to do projects on my own and with the kids … so this is happening … and if I thought I could talk my family into working on it tomorrow I would … but whatever it takes it is happening …

I would like to take a bit more time to write on my blog … the kids are at an amazing age and we have so much fun together … I want to record more of it … so I am going to carve out a bit of time to write about all we are doing …

Lastly I am going to find a way to do a bit more for myself … I’ve been working less over the holidays and it is good for me … although I am having trouble getting back into what I need to get done … but I think my keyword for 2012 is going to be balance …

I am looking forward to 2012 … Skye said, “This is going to be our year” … not even sure she knows what that means but I like it!!!!

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Time

Quotes
Nov 082011

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Lincoln's First Intake

Lincoln
Nov 042011

Today we had Linc’s first intake appointment for qualification into the PEP program through out county … it helps kids with different learning disabilities or who are developmentally behind where they should be … Linc’s Neurofibromitosis somewhat prequalifies him for the program but they do several different assessments to see what programs he can participate in …

The woman who came to the house was wonderful … she was easy to talk to … she got through mounds of paperwork with ease … 100s a questions without it feeling like it was taking forever … I just really liked her and felt very comfortable … and already taught David and me something new …

See Linc’s speech isn’t quite right … I’ve learned to understand what he is saying but it isn’t always easy … it is one of the things David and I have worried about … well she taught us rather than asking Linc if he can say something just repeat what we want him to say 3 times … most likely he will then repeat it and it will be closer to how it should be said … well I did that all day today and it was great … less pressure on him … and he did work on repeating what I said more like I said it … fantastic I tell you …

So this month he has several more intake appointments … and a bunch of appointments at Children’s … but I am really loving everyone we are meeting with for him and that is good … I stopped by the PEP program at Skye’s school when I was there for Skye’s Halloween party and the director is fabulous … we have an appointment with her and to tour the program in December … really everyone has been just great … I am so thankful … and so blessed with all the help I’m getting in becoming a better advocate for my son!!

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Missing My Blog

Family, Weekend, Work
Oct 032011

So I am totally missing my blog … a lot … I think about writing all the time … but there just aren’t enough hours in the day … lately it is a treat if I can eat dinner without working at the same time … we have instituted family dinners … Skye and Linc have actually been keeping the table clean so we can all sit together … it has been super nice …

But here is the crazy part … my regular job has gotten totally busy … but the work David and I have been doing has gotten crazy busy as well … and we have added social networking to our list of services … so I am actually getting paid now to blog … tweet and post on facebook for companies … I don’t have the time to do it myself … in fact I can hardly remember the last time I opened Facebook under my own login … but now I do it on a regular basis for customers … it is crazy … and I am guessing they will all soon want posts on Google+ as well …

And then there is Daisy Scouts … it is so fun … we had our first meeting on the 19th of September and the girls all had a blast … I think we have 18 girls in the troop now … they told me to stop at 8 so I obviously don’t have good boundaries and I would hate to turn a girl down … but it is surprising to me that out of 18 girls only one would be the troop leader … and I’ve yet to find someone to be the cookie mom … David might have to commit me if I sign on to do that as well …

4 hours of sleep a day is enough right? I mean I don’t forgo sleep to work more … I skip sleep so I can play with the kids more … this morning Skye said, “Mommy I had a great weekend we played so much. Those are my favorite weekends.” … it makes it worth staying up later to get stuff done rather than work while they are awake … right??

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Hey Look at That ...

Family, Me
Aug 272011

I have a blog … who knew … apparently not me because it has been ages since I have posted anything … and that would be great if it was because I was out having so much fun there is no time to post … but that isn’t the case … I have been working so very much that posting on here would me some aspect of work wouldn’t get accomplished …

I am going to have to do some catch up posts … because since July 6th we have:
- Had a bunch of Kindergarten playdates
- David went into Skye’s school and did a cooking presentation for the kids during snack time
- Had our first Daisy Scout get together so the girls could meet each other and the mothers could meet me
- My office moved to a fancy new building with my own office with lots of windows
- Skye had her last day of daycare
- Met Amy, Kaylin and Jaycee at the Richmond Children’s Museum
- Spent a week at a fabulous house in Duck, NC swimming and going to the beach
- Skye spent 2 weeks with daddy going to the zoo and the mall and coming to work with me
- Had a pretty major earth quake for this area
- Parent orientation for kindergarten
- Skye went to school and met her teacher (Mr. D) and saw her classroom

So it has been a pretty fun filled summer … today we are just hanging out waiting for Irene to hit …

Maybe I can sneak a moment here and there to add to the blog … just been too work crazy to find the time to do it!!

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Friendship

Friends
Jul 062011

Weren’t friendships so much easier as a child?

I mean there were spats … but they were so straight forward … we would be playing … someone would get mad … they would say, “I don’t like you anymore I’m going home.” … they would go home … and the next time you saw each other everything was groovy … like nothing had happened … couldn’t even remember what the tiff was about to begin with …

Those girls … the ones I grew up playing with … they are all still friends of mine … granted we are spread all over the country … but we email … post on facebook … talk on the phone on occasion … but we are still friends …

It is the ones I’ve made when older that are just so hard to understand … and by older I am talking in the last 10 or 12 years … I feel as if something has changed … I don’t feel like it is me … but it has to be right?

I miss the old days … I miss the times I spent playing with Cheryl and Ashley … Jenny … Dana … Sharon … Carla … Trina … Tricia … Kim … Cheri … I hope I appreciated all of them enough at the time …

It is hard now … I am sure after this moment it will be better … just like before this moment … but those in between are hard …

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Seven Years

David, Family, Holidays, Me
Jul 052011

Today marks mine and David’s seven year wedding anniversary … and we had a great day together … with the kiddies too …

Normally we spend the day at my parents house … cooking out … hanging out … but this year we went to their house yesterday … that way the whole family could come … (on the 4th my brother and his family go see local fireworks) … and it was great … steaks on the grill … kids playing together … kind of a sneak preview of our upcoming beach vacation …

So today we started out the morning with donuts and then headed to the park … the kids had so much fun … it was beyond hot but still a lot of fun … after lunch we enjoyed family nap time and then all of us sat down together to work on a group art project … it was so much fun all doing something together … we did a bit of dancing … bit of bathing … bit of bedtime reading and then the house was quiet …

Looking back on the last 7 years of marriage … and almost 11 years together … we have been through so much … and come through it together each time … sharing such an amazing life … we are all so very blessed …

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Mad Mimi

Favorite Products
Jul 012011

I so wish Mad Mimi had been around back in the Rock-n-Tot days … this email marking is made for designing your own … 1000 times more simple than Constant Contact … way way faster … and just slick … I love love love it …

I’ve recommended it to a bunch of people since I first tried it … and I actually look forward to setting up emails now for my customers … it is seriously the simplest broadcast email program I have used … and I’ve tried a bunch of them …

Leah and Gary got it so right on!!!! Wanted to spread the news for those of you doing email marketing campaigns … with this – life will be easier … well at least while your are doing your emails … I can’t promise about anything else …

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Condo Kitchen

Kitchen
Jul 012011

Our first kitchen redo was in our condo … whomever it was we bought it from had zero design style whatsoever … we were really lucky because we were living at my parents when we bought it so we spent every single day for a month straight redoing every square inch of that place before we moved in … it was so great to not have to live there while doing the work … because we have both lived through that and it is rough …

The condo had an eat-in kitchen and a dining room … but only like 5 cabinets in the kitchen … that made no since to either one of us … we needed room to put stuff away and truth be told we hardly ate in the dining room … so we sure didn’t need 2 tables to eat on …


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We are not wallpaper people at all … we spent a lot of hours ripping out every piece of wallpaper we could … we are paint people and there is a lot you can do with paint … which is what we did …

We picked a fabulous grey for both the kitchen and dining room … and did the polyurethane stripes in the dining room … we added cabinets all along those empty walls (really there isn’t a kitchen out there that has too many cabinets but there are plenty with too much unused space) … we just used the inexpensive cabinets from Home Depot and then changed out the plastic handle hardware … it was spectacular and we could store EVERYTHING in there …

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Looking at all the photos again makes me miss that Kitchen … I can’t believe I don’t have any photos of it but we put in great linoleum floor too … small black and white checks … way better than the stuff that was in there …

 

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