Hello again! I feel as if I've been away for a while, even though I've just missed being around yesterday! I've been busy! Having a family can be a lot of work as some of you already know . There are times when it seems as if you have it worse than others do and there are times when you feel so lucky to have the family you do. Of course a lot depends on how you handle everything in your world! *********************************************************************** Parentin...

Agony Gosh darn allergies...another piercing screamsneeze! Don't even ask me about the title...(or any of these subs!) I'm in a fuzzy-brained frenzy! I hate it when my thought-process gets interrupted! So many things to do so little time. I've got several things lined up of what I want to get done this year, Some things have been on the back burner and I've got to stoke the flames of my interest again! I tend to do that though....start things and don't follow throug...

There are so many of us out there who are trying hard to have a sense of normalcy in our lives. Yet there are things that happen on a daily basis for some that won’t let that sense of normalcy exist. We do continue to live in each moment and continue because our very lives depend on our own survival. Yet the cycles continue, always moving, never changing. Do we move forward or do we keep moving backwards? I used a phrase once in one of my writings, ‘regurgitating the same sound bite’...

Whining blog so if you don't like those sort of things, don't read this. And dont' tell me not to whine - I'm in a whining mood! I'm feeling totally meloncholy today, deeply so. My son's been ill since Friday. I had to pick him up early from school last week. He caught a cold which brought on his asthma and that's all it takes for him to have an episode. {and all because we had a badass cold front last week} I'm drained and I'm tired. Between coaxing him to 'feed his cold...

My brain feels fried and I'm so drained. I'm tired, tired, tired. My kids are wearing me out! All I want to do right now is curl up in bed and not leave it for a week. I'm too mentally tired to even continue writing this. Yesterday in the middle of an overhaul of my laundry room and doing laundry I left everything to take my twelve and five year old to the park and then to their favorite toy store so we could look around and I could have an idea of what they wanted for Christmas. Wel...

Sometimes you get into a mode of living and before you realise it, you're stuck. You get so busy with living your life, doing things a certain way and not changing your habit, even though sometimes you should. Other times you get too overwhelmed to catch up. You're so busy trying to make some parts of your life work, that sometimes other parts go by the wayside. Then things keep piling up, and you try to make a dent and the dent can't be seen no matter what you do. This is when you reali...

Deja vu, could you be the dream that I once knew, is it you? Dionne Warwick It's been a day of deja vu for me. I could tell what would happen next and it was a bit weird. I almost thought I would go to bed and wake up again doing the same thing all over again, like Bill Murray in Groundhog Day. It's weird when there are days like this [Ha! That made me think of that song "my momma said there would be days like this"] _______________________ I'm tired right now. It's been a long...

When I see someone crying because they have lost someone they love; When I see someone packing away clothes to givie them away; crying uncontrollably; When I see someone finding it hard to let go, to come to terms with their feelings, because it hurts so much, too much, I understand. It makes me cry inside, and I tear up, and I know that it’s not easy to explain, to let others understand, just how that is, still. How hard it is to remember to say ‘was’ or ‘used to’. I had to co...

I woke up crying, I couldn’t help myself. I was hoping that today wouldn’t affect me, I planned on not even thinking too much about this day but it’s difficult not to. I knew that once I saw and hear the events on television all over again that it would bring me back to that day. I told myself that I won’t write about it, because after all nothing happened to me that day, I didn’t lose anyone, at least I don’t know for sure. But when I look back, it did affect me as it has so many o...

Do you believe in reincarnation? I do. I believe that somewhere in the future I will appear again as someone or something else. I don’t want to be an animal. I would rather be human again, hopefully I would get the chance to be me again. If I am, there is something I would like to say to my future self, if I could leave a time capsule of sort: Grab each opportunity with open arms. There were times you let some things go instead of pursuing them. Don’t put things o...

It's been two years, well, almost two years since my mom passed and I have not cleaned out her closet as yet. It's a task I dread because I know it will be my undoing. I've already given the things I know she wanted my siblings to have to them. I've also taken some items I knew my sisters would love to have in memory of her. Check and taken care of. I will have to do it when I'm home alone. Because it would be too traumatic for my kids or even my husband to see me like that. That ...

I like that song by Toby Keith. (the video rocks too!) I so identify with it! It got me thinking about myself and how unhappy I am with me right now. Unhappy with the way my body is that is. I’m 41 years old and I’m beginning to actually feel my age. No, I’m not whining, I’ve just been doing some reflecting lately and I’m doing it ‘out loud’ this time! I’ve been busy taking care of my home, my family and everything and everyone else around me, but I’ve been neglecting me. Yea, I do...

Guess what? My birthday is coming up soon. In two days, as of tomorrow! Gosh, I can’t believe the past year has gone by so quickly and the new one seems to be ‘running’ by us! Still, I’m glad to be seeing another birthday in good health. Did I tell you how old I’m going to be? I told you last year, let me see who remembers?! Yeah, that’s a quiz for you!LOL! I’m happy to be born on April 22. It’s significant because, of course, it’s my birthday; and it’s also Earth Day...

Preconceived Notions, thoughts, ideas Choose one. In a sense they are all the same. Those pre-conceived ideas that people have about each other or about someone they don’t know. A person will take one look at someone and just assume something; something they think is true because of those pre-conceived ideas. So in essence we make a lot of assumptions! Assumptions that is incorrect. Because if you don’t really know someone, how in God’s name do you arrive at the conclusion ...