I am NOT a Monster!

I had today off, as I usually do since it is a Tuesday. I decided last night that we should all go to lunch today, ya know a fun family outting. Which it was, surprisingly Nate was very well behaved and ate his entire little kid pizza! I decided that I would try something new (why I continue to torture myself, is beyond my comprehension) which was HORRIBLE and Mark had a yummy pizza all to himself. I had a plan going in to the restaurant! I would not eat the same thing, I would find something else to try, against my better judgement. So, after lunch, we came home, argued in the car about how best to get Nate to sleep in his own bed and should we eliminate nap time during the day? My answer of course is keep the nap time, Mark wants to ditch the nap time. And the saga continues...

After the arguing I decided I wanted to give myself a mini-facial, to give myself a small amount of pampering...I just wanted to look like this...

And I did for about 5 minutes and then I did the unthinkable...........................................................

I opened the door leading from my bathroom into my bedroom and there is my lovely, sweet, perfect angel of a boy and he says......"AAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH MOMMY'S A MONSTER!!!!!!!!" So I did my best not to crack the mask that I had so carefully slathered on in the hopes of getting rid of the impurities, only to loose it completely when he said and I quote, "Momma, going to get treats now? Her Halloween mask on".......yea so much for relaxing.....

Just when you need it!

I have always known that things happen for a reason, that those reasons are sometimes bigger than what we may be able to comprehend at the moment and every now and then I am reminded why I have the friends and the family that I do. I don't always know when or why, but I always get a message of hope or love just when I need it and a lot of the time it comes in very unexpected ways. I don't talk a lot about prayer or faith, most of the time I save those for my darkest hours and I usually keep those to myself...but I know that prayer works and I have faith that the Man upstairs is taking care of me and my family.And to him I say, I am listening Lord, my ears and heart are open and whatever you have planned for me and my family, I can take it.

So, on this next leg of my journey, I hope you'll stay with me, it may be a bumpy ride, but as my grandma used to say, if it was too easy, it wouldn't be worth it....or something to that effect...(miss you grandma)....

Happy November First!

I forgot to pop on yesterday to wish everyone a Happy Halloween, so how about a Happy November 1st!

Halloween was fun, we took little man out trunk or treating at a church function. He didn't quite know what to do, the people were very sweet and would come up to him since he was so shy. He made out like a little bandit (as my mom would say)! Mark was going to dress up as Shaggy since Nate was Scooby Doo and I was going to be Velma, but time did not allow me to search for the perfect Velma costume, so I donned a Witch's hat instead :). Here are some fun pics from Nate's first REAL Halloween..enjoy!

Marks attempt at being Shaggy :-)..."A" for effort!

Yay for today!

Trying to get into the habit..why am I repeating myself..ok today was a great day! Yankees won game 2 and today is me and Marks 4 year wedding anniversary! My how time flies!! Ok off to bed! Blog more tomorrow..more than a generic post :)

NaBloPoMo

Yes I am crazy, I am needing a blogging kick in the pants to get back on track in the bloggy world! So what better way than to join the NaBloPoMo for the month of November! Hope you'll join me in my 30 days of blogging madness!!

World Series...WOOHOO!!

In case you missed it....THE YANKEES ARE GOING TO THE WORLD SERIES!!!! I guess I'm not a jinx after all..heehee.. I had this theory that the only way the Yankees ever win is if I don't watch, I know absurd right?! ANyway, it was still a silly fear of mine and one that I held onto so much so that if they started to lose while I was in the room I'd walk out and yell for updates or come running out when I heard lots of cheering going on....of course I am not all powerful...

So to the Yankees...thanks for a great season and lets kick some Phillie @ss :).

Just can't seem to....

Get motivated to write a paper about dehydration. It's not good to be dehydrated, it sucks, your body doesn't want to work right you get all these funky symptoms. There..done! Now I just need to turn that little phrase into 1050 words.....ummmm...I can do it...I think I can..I think I can..I think I can...Hope everyone is enjoying their Sunday...off to write..and try not to pull my hair out...

Random picture that I think is pretty...

Saturday Sickness

Me when I was not sick...

Hi there..it's me again..still sick...I believe that I need to buy some stock in Kleenex, Robitussin and Vicks Vapo Rub! Oh and the people that created my really soft socks and blankie. Yes, I still call it a blankie..leave a girl alone she doesn't feel well! So to my two commenters that are anti-Michigan and anti-Yankees...I have nothin for ya, no witty come backs...I knew when I fell in love with the Yanks that I would fall victim to those who hate....They play tonight, at home, see they lost on purpose on Thursday just so they would win at home..I know their tricks!



I stumbled upon a new blog last night that's being featured by blogspot called the Hermitage, very cool blog if you like fairytalish english hobbit lord of the rings type stuff. Seriiously though the chic that writes and draws and takes pictures is quite talented! As are all of the bloggyland people that I follow.



Anywho, I'm off to try to nap hopefully without coughing...I'm also learning that as long as I keep my mouth shut I don't cough...I'm pretty sure this makes Mark very happy....hahaha...

Something to pass the time...

I'm off of work today because I am sick and my boy is sick and I was told by the doc to stay away from people..lol..I'm not a leper geez! Anyway, I keep saying that I need to blog more and that I'll start again..and I will I swear. Maybe it will help alleviate my stress..Mark is still not having much luck in the J-O-B department, did you guys know that the economy FING BLOWS! Unless of course you don't mind working for oh 7 an hour...where's the stimulus package? Where's all this supposed turning around of the economy? Last I heard (which was this morning) there have been more layoffs..oh sure the percentage might be down, but that's because there are NO MORE PEOPLE TO LAY OFF, at this rate it'll be the business owners and their secretary running most of the businesses unless of course you're a Wall Street fat cat, then you have job security! Forgive me for ranting but I am just pissed off! So many people suffering..sooo many it's sickening. All I have to look forward to are my Yankees! LET'S GO YANKEES (clap, clap, clap) LET'S GO YANKEES (clap, clap, clap)!!!!! Oh and homework, I have that to look forward to too!

Strength..where does it come from?

I have been taking a positive Psych course for the last 8 weeks and for most of the last 8 weeks I have been a bitter betty. I would read my fellow classmates postings about how they are gaining so much insight about positive this and positive that and all I could do was make horrible scornful remarks in my head. I used to be the eternal optimist and slowly but surely life stuff happened and my optimisim has begun to go down the tubes. Which leaves me asking the question...when things get so SHI**Y and I just don't want to move and all I want is to cry for days and not move (I know I said that already), where does the strength come from?

My hubs lost his job last Thursday...the economy finally came and took the safety net away and my hubs was "laid off". I am now the bread winner at a whopping 9.00 an hour. Did I mention we have bills to pay and mouths to feed? We have been fortuante to have lasted as long as we did without suffering too badly, but now I am scared..like really really scared. Again, I have pulled strength from somewhere to get my happy butt up and out of bed and working to keep it together. Last week in my positive Psych course was the fostering HOPE week, I had to create a slide show presentation about fostering HOPE. How do you foster something that feels so far away? Well I did it somehow.

I am grateful for little moments in my past that will surface just when I need reminding of something, does that ever happen to anyone else? You're driving yourself crazy over something and all of a sudden you'll recall a comment or a conversation and it will magically put things into perspective....Well look at that I'm being positive for a moment... I guess it's still in me somewhere...