Pinterest of the Day

via Wendy Baiamonte

Seriously. Someone honked at me today when I was at the long red light. My husband would've stopped in the middle of the intersection and then slowly crept through it to make the person behind him mad. I moved on. Well, sort of. It still irks me. Just like it irks me when parents park in front of the "No Parking" rope at school for drop off.

Actual Pinterest of the day:

 

via Tonya Milligan Holt

Chocolate cake in an orange over the campfire. Or maybe a pan less version for the oven, if adjusted. Oh man, I really want some chocolate! Now if I could only figure out an easy way to get an orange out of its peel.

The Dark Drug

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Yes, I am drinking coffee. Delicious (free) coffee by the way. Yes, I have gained 5 pounds since returning from our cruise. No it was not from cruise food (I actually lost 2 lbs on the cruise). No, I do not care.

As of this week, I want salty, sweet, chocolate food and I will eat it all (if I had some)! Also, I am sick and when I am sick I eat everything. For some reason it makes me feel better, even when I am not hungry. Child3 has been in school for only two weeks and the contagious spread of germs from 3 and 4 year olds has begun. Even the teacher was sick yesterday. I cannot even imagine how she isn't sick every week with all the toddlers putting their hands in the garbage cans because they want to know what is in there, wiping their hands on her, and spitting on the classroom desks.

I will start my "diet" on Monday. I will eliminate coffee on Monday. Today I need to stay awake or my children will tie me up like the giant in Gulliver's Travels and my husband will find me gagged in the closet in the morning.

It really isn't a diet. I just eliminate the foods I know I'm not supposed to eat by not buying them when I go shopping. I watch my calorie count so I can keep track of how much I am actually snacking. When I'm bored, I snack. I was using an online calorie counter but I know my max and what I feel comfortable with. I am aware of my portions now and have felt guilty this past month when I know I do not need to fill my plate that full to be full. I enjoy food, though. I have to eat because I'm anemic and I need the iron.

I enjoy food.

My poor husband has had to make his own sweets for the past couple of months because if I cook it I will eat it. Now, my husband cooking is not a bad thing. However, it doesn't excite my taste buds. He cooks out of a box because it is fast and efficient. I want to cook now that the weather is changing. I like to experiment with new recipes based off of the ingredients in my pantry. It was a very depressing day when I received the letter from school stating that we can no longer bring in food for snacks, birthday treats or holidays unless it has a store label on it. I did not sign up for child9's holiday food helper this year because it was not fun last year. I felt obligated to sign up for Valentine's day and just picked up some mini red velvet cupcakes from the store. The pre-school has its own funding for everything so we are not allowed to bring in any food for any holiday, even birthdays. I'm thinking of finding inventive ways to make goodie bags that are cheap enough for at least tot3's birthday in April. I understand the school's take on food allergies because I have family and friends with specific allergies but it still is a damper on my fun in the kitchen.

Now this really didn't have much a point besides that I am drinking coffee and I will not share! And I am sad that it is only two cups because I used a packet that I took from the hotel we stayed at last month. Oh well, at least its not de-caf.




***Picture taken from: Purex on Facebook.

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Pinterest of the Day

via Chynna Fletcher

Just kidding. But it did make me laugh because I have to wonder if its not a photoshop and I like the twisted mind.

But really here it is:

https://pinterest.com/pin/245164773436132539/ Simple enough. One of those "Uuuuh, why didn't I think of that?"

Inside View

I watched a rerun of House last night. There was an epidemic in the maternity ward of the hospital and babies were sick. I never caught on exactly what was wrong with them because the first scene I saw was a baby, not even 2 days old, having a seizure. My brain froze and I could hear my heart beating rapidly in the silence of the living room.

I can watch Criminal Minds where people get their bodies mutilated, Bones where decomposed, jellied bodies and skeletons are laid/squeezed on the table and the news where the latest underage child is killed in a drive by, gangster or race related incident with interest, or no interest, but this was (for a lack of a better word) freaky. Then my mind raced through the what if's and the anxiety a mother has about their children. Random accidents (such as the recent article I read about a girl suffocating while playing hide and seek because she hid in a beanbag and no one found her in time), car crashes, home invasions, kidnapping...I could go on and my mind does often enough. Just like I often question what my actions would be if one of my children were choking, bleeding, or missing. I've had the blood draining feeling of turning around to find my child not behind me in the store and to find him, 2 seconds later (felt like hours), one aisle over because he got distracted by an action figure. Would I be the one that is focused and in control enough to hide my child from the attacker while I pray help gets here in time? Or would I panic? Take the wrong chance? What if my child became mentally ill, physically handicap or any one of the emotional stressors that could happen? Would life crumble around us? The people who can hold it all together, make a life out of a unexpected situation or have control are my heroes.

Staying on the phone with a 911 operator,calling the police or taking someone to the emergency room because they are hurt is different because they are not your own. You haven't watched them fall down to get back up or find a frog in the grass or pick out their first backpack. Even if you are related to said person, there is a disconnection and more of looking at it from the outside view. How would I react from the inside view?

What kind of parent are you? What kind of parent am I?

I want sex!

I'm reclining on the loveseat, mindlessly clicking through one of the million Facebook applications, when child3 comes running in.

Breathlessly, he says, "I want sex!"

Three seconds pass with me staring at him while my mind is rewinding the day in search of a memory of watching SOMETHING on the television that he might have picked that phrase up from. I draw a blank and ask, "What?"

"I want sex! I want sex!"

He's getting all excited now and waves his hand eagerly to dad in the bathroom. I smell the faint scent of Axe body spray and it finally clicks! "Go ask dad", I say with a smile and watch him run and disappear into the bathroom. He slides on his socks back down the hallway to me after a few moments. After sticking his chest out and using what I think is supposed to resemble his best masculine voice he yells, "I'm sexy now!"

Resurrection

How does a person begin to start their blog/writing platform again after a year of no activity? There is such a big void from that year that is not online and not filled in. It may be part of my memory but to reference it could be a problem or give me more material to write about. Hmmm.....

Why does a person blog? A few reason could be the endless sighs of boredom, a need to talk to someone besides myself (and have someone besides myself answer back!) or possibly the idea that I could MAYBE make some money. I think the blank stares at the computer screen for hours on end is the winner. :) I previously made $2.50 a week writing this blog and I'm NOT going to make a great income from that.

Now how could I be ansty? I have two kids that are under 9 years old (one potty-training), a husband who works nights 48+ hours a week and I work. I should be chaotic-busy wiping butts, cleaning floors, doing laundry, coupon clipping and helping with homework. However, my 9 year old is in school all day, my 3 year old is in pre-school for 2 1/2 hours every day throughout the week and I only work part-time because we do not have a full time babysitter. We only have one after-school activity because child9 has not adjusted to the homework load yet. I'm not a socialite and my part-time work pays for all the "extras" so when I do not work, there are no "extras". My problem is finding something to do in all the downtime.

I recently read about women who have 3 or more children, are going to school for their Masters and working full time. I cannot even imagine that kind of life. I'm nervous, excited, and dreading when I get called into work. Sometimes I do not work for 3 weeks and sometimes I work a week straight. My stomach flip flops and I have the first day of school jitters when I work after 3 weeks and I just want it to be done when I work the week straight . I like my free time and the time I get to spend with my kids and husband, but right now there is no way to make either more even.

The blog will be "literally vague". It will be about the random acts of my weird children, odd questions that pop into my head and the "stuff" that occupies my short attention span.