These 3 items have pretty much consumed my life the past week. I have been busier this February than I have of any February in my life. You see, February is the month our swim club hosts 2 high school district swim meets AND the …
R.I.P. Buster Brown Bear, 01/30/2013
Chows are mean dogs.. that’s what people say all the time. I heard it from grooming salons many times. Psh.. tell Buster that. Buster was a Sharpei/Chow mix.. and he was the biggest teddy bear I ever met. I originally got Buster when someone broke …
I Have WHAT? Oh, That Sounds About Right. :)
Much like the CHAOS (Can’t Have Anyone Over Syndrome) I suffer from on a regular basis, my daughter has now notified she found my root problem. According to my 19-year old (after all, teenagers know EVERYTHING, right?), I not only have depression, OCD, MMS (Mean …
How Desperate is Desperate?
Be forewarned: this is a L O N G post… but one I have to get out of my head and heart. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> How bad do things have to get before one cracks? You know you’re strong, but how strong can you be before you …
Allow More Time?
I have time settings on the computer for my kids and when their time is up, they log off. On occasion though, Dylan will be doing homework and needs more time to complete it. What then? A screen comes up asking for parental permission to …
How Are You Feeling, You Ask??
I have my default page on Internet Explorer set to Facebook. Yep, FB is the first thing I see in the morning when I log onto my desktop. And normally, I’m ok with that. This morning though, sitting in front of the computer, I felt Facebook …
Express Yourself!
I don’t know the name of the song, but I know that’s part of the lyrics. Or maybe it’s a jingle from a commercial. IDR.. but right now all I can think is, “if I really express myself, I’m going to jail or the psych …
Why Blog? Why Not??
Everyone needs an outlet.. my primary outlet is, and has been, my best friend. She’s the world’s most perfect BFF (I may be a little biased). I’ve been blessed to know her for over 29 years. Recently, amongst one of my rants, she suggested counseling. …
Tuesdays With.. Who Am I Kidding? I Just Need a ‘Brain Dump’. ☺
I SO did not want to get up this morning. We, as a family, were up too late last night. The kids were back and forth and did not really settle down until I went to bed. At 11pm. I was trying to finish the …
That AMAZING Feeling
You know the one I’m talking about. When you’re so close to or have accomplished something that makes you happy. When I woke up this morning I got that feeling for the first time in a long time. Let me explain.
One thing that anyone who know me knows it that I like to have a clean house. No, not the magazine, museum clean house, but the picked-up, lived-in, clean house. It’s been hard to accomplish lately with so much that’s been going on in my life. You see, my mom died on May 17, 2011. I had made a few trips down to California in the months beforehand, but that trip I stayed almost a month so that I could get things taken care of. That included my sister, niece, and nephew. In that month, we came to the decision that she and the kids would be moving up to Oregon and staying with us for a while. So began a very long, very busy, very emotional, and very, very cluttered period in my life. At that time, my husband’s eldest daughter had just found him on Facebook also. And, after 26 years, she wanted to move here to Oregon and get to know him and this side of her family.
So here we were, my family, my sister and her kids, and my new step-daughter – 9 of us. Living in a 2 bedroom trailer home. Yes, I said 2 bedroom. A lot has changed in the last year. My 2nd daughter, Tori, moved out in July; my step-daughter, Ruth, moved back to Indiana at the end of September; my husband and I separated at the end of November; my sister’s boyfriend moved here from New York in December, the they and the kids moved out at the end of January, leaving {finally} just my 2 boys and me in 2 bedrooms. Due to some issues, my sister and her kids moved back with me in June of this year. So now we have a total of 6 people, 5 dogs, 1 cat, 1 fish and 1 frog in a 2 bedroom trailer home; luckily there’ small dogs. ☺
Throughout all of this, I’ve had my mom’s and sister’s belongings piled in our 2 sheds, on top of what I had stores out there already. This summer I was finally able to start going through tings. That meant clearing out the boxes and boxes and more boxes of stuff that lined hallways, walls, corners of the trailer and front patio. After my ‘revelation’ the other day, I got down to business and changed the way I was getting things done. The result? After just 1 day, I woke up this morning and it happened – I felt “that amazing feeling”. And it truly is AMAZING.
