Growing up fast!

My babies are doing their STEP-UP Ceremony on Monday and I am so proud of them.

Lil Mama....wow she sure has grown up over the year. She started Kindergarten in September and that was her first time in school. I kept her home because I loved being a mom and loved being at home with her and she was my last baby. I know I should have put her in school just to get that "social" aspect but of course my selfish reasons come first. LOL! She lasted a couple months in her first class but she was not liking school. She came to me and said "Mom I can't focus in my class, can I change classes." Well as a mom I was torn because I LOVE her teacher but my daughter was struggling with other students. The class had some very loud kids. Well it all worked out and my daughter flourished when she went to the other class. Lil Mama LOVES to read. As a reader you know I was happy to hear that she is reading now at a end of 1st grade level. She is looking forward to 1st grade.

Lil Man....wow he has found the love of reading in the 2nd grade. He has some wonderful friends that are really good readers and I think he wanted to keep up with them so he pushed himself. He was into reading the Wimpy Kid series and now loves the Percy Jackson books. He also loves to draw a lot and I find his drawings on papers everywhere. Artist like his Daddy-love that! He is looking forward to 3rd grade and a certain teacher so we are keeping our fingers crossed he gets him. Next year will be hard on him because his 2 close friends are going to a different schools. I'm hoping he will connect with others and not be sad. He has been at the school for 3 yrs and I'm going to do everything in my power to make sure my kids stay in one school.

Life...busy lately!

Geez somedays I wake up and I just want to crawl right back in a SLEEP all day.  I guess I gave that dream up when I had kids.  I have a lot going on in my life but its all good.  I think I will write about each thing separately so I can catch up and get all these "feelings" out. 

My life is good and I wouldn't change a thing...okay take that back I would change my financial status in a heartbeat but hey live with what you have.  But hey an extra couple thousand a month wouldn't hurt right...LOL!

Anyhoo lets see this is what I'm going to talk about:

Me
Hubby
Hubby Biz
Hubby/Me
School
Kids
Family
Home
Jobs
My other blog-MTB
Future stuff

Okay so that gives me several days worth of work and I'm going to do it!!!  Promise Pam.  I need an outlet and this blog is so useful. 

Do you ever have so much on your mind you can't SLEEP?

My usual bedtime these days is about 10-11pm.  It's either I;m getting old or my body is adjusting to my hubby's schedule.  He has to get up at 3:30 am to get to work by 5- bless is heart.  I;m not sure if I would do that, okay maybe if i really liked the job.  But here I sit at 1:20am and my eyes won't even get drowsy.  By the way it hard to type in the semi dark. 

I have school issues I'm working on... a lot- maybe too much.  There is a lot going on in such a little amount of time and feeling pressure from several angles.  What did I get myself into, is a question I ask everyday but then I tell myself it is going to be so worth it.  My kid's school is struggling and I feel a lot of parents are just giving up and thats hard to deal with when your putting in 200% to make the school better.  I'm not jumping ship and I'm standing up (i know my 5ft doesn't do much) for what I believe in.  Is this a smart move- no idea, ask me in a year. 

My hubby's biz is taking off and I'm trying to keep that organized.  We are getting bookings for Bar Mitzvah, dinner graduations, softball opening days, and birthday parties.  I've done a lot of promoting of his work (mrairbrushhands.com) and i think that has helped a lot!

Trying to prioritize everything is such a chore but I'm beginning to do TO DO lists now....turning into my mom I think, she is all about the lists.  I'm going to try to use my blackberry in a more useful way! One more thing i have to learn.  Also need to learn how to put music on my bb. 

This week is lil mama's 6th bday and making her happy is a task all in its own.  Can she just stick to one plan!  I swear its a bday week but she deserves it ALL- that sassy lil one. 

Well I'm going to try to go to bed now.  Didn't get much accomplished but hey wrote a post on here so that counts for something right !!!

Wow It's been several months since my last post!

My world has been very busy!  I've taken a lot on and hoping to get it all figured out soon. 

I've been very active in my kids school- we had several low points but I'm trying to get the parents involved more and its coming together.  Parents are willing to help they just need to be asked!  My kids school has been an important factor in our lives so I wasn't going to jump ship-fight for what you believe in and I am!   It actually has given me a purpose and my self esteem has just skyrocketed.  I feel good when I'm helping the school but sometimes it gets a bit overwhelming.  I go to ptotoday.com and it is filled with so much useful info.  I became secretary of our PTC (PARENT TEACHER CORP) and that is an experience.  I hope I don't let anyone down.

We have several cool things happening at the school: Earth Day, Teacher Appreciation Week, Gala, Auction, Read-a-thon/Book-Fair so I think I'm really going to be busy!

Lil Mama and I read this book the other about Earth Day:

Well I'm going to write more about what is happening in our home later tonight.  I have some great stuff to share!

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I LOVE CONTESTS....have I won anything, not yet but someday I hope so!  I have made some cool blogger friends. 

I go to this great blog that allows other bloggers to post their contests and it is all family friendly.  I'm going now to check out what contests are listed for today.

http://blog.nickels-n-dimes.com/  please join me in the FUN! 

Also Nickels-n-Dimes posts about freebies, coupons and more goodies for families.

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I did an upgrade about 3 weeks ago and every since then my site has been f**ked up!  I'm so sad because its 2yrs of work but I learned some valuable lessons and will move on!

Instead of starting a new site on wordpress I will just come back to blogger.  Wordpress has horrible customer service and the help you get on the forums either don't get answered or you get someone who you think is giving you assistance actually is giving you sabotage instructions.  I was told to this and that and it would be all fixed...haha it erased EVERYTHING and I was stuck.  Go anyhoo...moving on!

So I've decided I'm going to post the deals/freebies/workshop info/family stuff on here plus so much more.  One blog!  Let's see if it works- if not oh well I least gave it a shot. 

Looking forward to a wonderful 2010!

2010-What will it bring

darn if I know!

My saying for 2010 is GO BIG IN 2010.  Not even sure where I picked that up at but hey it works.

Resolutions....ummm I make them but then I break them or don't even do them.  So lets set some GOALS-see word change and its all good.

~Loose weight....of course!  That means I need to eat healthier (have been working on that for awhile now) and maybe I should hop on the Wii Fit that hasn't seen my booty in a couple months.  I know I know!  Kids and I have been walking a lot so that's helping. My boss said I lost a lot weight...well she only sees me once a month so of course I look different, lol!

~Relationships...need to work on all of them.  I need to make an effort to call my grandparents more...just not on holiday's!  Okay I also need to let go of some anger issues and communicate with my dad more.  Sometimes I just want him to feel how I felt when I was young and he was too busy for me.  But I guess tit for tat is not good at my age.  My hubby and I have a really good relationship now but we need to find time alone and go on dates!

~Job Issues....I'm always saying I want to quit the cafe but its good money for the 2 days plus I LOVE my customers but I'm getting old and you should see me after a hard day at work-can't move/in pain!  I'm working more on the online job I have and I want to show him that I can do a lot more.  I want to become a virtual assistant.  I love working from home and want to work more on making that a FULL-TIME gig!

~Kids...I want to get them into dance and swimming for sure this year.  Lil Man has mad skills dancing and Lil Mama has her heart on swimming.  We are reading a lot more and I love that because I'm a big reader and want my kids to enjoy the same love of books as I do!

~Blogs....work on both every week!  Try to post daily but I also know that won't happen so why stress myself out about that!  I want to meet more bloggers and have my own community.  Maybe hook up with more bargain mama's and start a forum. 

I know there are more stuff but if I make the list too long then I give up and nothing will get accomplished! 

GO BIG IN 2010!!!

Lil Mama needs to learn how to play by herself.

I can't be her 24hr play buddy.  I have things to do!  She is 5 1/2 and never plays by herself and if she does someone has to be in the same room.  Never plays in her bedroom

So the whining started at 8am...someone please play with me, I have no one to play with, I'm bored.  All day I've been hearing this in between the fighting and the crying.  It is raining so I can't take them outside.  The kids have been fighting ALL DAY. 

I've set her up with many different things to do all day...nothing works!  She wants someone right there by her side.  Can you tell I'm a bit stressed.  Yesterday, I spent all day with her- we played monopoly 2x, art stuff, movie-2 of them, and 2 walks.  Today I had house stuff to do and she complained all day and had to be everywhere I went.  I tried to take a shower by myself and she had to sit on the toilet the whole time.  Lil Man he plays very well by himself why can't Lil Mama.  I'm not asking all the time because I enjoy her but somedays I have things I need to do. When do they go back to school????  1 more week.  Ok rant over!

Bad Words and Lil Man!

I saw F**K head and B**tch in his journal.  He saw the look on my face and ripped out the page real fast and started tearing it up in pieces.  I wasn't invading his privacy he had the notebook and was holding it to his chest while talking to me. I asked him to talk to me about it and he started crying and said he wrote it about a girl who is at his school who is really bad! Pretty much every kid has issues with her.  She loves to pick on Lil Man.  Ugh!  Then it hit me...where did you learn to write those words.  Guess what the answer was....the bad ass the kids that we used to live by.  So happy we moved!

My hubby and I had a talk with him about using those words. We want him to express himself and gave him suggestions on different words to use instead of the adults words.  He thought he would be in a lot of trouble but as a parent I felt this was a learning experience for all of us.