A Bunch of Things.....

I am kind of nervous about our new routine that will be starting 2 weeks from today.....REAL SCHOOL!!!! I am a little scared. When Riley was at Presbyterian Preschool they did not count absences and tardies!!! Are we ready for this? I guess we better get that way! Yikes! She is so very dramatic and morning are a challenge sometimes. I am revamping out whole morning schedule to get ready for this!!! My fingers are crossed and I am praying that all goes smoothly!

Sam also starts preschool this year...yep we decided that we would send him...I am little scared about that because he is my baby...he is babyish and I am hoping and praying he will be okay. He is just so wild sometimes and it takes a lot to keep him focused. I am REALLY nervous about him going but I am just as excited as I am nervous. He will be okay....I hope!

I am really obsessed with older music right now....oldies, classic rock, etc......which is kind of weird for me. I guess my tastes are evolving in that area and I like it! :-)

I am trying very hard to adopt a more laid back attitude about.....well everything. I am making a conscious effort to just remind myself all of the time...don't sweat the small stuff dummy! Life if beautiful and I am almost always in such a bad mood that I don't get to enjoy it. I got sick of that so I am trying to change it. So far so good!

How do you break up with people? Not significant others....people like your dentist, hair dresser? I am bad at it....it never fails you see them out and then they ask where you have been. Awkward for me!!!! I can never get away with it...I always get cold busted. Not fair...people who could care less probably never get busted.....just me.

It very stressful to be a working mom sometimes. Like tomorrow I have a child care issue. My mother in law is sick and my mom is out of town because it wasn't her normal day to keep the babies so I am going to have to take off. (Unpaid thanks to the strep throat vacation a while back.) Luckily I have some flexibility but still it is hard because you have responsibilities on both sides and you don't want to fail anyone. Frustrating!!! I absolutely hate that my kids are getting so big but when they are in school I think my working mom's guilt will ease up somewhat because we will have kind of the same hours. That is my hope anyway. Then I will only have working mom's guilt in the summer and in the afternoons the hour or two after they get out of school but before I get off instead of all day 5 days per week.

I am trying to think of a way to bribe Jamey into letting me take a photography class. (I just want to learn how to use my camera and Photoshop...I really want Photoshop....BAD!!! I just like to tinker. I don't have a lot of time but messing with pictures of my little family is about the only hobby I have to speak of. It makes me happy to take a good picture of my kids and to share it with my mom, his mom and his grandmothers and it makes them happy too.....which is very rewarding! I just would like to be able to do more in the way of editing and just to have more tools for my tinkering.

I am very proud of myself lately...I have been doing a better job of keeping my house clean, the dishes done and the MOUNTAINS of clothes put away!!!! Go me!!!!

I have got to get on the stick with my resolution to be a family who recycle!!!! The only excuse I have is pure laziness!!!! It is ridiculous and I need to just do it!!!!

Okay...I am extremely irritated with people and their cell phones lately.....PEOPLE...CUT THE CORD....STOP THE OBSESSION!!!!! YOU WILL NOT DIE IF YOU PUT IT DOWN FOR A WHILE....I PROMISE YOU LITERALLY WILL LIVE!!!!!!! I was like the last person in the world to start texting and I have to admit that sometimes it is WAY more convenient than a phone call so I do text now but I have NO desire to ever own an iphone or anything equivalent...I have witnessed them take over lives and I will pass!