ADHD MOMMY TO THREE

Win a Surprise Newborn Cabbage Patch Kid CouponCabin’s 25 Crazy Dayz of Giveawayz (Closed)

2011-11-01T08:21:00.001-05:00

And the winner of the Surprise Newborn Cabbage Patch Kid is comment #76 nikki bergin said...

liked you on facebook. Nickki be on the look out for an email from me, you have 48 hours to respond to me with your mailing address, or an alternate winner will be selected. Thanks everyone for supporting my blog.

Welcome to CouponCabin’s 25 Crazy Dayz of Giveawayz! This multi-blog event is hosted by Simply Stacie,Makobi Scribe and Sassy Mama in LA and is sponsored by CouponCabin. This is the biggest event the blogosphere has seen with over 400 giveaways each at $25 value or more plus a huge giveaway with some major prizes like a MacBook Air, IPad2 &Visa Gift Cards. You can find all the giveaways from the participating blogs by visiting the host blogs,Simply Stacie,Makobi Scribe and Sassy Mama in LA. Each host blog will feature a different set of giveaways for you to enter!

Sorry guys I am a little late on getting my giveaway up. I just got out of the hospital, I had to have my appendix removed, and just got out of the hospital, but here it is. Since I was unable to secure a sponsor for this, I went out and got one of my daughters favorite toys, and it is up for grabs here. The best part about it is that you never know if you are getting a boy or girl! Plus I know most of us parents had these when we were wee little ones, and I do not know if you are like me, but I love it when I can share some of my memories from childhood with my children.

All you have to do to win this is follow me on GFC, and leave a comment here saying that you did. You can receive one extra entry by liking my facebook page. Thanks for checking out my blog, and happy 25 Crazy Dayz of Giveawayz! Also hop on over and check out all of the other giveaways that there are!

ADHD rears is ugly head

2011-10-17T11:29:00.000-05:00

Well guess my ADHD got the best of me, and I have been neglecting my blog. Honestly what has been going on is I have been couponing, and doing everything I can to stretch our budget. The Rockin Green worked great for the diapers, and is now all I use to wash my diapers. Other than that I have to get up my blog about the Stomp and Go party that I did over the weekend.

Washing My Cloth Diapers

2011-09-08T13:20:00.000-05:00

Well the days of washing my diapers with a lot of hot water, and a Tbs of baking soda are over!! Yes I am excited about laundry detergent! I placed an order a few days ago for some Rockin' Green, and got it in the mail today. Now I wish I did not have all my diapers clean, because I can not wait to try this stuff out. All of the reviews I looked at raved about how full of awesomeness this stuff was!

If you don't already know you never ever want to wash your diapers like you would wash your clothes. The soap can build up in the diapers, and cause them to smell, repel, and break down. Now don't get me wrong, there was nothing wrong with the way that I was washing mine, but honestly it was not very eco friendly. Here is how it went. I dumped the diapers out of the wet bag into the washer, and turned the wet bag inside out dropped it in the wash, made sure my washer was on the hottest, and highest water level setting, dropped in a tbs of baking soda, and left the lid opened so they could soak for about an hour. Closed the lid, and let the cycle run. I then repeat two more time minus the baking soda. Wow Thats a lot of water.

I am hoping with Rockin' Green I can wash them once and be done. I will update you on my date with Rockin' Green sometime tomorrow, because of course I have to wash all over again tonight, and I can't wait!!!! No I am not being sarcastic.

I forgot what?

2011-09-07T08:34:00.000-05:00

Last night after getting all three kids in bed, I decided to sit down, and watch a show that I DVRed to unwind a little bit before I cleaned the kitchen up, and set out Mariah's stuff for the next day. I could not have been more than ten minutes into the show before I fell asleep. I woke up this morning around 6:30 on the couch of course. You think that I would have gotten up, and got the things done that I did not do last night, but no. I decided that it would be a better idea to watch the show before the kids got up.

The girls woke up about 10 minuets after seven, good I still had half an hour before Mariah's bus would be here to carry her of to school. Everything was going great, and moving along just fine until I realized that it was a little chilly out side, and Mariah need some tights. It's been 100 plus degrees here everyday for the past two months, so where did this chilly weather come from all of the sudden? I search the house from top to bottom trying to find a pair of tights that either fit her, or do not have a hole. I manage to find a pair. Good I still have 10 minuets before the bus, so I get her hair done have her go brush her teeth, and wash her face, because she always manages to have a dirty face somehow.

Well of course as usual she can not find her shoes, and I tell her like I do every morning "If you put them on the fire place like you are supposed to we won't have this problem now would we?". She finds them in her room of course. Now to get out the door and get her on the bus, but wait where are my shoes? Yes I shamelessly had to ask my girls to help me find my shoes after I just scolded my oldest about hers. I find my shoes of all places under the computer desk. Finally we get out the door and move on(I even managed to snap a few pictures). Outside we saw the bus waiting on one of the side streets to pull out into traffic. I say my goodbyes to her, and she turns around and says "Mommy I don't have my back pack" OH NO! I don't have time to run all the way back to the house and get it the bus is here. I tell her to just go I will send her teacher an email.

(Don't you just love when 4 year olds get themselves dressed?)

How sad is that? One change in my routine, and its like a domino effect in my life. One day I will learn to be more organized, but until then I just take everything in stride.

Cloth Wipes, wish I would have switched sooner.

2011-09-06T18:07:00.001-05:00

After a few weeks of picking shriveled disposable wipes off my microfiber inserts, I decided to cave and purchase a few cloth wipes to try out. First I checked EBAY, figured I could get cheap diapers there why not wipes too. Nope not happening the ones that I looked at one SINGLE wipe would have been more than a diaper. Despite never using ETSY, I was hoping that I could find a deal over there, and I did. While searching around trying to find the most bang for my buck I stumbled upon MamaBearBabyWear http://www.etsy.com/people/MamaBearBabyWear?ref=ls_profile, and I was happy to find sets of 13 for $5.00. I bought two sets, and am very pleased with them, and I am sure I will be getting many more from her in the future. Amy the owner of the shop recently lost her husband, and her sewing allows her to continue to stay home with her children. She also sells Cloth diapers, slings, and many other handmade products. Her shipping is super fast, I had my wipes 2 1/2 days after placing my order!

As soon as the package came I ripped it opened ready to dive deeper into the cloth diaper venture. The wipes are double layered, and made out of receiving blankets, and other scraps of fabric that Amy had left over from making her other products. They are actually perfect size to fit in a disposable wipes container, however I wanted my wiped to pop up right out of the box, so I accordian folded them to achieve this.

One of the first things that I did was go online to look up how I could make my own solution for these.Everywhere I looked called for oils, tea tree etc...So I figured I would just use what I had on hand until I could get to the store. My solution consisted of 2 cups of water, 3 pumps of Johnson's natural head to toe baby wash, and 1 tbs of pure vegetable oil, I just pour it over my stack of wipes on all sides. I'm sure I will just stick with what works for now. My husband was even happy with the wipes, and how one wipe went a lot further than the disposable ones. Cloth wipes are a great addition to cloth diapering, and I really wish I would have started them sooner.

Cloth Diapering for Cheap

2011-09-06T10:45:00.000-05:00

I am very new to the "Fluff", and living on one income did not allow me to spend a lot on my diapers. So I did some research, and found out that you can (no kidding) buy one size pocket diapers on EBAY for $.99 with free shipping. I knew there had to be a catch somewhere, well first off the diapers took 3 weeks to get here, because they were shipped from Japan. That's okay though I ordered them way before little man got here, and when they did finally arrive I was pleasantly surprised to find that they came with not one but two microfiber inserts which was a plus in my book. So now all I had to do was wait. Little man was 7lbs 13oz. when he made his arrival VIA C-Section.

No, I did not bring the diapers to the hospital with me, but I could not wait to try them out as soon as I got him home! I found out real quick that the one size does not really mean they will fit a newborn, so I put them up and used sposies for a little while until he put on a little bit of weight. So when he turned 4 months old I pulled them back out and went for another round (he is 14 lbs at this point). They are GREAT no leaks, and they fit him really well adjusted down to the smallest size. I currently have only six that I use on a daily wash rotation, and I have been using them like this for a month. They have stood up really well to washing, despite the microfibers having little fluff balls coming off of them. I have 3 GoGreen Pocket Diapers also, and other than not having two rows of snaps I can not really see much of a difference in the two.

I would love to support WAHM's, but my pocket book just does not allow me to at this time. My next post will be about the mistakes I made washing my diapers at first, so please follow. There will be lots more to come.

The Brown minky is GoGreen, and so is the olive, and the black.

The others are the cheap EBAY diapers the tag on the say's Sunny Baby.

Military Spouse Appreciation Day!

2010-05-07T10:27:00.000-05:00

This is a day set aside to show appreciation to all the Women and Men who stand behind their spouses that serve or have served in the Armed Forces! Being a spouse of an Airman I know how hard it can be. In 1984, then President Ronald Reagan proclaimed the Friday before Mother’s Day to be designated as Military Spouse Appreciation Day! I am fortunate to have my Husband here with me, but there are many out there who's spouses are deployed. Let us all just take a day to thank all the men and women who are the unsung heroes of the Armed Forces.

Cont. 4 Year Old and Makeup

2010-05-07T01:06:00.000-05:00

As I said in my last post I would tell you about my experience with a pageant! I have never been one of those moms who want to flaunt my children, so when my 2 almost 3 year old came to me one day (after catching me watching a show about it) if she could "dress up like those girls and go on stage". I promptly said no way! After sleeping on it I did some research, and happened to find one in my area that was Sunday's best, and judged off of personality. I under no circumstance was going to make my child look like a doll. When I told Layla about it she was really excited about it, and my oldest also decided that she wanted to do it also. So I sent in the paperwork and fees. I actually found them both very cute dresses to wear for $10 a piece, and was going to do their hair like I do everyday. So the day comes I ask them one last time "Are you sure you want to do this?" of course the both quickly say yes.
Layla is in the two year age group, and when it is time we take our place in line next to the stage, and this being my first time doing this I have no clue what to do so I ask on of the other moms. She told me "Tell her to walk and stand on the X's on the stage" Layla is 3rd to go out on stage, and I walk with her, I have to say that little girl rocked it like she had done it all her life. She smiled dropped my hand and just did it! After she was done we take our place behind the curtain, and wait for the other girls to finish. Then this stand out in my mind so much that it makes me sick to my stomach just to write about it. A few girls after Layla was a 2 year old who pitched a fit on stage, and did not want to be there. When her and her mother got behind the curtain the mom says "Well that did not go so well did it" at this point her daughter is crying, and says "Can I have a hug mommy?' he mother then says "No don't touch me you are in time out", and the very forcefully pushes her daughter into the wall. I was mortified Layla looks at me and says "Mommy she was naughty right?" I did not even know what to say to her, thankfully I did not have to cause it was time to go back on stage to be judged and crowned. Layla made 3rd runner up, but was more interested in the candy bag that she got. It was not until the candy was all gone that she realized she got a trophy and a sash (stash as she calls it).

My Husband went with Mariah and her age group, and her and maybe one other girl were the only ones not wearing makeup. Needless to say the judges did not look twice at her. She also clammed up on stage, and would not let go of Daddy's hand. She was not hurt that she did not place like her little sister she was happy to get candy! She also got a trophy, but a smaller one, that she later talked Layla into trading her for, because it was only right she had the bigger one because she was the big sister after all. Layla had no problems with that she would take the baby one! Needless to say I think that was our first and last pageant, it was fun but in the words of my best friends little girl "I don't need anyone to tell me I am beautiful! I know I am!".

4 Year old and Makeup

2010-05-06T16:06:00.000-05:00

So my oldest daughter Mariah has been taking ballet classes since last October. All of the practice pays of when she gets to be in the yearly recital in May. I paid for her costume back in December, and took her to practices. Well this past week when I took her I got a little slip of paper from her instructor that reads " Stage lights are extremely harsh and "wash-out" the performer's face. Heavy make-up must be worn to make the performer's facial features visible to the audience. Face: Base foundation matching skin tone. Blush - Long-Wearning medium to dark "plum" Eyes: Mascara- several coats of BLACK Eyeliner- Long-Wearing Dark BLUE on lid, Dark BROWN in crease, IVORY or Light CREAM under brow. Lips:RED long-wearing lipstick & matching liner." I have to say I was take back a bit with this. I could see some blush maybe some lipstick, but EYELINER on a 4 year old, and all the dark eye make up. I though ballet was supposed to teach my daughter how to be poised? I guess I was wrong! I am upset about doing this, but her heart will be broken if she is not allowed to be in the recital. Yes I said not allowed I was told if her costume was not in order she would not be allowed to go on stage. What kind of message are we sending to our daughters? This will be continued in my next post I would love to tell you about my experience with a pageant.

Day to day life with Adult ADD

2010-04-17T14:24:00.000-05:00

I have decided to start this blog so that I can help with the general public's view of adults with Adult ADD. I myself am a 25 year old who at 23 just could not understand why I worked all day to clean up the house only to never get anything done. With this a light bulb came on, and I began doing research. Seeing all of my friends and family keep a clean home with ease I knew that I could do it too. When getting diagnosed with Adult ADD I was a little worried because I had never really heard of it. I just thought it was little kids who could not sit still no matter what you did.
Prior to being diagnosed here is an example of my typical day of cleaning.
Start the dishes about half way through remember that there was a cup in the living room, and go to get it. On my way I realize that something is spilled on the floor. Go to grab the mop and realize I need to put a load of laundry in. Gather laundry to put a load in. Put in the washing machine. Need to get the kids dressed now, go to find clothes. Get mad because none of the outfits are together. And on and on like this all day.
I tried lists, but would lose interest in those very quickly. I still stuggle with it on an everyday basis, but with the help of my medication I feel that it is a normal level that everyone else goes through. All this being said I will be posting a lot about how I deal on an everyday basis.