Diary of a Work-at-Home-Mom

2011 Highs and Lows

2012-01-18T07:00:00.000-06:00

2011 wasn't the best year for us. There were a few high points, and we had more than our fair share of lows. I'll be brief, and just keep it to a couple of bulleted lists. LowsThe April 27th tornadoes. Helping my in-laws pick up what they could from the house they lost in the storms. Loosing two of the littlest members of our extended family. The loss of Hubby's grandmother. Oodles of car

Mainstream Music

2012-01-17T07:00:00.001-06:00

I'll admit, I do usually listen to a top 40 station on the rare occasions I listen to the radio. Though it's mostly out of station loyalty than anything else. I worked for them for a couple years not too long back, and I do still like the 80s Retro Lunch and Friday Morning Free for All. That said, I'm not too much of one for today's popular music. "Country" music nowadays is more countrified pop

Favorite Tumblers

2012-01-16T07:00:00.000-06:00

Well, I don't have a Tumbler account, so I don't really have any favorites myself. So I'm turning this one over to y'all. Who are your favorite Tumblers?

What's your earliest memory?

2012-01-15T07:00:00.000-06:00

Today's assignment is to write about my earliest memory. It's rather funny, and from when I was three-years-old so I'm told. I remember Mama and her mother taking me into a local jewelry store. They talked to this guy, and next thing I knew he was setting me up on this really high stool. Well, really high from a three-year-old's perspective in any case. He drew on my ears with a pen, which

Places I want to visit.

2012-01-14T07:00:00.001-06:00

Today's topic is an odd one for me. I'm supposed to write about a place I'd like to move to or visit. I love the area I'm in, and I hate traveling. Seriously, I'd rather have a root canal than travel usually because I just find it hugely stressful, plus certain modes of travel can induce wicked vertigo thanks to my faulty wiring. Still, there are places I'd love to see. I've been fascinated by

The Day in Bullets

2012-01-13T07:00:00.002-06:00

Eat breakfast and check email. Dress Housework Make the weekly grocery run. Put the groceries away. Lunch Put the girls down for a nap. Make a batch of soap. Write Marketing Dinner Bathe girls. Watch something with Hubby and the girls while crocheting. Put the girls to bed. Quiet time to read. Bed

My Playlist Randomized: Top Ten

2012-01-12T07:00:00.026-06:00

Okay, I don't have an iPod, so I randomized my YouTube playlists I use like iPod playlists sometimes. It's a bit of an odd mix. It makes a lot more sense the way I have them organized than it does here, but here's the top ten anyway. 1. Fly Me to the Moon - Frank Sinatra2. All Along the Watchtower - Battlestar Galactia 2003 Version3. John Williams in Concert - Arranged by Paul Lavender4. The

First Love; First Kiss

2012-01-11T07:00:00.001-06:00

Oh, I thought I was in love a few times in my teen years, but I've come to realize now I didn't actually know those fellows well enough to really love them. They were just lingering crushes, and completely one sided, I'm sure. As I've said before, Hubby was the only fellow I ever actually dated. We met our sophomore year of college when he joined Calhoun's college newspaper staff. During the

Future Hopes

2012-01-10T07:00:00.002-06:00

How do I hope my life will be like in the future? Well, first off, I want my family to be all in good health. I hope Hubby doesn't have any further problems with seizures, and the girls keep growing well an normally. I'd be overjoyed if I could get my weight back where it's supposed to be and stabilize my blood sugar. If I can do that, I'm pretty sure a good deal of my troubles with pain and ill

Moments of Complete Contentment

2012-01-09T07:00:00.002-06:00

Everyone on this planet has a life full of incredible joys and devastating sorrows. In each life there are moments, bright and shining, precious moments of complete contentment, rarer and more valuable than the scarcest gem. Yet we don't always recognize them until we're prompted. I've had a few. It's the feeling I get when I've finished a piece of fiction. The longer the piece, the more intense

Taking a look at the zodiac...

2012-01-08T07:00:00.000-06:00

Okay, I'm not one for horoscopes unless it's to point and laugh, but today's challenge assignment is to take a look at my zodiac sign and see if it fits me or not. I'm a Taurus apparently. Traditionally Taurus' are described as patient, reliable, warmhearted, loving, persistent, determined, placid, and security loving. On the darker sides of their personalities, they are supposed to be jealous,

Thirty Facts about Me

2012-01-07T07:00:00.004-06:00

Ha, another difficult post, but for very different reasons than yesterday's. I'm supposed to come up with thirty interesting facts about myself. I just don't think I'm that interesting, but we'll see what I can do. 1. I'm a musician. - Like a lot of fifth graders at Ardmore High School, I joined the band. I wanted to be a flutist, but when we went in to try the instruments, I was much more

Those Dark Moments

2012-01-06T07:00:00.000-06:00

Today's challenge is probably one of the hardest: a time you thought about ending your own life. I've written about postpartum depression a few times, but I've never talked about the darkest moments of it outside of a couple folks who already knew. The first time around was bad, but as bad as it was, it was easy compared to the second time around. Anyone who has known me for very long knows I

Religious Views

2012-01-05T07:00:00.001-06:00

I was raised Christian, and it is my belief to this day. I love the Bible, and I try to live my life by its teachings. I don't care about denominations. Who is right, and who is wrong. That mentality makes me ill, and it's not exactly Christian is it? Studying, faith, and trying your best to follow God's teachings is what matters. He knows whose heart is right with Him just as He knows who is

30 Day Challenge: My Views on Drugs and Alcohol

2012-01-04T07:00:00.002-06:00

This is one of those complicated ones. Personally, I'm not a fan of either drugs or alcohol, but I'm not naive enough to think we'll ever be rid of them. Banning them does no good. You can't legislate morality, and to be honest, trying just causes more troubles and bloodshed. Alcohol isn't forbidden in the Bible. We're actually encouraged to take a little for our stomach's sake. Drunkenness is

Ten Years from Now

2012-01-03T07:00:00.000-06:00

Day two of the blogging challenge. Where would I like to be in ten years? I certainly hope I will be coming up on my seventeenth wedding anniversary, with both Hubby and I still in good health. The girls will be fifteen and thirteen, so they'll be in high school. I want to be able to hunt out a couple internships for Boo Bear for the next year, and maybe even have helped the girls create their

30 Day Blogging Challenge: My Current Relationship

2012-01-02T07:00:00.002-06:00

Okay, so I thought I'd kick off the year with a blogging challenge. This one's been around a while, but it's still a good one. So, day one, my current relationship. Hubby and I met nearly ten and a half years ago. We started dating a month or so after we met. We've been together since, and we're actually coming up on our seventh wedding anniversary rather quickly. We're both big ol' geeks. We

Resolutions

2012-01-01T07:00:00.000-06:00

Come on. We might say we're not going to make new year's resolutions, but we all do, even if they're just in our heads. So, here are mine for the year. 1. Make a point to update each blog in the network at least once a week. I won't even think about promising to post every day or even every other day, but surely I can manage once a week. It's even marked on my calendar for January. 2. Take a

Starting Again

2011-12-05T09:30:00.000-06:00

Long time readers know I've been trying to loose weight with little to no result over the last few years. My mother and I went on a diet together back in May. I've lost maybe twelve pounds, she's lost about forty. It's hard not to get discouraged every time I see her these days. She's as thin as she was in high school again, and she even managed to keep her curves. My scale's gone down a touch,

I so wasn't prepared...

2011-11-14T10:29:00.000-06:00

...for setting up my first holiday season as a small business owner! I know I pretty much dropped off the face of the Internet the last few weeks. Part of this was due to something or other causing the lymph nodes in my neck to swell and attempt to strangle me for a couple weeks. The rest goes down to just being insanely busy with the annual pre-holiday cleaning, restocking the five local stores

The trees. They're having an orgy outside my window!

2011-09-20T19:29:00.000-05:00

You know, I love living in the country 48 weeks out of the year. It's those two weeks or so in the spring and the other two or so in the fall that get me. You know when I'm talking about. Yeah, right about early April and late October when you go outside and everything is covered in a fine yellowish green powder. And at the new place, we're absolutely surrounded. The whole county is pretty much

Why I can't wait until the solar maximum passes...

2011-09-10T06:30:00.000-05:00

I don't know how many of you have migraines, but it's near impossible to function when one strikes. Even the painless ones can cause all sorts of problems, and yes there is such a thing. They're almost like having a petit mal seizure but without the zoning out. Sometimes I'll see bright lights or shadows. Others I get vertigo so badly I have to lie down on the floor or crawl to keep from

Funny Friday: Literal Love is A Battlefield Music Video

2011-09-09T06:30:00.000-05:00

I stumbled across some videos this past weekend where people had re-dubbed the music with lyrics which literally interpreted the action in movie trailers. They were very amusing, so I showed them to Hubby. Mom had requested to keep the girls overnight Sunday since she had Labor Day off work, so we had a whole evening to ourselves. This past month has been brutally stressful, so Hubs and I

Can I do it all?

2011-09-08T06:30:00.001-05:00

I'm a glutton for punishment. Have to be I think. All us moms can agree motherhood itself is a full time job. Taking care of house and home, especially if you're trying to cook healthfully, isn't an easy task either. Then there's homeschooling, which takes up a big chunk of each day. But I keep hunting for other stuff to do anyway. Therefore, I'm a glutton for punishment. I started working from

Funny Friday: One Smart Bird

2011-08-26T05:30:00.000-05:00

<p>&amp;amp;lt;br&amp;amp;gt;&amp;amp;lt;br&amp;amp;gt;I &amp;amp;lt;br&amp;amp;gt;</p> I love this bird. It's amazing how much they can remember.