tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26840715974932393462024-10-24T10:33:56.399-04:00A blog where my family life and home business stand side by side with reviews and giveaways. I'm a mom of two, a blogger, and an Avon lady. I work part time, my husband goes to school, and I stay home during the week. Blogging keeps me busy and gives me a place to be myself: the lonely female in an apartment full of boys.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02920082669504051729noreply@blogger.comBlogger152125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2684071597493239346.post-82422631818408798782013-06-27T11:16:00.002-04:002013-06-27T11:16:36.534-04:00

So I just realized that I only have a week left with Matthew home!  He'll be leaving on the 5th for his almost 5 week trip to Florida.  Now, for the last 8 days Lucas and I will also be down there.  Even Eric is coming this year but unfortunately he can only stay for four days. I know he'll have a ton of fun, but I'm still having trouble letting him go.  Again.  Last

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I'm already falling behind on posting.. I don't mean to, but I feel pulled in so many different directions.  I have the blog, promoting my husband's new business, Obssessities, I own a group on Cafemom and admin for two others and trying to keep them active takes a bunch of time.. plus, you know, it's SUMMER!  The weather is gorgeous and we're spending a lot of time outside so.. that

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So my husband has always wanted to start his own business.  When we first started dating we talked about opening a store together.. a party store!  We were going to name it Celebrations and it was going to be the best damn party store in the world!  Well... That never got further than the talking about it stage.  Life happened.  We had two kids and our own ups and downs

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Way back when I was just the mother of one! freaky! Even more freaky! Of course there had to be a juggler juggling fire and balancing on a ball! This guy didn't really belong, but he was cool.  And TALL.. my mom is NOT a short woman and he's towering over her!

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So the other day I was talking about being considered for a supervisory position at my job.  Saturday morning I talked to my store manager and the overnight manager about it.  They'd already decided who they were going to fill the supervisory position with.. and it wasn't me. But there were TWO positions that I'd applied for!  The other one is still a full time overnight position

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I'm a super laid back type of mama.  I took that same approach to potty training both of my boys. Now, sure, neither of them was potty trained before three.  If that's a deal breaker for you well.. I guess my laid back strategy won't appeal much to you.  The thing is.. why rush it?  With Matthew I tried to force it.  He was about two and a half and I thought he was

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Today is the FIRST day of summer vacation!  I know, it's weird that the last day of school was on a Monday, but we had a full week off from Hurricane Sandy plus a few other snow days to make up. I have no idea what I'm going to do!  I need to settle us into some type of routine, but Matthew will be leaving for Florida soon and I still am not sure whether or not I'm getting this new

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I just found out about Redbox Instant and I have to say I'm pretty excited about it!  We are constantly going to the Redbox, at least every weekend and there are always more movies that I want to see than I'm willing to bring home.  Because.. if I'm perfectly honest with myself, I SUCK at actually bringing those moves BACK to the Redbox!  Having two or three movies out at a time

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I mentioned yesterday that I was up for consideration for a supervisory position at Kohls.  And if I didn't mention it yesterday, I should have. So here are the details.. Our store is one of five total in the company chosen to start a pilot program which I probably can't say anything about.. BUT there are some newly created supervisory positions going along with this pilot. The good news?

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Still my fave pic of Matthew, 3 yrs Lucas, 7mo

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I've decided to get back into blogging.. and I wanted a fresh start, so I thought I'd go over to wordpress and try things out over there... SCREW THAT! I'll stick with Blogger, thank you very much, until I'm so freakin popular that I have my own domain! What's been going on here?  Not much. I don't do Avon anymore. I quit smoking last week.  I'm being considered for a supervisor

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Well, our summer plans are officially set! Last year, Matt, Luke, and I went down to FL to visit my family, do Disney, and have fun!  Matt stayed an extra two weeks with my parents and brothers.  Well, this year he's staying even longer!  My mom is going to fly up here in early July to pick him up, and fly back down.  He'll stay with them all month, including going on

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We finally bought our car and brought it home!  It's not too pretty, but it will definitely hold us over for a year or two.  It's a '96 Cadillac Seville and it only has about 111k miles on it.  It drives perfectly, and I'm so relieved.  I can drive myself to work tomorrow and not have to get up at 4:30 to be there at 7!  We can go grocery shopping whenever we want.&nbsp

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Happy Valentine's Day everyone!  I hope you all got something sweet! Eric had flowers and chocolate covered berries delivered to me, I love them!  BUTTT while I was cutting the flowers, Lucas snatched a stem and started chewing on it.  He probably thought it looked like celery.  I didn't think much of it, but he started whining and scratching at his hands and mouth. 

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So my family has made it this far without any illness!  It was bound to happen eventually, though, right?  Luke threw up in his crib last night around 10.  He had a fever and was crying, but he didn't seem too, too hot.  So I cleaned him up and snuggled with him until about midnight, and put him back in his crib.  Eric offered to sleep on the couch, so I could take Luke

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Well our tax returns came this week!  We paid off some bills and got all caught up and it's such a relief!  We also ordered the boys bunk beds and bedding, which will be their early birthday present.  It's all Avengers themed, so I'll show everything off here.  I know you don't mind :D Here are the bunk beds we decided on.  I searched for months trying to decide on a

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Yeah, so I've barely been blogging. Not that I did a ton of giveaway and reviews, but I think I was trying too hard.  So I'm not going to be looking for any of those opportunities for a while.  If they come my way, maybe.  I'm also not going to spend half the day posting my links.  I just want to get back to the bare basics of why I started blogging... to chronicle my

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Since Valentine's Day is less than a month away, this Top Picks is going to be all about Valentine's Day gifts and gadgets! First are these absolutely adorable nail stencils!  For $3.49 you can't beat 'em! Of course, jewelry appropriate for the day!  Just enough sparkle to add some glam to your outfit, or perfect gifts for your favorite girl friends, daughter, niece etc! Choose

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Nothings been going on!  There's the Keurig giveaway, if you haven't entered yet, go do that.  On Monday I'll be putting up my Top Picks for campaign 3.  Other than that... have a great weekend everyone!

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My SIL surprised me yesterday when she texted that she wanted to come over and hang out.  I am absolutely starved for face to face girl time!  It was nice, we sat around chatting, looking at houses for sale, painting our nails and watching the Pretty Little Liars marathon. I'm still waiting for a true girls' night out but it's just so hard for everyone to get together.  Work,

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