Pumpkin carving party!!

What a great day. Took the kids to the pumpkin patch. Was worried because it rained most of the day. Because of the rain instead of having that nice fall breeze  we got the usual Miami humidity. But we made the best out of the situation. My parents met up with us and brought along my little cousin. The kids had a great time pushing around a wagon and loading as many pumpkins on it as they possibly could. I tried to get as many pictures as I could , but my little DIVA was giving me a hard time. She refused to take a nap before we went and was cranky the first 45 mins we were there . She would play but refused to take a picture. It wasn't until we were getting ready to leave that I got a few good shots . The kids each bought a mini pumpkin , we had already gotten the big ones from Walmart the day before. I was so glad we did we only paid $2.50 and at the pumpkin patch the medium size ones started at $10.  We went home to have our pumpkin carving party. There were seeds and stringy pieces all over ,the kids enjoyed getting down and dirty. I had bought one of those carving kits that come with a few print outs. Since my little cousin is 10 yrs old I thought he was ready to do one of those . For my son I just outlined a good ole fashion jack o lantern. My son was very proud of the work he did. My cousins on came out pretty good. Once they were all cleaned up I put tea light candles inside and turned the lights off . They were both amazed  ,we've carved pumpkins before but had never lit them up. My daughter who is obessed with the whole birthday singing and blowing out candles , kept huffing and puffing to blow it out . She would walk up to the pumpkins singing happy birthday and blow as hard as she could . She got fustrated after no success. I made them taco and double chocolate chip cupcakes , which of course they gobbled up. Even my husband got involved and help to carve my daughters pumpkin . Ok he did the whole thing , she just played with the stuff. As we approach more of the holiday season you will hear more about the different parties I host . I think today I officially created a new one with this pumpkin carving party. I see in the up coming years that more family and friends will join us in this excitement. It didn't help that I saw Martha Stewart give ideas on how to throw one. This was a great way to end the weekend . It's these little moments you treasure , these memory making moments. And you hope that one day when your kids are grown and have their own they remember these moments as they recreate and relive them with their kids. Traditions are not always the big things it could be the smallest thing , that means the most.

Ticket

I got a ticket today because I was caught in a trap. When I asked the cop what I was pulled over for he said not wearing my seat belt. I told him impossible I wearing it and I always have it on. I'm one of those paranoid people that worry the moment I don't have it on I would need it. The cop tells me that he was going to check with the other officer . He comes back 20 mins later with a ticket. Now it's because I entered the turning lane before it began . So the turning lane is backed up all the way and how are you suppose to get in. Hold up the lane going straight and the jump in front of the people who are turning . Um I am not trying to risk my life over turning. It was ridiculous and the worst part it cost $179 . Thanks motor cops because the crime rate has just went down immensely today with you giving out bogus tickets to fill your quota. 

Just learning how to skate

Beautiful family day

Happy Birthday Andrea!!!(Sunday's blog)

Birthday girl lounging by pool lookin sexy 

Hadoken!! 

Defining gravity 

Lil sexy in making 

Pumpkin festival

Hayride

Drag queen minion scarecrow

Sponge bob scarecrow 

Happy Birthday Aiden!!!

How I'm feeling today

Tapas

Sunday fun day .. Not ! This morning was horrible my daughter is up a little before 7am but I was able to keep her in bed until 8am. I found myself in the most uncomfortable position ,my daughter snuggled up on one side and my husband on my other. I was hot and sweaty and my back was killing me from the position they had me in. It's like they both were fighting for me in their sleep. But I am the one who came out the loser . When I tried to roll over I let out a screech of pain waking my husband up. He sees that I am in a lot of pain and eventually he takes my daughter and my son out of the room to allow me to sleep. It's funny even when I have the bed to myself I sleep as if i wasn't alone. I was able to sleep until 10 am because eventually guilt set in and I have this urge to tend to my family . As if they couldn't get along for awhile without me. Most of our Sunday chores were done late last night during movie time so it wasn't much to do. My husband was in a lazy mood and so was I . When 1:30pm hit my daughter was cranky and was ready for her nap. After placing her to sleep I went back in the living room with my husband who now has taken over the tv and is watching one of his Japanese animations . This bores me and I can only take so much of Pinterest . I ended up falling asleep , I guess my body is trying to make up for all of the lost sleep . I slept all the way to 4pm , with only occasionally waking up because the kids wanted my attention. Again I didn't mean to sleep this long we were meeting up with my cousin who wanted to take the family out to eat. It ended up turning more into a dinner outing . Altogether it was 8 of us going . We didn't know where we were going he kept it a surprise. It turned out to be a great surprise it was a tapas restaurant and the food was excellent. Even my kids enjoyed themselves. The place was located in our design district. It really is a nice hip area. There are some beautiful condos there none of which I could afford . But I remember when my credit was good and the real estate was bad, they were practically giving it away for free. I should have tried to buy something then , i am not sure what I was waiting on. Maybe for the perfect credit score or until I had substantial  saving . I guess I thought I had more time . I never expected what would happen to our family to happen . And I surely did not expect it to have such a rippling effect on us . Now If I even thought of trying to buy a house a bank probably would throw me out the door . Some curve balls life gives you are ones that you can almost never recover from and the game seems to keep going never ending. All i can do is hope and pray and play the lotto. Ok also work harder but if we work any harder we might break. 

Here are are some pics at the restaurant . So much food everything came in little French bread . I had some stuffed with Brie and arugula , pulled BBQ pork, shrimp with aioli sauce and pear and Gorgonzola . There was so many things to choose from. Most sandwiches were just a  dollar. the most expensive thing was $3. Of course you have to be careful since its small you might tend to order more causing it to be expensive. My husband and i next week ,if funds allow will sneak out and have lunch together here. Look at us all just oinkers . Ha!! Ha!!

World War z

As usual I woke up very early on this Saturday because of my daughter. And my son follows behind her. I don't think I would mind so much waking up early if it was by myself. Then at least I could enjoy time to myself. I can't wait to my son and I really get the hang of this homework schedule and I am able to balance time spent between my kids and my husband. I can truly admit I haven't balanced my husband in yet. So thats the next thing I really have to work on. After that I am finally going to  try and schedule some me time , I would really like to use that time to possibly exercise. I am not satisfied with my weight and want to do something about. Its more for health reasons as well as being a good example to my kids . My husband wakes a few hours later and I tell him that I just want to lay down for a second . Ha.. 2 hours later I wake from my unscheduled nap , sometimes the body forces you to rest even when you don't want too. My son right away starts to harass me , cabin fever is setting in on him . We were originally suppose to go to a family BBQ in palm beach but because of my nap it set my time behind . I still had several really important errands to run and by the time I finished it would be too late for me to go. Normally it's not a problem but the host was not able to host us late because of a prior engagement. Maybe next time, I was disappointed not to have gone it would have felt like a Mini vacation because of the drive. I guess since my family hadd always driven to their vacations since I was a child , long distance driving doesn't bother me. It actually soothes me.  

Later on I decided to go and visit my parents . Partly for visitation partly because I wanted them to watch my kids for like 3 hours while my husband and I spent time together . That did not pan out my mom wasn't in the mood. I understood she rarely has time for herself and the financial stress is weighing heavy on her . Also She is too busy playing or being mother for other family members and that can be draining. Our family dynamic is one of a strong bond and a blurred responsibility lines. My mom is the matriarch of the family and has been for a long time . I use to believe it was my great grandmother but looking back that role got past to my mom at an early age. Maybe it was because she was a young mother herself but a responsible one. My mother never depended on the government or anyone besides my father for help . They struggle and survived it together. So even though I am an only child my parents ended up raising my moms two sisters and eventually and currently their children. My mom has never stopped this process. Usually once your kids are grown you get a moment of reprieve to be yourself. So that when grand kids come around you are able to spend that time with them without feeling so worn out .  My mom is like super family mom , she works full time , spends time with my cousins having movie nights with them. She also manages to speak for hours with my grandfather and my uncle who is currently stationed in Kuwait . She visits occasionally my great aunt and my great uncle two different households. And even then she wishes she could be there more . Sometimes I wish that I could be this way and I am sure she wishes I could as well to help alleviate some of the responsibility . But right now I can't I barely visit my parents and right now my kids are young and I have to focus on them .  I am going to try and make an effort to get a little better maybe once a month visits but I am not going to stress over it. Because sometimes people need to call and visit me as well. 

We didn't stay over too long I wanted to get the kids to bed on time so that I could at least have movie night at home. 

We would be watching World War z . It was a great movie . Then my husband starts comparing it too what's going on in Syria. Now here I am laying in bed blogging because he officially scared the shit out of me. Hopefully I won't dream of any zombies coming after me.

Puppies

So I was scheduled to have a nice size class today. I really didn't want to go , I miss spending my Fridays with my husband and daughter. He is off every Friday since he works 4 ten hour days. But it's about the sacrifice I have to make. Then I got a surprise I saw a man who had two puppie shitzus and they were only two weeks old . They were so adorable .

I really want my kids to have a dog , I grew up with them. But I need a big friendly sturdy dog that can handle my kids. Maybe a Labrador or even a Golden retriever. I think every child should have a pet. It helps with teaching children responsibility and unconditional friendship. 

I had nothing but women in my class today so of corse conversation got the best of us. But it was good it makes the normal blah more interesting . I also get the chance to learn more about them . 

When I get home my husband seems to be annoyed. It really is annoying when he is that way because his patience with the kids is less . It turned out to be a boring rest of the day. Which makes me grateful that I did end up working at least I got a chance to get out of the house . 

Glutton (Thursday blog )

Off to the office today ,excited because my boss is not going to be there. I don't have to explain why I have to leave early. I don't want her to know its for my son because that only brings up more questions .  She is going to be in Key West with one of the other trainers. I wish I could have gone but now that my sons in school , I have to keep buisness trips to a minimum . Before going in I treat myself again to some McDonalds iced coffee . I really miss having Starbucks but the price is just ridiculous. After about 20 minutes of being there one of the other trainers is in the mood for donuts . She wants me to ride along with her she promises I will enjoy it that it's better than Krispy Kreme . The place is called Dandee donuts the donuts they have are cake like. She is treating me to the donuts so she tells me to pick half a dozen. I chose flavors like cake crumb, chocolate honey glazed, chocolate frosted with lemon filing. They were really good but not better than Krispy Kreme. I guess they are in a different type of category. About an hour after we got back who strolls through the door my boss . Ugh .. Why was she here.  Apparently she had a migraine and couldn't go on the trip. Now don't get me wrong I don't mind seeing her I just don't want her to start thinking why do I always leave early when I am at the office . But no time to worry I have a short time to get a lot of work completed. And instead of things going smoothely I find two problems. These problems will cause me to miss points. Now I am glad my boss is here . She is upset because these store mangers promoted these people without our permission and without making sure the training was complete. Saturday the measurement is going to be pulled an even though she reversed the claim in might not go in on time. I will have to keep my fingers crossed and this also means I will be living with my company computer this weekend. Feeling stressed out caused me to want to eat , so I ate most of the lunch I brought from home. I was already stuffed between McDonald's , cake donuts and my wraps I could barely move. Then a sale reprensentative comes by and wants to treat us to Chipotle . I declined but the sales rep knows me and is like go ahead and order. I did but I called my cousin to

Pick my son up there would be no way for me to leave early . 3 o'clock rolls around and the food is not there I really want to leave . I want to pick my daughter up and go help my son with his homework. When I tried to leave when the food arrived my boss makes this comment that I never get a chance to sit and have lunch with them . Which is bullshit every time I'm there I sit in the lunch room. She just requires extra attention. Then she wants to know where I would be tomorrow . So I think she is now questioning what I'm doing . She needs to back off.  no matter if I leave early every day I still put in more than 40 hours of work time . I answer my personal phone at all hours of the day and i work on the computer at home. I just need to start being really careful . So somehow I managed to shove two tacos down. I truly need to be ashamed of myself I was eating non stop. I might have to roll myself to the car later .

Another meeting

Another day of meetings but this time I have made a decision to be late. I didn't want to have that rush feeling it stresses you out to early in the morning. I was only 15 minutes late and I missed the breakfast opportunity. That's ok because part of the reasons I was late I decided to treat myself to McDonalds. I'm just a crazy girl livin it up on the dollar menu. 

The meeting was very informative the supervisor that held this one is a favorite for me. She can drive me crazy with the thing she says but she is honest. The meeting lasted until 1:30 pm but I stayed until 2pm since she brought in a guest speaker . I really didn't stay to hear the guest speaker , I stayed for the free lunch they provided. I was even able to bring some home . During the meeting i saw this jcpenny picture thing in groupon and purchased it. Now all I need I do is order my daughter dress . I sent the information to several people and my friend was the first to respond. Then all of a sudden my response to her wouldn't go through. I kept trying but it wasn't working. I thought maybe the reception was great so I stepped out the room to check . Still nothing would go out and then finally it hit me. It was like hey dummy did you see I you could call out, maybe the phone is off . Sure enough it was off. My phone is the main line so it's always the first to go but it allows me to get incoming but no outgoing. So I call my husband from the stores phone to let him know and for the first time ever his was off. I guess Sprint is really getting tired of us always owing money . I just laughed in my head . because it is now startin to get to the point where these thing happen so frequently I am now constantly waiting for the other shoe to drop. Seems I'm like a centipede with lots of  little legs and shoes to go with it. 

By the time the meeting was over the phone was working again. I call my husband to see how negative I will be in my account . He jokes about it never being off. I of course am not amused by this , but he won't tell me. He forgets sometimes I am the main line because minutes after we hung up I received a text for the promise to pay date. We are going to be in trouble when we do have to pay it , the amount seems to be at least 2 payments. I will have to cross that road next week when it's due. This will change the plans for presents I will be able to get my son for his birthday. 

I go I get my daughter this is the first time this week that I actually got te chance to get her. Lately it's been my husband , which finally I'm having him help out more . Not that he never wanted to but sometimes I think I am super mom. When I get there my daughter is sleeping. The babysitter places her in my arm and she looks up for a second and puts her back down. I guess she must have realized after a few seconds that it was me holding her because she wakes with excitement. She gives me a great big smile while calling mommy and patting my shoulders . It just lightens my hearts , these are the little things that make being a mother so grand. We basically spent that time in kisses and tickles and lots of giggles. Later another rain storm with lots of thunder comes. She runs to be and just clenches my neck . As I lay there comforting her I think about a time where she would be older and that might not be enough. But I want to make sure she will know that I will always be there to give her that needed hug. My mind the goes on my son who isn't too far away at a friends house. And I wish he was home because I know he is scared and I wanted to be there to comfort him. But I got to give some space . My parents smothered me since I was the only child and I don't want to do that to my kids. 

When it was my time to get him , I called my friend and she told me he was done with all his homework. Great I thought I would let him ride his bike since the rain stopped. Well when I get there half of his homework was not completed. The note with the complete instructions I wrote for her to do with him was gone . Ugh .. Now I'm fustrated because its 5:30 and by the time my son finishes it will be bath and bed time. Sure enough I was right I felt bad because he really did want to go ride his bike . Guess I have to make it up tomorrow. So I am in definitely in the fall mood . I decided to make another apple desert a crumb apple cake , this one my co worker have me the recipe . It is simple peel and cube apples , add some seasoning and place in dish . I used pumpkin spice to give it that fall flavor. Next just dump yellow cake mix on top and pour a melted stick of butter in top. It was so good and I are with some vanilla ice cream. It was a perfect ending to a day. Sorry no pictures maybe next time. 

Conference meeting(Tuesday blog)

Today is conference meeting day at work which means I had to wake up earlier than normal. I was there at my son school waiting for the doors to open. Poor child he seems so tired. Of course as usual when you are in a rush everything must go wrong. Several accidents and severe traffic ; today is one of those meeting where if you are on time you are late. By some miracle and a little extra speeding , ok ok a lot of speeding I got there 15 minutes early. The meeting was located at a very nice and fancy Marriott we also had a dress code . Ridiculous I know we had to wear red shirts and black pants. Once in the building I had no idea where I was going , then I spotted a red shirt up the stairs. So instead of asking for directions I followed the red shirt . So several flights of stairs later I found the room . I could barely say hello , I had to try really hard to control my breathing . All I wanted to do was lay on the floor and just die. We were told that breakfast would begin at 8:15am and the meeting at 9:30 so with that time  difference I was expecting a seriously good breakfast. All that was there was some pastries, fruit , granola and yogurt . The mangers were not happy about this . When they attend their district meetings they get the works. But I have been told regional manager is cheap. Don't know why since the company reimburses his money back. The meeting was huge we had over 130 in attendance . We had about 4 speakers the first two were very lively the others literally put us to sleep. At least lunch was better it was an Italian smorgasbord with several different desserts as well. But you shouldn't put the boring people after lunch. I looked around and I could see some of the mangers heads bobbing up and down trying to fight sleep. At my table i had one of my supervisors for my area. It was awkard , he kept trying to start a conversation. This person i can barely tolerate . No one truky likes him So as soon as it was over I tried to be one of the first ones out the door . But some how I got behind, apparently some left 5 minutes before it was over . Now valet was taking forever. We received a sticker to valet out tickets and even with that I ended up paying $10. Does this company remember how much they pay us , they should have paid for our valet . 

I got home late due to me missing my connection and having to go the longer way home. My cousin picked my son up for me but has not had my son do any homework. So I had no time for downtime for myself . I needed him to get his homework done and dinner on the table. My husband comes late since he picked up my daughter . We are now having a hard time having that quality husband and wife coversation about our day. Once he bathed the kids he was off to my parents to help with their Internet. By the time he got back home it was bed time. We really don't do date night but I think it is time to have one. Hopefully we can get one soon . Usually we would just stay up late to talk to each other but since we wake up so early we can no longer hang to stay up . I guess that is what comes with age. Tomorrow I will be at another meeting this one smaller since its district specific . I really do hope we get out early so I can spend time with my daughter. And have time to allow my son to ride bike. He really is an out doorsy child . Which I would like to keep it that way. I really would like to buy a bike for my husband and myself so we can do family bike riding . My husband and I are over weight and out of shape . I don't want this to be the example for our kids . On both sides of our family we have weight problems , I don't want my kids to struggle with this. I know I need to start now but I do have to wait until I get my schedule more consistant to start working out . I originally two months ago was going to cross fit and even though I was in pain , I felt great. I can't wait to start it up again. When that time comes I will post pictures of my progress. But for now I acknowledge I am not super woman and have to do things one at a time. 

Ugh ... Mondays

Back to the normal grind. It was horrible my system for hiring people crashed and I had 6 new hires . I didn't really want to teach them because I was scared they weren't all the way through the process. But I ended up taking a chance. It wouldn't be fair to make them wait a week to begin working because our system wasn't working. And then on top of dealing with that the air conditioner in the store was broken. Usually my training room in that store is hot but with the fans I have it's bare able . Not today it was a sauna and it was so uncomfortable training in that situation. I was ready to leave but I didn't  finish until a little after three.  When I got out it was another rain storm  and I had to run to the grocery store to buy some items. I got soaked and I was slipping and sliding in my shoes . But I was going to make an apple tart for the first time, So I had no choice. 

Once I got home my normal homework with my son routine began . He now has a new set of spelling words but this time it's 12 words and some are capitalized . I am a little upset over the quantity because he only has 11 days to learn them. Which means I have to double up words on some days. I like that the last time I taught him one word a day , and while reviewing the previous day. I also had the day before the exam where it was just a review day. Things are starting to move to quickly for me with his school work. He seems to be fine I could just be overacting about it. 

I am really getting myself on some sort of  a schedule by the time my husband gets home , my sons homework  is done , dishes clean and done ready. The only things is that I really only get like an 1 1/2 to spend time with my daughter before bedtime . Hopefully on Wednesday since my friend is picking my son up from school , I will have the chance to get my daughter . This is pending I get out of my meeting by 2pm. I will use that time as mommy and me time . I just try to remind myself it's quality not quantity that counts. 

Tonight I am excited to try my new dessert and I ended up hitting a home run with it . I took a picture with my phone  , I know the lighting wasn't that great. It was a very simple recipe , just 5 ingredients. Apples(of course) , puff pastry, brown sugar, fresh lemon juice , caramel and walnuts. Like my daughters new word she uses  when describing something she likes to eat it was DELICIOUS!!!

Happy Fall!! Happy Birthday Aisha!!

This morning had the lovely pleasure of finally having to do the dishes. It took me over an hour to finish. I can't tell you just how much I miss having a dish washer. Which is funny because I did not grow up with one . Even when I had my apartment in college I never used it. When I was pregnant with my son my husband in I moved into an apartment. He told me how to use it , but I wasn't really paying attention. There was no need to use it. Well I was singing a different tune when my bundle of joy arrived. I decided I had to use it I didn't have time to do dishes. Well I loaded it up and I squeezed in dish washing liquid I side. Of course 10 minutes later suds started coming out everywhere. I looked like something out of a comedy show. Moments later mother in law walks in , at that time she was living with us. That story is to neglect for another time. She looks at me smirks and doesn't even offer me any help. So I am running around laying down as many towels as I can find. It was a mess , my husband comes home and he is laughing . He points to the dish washer packets , I felt so stupid . But once I got the hang of it , there was no turning back. Now in this house I am without the basics a dishwasher , garbage disposal and and normal city septic tank. The problem is I am one of those cooks who pretty much used every pot and utensil in the kitchen. After that I make breakfast and clean up right away. 

Today is my friends birthday and I am cooking her dinner. I don't know when I became the cook for everything but I guess now I am. I don't mind doing it because she is such a good friend. I just wish I had the ability to do more for her. During the day I wasn't feeling too good and I began to worry would I have the energy to cook. Luckily it subsided and an hour before she was due over I started to get things together. This week between the two dinners I easily spent enough to fill my fridge with food. 

I made her a taco bar. I had 3 platters one had sour cream, salsa, fresh tomatoes , Mexican blend cheese and lettuce. The other platter had ground beef, chipotle sauce , steak fajitas and rice. Third platter had tortillas, hard shell tacos and green peppers and onions. Everyone enjoyed I had the fill the platters  back up a second time. I was so tired by the end I could barely finish entertaining. I think I am getting too old for all this partying . 

Daily double

Today I didn't make it to the Redbull flutag. I was to hot and did not want to be out in the sun all day. Also I was tired, even though my husband promised me he would wake up when my daughter woke up he didn't. It took him an hour to realize my daughter was awake. But I was determined to sleep in so I stayed in the room until she finally woke him up. He finally left the room with her and I was relieved back to sleep I would go. But 20 minutes later he and my daughter left the house and my son woke when he heard the door. So much for getting sleep. I told my husband that my son usually isn't far behind waking up after my daughter is up. My husband takes awhile and comes back home with breakfast. Which was great because I didn't want to cook, not after yesterday's party.
So today we decided to go to Old Navy to exchange some clothes my daughter received on her birthday that are too small. She is a two year old wearing 3T clothes. She is getting so tall. My husbands cousins drove down and we got a chance to spend time with them. On the way there I witness my Daily Double.
I am sure you know how I feel rainbows are a sign of good things . Well today on my way to the mall with the family, I got an extra treat. I witness for the first time ever a double rainbow. Also it's been a while since I have seen a full rainbow. And here I am seeing two at the same time . It's was gorgeous , I was in the car with my cousins and they were so excited to see that same thing. It was so big that we pulled over on the expressway to try and take a picture of it. The car ones didn't capture the whole thing. The funny thing is that we weren't the only one to do this . When we got off the expressway we actually drove under the rainbow and it was so exciting.

At Old Navy of course they don't have the clothes in her size. I wanted to get the exact outfits but it was either too small or too big. I manage to get only 2 things the same. So I started to get different things, then I saw clearance I couldn't pass that up. I knew I would spend a little extra but somehow I ended up adding $50 extra to the amount. What was I thinking I can't afford to spend that right now. But I my pride was too embarrassed to tell the cashier to take things out. So now next week I will probably convince myself to return some  items. I did figure out why I spent so much , I finally looks at the price of the leggings and they were almost $9 a piece and I got three. Later went to the bookstore and it didn't turn out the way I wanted. My son saw one of those Smithsonian science project and it was really cool. It was a fuel cell car , and I thought what a great project his father could do for him. he runs of to show my husband and when he turns to look for the price (ready to be astounded) it was $120. Isn't that crazy for a little box with some parts. My son was disappointed as well as I. I like that is was educational and something he was interested in.  But at that price a bill could be paid. Also his birthday is this up coming Friday and if I got that , that would be his only gift. Which he would not be excited about. All will be forgotten when he is opening presents. We shall see.

Happy birthday Mom!!

Today I went to work at the Regional office, we were celebrating a co-workers birthday. My boss took us all out to eat. Which we already know how much I love, especially when it's free. I left work right after we got back, today I needed to do some shopping. So I met up with my husband at Sam's club. He had both the kids and they were driving him crazy. I just wanted to laugh because he always makes it seem like when the kids are with him they are always on their best behavior. I ran through the store as fast as I could needed to get things for Mom's birthday dinner I was hosting. But I couldn't leave fast because my husband and the kids where hungry. So we got pizza ,he didn't think to feed them before venturing over here. I load the kids in my car while he loads the stuff in his. He tells me to go home but I stick around and wait so we can leave at the same time. I am glad I made that decision because here goes life rearing the ugly side of it. My husband car does not want to start we spend an extra hour there trying to get it to work. we don't want to have it towed because we are so faraway from home. And even with AAA it will cost us some money. Finally I give the car a final jump and it turns on. So off to home to unload and we have three more stores to visit. I am running late dinner was originally suppose to start at 8:30pm but it was more like 9:30pm. My mom loves pasta especially Alfredo. She had called me earlier during the day to discuss the menu she wanted it to be a surprise on what kind of pasta it would be. She wanted me to order pizza in case some of the family didn't want it. That was strange because everyone likes it even the kids. She then whines its her birthday dinner and wants to be able to take some home. I told her I would put some in a container for her, but she wants a whole pot. So then instead of having one dish , I decided to have a pasta bar with 3 different choices. Got the idea from Pioneer woman when she hosted her daughters sweet 16 party. I had penne pesto pasta, chicken ravioli, and fresh pasta with fresh mozzarella and sundried tomatoes. I made cheddar bay biscuit, rolls and a nice salad to go with it. How about afterwards there was barely anything for my mom to take home. I had some extra chicken ravioli and promised her I would make it on the weekend. She seemed to have a good time my husband got her all her favorite Moscato's. The cake was not me my aunt bought her a Winn- Dixie vanilla cake which I hate. I know everyone likes Winn-Dixie and Publix cake but if that's what  you have during everyone's party you become tired of it. Usually I get the specialty cakes and some kind of chocolate in it. So I didn't have dessert, and you know with my sweet tooth that is strange.

 

 

Pasta bar

The parents

Loving her gifts

Dancing to the birthday song

Procrastination (Thursday blog)

I woke this morning with the attitude of not really wanting to work. I have already put in a lot of hours this week . Some at actual work, some working late night from home.  I was scheduled to teach a class but it was only one person. I truly hate having to teach just one person. So I called the person and cancelled. With that move I decided to stay home today. I took both kids to their locations and came back home to relax . Barely working from home , since I will be at the regional office tomorrow. I got 3 1/2 blissful hours all to myself. I even managed to take an hour nap. I really needed it ; my daughter up until now still doesn't stay asleep through the night. Some nights I can get her to go back o sleep after about 15-20 minutes sometimes it takes a lot longer. Then by the time she does go to sleep I am fully awake , trying to get my self back to sleep. I am not sure what to do with her, I didn't go through this with my son . 

Tomorrow my son has his first spelling test and his first science project is due. I think he will be just fine for his test. He knows how to spell the words. He even gives me attitude when I ask him to spell it ,like I already know that type of attitude. Now I have know about this science project for about 2 weeks, you would think I was done . Nope not good ole procrastinating me. I find myself at 8 at night driving through a rain storm to go to family dollar. When I get there , I really can't find anything I want on his project . I pretty much ended using what I had. At least it wasn't a total bust I found some cat toy balls that had immature bells inside. So I broke them open and use the bell for the hearing part of the page . Remember he is doing a book on senses. I know it wasn't fancy which I could have done. But I wanted him to be involved in it and I wanted it to look like he did it. I was only there to come up with the idea of how we would put it together . Here is what it looks like

Cover page

Smell page- it's a scratch n sniff

Taste page

Touch page

Hearing page

 I think we did a great job at it. My son was really proud of his work. We shall see what grade he receives. 

Sorry for having to put dates I am having difficulties uploading when I blog these past two days. 

Meetings(Wednesday blog)

Today I had attend a meeting for one of my areas. My boss was also going so it seemed for for me to show up. My boss is one of those people who feel she needs to at least see or hear from you on a weekly basis. With the work we do it is really not necessary. This area out of the two I have is my favorite . I actually came from there in my career. The district manager is the one who gave me a chance to move up with the company. He is one of those people that all his stores managers like him and do not want to let him down . The meeting was very energetic. At one point the district manager and my boss both had to step out of the room to get on a conference call. The DM leaves me in charge , that wasn't smart. I am pretty close to all the store managers so we we t crazy in there . We couldn't stop laughing , when they came back the DM ask if they completed their assignment . All together we all bust out laughing . So he was like what really happened then all you hear is someone say what happens here stays here. 

Later on he took us out to lunch , of course I was being greedy an had to go. I  acted as if I didn't have a child to pick up from school and I was far away. Once I got my food I left. I swear I was doing like 90 miles to get there on time and find parking. Even though I was on time I had to park far away. Today was early release day do. This was triple the amount of parents. 

In the evening i had another buisness to attend , this one was for my business. I took a friend of the family that works with my husband . We were suppose to go for an hour for the English portion but stayed for 2 1/2 . The speaker for the Spanish portion has been selling amway for 10 years and he earns 1million a year. She was saying how she came to this country with nothing and this company is what got her to where she is today. I truly would like to be able to say that someday . Again I leave this meeting pumped up and feeling like I can do this . I have been really slow to start but I just have to go at my speed . Also money is an important factor . It hard to convince people to buy if they can't sample. Hopefully between this paycheck and next I will get a little supplies. Especially because now insee how the products work. I can stand by the brand. Would really like to be making that kind if money within the next few years. We'll see but I am going to need all the help I can get . Don't forget I have my link on the homepage on this blog. Please stop by you won't be disappointed . 

Driving around town

Oh the distance I had to travel today and for what. I had to go to my regional office today and I wasn't in the mood for all the driving . It took me 2 hours to get to work with dropping the kids off because of traffic. I could only work for 3 hours because I had to pick the kids up. Then it took me another 2 hours to get them and go home. I spent more time on the road than actually working . Something truly has to give. I know people are thinking at least I was only for work a short period of time but that is not good. I have one of those jobs that if you don finish you have to take it home. Which means once the kids are in bed , I will be up working late burning the midnight oil.

The only thing that brightened my day was that my son got another green today. He really is trying hard . I hope that he gets enough so he can get a item out of the teachers treasure box. Maybe he will finally have a whole week in which he did good. Really looking forward to that. I told him that if he does I would take him to do something fun this weekend. The RedBull flutag is back and I know he would like to see these crazy people with their crazy contraptions. It should really be fun I hope the weather holds. Lately it's either extremely hot and humid or it's been storming non stop. Hey Mother Nature please take in to account I have a septic tank and I cannot handle this amount of rain. I literally don't need a shit storm. 

Hallelujah

So it's Monday again and like most people in the world I hate Mondays. Having to teach the same things week after week. On my way to work my best friend calls me and we catch up with what's going on in my life. She is surprise to see just how bad things are. But talking at least takes some of the stress away.  10 am rolls around and no one shows up for class. I am expecting at least one person. I am getting a little giddy at the idea of no one coming .  11am and still no one . Hallelujah , this is the first time ever, that in my 39 stores i am not going to have a new hire for the week. I was a little upset I wish I had know I would have work completely from home . But on the other hand I was glad I didn't because I probably wouldn't have taken my daughter to the babysitter . Now I have the opportunity to go home and relax all by myself for at least an hour .  But relaxation for interrupted by husband coming home for lunch. Normally I like this but not today , I wanted rest. 

Today he will be picking up my daughter so it was just my son and I . I gave him a 1 1/2 of downtime before beginning homework. During this time I took a nap and it felt good since we were having heavy rain. 

Later in the evening my best friend and her husband come by. They bring over some goodies for me to stock my fridge. My son is excited to see them as always. 

About three months now her sister gave birth to a baby boy. And since I am trying to stop being such a hoarder of baby things , I gave her my 3 in 1 fisher price jumper set. And while I was moving things out of it , what did I find my sons leap tag. So I spent that whole day cleaning my sons room looking for it for no reason. Well at least it motivated me I get it done.  I was getting ready to clean my bedroom to look for it. Now as I think about it maybe if want such a good thing me finding it. I probably would have gotten the whole house cleaned up. I have to find new motivation and no just having it cleaned is not motivation enough. I need to get on the ball I have family coming into town this thanksgiving.  My friend is suggesting a cleaning party but it would probably just be she and I doing it. Hopefully I will get it done in time 

Mini hurricane

Started the day bright and early ;of course not by choice. I look over  at my husband with such anger because he's sound asleep. The kids never bother him. He ends up sleeping in until eleven . I can't help but be jealous maybe one day I will just throw a bucket of water on him and ruin his sleep. Well after an hour of the kids and I up and about I decided to make breakfast. I hadn't gone grocery shopping yet so I had to be creative. I make southern style cheesy grits,and  two different kinds of sausage. Now lets talk about the eggs , I only had three eggs left but I would just have to stretch it out . While I was cooking my son asked me to make him strawberry milk, which he guzzled down. He came back asking for more , at this point I had cracked all three of my eggs in a bowl. I guess do to lack of sleep and focus I scooped in the strawberry powder into the eggs. Not just once, No!no! Not twice but three times before I noticed what I was doing.All I saw was the powder sinking into the bottom of the bowl.  I ruined the only eggs I had. Can you imagine if I didn't catch myself. Hmm , maybe strawberry eggs wouldn't be bad. Don't worry I threw them away but not before taking a picture of it. 

Almost gone to where I wouldn't notice

Green eggs and ham , huh pink eggs and milk . That's much better , Dr. Seuss

I wanted to run to the store but before that could happen the mini hurricane began. As soon as I saw the lighting strike , I knew thunder wasn't far behind. So I walk towards my kids because they are afraid of the sound . Before I could reach my daughter , boom and it rattled the whole house. My daughter was so scared that she got up to run towards me but she couldn't . She had socks on and with my tiled floor she looked like something out of a cartoon. She just kept running in place , it was so adorable . She just leaped in my arms. I picked her up and went towards my son and seconds after that a even louder one cracked and went rumbling threw the house . So here I am hugging the two of them and here comes my husband running scared , now hugging on me . So I guess I am the thunder protector. I spent majority of the day on the sofa with both kids on me . The lights turned on and off , the wind howled and I loved it. I opened my curtains and just watched as Mother Nature did her job. Seeing lightning strike in the sky is a beautiful sight to see . As long as it strikes somewhere else. Later on my son and I began working on his science project . We were able to get through 3 of the 5 senses. Will show picture when it's all done.