Mommys Gotta A Messy House!

I will be playing catch up tonight or maybe tomorrow, and get around to answering comments and visiting your blogs.

Today...I'm house cleaning. I promised myself that I would not stop until everything was spic and span clean and sparkling. In order to get that done, I have to stay away from the computer and figure out a way to keep Mini Bug occupied so that she doesn't keep trying to steal the mop and vacumm sweeper away from me...she mommy's little helper.

So until this house passes the White Glove Treatment..I will see you later : )

Searching for Free WP Templates

As I mentioned earlier, Dr. Corny bought me my own .com. I have been slowly working on it, and by slowly I mean, snail slow.

I was going to pay to have someone design it for me, but I really don't want to spend the money on that. So I have been searching for wordpress templates. That is time consuming and time isn't something I have a lot of anymore. It's so hard to bring the creative side of me out, while burping a fussy baby and surfing the Internet at the same time.

I did come across a site that has many really nice wordpress templates to chose from. I have gone thru about half of them, but I still need to find the time to look at the rest. I liked what I saw, very professional, very creative, and I could search for right side bar, left side bar, widget ready etc. If your interested in Free Wordpress Templates, then you should check out TopWPThemes. They have such a large variety you will probably find something that suits your style. I was kind of interested in this one: Succession of moments Let me know what you think.


I know what I don't like, and that is black. I can't read writing on a black background. So that is out of the question. I don't know exactly what I am looking for in graphics tho. So, its going to take me some time to make the new .com my own. If anyone out there has any ideas, well...I'm all ears!!!

Award Time!

I have been given an award. Wooohooo! Actually I was given the award on Thursday, but due to an over abundance of diaper changing and bottle feeding and general cumbersome things that need done on a minute to sometimes second bases around here, I haven't had the time to accept this honor until now.

Roxy has given me the "Arte y Pico Award." Now, (cough) even tho I don't know what in the heck it means. I am deeply honored. Honored enough that I even brushed my teeth and hair to sit here and accept it. No I didn't find my hair brush, thank you for asking. I went and bought a new one. Yes I did go into the store looking funky to buy it. Yes I am in my pj's, again thank you for asking. No more questions please.

Isn't this award pretty!

Ok let me set it down here, because the darn thing is very heavy and my arm feels like it's gonna break and I'm pretty sure I'm going to have a stiff neck tomorrow from holding it for so long.


Ok, now to quote Roxy "Back to the award at hand... this little beauty was designed by the “Arte y Pico Blog” as part of a tag initiative where you pass along the compliment to other bloggers."

Now, here are the rules and regulations, as well as my nominees for the next five deserving winners of the Arte y Pico Award:

1) Pick five (5) blogs that you consider deserve this award for their creativity, design, interesting material, and also for contributing to the blogging community, no matter what language.

2) Each award has to have the name of the author and also a link to his or her blog to be visited by everyone.

3) Each award winner has to show the award and put the name and link to the blog that has given her or him the award itself.

4) Award-winner and the one who has given the prize have to show the link of "Arte y Pico" blog, so everyone will know the origin of this award which is here Arte y Pico

Whew that is a lot of stuff to do to accept an award. Was I given an award or a work load? I dunno. But I'm still smiling and honored : ) See my pretty white teeth that are bushed?

So, without further ado, and so I can lay down down and take a nap, while the kids are napping here are my 5 choices.

Becky

Belinda

Jolly

Kath

Rebecca


Thank you very much!

Safe The Toes, Buy Boots

I don't care who you are, or what you do, everyone in my opinion needs a good pair of work boots laying around.

Dr. Corny has an Executive Position at his work. When he comes home and does work around the home, remodeling, yard work, whatever, he always puts a pair of work boots on. His always have a steel toe. Why? Well, for an example, when we were putting new steel beams across the ceiling in the basement of our old home, if one of those suckers would have fallen down while they were installing them, off with their toes baby. Same thing with pushing a lawn mower, your much safer if you have a pair of steel toes on. Harder to slip and cut your toes off instead of the grass if you have steel toes on. In fact several of my sons friends have done that...not just one, but several. Guess they run with dumb and dumber..I dunno.

Anyways, Steel Toe Work boots is our family preference. You don't have to have steel toes, but you should have a good pair of good quality work boots.

Dr. Corny buys his boots from Work Boots USA, because of the fine quality of boots they carry and because of the free ground shipping on orders over $50.00. Check them out. See if you like them also. Save the toes!

Roxy's Naughty Dog

My mouth seems to have turned in a human garbage disposal with the off button broken. I can't freaking stop eating! At this rate, soon I will turn into a balloon and explode if poked with pin!!!!!!!! Someone fix my button please!! Something went screwy in my wiring. I don't wanna be a fat person!!!! HELP


I was reading Roxy today and her post Days When The Dog Ate My Post. She was talking about Quality of Blog Posts. It was interesting reading, and made me think. She made several good points and I agreed with her.

I just want to add this. Reading anything, whether it be a blog, or a novel, or newspaper, is all about personal choice and preferences. While I might not enjoy reading romance novels, there are millions out that do. I would rather read Time over People, but People is a huge magazine who doesn't really care if I like to read it or not.

Same thing with Blogs. There are those out there, who think their blogs are the cats meow..and think everything they write is mind exploding and people should stop what they are doing and stand and cheer because of it. Get over yourselves. For every person who adores your blog there will be another who can't stand it.

People who make a blog do it for their own reasons. If they want to write about the weather or how many diapers they changed that day...hey, go for it sweetie, it's your thing, do want you wanna do. There will be others who will read you and and social network with you. Those that don't will move on. Who is to say, your wrong or worthless. Not me, that is for sure. Even blogs like that can get a high ranking if they work it hard enough and get enough people to follow them...like minded people.

So, my point is this. (aww shit, I forgot what my point was, give me a minute) Forget it, I can't remember and the baby is crying, and needs changed, and I caught out of the corner of my eye that Mini Bug has a magic marker in her hands and headed towards the wall..and waaaaaa I wanna cookie.

Anyways, go read Roxy if you want some tips on how to improve your bloggin so that others will write about you and give you some linky lovin.

PS...if you know what my point was..please let me know, in fact if you know where I left my hair brush, let me know that too...I'm starting to look a bit funky.

Lasik Surgery is not Cheating

On Sunday we went to my mom and dads to drop off a fathers day gift for my dad. My dad loves golf and even at 70 still golfs 3 times a week. So we bought him Titliest Golf Balls. His eyes lit up,which made my eyes light up. Me myself, never cared for the sport. Don't know much about it other than you hit a ball into a hole. While we were there they had the TV on and mom and dad were watching Tiger Woods on TV. My mother adores him. As it turns out Tiger did win the U.S Open and capture the 14th major title.



While watching the TV, I took my glasses off to change the baby, who was laying on the floor on a blanket. I have to take my glasses off now when I do anything close up, because, well...my eyes are getting retarded. So, I laid my glasses on the floor, and lo and behold guess what happened. Mini Bug comes running thru the room and stepped on them. Yep, broken twisted glasses. So while my mom was trying to fix and strengthen my glass out, Dr Corny says to me. Bug, I think it's time you get Lasik surgery done and get rid of those glasses. My mother than piped in, ohhh did you know Tiger Woods had that surgery done? We didn't but it was nice to know. Daddy-O then chipped in and said, Yes Tiger had it done and some people say it's cheating. I said, how can that be cheating? That makes no sense to me at all. If he wore glasses or contacts would that be cheating? No. If something is wrong with your body and you get it fixed, that is not cheating. I swear I don't understand how some people think. Even the Air Force allows laser vision correction for fighter pilots, Special Forces too. I don't understand how anyone can think that fixing something that is broken on your body is cheating.

Anyways, my husband aka Dr. Corny had Lasik Surgery done in 2006. He now has 20/20 vision. I was worried when he first started talking about getting it done. I didn't know much about it then, and was concerned about his eyes. He was adamant..he was getting it done. Well he did, and other than having to wear goggles on his eyes at night for a week (so that while he was sleeping he didn't rub his eyes) and using eye drops for awhile (I can't remember how long he had to use them but it wasn't long or inconvenient for him), he didn't have any problems at all. The day after his surgery he could see perfect! For him, there was no pain whatsoever. He recommends the surgery to anyone that asks him about it.

He has been wanting me to get the surgery for some time now, and keeps mentioning it. Now that my glasses are broken and twisted, and I walk around squinting, he wants me to go get an examination. Lasik surgery isn't for everyone. There are some people that can't have it done, and I am thinking I am in that category. I have existing health problems like my heart and other things. He says it doesn't hurt to get an examination and at least try. I suppose he is right.

I was searching on the web for Lasik Surgery, and looking for a Dr. that offers Free Consultation , silly me put in the wrong zip code so I got the listings for Lasik in San Francisco

Too bad I don't live in San Francisco because LaserVue also offers, no down, no interest financing, and you can apply online so you know if you qualify even before you make an appointment. Payments are about $60 a month.

So I will do another search and find a Dr closer to me here in FL, or talk to Dr. Corny about me flying back to PA and having it done at the same Dr. he had his done with. Or I will chicken out completely and just go get a new pair of glasses.

Spicyz Top 10 Linky Love.

I recently joined Entre Card. I had been seeing it around blogsville on several different blogs so I checked it out and decided to give it a shot.

It's been kinda fun, I get to see a lot of different blogs and read all kinds of stuff. I have my favorites already, that I really enjoy reading. It has improved my traffic and I even get comments now..wow.

My only complaints are that sometimes it moves too slow. Right now it seems to be running good tho. The other complaint is...if you want people to make a drop in your box, don't hide the friggin thing so that I can't find it. If I have to search for your drop box, forget you..I'm moving on. I swear some people have the brains of a flea. k..enough of that.

I want to give a shout out to my Spicy 10 drops. I have a widget thingy over there----->
on my side bar that tells you who are the 10 top droppers on my site. If you want one of those
go over to MTMD's Blog and get the instructions. That's where I got mine. It was pretty simple and I thank him for that.

Roxy has been my top dropper since I joined Entre Card. She is usually always the first to leave a comment on a new post I put up. I first seen her blog on Blog Explosion, and I liked her and her blog from the start. You know how you know if you like someone right from the beginning? Well that is how I felt about her. If you never read her, go give her a visit. She's a blast.

I have known EastCoastlife since my hellonheels days. She has a great blog, I don't get to comment on her blog because I simply don't have the time...but I do read her every day.

I love this blogs title Kin's Home of Slightly Cracked Dreams. This is one of the blogs I found while dropping. I like it, go check it out. Thanks Kin for being in my top 10.

NYNG...what can I say. Gotta love it. This man takes the most amazing pictures. I miss our days in the "shout box ! I sent you an invitation to join Pack Rat, are you going to join??? I wanna steal your stuff!

Gas Savers, hmm I don't have clue, but heck it's in my top 10 so you deserve a shout out : ))) Thank you.

Full Body Work Out, I drop on this blog every day. My finger does get a workout, click drop! HAHA...honestly, go check it out. He has work outs that can be done in less than a half an hour.

MTMD, this is another one that I have seen around since my HOH days. Nice blog, Nice blogger go check it out!

Scramories, this is such a pretty blog. I always enjoy reading her. Thank you for dropping on me.

Enigma is another one that is new to me, that I found while surfing and dropping. There are so many really neat blogs out there, that I would never have found if it wasn't for Entre Card.

About Off Shoring I read and drop on this blog a lot. It's grown on me. Don't ask me why. It just has.

So, that is my Top Spicy 10 drops as of today. I will do this off and on, when the mood hits : ) Linky Love is always nice.

Oh yeah, I almost forgot (slaps self upside the head!) Check out my renter today. That Crazy Mom.

Parenting is Hard, Doing it Twice is Harder

Haven't put a personal post up in a while, and I have (at least I do right now) a few moments, so I will try to get this in as fast as I can before I lose my free time.

I have had long hair for a very very long time. In fact, I haven't cut my hair in the last 11 years. This weekend ended all of that. I got a shower and then asked Dr Corny to cut my hair....I had him cut it to just under my chin. Why? Because I kept finding stands of my hair in the babys hands. So..off with the hair. It will take some time for me to get used to it. It's lighter thats for sure. I gained weight, so I think I look like a freaking pumpkin now. Oh well, two things will happen, 1, I will lose this damn weight, and 2, the hair will grow back.

Raising children is hard...very hard work. It was hard work when I was in my 20's and raising 3 boys, I was very young, healthy and active then. It was still very hard work. I'm raising my grandchildren as my own now. Mini Bug is 2 1/2 and Mighty Bug is now 3 months old...and let me tell you guys, it freaking hard hard hard work. I think what makes it harder is that I have already done this. You would think that, that in itself would make it easier, but that isn't true. It's definitely much harder now.

Like I said, I already raised my sons..they are grown men now. I was free. Free meaning, I could go to the bathroom when I wanted, without a little one standing in front of me trying to get a kiss while I am on the toilet. Free meaning, I could lay down and read a book, whenever I wanted to, Free to go to the store and shop, by just getting in my car and driving off. Free to wake up when I wanted and go to sleep when I wanted. The list could go on and on and on. I lost my freedom. Now my every waking moment is centered around these two little angels. Would I change it. No. Actually yes, if I could change anything I would change the fact that their parents, could have raised them themselves. But that isn't possible, and it's even dangerous to the children, so no...I wouldn't change my mind at all about being their mommy. I love them, with every inch of my heart.

But...just sometimes, I long for quiet time..me time...time to shave my legs, time to paint my nails..hell...some days time to brush my own damn teeth. I know things wont be this hard forever, that they will grow, and be able to do simple things for themselves...like getting a drink, or wiping their own butts. The day will come when they don't cling to me anymore. I will probably be sad when that day comes, just as I was with my first batch of kids ( hahahaha I don't know how else to describe it)

It's hard now because I can't run as fast as I used to, and believe me, Mini Bug has me on the go, a lot. I don't have the endless energy I had when I was younger. I need that back some how. Do they sell it in a pill or something?

I think it would be easier if I could put Mini Bug in preschool, but that's out of the question right now. We aren't eligible for head start, it's an income thing, and when I called about prices, I couldn't believe how expensive preschool is. 140 a week, is a lot of money...don't you agree? So that's a no go for right now. We also can't get WIC or any other freebie the govt offers. Formula cost a freaking arm and a leg now..and so do diapers..holy shit. I really don't know how people who are living hand to mouth do it...other than they do get help like wic and head start and stuff, but that can't be enough. So...no preschool for Mini Bug. We can't justify that cost on one income.

I was thinking about going back to work...but that's not practical at all....the cost of daycare would eat up any salary I made...and I maybe could work part time.

A friend of mine did tell me about PayPerPost..and I did sign up and I do get some opportunities..and they do pay! But I don't get enough opportunities, and I only have a Page Rank of 3, so I can't take anything that offers any kind of money. If any of you out there want to help me, you could always link to me and try to get my page rank up so that I could make more money....that would be a nice thing...if I could make enough to get Mini Bug in preschool..that would be a blessing..a huge one. Then she would be able to be with other kids her age, and I would get the couple of free hours a day, to vacuum my house or something. Mighty bug is easy at this point...he eats sleeps, poops, and then sleeps again. He smiles a lot also..very happy baby. I like to think he is smiling at me, and not just tooting out of his butt all the time . Would it be terrible bold of me if I put a pay pal donate button on my blog? I don't know what the hell to do.

Anyways..that's it for now.

Ohhhh yeah, I wanted to ask about that EntreCard thing I am now doing. How in the sam hell does anyone get 300 drops in one day? I tried...the closest I got was 200 and that was through out the whole day. Also, is the Entre Card site super slow for anyone else besides me? I don't have the time or patience to wait 3 minutes for a freaking page to load. I need some pointers here.

Happy Fathers Day Dr. Corny

I want to wish my husband aka Dr. Corny "Happy Fathers Day"

He is the best Daddy that ever walked. When these kids needed a dad, he stepped right up to the plate and didn't bat an eye. He took full responsibility immediately and loves these children as if they were his own. In fact, he will tell you they are his. I love this man, more than words can ever express.

He is right there when a hug is needed, a ball needs thrown, a diaper needs changed, or bottle needs warmed. He is no slacker when it comes to parenting that is for sure. After a longs day work, and he walks thru the door, the first thing he does is pick Mini Bug up, and give her hugs and kisses, bends over and pats the dog...then gives me a fast smooch while he takes the baby out of my arms and gives him a hug and kiss, and talks and coo's to him. He doesn't hestitate to make dinner if I am busy with the kids or even load the dishwasher for me.

I am so thankful to have him in my life.

Happy Fathers Day Sweetheart. I love you.

Not from your body

your heart gave birth

I was your child

you gave me worth

Not of your flesh

no less your own

You taught me love

see how its grown
© 1998 Scott D. Hughey

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