In The Trash They Went

My youngest loves to steal my keys and he gets ahold of them from time to time because I am too slow. Today was one of those days, I had left my keys in the door as I brought things in from the car and away Baby K ran with those keys in hand, jingling all the way to the bedroom, the bathroom and back to the kitchen. I didn't take them, I pretended that it was a big deal and he was getting away with stealing something Mama wanted. We made it into a cute little game.

Well one thing I should tell you is that I do not have a spare car key, apparently Saab keys are not easily copied down at the hardware store, and I have yet to get it through the dealership. I am cheap, I don't like to spend money and so I have yet to get a spare key and just hoping I don't lose this one.

Finally I had to go to the bathroom, I had been holding it since all morning while we were out running errands, just the two boys and me! I told Baby K come with Mama to the bathroom she has to go potty and so he followed along keys in hand and smiles! I stood up after going pee and oops, he threw the keys so fast that I couldn't catch them and in the toilet they went. Oh yeah, my keys hit the toilet and sunk!

So today I had to reach my hand into a pee filled toilet to save the only car key I have, luckily the boys are not old enough to pick on me for this for the rest of my life! So do you kids or have your kids done anything like this that you think oh man, this is gross?!

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What 2 Hours of Sleep Gets Me

OMG I seriously had 2 hours of sleep last night, so you would think I would have been dragging butt and feeling all groggy. That was not me, I woke up around 3 or 3:30 in the morning to a 3 year old who was saying "Mama me puked everywhere, and on my pillow". I jumped out of bed, slowly as to not wake the sleeping Baby K who had snuck in my bed mid night but it didn't work. I was now officially out of bed with an 18 month old and a 3 and a half year old, both of which are sick. One worse than the other, considering all I could see was throw up piles of liquid (no food or anything as he hadn't eaten in a while) all over my living room floor and AJ's bedroom.

How exciting, would you just want to curl up and go back to sleep? Yeah, me too and so I did. Yup, I put the 18 month old in his playpen with a bottle of milk told him it wasn't time to get up yet and put on PBS Sprout for the 3 year old. Well I napped for a little while but woke up to find that each child had decided to place saltine crackers everywhere, one playpen full and one bedroom full as well as a living room floor filled with saltine cracker crumbs. Mind you it was me who set the crackers out thinking it would be good for the 3 year old's tummy, well apparently it was only good for Mama's house. LOL

I finally realized a nap was not happening and so I was up and ready to move on with my day, as if I had any other choice! I cleaned the cat box, I gave the cats fresh food and water, I cleaned all the cracker mess up and all the throw up. I washed bedding, I dried bedding. I also took care of three loads of laundry that had been sitting there calling my name for a couple of days now. I vacuumed, I scrubbed, I just went all crazy on a cleaning and organizational spree. I completed all the paperwork for the legal separation and it's ready for the soon to be ex hubs to sign, well I just feel so accomplished. My work is pretty much complete for the day as well so I may just crash after Girl Scouts but who knows the way I am I usually get all hyper around 9pm and can't sleep no matter how exhausted I was all day long.

So that is what 2 hours of sleep does to me .. what does it do to you?

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The Waiting Game

It's really great that you can turn something that was a passion into a money making opportunity, such as I have done with both of my blogs! The only thing that stinks is waiting for that payment. I swear I check my accounts daily to see when that money I earned 30 days ago is going to pay out to me. I have less than $10 in my bank account right now, not because I don't make enough to pay current bills but because I had to pay two big bills in two weeks and so well it pretty much drained my account.

I love that I can make money doing something I am passionate about ... writing, but man sometimes I wonder why I ever tried to start making money from it. The waiting can keep you anxious and it can be frustrating. There are a few sites that pay monthly no matter what and another site that pays bi-weekly which is pretty cool, but those sites are not the "big money makers" usually so reality is I have to wait 30 days for the work I do today in order to get the money I earned.

I get it, they want to ensure their links are on your website for at least 30 days, because if not the search engines wouldn't scroll them or whatever the word is. I know SEO tips and tricks, I get it, but I also want to get my money! LOL

In all seriousness, I do love that I can make money from my blogs. It's funny I originally started making money from my blogs and doing my virtual assistant business as a way to help my soon to be ex husband get out of a job he hated. Funny how we are now facing separation and he quit that job before I was even financial stable enough for him to quit! Life is all about adventures though, so what waiting game are you playing in life today?

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What A Weekend

Last weekend I had a pretty off weekend for lack of a better word! We had a decent day on Saturday with the Winter Carnival events but come about 3pm my daughter started shivering and I just assumed it was because we had been out in the freezing cold weather most of the day for a parade and other fun times. Little did I know that horrible cough she had all last week was going to turn into this awful fever that wouldn't go away.

When my daughter curled up in a blanket on the couch and I saw how rosey her cheeks were, I knew something was wrong so I took out the ear thermometer and checked her temp. The temp was 103, so I pulled out the children's Tylenol and gave her some of that and allowed her to simply relax covered in a blanket, drinking water. Dinner time came and she could barely eat, so I started to worry a little bit, but showed my relaxed Mama face and allowed her to go back on the couch. Later on her brothers were getting a bit wild so she retired to her room for the night where I ended up awake until 1am and then again periodically until finally come 9:30am I got out of my bed after the boys father tended to the kids for the first part of the morning.

Little did I know the weekend and Monday too would be filled with high and low temps. Luckily my daughter's father (my ex boyfriend) came by with some Motrin and that seemed to help cut her fever for a little while, but at one point her temp reached 105.8 in her ear! I was so worried that I had her father call the pediatrician who told us that as long as she was comfortable and had no troubles breathing to just let her sleep. I gave her meds every 4 hours alternating between Tylenol and Motrin and then late Monday evening her father took her for two days.

Last time I spoke with her father she was doing pretty good and even ate dinner. He hadn't checked her temp yet but said if it kept going up and down he would certainly get her to the pediatricians on Tuesday (I am writing this post late Monday night). So we will see how she is doing later on Tuesday when her father calls me with an update. I hope she gets passed this, but as I sit here writing this post I hear both my sons coughing ... yes it's the same cough my daughter had last week. Shall I say it? Here we go again!

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The Ups and Downs

Knowing that you are about to have a complete life change makes your mind go crazy. It's like one moment you are ready to move forward in your life and take on this new found freedom but the next you are scared and worried about whether or not you are going to make it on your own in this new situation.

What I do in times like this is simply talk out loud, yes talk ... seriously even if no one is listening. It feels good to get out your thoughts in the form of talking or sometimes writing can help. I know writing is like my therapy, when I get all my thoughts out of my head onto a blog post or a piece of paper (that I later shred) I feel a sigh of relief knowing that I am now free of those thoughts that were consuming my mind and trying to make me second guess what I know to be right in my life.

Life has it's ups and downs, that's for sure, all that matters is that you take each day as it comes and smile your best smile! I am serious when I tweet about how a smile can change your day and make another persons day better. I have practiced being an optimistic person now for many years and I will be honest that each time I think a positive thought about a life challenge everything ends up turning out better! It's funny how a simple thought for the positive can make good things come to you!

I invite you to smile today and enjoy the life you life! We are not able to relive our past mistakes and we do not know what our future holds, but today ... awww today ... today we can be happier knowing that all it takes is the simple act of smiling!

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