June - it just flew by.....

Can't believe that June is already over....it was a very eventful month for us.  Weddings, races, camps, you name it...there was always something going on.


The month started with someone I hold close to my heart getting married.  It was a beautiful wedding and I wish them nothing but the best.  That same weekend my oldest had a race.  Ended up coming home with a 1st & 3rd place overall!  We were so very proud but also sad that we couldn't be there to watch him do so well.  But the following weekend we had his regular TORN race and it was the first time ever that he came home with 2 - 1st place wins!!!!!  He just continues to amaze us with his racing ability.


The following weekend we had a Father's Day Celebration ~ had a wonderful time and great food and great memories!


Then the next week I was about to become the mother of a teenager!!!!  Seriously?!?!?!  What happened to my baby?  And who is this hormonal thing that now lives in my house????  :-)


I hope he had a great birthday week....he spent it at a motocross camp and ended it with a birthday party with his fellow "hospital" brother as we call him.  (they both ride/race together)  Then it was off to another race....came home with a 2nd place on Saturday....and a 1st & 3rd on Sunday!  


By now, I'm starting to get really worn out!!!!  But the month isn't over yet!  All this week my princess has been in art/craft camp.  Thank goodness for my mom and her taxi cab skills!! ;-)  I'm beginning to think that I need a wife...a stay at home wife!!!


This weekend will bring June to a close...princess will be leaving for her dad's for the month.  Teenager has a race and then he too will be leaving for the month.  Maybe July won't be as busy, but I sure hope it goes by just a fast....so I will have my full nest again!


Hope everyone has a great weekend!

BuffMother in Training

Well I'm taking a chance and starting something new that I found on the good ole internet.....BuffMother Hormonal Timing.  I've been working out consistently for 18 weeks and still have a long ways to go.

I'm hopeful that this will help get me there.  I'll try and keep updating my progress.

Have a great day!

Trying to get this...

I'm trying to be better at posting things here.  I'm working on a few things that hopefully will become easier as I figure them all out.  Be patient.....I'll get there.  :-)

Never Enough Time in the Day...

Has anyone out there really mastered the art of time management? I'm beginning to think not. Or at least not if you are a working momma. I try and I try and I try and still seem to fail at getting everything accomplished. My to-do lists seem to multiply instead of go away. And I have multiple ones.

Laundry is never done - there seems to always be dishes left even after you've washed them all. I swear I can dust only to walk out of the room and back to find it there again. Same goes with the floors - vacuum, sweep - and come back and wonder where that footprint came from.

But my house is comfortable - my house is cozy - my house is lived in - when the ages range from 33 to 28 months and you throw in 3 dogs.....how could it be spotless all the time?

Is there really a way to get it all done? If so - I hope I figure it out. Or I need to figure out how to add more hours to each day or just add another day period. But then that would just be another day that I didn't get it all done. ;-)

At least I can say that I do accomplish getting my family fed and tucked away at night. They might not always have clean socks or underwear folded neatly in their drawers (isn't that what laundry baskets or in my house a chair is for) ;-) but I won't ever stop trying.

My ideal day:

Wake up

Workout

Kids to school and sitter

Go to work

Come home

Cook dinner

Clean kitchen

Housework/laundry

Bathe kids

Kids to bed

Computer time

Snuggle time

I don't think that type of day EVER happens exactly like we want cause LIFE happens. And how precious life is. And oh how I do love my family and friends that are my life.

So until I've mastered the art of time management I'm just gonna keep on a truckin' - keep on livin' - and maybe just maybe I'll have one of those ideal days! ;-)

Toot My Own Horn

Well - I'm going to brag on myself for a quick minute. (maybe longer than that) I decided to relocate my desk in the house. Shouldn't be a problem - there's an electrical outlet and phone jack right where I want to move it. Well.....WRONG!!! Here's just what happened...

First off - I had already discovered a week or so ago that the phone jack was not wired properly so I wouldn't be able to use my ethernet cable. Not a problem - my nice handy dandy iMac has built in Wi-Fi so I'm not worried. So I proceeded to successfully move the desk by myself while the family was at softball practice. Get everything plugged in and ready to go and NO WI-FI!!!!! My airport card is gone - missing - disappeared - disintegrated - who knows!!! Talk about frustrating!!! So I "borrow" Knucklehead 1's netbook and start to Google away for the solution. Make many phone calls to my SIL who is also Google'ing away to try and help me find a solution. And NADA - nothing - ain't happening!!! So I give up and go to bed.

Wake up with the bright idea that hey I'll just take my iMac to the genius bar @ Apple and they'll fix me right up. Make my appointment - get there - and to sum it up I need a new airport card or wiring or something. Thankfully I'm still under warranty and this will cost nothing. But there's a catch - they will need my companion, I mean iMac for 3-5 days. Well, I had plans to learn-away on all sorts of photo editing this weekend that there's no way I could be away from my iMac for that long.

So I headed home with the intentions of placing my iMac back where the other ethernet cable is and was going to just work on the floor or storage container or something. A make-shift desk you could say.

But then.....LIGHTBULB....I can wire my phone jack, right? I'm capable, right? Of course - I had already asked my brother briefly about it and what to do so I'm a pro now. Or am I??? Hubby was not thrilled with this idea of me messing with wires, phone stuff, etc. But I was determined (I'm a little stubborn) to solve this problem!!!

Hubby met me outside by the phone box thingy and I directed him on which wires needed to be wired where so that my phone jack would work. WRONG - didn't work. So now his confidence in me is really starting to go. But I can do this I'm thinking. So I continue to analyze all the wiring and move the phone from jack to jack to see which ones are working and which ones aren't. I demand (not really, I asked) him to completely redo the wiring of one specific blue wire that I knew was for this phone jack. By now he's really convinced that I was going to cause us to lose ALL phone access throughout the whole house. But he did it for me and casually said if this works I'm one LUCKY person - I informed him luck was not it at all - INTELLIGENT - was the correct word he was looking for.

So off I go to check the phone jack again and what do you know......IT WORKED!!!!! I'm a GENIUS!!! ;-)

Well, maybe not a genius, but it's good to know that this country girl still has some common sense after a Hubby and 3 Knuckleheads have corrupted my brain. (Just kidding - they are the loves of my life).

But because of my INTELLIGENCE I can now blog and surf the web!

Ha Ha - Goodnight all - and see you at the next blog!

FEAR

Fear - the feeling or condition of being afraid; concern or anxiety (this would be a Mom's definition for sure!!!)

Everyone has it or experiences it - it's how you overcome it that helps define who you are.

Sometimes us Mommas experience this daily, and multiple times a day - that just comes with being a Momma ;-)

Here's some examples:

Knucklehead 1 - he experiences FEAR when he has to accomplish new tasks on his dirtbike.

Knucklehead 2 - she experiences FEAR when things change at school or when someone else gets in trouble in her class (she fears that she too will be in trouble).

Knucklehead 3 - I'm sure he experiences some type of fear.....probably with every new little step he takes! :-)

Momma - me - I experience fear when any of the above 3 do anything!!!!!!!!!!!!

Dad - he's the tough guy - I don't think he fears anything........ ;-)

For now - I have to stop here - but will continue this later.....Adios!

First Post

Well.....here I go - I'm going to dive off into the world of blogs....please be patient. This will be a work in progress - but I WILL SUCCEED!