Ohhh how I love books

I wouldn't go on record an say I'm obsessed with books, but I would say I am in love with them. They give you the option to get lost in this world that isn't your own. You find yourself in the story and in this different life if only for a few hours. So when your a mom and a stay at home mom at that you have to have a hobby, mine is books. When you are losing your patience with your children getting lost in a book of a young female vampire, with tons of boys trouble, it is a huge difference from being a married woman with two kids and more drama then I can handle. So I lose myself in a great book if only for awhile just to let my stresses go. Writers are amazing I can never collect my thoughts long enough to finish a whole story..tons of ideas, not so good at writing. So I say if you are a mom and you find yourself a little overwhelmed in the day lose yourself in a good book and grab an ice tea and relax. Trust me after you get a good book it isn't long before you find more. It's a great relaxation method and it's something that won't get you into trouble! Ohhh unless you decide to call your hubby a main male characters name....then ya have some explaining to do!!!

I don't understand men....yes they say the same thing about us!

Though I know men are confusing at times, I still find it funny at their inability to say they are wrong or sorry. Even over the stupidest things. Yes, most of the time you can read them like a book they are pretty predictable, but not on this such issue. They will pop off at the mouth and say something stupid if they were wrong, but won't admit it. What is that? Is it that part in the back of their brain that says "HEY! Don't give up now shes almost given up, just say something stupid." Who knows. What I do know is that they have weird ways of getting in their point across even if they are wrong and you sit there and think about it for a second and go "wait, what?" Every woman has to know what I'm talking about it happens all the time to my friends and I. We are constantly comparing the stories of stupid excuses and avoiding saying sorry stories. Why do they have to be so hard headed?

WHY THE CANDY!!??

Soo as a mom you always try to do cute little things for holidays and that usually involves baking of some sort. I made a bunny cake for Easter and of course I had to do all the filling of the eggs with all the candy....well right after Easter this year my kids and I made a cookie cake for my husband's bday. Left the cookie cake on the counter a long with their Easter baskets. Let me just tell you that was a bad idea. My son who is going to be four decides he is hungry wakes up eats more then half the cookie cake and if you have seen those things they aren't small. Not to mention Easter candy on top of that...It's hard not to laugh at the things they try to get away with. I asked him Gavin what did you do this morning and with no smile on his face and all serious he said, "I was hungry I ate daddy's cake." LOL I tried to stay serious, but that tends not to happen. He walks down stairs looks at me and says "WHAT!?" Like he is the head of this house. I just laughed and sent him to a chair to sit, but he still doesn't understand bc he was hungry he wanted to eat so whats the problem? They baffle my mind sometimes.

POTTY TRAINING SUCKS!!!

So first of all YES I knew it was going to suck and second of all I THOUGHT I was prepared! WRONG I was! Not only did my son start out doing amazingly well I decided to make a stupid mistake and just let my worries go. Why that is a bad thing? A few months later he decides to start pooping his pants. What I don't understand after reading WEBSITE AFTER WEBSITE, is the fact that nothing in his schedule has been dramatically changed and yet he still continues to do it. Though I do know that if he gets bribed OH you bet he will run for the bathroom and will have no accidents till he gets what he wants, but that's NOT how you teach a child to potty trained. I think he is still waiting for that gift to come out if he goes potty on the toilet and it's just not going to happen. So we have abandoned all pull ups and diapers and he has got the "pee-pee" down, but still gets "poo-poo" ALL wrong. I am at a lose. So I just stay positive? Is that the best advice out there? REALLY!!? That's all you experts have!? I want some answers damn it. I'm sorry there is only so much poop you can clean out of underwear during a day before you start to get cranky. Parents correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't know one of us out there that isn't frustrated when a child goes from NO accidents to going in his/her pants all the time....soooo annoyed and at a lose as to what to do. HELP!!!!!!

Watching my daughter

Watching my daughter yesterday I believe that I had that mommy moment of when you look at your child and you just stare in amazement at how beautiful they are. I never thought I could have a daughter. I myself am more of a tomboy and like to get dirty, though I do like the girly things it would be very rare if ever if you ever see me in a dress or skirt. Now my daughter you see is very prissy, very unlike me, until I seen her playing in the dirt and splashing around in puddles did I realize we aren't so different. Though she does carry purses and loves wearing dresses our personalities are a lot more alike then my mothers and mine. My mother didn't talk to me much growing up. We were so different and I thought there could be nothing different for my daughter and myself. Little did I know that I want my daughter and I to be close forever. I do know that we will have our ups and downs. I just want her to know she is my light. Without my children I wouldn't be the woman I am today. They have shaped me and molded me to be a great mother. I guess if you don't have children you wouldn't understand. You can still be yourself with children you just have to accept them and love them...it really isn't hard that make it so easy.

What we are taught when we are younger.

Look back to what were taught growing up. Women it's probably something like love is everything, fairy tales can come true yadda yadda yadda. Am I wrong? Men are taught to respect women or they are taught to not really regard them. I understand that everyone is raised differently and everyone's back ground is different. Though who really cares we are people who choose what we want out of life and how we make it. Don't act like the choice wasn't yours because it was. You will always face challenges and you will always have people that stand in your way and tell you that you can't. I was told when I got pregnant out of wedlock that I would never finish college. Well I have my business degree and I'm going back to get my RN degree against all odds. Has it been hard? I would have to say hell yea it has. I got divorced after I got my business degree from a man that wasn't taught how to treat a women. I just..how do you say it had to "Man up and get out." I took charge of my life and I wish other people in my life would as well. Just remember when your parents said you can be anything you want to be. I'm sure we have all heard that when we were younger. So take it and run with it. You have the strength maybe you just need a good kick in the ass.