What Now?

Well, I have already posted on two of my three blogs today so I figured I might as well make it all of them.  Let's see I have written on homeschooling and losing weight, now what? 

Of late, I have been bored out of my mind. I mean I can play games on the computer and Facebook or watch some show I have already seen or maybe even something I haven't but nothing sounds interesting to me. These games are starting to irritate me, I mean why do they have to make it where you can only do so much and then you have to wait for energy to build up or buy it or whatever. I am tired of everything having to resemble an addiction. I like games that make me think and develop strategy but I am tired of it becoming time based. I want to play when I have time and not be penalized if I can't come back to it everyday or at a certain time. Whatever, I am about to say to heck with them all. 

Maybe I should make a trip to the library and get some books to read and then just veg out all summer indoors reading. Naaa, that doesn't sound like a good idea either. I am tired of feeling like crap and needing to exercise but these heat advisories are not helping either. It would be nice to have a swimming pool then I could exercise, get relief from the heat and relax all at the same time. Hmmm, I will have to think on that one for awhile. Oh, yeah money is the reason we don't have a pool, duh!  Maybe we can just do some sports on the Wii, anyone have a balance board they want to sell pretty cheap?

Maybe I can find something creative to do here's to looking.

Please, Come and Get Your Children!

OK, so could someone tell me who left their kids, "I don't know", "Nobody", and "It wasn't me" at my house?
Normally I wouldn't complain too much but really they are starting to cause problems here. I am sure they aren't mine because I was very careful to make sure all of my children's names started with the same letter "A". I thought it would get easier since I just got one of them out of the house but "no" it is still a mystery who does all the questionable things at our house. I get consistent answers from my children when I ask questions so I feel that I must have some how managed to pick up additional children by the above mentioned names.

"Who got into the candy bars?" I ask.
"It wasn't me" Space Cadet answers.
"Well who was it then?" I counter.
"I don't know", she responds with attitude. So I then ask Tinkerbell, "Did you get into the candy bars?" to which she responds "NO, It wasn't me."
Well somebody got into them, they didn't eat themselves, So who ate them? "Nobody" they both respond adamantly.

I just don't understand who would abandon such dear children as these? I mean if I am to believe my own dearly beloved innocent children then "Nobody","I don't know", and "It wasn't me" are extremely busy albeit a bit destructive children. They are intelligent  because they have found some very good hiding places in an unfamiliar home to them.

Blahhhhh - G

It seems like I have a blog for everything. It would be nice if everyone would just work together, but of course, they do not. So I have a blog on the weight loss site I use, one for a homeschooling site that this one evolved from. I leave notes for our small group on Facebook, which seems like a blog. I don't know I like to blog but it seems like I have a hard time keeping up with everything. Maybe I am too ambitious I don't really have a following anyway, unless you count my family and why would they want to read what I write they get to hear me talk even if they would rather I didn't.

I guess it is set up for certain audiences but I don't know who mine is or should be. I mean I do do all those things that I mentioned above and I feel like I just get by. I don't really feel like I excel at any one thing just have a decent balance I guess. 

I love to cook so challenging myself to cook healthier has been a goal of late. Although the real challenge may be in actually finding healthy foods that I can disguise in a way that my household of picky eaters will try. I hold out hope that they will one day realize that food that is healthy is not always yucky and they can adapt their taste buds to enjoy it for the fuel it is. I mean we don't ask our cars if they like the fuel we put in, do we? The cars will let us know if the fuel we put in doesn't do the job it is supposed to do. Why don't we realize that the food we eat usually is not healthy for us and therefore is not supplying us with what we need either it actually is robbing us of that energy by creating unnecessary fat. 

So eating has had to become a necessary balance as well. I have to remind myself that just because it looks good, smells good and tastes good doesn't mean it is good for me. Maybe if we looked at all aspects of our life and weighed each thing as to need versus want and balanced things by taking care of needs first before wants it would be better, not only in the area of food, but also in finances and relationships as well.

I better quit now, I should probably balance out my day with something else maybe start working on supper or scope out a place for a garden I don't know something.

Is it that Time Again?

Well I guess it is time I write some more. Since I spend most of my time at home with my children I guess I should write about them. The only people who will really know who I am talking about is the ones who already know them. I don't want to be ugly but I want to come up with nicknames for them. One of them is really easy I think I will call her Tinker-bell, she is short, all over the place and a serious attitude when things don't go her way, (Sometimes a little vindictive).

Now the other one is harder, she is very smart but often a little, let me see how can I put it...well ditsy or maybe she is just slow to get things, after all she is blonde in every sense of the word sometimes. She doesn't like to be called blonde but if the shoe fits right? or hair color? She has agreed that I can call her Space Cadet.

So I guess in the future when I refer to them in those terms you can know that I am referring to my daughters. Tinker-bell is 6yo and Space Cadet is almost 12yo.  For some reason, even though I have brown hair and brown eyes all of my girls were born with blonde or light brown hair and blue eyes. If I hadn't been there and in possession of all my faculties when they were born I would swear they were switched at birth. I guess I can't say that though because if you knew my family you would definitely see how they are very much like different people in it. And though I see them all very differently other people say they all look alike and I do see their similarities as well.

I also have another daughter as mentioned in the previous post the recently married. She has her own blog and is known as Trials & Tribulations of a Spastic Sarcastic. The Space Cadet has one  The Babblings of a Blonde. Their father has one as well called Need for Speed. Now the very smart Tinker-bell would be in the mix as well if her mean old mother would let her but I am just not ready for what she would share nor is the world I am afraid.

Confessions (Beginning Again)

I think the worst part of a blog is getting started. I have never really looked at myself as much of a writer but sometimes you just want to get things out and there is not always someone around to share with so...here goes again.

Now, I say again because I have done this before but it was on homeschooling topics and though I am still homeschooling that is just not what I would spend most of my time talking about so I decided to move. In fact, I am not really sure what direction my life is taking right now. It is definitely a very confusing time. Maybe you can stick with me as I unravel what it is to become?

My oldest daughter just got married at the end of this past year and is now living 650+ miles away. For some this may be sad, and in part I guess there are times when it is but for the most part I am very happy for her. It was definitely time she left this cocoon and spread her wings. Lord knows it was too crowded here for two sets of wings. So I am one down with two more to go and many years to get there. I am sure the next twelve years will go by way too fast anyway.

I am hoping to learn some things about myself on this journey into the blog world as well as more about this whole endeavor. I have thought about writing a book though the topic eludes me at this point so maybe I can come up with something along the way as well.