Golden Rule

I'm not sure if this is expected to be a Mother's Day post… seeing as it was just a few days back….I'm uncertain if I'm suppose to gush about the love I have for my kids, rave about the position in which I couldn't have been luckier to have land it, or the daily rewards that make it so worth the daily struggles.

I haven't read the bi-laws on the proper procedure in the blogosphere lately, but I'm pretty sure last year's Mother's day recap, holds eerily true to this years…. So go head… read up on it.. just subtract the breakfast in bed and add a rainy day… Go ahead now, I'll wait…

Carrying on.

Last night, I sat down at the table around 9:00, resolved with the decision that it wasn't a night to write. My emotions were too muddled to be held inside and too raw to be exposed. I think I thought of having some clarity drove me to pull up Blogger and revel in the therapeutic release of unadulterated writing. For almost an hour, I found myself feverishly punched letters and forming words, nothing short of a full fledged gripe fest. 

I covered the audacity of others, my self annoyance when I let it fester longer than I should. I touched on the stubbornness of Josephine, Jekyll & Hyde demeanor of Calvin, or consistent boundary pushing of Wesley. I pointed out the obvious flaws of my parenting and made sure to intentionally skip over the areas I know are my strengths. Trust me when I say, it screamed every bit of melancholy with emphasis on each syllable of the word. I even tried to blame Pandora's selection of play 'Parachute' as a culprit to my state of mind. 

To be honest, I felt 1596% better after writing, but even with each words formulated, defusing an inner pressure,  I knew it wasn't one to that I would let be published. Other than for my own personal frustrations a bit relieved, there was nothing good that could have came out of it going live, in fact I'm pretty sure a whole hell of a lot of bad would have. 

Regardless, it secured my golden rule of 'thou shall not write while letting off steam when emotions run an unruly muck' post publishing rule. Tonight, I can't say my mind is any less muddled, there are areas I'm still wading through, but I'm on safer grounds with my typical 'you're the river, not the rock' mentality, with a whole lot of 'it is, what it is' thrown in for good measure.

{Introducing Mr. Hyde}

So here I sit, feeling guilty I'm as happy as I am that the kids are sleeping, computer in front of me, superhero mask makings to the right, WWF games waiting for my returned play to the left, Pandora is pull through tonight with Amy Winehouse's sultry voice, and a hot glue gun that's politely asking me to do it a courtesy by burning my finger repeatedly on it.

I don't really have any concluding self moral to tonight's post, no brilliant conclusions dawned...sometime people suck, I will never be happy when I let people negatively effect me, Josephine is her mother's daughter, Calvin's spirit is something I would never wish to change, Wesley is leading the way in finding himself, my parenting has many flaws, but strengths will always overshadow.

And I'm thankful for my self implemented rule of gold….
And them… I'm so very very very thankful for them... 

With that… I have a weekend party to prep for.

It's A Goodnyou? Giveaway Day {BeeCountry}

The randomly selected winner is……….. *drum roll*…………


Sarah McLaughlin!!! Cheers! Send me your mailing information Sarah and I will get the back sent right out to you!!!


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Happy Mother's Day!


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I've decided to take a whole new approach to the giveaways on the blog. Instead of tacking them on to a composed writing, I'm giving them a post of their own.
It's only far right? Someone is doing me the honor of sponsoring a giveaway, I should show them as much courtesy in return. Here, we go… 

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How cool am I?



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That's right, an amazing clutch reward, for a small feat of a comment!

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Weekend's Doing

The house is in the beginning stages of settling down for the night. Wesley's in his room reading, Nate's watching some Boston generated sports performance, and Calving and Joey are snuggled into my bed watching Roku's Pound Puppies. For some reason, I've plopped myself down on the couch, thrown the laptop on my… lap … and have plugged some ear buds into my ears, thinking that Phoenix might just be able to bring me into the mind-frame of writing, despite the liveliness that our house still offers.

I'm wrong… I've sat here, mindlessly gaping at the TV, reminding myself I meant to take my contacts out 3 hours ago and mental noting the do-it's for tomorrow, this month, and lifetime. I've logged into Facebook 4 times, check into Instagram 3, and am fully educated on America's best ice cream shops, why J Lo's style has been overshadowed, and how apparently there is a Barbie, in the flesh, making waves in the UK.

Between getting up for milk, texting friends, snack getting, pinterest snooping, and blankets retrieving, it's just Josephine and I who are burning the mid night oil, now.

There is this accomplishing feeling that is accompanying me to the end of this weekend… I have been in a mind frame of 'do and go' the last few days and as much as I would love every day to be as driven as the last two, I am not unrealistic enough to know it's a direct effect from the last week of being in a state of idle.

With this being the longest that I have sat for the day, I can see the forward charging of the wall that I'm about to hit... with those words typed, the steadiness of Joey's shallow breathing, is telling me, she too, has surrendered to today… or at least long enough for me to hopefully go take a shower.

Happy Week's Start!
{P.S. I have a really great giveaway in the works... Stay tuned!}