So who wants to go out for two hours.... No not 5 minutes ... but for two hours by yourself and no one else to hang out with some other local mommy's just like you?! I do!!!
I am counting down to May 5th for The local mother's night out at Firewheel Mall here!! I know some of you ladies that read my blog live in other places in the United States!! I will post a link to find mall's and places that will host your mothers night out!!
So who would like to get together for a well-deserved break to socialize and relax? They will have have music, networking and entertainment as well as swag bags and product displays and yoga and relaxation displays and pampering with a mini massage!!
So if you would like to Join me at Firewheel Mall in Garland please email me on my Facebook @
http://www.facebook.com/mkmommy and let me know or if you are not in my area then ill post the link for National Mothers night out
National Mothers nite out website is :
http://momsniteout.com/
and their facebook is :
http://www.facebook.com/momsniteout
Thursday, April 21, 2011
Friday, April 8, 2011
This day and age sickens me!!
I woke up this morning about 4 am to catch the morning news coming on and was shocked on hearing that no one could make up their minds about how to fix a more than a billion dollar deficit we have been setting ourselves into... Oh no wait not the people that work hard, the so called blue collar people who go out daily and work hard, but the higher powers in the country... The U.S. has set up a major problem not only for themselves but everyone in this country..
I am a typical everyday mother of two and i am out of work... Not because i cant find a job, but it is too expensive to pay for daycare... I ride the Bus where i need to go because it is too hard to have two vehicles and pay for insurance... I have to use Government assistance because i cant pay for medical care for my kids and myself .. It is not the most glorious life... Do i love having to ask help, no but i have no choice.. I know that soon all that money put aside for this help will be gone and i will be left like most to try to feed my kids and hope that i can keep them full enough not to starve.. My Fiance works hard with his own business from 12 to 15 hour days just enough to pay for our bills and a few groceries that i may need that my food stamps don't buy.. We make it by but barely.... I envy those who can go to work, come home, and spend as much money on things that they don't need while hard workers don't seem to get enough. Those people sit in Congress and the White House.
Now ask yourselves this, if you protected our country would you like to get paid? We used to be a military family.. My fiance served 7 years in the US Air Force and received nothing in return except a bill asking us to pay back what we owed... What we owed?? What about time away from our family's? The travel pay? What we had to sacrifice... I only got a taste of it.. but for some people this is their lives..... Men and women away from their kids and wives and husbands and family's torn apart... tell me is this right to take away pay for those who sacrifice so much??
Now it comes down to this... we shut down EVERYTHING... hoping that this will fix the problem.. but i think this is only the start... As a Christian woman i pray for our law makers and those in power, but i am left shaking my head wondering what these people pray to at night...Do they pray to God... Do they even believe in him... I dont know... But i know this... It is going to be hard and it is going to get harder, unless we find some other way... maybe we waited to late... All that i can do is do what i do best...
Pray.........
I am a typical everyday mother of two and i am out of work... Not because i cant find a job, but it is too expensive to pay for daycare... I ride the Bus where i need to go because it is too hard to have two vehicles and pay for insurance... I have to use Government assistance because i cant pay for medical care for my kids and myself .. It is not the most glorious life... Do i love having to ask help, no but i have no choice.. I know that soon all that money put aside for this help will be gone and i will be left like most to try to feed my kids and hope that i can keep them full enough not to starve.. My Fiance works hard with his own business from 12 to 15 hour days just enough to pay for our bills and a few groceries that i may need that my food stamps don't buy.. We make it by but barely.... I envy those who can go to work, come home, and spend as much money on things that they don't need while hard workers don't seem to get enough. Those people sit in Congress and the White House.
Now ask yourselves this, if you protected our country would you like to get paid? We used to be a military family.. My fiance served 7 years in the US Air Force and received nothing in return except a bill asking us to pay back what we owed... What we owed?? What about time away from our family's? The travel pay? What we had to sacrifice... I only got a taste of it.. but for some people this is their lives..... Men and women away from their kids and wives and husbands and family's torn apart... tell me is this right to take away pay for those who sacrifice so much??
Now it comes down to this... we shut down EVERYTHING... hoping that this will fix the problem.. but i think this is only the start... As a Christian woman i pray for our law makers and those in power, but i am left shaking my head wondering what these people pray to at night...Do they pray to God... Do they even believe in him... I dont know... But i know this... It is going to be hard and it is going to get harder, unless we find some other way... maybe we waited to late... All that i can do is do what i do best...
Pray.........
Thursday, February 24, 2011
Rainy Days can drive you insane
I look over at my window and sigh at the rainy looking clouds outside.I figure that having the 70's for weather in February Is a blessing and that my children should be at the park playing with the other children enjoying the warmth that God has blessed us with. As a storm spotter i am getting ready for what may be a interesting afternoon. How can i be thrilled about being left alone with two children raring to go.. go.. go and not wanting to stop? What do i do with such energy? I have tried the creative side of things with my daughter making little colored pictures to hang in my room and at the same time keep my son from eating the crayons! I have tried building tents only for my son to turn around and try to chew on the clothes pin and pinch his lip while my daughter lays in the floor laughing! I love the antics ... i really do but i have not found anything but watching movies and eating snacks that quite them down. Sometimes i think how my mother got me to settle down during the rainy days, most of the times we used to sit down and read a book and then enjoy all the beautiful things we could see out the window... My motley crew likes to go about destroying things... Maybe the remembering and enjoying the beautiful things will come later!
Tuesday, February 22, 2011
Omg the cuteness never ends!
I woke up this morning to a diaper in my face. My son decided that being cute isn't very hard as long as he can pull some kind of prank on his dear mother. My daughter i believe is the one fronting the idea' s for this madness seeing as her imagination is higher and greater than any child i know... He has gone from pulling my pants down to try to crawl up my leg while i am standing to trying to type in whatever he wants in my moms group page on Facebook. He enjoys throwing stuff at me and smacking my pregnant tummy to get his attention and well that little bit of cuteness wont do for long... I know he is 19 months and he is learning but i tell you the boy is so much like his daddy that it isn't funny! I am sure that some of his cute attitude is from me...
How do children charm us with the cute bug.... Is it just something they are born with or is it a learned skill to keep us from going nuts when they are cheerio covered for the 5th time that day?
Monday, February 21, 2011
I am moving back to Blogger
As you may have noticed i have moved back to Blogger because i feel like i have more of a choice on how my blog looks and well how it is laid out! I am still writing, but have posted many old ones that i have and others have liked over time.... If you don't see a post you like from my last address then let me know! So onto the madness!
(Re-Cap) This battle with atopic dermatitis
It started one evening when i noticed a small rash beginning to form on my son’s face and i knew right away that we would have to go through the same thing with him that we did with my daughter… ugh not again.. not all the creams and medicines and all the other limitations. This all started at three and a half months
Weeks later it went from a rash to almost a blister, then from a blister to this puffy red mound of weeping flesh. When we took him to our local E.R. thinking that maybe it was infected and sure enough it was. They put him on a minor antibiotic and then sent me home. But still it persisted to get worse. I take him again to the E.R. and they looked at him shrugged and said well it is still infected, but we don’t know what to do. 5 hours later and a skin swab, we found out he had staph on his face. Again prescribed another round of antibiotic and then sent home. Months went by with the same treatment, then they added the steroid! All i wanted was my son’s once smooth baby skin to come back… Many people looked at me weird and also asked if he was burned, fell, or some i heard whisper that i was hurting my son. I was crushed and desperate for help. Finally one evening i stood up and said i need to get a dermatologist and have you help me, i cant find anyone… Thank God 2 weeks later i had a referral and a doctor! A month later we are seeing someone from Children’s medical center. Since then it has been cream after cream and the battle rages on… but at least we have a new cream that works to the point he is growing new skin!!
Ok for those who dont know what this stuff is…
Atopic eczema (aka infantile e., flexural e., atopic dermatitis) is an allergic disease believed to have a hereditary component and often runs in families whose members also have asthma. Itchy rash is particularly noticeable on head and scalp, neck, inside of elbows, behind knees, and buttocks. ( from Wikipedia)
Doctors do not know the exact cause of eczema, but a defect of the skin that impairs its function as a barrier, possibly combined with an abnormal function of the immune system, are believed to be an important factors. Studies have shown that in people with atopic dermatitis, there are gene defects that lead to abnormalities in certain proteins (such as filaggrin) that are important in maintaining the barrier of normal skin.
Some forms of eczema can be triggered by substances that come in contact with the skin, such as soaps, cosmetics, clothing, detergents, jewelry, or sweat. Environmental allergens (substances that cause allergic reactions) may also cause outbreaks of eczema. Changes in temperature or humidity, or even psychological stress, can lead to outbreaks of eczema in some people.
(from medicinenet.com)
Weeks later it went from a rash to almost a blister, then from a blister to this puffy red mound of weeping flesh. When we took him to our local E.R. thinking that maybe it was infected and sure enough it was. They put him on a minor antibiotic and then sent me home. But still it persisted to get worse. I take him again to the E.R. and they looked at him shrugged and said well it is still infected, but we don’t know what to do. 5 hours later and a skin swab, we found out he had staph on his face. Again prescribed another round of antibiotic and then sent home. Months went by with the same treatment, then they added the steroid! All i wanted was my son’s once smooth baby skin to come back… Many people looked at me weird and also asked if he was burned, fell, or some i heard whisper that i was hurting my son. I was crushed and desperate for help. Finally one evening i stood up and said i need to get a dermatologist and have you help me, i cant find anyone… Thank God 2 weeks later i had a referral and a doctor! A month later we are seeing someone from Children’s medical center. Since then it has been cream after cream and the battle rages on… but at least we have a new cream that works to the point he is growing new skin!!
Ok for those who dont know what this stuff is…
Atopic eczema (aka infantile e., flexural e., atopic dermatitis) is an allergic disease believed to have a hereditary component and often runs in families whose members also have asthma. Itchy rash is particularly noticeable on head and scalp, neck, inside of elbows, behind knees, and buttocks. ( from Wikipedia)
Doctors do not know the exact cause of eczema, but a defect of the skin that impairs its function as a barrier, possibly combined with an abnormal function of the immune system, are believed to be an important factors. Studies have shown that in people with atopic dermatitis, there are gene defects that lead to abnormalities in certain proteins (such as filaggrin) that are important in maintaining the barrier of normal skin.
Some forms of eczema can be triggered by substances that come in contact with the skin, such as soaps, cosmetics, clothing, detergents, jewelry, or sweat. Environmental allergens (substances that cause allergic reactions) may also cause outbreaks of eczema. Changes in temperature or humidity, or even psychological stress, can lead to outbreaks of eczema in some people.
(from medicinenet.com)
(Re-Cap) Nursing your baby in Public…… Its too taboo!
Get this your sitting in a mall and nursing your 5 week old baby and someone comes up to you and tells you to move to a bathroom! Of course you reply that it is legal in that state to nurse anywhere you want or if there is a room made for it you can go there, but still that person hounds you and even has you removed from said mall..
This happened for real to a mother in Ceder Rapids, Iowa and well in many other places… there is to many to name!
I have had my own problem with a teenage boy to naive to even understand that these things on my chest where ment to feed baby and maybe just maybe make a man happy! Luckily for me i didn’t have to deal with what some of these women do… and well it makes me down right sick!
What i cannot understand is the fact women in clothes now days show off more than a nursing mother does feeding her child…. erm does that tell you something… we think that feeding a child is perverted, what about the shirt that you can see through and practically see the woman’s nipple, or is it the fact that men and women alike think that a woman breastfeeding her child is like that of Betsy the moo cow! I think that the United States has too much Pride in making women out to be these anorexic statues that have to look like Arnold on a good day! I am one to tell you i do cover my son up while he feeds, but at any time i could say no and uncover myself for the shear fact i don’t give a rats rear end about what someone thinks of my ” milk swollen breast!” Well sir if you are looking at my chest your looking to hard!
*insert Bill Clinton voice* My fellow Americans it has come to my attention that you are all idiots!”
This happened for real to a mother in Ceder Rapids, Iowa and well in many other places… there is to many to name!
I have had my own problem with a teenage boy to naive to even understand that these things on my chest where ment to feed baby and maybe just maybe make a man happy! Luckily for me i didn’t have to deal with what some of these women do… and well it makes me down right sick!
What i cannot understand is the fact women in clothes now days show off more than a nursing mother does feeding her child…. erm does that tell you something… we think that feeding a child is perverted, what about the shirt that you can see through and practically see the woman’s nipple, or is it the fact that men and women alike think that a woman breastfeeding her child is like that of Betsy the moo cow! I think that the United States has too much Pride in making women out to be these anorexic statues that have to look like Arnold on a good day! I am one to tell you i do cover my son up while he feeds, but at any time i could say no and uncover myself for the shear fact i don’t give a rats rear end about what someone thinks of my ” milk swollen breast!” Well sir if you are looking at my chest your looking to hard!
*insert Bill Clinton voice* My fellow Americans it has come to my attention that you are all idiots!”
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