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Child Support in Summer?

I pride myself on keeping it real around here. Sprinkled in with a few sponsored posts here and there, I think you can always count on me being truthful and open ’round these parts I would like to think we are community of virtual friends ~~although some of you I haven’t had the pleasure of meeting through comments but I still consider you my virtual family.~~

I said all of that to say don’t come for me too hard on this post ~~cause we’re friends~~. I just need some clarification and I know I will get the gamut of unbiased opinion by posting this issue here.

Child Support in the Summer. I’m confused…and let me clarify I’m talking about the support that is never late, benefits carried etc…

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Life• Me• Sanity

Lemonade?

So when life throws you lemons, the general consensus is you should be catching these small round objects whilst ducking to avoid getting hit from others that are undoubtedly being hurled at you. In the midst of bobbing, and weaving please add in squeezing, and the pouring in of sugar and water. Don’t forget to carefully stir all of these ingredients together in a nice southern inspired glass pitcher fit for a wrap around porch in the heat of summer.

On a good day I’m all about wetting your whistle with the sweet tartness that makes all well on a hot summer day. However, on today I feel like emptying all of the lemonade that I’ve made into a super soaker and having target practice.

I. AM. TIRED.

See the thing with faith is those days come when you truly want to throw in the towel and admit defeat. Today is that day. The past few months have been a true roller coaster ride and I’m sure we all know when we’ve hit that rock bottom, that throw your hands in the air moment and I’m not talking about waving them around like you just don’t care in the party sense..but very much so in the literal.

These past few weeks have proven to be a challenge in the worse kind of way. This house situation has consumed me for the past year and the place where we are now offers up a whole ‘nother level of risk and reward. I promise to share more later in the week but today I just cried and needed to come here to my virtual couch to sit and have a chat.

In return for being such gracious listeners, can I offer you a glass of lemonade, I sure have a lot of it to go around. I’m pretty sure at this point putting it in a water gun and going to town will be the equivalent of pumping 6 oz of breastmilk and knocking the bottle over. I know about this.

I would rather give you some refreshment, read encouragement. If I’m still pressing you should to.

By the way, I’m offering you a glass of good, wholesome southern lemonade…cause I know nothing about the Mike’s Hard variety. Nothing.

How you doin’?

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Life• Me• Random

Let’s Catch Up

Hey!

I feel like this post will be like that moment when you finally sit down to have drinks and dinner with your girl after a long hiatus of not speaking regularly.

*waits for you to order your food and drink*

Giiiiirl. Things have been crazy to say the least.

So, the baby is slowly entering the treacherous threes and refuses to wear anything but a frilly dress or tutu without a major melt down

My blood pressure was spiraling out of control so I finally decided to lace my running shoes back up and within just two weeks my blood pressure is averaging 120/88. Still need to work on the bottom number but at least I got started. I’ve been drinking a ton of water and wouldn’t you know these old creaky knees haven’t been bothering me at all. Water really is a ~~nasty~~ cure all. I have been reminded that I truly love running and it feels good to be back on the pavement…now to stay there. A half marathon is on my bucket list so I am training for the Thanksgiving Day half marathon. I should be ready by then. In the meantime I plan to run a few 5K and 10K races to keep me motivated.

…or a dog is chasing you! This is my motto as I’m striving for a 10 min mile

Well, they cancelled the contract on the home we were building and instead of waiting on the paperwork we needed to reinstate it we decided to continue looking for a new home and we came up on our dream home. Like the home I always envisioned. Before we were slightly settling but moving into this home would make me feel like I settled for nothing and that all the past drama was just leading us to the perfect home. We put in a contract today. We have to wait until Wednesday at the latest to see if it is accepted. There is a little bit of drama with it as we don’t think it will appraise for the selling price, so we attached a love letter to hopefully encourage them to honor the contract and sell us the home for the appraised value in the event it is lower than the offered price.

I’m pretty sure I am going back to work. After much deliberation I have decided to possibly start looking for work with a long list of must haves. One being I must be able to work from home. Wish me luck, and if you know of anything holla at ya girl!!

I haven’t been blogging as much because I have been asking God to provide me with the ability to make steady income while not jeopardizing my ability to be available to my family. We have decided there is no need for both of us to run the hamster wheel and if I go back to work I need to be at home. What I realized is that I am asking for a promotion but I haven’t mastered the basics and that is putting my family ahead of everything, everyday. So now I have to take care of them and my home first and blogging has been getting put on the back burner as I struggle to balance both. I think I have finally found my groove so I can start back posting and commenting regularly. I may be visiting some of your virtual homes rather late at night so leave the porch light on…K?!

I am trying to line up activities for the summer. I can’t even believe that there is just over a month left in school. I promise it seems like it was just the first day of school.

My son is doing really good with baseball. I know I mentioned how worried I was about him in the beginning but he is really shining. We did get the private lessons and they have indeed paid off. I think he has truly found a sport that he likes.

I guess that’s all for now. What’s good in your hood?!!

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Life• Random

Friday Ramblings and a Bunch of Nothing

Hey!

So much going on in my head that I think it is high time I come here and let it all go…cause we are cyber homegirls..right?!!

Riiiiiight!

So let’s get into the major car repair that I had to get done this week and my car still didn’t pass the emissions test..

Or, let’s talk about why the new house still hasn’t had the foundation poured and they are trying to deny our short sale on this house.

How about the fact that my Mirena is going all kinds of wonky and I’m just not ready for either of us to be permanently sterilized…although we don’t want any more children.

Should I mention that tomorrow is my birthday and I have nothing planned as of 1:05p on Friday afternoon.

Then there is ALWAYS the bright side of things like:

WORD!!!!

The uncontrollable belly laugh I got when Addison got an attitude with me because she didn’t want to put her seat belt on and says to me, ” I didn’t want to put those spraps on.” Spraps…as in straps?! I hollered, OMG. I don’t think I laughed that hard in a good while. Lawd…children!

My neighbors WON the contest. I am so happy for them. They get the dream wedding of a lifetime. I plan on asking her if she would like me to tag along when she is picking out everything to photograph her journey. I am so happy for them. I figured that could be one of my gifts to them, capturing the journey in photos up until their wedding day.

My son is playing baseball this spring. He hasn’t played before and he isn’t really good at it and I think he is starting to get discouraged. The Mr. is talking about getting him some private lessons. I am not on board with that. He will learn the good old fashioned way if I have anything to do with it.

I am considering going back to work. I enjoy being home because it allows me the opportunity to work on my own business ventures but I really want some play money. That sounds super selfish but hey!! Then I think about my problem with authority and I just may need to keep grinding it out at the crib..we’ll see.

I’ve taken on some social media clients so my days have become very busy . I am trying to keep up with your blogs and commenting but I am a little behind. My plan is to TRY to give one day a week to these things so don’t disown me! I also ask that you understand if I don’t comment on your blog that you accept my interactions on Twitter, Instagram,etc.. I’m not really into people connecting with me here and I not return the favor on some SM outlet. I see you, I appreciate you, I’m getting around to you!

I think that’s all I have for now. There will be some new additions to the blog in the coming month. Nothing drastic but just an expansion of content and more actual writing than just ramblings. I’m trying to position my brand to receive freelance work. All of this takes time, energy and sanity. Three things I’m running real low on right now.

Thank y’all for reading. See you on Monday with my birthday weekend wrapup… I don’t know exactly what I am doing but I will be TURNT UP!!

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