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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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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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Random

Randomness Abounds

So yeah…NaBloPoMo? FAILED. I tried and that’s all that matters my track record is now 1-2. Maybe next year, if I’m still blogging.

If you follow me on Twitter you know that Lil Mama doesn’t sleep. I took her to the doctor yesterday and basically he told me its my fault because I won’t put her on a schedule.

Whose fault? I guess. We’ll be cracking down this week. I was still letting her nap for an hour ~~or for however long I needed her to be quiet so I can finish whatever I am working on.~~ He said at this age a 30 minute power nap will get them through the day to bedtime. So if you don’t see me commenting on your blogs then you know the 30 minute nap time has been put in effect.

I’ve come to the conclusion that my son has a condition called selective hearing.

Symptoms: Hearing what one wants to hear and saying huh when it involves an action a person is not interested in. How does the saying go? “If you can huh, you can hear” Yeah, that.

Treatment: Prompt removal of iPod until further notice

Why y’all didn’t tell me next Thursday is Thanksgiving.

Yesterday I went into the school to pick up the cookie dough from my son’s school fundraiser and caught a glimpse at the bulletin board that stated Thanksgiving break 11/19-11/23. I do a double take, mentally take note that the date was currently 11/12. Added 7 to 12 and came to the conclusion that he doesn’t have school next week..THEN I was like OH.MY.GAH. That means Thanksgiving is next Thursday.

Please don’t laugh at me. Between this house mess and trying to work on some things professionally I had no clue. I thought I had another week. I have no idea what we are eating, where we’re going. None of that. None of it. I’ll work it out.

Speaking of…whose battling Black Friday. I lie every year and say I’m not going and “be” right up in the mix. The adrenaline is all I need. So even though I’m not participating in Black Friday this year I am recruiting people to ride up to the midnight madness with me at the North Georgia Premium outlets…I’m probably not going to go though. <insert side eye>

We have a winner to the fabulous Nineteen Pieces Giveaway. Thank you all for entering the winner is….
a Rafflecopter giveaway

Congratulations Amanda!! I’ll be emailing you.

I posted this photo of me on Instagram. I am so proud of myself for finally figuring out how to tie my scarf, as in my night night cap. The weather was misty and I had just gotten my hair pressed so I whipped this up. I got so many requests for tutorials that I am going to do a video tomorrow and I will be doing a giveaway for scarf I used. A friend of mine imports the silk and hand sews them. They are amazing for keeping your hair at night. I said AWL of that to say make sure you come by here tomorrow…M’kay!

Can we come to your house for Thanksgiving? Are you riding with me to the outlets or not?!! Did Thanksgiving creep on the come up on you too?

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This and That Thursday

Here’s some randoms..

Okay. Addison has turned into this diva child over night. I don’t know where it came from but I am daily finding myself trying to mask laughter while attempting to scold her for some of her ridiculous and mean behavior. Lately all of the pictures I have been taking of her look like this…I wonder where she gets it from

My son is doing really well in school. He is reading on a 5th grade level. I went and visited a private school that is not far from our new house. I fell in love with it. Although we don’t know how we will pay for it, we are going to let him test in and figure it out later…Faith anyone?

I am finally coming to grips with the fact that a new Divinitee line will have to be put off until the Spring. I just can’t make the money appear and with the astronomical amount of money that we have to come up with for the new house right now I don’t see it…I am finally fine with that.

I am getting a lot of new opportunities for this here blog. I am turning down some things but you will start to see a few more giveaways and sponsored posts. If I am presented something that I am interested in or is child centric I am going to bring it here with the thought that you might be interested in it as well. NOPE this will not become a giveaway/review blog, but what kind of cyber home girl would I be if I didn’t share good and useful information/products with you?!!

I am on the hunt for a pair of printed leggings. Preferably a pair that make me look “thick.”

One of our cars will be paid off next month!!! OMG, I talked all that mess about driving it until the wheels fall off and saving up half of the money for our next car purchase and now I can’t wait until we close on the house so I can get a new car…I know.

I am back to my old ways. I was doing good and then last week alone I bought a whopping 12 bottles of nail polish…and the cycle starts again. Every time I go in the store I have to buy a new bottle. Since I am so passionate about nail polish be on the look out Mondays for my link up where you can come and show off your newest manicure. Be ready on Monday okay?!

The baby is sick with a runny nose and a cough. We were up all last night and guess what…I feel the tingle in my throat. :-/

What’s been going on in your world?

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