You Know You Are Tired When

You fill up your kids sippy with coffee!!!

Outdoor Wednesday - The Soft and Hard of it!

My Outdoor Wednesday photo today is some high weeds behind the park where I took my daughter a few days ago. I love the feathery look of it, so soft. Yet, if I touched it, it would be dry and crisp.

ABC Wednesday = R

Ricky Raccoon is one of my son's favorite animals.

A Note From An Old Acquaintance - A Review

Yesterday I mentioned I would post my review of A Note From An Old Acquaintance by Bill Walker.

Filled with tender romance and taut suspense, A Note from an Old Acquaintance is an unforgettable story about fate, honor, and the power of true love.

I sat down with this book while on sick leave from my life. I feel like I or one of my kids have been sick for a month now.

The book started off so sad, to think that this man Brian loses his wife who has been in a coma since the accident that took the life of his three year old son is just devastating. Then he receives an email from an old love. From someone he hasn't spoken to in 15 years.

His relationship with Joanna was something he never quite got over, nor for that matter, had she. I loved the back story which makes up a lot of the book about how Brian and Joanna met and ended their love affair.

At first, I was questioning Joanna's motives. Why after all this time did she reach out to Brian? In the end we know why their affair ended and how their relationship affected all parties involved.

Without giving away too much story. This is a book you should read. Bill, is a thought provoking writer who had me distracted a few times while I pondered what I would do if Frank, Rich, Manny, Danny, Tommy, Steve,  (and I will stop the list now so I don't make myself look like a total loser) looked me up and tried to get in touch again. Would I be ok with how the relationship ended? Would I want them back in my life in anyway?

A Note From An Old Acquaintance is a book I would highly recommend and will list on my holiday gift guide as well.

Ruby Tuesday - Blast From The Past

Well, not the so distant past, but the past nonetheless. This is a photo of my babies from 2005. Handsome was hogging the tunnel and Goddess was waiting her turn. This is not what would happen now. She would never stand there waiting, there would be pulling, tugging and eventual crying.

Take Me Back Tuesday

Self Portrait Sunday

Last week we discussed the possibility of  choosing between two themes. This is currently my favorite shirt. While you can't see it, it is too cool. I bought it because it has jewels on the front and since I was doing my very first jewelry show I wanted to look bejeweled.

Self portrait while sitting at my jewelry table waiting for customers.

I am holding a check which was my payment for 4 hours of work. It was a shopping extravaganza and we invited the town to attend. There would be four of us. One selling Sensy, one selling Tastefully Simple, Me and another selling facial products. We had two customers who arrived together. Fortuntaly I made a sale, selling 3 pieces. We were all doing a giveaway too and of course the person who purchased from me got my giveaway so basically I broke even.

It was a learning experience and something that will be much easier to do again. I am a fairly shy person and this was a huge step outside of my comfort zone but it was worth it. There was a lot of positive feedback and that is worth a fortune.

The shot above was taken by my husband who seemed really proud of me. It isn't a great shot but at least it was him who offered to take it.

Color Carnival - Better Late Than Never - Come Smell the Flowers

Life Recap

There is so much going on these days I feel like I have to write it here or forget.

Tomorrow, I head into my son's class to read a book to his classmates. Why am I so nervous reading to a group of 4-6 year olds?

Saturday, I am doing my very first jewelery party as part of a local group of women entrepreneurs. One women is opening up her home, where 4 of us will be selling our wares to the public. One sells, a skin care system, Tastefully Simple and the last one  Scentsy, then there is me, Street Angel Jewelry. I am so nervous. This is not something that I ever thought about doing.  My blog, the jewelry, writing,  my photography is all very anonymous. This is weird; standing at my table with all my jewelry in front of me saying, this is mine and I make it. Scary.

I have spent the past 4 hours tagging the 96 items I have for sale.

Then, I have won a few giveaways the past three weeks from Bloggers that I wanted to give a shout out to.

MommyMandy - I won an OxiClean Baby Care Giveaway - which is a gift for my girlfriend's new niece who will hopefully be born before Thanksgiving.

Hip Mama's Place - A Wubbzy Goes Boo DVD - It is really cute. My daughter has watched it every day since she got it.

The Dirty Shirt - A Care Bears DVD that I am holding for my daughter for Christmas.

Confessions of a Psychotic Housewife - Aa My Little Pony Twinkle Wish Adventure DVD that I am also saving for Christmas.

Mom of 2 Dancers -  100 brochures from Uprinting. My plan is to use them to make brochures for my Street Angel line.

One2One Network - A $75.00 gift certificate to Target which I am so beyond excited about. This will really come in handy this Christmas.

I feel like the luckiest person alive. It has been a wonderful 3 weeks and I wish everyone else luck on blogger giveaways.

There is Nothing Cuter than Sibling Hugs

Wordless Wednesday - A Half Birthday

This wordless Wednesday, can't be that wordless. Today, is my Handsome's half birthday. He is 6.5 years old and we celebrate half's here. We don't do much, but we do give them the dinner they ask for and talk about their birthday all day. Then, we do a cake and sing, "Happy Half Birthday to You!" The kids really just love that they get a "special day" dedicated to them. Honestly, it really is about the candle. What kid doesn't love blowing out a candle?

In fact, here is Goddess' half birthday this year. Notice the face? This is one of my favorite pictures. She was kinda upset that Handsome decided to blow out her candle.  I ended up re-lighting and telling him to step back but didn't know that she made this face and pose until I looked at the photos after download.

Take Me Back Tuesday

Way back, 3 years ago or more...I used to do a lot of scrapblogging. It was so much fun and I love the look. Then Scrapblog decided to start charging so I stepped away from it. These sheets of my kids playing in boxes are too cute to me. Don't all kids love boxes?

40 Years of Sunny Days - A Review - Great Holiday Gift Idea

I am thrilled to be a part of the Sesame Street, 40 Years of Sunny Days, DVD Collection campaign.

If there was a person raised on Sesame Street, it was me. I was 3 years old when Sesame Street first aired on TV. I don't recall much before the age of 3 but I do recall Sesame Street.

Every day my mother put it on our Montgomery Ward, black and white 13 inch TV and we watched and sang along. After I grew out of Sesame Street I would revisited it while babysitting my cousins. Then again, when I was in my late teens, while getting ready for work, I would occasionally put it on. We didn't have cable and there was nothing on beside the news. So, I would go back to something that was comforting and comfortable. With 13 channels you didn't have much of a choice back then. However, when my son was born and I had all the choices in the world, 180 something channels and all the VHS and DVD tapes a child could ever want, I still put Sesame Street on for him.

Why? Well, easy, it was something I respected. Something I knew he would love and something I could deal with. I have always felt that too much TV is not the problem for children. It is what they watch, and Sesame Street for me has good morals, is educational and entertaining.We still watch it everyday at 7:00 a.m.

When we received the DVD set in the mail I was so excited to show the kids. We watched it in two days.

In A Nutshell: I loved sharing songs I remember with my kids. They were surprised at all the songs I knew. What I also liked and appreciated was how fast Sesame Street moves along. Back in the 60's the colors weren't as vivid the effects not as eye catching but this DVD is fast paced. Basic Sesame Street logic, keep things moving and colorful and kids will watch.

The set also comes with a book full of colorful photos and journaling about the inception of Sesame Street and behind the scenes which were really fun to see.