Random Thoughts

Dear Universe:
You have blessed me every day with so many great gifts.  I am thankful for my husband, kids, pets, other family, warm home, love, and so many other things.

Universe I need WILL be ONE of the winners of a years worth of diapers from Disney family sweepstakes (I will be notified in May).

Seven Things About Me


1.  I am deathly afraid of reptiles, especially snakes.
2.  I have lived in AB, and BC Canada, and in the US in both Ohio and Utah.
3.  I am determined to make money while I stay home with kids.
4.  I owe $56,000 in student loans and stay at home!.  Hmm you do that math it’s rough!
5.  I am sometimes so brutally honest I intimidate people.
6.  I have a pacemaker on my bladder (InterStim) OK I pee a lot!
7.  I can be too bossy for my own good at times, but always mean well but it does not always come across that way!

I’d like to pass this award on to a few of my favorite new blogs (or new to me blogs)

1. http://ashlemieux.blogspot.com/
2. http://melindatodd.com/
3. http://thatmormonwoman.blogspot.com/
4. http://crystaljigsaw.blogspot.com/
5. http://adbits.blogspot.com/
6. http://goyay.blogspot.com
7. http://zeroto31in88.blogspot.com/
8. http://couponqueensthrone.blogspot.com/
9. http://barefootbysea.blogspot.com/
10. http://www.atasteoft.com/
11. http://casinofreebies3.blogspot.com
12. http://mysecrettoprosperity.blogspot.com/
13. http://cathykennedystories.blogspot.com/
14. http://toesthattwinkle.blogspot.com/
15. http://wordsinsync.blogspot.com/
16. http://pixelberrypiedesigns.blogspot.com/
17. http://www.apronsenorita.blogspot.com/
18. http://savinginbellerive.blogspot.com/
19. http://mikaspantry.blogspot.com/
20. http://favblogcontests.blogspot.com/

Thanks again Carrie!!

The morning started out with my son deciding he was not going to sleep past 6:30am. Mind you I had only had a few hours of sleep because my daughter was up crying at 3am because she had to go to the bathroom. She used to get up with no problem and go back to bed but she decided to cry and wake me up and then cry for 20 minutes after she went to the bathroom. It then took me another 30 minutes to fall back asleep and then I was up at 6:30am with a cranky, crying son. He did not go back to sleep that morning.

About 3 hours later he decided that he was going to move Mommy’s jewelry box away from the wall. I keep it face backwards so the drawers are against the wall so he cannot open it and take everything out. It took about 3 seconds for him to push it around and as I turned to see what he was doing, and tried to get over to him fast enough I watched it fall over onto the floor face down. I just could not get there fast enough to stop it and it seemed to be happening in slow motion. Here is the jewelry box now.

I collected myself and we rushed out the door as we had been in an ice storm for 3 days and I had time sensitive material that HAD to get in the mail. I could not just plop a stamp on it and send it from home as it was a larger than normal envelope and I had no idea what to put on it.

My care had not been driven in 3 days due to the ice storm and after letting it heat up for 60 minutes and still having to hack ice off of it after that 60 minutes, we all got into the car. I had salted the driveway about 4 times during the storm but it did not help.

I attempted to pull out of my driveway, I say attempt because I slid and came within a 1/2 inch of hitting my car on the fire hydrant that is so smartly place on the corner of the driveway.

I then made it to the post office and had to very tired hungry kids. I thought “we will just go in real quick and get something to eat after.” WRONG! I waited in line 35 minutes. Kids were crying and running around. I had my 1 year old in a stroller and he screamed while my 4 1/2 year old ran everywhere. There was one postal worker and the line went to the front door. I thought about getting out of line once or twice but would have just had to come back and at that point there were 6 people behind me.

We finally got out of there, got something to eat and went home.

I sat on the sofa after my morning and afternoon and just thought to myself “why am I getting so upset?” “I did not hit the car, we made it safe and a jewelry box is material.” It was at that point I got up and gave both my kids the biggest hug and kisses, turned the TV off and turned the radio on. We dance, laughed and had a great time for the rest of the afternoon.

Things happen and we cannot control everything but we CAN control how we handle things! Before my journey I was not aware of this and I would have let all these things ruin my whole day. I know I am on the right track because I only let it ruin half my day and half is better than ALL!

Have a good week!
Tawna

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People ask me all the time if the winters are so much worse out west since they here about the massive amounts of snow we can get (I lived in Utah and southern Alberta Canada). You know, to be honest I think they are worse here. This is my opinion anyway. I would so much rather deal with a foot of snow then a few inches of snow with an inch of ice added underneath it. I used to think it was no big deal to drive in the winter out west, but out here, the ice is unbearable. Give me snow over ice any day! Besides I do dislike the humidity big time. I do like living here I just don’t like the humidity.  I guess I better retire somewhere else eh?

I hope you are all staying safe and warm! Thanks goodness I have an awesome husband who works hard so we can have a warm house to look out onto the fiercly cold winter!