Don't Get Mad...Get Glad

Lol, no not really. It's too early to come up with a much more clever title. I was just thinking, do you ever want to tell someone just shut up already. There is this person, I don't want to mention names just in case she ever reads this, I care for her a lot and mean this in the kindest way. But sometimes I just want to shake her and tell her to shut up already. Every time I talk to her she's either complaining about one person or another. These two people cannot do anything right it seems like. Now one of them and I had a falling out way back in February, while I'm not angry with her anymore I can no longer trust her but wish her the best of luck with her latest adventure. She's trying to be brave and moved away from her family to a place she wants to call home. She's trying to make a place where her and her kids will be happy. More power to her, isn't that what we all are trying to do. Today while talking to the first person I mentioned, this first person had nothing positive to say at all. Nothing like a load of negativity first thing in the morning.
I try to put a positive light on it and tell well she's doing this and this and says this kid is happy and doing this and maybe she's trying her best right now. Well the first person was like "that will never last". I just wanted to say Ugh and get over it and wish her best of luck already. She's family (they're all family) and you just cannot stay mad or hold a grudge with family (or anyone for that matter) life is too short and it's too much work to do that. Much easier to just let everything go wish the person best of luck and keep in touch.
Reading back on what I just wrote I know it probably doesn't or won't make sense to anyone but me, but I got it off my chest for awhile. Probably just until I talk to the first person again. It's what I was put on this world for I guess, to be every ones sounding board (or would it be bitch board). Maybe I chose the wrong career path to go on, maybe instead of nursing I should go into counseling or psychiatry ::insert eye rolling here::.

Can't think of a Title

I'm just putting something here so my imaginary readers know I still come to this blog. Hubby, the kiddies and I are going to go and check out a couple houses today. Hopefully one of them will feel like home and we get it. My middle son, B.J. said he hopes these are the last ones we look at (We've only looked at 3 others). I don't think he is going to be much of a shopper. He's going to be more like his daddy. The "If you want it just buy it" type. I'm the "Well if I buy it today it will just go on sale tomorrow so I might as well wait a few days" kind of person. Half the time I never buy it or I walk all over the store with it only to put it back on the shelf, or hand it to the cashier and tell him/her that I've changed my mind. I think it's a family thing, my youngest sister tells me she does the same as well. My mom, I know, will hem haw and mutter over a decision to buy a simple blouse that is marked down like 75%. My Grandma H and Great Grandma are notorious yard sellers and flea market shoppers. So yea, come to think of it, it is a family thing. I'll most likely pass the trait on down to my daughter and granddaughters.
So nothing new going on just at this very moment. Kids are finishing their chores and getting ready to get ready to leave as soon as Hubby gets home. I wish a safe Labor day weekend to everyone reading this. Blessed Be.

Sorry and What I want my kids to learn

I didn't get around to finishing my "a day in the life..." post. I'll try that again at a different time. I was reading on another blog where this lady was saying that she was glad that of things her parents taught her (that she may of thought useless at the time) and that got me thinking...what was I taught by my parents or grandparents that I want to make sure to teach my kids...
My grandpa H. had a salvage yard, well this was every kid's dream. My brother and I learned how to start a car, drive a standard (well Grandpa never let me go past second gear back then) and we were allowed to drive around in the fields of Grandma and Grandpa's 40 acres. Grandpa showed me where to look to check all my fluids, where the alternator, starter, radiator, carburetor were. Grandpa made sure I could go from first, to reverse drive backwards and frontwards with a standard transmission without killing the car. He taught me how to shift gears without popping the clutch (too much, lol I still do that). He taught me how to change a tire. OH and he taught me how to cook sausage.
My Great Grandma H taught me how to cross-stitch, OK so its not a useful task really but it's something I enjoyed and created fond memories of her.
I think my love of reading came from my Grandma H. She has a room full of books and I think I read every one of them growing up...of course now she has more and got rid of some of the really old ones. Grandma also taught me about saving money and balancing a bank account. She set up all of us kids with a savings account when we were younger and taught us how to fill out the deposit slip and keep track of our balance in the little ledger book they give you.
My Grandma B taught me how to sew, even though I still don't sew very straight, I can do it.
From my mom I've learned, gardening, crochet, cooking, how to get dishes really clean, how to do laundry, to watch over those younger then me.
I want my kiddies to learn these things and more, I want them to also learn:
To respect the elderly, the Earth and learn that everything is connected
To respect themselves... always watch what and how much they eat, do not be lazy, get up, get out and do something, brush their teeth, wash their hands and keep a clean home so that they remain healthy.
To learn the truth, no matter how hard it may be, is always the best thing to tell.
To make whatever job(s) they have in their life seem like the best job ever. Attitude is everything, you may only flip burgers for a living, but be the best dang burger flipper you can be, be nice to your co-workers and when you move on you will have good memories of the experience.
I want my kids to know that education is everything. They may not have to go to college, but they do have to do something. Whether it be a vo-tech school or an apprenticeship, you cannot get anywhere with just a high school diploma.
Family is important, no matter how many times they hurt you, never hate them. You may have to be wary of them, but always accept them in your life.
Have fun...work and jobs are good, they keep you busy and give you money and a sense of accomplishment...but, take time to have fun as well. Only thing you'll really get if you work all the time is a shorter life and less memories and a tired mind and body. Take the time to get out, play, spend time with family and friends, make messes, make noise. Life is too short.
Never burn bridges...no matter how much you might want to...you never know when you will need to cross them again.
Budget your money. 'nuff said.

Well, I'm sure there is much more I want them to learn in the next few years before I turn them loose on the wall, most of all I want them to be kind considerate, respectful, responsible, independent adults.

A Day in the Life

I was reading another blog where the writer did a day in the life. Well, my life is not very exciting or anything. But, I've decided to go ahead and try it so I'll start with so far today...
5:05am
Turn off alarm, tell Hubby it's time to get up. Stumble into the kitchen, grab 3 bottles of water (our water was brown last night, it's clearer this morning but I still do not trust it to drink), pour water into coffee maker, take out coffee grounds from yesterday, put in fresh grounds.

5:31 am
Kiss Hubby good-bye. Lock front door turn off living room light and decide to go back to bed for a little while. Lay in bed for 1 minute and hear key in door. Go into living room, to see Hubby coming back in to get something he forgot. Kiss Hubby good-bye one more time and go back to bed.

8:00 am
Youngest son comes in bedroom, "Mommy I'm hungry". Try to talk him into a few more minutes of sleep. Doesn't work. Get up, he says "You haven't had your coffee yet, right?" (my youngest two say "right" after nearly every sentence, don't know why). I tell him no I haven't and to get a bowl for his cereal as I pour myself some coffee. I take a quick drink of coffee and as he grabs his bowl and then says he's going to get the milk. I pour his rice krispies in the bowl and he comes over with the milk saying "Now we get to wake up the cereal" (last week when he had rice krispies he put his ear next to the bowl to hear them talking to him after I had put the cereal in, I told him they don't say anything until we wake them with the milk.)

8:10 am
Rest of the bunch hear youngest son getting his breakfast and come up to get theirs (amazing how good their hearing is until you want them to listen).

9:00 am
Breakfast is over, the kiddies are watching cartoons until I call them up to begin lessons, I'm finishing my emails and blog posts while thinking about everything that needs to be done today. Hoping to get an answer from two ladies that have responded to a babysitter wanted ad I have placed (I begin a new job next week, hurray for me:).

9:38 am
Well I'm done with this for now and need to go and get all the materials together for today's lessons. I'll post more later.

I'm so glad I'm not a math teacher

I couldn't handle it, lol. I was teaching my the two oldest kiddies their math yesterday, and I think I may have some bald spots now. If not then I should, as I was ready to tear out chunks of hair. What they were doing was relatively easy, place values. Whats so hard to understand about where the hundreds place, thousands place, millions place, etc. are? I think the problem was that it is easy. The kids were waiting for some trick to it. I understand that parts of it may look hard. For example my oldest ds had two write in standard form a number like this: 900,000+20,000+5,000+20 . It looks like a big addition problem to him and he didn't quite get that he should just pretty much ignore all the zeros, they are just telling him what place the number is in. I tried to explain that they were just pretty much writing numbers. With the above problem he would of had to write 925,020, and he would of been done with it. Whats worse is we did place values and standard and expanded forms like 2 months ago for like a month or so. My daughter was just wanting me to give her the answers I think, and thats why she was being difficult. My oldest son has always had problems understanding math, mostly because he never asked for help in school and now that we are homeschooling he still tries to get by without asking for help. He just thinks if he muddles through it he'll still pass, just like he's done year in p.s.
Well I guess thats enough for today. I need to get the kiddies on to the next subject, History and Geography.

New Blog Name

I like this name better and since I don't seem to have anyone reading it anyway I decided to change it. I'll write more later I think. After I come up with something to blog about.

Free Pearls?

I came across this in another blog and thought I would post it here and try it.
Pearls, pearlsand more Pearls