Big Deal or No Big Deal?

WOW! I have seriously been slacking....I mean several months since my last post? I must have been busy or something.

To update you, I lost my job, which was ok because it was getting VERY questionable the whole ethics point of it anyway, and then my fiancée ( yes i am engaged , no big deal) and I started a non profit child care center. No big deal right? We house 40 children a day ages 4 weeks to 12 years old (although a majority of the children are 4 and 5 yr olds) and even had time to extend our facility for the summer to house 5-12 year old in a separate summer program licensed for an additional 40 children. Again, No big deal.

Shortly after licensing our child care center my fiancée and myself went on a vacation (which was planned well before I lost my job) to Jamaica, but everyone vacations, so no big deal. I will however have an entire blog about that vacation coming up, so hold your breath!

I have stopped going to church (GASP) because I have lost my faith in the people who call themselves Shepards, so I am struggling with that minor detail (minor....yeah right) but, really, no big deal.

My oldest daughter has hit the milestone every kid looks forward to, being a teenager. She isn't rotten yet, but I am told to give it a year and then try and say that. My youngest daughter turned 8, and although she is very smart she is still baffled how I am unable to love her father and be with him, I am sure years of therapy later in her adult life will open her eyes, because I just don't know how to break it to her.......so i am struggling with parenting skills, but every parent does, no big deal.

My ex husband has started dating, and don't get me wrong I am delighted with the fact that he has realized there is no more "us" . It just makes me slightly crazy because he tries to "one-up" me when it comes to his new girlfriend. Most people struggle with egos and stupidity, so i just have to deal with it because really it's no big deal.

I am overworked and underpaid, and I feel most often under appreciated, but most moms/wives have that feeling at some point in their day so, no big deal.

I guess what I am trying to get across is that, Yes, alot of things have happened, but really, in the entire scheme of things, they are all truly, NO BIG DEAL?

Until next time, that's all for now.....

Busy Little Bee......

Busy busy busy, this is the word that I can use to describe my life in the month of July! I must admit, though, that I bring it ALL upon myself. See I volunteer for an AMAZING christian kids camp, which when I started, it was only one week long, well....that was six years ago, and now we have extended it to three weeks.....a session for each age group, kids, preteen and teen. I love to do it, I mean we operate on volunteer basis, and it keeps the cost of the camp fee down, which is great, and we plant sooooo many seeds in these children, but I am so exhausted after the sessions. *sigh* But that's another blog..........

So, we are celebrating the 4th of July weekend, which, where I am from we have a lot of small communities that each sponsor a different fireworks display, so it seems we are going to all kinds of fireworks festivities, one on the 27th, one on the 2nd, one on the 3rd, and then the one on the 4th. Plus there is the parade on the 4th, which happens to be a big to do with my best friend's family........then, On the 5th I start my first session of camp, and come home just for Friday night and Saturday, Sunday I have to set up a fundraiser and leave for the second session of camp, (at some point while I am home I have to do my laundry and prep for the following week...) after second session I come back home for Friday, so I have to work because I am kinda the boss, and since I will be away for the week, I am sure I have so much damage control I may have to call in the National Guard or something, who knows. then Saturday is filled with laundry and prepping ( what a glamorous life, No?) Sunday is back to Camp for the final session, Thursday Night is home late, Friday morning is my Final Divorce hearing ( which scares the pants off me BTW) at ten thirty, followed by work at noon, and a rehearsal dinner ( not MINE, a girlfriend is getting married) that evening (which is going to rock, because I will probably need to drink) and then Saturday I am in the Wedding, which will be.....hmm let's just say, worthy of blogging about I am sure......and then.....*sigh* I may, jusy maybe, be able to exhale for the first time all month......

So why Do I do crazy stuff that completely over books my life? Well, It keeps me outta trouble for sure, and because, well, let's just be honest....I do like it, why else would I do it? Is is crazy to think about all at once, you had better believe it, but hey, that's why I blogged, I mean at least now I have in hard copy on what the heck I am supposed be doing........So I guess this also means that I have the potential to have a few more blogs based on these experiences........and I guess that also means you may want to hang onto your panties cause we're in for a ride.........until next time.....

Laughter is, after all, the BEST medicine

So I, like anyone else, go through my day and witness MANY strange things...or so that's my perception of it. Plus, given the fact that I am detail oriented, I perhaps, pick up on some things more than other people would. This is going to be a rambling of the things that I have "witnessed" over tha past few days.....

First of all I had the opportunity to enjoy my oldest daughter's spring concert....and WOW what a great people watching venue! I saw this one "boy" who was probably like 19 years old, dressed in TIGHT fitting jeans, which were rolled up like Capris, a flannel shirt and loose fitting stocking hat.....he looked, well, how shall we say it....eccentric.

Then there was the enitre 6th grade class....why is when kids are already at that akward stage in their life, they feel it's necessary to dress the way they do and fix their hair that way? I mean really ladies, let's face it, the side part, no bang, hang in your face thing? Who woke up one morning and thought hmmmm, this was a good idea? And what is with the boys having hair swooped off to one side and shaggy to boot? GET A FRICKEN HAIR CUT!!!!!

I was at the local grocery store the next day, and I saw this average looking woman, probably mid 40s a little overweight, walking through the store at 9 o clock in the morning, in her Pj's ...which i am not making fun of, becasue holy cow, I wear mine all of the time, but her hair was snarled, which meant she had not made any attempt to brush it, and she wasn't wearing a bra, and for the record, she should have considered one, but even all of this was NOT the odd part, I noticed that she must have taken the time or given thought to put her jewelery and make up on...this make up was NOT the kind that would be left over from the night before, Lord knows I have seen My fair share of that kind, nope, this was flawless, just put on kind...and her jewelery was not something that any woman would be able to sleep in, just trust me on this....so it made me wonder....why on earth not just take the additional five minutes to finish the job before you some out in public? Just a question.....

Now since i work with a tribe of pygmies, I hear all kinds of interesting things come out of their mouths.....

I had this one pygmie who was on the changing table, and while I was changing his diaper he reached down and pulled on his "boy part" and looked at me and asked, what' s this? I told him it was his boy part...he lifted his head a little to look at it, and said "why hello!" and layed back down....oh man the laughter I had to contain!

There was another pygmie that was following behind me out to the play yard when I heard her say what I thought was a**hole ...not once but three times. I turned around to explain to her that we don't say those type of words, when I realized she was crouched down looking at, and pointing to, an ANT HOLE! *sigh of relief*

I was sitting down in the morning, enjoying some coffee, when the first pygmie came into my class room. She looked at me with excitement, and said, It's gonna be a nice day today!, I asked her why she thought that ( really trying to prompt her to tell me because the sun is shining, or it's warm outside etc.) and she replied," because I watched the weather channel. " Well...of course she did, how silly of me not to know?

I had one pygmie come up to me in the afternoon, amidst the general departure time, and ask "when is my gamma going to be here?" I told him, oh in a little bit, buddy. He looked very excited and replied, "a little bit?, that's my favorite time of the day!"

I notice all kinds of ridiculous details, and hear ALL KINDS of weird kid-isms, I must say, that most of the time God shows his sense of humor through all of the chaos i have in my world, through such things. I guess at the end of the day I should, maybe, try to be less judgmental, and laugh a little more...... :o) well that's it for now, until next time......