I told you that I would post the bad

What am I thinking even taking this picture of myself much less showing it. This is what I look like at 3am in the morning. Not I pretty sight believe me I know. Why am I awake at 3 ? I was asleep in my nice comfy bed when Daren got up to leave. He has some thing he is going to today that is up in the bay area. I'm not exactly a happy camper about him going in the first place. This group he is involved in has been a sore subject between us for awhile now. But I was only half awake and had plans to go back to sleep. No such luck. I can't even count how many times Daren walked in and out of the house before he left which woke up our dog who has been sleeping in the bathroom since his surgery last week. 10 minutes of barking I finally had enough and took him outside to try and go potty then back in the bathroom to sleep. By this time I am wide awake and really not a happy person. I didn't finally fall back to sleep until after 4. Really having a dog recover from surgery is almost as bad as having another baby. So not only did Daren go on a trip I told him I didn't want him to go on because he has been away a lot lately, he left me awake for hours because he woke our dog.

Day 3 of my self portrait

First let me start this by saying you are all so sweet. The response I got in comments and emails was fun to read. This whole challenge I put on myself is really just that a challenge for me. As soon as I posted what I was going to do I wanted to undo what I had just said. I am not brave at all, this is so outside my comfort zone that I am amazing myself. I am a quite person when you first meet me that some people sometimes mistake for me just being a snob. But I really am not. And it is something that I am really working at overcoming and have had a lot of success. You should have seen how I was years ago. Really when I look at myself 15-20 years ago to who I am today I see a different person. But I do still have a long way to go.

Update on yesterday's missed call. No they never did call back and yes I did try to call back. I talked to a very nice girl at Harpo and she said that unless they left an message for me or I had a name she couldn't really help me but if the number comes up on my caller Id again to be sure and answer it. Well "DUH" of coarse I'm going to answer it. My family has been instructed that if they are on the phone and call waiting goes through with the number they are to answer it. I think I will make this an exception in my call waiting pet peeve. Yes call waiting bugs me. If I'm on the phone I will usually ignore it unless I see it is from the school or the kids or hubby if I know he is driving somewhere. All other calls can leave a message if they want me to call back. And it bugs me that my husband is one of the worst offenders of putting me on hold or rushing to get me off the phone because he has someone on hold or another call is coming through. Just let me leave you a message and call me back. That is one of the main reasons I don't bother calling him half the time.
Oh and to the many questions about what my email to Dr Berman was about. She is a sex therapist so yeah it had to do with that. Daren read my blog probably for the first time and said so you are broadcasting our sex life in an email. No it wasn't really about our sex life. The topic was mainly about my crazy hormones and how it has affected me. So yes technically maybe it was about our sex life because my hormones do affect if he is getting any that day or not.

I can't believe I missed the call

I have spent the morning trying to get something done. I don't know how many times I have walked into my scrap room and then walked right back out. I have been distracted all morning ever since I looked through my caller id. Got out of the shower with grand ideas for the day. Do a little cleaning and then let some creative juices out. I picked up my phone and was going to clean out the caller id numbers when the first number that pops up is from Harpo Inc. I only know of one Harpo so right away did a reverse number look up and sure enough all the names that came up under that number were from Oprah. What do I do call the number back with no idea who to ask for or wait and hope thy call back? Wait why did they call in the first place? I remember a few months back while listening to Oprah radio and hearing the sex therapist Dr Berman talk about something that kinda hit close to home but didn't quite cover what I have been going through. I decided what the heck the first email I ever write and it's about my sex life. Maybe they will go through the huge pile of numbers they probably have in front of them and I will get another call one day. But for now I will always think of my missed call from Oprah ( yeah it wasn't from her but close enough)

This is me

I took out my camera to take some pictures of the boys playing but instead I plopped down in the grass and turned the camera on me. Wow the camera caught it all. Where did those wrinkles come from? Maybe I should start looking into Botox....... um no. I will say that I am my own worst critic, I think it is a woman thing being able to find the tiniest flaw that someone else may not even notice. So I am going to challenge myself this week and take a self portrait every day... The good and the bad days. I will post a picture every day and maybe in the process give you a glimpse at a little part of me that maybe you didn't know.

This is what happens when you lay in the grass with a dog nearby. Thankfully he was only sniffing around and didn't decide to give me a big wet kiss.

Where have I been

I know my blogging has been horrible the last few weeks. It is the last few weeks of school and life is crazy so here are just a few things that have made me neglect the blogging world.
Little league~ really how did I do it all those years with Ashley some days I feel like I am a slave to this sport.
State Fair~ I think this is payback from the teachers just because they want to make our life a little more crazy. This is by far one of the most dreaded projects in all of elementary school.
And then just when I see the light at the end of the tunnel our poor baby Baldy had to be a dork and try to eat a corn cob. And my dog isn't smart enough to chew no he swallows things whole. We didn't know it was a corn cob until the vet pulled it out of his intestine. Yes he had surgery. I was not a happy camper because well it is not cheap to do this but also it means that he got a corn from someone other then us. I know this because my boys have braces and I do not make corn on the cob. So that means it was thrown in our yard from someone.

There have been other things like trips to Disneyland, open houses, track meets and a trip into LA to have lunch and see a Dirty Dancing. But I'm not going to bore you with every little detail. Summer is coming and we have lots of fun things planned so I will have lots to share then.

Happy Mother's Day

I want to wish all my mommy friends a wonderfully Happy Mother's Day.
I am in awe when I see pictures of my babies when they were so young and then to see my family today. They grow to fast and I want to absorb every little detail.

Stagecoach

I think it is now safe to say that I have fully and completely recovered from Stagecoach. Some of you may be thinking "What is Stagecoach?" It is 2 full days of some really fabulous music. I know not all of you like country music and I will be honest and say that I have really in the past 2 years embraced the music. Sure I liked some of it like the crossover stuff but I was more of a pop and old school alternative girl. I don't remember the exact moment that I made the big switch I think it started slow with several friends getting me into a certain person and then suddenly I decided to put one on my XM preset and before long my radio didn't leave the station.
We took the trailer out late Friday night along with our friends Tina and Cliff. Little did we really know what we were getting into. After we parked in our spot for the weekend we discovered we were among the battle of who could play the music louder. The first day we grabbed a spot that we thought was going to be great and started walking around. Sampled some BBQ that was so yummy and checked out everything. Got back to our spot and learned that we really didn't pick a great spot. That's ok Tina was able to smuggle some rum in and it turned out to be super good poured over the shaved iced. The bands that day were great to hear. I love Darius Rucker, Little Big Town and have a slight crush on Brad Paisley.
Sunday were were going to plan better and try to smuggle some more booze in and some food. Before we even left the trailer the jager bombs had to be had and Daren poured the rest in a plastic bottle, some how it ended up empty by the time we got to the gate and security was tight and a few things were found, I did a little trash digging with Tina distracting the guards and was able to get a few of the tossed items. We scored and found a better spot on the lawn and enjoyed the day. Zac Brown, Lady Antebellum, Kid Rock and Kenny Chesney were all great.
I am excited to go again next year. Announce the line up already.

Out on her own

My baby girl is now living on her own. She moved out of her dads house last week in an apartment she is renting with another friend. So today I went to go see her new home and make sure it was in a safe area. I driving through Ladera Ranch I was thinking wow this place is really pretty and her apartment complex felt really homey with kids riding around and all. We took a drive to Target and picked up a few odds and ends to help her out.
Ashley in her little kitchen that was pretty stocked already with dishes and such but we picked up a few more boxes of her favorite mac and cheese
Here is Ashley in the Living room laying on her bed. Yes she has been sleeping on the floor in the living room. It's a 1 bedroom and her friend pay more so she gets the room. So Nana bought her an air mattress for now and her dad was suppose to be bringing her a couch tonight. Gotta love being out on your own for the first time sleeping on the floor and being totally happy about it.

Some pages I finished

These are a few of the pages I finished last weekend. I used some of my Scarlet Lime kits. I love that I can just grab one of the kits and know that that is all I need for the night.

This is what I'm doing

Many of you know that I have just started a new business. Let me tell you how it happened.
If you have known me long you know that I have done way to many direct selling businesses. 1st it was Tupperware, then it was Discovery Toys and Creative Memories and more recently it was Mona Vie. I was such an easy sell and why I would sign up to sell is crazy because I am not a sells person. The truth was I did it to get the discounts. Who doesn't love Tupperware and want to get it for 30% less. Hello me.
A few months ago Daren came home with a new company he had signed up with. I'm thinking great Mona Vie was you baby also and look how that turned out. I checked it out and kinda watched him for awhile. Used the products and found that I actually liked them. So last week I decided that I would let him sign me up as a distributor also. What did this company have that I didn't find in others was the team work I saw. All the others always told you we are here for you but I never found that to be true. But I have seen how much the more experienced and successful people in the company work with you and help you so you are not doing it alone. Also the products that they have are really really great. I have been using them and trust that they are high quality. I have also felt so much better.
So I am going to try my best to be successful while at the same time not bugging the heck out of my friends. I don't want to become the person that you try to hide from because I'm always trying to sell you something but if I do happen to give you samples please try them and tell me what you think.
Are you wondering what company I'm with. It is called Visalus. It is a total health and wellness company. Browse through my website here. Let me know what you think and hey if you do want to try anything let me know and I will give you some samples.