A Friendly Visit Update

Me and the kids had a great time with my friend and her kids. My kids were in their glory they each had someone to play with. My friend has two boys one 13 and the other is 6 so my kids stayed busy. The down side is now they want to go visit Jersey it's not that I don't want to visit Jersey I just don't want to leave my pets. The 2 cats would be fine but my dog Max he would not be I'm afraid. He is getting older and has never really been away from us so I am worried about leaving him with someone.

I would like to go see my parents and some of my friends some of them I could do without seeing. I haven't been back to NJ in almost 3 years I have seen my parents since then but it has been almost 2 years since then. I guess I will have to figure out how to make it happen.

My friend loved it so much down here she wants to move here she was looking for jobs and houses while she was here. I think it is because I taught her how to use the riding mower and now she wants one and the land to ride it on....But that's just what I think

Through My Eyes Fridays

Hello and welcome to Through My Eyes Fridays a weekly meme. The idea is simple show the world what you see either out of your window of your house or through the windshield of your car. Take pictures with your camera or your cell phone show us the sky above you or the ground below you.

You can also post videos if that is how you want us to look through your eyes it's up to you.Share pictures of your kids the furry ones or the not so furry ones. Is your desk a mess or is it the most organized thing in your home. What's in your home or out your front door we want to see your world through your eyes.

So I want to tell you how this meme is going to work

1. If you wish to play along please leave a comment here with your blog name so everyone who is playing can come to your blog to take a look.
2. Please use the logo above in your post linking back to this site.
3. Please lets keep things PG rated for all of our family oriented blogs
4. When making your post please use the following sentence
"This is what you see when you look Through My Eyes"
5. Have fun!!!!!
This is what you see when you look through my eyes at my beautiful yet totally goofy niece she is definitely one of a kind. She makes me laugh every time I talk to her. We have a very special bond.


My kids absolutely adore her she can and will brighten any one's day.

I LOVE HER MORE THAN WORDS CAN SAY!!!!!!!!
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I Think I'm Offended

So as some of you may know my father-in-law was here for a visit he came here very early Friday morning.Well all went well the kids loved having him here they spent as much time with him as they could. I am happy for them I think they were starting to miss family back in Jersey.

Something strange happened though I went outside with F-I-L- thinking he was getting ready to leave
A. because he had his stuff all packed up
B. because he started the van

So I was standing next to the van ready to give him a hug and say goodbye and all and he says"oh I'm not ready yet" so I go off and start fiddling around with somethings outside.So he moves his van so I figure he is getting ready to go so I walk over to where he had moved the van and he gets out of he van and says looking at the ground "I'm just checking to see if there were any leaks" then says "nope no leaks guess I'm good to go" Now here's the part where I'm a bit offended.

He get's into the van and drives off no goodbye, no see ya later, no nothing......

Should I be offended?

Well I kinda am and my feelings are kinda hurt.

What would you think if this happened to you?
Would you be hurt?

Surprise Guest

I am not the type of person who likes surprises as a matter of fact I hate them. So when I got a phone call Thursday afternoon from my father-in-law saying he was going to be at our house in a few hours I went into panic mode.

"is the house clean enough"
"do I have enough food "
"how long is he going to stay"

I know these are trivial things he could care less if the house is clean but I worry about this stuff anyway.I don't know why it's just the way I am my house of course was clean only had to pick up the trail of toys the kids left. I had just gone food shopping and so on. I just don't like to be surprised is all it comes down to.

Like my friend is coming for Thanksgiving and she made sure to let me know 2 months ago because she knows how neurotic I am.

But anyway he is still here my FIL that is and he says he is leaving sometime today. The kids have loved having him here. Everything is Grandpa this and Grandpa that it has been nice for them.They haven't seen any of the family since my brother and niece stopped here on their way to Florida for the races and that was sometime over the summer.

So that is why I have not been out and about in the blogging world this weekend and why I am going to be heading out to see all of you later today.Have a great day!!!!! : )

Missing Daddy

This is our dog his name is Max and this is what he looks like when "The Man" goes away for work. He stays in bed the whole time waiting for him to come home. He only gets out of bed to eat and go potty.

He misses his daddy so much I feel bad for him. When he isn't falling asleep waiting for daddy he is staring out the window looking for him to pull up the driveway.

I wish I had someone so loyal. Just thought I would share this and show all how adorable our dog is.

Looking For Answers

This economy is killing me and my family! It breaks my heart everyday to not be able to give my kids things they want and sometimes things they need."The Man" works hard for his money we never see him but yet we can't seem to get ahead. We don't spend money needlessly I try my very best to try to make ends meet. But it just keeps getting harder and harder.

I must admit I started this blog as a way to help out financially. I tried to get work outside of the house but have no one to watch the kids. Ok I know someone somewhere is thinking what about daycare? Well I don't have a college degree so a job that pays well is really not an option. Minimum wage here is $6.15 per hour so any money that I would make would go to gas and daycare. So what am I left with? How do I help? These are the questions I ask myself all the time day after day.

I know I am rambling on but I do have a point I need to figure out how to help out "The Man". I need to figure out a way to help the family survive.I need to do something that is going to make me feel better as a person,a woman,a wife and a mother.None of which I have felt very good about for a long time.I need to be able to say "hey I did it me all by myself"I made a difference and helped us all out.


I have researched work from home jobs and most of them are schemes and the ones that aren't my computer doesn't have what they require. So I came up with the idea of taking some college courses on line.While the kids are to young to be by themselves. I decided that the medical field is where it is people are always going to need medical attention for one thing or another. I decided I am not into blood and guts so the office part of it is where I may fit in. So I took my first on line class Medical Terminology I finished the class got my certificate but now what? I have a few more classes to take before I can even think about getting a job in the medical field but the thing I have discovered is. When doing research on the jobs that are out there in the medical field and there are a lot. You can not get hired if you don't have experience but if no one will hire you then how are you going to get experience?

Then I thought maybe I could get a job in the school system this way I will be home when the kids are. But it is very hard to get a job there I look almost everyday for job postings but all they have are jobs for people with degrees. So I am once again out of luck! So what am I to do? Now I am left with blogging (I don't mean that to sound like I don't like it) but now I am running into how to get people to notice me? How do I bring traffic to my site? I am not a professional writer (as you can tell) I have no crafty skills to share with everyone. I have no technical knowledge to draw in techies. All I have is me a mom, wife,woman and what life is throwing at me.I am not sure that, that is going to be enough to bring home the bacon so to speak.

So I guess I am looking for words of wisdom someone who will take me under their wing and show me what direction I need to go. From what your reading am I going to make it as a blogger? Will this finally be where I am meant to be? I am looking for answers in a community that I am finding likes to help one another out. So any constructive criticism is more than welcome.

The First Day

Today is the first day of a whole new blog. I am trying my hand at writing about our family. First there's me I am the mom I am a stay at home mom. I don't know why I am called a stay at home mom it is not necessarily a choice I made more like something I had to do. Don't get me wrong I would much rather be the one raising my two beautiful children rather than some stranger that I have to pay. I love being a mom I wouldn't trade it for anything in the world. It is the hardest job I have ever had though, knowing what's right and wrong and trying to teach the kids while learning it myself. Sometimes I am not to sure I am doing it right especially when my 6 year old daughter decides to test her limits. But all in all it is fun and cool to have two people who count on me and love me for who I am and not who they think I should be.

Well I guess I will tell you a little more about myself I lived in N.J. my whole life then one day we decided to move and now we live in Stem N.C. I love it here we have about 5 3/4 acres of land it is beautiful. The only bad thing I have found is the spiders I DO NOT like spiders and this is no place to live if you don't like them. But besides that it is the perfect place to live our community is very small only 11 houses here in this developement and that is just fine by me. I am currently enrolled at the local community colleges on-line program. I am taking medical terminology once I am done with that I will be taking human anatomy and psycology and then medical coding all in hopes of getting a job in the medical field. So far so good I am doing alot better than I thought I would.
I like to listen to music mostly classic rock like Led Zeppelin (which is my favorite group), Journey (Steve Perry has the most amazing voice ever). I will eventually make a list of my favs when I figure out how to.