{New Job Who Dis?}

You guys... I got a new job!! ...

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{20 Questions No One Asks!}

1. Who was the last person you held hands with? Um. I believe it was Owen. A few days ago while we were in the store. 2. Are you loud, outgoing, or shy? I'm actually pretty shy. But it really depends on the people I'm around and how comfortable I feel with them. 3. Who are you looking forward to seeing? My nephew or niece (my sister is having a baby!!) 4. Are you easy to get along with? I think...

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{If It Wasn't For a Woman...}

When Owen was just a little guy he asked me the strangest question. He said mommy, what are these? and pointed to his shoulder blades. I told him that's where your wings used to be, when you were in heaven. You can imagine how confused this made him. Since he knew that to go to heaven you had to die first obviously. So, I explained, before you were in my tummy, you were a little angel in heaven....

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{Five Things}

While I was searching for some writing prompts to help me come up with some content, I came across this idea. Five things. So here we go! Five things you don't know about me. 1. I have often thought about going back to school. To be a nail tech. 2. I almost flunked out of high school. Because I didn't hand in homework I'd already done and I refused to dress for P.E. pretty much every day for four...

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{This or That: Halloween Edition!}

Found this on Mama's Losin' It! 1. Chocolate candy or fruity? Is this a serious question? Chocolate. Always chocolate. 2. Witches or Vampires? That's a hard one. I'm going to go with Witches though. 3. Trick or Treat? Depends on my mood lo...

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{My Kid is Obsessed with Fortnite}

I'm going to be the first to admit that I have no idea what the hell fortnite is about. I'm aware that it's some kind of cartoon like shooter video game. That is the extent of my knowledge on this game. My eleven year old son however is obsessed. He gets up early in the morning before school (not every morning but most of them) to play before he has to leave. All he wanted for his birthday was PS4...

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{How My Husband Won Me Over}

For those that don't know, the husband and I have been together for fifteen years. How that even happened, I don't know. At this point we have been together pretty much all of my adult life. Shocking. I'm aware. I have actually gotten the question what made you choose him? before. I'm not sure who asked. I don't care. I thought it'd make a good blog post lol...

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{Why I'm Done with #weightwatchers }

I know what you're thinking! You are always quitting and going back! Well, a girls prerogative is to change her mind at will correct? That's what I'm doing...

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{And Then There Were Three}

Do you ever get home from work, sit down on your couch, and think to yourself this job is horse shit ? This is literally me every single day for the last week. I'm not even going to lie, I sit down after work (hell, before I even get up to go to work!) and think to myself, I could quit today...

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{We Have Kittens!!}

I think we've all heard about our little stray visitor. The one we eventually started feeding, the one I tried to get in to our local animal shelter to be spayed just before finding out she was in fact, pregnant....

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{My Top 5 Favorite YouTubers!}

I am positive that I am not the only person out there that has (on occasion) sat and watched YouTube for an entire day (or half of it anyway). Sometimes I'll get sucked down the YouTube black hole and even though I started off watching one of my favorite creators talk about her favorite products...

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{A Year Later! | My Part-Time Job Update!}

I honestly can't believe I've been at this job for almost an entire year. As of next month (October nineteenth) that is. Aside from babysitting (I sat for the same family for three years, every summer and any time they went out on the weekends), this is the longest length of time I've ever had...

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{Is He Even Old Enough For This?!}

I'm finding it difficult to write this. I'm not ready. I knew the day would come, but I just wasn't prepared I suppose. As a mom I have always been so shocked at how fast time flies when it comes to my kiddos. It seems like just last week I teaching Gaige to walk and say mama (which always came out...

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{Am I Even a Mom Anymore?}

I'm honestly not so sure. I mean, I've got kids living in my house. I provide food and clothing for these children. I have spent sleepless nights cleaning up vomit and checking temperatures when they spike a fever. But over the last year, I've started to second guess myself. Am I even a mom if I'm not baking cookies and making dinner...

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{Where am I now? | #weightwatchers update!}

Can I just start this blog off by apologizing for not updating you all on my journey more? I'm aware that I've said that before, but really, it's a struggle for me to sit down and talk about it. I just don't want to lol. Especially on those weeks that I don't lose anything. Or I don't feel like I've lost enough. But I mean, what's enough? Everyone says a loss is a loss, but is it really? I hope so....

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{Controversial Parenting Questions!}

I'm aware that this is supposed to be a video for YouTube, but I don't really want to get presentable and film it lol. So I thought I'd just do it here! Please feel free to join in the discussion either on Facebook or Twitter or even on Instagram! I'd love to hear your opinion on these questions! Generally...

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{Taking a Step Back | #NachoParenting }

For fourteen years I have been Dawn's main parent. Although my husband has obviously been here, he has worked the entire time. He left raising the kids up to me. Which is fine. That's what I've always wanted. Or I did anyway. Apparently though, I did it wrong. Or maybe I just don't know what the hell I'm doing when it comes to raising her? Either way, I have come to a decision this past week, it...

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{Bedroom Make Over Inspiration}

I have wanted to redecorate our bedroom since we moved into this house. I thought it could be so cute with a fresh coat of paint (that wasn't that landlord beige-ish color) and some cute furniture. But seven years later, other rooms in our house have gotten some love, but not the bedroom. I think part...

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{Curing My 16yr Old Daughters "Boredom" }

You're bored? I don't even know what bored is. - my grandpa, every single time we complained about being bored. My grandparents raised me for those that don't know. My grandpa was the hardest working man I have ever known in my life. If he was sitting down it was because he was in the bathroom, eating, or sleeping. And even then he was thinking about all the things he had to do when he got up,...

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{My Camping Grocery List}

While planning this trip, I keep wishing that I had the motor-home to camp in. My grandma always kept its cupboards stocked with whatever she would need to cook while on the road/camping. Obviously she would transfer the food from her house fridge to the motor-home, but that's easy. I can't do that.  Not only can I not do that, but we aren't traveling with any food. We are going to...

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{ #ThrowBackThursday on a Friday }

I haven't done one of these in a super long time! So I thought I'd do one today since I don't have another post planned. And because I saw one of my favorite pages on Facebook, The Wild Wonderful World of Gingersnaps, post a throw back pic of herself, I thought I'd copy her and do one too! So here we go...prepare yourselves...

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{Camping With The Dogs | What We're Taking}

I tried to make a video about this, but it turned out to be too short. So, here I am blogging it. ...

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{She Just Keeps Sending THOSE pictures!}

Dawn: If you guys would stop grounding me, then I wouldn't be in trouble all the time! Me: If you would stop doing things you know are going to get you in trouble, you'd stop getting grounded. This is what I'm dealing with today folks...

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{He Wants Me to Stay Where?!}

Y'all...my husband finally talked me into taking a trip that has more to do with the outside than the inside. We shall see how this works out...

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{I Caught Her with ANOTHER Phone}

I'm not sure what to do with Dawn anymore. She just keeps doing the same things over and over to get in trouble. She's not learning from any of the consequences we give her. She just insists that she's never going to change and we need to stop asking her to behave because she won't. She's gone further this time though...and I've decided that this is something someone with more authority needs to ...

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{ #weightwatchers Update | I've Lost HOW Much?!}

I know that I haven't updated on my weight loss a lot lately. Which usually means that I've fallen back into old habits. But I'm happy to tell you, that that is not the case this time...

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{Jumping Back In!}

I can't believe it's been so long since I sat down to blog! I'm sorry about that! I've been trying to get into the swing of vlogging, and since I did, I've all but abandoned this site! But, I'm bac...

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{What My Kids Got for #Easter2018 }

Just like shopping for Christmas, shopping for Easter is no picnic. I struggle to find things for all three kids these days. Dawn being the easiest and Gaige being the hardest. Owen isn't awful, but it's getting way more expensive. But I thought if I'm struggling to find things for my kids (especially the boys) then there is probably someone out there also feeling my pain. So here's what I got my...

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{My House Almost Burned Down}

My Sunday started out like this... Note the time in this picture. 5:44am. I was on my way to work, battling the left overs of the snow that had fallen all day the day before (apparently mother nature did not get the memo that it's spring)...

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{His First Set of Stitches!}

I'm not sure I'm cut out to be the mom of a kid who has no regard for his own safety lol. I vlogged this, but I thought I'd go ahead and blog it too. Since no one seems to have watched this vlog but me lol...

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{We Are at a Loss | #parentingsucks }

I have attempted to write this post several times and I always discard it. I just don't know how to write what I need to without sounding like an awful parent. But here I go again, so lets see how far we get this time...

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{I've Lost How Much?! | #weightwatchers Update}

I'm just going to come right out and say it, joining weight watchers along with getting this job has been the kick in the pants I needed to really start focusing on myself. I have seen my self esteem sky rocket the last few months. Sure there's drama where I work (it's a room full of women for crying...

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{I'm an Awesome Mom}

The faces the lady I work with makes when I talk about my kids never cease to amaze me. She looks at me as though I'm one of those moms who just does everything for her kids and they're not going to be prepared at all for the real world. She is wrong of course. I've had other people tell me...

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{Garmin VivoMoveHR Review! | Spoiler Alert: I Love It!}

Excuse my excited expression lol I have been wanting to upgrade from my Fitbit Alta for a little while now. I still love it, but I wanted something a little more smart watchy. ...

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{Losing Weight Is Hard | #WeightWatchers Update}

I honestly can't believe I'm about to post the pictures I'm going to post in this post (lol) but I feel like it's important to document. Especially at the beginning so I have something to look back on and remind myself that I don't want to go back to this space. I have been employed for three months as of the 19th of this month, I have been on Weight Watchers about as long (thanks to that sale they...

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{The Internet Is Forever}

I'm not sure how to write this post. It happened a week ago and I'm still seething from it. I don't know what I'm supposed to do anymore. But I am convinced that teenage girls are the worst kind of parenting nightmare I have ever encountered. I would happily take bleeding nipples and diaper blow outs over the drama and BS that come with teenage girls any da...

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{2018 Goals | Fitness And Life in General}

I am not one to make New Years resolutions. I don't stick to them. Ever. So I make New Years Goals. Things I can accomplish through the year. Nothing I need to get down on myself about not sticking to. No dieting that will only last a month or two and then be another thing failed. Of course some of...

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