30 Day Challenge

Day 0: The 30 Day Challenge Explanation and Description
Day 1: Introduce, recent picture of yourself, 15 interesting facts
Day 2: Meaning behind your blog name
Day 3: Your first love
Day 4: Your parents
Day 5: A song to match your mood
Day 6: A picture of something that makes you happy
Day 7: Favorite movies
Day 8: A place you've traveled to
Day 9: A favorite picture of your best friend
Day 10: Something you're afraid of
Day 11: Favorite tv shows
Day 12: Something you don't leave the house without
Day 13: Goals
Day 14: A picture of you last year - how have you changed?
Day 15: Bible verse
Day 16: Dream house
Day 17: Something you're looking forward to
Day 18: Favorite Place to Eat
Day 19: Something you miss
Day 20: Nicknames
Day 21: Favorite Picture of yourself ALL TIME Why?
Day 22: What's in your purse?
Day 23: Favorite Movie
Day 24: Something you've learned
Day 25: Put your iPod on shuffle, first 10 songs
Day 26: Your Dream Wedding
Day 27: Original Photo of the city you live in
Day 28: Something that stresses you out
Day 29: 3 Wishes
Day 30: a picture of yourself this day and 5 good things that happened since you started the challenge

Day 0- For the next 30 days I will post a new blog completing the daily challenge from the list above.  Reasoning:  I can get a daily post completed and I will have the topic already chosen for me! 

The cake!

I have been completely indecisive on my baby shower planning.  My themed baby shower has really been kicking my booty.  Who would have thought that a fireman theme would be complicated to accomplish?  Any who, I am thinking I will have to combine ideas and that is fine.  It will all be wonderful at the end!  I LOVE throwing a great party.  We have the food, favors, and now THE CAKE planned!  Oh yes and the invitations!!!!!  Coming along just fine.  We will be throwing a baby nursery party soon.  What better way to get the room completed by having loved ones contributing!!

Interning

Interning 4th graders is quite the experience.  The personalities are endless!

Monday:  Oh Mrs. Luna!  I had a dream of you last night.  We were in school and you were the principal!  Oh and by the way, your stomach is starting to show.  You are going to get huge and it is going to take FOREVER to lose the weight.  It took my mom a whole month to lose her weight....

lol

Names Names Names

Now that we know we are having a boy, we have been thinking endlessly about names. 

We have the first name picked out!

NOAH

We love the name and we've had it picked out since we found out we were expecting.  We just can't seem to find a middle name we both can agree on.  I guess we have four months to work on it!

The Video is in!

This Thursday, January 13th, we went in for the anatomy ultrasound.  For my appointment I had a viewing party of four with me!  I was happy that the technician did not see a problem with the large group.  My son was really excited about finding out whether he was having a brother and sister so I made sure to take him out of school early to be in on the experience.  He even surveyed his classroom on their opinions on what they thought he was going to have.  My kid is the best!  The hubby and a close friend of mine were also there; both holding their breaths for the opposite sex.  Apparently it became hot in the room because Kevin started to sweat.  I should have brought my video camera along to record their expectant faces!  That was probably the best part of the show.

Luckily for us, the baby cooperated!  Enjoy the video.  I tried to get more footage in the video but it was not cooperating with me and I easily gave up.  Enjoy the shorten version nevertheless!

Good Bye Rocket

Today is a sad day for my family.  Our beloved dog Rocket died unexpectedly.  She was my favorite of the bunch.  She was a gift from my husband on my 21st birthday and was less than 2 months old when she joined our lives.  Tomorrow we will take her in to have her cremated and her ashes will be spread out in a field.  Good Bye Rocket.  We will miss you and your sassy ways and the other dogs will definitely miss your motherly nature.

Baby Shower Planning

Ewww!  Did I just say that?!  Planning my baby shower?  What poor etiquette is that!  I say to you.... :op.  I am a girl who knows exactly what I want.  I love to plan and create fun themed parties.  The planning is not stressful and the shopping is the best part.  Those that truly know me will understand and are not one bit surprise about my CEO position in my baby shower planning commission.  Now with that said I would love true enthusiast who are great visionaries themselves to be a part of my team.  lol.  No really...Contact me!

Treatment of Mothers

I am human too.  Although I intend to be the best and to do everything right by my child, I have moments of poor judgment.  As I continue to raise my son and soon my new born child, I hope they can see past the mistakes I will make.  No one is perfect.  I know my mother wasn't.  I could easily find a reason to treat her poorly and to "get back" at her.  However, I see other things.  I see that she used to walk to work every morning to make barely enough to cover the rent for the month.  She worked at the hospital as a janitor and did so to the best of her abilities to keep her job.  Yes she was married at that time but her husband was very childish.  A mistake to keep him along for so many years but again who is perfect?  She went back to school for her CNA licenses.  A little bit more of pay but definitely more work.  I remember she would come home exhausted.  I also remember we would make a delicious dinner for us at night.  There were times when our refridgerator was just about empty: a gallon of milk, water, and one or two more items.  Money was really scarce!  Around that time my sister tried out for the cheerleading squad.  She made the team and somehow my mother came up with the money for her uniforms.  My siblings and I were always needing for something.  Those of you that are parents can understand the demands of school and the financial and moral support that goes with having school age children.  I am not going to say that she gave us everything we needed for school and for our activities; the money wasn't there.  However, she did sacrifice for us all the time. 

We hear stories of true poor mothers.  Mothers that neglected their children.  Mothers that dropped off their children at someone's house and disappeared.  How about extreme abuse such as the story of "The Boy Called It?"  You even have mothers that create a sex market with their own kids.

I understand if those children hold grudges on their mothers.  I understand if a child still feels abused by their mother and wants to keep a distance.  However it completely gets to me when children treat their mothers like crap because of human mistakes they can easily make themselves. 

I have learned from the mistakes of my mother.  I have valued the journey she has taken and keep it dear to my heart.  I've learned what not to do but I have also learned what to do during times of adversity.  I was a choice.  She chose to keep me and raise me.  I made it to my adult years.  I have been educated.  For that I am grateful.  For that I respect her.  For that I keep in contact with her.  For that she should always be treated well.

"Let he who is without sin cast the first stone."

Treat your mothers well.