One of the hardest decisions of my life!

I go thorough life trying to pay attention to the things that are in front of me, maybe reading to much into them, but at least trying to understand what the pages (along with images, I'm a visual person) are saying to me.
Every now and then I run into a chapter in my life where there is a page or so that is more important than the last one. I have come across one of these pages!!!!

You see, being a working mother has it's some ups and some major downs! It's not always bad, because I do believe that it's good for children to be around other children and adults with other adults......yet there is a balance! So one of the biggest challenges in our life is finding the appropriate caregiver for our daughter. We have had the same sitter since she was 3 months old, but as life changes, so do the other people in our lives and with that being said, we have to say goodbye to her. I think it has been perfect timing on our end. Yet the difficult part now is finding that "best" place for her. As I lay awake at night dreaming of something so perfect, I'm let down at the places that I see on our mission. At this point there is one place that is fitting the bill and may be the "right" place "right" now for us. I'm putting on my reading glasses and trying to make sure that I read this chapter word for word and completely understand it!

Summer Daze...

It's been one of those weeks, yes I feel like a chicken with my head cut off! I don't know if it's because I took a couple days off last week and this has been my first full week in two weeks...or maybe because Bob has been in Washington for the week, enjoying yummy steak meals or eating at the Cheese Cake Factory while we eat frozen dinners? We can't wait for Sutton's restaurant to open again!

Whatever it may be I'm looking forward to sleeping in on Saturday and enjoying a couple days off of work.

I was watching the nightly news tonight and they did a segment on Mother's in America. The report was on how women in this country don't have a lot of opportunities to work part time and most work full time leaving them feeling drained and not having a lot of time for family. HELLO! Why didn't they interview me! The Chicken with her head in one hand and a pile of everything else in the other!!! Did they not see me running down the road with a sign that said, "will work part-time".....

I think if I was a working woman with no children, I would tune that story out and not even take a glance and unfortunately that is a huge problem. Why, you may ask? Well let me tell you, because there are a lot of women that are supervisor's out there that may not have kids who can not relate to the difficulties of handling both a career and family and well, maybe those women didn't even flinch at that story?

It has once again been left up to the mother's of this world to come together and fight for what is right. Boo hoo some may say, and I ask them.....do you have a child(ren) and work full time...no they would say and I would say, "well, let's talk when you do"! :-) And as I'm sure the conversation would go back and fourth.

And that's the way the cookie crumbles folks!

Until 2008...June!

Like a meteor shower, June has come and gone! O how this summer is going by so quickly. Well let's take a look back on June.....

The month started out pretty good, great weather and well, it was the beginning of summer...what more can you ask for.

Bob is in his new job working for SD6...enough said.






Ella has gotten bigger, I swear it's the hot summer weather that is making her grow faster than the weeds in my flower garden. She is now starting to remember things, ask for things in her own way and has gotten a lot more teeth. Yes, it looks like she not only inherited my blue eyes, but as well, the very large teeth! Yikes! O well, what can I do? She is saying more words and wow does she love those raisins. She has gone to the fireworks, out on the boat and now we have a bike seat that she seems to like riding in....she is having a blast!

Work is work right now. Period.




As for "Your Creative Media", I have the website looking semi OK, yet yesterday I started to think of all these crazy design elements for it and well, I think once I make some money I will have someone do it for me. I finally got the balls to send an email out to family and friends to let them know that I'm officially open for business. So far I have had three montage jobs, a couple transfer tape inquires (say they will be jobs, let's see) and well, that's about it right now. I have some things in the works for the winter that I would like to work on and well, I have a lot of ides stuck in this container inside my head and I can't seem to find the key to get them out. Well it's still in the works and I think of my goal every day (or every other day)....I'm busy these days!

Let's see the biggest thing about June was very scary to say the least. Dom (my brother in law) was in a bad sail boating accident that left us all realizing how precious life really is. With God on his side, he is OK and with that in mind, I'm working on the best prank phone call of all times, it's going to be the bomb...better stay on your toes Dom!!! Who else am I going to get EVERY TIME!!!

So that was it with June, in a "nutshell"....if I think of something else there is always the "edit posts" on this thing!

Is it luck or god?

In the events of life we can sometimes have things happen to us that we may think are just a stroke of luck. It may be winning the lottery or meeting the person of your dreams (I guess that would be faith) or maybe getting that hole in one at the golf course. But what about when something happens to you that you question, is this luck or god lifting me up? In life, we have every day troubles but when you look at it with a microscope it all boils down to the "meaning" of life and how valuable we are to family and friends.

"I may not have won every game, but at least I showed up". -Ernie Harwell
(had to add that in there today)

Life is such a juggling act!

So I have been told by my number one fan and maybe my only fan, I need to do a blog because I'm slacking!!! Sorry I have been busy spending time with family and trying to start up Your Creative Media, check it out...www.yourcreativemedia.com. So here you go! I figured out what it is about life....it's just one big juggling act! Juggling family, work, feelings, and everything in between. Do you ever have those days where say, something so minor can feel like such a big chore, like returning those late books to the library? Or maybe putting the clothes away that have been laying on the floor all week! Making that doctors appointment or making sure you have food in the fridge. Ahh, can you tell the week I have been having....burnt out!
In my life, I take each day for what it's worth and just try to stay grounded and let the things that can roll off my shoulders roll and the things that can't; well try to deal with them the best I can and know that there are more challenges ahead, it's just a matter of how I deal with them. Dealing with them is a whole other blog...to be continued......

Summer time is all about being cool!

Happy Anniversary!

Yesterday was our five year anniversary...where does the time go? So we thought we would go to dinner at "Matter of Taste" the most upscale restaurant in Commerce Twp. They have this huge bar and these garage doors that open so you can sit outside on the patio. So we got a nice little table right next to the bar and next to the patio so we were partially inside and outside. It was nice, we could see the lake and talk about how we can't wait to get the boat out....but there were also "other" thing that we were observing and "talking" about..

See the table we were sitting at was a bit lower than the bar so the people were sitting a bit higher than us, as well the tables outside were a bit taller. Why am I telling you this? Well let me tell you about our laughing dinner conversation over feet and butts!

Yes, I did say feet! At dinner! GROSS! My husband leans over to me with this look and whispers, "All the women sitting around us are wearing sandals and I can see the bottom of their gross feet". So of course here I am having to see what he is looking at, and sure enough it was obvious that all those women who were dressed to the hill did not get their pedicures today. Scaly yellow feet...gross. Yet I can't talk because me feet are just as gross, yet my husband as never said this to me.

So the rest of the night I couldn't help but to look at all the feet around us and wow were their a lot!

As well, we must have been sitting next to the "waiting" line for drinks. I say this because every time I turned my head there was someones "butt" in my face! I am sounding like this "feet and butt" thing ruined our night, yet it really didn't it was just the kind of humor that we found to celebrate our anniversary with. It was a great evening, and next year we look forward to checking out more "Feet and butt's" on our anniversary. :-)