My Foray into SAHMomminess

I never intended to be a SAHM.  I'm not even sure if you would consider me a SAHM.  I mean, I do work at Wal-Mart four nights a week and I sub at least once a week.  However, the majority of my time is spent at home.  Last week I did nothing.  I didn't sub, I didn't work at Wal-Mart, I didn't clean the house, I didn't wash clothes, I did nothing. 

I think to be a SAHM you need self motivation.  I don't have self motivation.  I need someone telling me you need to do this and this is how it should be done.  Then when it's over I need them to say "Way to go!" "Great Job!"  or "What were you thinking?"  Someday (hopefully soon) I'll have my own classroom, and I know I will have to have self motivation.  But, I will also have State Standards, the Board of Education, a principal, and many others telling me what I will be teaching.

But for now, I need to work on this SAHMomminess business.  I need to become self motivated.  I need to clean, to wash clothes, to organize rooms and make meal  plans.  And maybe I'll tell my self "Way to go!"  "Great Job!" and I'm sure more times then not "What were you thinking?" 


If you don't know me, you're thinking wow she's got a handle on this.  She knows what needs to be done and she's going to do it!  If you do know me, you're probably thinking I'll believe it when I see it.  Quite frankly, I'm going with the latter.  But who knows, maybe I will surprise you, maybe I will surprise me!

My Christmas Cards...

they're still sitting on my counter.  Waiting for stamps...  I hope I make it to the post office before heading into Wal-Mart to work.  I had the best intentions to load the kids up, get stamps, ingredients for cookies, and a few other odds and ends.  However, and there seems to always be a however, I couldn't find Emmy's other shoe, and then it was 1 and Days was on, the boys wanted to go play with their friends, and Alex was whinny because it was nap time.  So there my cards sit... still on the counter... and it's one day closer to Christmas... and one more day late for my Christmas cards.  To bad too, cause they were really cute this year.

not me! Monday

Welcome to Not Me! Monday!

This is my first Not Me! Monday... but here I go!

It was not me that decided a little less then a year ago that I, the girl that can't ever do anything everyday for more then a week, was going to do a project 365.  And it definitely was not me that only made it a few months collectively.  Because we all know that when I decide to do something I do it all the way or nothing! 

I so did not let my children eat candy bars before lunch because we only eat healthy around here and only have chocolate for special occasions.

It's a good thing I'm not a procrastinator too.  I would never wait till the last minute to make Christmas cards, get them stuffed, stamped, ready to mail at the last minute and then STILL have them sitting on the counter ready to be mailed! 

This blog carnival was created by MckMama. You can head over to her blog to read what she and everyone else have not been doing this week.

Sept 16

Wow!! Where has my baby gone?

Emmy the Cat -Sept 14

So some of you have seen these on Facebook, but here they are again! Emmy got a hold of my sharpie that was in my pocket from work. She decided to color herself. It was quite the surprise for me and James when we saw here. We asked her what she did and he told us she was a cat! See her whiskers?

Sept 12

Drew

Zach

This is where I found Drew one morning after I told him he could find his socks in the dryer. Of course Zach had to get in on the action too! what a couple of goof balls, no wonder thier little sister and brother are so ornery! They learn from the best!

Sept. 9

Not the best picture in the world. I guess she just didn't want to get her picture taken. This is one of her new fall outfits! I've had that bow since she was only a few months old. She doesn't keep anything in her hair but finally will keep bows and ponytails for a few minutes. It all depends on her mood!