Busy Life

Right now I feel like I have a million things going on and am running out of energy! I am lacking motivation to work on any of it and just want to sleep.

I have our kitchen table and chairs I need to get finished (table is almost there I just have the center piece design and polyurethane and it's ready), my sister's birthday presents, tons of Christmas presents, Boog's fiddle lessons every week, a school fundraiser, a 10K run I am trying to prep for (ha like I have time for that I wish I was running every day but there seriously is no energy in me to do so!), trying to keep up on my daily tasks, and who knows what else I think I need to add to this craziness of mine.

Funny how I went from feeling so on top of things about a week ago to feeling so behind and frazzled! I think it may be because I have not gotten any farther on those things since the last time I wrote about them.

Goals for this week:

Run every day even if it's just 1 mile, finish my sister's present, keep up on daily house stuff, and finish table...here's to accomplishing that, now to go tend to the screaming children :)

Why I missed posting yesterday...and a Tip-of-the-Day

I know I said I was back and honestly I am, but I missed posting my tip of the day yesterday and I have a great excuse. We had a massive storm roll through that knocked out the power. So my tip would be: be prepared for emergencies.

First about this storm. I knew there was a severe storm rolling in but according to weather alerts and predictions I should of had another 15 minutes (which would have been perfect for me) but the storm was moving faster than predicted I guess. I was at the dentist getting my permanent crown on (luckily done before storm hit) and Dallas was with Bug and Cookie at Boog's school to pick her up for the day. The storm hit right as school was getting out and the tornado sirens (loud sirens that go off to warn people about tornadoes and to get to a safe place) started going off. I was freaking out (I'll admit it) since I'm a person who likes to be in control and wasn't with my family to keep them safe. I was hoping Dallas would be smart enough to get him and the 2 little girls out of the car and into Boog's school (I learned he was forced inside do thank you to whomever made him go in he wanted to stay out in it!). The storm lasted about 10-15 minutes for the heavy crazy stuff, but the thunderstorm continued without the intense wind for another 3 hours. I was also worried about my poor dog who was outside since we were only going to be gone 15 minutes :( she was wet but safe! We are all well, our house is fine, the yard is a bit messy but I can handle that. I'm thankful to learn there are storm shelter areas within Boog's school! We only live 3 blocks away and so I've contemplated what I would do if the tornado sirens went off during school: do I throw the animals and little girls in the basement and run to get her? Do I sit put and leave her alone? What would I do? This was a stressful situation for me to think about, but now I know they are safe in the school and are prepared for such a situation it eases my mind a bit. There was no tornado touch down that I've heard of but a friend captured a rotating cloud in the air that dissipated...crazy! This storm ripped trees out of the ground! Bigger than not ones, killed the power for 6 hours, caused substantial damage and I even saw 2 cars smashed by trees (parked at their home). This storm caused us to know how we are and aren't prepared for emergency situations.

I'm grateful to have my 72 hour ( quickly accessible and easy to carry 3 day supplies of basic necessities )kits together for each member of the family because of these we had lights to see and snacks to keep kids happy. So get prepared if you're not already! We have 2 candles that last 100 hours somewhere (Dallas thought we wouldn't need them so he stuck them somewhere!) That I need to find to feel better and I few more flashlights (maybe the crank ones) would be nice but other than that I felt OK.

Took a Mental Break...now I'm back!

So I was feeling overwhelmed this back week and a half. I mentally shut down and wasn't feeling very friendly to say the least. I have been fighting and stressing trying to get our family the correct health insurance that his employer approves of and let me tell you that was a struggle! We had to find one comparable to the one they currently give to their other employees, but it was either a little better or a little worse and I wasn't sure which way they were going to choose. Thankfully we (and by we I mean my husband) have a great employer and they gave us the one that was a little better and covered maternity (my biggest stresser with this knowing next time I will be considered high risk and have more appointments, ultrasounds, and tests therefore costing us more money).
I have had children not exactly being the best they could be, I've had birthdays to get things ready for (Bug just turned 3 on Monday!) and I've been working on refinishing our kitchen table, making birthday gifts, and getting Christmas gifts made.

But I think I am in a better place now that things are figured out, I finished my sister in laws birthday present, got Bug's present and birthday behind us, half way finished with my sister's birthday presents, got the first coat of paint on the table (I had to sand it down and everything...a post when it's completed I promise) and so now I am back and will start doing my tips of the day again.

Tip-of-the-day~mental overload

Today was one of those days...the kids thought they didn't need to listen to me and Bug and Cookie thought they could be mean and hit me. I was just fed up and had no patience from the time I woke up. I mentally was done before the day began.

Honestly I just want to smack everyone around and had no desire to be social but with it being Sunday I was at church for 3 hours with people around, Blog and Bug were in their classes the last 2 hours but Cookie was with me and just yelling and hitting me.

My solution make my husband deal with them, ignore them, and send them to bed.

I think the best way to deal with a mental overload (you know where when anyone opens their mouth and all you want to do is punch them in the face no matter who they are) is to just isolate yourself and do something relaxing, for me I crocheted today.

A Little About Me

I stay at home with my 3 girls, well 2 these days since the oldest just started 1st grade. For the purpose of this blog I will refer to myself as "Roxy" my husband as "Dallas" our oldest (6 years old) as "Boog", middle (3 years old) as "Bug", and our youngest (17 months old) as "Cookie" these are their nicknames for me at home so I thought I would use them in the blog world as well. Also I don't want to specify their names since there are a lot of crazy things going on in the world today I don't want them to be targeted. We have an awesome dog that we adopted from our local shelter (if you are ever looking for a pet please look at your local shelter first!) and a sweet and feisty little kitty that we also adopted from the same shelter.
Anyways I have a B.S. (Bachelor's of Science) in Accounting and Dallas has a B.S. and a M.D. (Master's Degree) in Computer Science and software development. He currently works developing software for a great little company (10 people on staff) called BlueLid Technologies and on the side a few of the guys (including the 2 bosses) work for a new branch of the company BlueLid Labs writing apps for Iphone and Android. Dallas finished his first one back in May called Reading Buddy. It's a great app for school aged children that are required to read for a certain amount of time each day and it's not able to navigate outside the program without closing it completely to prevent other activity on the device being used other than them reading.
I am going to start doing a "Tip of the Day" post about random things I find useful while caring for my children, disciplining, cooking, crafting, just whatever I have thought useful to know and either was told by someone and thought "GENIUS!" or found out the hard way as thought "Why didn't anyone ever tell me about this?!?!?" I by no means think I am an expert at any of the tips I post or in parenting but if something helped me I am more than willing to help others around me in trying to raise their own families.
Anyways that's a little about us.