Crying Baby

It's 12:30am and my baby is up crying and I don't know what to do. The last 2 nights she has done this and I can't deal. I have sat up rocking her for the last 2 1/2 hours and I can't do it anymore. I just left the bedroom and told my husband you deal with her. Is that wrong of me to do? I felt like if I did not walk away I would start crying too. I have to tell you I might hate this part of parenting the most. That sounds so bad and I hope it doesn't make me a bad mother I just don't know how to deal. I hope that nights like this do not continue and my baby starts to feel better. I feel so bad that she does not feel well and I cant do anything to help her. I am going to go back into the bedroom and maybe just try and hold her I don't know what else to do. I wish we were all sleeping right now.:( Wish me luck

Until Next Time......... Blog to speak

A man's work is from sun to sun, but a mother's work is never done.

My sister and I were talking today and I was telling her how hard it is to be a "Stay at home Mom" she laughed at me because I have only been doing it for three weeks when she has been doing it for six years! I have always respected women who stay at home and take care of their children but I don't think I respected them enough. In the three weeks I have been home there has not been a day that goes by where I have thought to myself "I wish I were back at work" because being home is so much harder than being at work.When you are at home you don't get a lunch break, you don't get a fifteen minute break, you can't gossip around the water cooler basically you don't get to do anything but work.....How crappy is that!

Did you know that if a stay at home mom got paid their anual sallary would be 225,000.00! If you think a stay at home mom doesn't work why do you think a national study showed that to be their income! I think it is terrible the lack of credit these women get. Instead of honoring these women once a year they should be honored at least once a day. I don't want to take credit away from the people who leave the house to goto work everyday....BRAVO! I think that is great and I think you all work very hard just not as hard as the person who doesn't leave the house everyday to goto work.

Maybe for now on all of us who leave the house everyday to goto work will be a little more respectful to the ones who don't leave the house to goto work. I bet if you think about it for a minute you will realize that those who stay at home everyday are the ones that provide you a place that you rush to get to when you leave work. The place you love to be the place where you call HOME!


Until Next Time.....Blog About It!

To tell the truth

Tonight my husband and I were watching TV and we came across this show, "To tellthe truth" for any of you that have never seen it you answer questions truthfully to win money. Sounds easy enough, right.....WRONG. On tonights show a women was on there answering questions about her husband and ex-boyfriend. I would not have a problem with this except the the poor husband found out his wife did not love him and she wished she was still with the ex-boyfriend! I am not sure any amount of money in the world is worth hurting someone for no reason. Would any of you do this? Is money worth hurting someone who has giving their life to you? How important is money? I just can't seem to shake the feeling so sorry for this man. Call me crazy but No amount of money could make me hurt someone like that. What has our society become? So selfish that we will go to any lenghts to get an extra dollar. What a sad place to live! Have we just bgecome so selfish that we have forgoten how to be selfless? I hope that I am lucky enough to have friends and family in my life that would never do this to me or would they........


Until Next Time......Blog with me

The art of being wise is knowing what to overlook

My sister and I had talked about something today that I want to share with you. She has been fighting with herself about spoiling her kids and she thinks that they get whatever they want. This may be true but I think she may be making a bigger deal out of what it really is. Please make no mistake about what I am saying, I think that she is one of the best parents I know and I am not sure how many of us would ever be able to admit that are kids are spoiled and want to change it but she has done both.

Since her children have been born my sister has dedicated her whole life to them and has done a great job so far:) I also have to tell you that she is very very smart and in my world has all the answers to every parenting question I have this is why I am so confused at her not knowing how to handle this problem or why she even thinks it's a problem. As we spoke she was telling me that she had given her kids a famous Bill Williams speech.....No Good those were the speeches that my dad would give us a kids and would go on and on and on...you get the idea. She was telling them how good they have it and all the things they should be greatful for BLAH BLAH BLAH! It brought me right back to when I was a kid and I hated it! I stopped her from finishing to tell her this....If you have it to give then you should give because you only live once and enjoy it. We have all heard that a thousand times but does it really sink in?

Kids are only gonna be kids once and how do you want to be remebered? Isn't there a way to give your children what they want and teach them lessons at the same time? I think so. You have to know how, what and when in order to get the point across. Why when you are giving the children what they want you don't telll them something like..."Mommy is geting this for you because you want it and we are lucky enough to do that" or something like that. I don't think it is fair that a child has to go without if they really don't need to. What is the lesson? There is no lesson there so stop doing it.

Sometimes we want so badly to do the right thing and teach are children what is the right thing that maybe we are teaching them wrong. I think the art of great parenting is picking and choosing your lessons and this one might be a lesson not learning. Our kids will be faced with many of lessons that we have to tech so instead of overloading them with LONG talks about everything to the point of them not listening to us we should save our talks for the lessons that really matter and I think the kids will be willing to listen. I may be wrong but I may be right.... You Decide

Until Next Time......Blog to talk

Not A Word To Say

You will find this hard to believe but I have nothing to say tonite:) Its true no DEEP thoughts or words of wisdom.

Until next time......Blog out

Life's Curveballs

Today has been a little trying for me. The problem is this, as a new mother I find myself worrying about every little thing that happens with the baby whether it be she is sneezing, not pooping, feels a little warm, her eyes look funny or she has a belly ache I PANIC! I started to think about this and how I am making myself nuts instead of enjoying a new baby and all the great things that come along with that and what I am missing out on by spending all my time worrying. Is there a way to change how I react as a new mother so I can start enjoying my baby instead of fearing her....MAYBE

Here is my idea, life will always throw curveballs at you and you can do one of two things. You can stand at the plate as the curveballs are thrown without swinging and strikeout every time (Like I have been doing since the baby has been born) or you can become a curveball hitter. If you get up to the plate and swing at the curveballs sooner or later you are gonna hit one and I think you will realize that they are not so bad after all. Having to deal with the unexpected is just part of the rhythm of life. If I continue to allow these curveballs to disrupt my life I am not sure I will ever be able to enjoy my baby girl. Is that the direction I really want to go in, I don't think so.

So here's the answer successfully negotiating your way through those unexpected challenges, right when you think you have it all under control, is the real challenge here. These are the moments of truth that create your future. So the next time that life throws you a curveball, hold your ground and keep your eye on the ball!

Until next time.....Be a Blogger!

I've learned

Omar Wahington wrote an essay titled....."I've learned" He writes about all the things in life that we never want to learn for example he says,"I've learned that you cannot make someone love you. All you can do is be someone who can be loved. The rest is up to them. The point to me telling you this is that 2 1/2 weeks ago I became a mother for the first time and at thirty years old I've learned more in these 2 1/2 weeks than I have my whole life.

Being a "New" Mom has been the hardest thing I have ever had to do. Let's put aside the feedings, changing diapers, NO sleep,and belly aches and look at the really hard stuff like loving a person like you have never loved before I mean really with all of your heart. You think that would be the best feeling ever which it is but at the same time it is the scarest feeling ever! And what about the feeling you get when you think there is something wrong with your baby that fear inside of you is the worst feeling ever and let's not forget the feeling you get the minute you think about what would you do if anything ever happened to my baby...I hate that one! These are all the things I've learned in just 2 1/2 short weeks....OVERLOAD

I know this is only the begining of a very long journey for me but I think I am up for the ride. Although we are all going to be faced with lessons we would rather not learn I think along the way there will be lessons that we do learn that we would never give up the world for. So I think the next time I am faced with a lesson I would like to skip over I'm gonna try and remember that shortly down the road I will learn something I will want to hang onto for a lifetime.

Until next time.....KEEP BLOGGING

“Once begun: a task is easy: half the work is done”

So this is the begining of a new life for me. I am a blogger now, it has always been something of a novelty to me, you know new things. I'm not sure if I even like new things and change but I guess once you stop trying new things you stop living. I hope throughout all of my blogging you get some entertainment from me and enjoy my DEEP THOUGHTS.....Until next time blog away!