"Failing Miserably"

It is not as bad as it sounds. My dear friend Kari has a post on her blog about this very subject. I left a huge comment on her post and after reading it I deceided to post on my own blog about this very subject. I have copy and pasted my comment from Karis in read. As a mom the preasures of life just become so much to handle. michael and I have been married for 20 years and for the first 18 I seem to have held it together ok, don't get me wrong I am not saying life was just all clouds and butterflies, but it was easy for me to handle anything thrown at me. Well the past two years have been a complete change from our norm. This is the comment I left on Karis Blog "Running in Place"

You are always asking me how I am doing well "failing Miserably. For two years it seems as though every reponsibility I have and CHERISH has been put on the back burnner! My hats read (in no particular order) Mom, wife, cook, maid, vet,friend, secretary, team mom, receptionist, office manager, banker, artist, well you get the idea. What I have learned is that we all fail miserable at some time or another some by bits and some in chuncks. What we need to look at well what I look at is. Are my kids and hubby happy and I can say without a doubt YES. We all have down times but at the end of every single day each of my 5 boys(at home) still hug an kiss their mom with an I love you before bed! At that moment in time every night I realize 'I have achieved amazingly'!

I have a challenge, I want to hear how you are "ACHIEVIEING AMAZINGLY" !

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For the Soul

This is my final sneak peak for Hanna Stamps October realease party! This beautiful Hanna is part of the "For the Soul" set. Join us tonight in the Hanna forum on Splitcoaststampers.com at 9pm EST for Prizes, challenges, more prizes and did I say PRIZES?!?! Check back later tonight, I will be posting my sample for the first challenge of the night, along with my Blog Candy Winner!!

Finally....

...is what Jager said on Sunday when he pulled his first loose tooth out, after trying all day! Once the tooth was out he gave it to me for safe keeping, well he probably won't ask me to do that again, I lost it. He was over it pretty quick, we wrote a note to the Tooth Fairy telling her what had happened. She must have liked the note because she left him a whole dollar! But wait there's more...the tooth next door must have felt lonely because after a bit of wiggling it was very close to falling out. Jager worked on the little guy all day at school and shortly after getting home on Monday he was in the bathroom and it came right out! Well guess what?? Yep he dropped it and it went down the drain, poor kiddo what kinda luck is that? So we wrote another note and the sweet Tooth Fairy left another dollar!

9 Already...

Cooper turned 9 in September, can you believe how adorable and grown up he is!?!
He invited his friend Shawn from his football team to go to Buffalo Wild Wings with him for his birthday dinner. The boys insisted on HOT boneless wings "these aren't that hot" well about two seconds later they had finished all four glasses of water at the table and if they could have gotten away with it they would have drank the ranch dressing! After dinner we went to toys are us were Cooper picked a fun remote control car with interchangeable wheels.

How about some Hot chocolate?

So this is one of those cards that did not make it from my brain to the cardstock like I wanted. I was not going to post it but the more I looked at it the more I liked it. I love the layout, the colors and the yummy cup of hot chocolate. The cup image is from the new "Ski Bunny" set being released Thursday night in the Hanna Stamps forum on SCS. Don't forget to leave a comment on the Ski Bunny, Blog Candy post a couple posts down. Each Design team member will be picking their winners tonight. Winners will be announced during the realease party Thursday night. Remember that only those that leave a comment on the Blog Candy post will be included in the drawing!!