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Blog Fabulous 0 days 14 hours 22 minutes ago Channel: Lifestyle
I want to introduce you to Elizabeth over at CareerandKids.
I’m feel both impressed and I inadequate by her resume. She’s a fulltime nurse, married 17 years with 3 children and writes GenBetween and BusyMom.
Frankly, I’m exhausted just thinking about having that much on my plate.
One of her latest posts is about how most mothers working fulltime would take a pay cut to spend more time with their kids.
“I didnt cry all the time, my job was flexible enough that I could pick up someone from school if I needed to, and, I got home at the same time every day…But, another huge benefit wouldnt be realized until years later when my mother became ill.”
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Blog Fabulous 1 days 12 hours 46 minutes ago Channel: Lifestyle
I keep hearing pundits and newscasters searching for “justification for Hillary Clinton to stay in this race.”
They consider her win “impossible” at this point. They appear to be in search of politically precedented logic.
My need to see Hillary Clinton NOT QUIT is the only justification Hillary Clinton needs to stay in this race.
I NEED to see her NOT QUIT.
If Hillary were running on precedented logic she would never have gotten in the race in the first place.
She began the race - her whole political career - running against the word “impossible.”
When I see her declare in front of the whole world, the same world who keeps talking about how it’s impossible for her to win, I’m not going to quit, I am filled with such gratitude that she is willing to do this for ME.
She’s doing this to give me and my daughter an example of a strong woman facing “impossible” odds who doesn’t quit just because the boys are winning.
Thank you Hillary!
I can do anything through Christ our Lord,I think Hillary takes this Biblical reference to mean literally A-N-Y-T-H-I-N-G.
And so do I.
More on Hillary’s shining example to girls on So Sioux Me.
Photo Source: Newscom.com, Hillary speaking after her landslide win in West Virginia.
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Blog Fabulous 1 days 14 hours 22 minutes ago Channel: Lifestyle
Sister, let me give you some marital advice:
Sharing is overrated. It’s a source of conflict, disaster really.
There is no reason on planet earth you need to share - unless you want to fight.
We stopped sharing sheets a long time ago. No needs to share each other’s night sweats. No need to wake up irritated when the sheets end up on the floor. People don’t have the same body temperatures. They just don’t. No reason to fight and ruin a marriage over body temperature.
Computers. It’s worth $500 to save a marriage. Buy another computer. I don’t care if it’s social or work, there will be conflict over who is “more important” if you try to share a computer.
Workspace. No. Someone always thinks they’re “more entitled” to spend time there, to move other people’s notes or materials.
Television. We never fight about who gets to watch what anymore. We stopped sharing a TV. There’s no magic on earth that will make a husband and wife want to watch the same stuff on TV.
For heaven’s sake no one should share a car. It will leave one person trapped. Marriages don’t survive traps.
I’m angling for my own bedroom. We’re both entitled to a good night’s sleep and there’s a problem with the snoring. He can’t help it and I can’t sleep through it and our couch sucks. Next house, “guest bedroom” is going to be a priority.
That’s not what they tell me in all those marriage seminars at church.
They are lying. That’s what we do to people. We lie to them and tell them that marriage is about togetherness. Really, there’s only so much togetherness any couple can handle. It’s false advertising.
That’s the cause of the one-in-two divorce rate. That’s my explanation for the 7 year itch. After 7 years you realize you bought something, without knowing what was in the package. The ones who stay married find a way to cope with what’s really in the package - like abandoning the idea of sharing - the ones who don’t, get divorced.
I’m telling you right now to avoid the whole trap. If you want marital peace - don’t share.
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Blog Fabulous 2 days 14 hours 22 minutes ago Channel: Lifestyle
Brain washing, outside polygamist cults, is an underrated and legitimate method with some great applications.
Potty training would be one of them.
Call me crazy - I’m sure half of you will, but that would be no different than any other day - I’m trying to potty train my 2-year-old son.
For his second birthday we gave him the Potty Training (Baby Signs)some big boy underwear. The kit has a “choo choo train” theme - get it. “potty train.” I was more excited than he was.
I realize common parenting advice says not to push it and to “wait till they’re ready,” but I reject such advice.
The Potty Training (Baby Signs) authors and child psychologists note that the studies that support “wait till they are ready” advice comes primarily from diaper companies like Pampers and Huggies.
The kit comes with a video and a book about going to the potty, teaching the sign language for the words: potty, more, wash. I was a little disappointed there were no fun signs like poo poo, pee pee and wipe. Isn’t wipe important? Why no sign for wipe?
I’m making him watching the video and read the book over and over and over. Also adding other videos like Elmo goes to the Potty.
Zacky, even Elmo goes to the potty.
One of my major motivators is that diapers are expensive.
Another is that he’s indignant about me getting in his personal business.
You don’t want me to change your diapers?
No.
I wouldn’t want anyone changing my diapers either. If you go to the potty I won’t have to change you anymore.
No.
Does your bum hurt from that rash?
Yeah.
If you went on the potty you wouldn’t get rashes anymore.
Potty?
Yeah. You want to go potty?
No.
Do you want a sticker and candy?
Yeah!
OK. If you sit on the potty you can have a sticker and candy!
No.
Want to blow the potty train whistle?
Yeah.
Okay, sit on the potty.
All Aboard the Potty Train! All Aboard! Tooot Tooot!
Potty!
Yeah, go on it.
No.
Okay. No pressure. That’s the thing. I’m giving it a year. The year between 2 and 3 we’re potty training. If it happens quickly all the better. If it takes all year, OK.
But, I stop buying diapers on the 3rd birthday Zack.
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Blog Fabulous 3 days 12 hours 59 minutes ago Channel: Lifestyle
My family really shines on Mother’s Day. Especially my husband, who always puts a lot of effort into getting the children involved in doing something creative for me.
I woke to pancakes with whipped cream and strawberries, an 8X11 photo of my children spelling out each letter of “Happy Mother’s Day” in my office and “I Love You” in the kitchen.
some big boy underwear. The kit has a “choo choo train” theme - get it. “potty train.” I was more excited than he was.
