My baby's growing up

Well, it's happened... Amanda went on her first "date". She went to the movies with her boyfriend, Justin. Thankfully, they were not alone. Amanda's friend (and Justin's cousin), Morgan, was also with them. She's growing up so fast. It seems like only yesterday that I was trying to keep her from running out into the street. Now she's roaming the streets with her friends. Man, what am I going to do when she starts driving, real dating, and all that other teenage stuff. Holy cow!

Peace and quiet...

Here I sit at my computer and the only sound is the tv in the background talking about the "Chefography" of Ina Garten on Food Network. Normally I would be watching Survivor, but basketball has taken over. UGH!! Ari is asleep on the floor next to me and Tiff and Amanda are both in their rooms. It's complete heaven!

It's Thursday!

Just 2 more days 'til the weekend!! Oh, Thank the Gods!!! Soccer practices are really keeping me on my toes. Tuesday was rough. Amanda came up with a great idea. She will stay with Tiffany at her practice while I come home to start making dinner. What a great idea! The only problem was that Ari fell asleep in her car seat and had an accident. So, unfortunately, when I got home I had to spend part of my time taking apart her seat and getting it washed and dried. Thanks god for washers and driers!! I can't imagine (nor do I want to) having to wash everything by hand. Well, I did get everything back together and got dinner made in time to get back and pick the girls up on time. I was mentally exhausted when I crawled into bed that night.

Wednesday nights are our family's "off night", at least for now. I love it! I do take belly dance class on Wednesday nights, but it's not until 8:30, so most of the time Ari and TIff are already in bed. And Amanda enjoys getting to babysit for an hour (and watching tv after 8 pm, which she doesn't usually get to do).

Oy! I just looked at the clock! Time to get ready for Jazzercise class! Maybe I'll write more later.

The start of chaos...

Well, it's finally here. Soccer season begins today! Oy-Vay!! Manda has practice on M&F, Tiff is on T&Th, and we are still waiting to hear from Ari's coach. I'm just hoping and praying that Ari's practices are on Wednesday nights. I would hate to be driving back and forth between locations every night. But then again, with my luck, that's exactly what will be happening. I guess I should really sit down and try to figure out what the heck I'm going to do about dinners from now on. It's hard to cook when you're at the soccer field for a couple of hours every night. I think I'm going to try to do alot of cooking on the weekends and then have the dinners just waiting for us in the fridge or freezer. Otherwise, we are going to be eating alot of spaghetti! And Italian or not, I don't think anyone in this house wants to eat pasta every night of the week! LOL!!

Ah.... Thursday

Well, here it is another Thursday night. Let's talk TV: American Idol - OY!! People please! What is up with getting rid of Ayla and Gedeon!!! I honestly thought that Bucky and Kevin would have been gone. And about Melissa... Um, NO! I really think Ayla would have been a much better choice to keep around. All right, I'm gonna step-down off my soapbox now. Especially since I didn't do any voting. But I would have voted for Mandisa and Chris anyway, so it really doesn't matter. And while I'm thinking about Chris (shhhh, don't tell my hubby...) Chris is a hottie! That bald head and rocker mentality really do it for me! As Rachel Ray would say: YUM-O!! LOL!!!

I figured it out!

I know why I lost my scrapbooking mojo. I was too interested in the book I was reading! I went out and bought the Chronicles of Narnia and was so hooked in the book that I didn't really want to do anything else with my free time. Now that I don't have a book to read, I find it much easier to scrap. Here's today's LO: It's called PlayTime and will be going in Ari's book.

Bring on the Mojo!

Finally!! I think my scrapbooking mojo is finally returning. I have been staring at the photos in this LO for weeks, without any inspiration at all. Finally today I figured out how to arrange them and created my first LO in more than a month!! WOO-HOO!! Hopefully this will be the start of lots of new pages completed! God knows I've got enough pictures to scrap!

Good Business Practices...

Ugh!! I'm annoyed and have to get this off of my chest. I am in the direct sales industry and have a hostess that is $20 short of the minimum sales needed for her to receive 25% hostess credit and be able to purchase the monthly hostess specials. What is truly annoying me is the fact that she sent me an email this morning asking if I couldn't just "compensate" her the $20 (read: place a $20 order for her to get her up to the minimum) and she went on to tell me how "busy" she has been lately and that she only hosted the show "as a favor" to me. Okay, well, after reading that email, I can't help but feel extremely pissed off. Normally, I wouldn't have much of a problem helping my hostesses as much as I can, but not when the hostess doesn't put forth any effort at all. The night of her show, she actually left a half hour into her show to go to her son's basketball game. (Leaving me and her few guests to continue and then lock up when we left.) Since that night, she has made no effort to collect outside orders except for once at Jazzercise and I have given her almost 3 weeks to get them together and close out her show.

I am thoroughly finished with this hostess. I will not ever ask her to host another show again. I will not compromise my business practices for this person or anyone else who does not truly need my help or deserve my kindness. I will not waste my time on her any further. I am closing her show this afternoon and sending it in tomorrow. I hope this doesn't make me seem like a harsh or mean person. I do not mean to be, but I will not have my principles "guilted" out of me or be made to change them because of someone else's arrogance. If you've read this far... Thanks for listening.