MINOR OBSESSIONS MONDAY

Well I haven't really been obsessive so much THIS past week due to the fact that my Internet was screwed up. However supposedly it is "fixed" now so I will find some more new obsessions for next Monday! I will share a blog I frequent though b/c it is simply delish.......Seven Super Summers. Becky the writer is a friend of a friend who sent me there to read a certain blog entry and OF COURSE I got hooked and read the entire thing! Who wouldn't be hooked....HELLO....a mother of seven with a husband battling cancer and she still finds time to write for 2 blogs and cook some major desserts along with all the everyday wife and mom duties!!!! Why do I like her blog: She does Chocoholics Anonymous on Fridays and she has some recipes WITH pics that are hmm.......I'll just say tempting to be nice! I haven't actually tried any yet and just get my chocolate fix by licking the screen and printing the pictures to post all over my walls as a reminder to why I am overweight......but if they taste as good as they look or sound then it MUST be a sin! Do do do do! If you read Becky's blog, then you must also read her other blog My Superman's Kryptonite that chronicles her husband's fight against cancer and how that affects their lives as a family. Hey Becky if for some queer reason YOU are reading THIS then I think you should change the title Seven Super Summers to Superman's Wonder Woman!!! Happy reading!

MINOR OBSESSIONS MONDAY

Time for Minor Obsessions Monday which includes my not so "minor" obsession of scrapbooking my millions of photos of the kiddos. The new blogs that I LOVE this week are Jills Paper Jems who also posts on A Little Birdie Told Me. She is a fellow scrapbooker with some AMAZING layouts that she sells on ebay. I thought about scraplifting them however with time restraints I decided to simply buy them off of ebay besides the fact that I have no clue how she does the bears!! Go ahead take a looksie but DON'T GO TO EBAY AND OUTBID ME! LOL

MINOR OBSESSIONS MONDAY

I've been especially bad this past week!! I have become an avid reader of many blogs this week. If you read my blog, then you have heard about Maddox. I was checking up on my counter and seeing where my readers were coming from when I saw someone had googled HLHS and been led to my site. I then decided to check out the other blogs it had listed. I guess I never expected to see that many. Like most people I know, I had not even heard of HLHS until Maddox was diagnosed while Tammi was pregnant. I didn't realize there were so many out there like him. Of course, I had to look at each blog and then read its ENTIRETY! I just cry, smile, clinch my jaw, shake my head and stare in awe at these tiny little lives and their families. All affected by heart defects and the amazing yet dangerous surgeries to fix them AND the babies are smiling, calm, happy, loved, peaceful and stronger than most adults I know. I feel for the all parents of children affected by heart defects and often wonder if I would be strong enough to handle it without breaking. They have to COMPLETELY trust the Doctors and the abilities that God has given them. I don't know if I could just sit and wait for most of the day wondering if my baby was still alive, I know deep down THAT is just what a parent does b/c it isn't like they have a choice but I think I would need to be sedated. Wow it is so overwhelming! And then there is Trisomy 18 which before now I had never even heard of and WOW you'll just have to read it will change you! Anyway here you go with the Minor Obsessions Monday blog list:

1. The Stanfield Journey
2. Lily's Angel Heart
3. Michael James Sheehan Irwin
4. Milnes
5. Baby's Journey Home
6. These Nine Months has some good HLHS links and last but not least her husband's blog Fearfully and Wonderfully Made. Brooks the husband blogged during the hospital stay and initial surgery in August and it was nice to see a man's view and he is a great writer full of emotion

I am sure there are many more out there but these are the new blogs I have been reading this week! It was nice to see some babies with heart defects doing well. I will continue to keep Maddox in my thoughts and prayers but now I will include Faith, Emma Kate, Mick, Lily, Bela, "Baby" and the many others that I don't yet know about.

MINOR OBSESSIONS MONDAY

My new blog for this week is Life as only we know it... Of course it through a friend of a friend of a friend plus a little curiosity that brought me to this blog. It is a woman who blogs about her life (imagine that?) Anyway I took a glance and ended up reading all the way to the beginning within two days. I will only tell you they will be leaving for Russia soon with their adopted son and hopefully they will be returning with their other son whom they have been waiting for almost 4yrs. I hope and pray they get to bring this little boy home soon so they can finally be the family they've been wanting to be for almost 4 yrs. Good luck guys my thoughts are with you!! (They are probably like - hey who is this chick!?@#? my answer just a fellow blogging mom who's a sucker for a good story!!) If you don't want to read her whole blog at least check out two of my favs: Aug 7th titled "Ah, chit...." (if you know about my Target in India calls you will laugh like I did!) AND the Aug 1st entry titled "Phew, I feel so much better!" those letters crack me up especially the one to "Dear Doctor Mytimeisworthmorethanyours,"! I bet everyone would love to send that letter out!! Read on...until next time America........

JUST BORED AND RAMBLING.......

In addition to Minor Obsessions Monday I am contemplating other weekly blogs like Tackle It Tuesday, Wordless Wednesday, Thoughtful Thursday, Thursday's Ten, Friday High Five, Food for Thought Friday and Fun Fact Friday. Not sure what I am doing!!


I decided on the career note that I no longer like my job well I have never "liked" my job but I get the family perks and I have misplaced guilt for leaving the family business. VERY long issue for me and I am not going to get started but I will say one good thing about working for my family - if my kid needs to go to the doctor, I can get off. If my kid has a class party, I can go! Basically it lets me make money and still allows me the extra time off when I need to be with the kids so....I am stuck! Gonna stop that topic now to say I finally decided what I want to be when I grow up! Lol A weather girl! You can screw up all the time and never get fired b/c weather prediction in Oklahoma is apparently a very difficult job to do correctly! Ugh....




I am really enjoying blogging and just reading blogs from random people. I am finding so many things I want to teach and do with the boys. I am finding ideas and motivation so it (the addiction) can't be too bad, right?!?! I think the worst part for me is once I get started on a really good blog I find myself trying to read it all the way to the beginning and end up reading for a couple of hours before deciding I better sleep at least a little!! I blogged on myspace, in fact all of the blogs from before June of 2008 are transferred over from my myspace page (wow that was a challenge!) and I must say at least on myspace I had comments and a RELIABLE counter to at least KNOW people were reading my blogs!


I am SO not political BUT for some odd reason I have this sickening feeling in the pit of my stomach and I don't want EITHER candidate to be the next President! I have good AND bad feelings about both of them. I have definite views that I might share later but for now I am thinking the only reason to vote for Obama is he is not McCain and the only reason to vote for McCain is he is not Obama. I am telling you guys my intuition tells me something bad is happening and I am scared! Seriously this could "change" my kids lives for forever! ackk.....don't want to talk about that anymore either.....

MINOR OBSESSIONS MONDAY

I found a new blog that I love. I have this habit of clicking on blogs I see on others' blog lists and half the time I start reading and don't stop until I have read them all. I decided I will start sharing them in a new weekly blog called Minor Obsessions!! My new love is Let's Explore . She has some great ideas for preschoolers and she is quite the creative one. She also has a store and I just received my box of goodies yesterday. Every thing arrived in good shape, worth the money and exactly how it appeared on the store site!! I am going to try many of her ideas like the file folder games, the weather wheel, the ABC photobook but I am going to do one for Elijah's weekly 1st grade sight words and many many more of her creative ideas. I especially like the cookie cutter and alphabet crayon ideas since Lord knows I have plenty of old and broken crayons around the house!! I will let you all know how it turns out. My goal is to become a more creative Mom. I am creative but I want to be more creative and let my kids be creative with me!!

I also found The Crafty Crow. WOW I tell you where do these people come up with these things! I can see I am going to have to get movin' and create a calendar for when to create what! I guess we will all see how well I do! Wish me or I guess I should say wish me and the boys luck!!