Not Me Monday!

It's is officially Not Me Monday! Every Monday I will post the things that I promise I would have NOT done sometime over the last week. This was started by a blogger name MckMamma over at her blog called My Charming Kids. Every week I laugh at all the things women are NOT doing. Please check it out if you need a good laugh. So here goes...



I did not... sleep until 9:30 several mornings last week becuase the girls went to bed so late and didn't wake up until then. Nope, not me, because I being the fabo housewife I am got up at 8:30 anyways and cleaned the house. Yup, that's exactly what I did.



I did not.. let the girls watch more than 1 movie each night while HOTTIE was gone on business. A good mother keeps the routine and knows that watching more than 1 movie a night is not good for her children so I would NEVER do that.



I did not... enjoy watching HGTV, The Food Network, and all of my TV shows while HOTTIE was out of town. A good wife never enjoys the fact that she can watch whatever she wants on T.V. at her husband's expense.



I did not... play Settlers online every night(after the princesses went to bed, naturally) for hours on end while HOTTIE was gone and even stayed up until 2:00 one night. Nope, not me, that would be stupid because I have to go to work the next day. Who cares about an online game? Who cares that I have a negative score despite all that playing? Nope, not me either!



(I saved the best for last)



I did not... under any circumstance take my princesses to McDonald's for dinner. McDonald's isn't good for kids, actually it's full of fat and preservatives! A mommy who's trying to provide organic and healthier food choices for her family would never go there and neither would I. Much less let her kiddos get happy meals with chocolate milk. WHAT???? What kind of mom does that??? Ohhhh, but it gets even worse, that mommy would never, ever get a Big Mac meal and eat every bite. NEVER!!!!!!!! That mommy would never let the same amount of calories that she should be eating over two days be taken up in one meal. Nope, not me either.



I did not... let my princesses play in the playland after eating above mentioned meal. Nope, not me, I know how many disgusting germs linger in those places. What kind of mom does that? NOT ME!



Have a great night!

Carly

YAHOO!!!

I did it!! I changed my layout all by myself, well with a little bit of help. I was so envious of everyone's super cute blog layouts that I called on the help of some fellow bloggers. My fabo sister-in-law said that the link for the website she and our friend use would be on the bottom of our friend's blog. I first looked on our friend's site but couldn't find it. Then I looked at my sister-in-law's blog and today must have been my lucky day because I found the link. Then, walla, I have a super cute boy like blog layout. Please note that there are blues, blacks, and other boy like colors in honor of my precious boy. Also please note that it took everything in me not to get the even cuter pink girly layouts. There were so many cute ones and since my favorite color is pink I naturally gravitate towards pink. But, I refrained because my boy deserves boy colors and since I live in the world of pink(which I am so blessed to be a part of), the few times I get to use blue I jump on it.

In addition, I have added a playlist to my blog. Wow, when I go public, I come out with pizazz, huh?? The playlist has several songs that I feel describe what I'm feeling right now. Welcome by Shaun Groves is one of my very favorite songs. So, I was very disappointed to only get a small portion of the song but I'll take what I can get. The recording is pretty crappy too but it's all good. It does get the point across. I love how the song talks about how we all fill our hearts with clutter and messes that are still to be discovered. Isn't that so true? We do fill our hearts with all of the crap from our lives and the many attempts we make to find out what is the meaning for it all. Listen to all of the songs, they each have a story.

The last song is the most important though. It's called Taken by Plumb. This is the song we played at David's memorial. The song has a story that goes with it. I'm not sure how many people remember the ice storm of 2003 but for HOTTIE and I it is unforgettable. David passed away on a Monday Night(Opening Day for those Tiger fans out there). I was in the hospital for the next four days or maybe five days. Regardless on Friday, on the way home from the hospital, we were listening to my Plumb CD. We were about 2 minutes from home when Taken started playing. I had heard this song many times but it never phased me until that ride home. 15 seconds or so into the song, I start crying uncontrollably and made HOTTIE drive around good ol'Lakeville for the next ten minutes so I can hear the song another 10 times(which for those of you who know Lakeville know it's like two blocks wide and three blocks across). The song reminded me that no matter how sad or angry we were, David was never too far from our hearts. I loved that and still do. I love knowing that even when the world forgets, I don't. My boy is still my boy. I do have a son but he's in a place I can't physically touch. Regardless, the song ministered to me at a time when I so desperately needed it. Over the next days, months, and year, I listened to the song constantly. So much that, to this day the song won't play. Every song on that CD works, except that song. The amazing thing was that when the song stopped working, I felt that God was telling me that I didn't need the song anymore. That he was going to begin the healing process, and he did. It's been a bumpy road but I've come a long way.

More about the ice storm of 2003 to come. It's getting late and God's Little Princess 1 and God's Little Princess 2 will be up in 6 short hours so I need to go to sleep.

Public

I think now is the time. It's time to go public. I am now beginning to tell people about my blog. I haven't really said anything about it to anyone but I'm feeling confident enough now to say it's time to go public . I feel different now. I'll talk more about that in a later post. On a side note, I noticed that in some previous entries I typed I've omitted some words. The people pleasing part of me says that everyone will think that I'm dumb and that people will think badly of me because I made a mistake. But you know what, that is the enemy's lies and I'm going to leave my previous entries just as they are. I am not perfect. God made me with these imperfections and he loves me so it doesn't matter what other people think. I'm changing, fellow bloggers, slowly but still changing so I'll take it. I would have never left the entries like that in the past. So out with the old and in with the new. On another side note, I will be participating in Not me Mondays. Please look up a blog called My Charming Kids to find out more information about this. I am totally addicted. Be sure to check it my blog Monday Night. There are many things that I have not, no not me, done this week. HOTTIE was out of town and I had to fend for myself. God's Little Princess 1 and God's Little Princess 2 have had ALOT of fun while their daddy was gone but you will find out all about the things we DID NOT do this week on Monday.