Normal....?? What's that??

  This COVID-19 epidemic all over the world has all of us on lock down,  for the most part. Our lives have completely been "flipped turned upside down" (gotta love Will Smith ;) lol). All of us have our own ways of filling the time. Some of us don't know what to do to fill the time. I mean who wants to be stuck in the house🏠 ALL the time. Unless your someone like me,  who enjoys being home more than being anywhere else.  I just prefer to stay inside. Even so,  having the choice to go do something being  taken from me isnt the same as choosing to be home.   My favorite thing to do besides just being with my children is to read📖. I love science fiction books and can read a book in a day (when the kids arent home 24/7). I have kindle unlimited so that I can read just about anything,  and alot of times there are too many books📚 to choose from and I can't decide which to read!! I couldn't tell you how many times I have fallen asleep😴 tr...

So I wrote this on Monday,  saved it multiple times in the process (having 3 kids makes it hard to do much for myself,  especially right now),  but somehow when I came back to finish up it had disappeared from my drafts!!! Gahhh!!! I was so frustrated and irritated and just... Well in general I was in a bad😡 mood after that. So I have put off redoing it until now,  even tho it was meant for Mondays post :/ sorry guys! Anyway,  Sunday April 5th my youngest daughter turned 🎉7 years old🎊. In 12 years,  30 birthdays (altogether between my 3 kids),  and lots of celebrations,  this is the first birthday we didn't get to do much of anything to celebrate for her. She didn't get to see her friends, have a birthday party with cake and games and gifts🎁. She didn't get to go out to have a family dinner,  she didn't even get to see my mom :(  This COVID-19 affects everything!! Because of it my 7 year old,  and lots of other kids in this worl...

Normal... what's that?? I had a hard time deciding what to choose as the title for my blog because its not like most blogs out there now a days. I dont post products or DIY. I dont necessarily post about facts. I post things that I know, or at least hope, that other people can relate to. And who in this crazy world we live in can't relate to the fact that WE. ARE. ALL. DIFFERENT!!! That's not a bad thing, being different just means we are all unique, we all have our own ways of doing things. I mean how boring would the world be if we all were just "normal" and did things exactly the same. This is the 21st century here people, not the 19th century. We have women's rights, gay marriage,  and all kinds of other things we consider just a part of life now.  Any one of them would have shocked the 'H E double hockey sticks' out of any single person who even considered those things in the 19th century.. unless they were time travelers of course lol ;) ...

We want our children to know the good in the world. They are so innocent and nobody wants to be the one to ruin that, but teaching them what's bad in the world won't ruin their innocence!! Not by a long shot... it teaches them balance.  The world is all about balance, without sadness we cant understand the greatness of joy and happiness! There is no lightness of day without the darkness of the night. Balance.  I dont mean to scare our children by telling them how horrid the world can be at too young an age, but there is nothing wrong, and in my opinion there is so much more right, in teaching them what can happen when they make the wrong choice. At every age there are things children can make decisions about, and as they grow up those decisions become more important, & not always just to them,  Now when I say our children learn to make choices at leavey age I dont just mean life altering choices. For instance at 2 they might choose what cereal they want for breakfast....

Whether you are a mommy or a daddy, co parenting with a difficult ex can be extremely frustrating!!!  Sometimes I wonder what the heck I was thinking when I dated him... was I drunk the whole entire time?? Then I look at my kid and realize that everything happens for a reason ♡  My child's father and new wife love to make our lives difficult,  and act like I'm this terrible person because I dont cater to their every whim. God forbid they have to be responsible -_-  I know lots of people can relate! Whether you are a dad or a mom, it's all the same.  In my case I am raising 3 children, one being my ex husband's, biologically, but my fiance and I raise all 3 of them as our own. My kids are great!! They are so smart and amazing and make me so proud constantly, especially when it comes to school. My fiance and I have drilled it into their little heads from the beginning that everything they do in school will effect their future, college, all that. If they fall behin...

Life is a crazy, hectic, amazing miracle!! Every single one of us is different in so many ways, yet we are always compared to each other.  This is something I have never understood.  What I consider normal may be totally different from what my next door neighbor considers normal  (and oh believe me, it truly is!! Lol) Yet society compares us anyway. People treat others cruely if they dont stand up to their expectations,  or if they dont act a certain way. Even children now a days can be cruel because of learning things at home. For instance, a little girl in my 1st grade daughters class told my daughters friend, while they were in daycare together, that my child is fat.  The next day he came in and told my child what the little girl said. Luckily my kids know that they are perfect the way they are and it didnt bother her as much as it could have. My point being who gets to decide these things?? "Society" has such a disgusting view on some things, and "socie...