Warning.....I am about to vent. If you know me you know this has to be a good one to warrant a "vent"!!....proceed with caution!
Here it goes, I guess I am supposed to somehow be able to control the fact that both Noel and Jayden call people when I am not at home and ask to go over to their house and one has success and the other doesn't. I am supposed to wave a magic wand and make everyone happy and all hunky dory all while I am at work. Probably my number one pet peeve is calling me at work about something that is totally out of my control!! So, today (even tho I think it's totally ridiculous but I was trying to be nice and make everyone happy so I don't have to hear for the next week how mean I am because I didn't make sure everyone had the playdate they wanted) I let Noel call a friend and see if they can work out a playdate tomorrow. She gets a hold of someone and I talk to the mom and we set a date for tomorrow. GUESS WHO IS THROWING A FIT????? Wait for it.....BOTH KIDS!!!! UGH, am I surprised No! This is the EXACT reason I don't play the "make everyone happy" game!!!!!!IT NEVER WORKS!!!!!One is crying because she wanted to go there and not have her come here ( apparently I am a mind reader and am supposed to know this while talking to the mother, even tho we clearly stated that she was going to come here before????) the other is crying because now she won't have anyone to play with ( yet we have 3 girls in our house. She very well could play with Kaylin). So, now we are back to the point of why I DON'T do this!! No one is ever happy!! Life is full of disappointments. Sometimes you are able to do the things you want and other times you aren't. I will NOT go out of my way to make everyone happy EVER again!! I usually don't but like I said before I was trying to appease everyone. Now I am waaayyyy over it and decided they can just stay home for the rest of the summer and play with each other! I never win by trying to make everyone happy! I always just end up regretting it because it never works. So next time don't ask. :0/
Thursday, July 14, 2011
30 Day Challenge- Day 14
Day 14- Your earliest memory...
hmm, I don't exactly know how old I was but I remember a couple things. I remember riding in the front of the camper topper of my Dad't truck while we were driving to I think Sea World in like Toledo Ohio I think. I know there isn't one there now wherever it was. I remeber going to Texas with my parents. But I wasn't like super young when we did these things. Maybe like 4 or 5. I don't know if Isaac was born or not even. We are 5 years apart so it must have been before.Sorry, I don't have some wonderful long drawn out story but those are my earliest memories.
hmm, I don't exactly know how old I was but I remember a couple things. I remember riding in the front of the camper topper of my Dad't truck while we were driving to I think Sea World in like Toledo Ohio I think. I know there isn't one there now wherever it was. I remeber going to Texas with my parents. But I wasn't like super young when we did these things. Maybe like 4 or 5. I don't know if Isaac was born or not even. We are 5 years apart so it must have been before.Sorry, I don't have some wonderful long drawn out story but those are my earliest memories.
Tuesday, July 12, 2011
30 Day Challenge- Day 13
Day 13- somewhere you would like to move or visit.
Let me just say I am sooo behind on this BUT, I didn't see anyone say it had to me 30 consecutive days. LOL. With that out of the way, there are many places I would like to visit but not so many I would like to move too.
Shane and I have been looking at Colorado for a long time. We had a realtor looking for houses for us. I don't know why we thought there but we did. I only had 1 family unit there at the time. My cousin Kris and his family live there. But now we have more. 3 to be exact. Them and 2 others. It's a beautiful place! But moving that far from all our other family and friends without a firm plan is WAY scary!! I don't know what we were looking to move for. We didn't have job offers there or anything. Just looking for a change. Get out of dodge per say.But it's a big decision to take your kids away from their friends and family and leave our jobs that we don't hate. So for now we are staying where we are.
Now, as far as visit. I really, really want to take a vacation far, far away. Just Shane and I. We didn't really take a honeymoon when we got married because Jayden was only 4 months old. But my goal for us is to save up by the time our 10th anniversary comes around. Which will be in 2013. We have some dissent among the ranks on where. Shane wants to visit Alaska and I want to go to Mexico or Hawaii. I am not against Alaska but If I am going on a vacation I want to lay on a beach and not have a thing to do! I don't want to spend my days in layers of clothes just like I am at home! so, there you have it. Somewhere we would like to move and visit!!
Let me just say I am sooo behind on this BUT, I didn't see anyone say it had to me 30 consecutive days. LOL. With that out of the way, there are many places I would like to visit but not so many I would like to move too.
Shane and I have been looking at Colorado for a long time. We had a realtor looking for houses for us. I don't know why we thought there but we did. I only had 1 family unit there at the time. My cousin Kris and his family live there. But now we have more. 3 to be exact. Them and 2 others. It's a beautiful place! But moving that far from all our other family and friends without a firm plan is WAY scary!! I don't know what we were looking to move for. We didn't have job offers there or anything. Just looking for a change. Get out of dodge per say.But it's a big decision to take your kids away from their friends and family and leave our jobs that we don't hate. So for now we are staying where we are.
Now, as far as visit. I really, really want to take a vacation far, far away. Just Shane and I. We didn't really take a honeymoon when we got married because Jayden was only 4 months old. But my goal for us is to save up by the time our 10th anniversary comes around. Which will be in 2013. We have some dissent among the ranks on where. Shane wants to visit Alaska and I want to go to Mexico or Hawaii. I am not against Alaska but If I am going on a vacation I want to lay on a beach and not have a thing to do! I don't want to spend my days in layers of clothes just like I am at home! so, there you have it. Somewhere we would like to move and visit!!
Sunday, June 26, 2011
30 Day Challenge Day 12
Day 12- bullet list my entire day
- wake up
- make breakfast for fam
- clean up breakfast from fam
- pick up Noel from my mom and dads
- pack for ball tourney
- shower
- get kids ready for ball tourney
- get in car,drive to tourney
- stop at speedway in Auburn for gas,slurpees, and papers for coupons
- get to tourney
- unpack all the junk
- watch game 1
- watch game 2
- play at park with girls
- watch game 3-PS my love ROCKED the tourney and hit 4 home runs pitched 7 games in 2 days and made me SUPER PROUD!!
- pack up kids
- drive home
- start some laundry
- upload pics from tourney
- make dinner with Ike and Em
- clean up dinner
- eat ice cream with fam
- clip coupons
- get kids in bed
- switch laundry
- blog day 11
- blog day 12.
- PHEW.....go to bed!!
30 Day Challenge Day 11
Day 11- put your IPOD on shuffle and write down 10 songs that come up.
1.Kid Rock -when it rains
2.Lady Antebellum I run to you
3.Chris Daughtry- What I want
4.The Fray- Over my head
5.Ruben Vela- El coco rayado( YES I love that one....brings back memories...shout out to Joe and Tricia Gracia!! )
6. 5 finger death punch- Never Enough( that's sooo not mine!! Must be Shane's LOL)
7.Tim McGraw- live like you were dying
8.John Mayer- Daughters
9.Warrant- Heaven
10.Nelly Furtado- promiscuous girl.
Really tho my IPOD is like a mixed bread dog......there is a little of everything. Yup even classical!! LOL
****so I made a boo boo and didnt do enough songs...Thank you Karen!! so here are the other 20.
1.Carrie Underwood-Cowboy Casanova
2. 2Pac- only god can judge me now
3. Zac Brown Band- Chicken Fried
4. T-Pain- Shorty
5.Bone Thugs and Harmony- Fried Day (Friday Soundtrack)
6.Christina Aguilera- beautiful
7. Black Eyed Peas- Boom Boom Pow
8. REO Speedwagon- Keep on loving you
9. The Band Perry- If I die young
10. Bag English- when I see you smile
11. Guns N Roses-Sweey child of mine
12. Chicago- died in your eyes tonight
13. Poison- unskinny bop
14. Kenny Chesney- I go back
15. Jay Z- Young Forever
16. Craig Morgan- Bonfire
17. Kidz Bop- Peantu Butter Jelly time ( LOl)
18. Skid Row- Cat's in theCradle
19. Kix- Don't close your eyes
20. Miranda Lambert- only prettier.,
THere you have it folks 30 sons.
~ Jessi
1.Kid Rock -when it rains
2.Lady Antebellum I run to you
3.Chris Daughtry- What I want
4.The Fray- Over my head
5.Ruben Vela- El coco rayado( YES I love that one....brings back memories...shout out to Joe and Tricia Gracia!! )
6. 5 finger death punch- Never Enough( that's sooo not mine!! Must be Shane's LOL)
7.Tim McGraw- live like you were dying
8.John Mayer- Daughters
9.Warrant- Heaven
10.Nelly Furtado- promiscuous girl.
Really tho my IPOD is like a mixed bread dog......there is a little of everything. Yup even classical!! LOL
****so I made a boo boo and didnt do enough songs...Thank you Karen!! so here are the other 20.
1.Carrie Underwood-Cowboy Casanova
2. 2Pac- only god can judge me now
3. Zac Brown Band- Chicken Fried
4. T-Pain- Shorty
5.Bone Thugs and Harmony- Fried Day (Friday Soundtrack)
6.Christina Aguilera- beautiful
7. Black Eyed Peas- Boom Boom Pow
8. REO Speedwagon- Keep on loving you
9. The Band Perry- If I die young
10. Bag English- when I see you smile
11. Guns N Roses-Sweey child of mine
12. Chicago- died in your eyes tonight
13. Poison- unskinny bop
14. Kenny Chesney- I go back
15. Jay Z- Young Forever
16. Craig Morgan- Bonfire
17. Kidz Bop- Peantu Butter Jelly time ( LOl)
18. Skid Row- Cat's in theCradle
19. Kix- Don't close your eyes
20. Miranda Lambert- only prettier.,
THere you have it folks 30 sons.
~ Jessi
Friday, June 24, 2011
30 Day Challenge Day 10
Day 10- Discuss my first love and first kiss.
Hmmm, this is going back a LLLOOONNNGGG time! I have been with Shane forever so this is gonna take some thinking.
I am pretty sure I was around 14. He was a friend of a friend, never anyone I thought would be my boyfriend but none the less a cute and super funny guy! We hung out at our friends house numerous times before we became boyfriend and girlfriend. I really don't even remember him asking me to be his GF. This surprises me since I have a really good memory. I remember us having lots of good times and some not so good.I remember always having someone take me to his house (since he didn't live by me). I remember my friend Michelle and I going to his house to hang out with him and one of his friends and almost dying in the snow storm she drove home in. I remember him riding his bike to my house once which pretty much took him ALL day! Like I said we didn't live by each other. I think we dated for like a year or something. It remember it didn't end very well! I pretty much hated him and he hated me. We had the same group of friends so we avoided each other like the plague!! But when you are young and immature things like that seeming don't. I thought it was the end of the world but then again I was like 15ish. Luckily though he can back into my life some years down the road. Not as a BF this time but as a really good friend that I still love to this very day! He is married to an AWESOME lady who I think totally rocks. He is a GREAT dad! I am really happy that he has found someone who is as special to him as Shane is too me!! I am really glad that we can be friends and he knows I will always have his back!! That was my first love...awwww. LOL
Now the first kiss, hmmm I don't really remember my first kiss. I am sure it was sometime around I would say 9th grade. IDK. maybe before. I am sure it was nothing like they make it in the movies!! I mean I can't say then it wasn't a bigger deal but I don't recall anything sticking out in my mind now. Sorry. That one was a total bummer!
So, there you have it....my first love and not so much of the first kiss
~ Jessi
Hmmm, this is going back a LLLOOONNNGGG time! I have been with Shane forever so this is gonna take some thinking.
I am pretty sure I was around 14. He was a friend of a friend, never anyone I thought would be my boyfriend but none the less a cute and super funny guy! We hung out at our friends house numerous times before we became boyfriend and girlfriend. I really don't even remember him asking me to be his GF. This surprises me since I have a really good memory. I remember us having lots of good times and some not so good.I remember always having someone take me to his house (since he didn't live by me). I remember my friend Michelle and I going to his house to hang out with him and one of his friends and almost dying in the snow storm she drove home in. I remember him riding his bike to my house once which pretty much took him ALL day! Like I said we didn't live by each other. I think we dated for like a year or something. It remember it didn't end very well! I pretty much hated him and he hated me. We had the same group of friends so we avoided each other like the plague!! But when you are young and immature things like that seeming don't. I thought it was the end of the world but then again I was like 15ish. Luckily though he can back into my life some years down the road. Not as a BF this time but as a really good friend that I still love to this very day! He is married to an AWESOME lady who I think totally rocks. He is a GREAT dad! I am really happy that he has found someone who is as special to him as Shane is too me!! I am really glad that we can be friends and he knows I will always have his back!! That was my first love...awwww. LOL
Now the first kiss, hmmm I don't really remember my first kiss. I am sure it was sometime around I would say 9th grade. IDK. maybe before. I am sure it was nothing like they make it in the movies!! I mean I can't say then it wasn't a bigger deal but I don't recall anything sticking out in my mind now. Sorry. That one was a total bummer!
So, there you have it....my first love and not so much of the first kiss
~ Jessi
Thursday, June 23, 2011
30 Day Challenge- Day 9
Day 9- What I hope my future will be like.
I dont really know why they chose to have this as a topic after the 10 year thing....most would say 10 years from now is your future....anyhow. I hope that my future is filled with all the people I have in my life now, of course I am always open to new friends, hopefully some nieces or nephews. I hope that I can celebrate the fact that I don't have to raise money for Cancer research anymore because we have found the cure!! I hope my family and I are all healthy. I hope can retire before I am 90. Ohh and I also hope I am a multimillionaire so I can help all my family retire before they are 90. I think that covers it!! Whooooo hoooo I finished Day 9 before day 9 is over!!!!!! ;0)
I dont really know why they chose to have this as a topic after the 10 year thing....most would say 10 years from now is your future....anyhow. I hope that my future is filled with all the people I have in my life now, of course I am always open to new friends, hopefully some nieces or nephews. I hope that I can celebrate the fact that I don't have to raise money for Cancer research anymore because we have found the cure!! I hope my family and I are all healthy. I hope can retire before I am 90. Ohh and I also hope I am a multimillionaire so I can help all my family retire before they are 90. I think that covers it!! Whooooo hoooo I finished Day 9 before day 9 is over!!!!!! ;0)
30 Day Challenge Day 8
Day 8- A time when I felt most satisfied in my life.
Hmm, I don't really know if I can narrow this down to just ONE time....I have had many. The day Shane asked me to marry him, when my kids were born, when we bought our house......how do I pick just one. I guess for me it is all those little times when I just sit and look at Shane and my kids and think about how much I love them all!! We aren't the richest people in the world but we have each other. Cheesy I know but it's true! Some have all the money and things but aren't truly happy! The times when Shane and the girls are wresteling on the floor and all 4 of them are lauging. A passing look or inside joke between Shane and I. Those are the times when I feel the most satisfied with my life!!
Hmm, I don't really know if I can narrow this down to just ONE time....I have had many. The day Shane asked me to marry him, when my kids were born, when we bought our house......how do I pick just one. I guess for me it is all those little times when I just sit and look at Shane and my kids and think about how much I love them all!! We aren't the richest people in the world but we have each other. Cheesy I know but it's true! Some have all the money and things but aren't truly happy! The times when Shane and the girls are wresteling on the floor and all 4 of them are lauging. A passing look or inside joke between Shane and I. Those are the times when I feel the most satisfied with my life!!
Tuesday, June 21, 2011
30 Day Challenge Day7
Day 7- My astrological sign and do I think it matches personality.
So I am a Pisces. They say Pisces are "Mysterious and alluring individuals, most Pisces are extremely talented, but even though they are gifted in many ways, they still manage to spend most of their lives battling "confusing" conditions."
I guess that is me....I don't really put much thought into the whole astrology thing. I don't really think I am mysterious. If you know me you know pretty much everything about me. I don't hide who I am. So, I don't know. I am kinda torn on this one.........oh wait I am supposed to be. That is what my sign says. LOL.
So I am a Pisces. They say Pisces are "Mysterious and alluring individuals, most Pisces are extremely talented, but even though they are gifted in many ways, they still manage to spend most of their lives battling "confusing" conditions."
I guess that is me....I don't really put much thought into the whole astrology thing. I don't really think I am mysterious. If you know me you know pretty much everything about me. I don't hide who I am. So, I don't know. I am kinda torn on this one.........oh wait I am supposed to be. That is what my sign says. LOL.
30 Day Challenge Day 6
Day 6- 30 interesting things about me
Yikes!! This is going to be a hard one. I had this done once and it only saved till 11 and then would not let me edit it to do the rest. So, now I am starting over i hopes I can remember the 30 I had. UGH!
1. I LOVE being part if Relay for Life!! I actually wish it was my everyday job!
2. I would someday like to see a cure for Cancer and I will do everything in my power to help.
3. I count hitting a homerun in high school softball one of my best accomplishments.
4. I LOVE reading!! although I don't get to do it as much as I wish I did.
5. I can't wait for the next Twilight movie!!
6. I also can't wait for Water for Elephants! I loved the book so I hope the movie doesn't disappoint!
7. I have a tattoo....would like another as well.
8. I love Winter!
9. Did I mention how mad I am that this didn't save the first time???
10. I have a brain full of music.
11. I know a little about a lot of things.
12. Someday I would like to take a trip somewhere warm and tropical with Shane and some of our friends...I am hoping this happens sooner rather than later but at least before we are all old and decrepit.
13. It really bothers me when people say ohhh you kids were soo good. Really?? Where are they when they are with me??
14. I am really annoyed that my graduating class has not got together and had a reunion! We have been out of school for 15 years,people in our class have passed away. Does this not bother anyone else? I mean do we really hate each other that much that we don't even care to see what everyone else is up too?
15.I am entitled to say that last comment because I have been working with 2 of my classmates to try and get one started. SN-I was not the class president or even on the student council for that matter.
16. I secretly resent the fact that my husband plays ball and I can't anymore! I mean really he never played till he met me! LOL
17. I am very thankful for my relationship with Holly! She will forever be my bestie
18. I am not a huge fan of chocolate but I love skittles and starbursts!
19. I love people watching!!
20. I sing in the shower and the car!
21. this is getting really hard.... I am seriously having to think!
22. I am not scared of spiders, bugs or snakes.
23. I am know as the spider lady at work because no one else will get close enough to kill them!
24. Have only been to Cedar Point once and I rode 1 roller coaster.....yup only one...a kiddie one!!
25. I am really proud of my bother. He has turned out to be a really good guy. I love his aspirations and I know he will be whatever he wants!! SN- Him and Shane are pretty much attached so I really don't have a choice!
26. ahhhh 4 more to go!
27. I can still throw a mean fastball!
28. I love America's Funniest Videos!!
29. I am a reality show junkie....yup I admit it!
30. I am sooooo glad this is over...and it saved this time! LOL
Yikes!! This is going to be a hard one. I had this done once and it only saved till 11 and then would not let me edit it to do the rest. So, now I am starting over i hopes I can remember the 30 I had. UGH!
1. I LOVE being part if Relay for Life!! I actually wish it was my everyday job!
2. I would someday like to see a cure for Cancer and I will do everything in my power to help.
3. I count hitting a homerun in high school softball one of my best accomplishments.
4. I LOVE reading!! although I don't get to do it as much as I wish I did.
5. I can't wait for the next Twilight movie!!
6. I also can't wait for Water for Elephants! I loved the book so I hope the movie doesn't disappoint!
7. I have a tattoo....would like another as well.
8. I love Winter!
9. Did I mention how mad I am that this didn't save the first time???
10. I have a brain full of music.
11. I know a little about a lot of things.
12. Someday I would like to take a trip somewhere warm and tropical with Shane and some of our friends...I am hoping this happens sooner rather than later but at least before we are all old and decrepit.
13. It really bothers me when people say ohhh you kids were soo good. Really?? Where are they when they are with me??
14. I am really annoyed that my graduating class has not got together and had a reunion! We have been out of school for 15 years,people in our class have passed away. Does this not bother anyone else? I mean do we really hate each other that much that we don't even care to see what everyone else is up too?
15.I am entitled to say that last comment because I have been working with 2 of my classmates to try and get one started. SN-I was not the class president or even on the student council for that matter.
16. I secretly resent the fact that my husband plays ball and I can't anymore! I mean really he never played till he met me! LOL
17. I am very thankful for my relationship with Holly! She will forever be my bestie
18. I am not a huge fan of chocolate but I love skittles and starbursts!
19. I love people watching!!
20. I sing in the shower and the car!
21. this is getting really hard.... I am seriously having to think!
22. I am not scared of spiders, bugs or snakes.
23. I am know as the spider lady at work because no one else will get close enough to kill them!
24. Have only been to Cedar Point once and I rode 1 roller coaster.....yup only one...a kiddie one!!
25. I am really proud of my bother. He has turned out to be a really good guy. I love his aspirations and I know he will be whatever he wants!! SN- Him and Shane are pretty much attached so I really don't have a choice!
26. ahhhh 4 more to go!
27. I can still throw a mean fastball!
28. I love America's Funniest Videos!!
29. I am a reality show junkie....yup I admit it!
30. I am sooooo glad this is over...and it saved this time! LOL
30 Day Challenge- Day 5
ok, so I am a few days behind....being alone with your 3 kids and working will do that to ya!
Day 4- A time when I thought of ending my life.
Honestly I can say I have never thought of ending my life. I don't honestly think that there is anything worth taking my life over. Who am I to decide to take away a mother, wife, sister and friend from the people I love? When I die is not my decision. It's God's. God only gives me trials to make me a stronger person and they have! I am sure some of you will say that I have never had anything really bad happen then. Not true. I just choose to see these things as lessons and experiences not reasons to end my life. God says "in all things give thanks" so to mean that means that there is rhyme and reason to everthing that happens to me. I am to give thanks and learn from these things and go forward not stop where I am. I would not be where I am in my life had I had no trials at all. My only wish is that people who were thinking of ending their life would know that there is help. I wish that they would just see what impact their decision is going to have on everyone around them. ~ Jessi
Day 4- A time when I thought of ending my life.
Honestly I can say I have never thought of ending my life. I don't honestly think that there is anything worth taking my life over. Who am I to decide to take away a mother, wife, sister and friend from the people I love? When I die is not my decision. It's God's. God only gives me trials to make me a stronger person and they have! I am sure some of you will say that I have never had anything really bad happen then. Not true. I just choose to see these things as lessons and experiences not reasons to end my life. God says "in all things give thanks" so to mean that means that there is rhyme and reason to everthing that happens to me. I am to give thanks and learn from these things and go forward not stop where I am. I would not be where I am in my life had I had no trials at all. My only wish is that people who were thinking of ending their life would know that there is help. I wish that they would just see what impact their decision is going to have on everyone around them. ~ Jessi
Friday, June 17, 2011
30 Day Challenge Day 4
Day 4- My view on Religion.
Well, I am am believer in God. There have been many times in my life when I don't know where I would be or how I would have coped without religion in my life. I thank my parents for instilling in me the importance of a relationship with God. I hope that by living my life as I am that I am teaching my children as well that a relationship with God is important. I like the fact that Shane has come to like attending church with me as well. Before it was mostly my idea for us to get up and go to church but now he is usally the one "rallying the troops". He has found that he really enjoys the people we see there and he LOVES our Pastor.....shout out to PJ!! I am glad that thru me and my family he has found his way to a place where he feels good about his own walk. To me God is the only God. You may have different views and that is fine. I will hear what you have to say but it won't change my mind. Thank you God for all the blessing you have given me for without you I would have nothing!!
Well, I am am believer in God. There have been many times in my life when I don't know where I would be or how I would have coped without religion in my life. I thank my parents for instilling in me the importance of a relationship with God. I hope that by living my life as I am that I am teaching my children as well that a relationship with God is important. I like the fact that Shane has come to like attending church with me as well. Before it was mostly my idea for us to get up and go to church but now he is usally the one "rallying the troops". He has found that he really enjoys the people we see there and he LOVES our Pastor.....shout out to PJ!! I am glad that thru me and my family he has found his way to a place where he feels good about his own walk. To me God is the only God. You may have different views and that is fine. I will hear what you have to say but it won't change my mind. Thank you God for all the blessing you have given me for without you I would have nothing!!
Thursday, June 16, 2011
30 Day Challenge- Day 3
Day 3- my view on drugs and alcohol.
So, I guess I don't have a strong feeling on drugs and alcohol. I am not the one to stand on my soapbox and preach about much.I am not a all a fan of drugs!! I don't like how they change people and ruin lives.I have never really seen what draws people to them. When I have ever been around or seen people on drugs I was not at all impressed. I always thought it was kinda stupid but then again I am not a follower by any means and sometimes I think people who do drugs are. They like to be involved with what everyone else is doing. I do love the show intervention tho.
I think that alcohol is OK in moderation. I do think that it can be addicting and dangerous. I don't think there is any reason to walk around and act a fool! But then again that has never been me. I don't look down on people who drink, to each their own I guess. Drinking and driving totally gets me going! I don't see any reason to get behind the wheel of a car when you have been drinking, period. bottom line. I would have a really hard time being a judge in a courtroom with a drinking and driving case. I just find it inexcusable.
There you have it peeps. My views on drugs and alcohol.
So, I guess I don't have a strong feeling on drugs and alcohol. I am not the one to stand on my soapbox and preach about much.I am not a all a fan of drugs!! I don't like how they change people and ruin lives.I have never really seen what draws people to them. When I have ever been around or seen people on drugs I was not at all impressed. I always thought it was kinda stupid but then again I am not a follower by any means and sometimes I think people who do drugs are. They like to be involved with what everyone else is doing. I do love the show intervention tho.
I think that alcohol is OK in moderation. I do think that it can be addicting and dangerous. I don't think there is any reason to walk around and act a fool! But then again that has never been me. I don't look down on people who drink, to each their own I guess. Drinking and driving totally gets me going! I don't see any reason to get behind the wheel of a car when you have been drinking, period. bottom line. I would have a really hard time being a judge in a courtroom with a drinking and driving case. I just find it inexcusable.
There you have it peeps. My views on drugs and alcohol.
Wednesday, June 15, 2011
30 Day Challenge Day 2
Day 2- where do you see your self in 10 years.
OK,10 years huh.....hmm lets see Noel will be 22, Jayden will be 18, and Kaylin will be 13.....WOW. That is a little bit scary!! Almost makes me want to cry! Hopefully I will be as healthy and happy as I am now with a little more financial status thown in. I hope the Noel is loving college and Jayden is thinking of where she wants to go for college and Kaylin is just getting used to being a teenager. Again...I can't even imagine them being this old!! It seriously makes me sad!! I see myself settled and content since that is how I feel now and I hope that never changes. Maybe if I am lucky I will be a milllionaire with not a care in the world but one can only wish.
OK,10 years huh.....hmm lets see Noel will be 22, Jayden will be 18, and Kaylin will be 13.....WOW. That is a little bit scary!! Almost makes me want to cry! Hopefully I will be as healthy and happy as I am now with a little more financial status thown in. I hope the Noel is loving college and Jayden is thinking of where she wants to go for college and Kaylin is just getting used to being a teenager. Again...I can't even imagine them being this old!! It seriously makes me sad!! I see myself settled and content since that is how I feel now and I hope that never changes. Maybe if I am lucky I will be a milllionaire with not a care in the world but one can only wish.
Tuesday, June 14, 2011
30 day challenge
ok, so one of my FB friends (thank you Fawn Wirtz) is doing this 30 day blog challenge. I decided I should just get on the wagon and hope that it will encourage me to blog more often. So,here goes nothing.
Day 1: your current relationship
well my current relationship is the same relationship I have been in for all of my adult life. But yet it is amazingly different than it was in the beginning. We were 2 crazy teenagers back then! Well Shane more crazy then myself but that is a WHOLE different story. LOL.
I met Shane when I was 16 (I think) a crazy guy at a Bullock Creek basketball game. I had a BF at the time but we were on the outs. A couple weeks later I started hanging with Shane and then not too long after that he broke my heart (jerk!! wink,wink). It was about 2 years until we talked again Shane had to call my house and say he was someone else for me to answer but, we have been inseperable every since. We have 3 beautiful girls.We have been together for 14 years and married for 8 this Spetember.
on a real note though I would not change where we have been and where we are for the WORLD!! It makes us who we are! Shane is my rock and always has been. Whenever I am down he picks me up! I love him more today than ever and I hope that continues on for years and years to come!! You are my BFF Shane Kraus and I thank you for that!!
There you have it Day 1 of my 30 day blog challenge in the books....stay tuned for the next 29!! :0)
~Jessi
Day 1: your current relationship
well my current relationship is the same relationship I have been in for all of my adult life. But yet it is amazingly different than it was in the beginning. We were 2 crazy teenagers back then! Well Shane more crazy then myself but that is a WHOLE different story. LOL.
I met Shane when I was 16 (I think) a crazy guy at a Bullock Creek basketball game. I had a BF at the time but we were on the outs. A couple weeks later I started hanging with Shane and then not too long after that he broke my heart (jerk!! wink,wink). It was about 2 years until we talked again Shane had to call my house and say he was someone else for me to answer but, we have been inseperable every since. We have 3 beautiful girls.We have been together for 14 years and married for 8 this Spetember.
on a real note though I would not change where we have been and where we are for the WORLD!! It makes us who we are! Shane is my rock and always has been. Whenever I am down he picks me up! I love him more today than ever and I hope that continues on for years and years to come!! You are my BFF Shane Kraus and I thank you for that!!
There you have it Day 1 of my 30 day blog challenge in the books....stay tuned for the next 29!! :0)
~Jessi
Tuesday, April 12, 2011
Last night
See,I promised I would be back again soon. LOL. Last night I attended the Relay for Life of Midland County kick-off party!! My job as part of the Team Development committee was to man the check in table with my jersey-shore loving friend and Team D partner Josh.....better know to me as DJ Joshy T. We checked in the team captains and gave them the proper name tag depending on their years as a Team Captain. I need to stop here for a second and give a quick shout out to my AWESOME husband!! I am so thankful to you Shane for coming with me last night and supporting this cause that you know is so important to me. I could not attend the meetings and all the side projects with out your support! I love you! OK, now back to the story. We talked and mingled with the Team Captains and everyone else checking in. Josh spilled Penny's drink,wait did I say that out loud, Sorry Josh had to throw it in there, After our job there was done we went inside to set with the rest of our teammates and friends who came out. I myself was floored at the turnout. If you have every doubted just how many people of every age,race,religion that cancer touches all you need to do is attend one of these events. We had the biggest hall and there was hardly a seat left. We began our celebration with an introduction of the Planning Committee. We made a "tunnel of hope" for everyone to run thru. Good times. We listened to the Chair and Co-Chair talk about our hopes for the event. If any of you are not familiar with our event, It's huge. Not just like Michigan huge but like NATIONAL huge. We have as many teams in our little ol' town's event as some of the events in California. We met and exceeded ALL of our goals set for us last year. We had 50 teams in 2009 at the 2010 Relay we doubled that and had 105!!!! We were expected to make right around $190,000 as a event. We raised $230,000 to help fund the fight against cancer. We honored over 200 survivors. Just amazing!!! Nothing makes me feel better that knowing I am doing something to help! After all the hoopla of just how amazing of an event this will be we got to the keynote speaker. She bravely got up there and told us her story of being a caregiver to her 14 year old son who was diagnosed with a rare form of cancer. she told us of his battle with his faith and knowing that when all was said and done he was without a DOUBT going to meet Jesus. How she had to answer his questions on how he would know how to get to Jesus once he had passed. It was an amazing story I wish everyone one could hear. She told us of spending time with him and sharing those special treasured moments that we soon to come to an end. she told us of the hardest part for her. It was letting her son "sleep his way to Jesus" his pain had gotten so intolerable that he couldn't take it anymore so he chose to be sedated. That was hard for her because they could no longer have those conversations she has come to love. Little did she know her story was touching a special part of everyone there. For me it was nice to hear a story from a person who truly believed that God was in control. Despite the fact that she was watching her son die she knew that this was all part of the master plan!She spoke of her son's never ending humor. The T-shirt he chose to be buried in said"I'm so excited to be here". That still makes me laugh but he was. He was excited to be there because that meant he has went to be with Jesus. Exactly as God had planned the day he was created. Her story was beautiful . After she was done we went on to do our own remembrance ceremony where we lit a candle for whomever we relay for. This was to show everyone that when all those lights are lit they give off a bright light and let everyone know they are not alone. There is one thing I can say for sure. Every time I go to a American Cancer Society event I leave a better person. I leave a with a renewed sense of my part. and like my favorite quote says " I am only one,but yet I am one. I can not do everything but I can do something"- Helen Keller. The part I play in the fight against this nasty disease is small but it's something and as long as I can I will do my part to fight it! I will not sit and complain about how much it bothers me every time I hear of another person struck with cancer. I will do something about it!!
its' been sooo long
Ok, as of this day I feel like I am failing at the "blogging" thing. I don't post very often. Is that a good thing or a bad thing? I mean some may say it's a good thing because I am busy and not spending my every waking moment in front of the computer. And others may say I need to do it more often. For me my lack of blogging has not been to do disinterest but more so a large amount of obligations. I am VERY involved with my local Relay for Life. I love it and am sooo glad it found me!! It does keep me busy but I like that. Second, I am part of my kids PTO at their school. That in it's self has been an interesting thing. Both organizations are trying to plan HUGE events which make for many meetings. all of this is on top of the general busy-ness of my 3 child household which includes: 2 different nights of Girl Scouts,Girls on the run,work,2 different nights of softball practice,and babysitting on my days off from work. *ahhh big sign* So, I guess what I'm saying is.....don't judge me for not blogging often. I am going to stick with this because I like the chance to get out my feelings. I promise I will be back soon.
Friday, April 1, 2011
Here I go......
So, everyone else has started a blog. Why not me? I have pondered this very question for quite a while. I wondered why I really would. Who am I. Just a simple mother, wife, friend, sister,aunt.....and the list goes on. Why would anyone want to read what I have to say. But, here I am. I am not promising anything interesting but I am sure if you know me you know I will probably have alot to say. LOL. Gotta go now. My work calls me.
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