July 16, 2008
I was reading through my TwilightMoms blog and forums, feeling a little bummed about the lockdown, when Gypsy blogged about this AWESOME contest over at The Story Siren. She is giving away a WHOLE set of the Twilight Saga, T-shirt, and button! You can even get multiple entries! So I am doing my part to spread the word and hopefully get some extra entries! 
So head on over and visit her awesome blog and while you’re there check out the contest!
Oh My Edward!
July 10, 2008
So I decided to try it again. I am making my Home Management Binder pretty. There are scores and legions of web pages that show you this and that and I could never find exactly what I was looking for. So I guess I have to get off my rear and get creative. It is turning out really well. I got the binder insert and the dividers made. Microsoft Office 2007 is not so bad. It has some neat things you can do with Clipart. I went with a flowers/ Proverbs 31 theme. Once I figure out how to get the pages on here I will show you more.
May 19, 2008
As I pondered alone last night after the kids became unconscious went to bed or the floor, whichever, about my slavery homekeeping, I decided that to heck with it. (run on much!) I am just going to do it. I can’t wait for these ingrates my family to appreciate me and want to help me. My house looks like a war zone. So to motivate myself and to prove beyond a doubt that being mom/wife is hard work, I am going to post my “to-do” list and mark the ones off that I do. So if I don’t do them then I will have to face my shame in front of the internet. 0_0
I know I may not be able to do it today but I’ll just carry over tomorrow what I didn’t get done. No pressure… right? Okay…here goes nothing… or everything. (In no particular order I was just curious to see the number of things I do)
(Isn’t that enough? I may be dead by the time it is done but as Gizmo as my witness it will be done. AND if my some miracle bestowed upon me from Jesus Himself, someone helps me OR takes it upon themselves to do SOMETHING… ANYTHING, I promise to give them full credit in this blog! (After I recover myself off the floor for I will surely faint and sob the tears of an astonished and thankful mom/wife)
Do you see me here procrastinating? I am just like Scarlett O’Hara. Besides the obvious temper, “I’ll worry about it tomorrow. After all tomorrow is another day.” Okay I am done… no more computer for me (besides the checking off of completed jobs). If I am going to require my kiddos to do chores before tv/gaming/computer/playtime then I should set an example huh? Rats being a responsible role model is the pits. ^_^
Ashley signing off… for now <3
EDIT: 3:31pm Not going according to plan, for the past 5 hours I have had to play taxi. **sigh** The kids have been home for 5 minutes and already fighting. **clicks heels three times** “There’s no place like Oz. There’s no place like Oz.” Okay… back to mines!
May 19, 2008
This is a topic that I find myself steaming over contemplating alot recently. I find opinions all over. Strong ones at that. What exactly are the roles of husband and wife. I’ve been raised where the woman slaves takes care of the husband by providing meals, a clean house, screws up rears the kids, and provides clean underwear. On top of that she is expected to be kind, respectful, and be “availiable” on the drop of a dime. The husband works, eats the food, dirties the house, ignores pats the kids on the head, throws his clothes in the floor, grips at the wife, and “takes care of business” when he pleases or not.
To me this just doesn’t seem like a fair division of labor. I understand that the husband works 8-12 hours a day, but have you EVER seen a wife have an off day? No, kids never disappear and laundry and dishes multiply faster then bunnies. Someone ALWAYS needs something.
Now don’t get me wrong, I love my kids and my husband, my “job” as homemaker, BUT I do get burned out. No one ever asks Mom, “Hey, Mom you work so hard taking care of us, let me do some of your work.” No they sit in front of computers and tv and ignore my pleas for a little help. How can ONE woman do it all? The answer is she can NOT. I get tired too you know! You would think after I have voiced my pleas that running off with friends or beating up your sibling would take a backseat to the woman who takes care of you and the mom that birthed you. **sigh** I hate complaining. I try not to but my heart can only handle so much before my mind and mouth get the better of me.
Now that I have totally taken my debate off onto a whole other field… I’ll get back to the question. What IS fair? How much SHOULD a working husband help and what is reasonable for children? Should I try and move this heavy furniture myself? Carry a hundred pound metal desk down the stairs myself to the garbage? Even if I could manage it, is that fair? I suppose it is a moot point because my husband is spending the night with friends, my kids are beating each other up while simultaneously making more messes and none of them care at all. I digress that I should suck it up like a man woman and just do it myself and pray that I don’t kill myself on the stairs… again.
So throw in your two cents and let me know. What IS fair?
May 18, 2008
Okay, so here I am attempting to keep a real live blog once again. I figure with my upcoming venture into homeschooling, I ought to document my demise triumph somewhere. This is scary business. So lets hope I don’t fall flat on my face here.
I am a mom of four. Drama 12, Clown 11, Prince 7, and Red 6. (Let’s see how long my attempts at anonymity last. LOL) Married to a wonderful nut of geek ^_^ . He’s my best friend. When I am not trying to kill him we make a real swell couple. We also have a dog whom I believe I love more then all the rest of these heathens! Oh and a googleplex of fish and plants… and books! We’re a real ecclectic bunch here but we love each other and thats what keeps us safe matters the most.
So I guess sit back and enjoy the fireworks! Its bound to be entertaining!
February 18, 2008
In an age where love seems to be anything but forever, its hard to remain hopeful about my own relationship. When couples that seem to have it so good decide that love just isn’t worth it then it makes my own rocky relationship seem that more unstable. How is it though that Edward and I remain together and so many of my friends and loved ones are breaking up? What do we have that they don’t? There are some days that I just know in my mind that we can’t last one more moment or we (usually me) will kill one another. But then my heart speaks and tells me NO! You can’t, you WON’T give up. I just keep on fighting. I keep on searching for the answers to our problems. And eventually that love, that feeling that wasn’ t there, that I could not fathom even wanting to feel comes rushing back.
I think many couples go through a period of this. Working out the kinks, learning each other. Its this period where most throw in the towel. They forget the love. Oh they may know they love the other person…. but its “too hard” to try and make it work. Its too much effort. I guess where most of us differ is my marriage is my HIGHEST priority. I guess I am old-fashioned. I believe in love. I believe it conquers all. My husband is my world, I revolve around him. I am in this world for such a short time. I feel I must leave a legacy, something to be known for. Something my children can be proud of. I’m not very skillful in any on area except for the area of the heart. I am good at loving people I suppose. I guess sometimes a little too much. I know just how rare that love is. Its so hard to find a real true love. I am not so presumptuous as to claim there is only one soul mate for each of us. (Although that romantic notion makes my heart flutter.) But I do think that there are only a handful of people that can make us truly happy and truly love us in return the way we need to be loved. So few who understand the real us and accept us the way we are.
Love is not only an emotion, its an action, its a journey. I choose this journey with Edward, no matter how hard it gets, I know that we can make it. He knows me in a way that hardly anyone else does. He tries so hard now to make me happy. Someone who would give up their fastest and only DVD burner to get a hard drive for your laptop, so you can have a kitty-top. To understand my crazy idiosyncrasies. To help me grow and protect me when I can’t see the forest for the trees. Patience. We run out, but we take a deep breath and jump back in ready to confront all life has to throw at us. I just wish that more then 50% of America could know what I know, see what I see, and have someone love them so deeply that somehow the world seems like a perfect place. I wish we hadn’t turned love into something so disposable, because its not easily replaced.
February 8, 2008
Not only have I promised to give up cursing for Lent. But now I have commited myself to losing weight AND to quit smoking?!?!!!!! I am really asking for it. I took my mom to a specialist in B’ham and he was AWESOME! He spent so much time with us answering our questions. He seems to really want to go to bat for my mom. She had pretty much resigned herself to dying but he seems to think that we can make some difference. He is also going to be following the lesion that was found on her liver. The catch is, she may have to have a liver transplant and to do that you of course cannot smoke…. for a whole year. So just in case we decided to start now. She really doesn’t want to, she’s being doing it for like close to 40 years. But I said I would do it with her. She is also going to lose some weight and that will help with her liver functions and just all around feeling better. I need to lose weight. Being married has made me fat. So yep… I going to do that with her too. I may be crazy and need anti-psychotics by the end but I am going to do it so she will. I know if I am trying she will try too. SO wish us luck. Maybe soon you will see a way thinner Ashley and I’ll be able to breathe too! :p
February 3, 2008
googled your husband’s name/screen names and found the nerdiest, craziest, sexist stuff evar and laughed your butt off? LOL! I did… Gawd it was funny. I have never laughed so hard. My husband was not nerd “chic” but very nerdy as in bad nerd bad! As in Steve Urkel mixed with Larry Flynt. Oh boys in their youth.
He’s growing up nicely. Well at least he is leaving some of his nerdy perversion behind. If only dancing girls cured cancer or brought about world peace. …. hmmm maybe they would. Now coffee… now thats what I am talking about. oh yes, back to nerd husbands. Well… you do you ever wonder what went through their minds back then… or rather what didn’t go through them? Where did some of those ideas come from… and if you have ever heard those stories before have you noticed that they are “fish” stories and that dern fish gets bigger every time!
Oh the magic of husbands. There’s never anything close to having a husband to laugh at… I mean love. It’s more precious then all the dancing girls and coffee in the world.
my husband ransoming his favorite forum….. **sigh** now all he ph34rs is his wife. LOL!
I love you 1337-m4$73r k4y1n!
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