Sunday Treats

My father-in-law wanted to show his support of our blog by learning to use the oven!  He made us some delicious homemade red velvet oreo cookies.  So nice to know we have family behind everything we do, even if it makes us chubby!

Marci

Counterproductive

I love having a clean house and my daughter loves to think she is helping me.  While I'm folding laundry, she's putting underwear over her head and walking blindly into walls.  While I'm loading the dishwasher she will swipe a spoon from the utensil basket and wave it around like she's Harry Potter in the midst of a wizards duel.  And then when I think I finally have everything in the proper place, I see that there is a tennis racket I didn't know I had on the kitchen floor, and an old VHS in my sock drawer.  I truly love my happy little mess-maker!

Marci

Happiness in a baking cup!

Why do i have my greatest ideas at 1 am??

Seems like I can't sleep....as long as I can remember I can't sleep...so EVER! Except that I didn't know that wasn't normal until I got divorced. You see up until that point at the ripe old age of 24 I thought it was called a night owl. Awake at night big Jerk in the mornings. Well one day I got a kidney infection, and the Doctor game codine. That first night I slept the whole night through. I woke up and thought "whomever invented a whole nights sleep was genious", but then it hit me. Had people been sleeping the whole night through all along?? Was this just a "ME" thing? Was it normal to be tired pretty much all the time?
The answer is "NO" its not normal, but even worse is it runs in my family like heart disease, and ugliness. Sleeplessness had been passed down from generation to generation, and not one person thought I should know about it. So ever since "said codine induced sleep" I have had to take some sort of sleep aid, and something to chill my brain tornado ever since. I haave tried everything in the books..blue light, white noise, writing down concerns, reading...blah blah! Mostly those things make me made, some have helped. The only positive thing I have received is the ability to brainstorm and be creative...also I'm freaking hilarious.
So last night as I lay in bed checking craigslist at 1 am...I decided something...its creative and I think others will like it. I can't reveal it quite yet as I need to talk to my bidness partner, but keep reading this blog. I will reveal it soon!

"M"

Thats right have you seen me??

I am a technological GENIOS!!

Follow Through

As one who has frequented the office of many a therapist, I have yet to discover why I seem to sabotage myself at following through on things I start.  I'm sure I had intentions to ask about it but never got around to it.  Curious.

I have a history of starting books and then not finishing them.  I'll get to the last 5 pages sometimes and I just don't really care how the story ends.  Maybe they were all dumb books and I'm not to only one to give up on them, but I'm pretty sure I just need to wake Freud from the dead and have a long talk with him.  

My husband still gets on my case about an afghan I started to croquet years ago and then didn't even make it big enough to keep a squirrel warm.  Maybe a dwarf hamster though?

Regardless, I know I'm not the only one who gives up on projects I start.  What may seem like a good idea at the time somehow becomes low on the priority list along with dusting the baseboards on the wall.  (I should really do that one day soon.)

When we started this blog, we knew we couldn't just start it and then leave it to rot.  We had to follow through with our plan.  Posting a blog every few days while running a household seems daunting, but it's a labor of love.  Everything we post will come right from the old pumper, in hopes that someone seeking a little comfort will find it here.  Each of us has suffered, and each of us has searched for answers to prayers and found them in unlikely places.  Maybe this will be one persons unlikely place.

With love,

Marci

Its all in the icing..today my sis inlaw and i talked about our January slump..so we both said that we would write 1 sentence that we could blog

Life is all about the icing...the part on top? Or atleast that's how the saying goes? What I'm learning about life is so complex that the icing ontop can't even begin to cover it. There are ingredients to life, some are predictable, ie:flour(breathing), and then there are things that you would never imagine ie:coffee beans (unexpected accents) it accentuates the taste of chocolate(just sayin). A human can't live without breathing its a fact, but the unexpected accents like job loss, a baby, taxes, joy, and passion. In my short 34 year on this planet I have drawn on so many resources to get me through life that I have invariably filled my mind with a host of random facts, and opinions. I have decided along lifes path to make my own recipe...with the icing ontop! This blog will be filled with answers and questions. Focused on LIFE..and everything else. I want to know in 1 sentence what is your red velvet Wednesday..? Voltaire cited "Those who do not learn from the past are condemed to repeat it" hence my love for baked goods, and lack of exercise. "M"