It's rare when my house is quite at 7:30 at night. Cami went to bed a little early and Aiden is quietly playing on the floor with his cars. It's been a long time since I've gotten a chance to actually sit down and well blog. I've been taking A LOT of me time. After Alan and I split I felt out of sorts. I really began to feel the grip he has on my life. I actually had to leave my job because of him in the end. I'm dealing with the lack of support financially and being a father now. It sucks for the boys BUT there are tons of people who love my kids so they really aren't missing out that much. My laptop kicked the bucket recently so some of the time I have could have been spent blogging well I couldn't. But with my free time I have taken up a lot of projects around the house. I now have an offical laundry room. I redid the bathroom. I'm currently working on the garden and the kitchen. OH! and I'm potty training Aiden. I have had a slew of relationships and actually went through a pretty icky breakup. I've been keeping my social candler pretty full, reconnecting with old friends and such. I've also been working on my tattoos and detox juicing a lot. So now onto the kids! Aiden is huge! He's the size of a 4 year old. Aiden hasn't really started talking yet so he's in early intervention. He gets therapy 3 days a week and in the fall he's gonna be going to school. It's just him being stubborn. After 2 years I finally have gotten his dermatitis under control. Aiden has likes and dislikes now. He loves phineas and ferb, the color green, playing hockey, and to sing. He's such a little person. Cami is the handful now. He's climbing and getting into everything. Where I didn't have to baby proof with Aiden, Cami is a whole other story. He's big too, but hes still small enough to hold and carry. He's my little Cami monster. He's talking up a storm and is actually a bit of a neat freak. He's into sweeping and picking up after Aiden. He loves Jack's Big Music Show, dancing and giving hugs. So we're all good, HAPPY AND HEALTHY. I know i always promise not to fall off the earth but I do so I won't make that promise again. Then maybe I'll keep up with this blog :)

Hello again

I’ve let this little blog of my parenting adventures go a bit. A lot has happened since I last left you. I started a full time job that’s pretty rad. I enjoy the job and I’m learning skills I can actually use to help support me and my children. I also adore the people I work with and the people I work for. I’ve made a bunch of new friends that are showing me what I’m missing from life. I got a new tattoo. Oh and Alan and I broke up and I’m now a single mother of 2 TODDLERS. That’s right toddlers! So more on the babies, Aiden just turned two. He’s smart as hell too. He’s talking more and more each day so I’ve been spelling A LOT which helps me with my well lack of spelling skills. Cami started walking exactly when he was 11 months old! How crazy is that! He’ll be one on Oct. 12th which I totally still can’t get over! They are getting big so fast! The house is still standing despite all the craziness going on here. I live in the part of jersey that got hit by the hurricane REALLY bad. I just got a few inches of water in the basement, which had been happening every heavy rainstorm all summer. I lost my whole veggie garden with the storm too BUT I had done amazing all summer with tomatoes so it wasn’t a huge loss. So more on Alan and I’s break up. Here’s the short version of the long story. I cheated on Alan, Alan then started doing things I won’t mention here because I don’t need a pity party. So he walked out but if he didn’t walk out I would have kicked him out that day cuz what he did to me is something you should never EVER do no matter what. Anyway Alan got his wish he doesn’t have to deal with the kids everyday. But that’s all that’s been going on. I promise this time I won’t let things!!!

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Hello all

My dearest readers I haven’t dropped of the face of the earth. In my last post I talked about job hunting. Well guess what, the job that I really really really wanted…. Well I got it! Plus I also took on a band. That’s right ladies and germs I got back into music. And I took up yoga because that 30 lbs of baby weight I’m still carrying around isn’t so hot when you’re 5 feet tall. Anyway I also forgot to renew my url so that is also an issue in the coming weeks I will be posting more rants. I’ve had one stewing for a few months now and well I can’t wait till I actually have time to tell about my new adventures.

the lost arts of the previous generation

Just one generation ago, us women were taught how to bake everything from scratch, darn socks, sew a whole wardrobe, clean with household goods, and cook anything you could imagine. I remember my grandmother sewing my whole bedroom set for me when I was little. She made everything from the curtains to the bed sheets. She even made her own clothes. I’d make pizza with her from scratch with jarred tomato sauce, she also made herself. My mother crocheted like no tomorrow. She also was an awesome cook. Yet sewing, jarring and cooking really aren’t things I was taught. None of the women actually took time to teach me any of these things. And it’s a trend I keep finding amongst females of my generation.
Last year around Christmas I realized I really wanted to learn how to sew. I asked for a sewing machine for Christmas and all the necessary things to start teaching myself how to sew. I thought how just one generation ago it was a necessary skill for women who had families. I had Aiden, and I didn’t know how to sew. So I got a sewing machine. It came with a DVD to help teach me. I set up the machine in front of the TV and was on my way. I followed how to tread the bobbin. Then I threaded the needle. I was well on my way to sewing. Then I had my epic fail when fabric would just keep getting stuck in the machine. I then gave up and packed the sewing machine away. It still hasn’t even made it to the new house from the old house yet.
Then there is jarring. I have been into the organic and green life style for as long as I can remember. When I was in kindergarten, I came home from school, and I preached to my parents about how we NEEDED to recycle. When I was in middle school I had a project on geothermal heat loops I did sent to Princeton University. Naturally I also care about knowing where my food comes from. My thing is I can grow my own things and then jar them. So this past summer I went out and spent a large amount of money on plants. I spent all summer trying to grow tomatos. I got one. I got one $83 tomato.
I got lucking when it came to cooking. But I never picked up on it from my mother or grandmother. I picked up on it from the food network. To be honest with you I never even cooked raw meat until I was about 18. I think the first steak I cooked was when I was 22. Even when it comes to baking, I didn’t bake a single batch of cupcakes until I was 18.
The point is people in my generation aren’t taught skills our mothers and grandmothers had. We’re taught convenience. We’re taught how to go to the store and spend money on things that if we just knew how to pick up a needle and thread we could do ourselves. In the end it’ll be our undoing. God forbid anything happens to our way of life, we’ll be lost.

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