So I was at Joanne Fabrics the other night and they had a sign on the window about a temp position for 3 weeks.  I guess they need people to work to rearrange the store, do planograms.  So I called the store manager and asked about the job.  It starts June 20 and goes for 3 weeks.  It is Sunday-Thurs.  Sounds ok so far.  Now this may be a good thing since Tony works days and we couldn’t afford a sitter but the hours are from 9pm-5:30am.  The pay is minimum wage, so $7.25. 

Now it is only 3 weeks.  But I would basically be coming home in time for Tony to go to work and me start my day.  Would I get to sleep at all?  Plus I would be on vacation until June 23ish.  Would they hire me and let me start a couple days later than they wanted?

I was just thinking about this and asked Tony and even he wasn’t sure….if I don’t ever go back to work will I get social security disability?  Do I need it, would I get it even if I worked.  I really need to start thinking about our future and retirement.  Will Tony and/or I work until we die or are just far too old to work.  Will he be able to retire when he is in his 60′s?  So many unanswered questions. 

I always get those letters in the mail about SSDI too and I never know whether it pertains to me or not.  I am still decently young but I need to start planning and thinking about my future, financially.

I have had my iPhone for about 5 months now and I absolutely love it!  Never thought I would love a touch screen phone or just get used to a touch screen.  I use my phone all the time, since I am required to have a data plan I am always on the internet.  I love that it has an iPod too.  Just seems like there is a ton of stuff all bundled on one device. 

The apps are pretty awesome too.  My dad told me about Pandora.  A free app and you can listen to music free.  You can chose a genre or musician and it will play all sorts of music from whatever choice you make.  You can listen to it on your PC too but it is limited to minutes/hours you have free and then they want you to pay.  The cool thing about the app on my phone is they only have commercials every now and again.  I listen for 3 hrs and may only hear a handful of commercials.  Kinda funny because I keep hearing the same one about the best testosterone booster.  Cracks me up!

All I know is my iphone is the shit.  They are gonna have to make a pretty awesome phone for me to switch away from my iPhone when my contract is up.  They have about 2 yrs.  LOL!

I love paper crafts of all sorts.  Making scrapbook layouts and cards are my most favorite.  I have been trying to make a business selling paper crafting products.  I have a blog to showcase my projects.  I participate in a ton of challenges.  It helps me learn new techniques.  I just love it.  I made a scrapbook page today and the more I look at it the cooler I think it is.  Here is the page I made:

This is a picture of my lil Max! I have 4 scrapbooks (at least) to make.  I am trying to make one scrapbook for each child individually for their first year.  That way they will each have their very own book.  Then the rest of them will be family books and the kids will have to fight over who gets which book.  I am hoping to have so many that they will each get some and not be upset.  I think that documenting special moments has come a long ways over the years.

LOL!  I remember around the time my grandpa died (I think) watching slide shows of him and my grandma….I am not 100% sure what all the pics were as I was about 10 but I remember watching them. 

I really am excited for my kids to get a little older so they will get involved in moe activites for me to take pics and for us to be able to go to amusement parks and other places and take pics.  Birthday parties and ….ooohhh just different things that way I can make more scrapbooks. 

I love making cards but for some reason making scrapbook layouts comes so much more natural and easy for me.  I am a true scrapbooker at heart, been doing it on and off since Nicki was born…..13 yrs. 

I love all the nice people I have met in the craft blogosphere. I really hope to make some sort of business selling craft supplies and eventually my handmade cards.  Well I do currently sell them on Etsy but it is hard to get traffic to my Etsy store. 

Anywho, hope you like the layout.  I am going to go craft now! :-)

So I think the rain has gone away for the rest of this week which is good so I can get the kids outside to play.  Unfortunately with the rain gone, the heat and humidity has arrived.  It is supposed to be in the 90′s and humid.  We left Florida to get away from that weather.  LOL!

I always get nervous taking the kids outside when I am home alone though.  With 3 lil ones, 2 of which seem to be “running” in different directions.  Lil Tony wants to play on his bike on this side of the yard and Isabel wants to play on the other side and Max is either in his walker on the porch or sleeping in the house.  If I have to go inside to get him or check on him then I am leaving them outside, well not really so then I am rounding them up to go inside with my while I check on the baby and that is such a pain because once they are outside, they don’t want to come in. 

What I really need is a driveway alarm.  Kinda like an imaginary dog fence, ya know what I am talking about.  LOL, not ones that would shock my kids of course or anyone for that matter, just one that would set off an alarm or something if my kids crossed the “line”.  My son is very good about going in the street and I think Isabel is too.  Especially when cars are coming, Lil Tony hauls ass for the sidewalk or the grass or whatever is close.  That makes me happy.  But sometimes he rides his bike too close to the street or sometimes goes for a ball that goes in the street.  We live on a dead end and all the kids just play and walk in the street so he thinks he can too.  I would just like some sort of warning if for some reason my back is turned or whatever.  I don’t know how that would work though because our houses are really kind of close together and people just seem to walk in and around everyone else’s property all the time.  The kids run through are yard and neighbors too.  I don’t totally mind except for this one pair of brothers.  They used to live next door to us and I couldn’t stand them.  So glad they moved away. 

Anyways, I will probably not get one and just have to be extra alert when I go outside alone. 

This week’s weigh in.  I gained like a pound of fat.  How can that be?  I work out, watch what I eat and still gained.  Now in all fairness to me, my hormones have been a bit screwy.  Is that a word?  LOL!

I have been getting my monthly friend like every 2 weeks.  It is annoying!  Plus I think I may not be eating enough food.  Is that possible?  I eat 1900 calories on a low day and 2600 on a high day.  That seems like a lot of food. 

So here is the funny thing.  Well not funny but mildly crazy.  So Tony and I decided on Monday that we needed to just eat whatever we wanted, within some reason.  We still ate “good food” meaning not junk food or nothing but we didn’t count calories.  Well actually around dinner time just for shits and giggles we calculated what we ate and for me it was 4500 calories and he ate about 5200.  The crazy thing is I was just barely full.  I felt content.  What concerns me these days is I have been feeling a bit light headed and ill during the day.  Which may indicate I am not eating enough.  Am I more active than I am giving myself credit for?  Am I depriving myself of food. 

Well whatever it is I may end up looking into the most effective diet pills.  I am really not wanting to take anything as I have stated before but really something has got to give.  Why does this have to be so difficult.  Why can’t there just be an easy equation for everyone.  Ya know, for women, you eat “this much” for men you eat “that much”.  Why does it have to be different for each person.  I feel I am spending more time and energy trying to figure out the equation that works best for me to just have to change it week to week to go with my changing body composition.  It is frustrating. 

With as much work as I put in to losing all this weight I can honestly say “I never want to be fat again!”  I can’t wait to hit my goal, be happy with myself.  I will continue to work out and stay in shape or get in to better shape and if I lose more weight a long the way then great but I will NEVER pack on those pounds again.

My little Max-e-poo rolled over today.  I just can’t believe how fast he is growing.  He is already almost 6 months.  Just seemed like yesterday I was pregnant with him, going in to the hospital for my c-section.  Where does the time go. 

Isabel and Lil Tony are finally starting to talk.  Nicki is a teenager with teenager problems.  Finally found an activity she enjoys, Volleyball.  I feel I am getting old too.  I feel tired often and my body doesn’t seem to spring back so quick after a good workout. 

May I need to look around and get some whole life insurance quotes.  Not that I am anticipating something happening to me or Tony but if something did, how would our 4 children pay for our funeral or take care of themselves.  I just think to be on the safe side we need to look in to that.  Maybe he has something through his work. 

I will have to find out when open enrollment is for deductions like that and see what they have to offer.  No time like the present to make sure our children are going to be financially taken care of if we weren’t around. 

Ok so enough of the morbid talk.  I am just so excited my Max-e-poo rolled over.  No more leaving him on the couch unattended.

Another weekend has come and gone.  I can’t believe this year is already almost half over.  We spent most of the weekend outside.  Needed to get the kids outside to play.  I also cleaned up some of my flower beds.  The other day on Tony’s day off we replanted some of the sunflowers.  When I planted the seeds I dropped a couple seeds in to each hole.  They needed to be separated.  They were replanted and not very happy.  I have had to water them twice a day since then.  I hope they perk back up. 

Really had an uneventful weekend otherwise.  We went to Walmart today and got some more plants for the front yard.  Well actually 2 ferns to hang on the porch and then went to Aldi because they have rose bushes.  Tony really wants rose bushes in the front of the house.  We also picked up some snacks for the kids for the week.  Then Nicki saw a pedastle mirror one she can use in her bedroom to do her hair and put on her makeup.  I guess the bathroom lighting isn’t very good and she has had to hold her small mirror and try to get ready for school.  So I picked up a nice mirror she can put on her night stand. 

We came back home and I re-potted my ferns and let the kids play outside for a bit before nap.  Overall a very quiet weekend.  My house looks so pretty now with the ferns and all my flowers.  I love it.  I have mixed feelings about the rain we are supposed to get all week.  I love rain and our garden and flowers could use it but that means we will be stuck inside all week.  Oh well there will be plenty of time to play outside this summer.