2 days seems like a long time ......but it isn't

On the weekends I tend not to blog or read blogs because I want give that time to my family, that being said when I log on Monday morning it feels as though I have been missing for much longer then 2 days, inevitably I have over 100 blog postings to read. So while I complain silently that the weekends are 2 short I also complain silently that they are to long when it comes to my blog time. I can't win!!!!

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Hopefully everyone had a lovely Easter, we spent it trying to get back on track after a long week. For Easter dinner I made lamb along with green beans and potatoes. I did both in the crock pot, I must pat myself on the back and say that it was a wonderful meal. I decided on Lamb after reading Stephanie's blog A year of crockpotting she gave me the courage to try to cook lamb again after one to many dry lamb meals and it was excellent, since i have 2 crock pots I thought i would also do my green beans too, again yummy! Go check our her block you won't be disappointed there is something there for everyone.
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This weekend I tackled my fish tank, this tank was given to us by our dear neighbors and I love it as do the kids but I am the one stuck cleaning it (like I don't have enough to do) so Saturday I cleaned the tank then Sunday (yes Sunday! can you believe that Petsmart was open on Easter?) I got a couple of new friends for the tank. Pretty neat huh??
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Over the weekend we were also battling allergies and momma may have strep throat. I woke up this morning at 3:30 and my throat was on fire, but I don't have any other symptoms so I am in a wait and see pattern.


Well here is to a good week, keep your eyes open for my second giveaway it is coming soon!

I am missing blogs!!!!

OK as I have said in previous posts I am addicted to blogging that is when my kids aren't acting like children from some other planet, work isn't kicking my butt, and my husband isn't chasing me around the bedroom. TMI..(to much information) I know but hey it takes time away from my blogging.

BTW thanks for the love last night and today !!! I really needed it and today is shaping up much better.

I have experienced a wrinkle in my blogging experience, everyday my Blogarithm account sends me emails letting me know that all of your blogs have updated. This feed is acting up and I feel like I am starting to miss out on some cool posts.

So I have a Friday poll. What reader do you use and why? I need to get hooked up with a better system as it seems I have outgrown my original one. Thanks and have a great weekend, I will be spring clothes shopping with my mom and my daughter a little girls days out on Saturday!

Blogging and what it has taught me

Ok it is official I am addicted to blogging! Ok so maybe not the writing my blog part but certainly the reading of others blogs part! I think it is so cool to know someone who you have never met can understand exactly where you are coming from when you blog about trying to get your kids to bed at the end of a long day, or the trials and tribulations of potty training. Mommyhood truly bonds you like no other profession or organization that I know. I would never walk up to one of my coworkers and start rambling about poop or trying to get my kids to eat vegetables as a conversation starter.... OK so that isn't entirely true but swear I only talk about that stuff with people I really do know well at work.

Let me share with you the wisdom I have recieved in the few short months I have had the privilege to enter the blogging world. First and most important April at Floriakidz read one of my very first posts which looking back was a bit dark but that was where I was at; at that time. She emailed me and encouraged me; gave me some great advice and I have to say it is because of her that my life has been on the up swing since mid Nov. Thanks April! Oh and my family thanks you also.

I have also had the pleasure of comforting a mother I didn't know who had lost a child to terminal illness. This has made me that much more appreciative of my children's good health. I have read a woman's daily chronicle of her battle with Cancer, which has allowed me to see a side of the disease I never knew. Most of all I have learned to laugh about the struggles and joys of parenting and what a gift it is to be a mom. Sometimes in the society we live in today which is on the go and constantly moving, you forget that truly the simple things are what make you happy. Blogging in the last few months has reminded me of that.

I still have some learning to do in this blogging world, like Meme's, blog awards and that damn HTML code that always trips me up.

So ladies…. and men, thanks for accepting me and teaching me about this blogging world! I look forward to many many more conversations with you all!