Confessions

This is my confession...if you have one...read on...

The past few weeks have been full of excitement,sadness,joy,disappointment basically a whole gambit of emotions and a whole lot going on.

I have been reevaluating lots of things in my life...I am Blessed with a beautiful, healthy family, I have good friends and a core support group. So what's the problem?

Well there are times I feel like things are spinning out of control and it is like I am on the outside looking in. I always try and make light or find the humor in any situation but lately I have been in a funk-is it early onset mental illness, it runs rampant in my family and I do not make light of mental illness, I understand it is a condition...

Is it the fact my children are growing up which means I am getting older, they need me less and I need them more?

Is this a mid-life crisis?

Do I just need a vacation?

Is it because I have judgmental people in my life?

All these questions are why I am left reevaluating and yes sometimes that means cutting people, family even out of my life or keeping them at arms length...it is not an ideal way to live but it is how I cope...

My little life with my little family is just a blip in the grand scheme of things, I understand there are many more people out there suffering far worse than I...but this is my space, where no matter how jumbled, how crazy I can jot it down. Some of you will completely understand, some of you won't and that's fine...

This is where I open up the confessional, for you, if you choose to share what has been weighing heavy on your mind and heart. If you don't have anything to confess perhaps you could help a confessor, the floor errrr blog is yours...

As always anon confessions are fine...


My confession for today: Confession is good for the soul...

The Confessional is Open and WINNERS*UPDATED*

UPDATED with more texting options
Before I start whining about my trivial problems and issues....my heart is breaking for those affected by the Haiti earthquake. There are a lot of scams popping up asking for donations, be smart everyone when giving of your money.
JB just brought this to my attention and it is as simple as texting HAITI to 90999- 100% of your $10 donation goes directly to the Red Cross

Courtesy of CNN

Yéle Haiti: Text YELE to 501501 ($5 donation)
United Way: Text HAITI to 864833 ($5 donation)
Intl Medical Corps: Text HAITI to 85944 ($10 donation)
World Food Program: Text: FRIENDS to 90999 ($5 donation)
UN Foundation: Text CERF to 90999 ($5 donation)
Clinton Foundation: Text HAITI to 20222 ($10 donation)
Compassion Intl: Text DISASTER to 85944 ($10 donation)
Intl Rescue Committee Text: HAITI to 25383 ($5 donation)
The Salvation Army: Text HAITI to 52000 ($10

Click here for a you tube video to learn more

_____________________________________________

It's Friday and boy has it ever been a long week...

Long for many reasons but mainly puberty and teen angst. Who knew that being a 'mom' meant in actuality a 'leper'. Who knew that 2 years could bring on such changes? I say 2 years because when I started blogging 2 years ago my chil-rens loved me, now I am nothing more than Bank of America with it's revolving doors and ink pens chained to the desk...AND everysinglefreakingthingismyfault!

Forgotten gym clothes-my fault
You stubbed your toe-my fault
School Books left out in the rain-my fault
You started your period-my fault
Your friend is mad at you-my fault
The test you made a 27% on-my fault
Hanging up your clothes-my fault
Eating together-my fault

Speaking of eating together "filial cannibalism" I think I am starting to understand why species  like the wolf spider,hamsters and the goby fish eat their young...

I'm not complaining because next week has got to be better right? If it doesn't, I may need bail money...just sayin

On with the show...

You all were so creative with your email suggestions for Eric's new addiction FB. I enjoyed reading them all but one really hit my giggle button and that was...

Of course after I got done being upset about Kritta rubbing it in my face that they were having a heatwave compared to our temps at the time I so LOL'd @ IFBwhilehunting@shotsomething.com
He has a blackberry and after this week of rushinghomeandkickingallkidsoffthecomputersohecouldseeifhehadanewfriendrequest I can so see him sitting in his deer stand FB'n it up...

So Congrats Kritta!!!!

Next Up the Cold Plasma Giveaway...181 of you told me why you needed/wanted this product
I went to the random number generator for help

So who was lucky number 48?

Congrats Deb!!!! I will be in contact...

______________________________________

Lastly The Confessional Booth is Open!

It's time to purge ourselves of things we would like to say... but can't, want to say... but can't, need to say... but can't.
It's time to turn the blog over to you...as always Anon comments are A-Okay...If you don't have a clue what I am talking about Click Here to catch up...



My confession for today: I am picking the hellions up with my hair in rollers and in my robe...kinda like this...that'll teach em...i think...i hope....maybesortakinda...

Or This-can't decide if I actually wanna apply makeup as the first pic implies

Because I sure as hell don't feel like this...

Secret Confessions-the booth is open

photo courtesy google images

It's the first Friday of the month so that means it's 'I Confess' time'

For those of you that are new to the confessional booth(cb) feel free to click here and get caught up on past months confessionals.

In short the idea came about when I had nothing to blog about 10 months ago, since I always end my posts with a confession I turned the comment box into a confessional of sorts and my blog over to you my lovely wonderful loyal readers.

photo courtesy google images

Kinda like a 'post secret' if you will. Got something on your mind that you feel you can't say to your boss,neighbor,friend,mom etc...Have a secret crush, are you a music pirate,Do you still drive by your X's house and peer in the windows at his 20 something wife,someone hurt you and you have never forgiven them,pet peeves,skeletons in your closet and dirty laundry are all fair game...Go ahead get it off your chest...VENT my peeps -

Just post your confession in the comment section AND feel free to post as "anonymous." You do not need a blog to make a confession... everyone is welcome...I do not track comments...I will even be posting my own ANON confessions...

If you would like to share this with your readers feel free to snag the 'secret confessions' button on my sidebar and link to this post

My confession for today:I took this post from our last confessional-sorry but I am in serious PAIN-I am 100% out in my back-It is beyong painful to even move-I am wearing icy hot and a heating pad...my bestie brought us dinner-so no one is starving TY Sher-bears

The Confessional is Open

photo courtesy google images

It's the first Friday of the month so that means it's 'I Confess' time

For those of you that are new to the confessional booth(cb) feel free to click here and get caught up on past months confessionals.

In short the idea came about when I had nothing to blog about 6 months ago, since I always end my posts with a confession I turned the comment box into a confessional of sorts and my blog over to you my lovely wonderful readers.

photo courtesy google images

Kinda like a 'post secret' if you will. Got something on your mind that you feel you can't say to your boss,neighbor,friend,mom etc...Have a secret crush, are you a music pirate,Do you still drive by your X's house and peer in the windows at his 20 something wife,someone hurt you and you have never forgiven them,pet peeves,skeletons in your closet and dirty laundry are all fair game...Go ahead get it off your chest...VENT my peeps

Just post your confession in the comment section AND feel free to post as "anonymous." You do not need a blog to make a confession... everyone is welcome...

My confession for today: I am beanless and hubbyless tonight, wonder how much trouble I can get into...

PSA

Last BUT not least Today is my sweet dear friend Jules 1 yr bloggy-versary-if you don't know Julie you are seriously missing out-she is beautiful inside and out, she is witty, she is 47 and starting over (I always wondered if when she has a birthday if she will change her blog name?) sorry rambling...anyways PLEASE click over and wish her a Happy BlogOversary-she wants to see 100 comments today and I know we can make that happen for her....

The Confessional is Open

Happy Friday everyone! It's the first Friday of the month and that means it's time to open the confessional...

Got something to say, just leave your confession in the comment box and as always Anonymous comments are allowed...

For those that are new to this blog you can click here to see previous months confessionals but the basics behind the confessional booth are this:

Got something to say that you don't feel like you can say on your own blog...add a confession here
Have a MIL that drives you crazy...say it in the comment box
Need to get something off your chest...the comment box is your friend
Feeling like this...

The confessional booth is a way to share what you may be going through yet are not ready to go public or confront someone...

The cute lil button(Thanks Jen) up top there-feel free to grab it,share it, blog it...you never know when one of your readers may need to use or read the CB...

In past months confessionals I found I was not alone in how I was feeling or expierences I had been through...

My Confession for today: Sometimes I feel like a failure as a wife, mother and friend

The Confessional is Open

It's that time of the month...confession time, time to open 'the booth' you can post as ANON or you may use your real name/blogger name....you do not need a blog to post a confession...and EVERYONE is welcome.

The Confessional will be open all weekend

This is where I turn the comment section into a confessional. Where you the reader get to post what's on mind,in your heart, maybe it is something you can't post on your blog or can't say in person and just want to get it off your chest.

The past 2 months some of the confessions(Click Here) were heartbreaking,some where funny,some were serious, I can only hope that making a confession is freeing in some form for you.

The one thing I have learned is you/we/us/me are not alone...

If you want to take the button and add it to your blog feel free to snag it-Jen aka The Mom made it just for this occassion.

My confession for today: I am missin Deb!

The Confessional is Open

Last months confessional was a wonderful outlet for us to express what we may not be able to say in the real world...it started because I found myself with not a whole lot to say one day and the fact I always end my posts with a confession so I turned my blog over to you...the reader

It's that time again-to open 'the booth' you can post as ANON or you may use your real name/blogger name....you do not need a blog to post a confession...and EVERYONE is welcome

I am not here to judge OR try and figure out who you are, so feel free to say whats on your mind or in your heart....

Jen was kind enough to make a button for the confession days-feel free to snag it-(it's in my right sidebar) I know it may kinda defeat the purpose of staying 'in-cog-nito' but you never know who may have the need for a confession...something they just can't say on their own blog or in the real world for whatever reasons...

The confessional booth will be open all weekend and there is no limit-there were some heart wrenching confessions last month and I just wanted to stretch my arms out wide and hug so many of the confessors -please know you are not alone in whatever you may be going through

I will kick off the confessions right here....

I was sexually abused as a bean, I can choose to let that over take me OR I can over take what happened to me...meaning I choose NOT to be a victim but rather a survivor I.do.not.give.it.power.over.me!

My confession for today: see above

Monday Madness

Happy Monday-is that even possible? Well let's pretend it is...

I was a sicko yesterday-guess it was just my turn-the past 2 weeks I have had some form of sickness running rampant with the beans-I thought I could pine-sol it away but it kicked my assa yesterday-no worries you can't catch it from reading my blog...

It is cold and dreary here today and rain is on the horizon-I   ♥  rainy days, so I think I will make a 'far' and snuggle in a blankie and read some blogs-who cares if no one has clean underpants or that the dishes are stacked to the ceiling...

Middle bean dropped a 10lb weight on his toe-it is swollen and his big toenail is full of blood-mr gp who is NOT a doctor thought he could drain it with a hunting knife-yes that turned out well-so middle bean is walking around like he rides the short bus and I will prolly get a call from school to go pick him up because he decided to show his classmates and ending up stubbing it hence breaking it open and bleeding every where-BOYS and their battle scars pffft

So it seems that the Confessional Booth was, for lack of better words a 'hit' I was so humbled by many of the confessions-You are amazing and I am glad the confessional booth was able to give you an outlet to say what you needed to say...

Some of you thought it would be a good idea to do this on a regular basis-I wrestled with this idea over the weekend trying to come up with a Happy Medium so what I plan to do is... the first Friday of every month I will open the Confessional Booth and we can purge whats in our hearts,minds and souls...

Jen over at Cheaper Than Therapy made me this cute lil button(TY JEN!) that if you want to share what I am doing you can grab the button and let others know the CB is open-I will add it to my sidebar and hopefully someone will email me with instructions on how to have a code under it so all you will have to do is copy the code to your blog and the pic will be already linked for you...

The next Confessional will be Dec 5th

My confession for today: the CB couldn't have been a success without YOU! Thank You for sharing

*edit*The Confessional booth is open

I am editing this because NEVER in my wildest dreams did I think anyone would respond let alone be so openly honest-I am beside myself at some of the confessions-I.Feel.Your.Pain! Thank You for being so open on my blog.... *tears*

I always end my posts with a confession and now I am inviting you, my
beloved blog reader to share your confession with me...The confessional booth is open

Kinda like a 'post secret' if you will. Got something on your mind that you feel you can't say to your boss,neighbor,friend,mom etc...Have a secret crush, are you a music pirate,Do you still drive by your X's house and peer in the windows at his 20 something wife,someone hurt you and you have never forgiven them,pet peeves,skeletons in your closet and dirty laundry are all fair game...Go ahead get it off your chest...VENT my peeps VENT

Just post your confession in the comment section AND feel free to post as "anonymous." or make up a name-you do not need a blog to make a confession... I am not here to judge nor try and track you down...I will even start it off...

When I was 18 I stole 12 swim suits from NBC(Name Brand Clothing) I was the best dressed girl at the pool that summer

My confession for today: Confession is good for the soul....I may even post my own 'ANON' comment here as well

Comments are closed look for our Next Confessional Dec 5th