Try This! Thursday - The New Years Eve Edition

Unlike other people, I am not a big fan of the New Years. To me, it's just another reminder that the clock keeps ticking and I am getting older. It also makes me wonder if I made the best of my year. Did I accomplish anything? Did I change? Did I do anything right? Thinking about the future scares me. I don't want to think about the year 2010. Changes scare me. The unknown scares me. And the fact that Bree is going to be 3 years old in 2010 scares me the most! Nevertheless, considering how much I hate the New Year and looking into the future...I have started a little tradition for myself that I began about two years ago. I make a list of things that I would like to accomplish in 2010. I don't think of my list as New Years Resolutions like others write. For me, it's different. Usually the things that fall on my list are things I accomplished the previous year, and would like to continue to accomplish.

So, for Try This! Thursday, I thought it would be fun for you to make your own list. Not a list of Resolutions, but a list of accomplishments that you would like to accomplish even more. For example, vow to make your finances more...well...there. Or maybe you have already achieved your weight loss goal, and would like to lose more...list that too. Perhaps you just want to be healthier, that can go on the list too.

You don't have to publish this list, and you don't even have to show your hubby if you don't want to. This is your own personal, private list, for you...for the year 2010.

I hope you all have a wonderful New Years! Stay safe, and don't forget to watch the ball drop at midnight!


...Samantha

So...Change of Plans!

This has been a pretty crappy week...

until now...

Verizon got our internet hooked up sooner than the 4th of January, which I am thankful for because well...my name is Samantha and I am a Facebook Addict. I haven't even really been able to check my Facebook on my phone either, because evidently Facebook was having issues with their FB Mobile. Now, I'm not talking about issues where FB Mobile just wasn't working; I am talking about FB mobile logging me on to some other random person's profile and giving me the ability to change their status, information, etc. This happened to me several times over the course of the last week or so, but I had the courtesy enough to just log off of that strange person's profile and get on my own. Evidently, whoever landed on my profile decided to have some fun. I woke up yesterday morning and realized that my status on Facebook had been changed, and it had not been changed by me. The context of the status update was humiliating and embarrassing, and something that I would never say or do, and I was so mad I cried. So, we hopped in the car & headed over to AT&T, because I had been having other internet issues on my phone, getting random texts from numbers I didn't know and after the Facebook incident, I was convinced that someone had hacked into my phone somehow. But, the Tech Guy convinced me that the Facebook issue was a separate ordeal and more than likely it was Facebook's problem. The rest of the internet issues were AT&T's and they were working on getting it all fixed.

I swear, we would have been better off living in the dark ages.

It does look like Facebook has fixed their mobile problems, because I haven't noticed anything wacky today...but I have never felt more violated than I did when I saw that my FB status had been hijacked. It was not a good feeling.

Anyway, I began reading this book that my Mom got me for Christmas. It's called, "12 Pick-Me-Ups for Stressed Out Moms". It is a self help book that is to teach me how to not be so irritable as a Mother & a Wife. I concluded earlier today that I definitely picked the wrong week to begin reading this book. I have had absolutely ZERO tolerance for anything this week (because it's that week if you know what I mean). I feel sorry for Bree & the Hubs, because I have been bitching kind of yelling at them. Well, not kinda, I have been yelling. But they should definitely put more effort into not pissing me off. I swear I was having chest pains today from the stress of those two.

I need a vacation.

Does anyone have any good parenting tips on how to train a 2 year old not to bring all of the crap toys that Santa brought her, into the middle of the living room floor? I am tempted to just pack it all back up and cart it off to Goodwill.

...Samantha

M.I.A

So...I am really sad to have to do this, because I had some really great ideas for the New Year, but I will be M.I.A until January 4th or 5th. Why? Because my internet will M.I.A too. We are switching internet servers, and will not have the internet at all.

This will be especially hard for me as I am a Facebook Addict, and will not even be able to access Facebook from my phone, because my Facebook Mobile was hacked into yesterday.

It has been one hec of a week for me already, and it's only Tuesday.

I need prayer.

Anyway...I hope you all have a wonderful New Year & I will definitely see you all back here next week!

Don't forget about me!
...Samantha

Best. Christmas. Ever.

This is the first Christmas that I can remember, where I wasn't disappointed when it all ended. It was probably one of the best Christmases to date, and everyone was satisfied with what they got. Bree, of course, got more than any of us...but seeing her face on Christmas morning was the best present of all!

We started out our Christmas Eve pretty hectic. Nothing is ever organized, or on time on Paul's side of the family. We were supposed to be at his Dad's house around 7, eat a little, open presents, and then go on over to my Parent's house where we were to spend the night. When we arrived at his Dad's house at 7:20, they were vacuuming the floors and putting presents under the tree. Clearly not ready. So, we didn't eat or open presents until well after 8, which put us leaving from there around 10 o'clock. Not cool.

Now, I must admit that Paul and I did not think the "spending the night with Parents" out too well. We had planned to go to Paul's Dad's house, Paul would then take me & Bree and drop us off at my Parent's house, & then he would go back to our house to pick up all of Bree's "Santa" toys. This was a stupid, dumb, not well thought out plan. We ended up using more gas & time than we really had to. I guess though, when you start new things, like spending the night in a different house on Christmas Eve, there are some things you just don't think about. Gas & time were two of those things. But, Paul finally got back to my Parent's house around 1:30 a.m. From there, we proceeded to put together and set up all of Bree's toys.

We didn't get to sleep until well after 3:30. Now, like most people, when I sleep in a different place...I hardly sleep. I maybe got one or two hours of good sleep, and the other 2 hours were spent tossing and turning and trying to go back to sleep. I was thankful that Bree woke up early, because I didn't know how much longer I could lay there watching the sun come up & no one awake to see presents yet. Yes, I was one of those kids who got up at 3 a.m to see the presents. My Mom brought Bree down, and waited until I had my camera ready to bring her into the living room. Her re-action to the new toys wasn't what I had expected. She was more concerned with the fact that her Daddy was laying on the couch where he had slept than the new rocking horse and other great toys that lay before her. Finally though, she put her attention on the toys & that's where her attention remained until later on that night. My Mom & Dad got her the Flintstone Car Little Tikes Cozy Coupe, and we got her the rest. She dug through her stuff, looking at everything, and then tested out the rocking horse before hopping into the Flintstone Car Cozy Coupe, where the remained for the rest of the day. She spent her time wheeling around the house, eating her meals and opening her presents inside that little car while we spent the entire day being lazy. We laid around in our pajamas, playing video games, getting fat eating, watching movies, playing with our new gadgets, trying on our new clothes, laughing at Bree and my brother race each other with the Flintstone Car Cozy Coupe & the Radio Flyer Tri-Cycle, and having not one single care in the world. It was a perfect day.

My Christmas felt complete this year. There was no disappointment or regrets. I wasn't sad to see it end, and I didn't have those after Christmas blues. This Christmas I had my Mama, Daddy, 2 brothers, Hubby & Daughter all under one roof and I know that is what made this Christmas the best Christmas ever!



...Samantha

Just a Quickie...

I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas! Ours was the best one yet! I, of course, will have pictures ready for you on Monday, but I went ahead and changed the layout of the blog. I have been having some internet issues, and thought I would go ahead and get this changed over while I could.

Make sure you all stay safe this weekend as you are out hitting up those AWESOME after Christmas sales, and I hope to see you all back here Monday!

Have a wonderful weekend & Merry Christmas!


...Samantha