That photo was taken by my daughter. It’s of our kitten Cleo and myself doing what she likes to do best! Sleep. She loves to snuggle. I love the companionship. It sets well with my pregnancy hormone swings… LOL

King Kaeden at school on Friday!

Today is the day! The day where he sits in excited anticipation of all his young guests showing up to celebrate his birth! With an elevated heart rate and an anxious breath he asks me this morning, “Is today my birthday?” You can hear his voice dripping with excitement! I tell him, “Yes dear. Today is your birthday.”

“Yay!!” He shouts as he bounces off the bed. He’s been asking for almost a month now if it was his birthday yet. LOL He’s so proud to be turning 5. I told he’s so grown up that it’s almost time for him to start college, get married, have kids… Then I said are you ready for that? To my dismay he responded with a yes! I guess that’s what I get for asking.

After only 5 years, I can’t begin to imagine my son having a family of his own. My daughter either for that reason! They grow up so fast… but not that fast when you think about it! I’m just going to sit back and enjoy these years with my kids. They tend to fly by faster than you realize. I don’t want to take anything for granted!

Lately, I’ve been down and depressed and quite frankly out of the loop. With holidays and birthdays approaching faster than I care for them to and not the most desirable living situations topped off with being 30 weeks pregnant, broke, with no quick hopes of income coming in, I’d say I’ve been feeling quite sorry for myself. I even missed out on posting my awesome Wordless Wednesday photo due to my own depression.

Today, however, I pulled myself together and out of bed… pushed aside my feelings of baby sickness and was determined to get an article out for Kelby’s site Type-A Mom to which I am proudly an editor for her. As I sat here and typed I decided to pull up twitter.  Something I have not done in over a week. I’m still getting to know the people on there and I never have too much to say. But something in my head today told me to open it up and join in the conversation.

I may well be an open book, but I am a shy person and often find it awkward getting involved in the tweets. Today was no different. But I often read the different “tiny urls” that are posted by the various tweeters Even though I was in the heat of looking for a picture to go with my new article on Household Budget Advice my eye was caught by one of those tiny urls posted by LaTara. It was a link to her newest blog post on her site Mom Unplugged. I have a good idea why that specific tiny url distracted me so much that I had to read it.

Oh, but you know me, I didn’t read it right away. Of course not, instead I opened it in a new tab and saved it for later, at least I didn’t just bookmark it for later like I’ve done with so many others that I never read. For some reason this one was was different, I could feel it. I kept mis-clicking on my various tabbed adventures and would continuously bring up, yup, you guessed it, LaTara’s post. I finally gave in, stubborn as I may be, and read the post. I was so touched I teared up. Now you can say I’m just being hormonal due to my baby blues but in this case you would be wrong.

I have no doubt as to why this particular post affected me the way it did. Because I have strayed from my faith in God and instead of listening to Him I’ve been trying to make my own way. Now you can get what ever you want out of her post, but for me, it was a matter of my heart and knowing that some where back on this rocky road I’ve been on, I’ve lost my way.

I haven’t been listening to God’s will and doing things His way. When you try to take on the world alone expect to be alone. God is there for you if only you’ll let Him! Thank you LaTara, I’m waving my white flag.

Kaeden was goofing around with our new kitten Cleo. Cleo is short for Cleopatra and let me tell you this kitten definitely thinks she’s a queen and needs to pampered continuously throughout the day LOL We may not treat her quite like Queen Cleopatra but she is extremely pampered!

Yes I fell for it… well not sure I should use the term “fell” I knew very well what would happen when I typed in my email address into that little box. All I wanted to do was take the cute little “free” I.Q. test. I thought it would be fun. I spent the next 10 minutes taking the test and the next hour trying to get my results! I went from one “free” offer to another and then another and then, well you get the picture. I call this a Spam Cycle. Its great fun let me tell you. Alas, I finally gave up and felt not so smart.

I later checked my email and low and behold what did I find. My I.Q. results and a little under a million Spam emails. Since this day I’ve been cleaning out the junk mail with my filters and honestly… After all that I’m not sure I feel as smart as my I.Q. says I am!

Photo credits: Morguefile.com Author clarita

Her alias is Natalie Dylan and yes you heard right. Yesterday she announced that in order to pay for college, she has decided to auction off her virginity! In a post found on WebProNews she has decided to auction off her virginity through the infamous Nevada brothel, Moonlite Bunny Ranch. I’m practically speechless. Practically.

I suppose its her right to what she wants, but it amazes me that a 22 year old well schooled virgin suddenly decides to auction herself off. I mean seriously people. Why hold on to it for so long just to make it into something so cheap? Cheap… Hmph. I guess it’s not really that cheap after all if she’s intending to pay for he Master’s Degree with it. So maybe cheap isn’t the right word, but it’s obviously not priceless either!

In post on Interested-Participant they say she’s admitting to being a prostitute and is only negotiating a price. The thought that comes to mind is the degradation involved in haggling over sex and if I would want a woman who is paying for her masters in Marriage & Family Therapy by selling off her maidenhood couceling me in the areas of marriage or family. I mean what kind of values would she be counciling a marriage over?

I’m not one to judge others moral values or beliefs. Honestly, I’m not. I’ve got skeletons in my closet, but I’m not publicizing them and trying to earn a coin from it. I don’t agree with her method or values but to each their own, right?

That photo was taken of the family dog… erm… goat. Her name is Chico. She jumps up in the jeep with us and loves to go for rides. It took forever to get a photo of her because all she wanted to do was eat the camera! She’s the newest addition to our little family so far and she fits right in!