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!

So far into this it has been the most difficult pregnancy I’ve had out of the three. My pelvis is constantly in pain and the doc says that it’s normal. I’m a skeptic on the normality of it considering I didn’t hurt like this with the first two. But hey I’m not a doctor, right? My protest is that I know my body better than him so we’re currently at a stand still. LOL

The baby’s very active now and is already taking after me by aggravating the hell out of his father. Poor guy. Every time he tries to feel the baby kick he stops kicking. It just cracks me up! Daddy doesn’t find it as amusing as I do however.

At 28 weeks I look similar to a beached whale… Even my doc says I’m putting on weight to fast and in his words “will be as big as a house” by the time I deliver. Way to cheer me up there big guy! But seriously, I love my doctor! He’s honest and to the point. He’s not one to sugar coat and is always rather blunt with me. I also love the fact that he’s a family doctor and in turn sees my whole family. I’ve never had a family doc before and the originally the idea that the same doctor was going to treat me as well as my children was a little disconcerting. I have come to LOVE the fact that he treats my entire family and knows my family history. It’s always an awesome feeling when he remembers me and the kids. I never feel like just another patient. Being use to having specialty doctors made things a little odd at first, but I know now why they call them “Family” doctors! I feel like family when I go in there. What an awesome feeling to have!

As I was researching ideas for my newest article on Type-A Mom I came across a fellow’s site that I must say quite offended me. If you guessed by my title its about dating single moms. I, just like so many other women out there, am part of a proud group of women known as single moms. It doesn’t matter how we became part of this group, the fact is that we are. Does this mean we don’t deserve to find someone to share our lives with any longer?

According to Dr. Dennis W. Neder any man that comes across a single mom should turn and run. He has written an article on Dating the Single Mother and I must protest his findings! I guess there are some single moms out there that are the money hungry irresponsible women that he describes here, but we do not ALL fall under that category. In fact, most of us DO NOT fall into that category! He made a few good points such as a any new beau would have to accept the fact that her children have a father that will be a part of the picture. He actually makes the statement referring to his argument of why not to date a single mom “find a woman without kids – they ARE out there!” What makes him so against single moms? Don’t we need and deserve love too? He then goes on to say “Ok, you won’t listen to reason, what should you do?” Are we really that bad?

My opinion? He sounds like a pig squealing put downs from his sty. But hey… That’s my opinion.

That picture was only a small portion of a HUGE mural in my son’s school. He wanted his picture taken with the frog. We though the pose would look so cute if he was facing it… Never once through that little LCD panel did it occur to me that the frog would be picking his nose LOL Enjoy!