Marital Talk

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my purpose in writing this is to ask for guest posters once again.  I had some great guest posts last time and right now I am running the 12 Days of Christmas Give Away on Mom~E~Centric, Mom is Teaching and Education Uncensored.  So, if I don’t get anything extra besides the contest and the winners up on those blogs it would be ok, but I prefer content along with the opportunities to win.  And, you too can enter the contests and try to win.  There’s 4 chances on 3 blogs and with such a low readership that I have, winning should be fairly easy. 
But, that’s not why I am writing this, I tend to ramble, can you tell? Here’s what’s happened.  My aunt in Florida has cancer and is in the hospital.  My mom is leaving Monday morning going down there.  That means that I have to work AND entertain a 4 year old all next week and the next and probably all the way up til Wayne is off for Christmas.  ALONE!.  Next on the list is the fact that my cousin is getting married on Saturday afternoon.  And, I went to the rehearsal dinner tonight because my husband and I are doing the photography.  Well, while i was there…..like 5 minutes after I walked in the building….I was handed a piece of paper with the words "Director" written at the top.  She smiled that sweet smile and said, "can you do this too?"
And, I mean, it is just wrong to tell a bride-to-be no so…..I’ve got to prepare for shooting my first wedding, directing one of many weddings (but she is doing some funky stuff and I don’t know any of the grooms parents - and step mom doesn’t talk to real dad and brother doesn’t speak to someone) and I’ve agreed to do all that along while keeping up 10 blogs, keep up with a 4 year old and help decorate for this wedding on Friday night.  Did I mention our Christmas tree hasn’t been put up yet?

And, the straw that breaks the camel’s back here…………….I don’t have any clothes that fit me to wear to the wedding.  I am huge right now and I couldn’t get anything to fasten.  So, that means…I must go shopping sometime.  Yea right.  Add to that the fact that since I’m directing and Wayne and I are doing photos…..I’d like to wear pants and I’m going to ask the bride-to-be tomorrow about it, so we shall see.  However, she is not going down the aisle to the wedding march and she and the groom are walking out to "I’m a believer….and I saw her face…." which just totally cracked me up.

Now, since you’ve heard my sob story and you already know about the TMJ crap (which this expensive mouthpiece seems to have helped a lot) and you know that I’ve not had to take care of this particular 4 year old all day and night without any intervention from a grandmother since July…..oh please, just pray that he lives through it. 
Ok, so the topic of the guest post is……………….anything you want.  If you need a place to blast someone and don’t want to do it on your blog, I got room for you.  If you need to tell a sad story but don’t want all of your readers to know….I got room for you.  If you have a passion…homeschoolling, public schooling, pregnancy related, depression, anxiety, marriage…..you want a write about it…I got a place for you.
I"m going to close this email by begging….PLEASE!

Lately I’ve suffered from all kinds of terribly illnesses.  As it is, I am now finally on the mend, however, I have missed this holiday all together.  My husband has carried on and the boys haven’t missed a thing.

He started putting up the Christmas lights today and hopefully tomorrow we can get the tree up.  I’m excited and the five year old already wants me to find Santa on the computer and follow him (yea, thanks weather forecasters, lol).

My husband handles most everything it seems these days.  I have to get myself back up and in gear and get some things done before I continue to feel totally useless.

If I can get my bloggy stuff caught up (and just wait til you read about my give aways), I have plenty of things I want to do and need to do.  This Friday my sons kindergarten class is going on a Christmas field trip and so the little one, who is now "4 and not potty trained" will be going as well.  I’m excited, I know to be excited, they are clueless.

And, so with that, I’m closing with….

12 DAYS OF CHRISTMAS GIVE AWAY - Starts December 1st at midnight and goes through…..December 12th at midnight.  I have ten blogs, three of them have a contest running on them and the contests are different each day. 

All the information you need to enter can be found on the websites:  Mom~E~Centric, Mom is Teaching and Education Uncensored.

I look forward to seeing all of you there!

You must be at least a Guest Member to join and enter the second give-a-way here, but it can’t hurt can it?

Ok, so here’s the deal, if a company were to offer me something…I don’t know what yet, just something…and I was to give it away here on the blog…..what kind of contest would you participate in and what (within reason) would you like to see as the prize being given away??????

I haven’t written about this up to this point and possibly I waited just a little late to jump in on this one, but, let’s just say at least I tried, ok?

I haven’t mentioned this because it basically is happening on the other side of the world from me.  But, the fact is, it affects those of us everywhere.  How is that you say?  Well, you know that a precedent has to be set somewhere before others travel down the road.  So, pave the way baby, pave the way.

I joined some folks in a humorous way when it comes to allowing people to marry other people..other people of their own choosing…. see…

 
Now is the time to donate. Let your support be known.

There’s an entire post or two on Looky, Daddy devoted to this topic, go check ‘em out!

I’ve never entertained the thought that a married couple might have had issues and one or both partners found a way to have and enjoy a double life, a second family if you will.  Then, today, while sitting in the doctor’s off, patiently waiting while it took an hour and a half for them to see the 2 people before me, I found something to read.  I thought I was just picking up any old magazine, little did I know, the enjoyment that would ensue.

There, right in front of me, in the August 2008 issues of Ladies Home Journal was an article written by Jeanne Marie Laskas entitled, "Sex, Lies and Double Lives".  The first thought on my over-worked brain was, "who has time for this?"  And, upon reading, I found that only men have time for this apparently.  I’ll quote Jeanne for a few good ones just to lure you in and then you can go read for yourself.

He did what? I think, as I learn of double lives, of the destructive stuff men do to satisfy apparently acute sexual urges. He rang up an $80,000 tab on a call girl? He arranged for threesomes with his driver? He flashed secret foot signals under a bathroom stall?

He, he, he. Where, I am starting to wonder, are all the shes?

Women don’t do double lives? I try to imagine having a secret second family across town. This notion puts me in immediate need of a nap. Like I need more softball practices to drive to, more piano lessons to arrange? I try to imagine paying $80,000 for a sex slave and wonder what the heck kind of sex that would buy me, but all too quickly I’m back to the dollar amount, calculating not how to get me one of those boy toys but rather: That could buy me how many pairs of shoes?

That should be enough to lure you in because this is  really awesome article.

I know that I have changed the blog format some and as of late I’ve spent a lot of time raging about my own’s public school experience.  But, I am trying to get back to the basics here which is "educating our children by whatever means necessary".

I want the blog to reflect all degree’s of teachers as well as learners.  So, with that, go vote for

Best Education Blog.

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The Getting Married Process

I am his keeper

My visit with the Marriage Counselor

The Marital Bed Post Number 435,537,344

I’m going to be brief, no really I am

I’m celebrating and I’m trying to get as many people as possible to get involved.  In case you don’t know what it means to "de-lurk", I"m getting you the definition, right here and right now.

First of all, the definition of a lurker.

Lurker - A lurker is one who sits in an internet chat room, message base or newsgroup, but does not participate.

Thus, the definition of De-lurking is:

De-lurker - A lurker who makes a move to initiate contact and conversation in a place that they have formerly only lurked. 

Anyway, I’m trying to stir up enough folks to celebrate a day of "de-lurking" and I’m being selfish and using my own personal excitement to produce a button for the Day of Delurking which I have deemed to be Wednesday October 8.  So, come one, come all. 

I’d love to tell you that this gorgeous graphic has code in it and it is simple to embed in your own blog, but I don’t know how to write code.  So, if anyone wants to attempt it, please, by all means, go for it.  And, if you want to change it and make your own button and send it around the internet, that suits me just fine too.  All I want, is some folks to come out of hiding and let their VOICES BE HEARD (kind of like the presidential election but not exactly)

And, with that, I give you, my delurk button and I’m linking it to my blog, so feel free to do the same!

Cross posted all over the place, just letting you know…

I have a very close cyber-buddy (I mean, you know, as close as two people can be in cyber space) and she has the most upbeat attitude that sometimes I wonder if maybe I need some of what she has stashed in her kool-aid drawer at home.  Either way, I’ve seen her make photos of thunderstorms and turn them into happy times.  She’ll pour a glass of wine and visit with the neighbor while the children play and she sits back with her wine and enjoys it all.

She’s been known to chase their dog around the neighborhood in her PJ’s and barely stops to wonder if anyone notices.  Basically, she just has a great attitude. 

Have I ever known her to not have a great attitude?  Of course I have, no one is that perfect all the time.  But, she knows how to block the punches, skip over the rocks and dunk under the timbers and land flat on her feet right in front of the river of rainbows.  Yea, she is that good.

Anyway, she has a new site up and running and in case you haven’t figured it out already, the site is Happiness Is The New Black.  I sent her a snarky little email asking her what she was trying to prove by not letting me in on the secrets of her blog life and she sent me packing to the about page and the submit page.   But, since I’m in such a grand ol’ mood, I’ll give you a quick blow by blow just in case you are interested in contributing.

In the about section, this quote summarizes the site for me, "True happiness is deep, pure and everlasting. It is subtle and it is popular because we all share an intrinsic need for it."  And, with that, you can share your happiness or just read about the happiness of others.

The Submit section will answer questions for you like, How do I contribute?, What do I contribute? Why should I contribute? as well as the When’s? and How often’s.  Go on check it out, it could make for some serious emotional healing….happiness is contagious The New Black

I’m trying to drum up enough people to live blog the show tomorrow night!  It is a 2 hour season premier for the first time ever.

Please email me or comment and let me know.  If I can get some interest generated, I’d love to do it!!!

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Go to Mom Is Teaching, read the rules and get busy. 

Up for grabs is a choice of one of the following:

1.  a $20 Amazon Gift Certificate

2.  a copy of The White Trash Mom’s Handbook by Michelle Lamar and Molly Wendland

3.  a copy of The Case Against Homework by Sara Bennett and Michelle Lamar

1.  The winner will be chosen by Random.org 

2.  The contest ends at 5:00 PM on Wednesday, September 17, 2008.

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