Love the google

I'm wondering if others google as much as myself. I google pretty much EVERYTHING! I've often googled my own name, family member's names, friends, and How to fix...Anything! Often I find surprising things when I do this. I recently found someone who shares my same name and was able to connect with her. I'm looking forward to finding out more about her, especially since our name is not very common. I have also found out surprising things about family members when I've googled them, but that's another story. Today I am giving props to all the people who get online and tell how they have remedied a household problem (usually involving kids, something permanent, and furniture).

Today, I walked into our entryway that has been recently updated with nice hardware floors and found blue permanent marker from the latest two-year-old all over the floor. We don't have that nice of stuff but Come On! It's brand new and we want to keep it looking nice! Anyway, long story short, I googled permanent marker and hardwood floor and found several suggestions. I tried one that I thought might work and voila! we have a marker-free floor and one happy Mom!

AND...last week I broke my camera, by putting my battery in upside down which then jammed the door shut. I was so frustrated because no matter how hard I tried to open it, it wouldn't budge. And then there was Google!!!! This remedy was hard to find though and I found a weird link talking about people who had the same problem. There were many suggestions including breaking the door open and living with a broken door or taking it in to the manufacture although it's most likely not covered and finally just buying a new camera. But there was one guy who had the solution and it worked!! All I can say is how nice it is to live in a time when everything is at our fingertips. And thank you to Google!!

Far from there

I'm not sure if I enjoy journaling. I also don't know if this is the right venue for me. (Maybe I should keep a personal handwritten journal.) But at the moment and for some time now, I've been wanting / needing an outlet. I am in a place in my life right now where it's just difficult. But don't get me wrong -- I do LOVE my life. I have a sweet husband and 4 beautiful children. My youngest is 7 months and smiles at me all day long. But the poor guy won't take a bottle and I need him to take a bottle -- pretty badly. My 2-year-old is the sweetest thing but I need to spend more time doing things with him, just playing with him. My 5-year-old is bored a lot of the time. I don't have him in kindergarten yet and he SO needs more structure. My 7-year-old is so smart and fun, but he has the most difficult time with change, disruption of routine, and he has difficulty with impulse control. He was my preemie baby and I'm realizing that a lot is probably tied back to the fact that he was premature. My kids are so great, but I find myself trying to get back into more of a routine that we had before the baby was born. And yet, I'm so exhausted that I just don't even know where to start. I have laundry piles everywhere, toys overtaking the house and clothes that I have needed to sort through for over a year. On top of this, my biggest, or at least one of my biggest faults is that I am a 'messy' person. I hate cleaning, putting things away and am often exhuasted by it all. I find that when a room is clean, I LOVE it and if I allow just a little bit of clutter it doesn't bother me. But I often don't know how it gets to that place of an uber-cluttered room. It goes from Clean - to mostly clean- to Destroyed! And then I find myself feeling overwhelmed by the fact that I need to get it to that clean place again. And often it doesn't. I know this is something I need to work on. I am trying to work on it, but it's often hard to work on yourself when you have so many others who need you. But I also feel like I need to get this under control so that we can have more order in our lives. I will figure this out! Everyone has at least one thing they need to work on, right? I have several!