Well, once again it’s Friday. So, you all know what that means don’t you?? It means that the weekend is just right around the corner. Now normally every weekend I have to work, but not anymore. This will be my first weekend off since September and I’m really unsure as to what I will end up doing with myself or the family. It’s going to be a surprise I guess. But I do plan on taking it easy and just having a little bit of fun on the weekend for once.

So what are your plans for the weekend?

Mother’s day is kind of a happy day for me as well as a sad day. Yes, I am a mother myself so that is why this day is a happy one. But having both my mother in law and my own mother not with us here anymore to celebrate the day, it kind of is a sad one as well. But on this day I take a few minutes to remember my mother and my mother in law and then I participate in mother’s day activities with my own children. This year we spent quite a bit of time together and had a couple of really nice meals. After two days of eating, I was really starting to wonder if I should invest in some type of appetite suppressant. But since the celebrations are over, I think I will probably be all right. So, except for missing my mother and my husband’s mother, we all had a pretty good day.

Well finally! It’s Friday once again. Lately the weekdays seem to be flying right along. But it’s always nice to see the weekend once again. Although I have to work this coming weekend, I only work part time so I really do have a lot of time on the weekends to spend with the family. This will be my last weekend to work as next week I am switching over to evenings during the week.

So… have a great weekend everyone and I’ll see you all again the first of next week.

Six more weeks and the children will be finished school for another year. Now, both of them did really well, so we have decided to purchase them a pretty great grading present this year. Now because this will be a very expensive purchase, the kids will have to share the gift. I don’t think they will mind as the gift we intend on purchasing them will be a brand new laptop. I have been doing a little research on the Internet for a good computer for them and have pretty much made up my mind as to which one we will purchase. We’ve found one that has quite a bit of memory, and great graphics and sound. I have even been looking at some compact flash cards which we may purchase later. Although the kids will have to share this present, since it’s something they both enjoy playing on, I really don’t think they will mind the sharing part of it.

Yesterday after work I decided to clean out the bathroom closets and cabinets. I was pretty amazed at all the things I found in there that I needed to throw out. I found some old diet pills of my husband’s that were four years old. I guess he really didn’t need those now did he. I also ended up throwing out a lot of creams and lotions that I have had around for years. After I was finished with all my cleaning, I discovered that I really had been stockpiling a whole lot of stuff. Now the bathroom looks a whole lot better. Next week, it will be time to do this in my bedroom. Oh, what fun!

Many of you may not know this, but I have started doing a little bit of general transcription from home. I have been able to find a little bit of work with a couple of people doing this. I really did enjoy the work I was doing for them, but found that this type of work does require a lot of time. So I have to put this job on hold for a little while as I really don’t have the time to devote to it right now. Right now I’m working a lot more outside of the home and until this schedule slows down a bit, I really don’t have the time needed to pursue my general transcription goals. When things slow down at my outside job I will get back to it. But until then, I will have to put it on hold.

My daughter is in grade five and will be advancing to middle school next year. Well it’s almost that time in her life when she will start noticing some changes in her little life. So it’s time that I have a sit down with her. We’ve already talked about acne and the treatment for acne. But that’s as far as I’ve gone. So over the next couple of weeks, I’m going to try to work in some “girl” talk and I guess we will see where we go from there.

Wish me luck!

Over the weekend my youngest son spent quite a bit of time outside. It was extremely windy on both days and on Saturday he got some sand in his eye. Well it started watering and he started rubbing it. By the end of the day it looked like someone had punched him in the eye. Sunday night it didn’t look much better and we were a little concerned about sending him to school looking like this. But, we were able to find the best eye cream available on the market and started putting this stuff on his face.

By Monday it did look a little better so we sent him to school. All day Monday the teacher’s were asking him what happened. He liked the attention and did tell them the truth so they had no concerns that someone punched him. After a few days of putting this cream on his face, he is finally starting to look normal again.

Right now it is only 8:00 in the morning, but it already sunny and quite mild out. So I have decided that today would be a perfect day to get a little work done outside. I am going to do a major clean on my car. Yes, you heard me right, I’m going to clean my car today. During the winter months it’s really too cold and miserable to do any amount of cleaning on the car so things tend to pile up a bit. Then in the spring I normally do a major spring cleaning on the car and get it ready for summer. Well, that’s what I have planned for today. So, if I’m not around much today, now you all know why. I’m busy spring cleaning.

Right now I do quite a bit of product reviews for one of our local grocery stores. Over the past few months, I have gotten a lot of free cleaning products from this company. They send me the items by mail, I test them out and then I give an honest review on the products that I’ve tried out. And the best part is, is that I get to keep all the products they send me as their way of saying thanks. I am quite happy with all the products I have been given to test out, but it would sure be nice if I could review some unique hotels or something along those lines. But since it’s a grocery store and not a hotel chain I don’t think that this is going to happen any time soon. So I guess I’ll just have to be content with the products that I do end up testing.