Cleaning Like Crazy Today

Having my 4th cup of coffee of the day; well it is now afternoon. I drank the whole pot to myself! Well wait my husband isn't a coffee drinker, so therefore no need to make a full pot. I make a half pot. So I drank half a pot of coffee to myself! I have so much energy today! Lots is getting done for housework. Thank God, I am usually so sluggish in the morning and don't get to doing anything until the afternoon.The crabby part of the morning follows me until near noon hour usually. I got majority of my laundry folded accept maybe one load out of the 6 loads that have been washed and dried. The dishes are done, accept for a frying pan that is soaking from having dried up food on it from the night before. And you're not going to believe this, I am cleaning the stove top. I took out the coils and the other part (I don't know what it is called, but I usually line them with foil liners) and have them soaking in my sink with a good cleaner sprayed on them. Now all that needs to be done is sweeping and moping of the floors. Oh and the bathroom, but I am thinking of making Jonathan do that chore himself. Since the majority of the mess is him. I always clean my messes, if I dropped a dab of tooth paste in the sink, I rinse it out once I am done brushing. And before I shut the shower off, I usually have a J cloth hanging on the bar of the shower curtain to give a quick clean from soap scum, dirt and grimey stuff. However, Jonathan on the other hand, he does not dry his feet with the towel before stepping out and leaves a puddled mess everytime. And does not wipe down the shower and leaves his little stubbles he shaves off of his face in the sink for me to look at. He is a crazy tooth brush scrubber. When he brushes his teeth, he splatter tooth paste from with in his mouth right onto the mirror. Not me! I think of all the housework I do in this house, the bathroom can at least be his chore every once in a while.
Well I think I better go use up the energy I do have today and get the rest of the housework done and then go spend time with my wee one.

I Love The Gatsby Show (Jerseylicious)

Ugh! I so wish we had a salon like the Gatsby here in Edmonton Alberta. I really do. I rarely pamper myself anymore ever since I moved from side of Canada to the other. But damn I would pay lots a money just to fly to the states if I had the extra $$$ to do so. All the ladies and gents that work there are so glamorous and beautiful. I just love the show lots. Accept for the bickering going on with Tracy and Olivia, it totally takes away from the show and salon. I just don't get why they can't get along. They seem so alike in various ways. They both share the love for animal printed stuff and what not and love the darker skin tone and love doing the dramatic makeup look. And boy do they ever accessorize!
Anyways enough complaining about those two silly ladies. Hopefully someday they will make amends.
Anyways here's to hoping someday when I can make it to New Jersey, that I can get my hair done by one of the many talented hair stylists there.
This stay at home Mom is well overdue for a good old pampering time soon!

Prayers for Newtown Connecticut

It is such a shock to come home from the gym yesterday to see the status' all over facebook with regards to the shooting in Newtown Connecticut. It is so heart wrenching to watch on the news. I have been doing nothing but praying for all of the victim's families. It really opens your eyes to see that no matter how small of a town or city you live in, this kind of violence can happen anywhere's! Not just expected in the big cities. It can happen anywhere's, anytime and anyplace.
I definitely hugged my little girl a bit tighter last night with tears in my eyes thinking what if this was her in her school years from now when she is older?
My heart goes out to everyone that was hurt and had their precious little angel shot and taken away from them for good. I can't express how much I feel hurt for those families, I feel like it happened to me too.
May God be with us all in the world and reach out to others and help make change in our hearts and follow him and change our ways. So there will  be less or not more crime going on.

Salt on an open wound

Being told the truth definitely hurts. It is very painful to deal with. I was just told the truth, but a friend, because I asked this of my friend. Even though maybe sometimes in certain situations, topics etc you should refrain from telling the truth, especially if you care for this person and love them with all your heart. I am beginning to wish I never asked for the truth, because maybe I was not ready to hear it. Maybe it was meant for another time to be revealed to me. But stubborn as I am I have insisted on the truth being told to me.
I am having a hard time sleeping right now, I have drank my sleepy time tea and the truth is plaguing me to the core. It hurts me deep down with in me.
So what I am wondering is; should you really tell the truth? Or should we lie to the person for the time being until you know they are mentally, emotionally able to take it in? Should I have been told a lie tonight? Or was it better for the truth to come out? Or maybe was I ready to hear the truth, but, because I am human it is normal to feel so hurt from the truth?
Sometimes I just don't like being truthful, it certainly didn't set me free, like the saying goes from the bible. Maybe it should though. Should I just release myself from it all? From this person to help me heal?
I love this person, but they have hurt me so badly. What am I to do? Suck it up, because I asked for it? (The truth). Or shall I just be rid of the person?
UGH!! Decisions decisions! Well I am going offline now. Just had to get it off my chest.

Dreadday

Ugh! I feel so old today. I hate this day as every year comes by. I look a little older and a little more different. Now that my bodies been through a pregnancy, my body is funny shaped. I work out to the best of my abilities, but I will always have these huge hips. I have these little crinkles in the corners of my eyes when I smile now and a slight laugh line too.
When this day came up as a kid I was always so excited. Along came a cake and pizza and presents, but now if I even look at those foods I will gain about 50 pounds just looking at them. I don't have the metabolism I once had.
Jonathan did give me a birthday present early last night. It was cool, it was this conair jet water thing for when in the tub. Which is cool, because I love soaking in the tub with a nice goats milk bubble bath. He also got me two packs of iced mahogany hair dye. I love it! I love my hair that color. I sometimes miss my old trade mark hair that I was once known by from when I was in the private school, but I find blond makes me look too fake.
On a more nice note, I woke up to a bunch of kisses from my daughter today. That is always a nice way to wake up. She loves to give out kisses. She is a very loving girl always in a cuddling mood. Sometimes I lose my patience with her first thing in the morning, when trying to drink my coffee and then she just plumps herself hard down onto me making me spill the hot coffee not on me, but all over the couch and every where's. She is still learning though, so I try not to make a big deal out of it. I show her the mess and show her how I need to clean it and she actually takes a J cloth and tries to help wipe it all out, but only rubs it in more. LOL What a sweetie. At least gets the idea to some extent.
I am kind of sad, because with blogger lately when I sign in, I can't see my people that I am following. I usually read my friend Dave's blog, but it appears blank when I click on his name and goes for everyone else I follow. I like to keep posted with the progress of his book that he is writing.
Well I best be going for now. I need to get a shower going and get ready before Jonathan gets home from work, because he is taking me out to get an ice cream birthday cake at DQ. And then we are going to West Edmonton Mall to get my free gift from the make up store that I am a member of called Sephora. Their make is amazing and works wonders!
Will post later about the rest of my day.

Blibber blabber

Well I am a cheapo! Yes I am. I have been suffering with having problems falling asleep. I know it has to be insomnia, what else could it be right? So I forgot all about this tea that a couple of friends had mentioned to me before, and while doing my usual grocery run with the hubby and baby; we walk down the coffee and tea isle and right before eyes. My eyes fell upon the night time tea made by celestial. Thank God I found it or actually saw it through all the other teas surrounding it, because Jonathan was making a doctors appointment for all three of us and he wanted me to get sleeping pills. And I am too cheap I don't want to pay for an expensive prescription if I don't have to. I know that maybe I should get a diagnosis at least, but I don't care. We ingest a lot of crap in our bodies on a regular basis. Most of us eat that stupid boxed prepackaged food more. Which is something in the Morin family we have decided to change. We don't even have sugar in the house anymore. We shop mainly out of the produce isle. And buy lots of seafood and fish. I can't say we completely stopped buying canned, packaged food, because we still buy canned tuna and the odd other thing here or there. But for the most part I make my own gravies, pasta sauces, dips etc. Although not peanut butter. Yet! But I will when I find out how to make it, well a good recipe with really good directions to follow.
Since we are doing all this do it yourself things, I am thinking of investing in getting some pottery and soil and stock up for the warm weather and when the snow goes away for good I am going to plant my own herbs. Parsley especially, it is my favorite. I will eat it like people eat lettuce or carrots.
Well it is time for me to pour my tea and doze off. Good night to you all.

Christmas Done & A New Beginning

The shopping is done and so is the shipping! YAY. Christmas is dealt with early for once in my life. In the Morin house we are usually last minute shoppers, and shipping them off too late. Thank God we kept finding deals on the things that our family members liked and had the money on hand to grab it. I am a little late on decorating as far as the christmas lacey stuff from the dollar store. The tree is up and decorated though.
I kind of can't wait to get it done and over with. I always forget how much of a hassle it is just to get that perfect gift for everyone in the family. But then as a whole year goes by and as the next christmas is nearing for another time around I get excited, then go to being tired of it. Perhaps I put my tree up too early. I actually feel like taking it down right now.
I am lucky, because Aaliyah was so fascinated with the tree at first; so I thought I was going to have a problem with her taking the decorations off of the tree. But she only takes a bulb off once in a while and passes it to me, just to watch me put it back on. Nothing too major. She loves night time, because I put the lights on for the remainder of the evening.
Another chapter has started with my little wee one just today actually! I decided when her diapers were all used up that we would start training her on the potty, so we already had pull-ups available and a potty. So she just finished her last diaper. So onto the pull-ups and potty training we go. I was going to train her earlier this year, but she was still too young and little and still learning how to understand what I am saying to her when I talk to her. I know that she understand me for the most part now. So I know it is the right time.
So here's to hoping this does not take a long time to train her, because to be honest I am not up for it. I just wish my Mom or Grandma was here to help and guide me through it, because they have a special connection with her.