I'm a mom too!

. Whew!! We accomplished a lot in the month of February. We worked on our house every spare minute of the day. Feb. 1-  Drove 40 miles to pick up this desk I found off the local swap site.  This is for M's craft room, walk in closet.  I am so excited to have the mess contained!  Feb. 2-  M's room was pained in January. Benjamin Moore, Fairytale Blue.  Egress window trim being finished. Feb. 3- Groundwork being laid for extra outlets. Feb. 4- Oh no!  Both girls have influenza!  With the flu shot though it was pretty mild.  This teacher took advantage of the sick days to catch up on laundry! Feb. 5- Hubby is preparing to take over since I had to go do conferences.  I think he was a little afraid of getting sick himeself.  What do you think? Feb. 6-  Hubby was more productive on his sick day.  Old desk spray pained and conduit outlets finished. Feb. 6 Feb. 7- Shaw caramel carpet in...

Hey, Are you a mom that works outside the home?  Every mom has challenges.  I know the challenges of both because I am a SAHM in the summer and I work a gazillion hours the rest of the year.  Every time I think I have found balance teaching and home my hopes and dreams come crashing down and reality sets in.  My blogs address how to balance your family life when you are a SAHM but WOHM and WAHMs have time challenges and work/personal challenges that are not often addressed. Through social media I have found that I am NOT alone.  I have been talking to Leslie of   Momma Harvey and we would love to hear from other working moms that have either figured out the balance or want to give us their personal challenges to write posts about.  We are also looking for other working mom bloggers to help us out with these posts! Right now I am struggling to find time to work on decluttering, organizing, laundry as well as my remodel project. Also I am looking f...

 This week started out a little rough.  Last Sunday M tried to cram all her homework into Sunday night and then when I went to sign her January reading log (which I totally trust her with) I was appalled by the lack of minutes.  There was a meltdown and anyone with a 9 year old probably knows, it wasn't pretty so we came up with this contract and had a good rest of the week. Phew! J on Reading Eggs.  I discovered Reading Eggs on Mrs. Willis' blog  so I signed up fro my 30 day trial.  I am loving it!!!! I discovered that J knows her letters and sounds but cannot hear what things start with.  She also has trouble remembering things in sequence so this probably goes hand in hand.  Not a huge problem, she's three, but good info to have.  This is what I woke up to.  J playing with her Kindle, watching the snow come down.  We had a very pretty snow this weekend and ended up with 8-9 inches of heavy white snow.  ...