and have finally joined some other social media sites. I recently joined 12seconds.tv and have created a couple of short films. That site is really fun and I plan to update more often. I like trying to see what I can fit into 12 seconds of recording. I also joined Facebook, yes I know you are thinking, FINALLY. So now all my readers have a little homework to do… Go check out my two new sites and add me as your friend if you are a member of the sites. Let me know what you think of my 12seconds of fame. I also posted a cute one of Noah. Don’t laugh at my simple profile on Facebook because I am still learning. I also joined LinkedIn which I haven’t done much with either but working on it. Making a lot of changes and branching out to network with new people. I am very excited about all this and love meeting new people.

So toot-toot !

I am so excited that I have been given an opportunity to write an article for a Utah Women’s Magazine. Although we all know I always have plenty to say, I thought it would be great to seek advice to make the article more rich. I would love your point of views on the topic. So please take the below poll and also feel free to leave a comment and tell me what you think, your ideas or any thoughts you would love to see mentioned in this article. The topic is how to set guidelines and/or rules with your children. The main focus is on pre-teens/teens but I will take any and all advice. Don’t have a teen? That’s okay tell me what your plan is. How do you plan to set your guidelines and continue to have a good relationship with your teen?

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Since Wii Fit Mommies is a group that I joined as part of my New Year’s Resolutions, I am determined to continue with my Friday posts! Even though, sadly I must say this week was not good for me in the work out area. Heck this week hasn’t had much ups at all and has been super busy with plenty of bad news. No, scratch that! This is a new year and I am determined to be a new me… So positive thinking! This week has been super busy with lots being work related, blogging and writing which is GREAT! Also a few doctor appointments and school appointments with Gab that could have went worse so although the news wasn’t what I wanted it sure beats what it could have been. I promise to post tomorrow all about her updates though so check back soon to read more.

Now to staying positive!

My Wii Fit week wasn’t the best. I did work out last Friday, Saturday and Sunday for at least 30 minutes each day. However, unfortunately I did not work out Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday or Thursday. I know FOUR days in a row. I am frustrated that I let it slip by for that many days in a row . I know in my first Friday post I said I wasn’t going to be hard on myself if I didn’t work out every day but to skip that many days in a row is hard to avoid being negative towards myself. I wish I would have at least done every other day or something. But today is not over yet and I am determined to work out tonight! I do plan to get back going and vlog next week my full update, including new Wii Fit Age! So don’t give up on me yet and I will be back at it again before you know it.

By the way, on the days I had worked out this week I continued working hard to beat the other moms’ scores in the hula hoop challenge. Leave me a comment and cheer me on, it isn’t easy! I am feeling a little competitive spirit building up in me.

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So going to this school last night and sitting next to my daughter with her friends, who I might add are all the same size as me, was enlightening {if that’s the right word}. It just dawned on me, I was sitting next to a ‘little me’. I was in awe. I mean I know I had her young but it was like it just hit me that I am a mother of a pre-teen. She is going to be 12 years old this year! Have you ever had that moment, where you just sit back and say… WOW, this is my life! Well I have had those moments a few times lately when it comes to T. Even though I am the one who has raised her for 11.5 years it is almost like I am in shock that I have a child this age. I know, I know… I’m not old enough to have a kid who is going to turn 12, I know I was too young. Trust me, I’ve heard prilosec ot and chest pains it all. But this leads to today’s toot.

So for today’s Tuesday Toot I want to toot my own horn that I am proud of myself. Although I was way too young, I did it! T does well in school, a great helper with her younger siblings and full of love! I don’t think I could have done a better job. She is a good friend, good student and wonderful sister/daughter!

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Carla from Mama Hearts Baby came up with a great idea of writing Monday Momisms. This is where you write some form of Mommy Wisdom for your child/children that you would like to pass along to them one day. Maybe a little bit of life advice that you would like your children to know even if you can’t tell them right now. Sort of like a short version of that Michael Keaton movie, My Life.

So for today’s Monday Momisms:

Dear T,

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I was tagged by Erin from Son Up to Son Down when she gave me the Lemonade Award to write 16 random facts about myself. This took some thinking.

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1. When I was a kid I took dance class for five years. Although I did jazz, tap and ballet my main dance was clogging. {now hold back the giggles please} I also can not believe I am adding this photo!

2. Starting in middle school I became an Algebra Honors student and maintained A’s. I love math as geeky as that might sound. I always disliked science and history, although I now wish I would have paid more attention. I am also a straight A college student now. Go me!

3. When I was very young I tried climbing on a dog b/c my cousin told me I could ride him like a horse. I was young enough to believe her and although she might have been right, this particular dog was eating at the time. Unfortunately he threw me off pretty quick and bit me pretty bad. I still have the scar across my nose as you can see in this picture.

4. When I was 16yo I got a job at Claire’s piercing ears at a local mall. The requirements for being able to pierce live human ears including babies… well let’s just say the requirements weren’t very high!

5. I have not always lived in the state of Texas. I once lived in Tennessee for 6 months and lived in Oklahoma for 2 months. Short resident trips yet long stories.

6. Although this random fact has been posted before I can’t get more random then being able to move my ears. Yes that’s right and there is a video to see this happening here.

7. I love to travel! Long distance, short distance, it doesn’t matter. I have visited 12 states more then once each and would love to visit all 50. Want to take a quick road trip? I’m game. I fly places although I hate flying.

8. When I was little I also used to model for Dillard’s. Another embarrassing photo of me walking the runway setup outside of Dillard’s Department store within the mall.

9. I got married after only knowing the man for four weeks! Although it lasted three years I am guessing that is one reason he is my ex-husband now. The things we do when we’re 18yo!

10. The pets/animals I’ve owned: {not at the same time} two snakes, two bunnies, Chinchilla, cats, dogs, fish, hamster, guinea pig, hermit crabs, turtles and mice to feed the snakes. I also used to spend a lot of time with my sister’s wolf and sugar gliders, years back.

11. For a couple of years {before Gabby started having problems} I was a volunteer with Big Brothers Big Sisters and was a Big Sister to a teenage mom. I love being a mentor and have a very strong passion for it.

12. Throughout all of school years I used to love drawing cartoon characters. This one I haven’t done in a while but my parents still have some framed in their house, unfortunately I don’t have one to scan to display a photo. My daughter has recently asked me to draw her some Looney Toon characters so once that is complete I will post a photo.

13. I am a huge One Tree Hill fan. I love that show and don’t miss it. I own all the previous seasons on DVD. I also am really bad about searching out spoilers online b/c I can’t wait to know what’s going to happen next. Such a cheater, I know…

14. I collect magnets. The front of my refrigerator is covered in them and I make sure to pick one up from every new location. I also enjoy receiving them from friends and family who travel to new places. {hint, hint}

15. I used to be on the YMCA swim team. I tried finding a photo to attach but apparently they are all at my parent’s house. Again this was before high school days.

16. Now this is the final random fact. I love to bite and some {jokingly} believe I must have cannibal ancestors. Now before you go start thinking all dirty, this isn’t just a sexual thing. I see my baby’s fat cheeks and not only want to squeeze them like most people but I want to nibble them off. LOL {put down the phone and don’t call CPS} I don’t really hurt my children or bring blood or even bruise them. But haven’t you ever had the desire to just nibble on your kids? Like the old saying “so cute I could just eat ‘em up.” Now if I am dating you, on the other hand, watch out. You could just be standing there and I will walk across the room to bite the shit out of you because it feels good. I do want to note I have never brought blood or felt the desire to taste blood on my victims.

I am very affectionate, love to cuddle, squeeze and well… bite.

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have done, themselves. With the new plan of blogging daily I hope to continue with the Tuesday Toot weekly b/c I think it is healthy to be proud of yourself!

For this week’s tootin’ I am just proud of myself for surviving the holidays! That is not only surviving the kids home from school every day for over TWO weeks but I also survived my family coming in town and staying at my house. Oh and did I mention they brought their dogs, who stayed indoors? Now don’t get me wrong, I am not dog bashing or even family bashing. I love my family and they love their dogs. I knew their dogs were coming before hand and they did ask my permission. Their dogs are potty trained to go on pet pads they lay out on the floor within certain rooms of their house. The dogs will also go in the yard if they happen to be outdoors but will only use the pads if they are in the house {not go to the door}. Of course let me clear this up, the dogs will do this at their house. At my house… well that’s a different story. The dogs felt the need to piss on ‘bless’ {yes, that’s the word we’ll go with} my carpet in every room about three times a day. The first ‘blessing’ took place within five minutes of entering my home after getting out of their crates in the car and stretching their legs while ‘blessing’ my lawn. Do dogs really pee two times within five minutes? So the first night I thought, it’s okay, it’s a new home and they must not realize where their pads are and maybe they just want to mark their territory once. Ha, ha, did I say once? I wish! After about 4 days I was ready to pull my hair out. If you have read any of my past posts you probably know I am very open to admit I already stress easy. But thinking of walking around on my carpet barefoot that a dog is ‘blessing’ all over, drove me nuts! The first day I actually tried shampooing the spots right away. After that we just cleaned it up by hand and waited the week out. Now the carpets have all been shampooed with pet odor control shampoo and my house is back to normal. I also am proud of myself for not getting upset once in front of my family. Nope, I walked away and worked really hard to just enjoy my time with my family. Although as sad as it might sound, from now on I would have to say no if I was asked again. Is that wrong?

The kids were also being extra ‘special’ this week. I guess they are bored being home for so long and must be ready to get back to school! Noah felt the need to turn his room upside down at least three times a day and Gab was defiant. T just got in the routine of staying up late and sleeping most the day and enjoying how lazy life can be for an 11yo on break. I will give her credit for helping me after I felt like I was ‘pulling teeth’ to get her moving, LOL.

But… I survived! Toot – Toot

I know what you are thinking… Merry Christmas To Me…, Christmas is over! Well although that may be true this was a post I wasn’t going to let slide by. In October last year I joined a group of bloggers in becoming a Secret Santa. Georgie from Decisionally Challenged

put together a great Christmas exchange and kept all the names secret from each other. Our deadline was to send out our Secret Santa gifts by December 10th and once we received our items from our Secret Santa we were to blog about it. Hence this post. Now don’t get me wrong, I didn’t just receive my gift. No, the late post is all on me! I could try and blame it on my recent move into a house, or my motherly duties or heck even the fact I had family come in town over the holidays and stay with me… but the truth is there is no excuse for me to wait this long.

Georgie has since revealed the names of our Secret Santas so I am thanking mine publicly and apologizing for my post being so late. Thank you Jill from Charming & Delightful, I just love all my wonderful gifts! I am also excited to be introduced to another blog that I had not yet found online. It is always great to meet new bloggers and I look forward to reading more of Jill’s posts.

I hope this post was better late, than never. Blogging more is important to me this year, so here’s to a New Year and New Me!

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This is the first post for the beginning of my Holiday Shopping Guide. In this post I have included a few recommended shopping sites along with descriptions of what kinds of products they offer. Happy Holidays Everyone!

Still haven’t sent out your holiday cards? Here are a few great sites to look over. Amy Adele has the cutest stationary and cards you can find. I also love the fact that they are eco-friendly!

Although Clinique is not a store that sales holiday cards they do have a wonderful offer going on right now which includes FREE holiday cards from Big Brothers Big Sisters. I have done quite a bit of volunteer work with this wonderful organization and love to promote any company that helps them out! So why not purchase a Christmas gift and receive your holiday cards for FREE?!

Vista Print is a great company that I use for a lot of my business printing needs. They offer many of their items either FREE or at a very large discount. Always worth checking out their deals.

Shutterfly is a great site to create online photo sites to share your memories throughout the year which is great for the holiday season. You can also create your holiday gift cards with a personal touch of a family photo.

Here is my last entry into the Halloween Blog Party being thrown by Amy at Living Locurto…

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I recently purchased Photoshop Elements and decided to try it out on a Halloween photo from last year of my girlies dressed in their poodle skirts.

I also found this video on You Tube that I thought might get everyone in the trick or treating mood for tomorrow.

Happy Halloween everyone and be safe tomorrow!