Swearing

In my last post I wrote about these guys swearing at a church event and it gave me another blog idea:

Recently we were at a party and there was this couple that were really getting on my nerves. The woman was telling a bunch of people about her labor and delivery of her child and was not being to careful about her description. Her kid and mine were right there and they were listening to her. Then the guy starts talking, I don't know what he was talking about but he's saying the "f" word among others, in front of the kids! I was mad. I was like "seriously? there are kids here and you can't watch your language?" I was sitting with my sister and she said I was over reacting and that kids were going to hear it anyways when we are out and about. Now this made me even more mad, I realize that you cannot control what your kids hear when you are out shopping etc but when you are in a situation like that in someones home, you CAN control that and I chose to control it, we left. Now, was I over reacting? I don't think so, when you have small children they don't need to be exposed to those sorts of things and the very idea that just because they will hear it other places outside of my control so just get used to it is absurd. Swearing is one of the things that just grates on me, I hate hearing it, especially from people who claim to be Christians, those words are not ones that should come out of your mouth. I really am bothered when I am out shopping and people are talking and swearing, I have never had the guts to say anything to them about it. Since when did it become so acceptable to speak that way without checking to see who's around? I know that I am most likely in the minority here with this but there you have it, my rant on swearing.

January 2

Here I sit at 11:59 in the morning still in my pajamas on my second cup of tea and listening to my girls playing outside in the rain, the odd time I hear fighting but they seem to figure it out. How lazy am I? lol Now is the best time though, I'm alone, all is quite in the house and when I should really be doing some house work or at the very least start trying to tame the afro that is my hair instead I sit here blogging. I have missed it, I've been so busy for almost the whole month of December that I have not hardly had the chance to think of any postings much less write. I am looking for ideas though, send them to me, what do you want to read? Do you like reading new recipes I try? Do you want to hear more about everyday life? I could definitely write more about everyday life but then I might get in trouble cause some of those everyday life situations would not be too happy to see themselves in my blog. lol

Here is something exciting: my sister J is about to have her 1st baby, she's not due till the middle of January but the midwife says it could be any day now. I am so excited, can't wait to meet the newest addition to the family!

Yesterday we had a fun family day, that rarely happens so it's really special when it does. We went to see the new Alvin and the Chipmunks movie, it was cute, the kids liked it. After that we went skating, every year on Jan 1st our church rents out a local sports complex, they have skating rinks there as well as a pool. Alexa wanted to go skating, I think she regrets the choice now because her ankles were sore and she fell and bruised her knee. Fun was had by all. While there I was looking around and noticing that I didn't hardly anyone, this is the problem with going to a large church, we saw several people but not that many. Then I heard one of the younger guys swear on the ice which really bothered me, he skated by me and I heard him say to his friend "f#$%^@g jerk" I'm like seriously?! This is a church event and there are kids everywhere?! What the?!!! Oh this give me an idea for my next post......

Happy 2010!

Happy New Year to you! ...who ever you are, lol I hope that 2010 is filled with fun, adventures and God's richest blessings for all of us, I pray that HE gives us wisdom and the eyes and ears to see and hear HIS leading.

Yes, I am still blogging, are you still reading?

Yes I am still here! It has been a very busy month, which I'm sure it has been for all of you as well.

I had a great Christmas how about you? We went from one party to the next and now yesterday I crashed, I didn't get out of my pj's and went to bed early, I am still in them now too, lol, I suppose I better change before I go to the bank.

I am not sure if I posted about Dale's utter dislike of putting up Christmas lights or not, I had asked him once if he would do it and got a very unsavoury reaction so I didn't ask again. Well guess what happened on Christmas Eve? lol Yep, he put up the lights! I don't know exactly why he did it but I'm happy to have them up and they look pretty, he did not waste any time however in telling me how ridiculous he thought it was that people would endanger themselves to put up Christmas lights on their houses, haha, ok, whatever, it was your decision. lol

1000 Visitors!

Wow I cracked a 1000 vistors! I was going to do something special for number 1000 but I was too slow to be fast! lol :o) Thanks for dropping by!

A 2 for 1 post

Some of you may have noticed that things have been a bit rough for me the last couple of days, I suppose it's the proverbial "when it rains it pours" and that's exactly what it seems like lately. I am very over whelmed with everything. I feel like I've got too many hats, wife, mother, daughter, sister, Avon rep, Partylite rep, friend, and I'm trying to keep everybody happy and it seems that I'm being slammed on all sides lately. I know out of these hats which are the important ones: wife and mother and at the bottom are Avon and Partylite. Trying to keep it all together it seems is turning out to be more than I can bare. I do Avon and Partylite to try and contribute as best I can to our family financially but then I'm torn in so many directions. For example today I had a PL customer email to say that one of the pieces in her order is missing, I apologized and asked her what I could do about the situation, her responses were along these lines: "I guess I'll just chalk this up to another one of my xmas shopping disappointments" I was thinking seriously? It's just a candle and I can replace it for you or give you something else. Anyways after a frustrating day of back and forth with her I think I've got it figured out, my friend has one and that she's willing to part with and now if the lady would just get back to me to let me know if she still wants it this will be over. Then this afternoon I get my Avon order, one customer had ordered a pair of boots a few weeks ago and they've been back ordered since then, there is a paper in the box that says the boots are not coming, GREAT! Another problem, now I have to contact her too and break her the bad news, she was rather excited about these boots. It just seems like one thing after another, this on top of a huge fight with my sister which I will not get into and some issues with others too. Can you hear me screaming? Yea, I think I'll just pop another chocolate in my mouth. lol......................mmmm......that's better! I really need a girls night out and soon, any takers?

Now on to the comment that she had said, "xmas" that just absolutely grates on me, it find it highly offensive. You see it everywhere now, in store windows on advertisements, even commercials on TV talk about "the Holidays" instead of Christmas, "Happy Holidays they say" that's all fine and nice but I believe in "Merry Christmas". I believe in the virgin birth of my Saviour Jesus Christ and I celebrate it at CHRISTmas, not xmas, CHRSTmas. Xmas is just a politically correct way of saying Christmas so that it does not offend people who are not Christians, how would any of these other religions feel if the world decided to change the name of one of their sacred holidays to something more "politically correct"? How about "xakhi" instead of vaisakhi for the sihks? How about "xadan" instead of for ramadan for muslims? or "xsak" instead of vesak (buddist new year) for budists? I think they would make a big stink about this, why is it that the world does not think twice about cutting out and changing anything that is Christian but they don't do the same for the other religions? It is a double standard.

It's beginning to feel like Christmas!

It snowed yesterday! Me and the girls were quite thrilled, I know that to those of you that live east of us it's really no big deal but it is a big deal here. When it snows here all of a sudden everything looks clean and feels nice and cozy and Christmasy, I love it!

This also is when BC'ers (most of them I should say) forget how to drive, it seems that as soon as the first snowflake hits they go crazy, if they are in a car they start to either drive painfully slow or ridiculously fast and if they have a 4 wheel drive all of a sudden they are invisible, and inevitably end up in the ditch. My Dad is from Ontario, he thinks he knows how to drive in the snow, I think he's a scary driver in normal weather never mind when it's snowing! lol Any tips on driving in it from you people who live in it all winter?

On to other things, Alexa had her school Christmas concert on Friday, as Dale and I are still there waiting for it to begin he was making little comments here and there about the church and I said "have you never been in here before?" "no" he said, I thought: "that's terrible" "that means that in 3 years of being in school he had not made it for 1 single thing that has happened for her" the word to describe it that came to me was 'disgusting' I was thinking it's no wonder she's asked so many times over the last week if he was going to come. His work has taken priority over everything in his life and it's very hard for me to understand this. I know it's because he wants to get out of debt and be free of it but at what cost to his family?

I am so tired of going to everything alone, parties, things from school etc etc. and I'm tired of having to take the kids with me just about everywhere, have you tried Christmas shopping with a couple of curious little girls? lol That's hard! I would love to go to the states to the outlets in Seattle, I've never been, but Dale's never home to go with us and it's too far for me to go with the girls by myself and I don't want to go totally alone either so what do I do? Just not go..... The other day I was at Costco and I bought the newest Tinkerbell movie, the lady that checks the receipt asked me: "where is the DVD" and starts digging through my stuff, I quickly ran around the cart and whispered in her ear that it's a Christmas gift, when did Costco actually start digging through your carts? Anyways, the girls were none the wiser so that was good. Oh sorry bout that, totally didn't plan on ranting to you about my frustrations! :o)