Martina McBride's Teenage Daughters

Do you have a teenage daughter? Do you feel like you're losing her? Look up this song on You Tube and laugh along with me as I laugh and cry at the independence of  my 19 year old daughter and feeling like I'm no longer needed. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-HEhDp7ECM

"Teenage Daughters"

I ain't complainin'
But I'm tired, so I'm just sayin'
What I think
And if we're being honest
Than honestly I think I need a drink

My baby's growin' up
She think's she's fallin' all in love
And that I hate her
At seventeen, she's just like me when I was seventeen
So I don't blame her

[Bridge:]
Do do do do 
Do do do do
What are we gonna do ?
Do do do do
Do do do do
What are we gonna do about it ?

[Chorus:]
Remember when we use to be
Everything they ever need
We had them believing we were cool
It's like it happened over night
We're always wrong, their always right
We use to be the one's breakin' the rules
Now we're just mothers, we're just fathers of
Teenage Daughters

She rolls her eye's when I'm funny
But she's sweet when she wants money and her freedom
Oh my god, she's got a car
Swears they wont go far
And i wish i believed 'em

[Bridge]

[Chorus]

Their beautiful, wild and free
Everything we wish we could be
But their still crazy
Oh you know, the make us crazy

[Chorus]

Yeah Teenage Daughters

I ain't complainin'
But I'm just tired, so I'm sayin'
What I think
If we're being honest
Than honestly, I think I need a drink

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Your Time vs. Online Samples

I have been spending a great deal of time looking for product samples online for my blog readers. I also generally request them for myself as well.

Recently, I started wondering, is it really worth my time? The answer I found for myself is, most times it is not worth it. There are some exceptions. Below is a list that I will be following when requesting samples online.

1. Are you ever going to buy the product? 
2. Is the product a brand name?
3. Does the sample include money saving coupons that you could use for couponing?
4. Do they sell the sample you're receiving in your area?
5. Are you neglecting your duties in the home or at work to order the samples?
6. What could you be doing with your time if you stopped sampling?
7. Do you plan to write a review of the product?
8. Is the sample something my readers would request for themselves or it just a sample available?
9. Do you want to wait the 4-6 weeks that most samples take to arrive?
10. Do you plan to start a new email address so that you can send all of the newsletters you subscribe to for the sample so your main email does not become overwhelming with Spam? 

 For me, a lot of the list above is simply not worth my time spent on ordering the samples.

I would love to read your opinions on this subject. Please comment and let me know your thoughts and any suggestions you may have.

Blessings,

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"Green" Egg Carton Poll

A recent article I read at Home Made Simple inspired me to make this poll. I found the article to provide some excellent options for being "Green" and having fun at the same time.

For my family, I know it can be difficult to remain focused on being "Green" in the upcoming months. You have Fall which tends to be chilly, winter which is cold, and honestly, I think less about re-using products.

So what idea from this list do you think is a realistic way for you and your family to reuse Egg Cartons?

Let me know, and then I'll show you mine.

In your opinion, what is the best way to reuse an Egg Carton:

Seed Starters

Paint Palette

Ornament Storage

Screws/Nuts/Bolts Organization

Game Piece Storage

Gift Box

Egg Display

Mending Kit

Bottle Organization

Tiered Bird Feeder

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$10.00 Off Maggiano's Little Italy! WOW!

We LOVE Maggiano's! My daughter picks their restaurant for her birthday dinner every year. They can be a little pricey but sign up for their email-club and

 receive $10.00 off your next visit to Maggiano's! 

I can't wait to save money on this. What a great deal. Thank you Maggiano's!

Get Your $10.00 Off HERE!

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1 Free Bridal Guide Issue

I don't know about you, but when I got engaged I absolutely loved looking through Bridal Magazines.

I always pictured myself in these beautiful gowns, even though I knew we couldn't afford them. I mean, all little girls dream of being a princess right?

Whether you think you can afford one of the gowns in this Bridal Guide or not, they offer excellent tips on hair, make-up, receptions, etc.

Get yours here!

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CVS: Double Quarterly ExtraBucks Rewards = 4% Back!!!

 

If you are a CVS ExtraCare Bucks member, YOU DO NOT WANT TO MISS THIS!!

If you're not a member, WHY NOT?

CVS is one of my favorite place for excellent deals.

You MUST sign up online to receive this deal as a card member!

SIGN UP HERE NOW TO EARN 4% BACK
ON EVERYDAY PURCHASES*
FROM 9/16/12 TO 12/15/12.

In-store and online purchases associated with your ExtraCare^®
card will count toward your rewards.

 

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Group says it found 30,000 dead North Carolinians registered to vote!

"A Raleigh-based group devoted to reducing the potential for voter fraud presented the N.C. Board of Elections on Friday with a list of nearly 30,000 names of dead people statewide who are still registered to vote."

Seriously? This is a prime example of the government neglecting their responsibilities to Americans! So I have to ask.....Who'se really counting?

Read the full article from The Charlotte Observer here.

Read more here: http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2012/09/02/3497857/group-says-it-found-30000-dead.html#storylink=cpy

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Become part of the Tide Development Team!

 

Do you love to voice your opinions and get coupons and samples? Then why not join the Tide Development Team! From time to time you may also receive information about product samples, research opportunities or site upgrades. Join today. Here's your sign...lol..go here!

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Long 8 weeks to a new me!!

Good morning everyone! I know it has been a while.

I have been concentrating on my new lifestyle of eating and am proud to tell you I started at 328 lbs and 8 1/2 weeks later, I have finally broke the 300+ marker!!!

I am officially 29 lbs lighter and weigh 299 lbs!  Thank you Jesus!

I'm coming back soon. Be on the look-out :)

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Thankful Thursday!

This year has been filled with many blessings.The most important blessing I have is my eternal salvation, by grace, through faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. He is my Savior and without Him, I am nothing. Thank you Jesus!

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Reality Tuesday: Married or Not.. You should read this. ❤

Married or Not.. You should read this. ❤
My husband sent this to my Facebook messages tonight. Please take the time to read it.......if you feel led, please comment if you can relate<3

【 Marriage 】
「When I got home that night as my wife served dinner, I held her hand and said, I’ve got something to tell you. She sat down and ate quietly. Again I observed the hurt in her eyes..

Suddenly I didn’t know how to open my mouth. But I had to let her know what I was thinking. I want a divorce. I raised the topic calmly. She didn’t seem to be annoyed by my words, instead she asked me softly, why? 

I avoided her question. This made her angry. She threw away the chopsticks and shouted at me, you are not a man! That night, we didn’t talk to each other. She was weeping. I knew she wanted to find out what had happened to our marriage. But I could hardly give her a satisfactory answer; she had lost my heart to Jane. I didn’t love her anymore. I just pitied her! 

With a deep sense of guilt, I drafted a divorce agreement which stated that she could own our house, our car, and 30% stake of my company. She glanced at it and then tore it into pieces. The woman who had spent ten years of her life with me had become a stranger. I felt sorry for her wasted time, resources and energy but I could not take back what I had said for I loved Jane so dearly. Finally she cried loudly in front of me, which was what I had expected to see. To me her cry was actually a kind of release. The idea of divorce which had obsessed me for several weeks seemed to be firmer and clearer now. 

The next day, I came back home very late and found her writing something at the table. I didn’t have supper but went straight to sleep and fell asleep very fast because I was tired after an eventful day with Jane. When I woke up, she was still there at the table writing. I just did not care so I turned over and was asleep again. 

In the morning she presented her divorce conditions: she didn’t want anything from me, but needed a month’s notice before the divorce. She requested that in that one month we both struggle to live as normal a life as possible. Her reasons were simple: our son had his exams in a month’s time and she didn’t want to disrupt him with our broken marriage. 

This was agreeable to me. But she had something more, she asked me to recall how I had carried her into out bridal room on our wedding day. She requested that every day for the month’s duration I carry her out of our bedroom to the front door ever morning. I thought she was going crazy. Just to make our last days together bearable I accepted her odd request.

I told Jane about my wife’s divorce conditions. . She laughed loudly and thought it was absurd. No matter what tricks she applies, she has to face the divorce, she said scornfully. 

My wife and I hadn’t had any body contact since my divorce intention was explicitly expressed. So when I carried her out on the first day, we both appeared clumsy. Our son clapped behind us, daddy is holding mommy in his arms. His words brought me a sense of pain. From the bedroom to the sitting room, then to the door, I walked over ten meters with her in my arms. She closed her eyes and said softly; don’t tell our son about the divorce. I nodded, feeling somewhat upset. I put her down outside the door. She went to wait for the bus to work. I drove alone to the office. 

On the second day, both of us acted much more easily. She leaned on my chest. I could smell the fragrance of her blouse. I realized that I hadn’t looked at this woman carefully for a long time. I realized she was not young any more. There were fine wrinkles on her face, her hair was graying! Our marriage had taken its toll on her. For a minute I wondered what I had done to her. 

On the fourth day, when I lifted her up, I felt a sense of intimacy returning. This was the woman who had given ten years of her life to me. On the fifth and sixth day, I realized that our sense of intimacy was growing again. I didn’t tell Jane about this. It became easier to carry her as the month slipped by. Perhaps the everyday workout made me stronger. 

She was choosing what to wear one morning. She tried on quite a few dresses but could not find a suitable one. Then she sighed, all my dresses have grown bigger. I suddenly realized that she had grown so thin, that was the reason why I could carry her more easily. 

Suddenly it hit me… she had buried so much pain and bitterness in her heart. Subconsciously I reached out and touched her head. 

Our son came in at the moment and said, Dad, it’s time to carry mom out. To him, seeing his father carrying his mother out had become an essential part of his life. My wife gestured to our son to come closer and hugged him tightly. I turned my face away because I was afraid I might change my mind at this last minute. I then held her in my arms, walking from the bedroom, through the sitting room, to the hallway. Her hand surrounded my neck softly and naturally. I held her body tightly; it was just like our wedding day. 

But her much lighter weight made me sad. On the last day, when I held her in my arms I could hardly move a step. Our son had gone to school. I held her tightly and said, I hadn’t noticed that our life lacked intimacy. I drove to office…. jumped out of the car swiftly without locking the door. I was afraid any delay would make me change my mind…I walked upstairs. Jane opened the door and I said to her, Sorry, Jane, I do not want the divorce anymore. 

She looked at me, astonished, and then touched my forehead. Do you have a fever? She said. I moved her hand off my head. Sorry, Jane, I said, I won’t divorce. My marriage life was boring probably because she and I didn’t value the details of our lives, not because we didn’t love each other anymore. Now I realize that since I carried her into my home on our wedding day I am supposed to hold her until death do us apart. Jane seemed to suddenly wake up. She gave me a loud slap and then slammed the door and burst into tears. I walked downstairs and drove away. At the floral shop on the way, I ordered a bouquet of flowers for my wife. The salesgirl asked me what to write on the card. I smiled and wrote, I’ll carry you out every morning until death do us apart. 

That evening I arrived home, flowers in my hands, a smile on my face, I run up stairs, only to find my wife in the bed - dead. My wife had been fighting CANCER for months and I was so busy with Jane to even notice. She knew that she would die soon and she wanted to save me from the whatever negative reaction from our son, in case we push through with the divorce. 
— At least, in the eyes of our son — I’m a loving husband...

The small details of your lives are what really matter in a relationship. It is not the mansion, the car, property, the money in the bank. These create an environment conducive for happiness but cannot give happiness in themselves.

So find time to be your spouse’s friend and do those little things for each other that build intimacy. Do have a real happy marriage! 

If you don’t share this, nothing will happen to you. 

If you do, you just might save a marriage. Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.. 


Author Unknown.

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A NEW FACEBOOK? WHATS YOUR TAKE ON THE CHANGES?

Follow the link below to see what 

next weeks Facebook will have in store for you!

FABULOUS OR FLUB?

http://www.tecca.com/pictures/facebooks-timeline-preview-in-pictures/2/#TeccaPhotoID=1

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Colin's Homecoming Picture!

What can I say? I'm a proud Momma :) 

This is my handsome son Colin, 

and his beautiful girlfriend at homecoming. 

September 2011. <3

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A New Day Has Dawned!

So...For anyone who has been reading my blog lately about the Paxil withdraw, Sunday afternoon I hit a really bad spot with the withdraw.

I couldn't see straight, I was screaming for no reason. Just screaming, sitting on the toilet screaming! I was crying so hard I was hyper-ventilating. I truly felt "Mad" and like I was "going crazy". I was throwing things around the house. Screaming at the top of my lungs, wanted to punch anyone and anything, sobbing in complete and utter despair. I was dry-heaving, nauseous, my blood pressure was through the roof. I had blisters in my mouth, tongue and lips. I was shaking uncontrollably. I felt like I had the flu and was running a fever. I had my husband's cane up to him ready to hit him with it for him telling me I was crazy and he wanted his wife back.

I managed to drive myself to the Emergency Room at the local hospital and was hell-bent on them not discharging me until I was given my Paxil.

Everyone at the hospital agreed that I was suffering from Serotonin-Discontinuation Syndrome (Paxil withdraw).

After 3 hrs and 30 min., 3 social workers, 2 nurses, a nurse practitioner and a partridge in a pear tree...lol...They gave me a script to take to the 24 hr. CVS for my Paxil. ((INSERT ANGELS SINGING HERE... and my daughter and husband). WITHIN 1 HOUR I WAS CALM AND RETURNING TO NORMAL!

Will write more later. Just wanted to give you all a heads up!! DO NOT LET A DOCTOR TAKE YOU OFF PAXIL COLD TURKEY!!!

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Diary of a MAD women: What Part of WITHDRAW Don't You Understand?

So as you know, today is Day 4 without Paxil.

If my husband asks me one more time what is wrong with me, they better just commit my ass! What is wrong with me? I've been on a high dose of Paxil for 8+ years and they stopped it cold turkey!

One minute I have insomnia, the next minute I'm so tired I am falling asleep at my desk. My body hurts, I'm dizzy, I have the dry heaves, one minute I'm crying, the next minute I want to cry but I can't cry, physically I can't cry. The next minute I'm euphoric and talking like Tommy Chong, the next minute I'm laughing and hearing a little man in my head talking, the next minute I'm screaming like a lunatic, the next minute I want to punch my husband in the face, the next minute the very sound of anyone's voice is like nails on a chalkboard.

I walk into work this morning and everyone says,"What's wrong Heather? Smile, Smile". Hey buddy, let me tell you where you can stick that smile okay! And while your at it, let me tell you what else you have done to piss me off in the past 10 years working with you!!!

I have finally told my co-workers, "hey, I'm going through Paxil withdraw can you just back off and don't talk to me at all?!!" FINALLY my one co-worker said, "Oh man, that explains it! My wife went through Paxil withdraw!!"

DUH! I mean with all of the internet options out there can't anyone just go and look it up and see how serious it is and that this is not at all fun for me?

Then on top of it all, they put me on my new med, "Lemictal" and I'm itching from it. AHHHHHH!!!

Thanks for letting me vent everyone.

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Day 4: Paxil Withdraw morning.

Day 4: Paxil Withdraw morning. I woke up at 6:00 a.m. pretty psychotic. I went to the bathroom and started laughing cause the little guy in my head was like, "yo man, you're brain is malfunctioning". I kept talking like Tommy Chong on that 70's Show, and took my dog for a walk. He wouldn't go #2 so I'm saying to him, "Yo man, you gotta go cause I know you're gonna come in and Sh* on my floor and be like, wow man, I didn't know I had to go". Yeah at that point my husband heard me and is saying he wants his wife back. Went back to sleep for two hours and feeling better now :)

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It's a dog's day morning!

Good morning fans!


It's a great day to be a dog in my home :)

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Life.....Interrupted.

Life.

We all have this fairy tale growing up of being thin, and meeting prince charming. Of him getting down on one knee and asking us to marry him. He will ride us away on a white horse and we will live "Happily Ever After"..........................

(Insert screeching record here for those of us that are old enough to remember records! lol)

Then comes REALITY! We hit a certain age when we realize, we're never going to be "thin" enough, or "pretty" enough, or "smart" enough. We start feeling bad about ourselves and looking in the mirror thinking, "why can't I just look like ____________". We start comparing ourselves to everyone, and everything around us. In reality, this may be our Happily Ever After......

You may be 45 and still looking in the mirror saying that very same thing. I'm 35 and guess what? I'm still comparing myself to every other woman I see. It's really time consuming and so bad for us. Isn't it about time we wake up from the little princess fairy tale in our minds? I have spent sooo much time in life trying to be "normal" and have the normal life that I have missed the life in front of me now!!!

I don't want to waste any more time. God made me this way. Guess what world, I'm fat! Guess what world, I'll never be a super model. But isn't it time for that to be okay? I'm me. That's who God made me to be. Why do I try to put unrealistic expectations on myself only to fail because they are unrealistic and feel worse about myself. So...here's my plan.

Just for today, I'm going to love me for me. Just the way I am right now.
Just for today, I'm not going to compare myself to others.
Just for today, I'm going to break that negativity tape that plays over and over in my mind.
Just for today, I'm going to be ME!

Life......Interrupted.

Loving me AND YOU!!
~Heather

Mom Said That's It!

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