LoveLeigh Miscellaney

Hi to everyone!

*Had a wonderfully great scrapbooking kind of weekend.  I was able to get 11 pages done.

*I am doing my first 5K run on April 16th!!!!  The Downriver Dash is raising monies to help w/ child and family programs at The Guidance Center, this is a wonderful place and I'm doing this to help support because they have helped in our transition of understanding my ADHD son and helping him succeed in everyday life.

*My little 6 year old, isn't much into music, not sure why because myself and his dad are big music listeners.  So this morning on the way to my mom's house, I said, "wanna hear some music?"  Odd question because he always asks for us to turn it down or off.  He says, "no" then says, "actually do you have Michael Jackson?"  I just smiled I am big huge fan of MJ music, so I found OFF THE WALL in the visor and we jammed all the way to grandma's. 

*I watched 4 movies this weekend, it was great because I don't get alot of time to watch movies and relax w/out someone calling for me to help them w/ something.
-Grown Ups                       :O) :O) :O) :O) :O)             

-Last Song                          :O) :O) :O) :O)          

-Message in a Bottle            :O) :O) :O) :O) :O)      

-Yogi Bear                          :O) :O) :O) :O)

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*Yay for short work weeks, I have Friday off.  Sweet!  Even better on Friday morning my sister and I will be driving up to Houghton Lake area for a scrapbook weekender.  This is a new place for us, we are looking forward to something new.  Best part its only $90....and you know how pricey these weekenders can be.  We look for cheaper ones, and we've come across this one.  The theme is Spring Bling, we bought feather boa's (Friday night contest), lots of bling and we are excited for a great time.  Check them out on fb, Scrap-tastic Events. 

 

*I met with a friend yesterday for lunch, we haven't seen each other in almost 4 years.  We had a falling out and it was time to bury the hatchet and move on.  We've been friends since high school. We shared some laughs and caught up on everything.  It was good to laugh with her again.

That is definetely back in the day. 

*The news is simply depressing.

 

*That darn alarm clock that my "non-husband" has is killing me.  For 8 years I've listened to this thing go off starting at 430am, every weekday.  He doesn't start work until 715am so why have that thing set up so early.  What kills me he doesn't get up until 620am.  So I have to hear that thing, loud as can be, it drives me nuts.  Whomever invented snooze deserves a punch in the head. 

 

*Moving is in my near future, well within the next 6 months.  Gotta get busy, searching to buy our first home is nerve wrecking, but its time, and definetely needed.  Looking forward to the change, we've been in this rental for 8 years.  Not going to be sad to leave in the least.  We are going to start packing up stuff now.  Let's move it yo!

LoveLeigh Miscellany

Today is going to be busy, 3 interviews and I can't wait to find out who lied to get in.  When I call the first thing I ask after introducing myself and going over pleasantries is.....do you have a VALID drivers license?  Yea is usually the response.  Ok, so why when come you say it just expired, or I don't have one I only have a state I.D.  So you lie, and we should hire a liar? 

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Lunches are made!

I make lunch for myself and Mister Man four out of 5 days.  We both get buy lunch once per week, as a treat.  The dad never takes his lunch, but this week he says he will start.  So I had to buy extra everything.  That's fine, please, please eat that lunch!  He usually doesn't, usually drinks whatever is in there only.  Normally I say nope not gonna make it, because he won't eat it, and its wasteful, and he'll leave his lunchbox in the car.  We shall see.

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I started week 2 of the program; Couch to 5K.  Its going good, not a runner, but want to do a 5K this year.  Running isn't that hard, little rough Week 1, but Week 2 was much easier.  You should check out that app its a FREE podcast.  Gotta love anything that is FREE!

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Laundry, laundry go away......

Just ran downstairs to the cave to put the wet load of clothes in the dryer.  As I'm transferring I'm thinking I hate you wardrobe.  Its my fat clothes, ugh!  I can't believe I let myself gain, like I did.  That's cool though, at least I still have some of my skinnier clothes to wear once this weight is off me (I've lost 4 lbs so far)    :O)

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Smoothie Time

I started making smoothies this weekend, and love that they are so good for you.  Low fat vanilla yogurt, fresh blueberries, banana, honey, fat free milk.  That's what it consisted of over the weekend, it may change occasically.  Got any suggestions, leave a comment.

Well hope everyone has a good day, this is my 3rd week participating in miscellany monday and its fun, I look forward to reading other post and seeing their total randomness.  Again have a good one!

Another Snow Day

Yesterday I was fortunate enough to have had a vacation day.  We had BIG snow!  Of course it was a snow day for my mister man.  Today is yet another day off for him.  Not I though :O/
It would be great, I love playing in the snow with him.  Plus I did scrapbooking yesterday, I would have loved to do more of both today.  Gotta make the cash flow though, and don't really want to use sick time.  So I'll get off here, get ready and be out the door in the next 2 hours.  Boring! 

Have a good kind of day, whatever it is your doing!

LoveLeigh miscellany

Thank goodness for weekends, it was a good one for sure.  I just love having those 2 days off.  It was EXTREME relaxin! 

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Ready for spring!  We have a big snow storm coming in Tuesday night.  I'm just over it, besides I'm gonna have to walk next door, tell them to have their car off the street, I'm tired of getting snowed in at the end of drive.

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I have no business being on this computer right now, but I couldn't wait to do miscellany monday.  Again a cute idea.

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Why is there a ketchup bottle left out on the counter?  I made home made french fries.  I hate cutting the potatoes but the BF loves it.  I finally gave in and did it.  I didn't eat not one, I think its nasty, besides that wouldn't be good for my new healthy kick that I'm on.  So why is the ketchup bottle still out from last night?

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One of my sisters left a comment on a old photo of my dad that I have on fb. 

I loved that dad always would reach his hand out to hold ours! He is/was a wonderful person!
This made me so happy, he did, and what a wonderful memory of him!  Now I will get my day started thinking of just that.

Time to Earn

I'm trying to get it together w/ my son and his ADHD.  I've tried so many things, it was looking up.  It's going back to how it was before with his aggression coming back.  I know that I need to limit his time on anything electronic.  I was at the dollar store yesterday and came across this spinner.  It gave me an idea......

I thought I can regulate how much he plays.  He has to prove himself in order to play his gaming. I woke up very early for a Saturday morning and decided I wanted to get this new project done.

I figured while I had the help I would have him punch out all the circles.  When he earns a spin, he will do just that; spin.  Whatever number he lands on is what he gets.  It ranges from 30 mins to an hour.  I'm sure he'll be praying for #5 each time he spins, thats the ULTIMATE REWARD!

Does he fully understand the rules of this, I hope so for our (mom & dad) sake.  He's probably going to raise a fit but that's what happens.  I can stick to it, it'll be dad that I'm worried about.  Not sure how much time he has on all these devices a day, but its alot, so he is going to be very limited.  There will even be days he gets nothing, this will help him understand good behavior and choices gets a spin.  If not, "No Spinny For YOU!"

The boy will survive and we will too, just coming up with new ideas on how to handle those bad moments are tough.  So I'm willing to try anything, we'll start this tomorrow.  Have you had this experience?  What are things you've done to reward your child for good behavior?  I don't want to focus so much on the bad.

Have a nice weekend, its a cold snowy one here!
Edited on 1/31/11 @ 453pm:
The boy had an awesome 2 thumbs up kind of day at school.  I guess he talked all the way home about how he gets to spin.  His 1st spin and he gets 2 hours, your choice.  He was so happy I guess, Dad got to do it with him, he has 5 minutes left to play, hope Dad follows the rules.  I'll be home in 30 minutes.

Beginning and End

Well, well its a sunny day here in lower Michigan.  I'd love to be out and about but just not feeling like it. 

Let me just tell you about yesterday, had a wonderful day with my mom and Lucas just hanging out at her house for about 3 hours.  Then it was time to meet up w/ one of teammates/greatest friend ever for the Fight for Air Climb in March.  We went to my work which happens to be the place they do this.  This week I started climbing on my lunches and did fairly well.  She goes with me and I'm thinking ok we might do as many as I did, but its her first time maybe not.  Um, are you ready for this......

*~40 FLOORS~*

So there it is, we rocked and we rolled!  The Ren Cen consists of 7 towers total.  The center tower is the largest and it has 72 floors.  We did one of the business towers and it has 39 floors, however we started on A level so 40 floors is what we completed and it was rough a couple of times.  We did it, and we are proud, and we took a photo to show our pure excitement.  We drove around to the tower that we tackled and took a snapshot.  We'll be taking photos of this very unique situation for both of us, its NOT everyday we push ourselves into such a workout.  We are very serious about taking this on and we are looking into other challenges to do.  We aren't looking for great fabulous times, we just want to push and see what we are really capable of.  Yesterday proved to us that we can.  I'm still excited! 

On our drive home we were discussing it and she said, "once I put my mind to something I don't stop".  I had to admit I will stop.  We soon realized that we are good for each other because in the BEGINNING I'm ready to go, go, go let's get to it, then will give up after some time.  She needs to be pushed to start, but she always makes it to the END!

BTW all photos naturally will be scrapbooked by me, and probably put on fb by her.

Family of 3: LO's

Hey there, let me come right out with it, I'm exhausted. I've had a super good weekend however, wish all were this way. Started off went to meet friends for martini's (my first) and spent the night chattin' it up w/ good company. Saturday I went to a scrapbook crop, and today I haven't done much at all. I did go workout and I did take a nap and I've watched so much iCarly with the boy.
I like her brother Spencer sort of cute, and tons of funny :O)

Ok on to scrapbooking, I have the LO's that I did over the weekend. Not sure about a couple of them I wasn't really feeling it like I normally do. Reasons unknown.

I decided not to take a bunch of stuff that I wouldn't use. I brought lots of paper, a few embelly's and instead of bringing multiple albums I decided on one project and just one. It gets really heavy and my back can't take it. Besides I figured it would be nice to get into the family album more. I started an album on things that my little family of 3 has done. We love to play out in the snow. We really enjoy sledding and even go with some friends of ours sometimes and they bring a grill and make food, and the coffee stays brewed and they even have hot cocoa on the grill for all the kiddies. The LO above was shoveling that turned into fun between the boy and dad.

Most of the layouts that I had done were our camping trips. I used alot of the recycled paper stack pack, just absolutely perfect for camping or our canoe trips.

This particular camp trip was such a good time, we really relaxed and enjoyed it.
Poor kid played at the beach and while walking back I noticed his bleeding ankle, when I bent down to see, there was a leach just suckin' away. Total freak out moment, but I gathered up enough calmness in me and we got through it. Of course dad wasn't anywhere around. It still gives me the creeps thinking about it.

Here's a few more from that trip.

I just love that paper. but I felt like I needed to brighten it up a bit, and well this is one of the LO's that I'm not so sure about.



These pics were taken at my work, he gets to visit every so often. I like this 8x10 photo of us. Dad was at work and it was a last minute decision to have it taken. My mom's church (which we go occasionally) was taking new photo's for a directory and she said that it was one photo for like, well its been 2 years I can't remember how much but it was so cheap I figured why not.
This LO is super simple, but I really like it alot. Stickles is great! Just discovered about 6 months ago. I am always trying to buy stuff that sparkles and glitters, this makes it so easy and possible to have bling all the time if I want to.

Let me know what you think, comments are always welcome. Hope your having a great evening. Maybe some of you are lucky enough to have Martin Luther King, Jr day off Monday. I get to show my face at work tomorrow. Boo Hoo! Either way have a good day whatever your doing.

Well thank you weekend....

.....you've treated me good!

LOL! I've had a really good weekend, a lazy one at that.
It started after work on Friday I decided to make sure that I get back into blogging again. I missed it, and didn't really know it until I posted something that night. Not only did I miss writing on my blog and doing scrap challenges, I love looking at endless blogs and finding stuff that catches my eye and deciding are they worth following. Strange the things you'll come across while galavanting around blogger. While looking up fellow scrappers, and hittin' up probably a good 20 blogs I found one's profile that stated she liked to watch "tartoons".....huh? The only person I ever heard say that before was my dad, "tartoons" were a daily part of his life. He past on in '01 and there are times when I wish I could just sit w/ him again and watch Tom & Jerry or the Smurfs, just once more. Ok, didn't mean to go there, that wasn't in my agenda for this post but it sort of just happened. On to the rest of my weekend.

Woke up early on Saturday morning and spent the day cleaning and organzining. My nephew AJ was coming for the night and we were all excited because he hadn't spent the night in quite some time. We as in mom & dad thought it would be fun to play Wii for awhile. It didn't really happen like that because as soon as us grown ups wanted to play some Guitar Hero they scrammed. They don't think "Smoke on the Water" & "Shout at the Devil" are cool songs. C'mon Motley Crue, rocks and rolls!
We did get some Jimmy Johns for dinner and my nephew hadn't had it before....um we love it!
After dinner they didn't stay up late, both fell asleep during "Return of the Jedi". I fell asleep on the couch around 11pm and around 4am I vaguely remember hearing them talking and then the talking just stopped and they woke again at 8. I couldn't have used more sleep but oh well, I'm used to not sleeping in. AJ left around 630 later that evening. I was at my other sister Lisa's house helping her out w/ her blog. She started Scrappy Lo's quite a few months ago, posted once and didn't do anything with it. When I posted Friday she saw it on my fb and got reinterested. I think she'll like blogging once she gets into more. I was giving her ideas, and explaining it all. Check it out!

I'm getting sleepy and tired of hearing the person next to me playing Call of Duty: Black Ops, its so friggin' violent, eeewww gross! I mean he can't play if our son is around because its just that bad. Guess I'll go find a movie to watch on Netflix and chill for the night. I'm on a old movie kick right now, mostly 50's & 60's.

Some of you may think what a boring weekend, it was just right for me this weekend. Sometimes staying home is perfect, I hate being on the go all the time.

Into the 8th Day

Well here we are on the 8th day of the new year. I haven't been around much, taking care of family stuff and trying not to pull my hair out, so far I haven't.

I'm wide awake and its just after midnight, I typically am in bed around 830 or 9 at night. Tonight though I thought I would blog a bit. Its been since October since my last post. I want to get back to blogging again. I really enjoy it and shouldn't let the things that I like slip by the way side. I'm a dork I know but its fun. I've done that too many times in the past 8 1/2 years. Your probably like wow, you can really determine when things started to change. Well sure, it's simple I fell in love!

So tonight I've changed my layout and created a new banner so its new and fresh.

Mostly I wanted to share some things that I did in 2010. I've got photo's too :O) because you know my camera stays in my purse; you never know what might happen or c'mon my son turned 6 and he still experiences the first time he ever_______.
So my pictures may have been posted before but who cares right, if they're reposted it must of been pretty special or just a fav.

I started blogging in January 2010 to give some inspiration to other scrapbookers, but found that I was GETTING lots of inspiration from my fellow crafters. I even make cards now.
This post might be long, but I don't have anything else going on at the moment. Like I said, I'm wide awake the boy is sleeping and the "non-husband" isn't home, he's out with some friends. Speak of the devil he just walked in the door.
This past year delivered some good & bad and it gave me some answers.

I hadn't had a car pmt since 2008, unfortunetely I was also going on being w/out a car for 2 years. Dumb! Why? It broke down and the rest is too long to explain. I did not enjoy being driven by Bill's mother each morning and sometimes driven home too. It wasn't cool at all, helpful and thankful however. Not that I'm concerned w/ being cool, but that was just very uncool. I did finally get a car in October, I'm sportin' a '06 Ford Fusion.
Life has been so much better since having a car again. Having that freedom to drive off on my own is wonderful, oh I forgot to mention that Bill has a stick shift and I couldn't drive it, and he wouldn't teach me, not cool again.

Let's see I went to Key West with my sisters, mom and aunt in April and it was awesome to say the very least.
Good times were had of course, lots of laughs, gettin' on each other nerves, many cold, cold beers and plenty of food, and layin' by the pool. I started an album of that trip that I've gotten probably 85% of it done.
When I thought I was done I realized I didn't have some pictures and was totally bummed because I thought I was going to get to complete an entire album on a scrap weekend trip. That was another trip I took w/ my sister and our friend Corrina. That trip is always a must at least once a year. It's in northern Michigan its at a place called Harold's Resort in Traverse City off of Spider Lake.
We have a blast each time, just scrapping away. Kathy is the lady that runs the resort and does these weekenders in the off season and she is just wonderful and I would consider a friend now. I think that I've done the trip at least 5 times. She feeds us well too, its amazing the food she has, especially the stuft french toast. Oh man I start looking forward to that weeks before its time to go. Its that good!
Another small trip we took was in May to the Tulip Festival in Holland, Mi.
I've always wanted to go and finally I made it there. It was unfortunetely cold and the tulips weren't doing so well. Bill wasn't impressed, Lucas was mildly impressed. He was all about the hotel and pool.
His first time at a hotel.....see the first are always there. On our way home we stopped in Marshall, Mi for a visit to Turkeyville USA. We had heard about this place like 7 yrs ago and we finally made it. We came home a different route so that we could hit it up. It was really good, Bill was satisfied with this.
When he describes it to people he always says, " you know in Forrest Gump when they are talking about all the different shrimp? Shrimp scampi, shrimp kabobs, shrimp salad etc, well thats how it is at Turkeyville.....turkey dinner, turkey corndogs, turkey hamburgers!" Its so funny.
I made many and plenty of trips to Kentucky another long story, only thing tellin' about that is that I've done that trip (5 hrs down & 5 hrs back up) there and back in one day at least 3 times. That doesn't count the times I stayed for a weekend. Or my other family members did the trip there and back. Yikes! I'll just say it involved my neice Shelby and she is very loved by us. lol
I almost forgot about the dreaded annual canoe trip. It is and will always be hell for me.
Photo above bad canoe trip, photo below good canoe trip (its for the day only :O)


Lucas started 1st grade and at a new school.
Its been rough, but things are looking up. He has been labeled ADHD. I have accepted that and want to do what I can to make him wanted and accepted by family, friends and just everyday people that come into contact with him. He's adorable, smart and just fun. He deserves good things and things are looking up. His dad wasn't for medication but sometimes dammit you need to try something new to see if it will help. It has and his dad is thankful now on the route that we've chosen. My boy's therapist is wonderful, she really helps him learn new ways to focus, and helps us understand what he's going through. Yea, and my son has a crush on her too. Amazing!
We are still learning and making way to a better life for him, but there are still some bridges we need to cross. We'll get there, I've learned about patience the past 6 months.

OOh, my mom turned 60, haha! That's bogus isn't it not her age, but me laughing about it. We through her a party and it was Detroit Tigers themed.
She loves them and it was fun to dress in that gear and all guest did too.

This is all so random and scattered....we met up with some wonderful neighbors from the old neighborhood where I grew up.
Mom still lives there. Lots of reuniting on this past year with old neighbors/friends. I even got to join a "book club" haha the Black Dagger Brotherhood, and again haha.
Even though I've only made it through book 2. I <3 Rhage! I have a crazy feeling that I just might love Zsadist!!!! What book is he again?




Damn, I've hit that post button twice. Guess I should add the pics and stop talking about 2010 and move on cuz 2011 is here and I've got another 357 days to go. Have a wonderful year and keep blogging and following, I look forward to seeing what you've created. I love comments!

Blog at'cha later!

P.S. The pic below could have, wait did make the top 3 best things of 2010! The return of Roka Blue!!!!

FF

Hi everyone, Yay its the weekend! I hope that you are fortunate enough to have Saturdays and Sundays off. It gives me something to look forward to every week

Here is my FF this week. Last year we took the boy camping and he had a blast, met some boys around his age, fished, played, had a leach on his ankle, got to be in the Noise Parade. It was a good weekend.


On a side note, I've had to make some changes for a little bit at work. My son is struggling so much at school, and as I announced a couple of post back he is ADHD. We have decided to put him on medication and until that happens I've decided to go part-time at work. I HOPE this gives him what he needs to make it through the school day. He was only at school one day this week. November 1st I'll be back to my regular schedule hopefully. I can't really afford to not bring home a 40 hour check. Its a sacrifice I made to stand by my child and do what is finally right for him.

Have a good weekend, enjoy and create if you have time. I'm going to try!

Flashback Friday

Good Morning!

Here's this weeks flashback, I missed last Friday because I was on my way to Traverse City for a scrap weekender. It was an awesome weekend, that gave me 72 hours of peace; thoughts of scrapping were at hand.

The above layout is one of my fav's, it shows Lucas sledding and what a daredevil he really is. Laying on stomach face down heading down the hill at 2 1/2 not a care in the world. Dad and I were concerned this was his first time sledding, he loved every minute of it. I love to remember the giggling that was taking place. When my son has his fits of giggles, I am at my happiness.

Have a wonderful weekend everybody!

I'm a mom w/ a son that has ADHD.....

......ok so I've said it. It's not a bad thing, right? Of course not. How silly for me to think such a thing. I have been foolish for a minute about it, but I'm not any longer. I am taking over and will create a better life for my son.

So this is way off from my regular postings that have to do with papercrafting. At times I sway to another subject. Life isn't only about scrapbooking!

So here's a little history of my life w/ my son. My son is 5 and will be 6 in November. He is an only child. We as parents love him very much and in very different ways. We are total opposites when it comes to beliefs, and that creates many, many problems. I know what is right for my son, his dad is quite ridiculous when comes to doing whats right. The problem is "what is right and what is wrong in this particular situation?" HE BELIEVES SO STRONGLY IN NO MEDS APPROACH. But has done not a damn thing in 6 months to help his only child cope with this. He as the dad now realizes that his son needs a chance at being a good student, a well behaved child, that others want to be around. Our son has been labeled by his teachers, the entire school, family and friends, nobody gives him a chance. 6 months ago we learned that he is ADHD.

He is now in the 1st grade and boy has he kept me runnin'. He has struggled since pre-school, it only gets worse. He needs help, I need help, his dad needs help. He needs it in the sense that he needs to be able to focus, have fun, understand and he needs help with his self control. I need help because I can't do this alone, I lean towards my mom, not the father of my child, I have the view that isn't a good one when it comes to dad. And well dad needs alot of help, he is so self absorbed and ignorant that I'm not sure what will come of this.

This doesn't need to be a hard life for our boy. I realized today while driving to go pick him up from school for misbehaving our smart, loving boy can't help the misbehaving he has no self control whatsoever. He has a condition that hasn't been handled properly. How can I continue to punish him, when he is so confused and unsure of what to do. He is 5, have we been to tough on him? Have we created a bad child because we were grounding him, taking toys away etc? Not sure really. Its important to distinguish between being bad and not having control to do whats expected. My same question comes up again, did we over do the discipline?

I'm going to be there for my son, listen to him better, and get him the help that he needs to maintain a good focused life. He is quite brilliant, cute as a button, fun and very loving, I don't want to confuse him any longer. I will research more then I have and read blogs to get maybe a better outlook at what other parents go through. How they handle they're experiences with ADHD. My son wants to be understood and loved like the rest of us!