The Joys Of Family and Hearth

Today was one of those days. You know the kind I'm talking about. The kind of day that doesn't go as you planned it to. Yesterday..today looked so differently.  You see yesterday I had a plan for today.. and it went something like this.. wake up usual time, finish up the laundry, clean out car and load it up, leave house nice and clean for when hubby comes home. Leave and get to our second home by lunch time.. this way I would be able to inventory the food contents, figure out a menu and shop.. then have the rest of the day to ourselves. Enjoying out time here. Instead, it went like this: Woke up LATE, not minutes late but 2 1/2 HOURS later then usual. My precious 9 year old had cleaned the kitchen up, and straightened the living room up, to the best of her ability.. She was excited to get on the road today.. :) Started that last load of wash, but would have to wait for that to finish because I need to pack some stuff from that load.. Woke up my 13 year old... He st...

The other day I was playing with my 18 month old son. He was on my lap and happily chanting, "mama, mama, mama" but I was trying to send a text to someone. So he took his chubby little hands, and grabbed my face to turn it towards him and force me to look at him. "mama, mama" ..  "Yes, baby" and then he gives me the hand signal to follow him. And I did. He took me out the back door to play. We had a great time. But it got this mama to thinking.. I thought it was super cute that he grabbed my face. But then I thought.. how sad.. he had to grab my face to get my attention because I was wrapped up in an electronic. An item that allows us to have noncommittal relationships with our family members, old high school/collage friends/ people we don't see or even hear from if it wasn't for facebook! Texting/Facebook and other applications out there, enable us to share some great things with people, yet take us away from the very people we are spend...