I am Not a Grammar Nut

Blogging is not blogging without proper grammar.  Sure you can blog everyday and not use proper grammar, but it will cost you readers.  Grammar has always been a fear of mine, even before starting to blog.   I learned what I needed to in order to complete the given assignment and poof it was gone from my brain.  Obviously, I knew enough to pass with A's and B's in high school and college or else I wouldn't have gotten those particular grades.   I know grammar is so elementary, but it seems to get past me.  I get in the moment of typing and completely skip over proper punctuation. 

I had no interest in grammar while I was in school.  Going to school every day and just doing the work gets you by, but it hurts you in the long run.  In Language Arts(high school), I used to fall asleep from boredom while in class.  While in high school, I worked a full-time job as well.  That contributed to my lack of interest due to being tired and having other things on my mind. 

Guys, I want to apologize to you if you are reading my posts and are having those errors going off in your brain.  I found this website the other day and I plan on studying up on the use of proper grammar.  I just type and really do not think of the effect it has on some of you.  Hopefully, that will keep some of your heads from exploding while reading my posts.

  

Seriously, check this out if you are not so talented in the grammar department.  

Sometimes it Takes a Few Days....or a week.

It actually took me a few days okay a week for it to sink in that my son is 5 now.  This years birthday was much harder for me to cope with.  He will be starting school this year and leaving from under my wing.  His time with Imagination Library is over because he is 5; his Tad Pole play at Foothills Gymnastics is over and plus all the other perks of being a 4 year old has.  I have been a stay at home mom for most of his little life.   It has been just been us for so long.  When my hubby is at work and when Kaylei was in school....he has been my little buddy pretty much 24/7.  His birthday was last Monday and I even went through his birth photos and scanned through the years of his little life reminiscing the time that has passed.  I thank all of you that has stuck in there with me on my repeated Birthday posts and given repeated wishes.   I decided I best stop being in denial, because it won't make him any younger...or me for that matter.

I really just had a crazy pregnancy with this little one.  Who am I kidding.....a big one!  He was 12 pounds and 5 ounces born on Tuesday, June 3!  He was induced via cesarean 2 weeks earlier than his due date around the June 17 because he was getting big so fast.  I had a perfectly healthy pregnancy for the most part.  When he was born and I had went in to be induced I was so ready!   I could barely walk and I was definitely waddling.  Around month 6 1/2 I lost the feeling in my upper right leg.  I had previously had a pinched sciatica off and on and the pressure caused my nerve to pinch which caused the numbness in my leg.  I was really worried that the feeling wouldn't return, but a month after he was born it did.

  After everything was all set up for the cesarean to begin, I couldn't get the thought of not being able to move my toes out my head.  I even had to ask for the nurse to move my foot because it was driving me nuts.  As the doctors pulled him out, I remember hearing them betting with each other on how much he weighed!  It was really a shocker to them in his size and in my doctors years of birthing, he has stated that our baby was the largest baby he had ever delivered!   My husband was able to be in there with me and he really was in shock on the process and how much he actually got to experience.  The sounds of the spillage on the floor after the cesarean had started really got him the most.....he got to cut the cord and he was so happy to finally have his son.  I really thought he would pass out, but he didn't.   I was watching his face as they did their work and his eyes were huge.  He did an awesome job and I am so glad he was able to be there with me.  He was not able to be with me in the room when Kaylei was born due to a few health issues I was having.

What happens when you are pregnant with a double digit baby?  Let me show you. 

See that beautiful little beaming big sister....she was so happy to have a little brother.  Within 2 weeks I blew up like a balloon!  He was around 8 pounds when I went for my ultrasound in the beginning of May.  I think back and wonder if I would have went the next 2 weeks just how big would he have gotten. We skipped right to the 3-6 month old clothes when he was born, because he didn't fit in 0-3 month old clothes.  I mean we are talking like 15 pounder here!  Gheez....scary thought.  I was absolutely miserable with the Carolina heat and was getting grouchier by the day.  I am just glad he was happy and healthy!   

I would like to add that although I gained around 40 pounds with him, I lost all of my pregnancy weight by time I left the hospital on day 5.  I have always heard that you gain more with girls and it doesn't just go away when they are born and it does when you have a boy.   I really didn't believe that, but that really was the case with me.  Awesome!  Oh, for those of you who do not know.....Gregoireperdew is not my last name.  It is Gregoire-Perdew, but I just go with Perdew.  Gregoire(Grig wa or Greg wa) is my maiden name and since my father died when I was a week old, I kept it.  My children however just have the Perdew portion....that would have just been mean to pass the double name down.

Happy Monday Ya'll!

Have you found any way to make it easier to cope to your littles getting bigger and being their own little person?

The Best Things in Life are Free

 

 I have said many times...simple things make me happy. The kind of happy that if you could see my heart it would be smiling.  Yeah, I know that's kinda weird but I don't know how else to say it.  I always know what I want to say, but I am not too sure in how to say it the right way.  I wanted to share something with ya'll on a more personal level.

Don't Shove a Donut in My Face!

I recently saw this commercial and I couldn't help but to laugh at how it reminded me of past events with my husband and I.   I don't know if this happens to ya'll but it drives me nuts.  What am I talking about?  When your husband/SO has no shame in eating something so delicious in front of you when you are having something healthy.   When you are trying to make a lifestyle change in the healthier direction.  My husband is awful about this. 

Check this commercial out:  Walgreens- Powdered Donuts  ~ It is not on YouTube yet or else I would have put that up.
Any time I have ever tried to get healthier and lose weight it happens.  He wants to do his thing and gives me everything I need but the moral support I require to get through and stay on a healthy track.  He will provide me with anything having to do with equipment, dvds, memberships and the physical part of it but the emotional, psychological part...forget about it.  It is not that he doesn't care but I think he doesn't know how to give that to me.

I wish I didn't feel like I am unable to make this change on my own without that support.  I guess it is because he is the closest person to me and I expect him to do it with me.  I want him to provide that support and not flaunt stuff unintentionally in front of me when I am still in that vulnerable stage.  If I had a close friend that I could be accountable with then he could eat all the juicy burgers and double chocolate Klondike bars all day-everyday and it wouldn't bother me a bit.  I know ultimately it is up to me and I need to find another way that works for me so I am not having that big ole excuse factor in my way.  Since I am in the process of getting my time management/organization skills together this is next on my list.  The setting up a permanent healthy lifestyle solution.  Being organized and having my time management together will just make getting and staying healthier smoother.  \

Being raised on southern cooking made me a foodie.  Fried chicken, pasta, potatoes, cakes, pies, gumbo, crawfish, gaulett, baked mac and cheese, homemade biscuits and it can go on and on and on.   I need to find that line of portion control with that good food.  Portion control and timing is my down fall at this point and has been for years.  I don't feel like I have to 86 all of the foods that I love but to have a smaller portion and be within my nutritional needs for the day.  When I have done that in the past all I thought about was the foods I couldn't have.  I think it is because I can't stand to be told I can't do something.  Being smart about it though would be beneficial.

Okay, I am all done rambling.  What did you think of that commercial?  What kind of road blocks do you face on your journey to a healthier lifestyle?

The Perfect Day- You Challenge

Linking up with Lauren and Tiffany for Tuesday Topics this week.

What is a my perfect day?

My perfect day would involve:

Starting with my handsome hubby bringing me some coffee and letting me sleep in while he spends daddy time with Kaylei and lil' Gerry.

 A day where the kids are getting along, conversations flow and little giggles fill the air. This would definitely involve some music playing and flip flops.  Wearing whatever is comfortable and hanging out all day not worrying about a thing.

Roasting marshmallows and hot dogs outside over a fire, trying to catch lightening bugs. 

Taking lots of pictures!

It would end by winding down enjoying some extra chocolatey hot chocolate with lots of whipped cream watching a great movie or cartoons.  My mind is into FALL/family mode right now! (ask me when I am having a crazy day and the answer will more than likely be much different)

No house work, cooking or dishes. 

**I would LOVE to find one of those costume shops that you see on the tv where people are dressing up in all kinds of crazy fun costumes to play in.  Funny, I know.  Dress up and go to a big masquerade ball with my husband and act like I know how to dance all night. Thats the crazy dreamer part of me talking.  Lastly, I would love to stay in a hotel with a balcony with a view of the beach.

What does your perfect day involve?


Blog hop and linky party here!

Mommy Confessions

Heather @ Cookies for Breakfast & The Memoirs of Megan is having a linky party and I wanted in.

 

My mommy confession of the week is:

 

Teach or Learn?

 

My son refuses to sing his ABC's even after me saying them over and over again until the point of seriously disliking every letter.  He is 4 and should be able to sing it.  I try not to get frustrated but it happens.  He can tell me a whole conversation from a cartoon or lyrics from a song but he can't do the ABC's .  Finally I resorted to You Tubing ABC song and worked on my blog while clicking back and forth every 2 minutes for a new one.  I know I have a ABC cd somewhere around here.  Next time I am going to use the headphones so he can not think about anything else so hopefully that way will help him.  The moments of having to walk away and take a breather happen more than I like to admit.  How does something like this even happen?

 

Now on to my daughter Kaylei who is a 2nd grader.  She is doing excellent in every subject and has a citizenship score of 102 and it only goes to 100 so she has the nice, polite, friendly, respectful thing down.  She loves reading and books in general.  What's the problem then?  Well, it is that she is having a problem with the written comprehension part.  Some of the questions I am even unsure of what the answers are because the questions are asking for answers that are not even in there.  I know it sounds dumb but its a huge issue right now.  She also can recite an entire song, cartoon or movie but she can not answer the questions from the story.  Some of them are easy but there is like 20 questions to ask but yet the book may be 10 pages.  Those moments of explaining and re explaining give me those serious GRRRR moments.  She likes to tell you what the entire book was about for every question, which is obviously wrong.  Same thing I have to walk away or make her get up and go away.

 

I really have to find some kind of solution to these teaching fails so I don't have melt down sessions each time from me and them.  I need to learn to teach in a more effective way, but I am at a loss in how to.  Bad mommy moments happen more with these 2 things than anything else.

 

 I am doing my first Social Linky Party today and I would love for you to be a part of it.