Dear Kai, Please forgive mommy for our travesty the day before...I sent you to GiGi's (great grandma's) to have your own fun play time with your cousins that are your age...it wasn't a punishment, baby. I didn't think you were going to cry and carry on for so long...didn't know you wouldn't sleep like you normally do, and instead wake up at the crack of dawn at 5am to sit on GiGi's front porch in your jammies, shoes and hoodie on READY to come back home as she watered the grass...We'll ease our way into your sleepovers better next time.
Dear Internet,
What's your freakin' problem??...You know, it's really not cool to cut on and off within 2-3 minutes apart as I'm trying to write or make comments...No Bueno...Get your life together.
Dear Wonderfully-Made Me,
Go. To. Bed. You stay up too late at night to blog and comment and meet new bloggers...I understand you are SUPER STOKED about learning all you can about the World of Blogging...but you have to get a grip, Girl...
P.S.- Stop dreaming about blogging!!
Dear Sabira,
Thanks for the hook up and for your lovely yesterday...I always look forward to your company.
Dear Weather,
Thank you for getting your life together this week...WAYYY warmer and sunnier than last week. Keep it up.
Dear Bloggies (Blog Buddies) & Blessings (my readers), Thank you for taking the time to just read what I have to say...I can be all over the place sometimes and your comments and readership mean so much...LOVE YA'LL.
Dear Vegas Family Trip,
I can't wait...
Dear Job Search,
Please get better...
Dear Babe,
Thank you for being a hard worker and make-a-way, find-a-way type of guy. I see you, Babe. Thank you for your commitment to get the time off this year to make it to Vegas with the family...I was getting a bit Debbie Downerish after the past two years of not having you with us. I'm so geeked you'll be back with us this year...We gotta do it BIG!!
Dear God,
Thank you for great family and friends...don't know what I would do with them. Thank you for bringing my lesson to me that will teach these middle school aged girls in October at the United Christian Women's Conference. I sure didn't know WHAT THE HECK I was going to pull together and you laid it out right in front of me. Thank you for showing what I have and to appreciative for it, no matter how much more I want...You somehow bring me back to contentment.
So, one of my nearest (literally...we live like five minutes in walking distance from each other...
okay, maybe 12 minutes) and dearest friends, Sabira,
who's also at home dying trying to get rid of her hot mess of a flu, jetted on her scooter to come make a drop of a special secret stash that she RAVED was making her feel "exponentially better."
No really, those were her EXACT words...I mean, WHO IN THE WORLD says that?!?
(you answer) Sabira.
You're right, Bira does...smh.
Her secret remedy contained all natural supplements: B12, echinacea, vitamin C (no not the one hit wonder singer from a while back that EVERYBODY and they mama played or sang at they graduation...the actual vitamin) and ginger root tea. I didn't have the tea so I didn't take this.
So, me, being the pill poppin' gal that I am, 'cause I CANNOT EVEN DEAL with the taste of liquid meds, took them as advised. I took one of each pill at the same time at 8:30pm last night and barely coughed since! Even the "cold" is coming out easier than before...
CAUTION:
If you know darn well, that if you aren't...I repeat: ARE NOT an expert in downing GINORMOUS HORSE PILLS, then this AMAZEballs remedy may not be for you...you see the pics...
the B12 is a non-brainer, but the other two will mos-def send you gagging like you have a spoon down your throat.
So, a SUPER DUPER thanx and "praise God for your ministry" goes out to my, girl, Sabira...
if she wasn't at home dying with the flu, I would've never been able to make any progress getting rid of my horrific cough and snot nose.
So, what are are some of your best remedies when sick??
And if you decide to try this, 'cause maybe your dying like Sabira, or sound like my coughing twin, please holla back to tell me how your recovery goes!
Why does it have to be the patriarchal view of it though?...
anywhoo...
I have to constantly ask myself if I'm willing to do the
"AND THEN SOME"
to have the lifestyle my family deserves.
What's your take entrepreneurship? Are you a small business owner? If so, what's your business and how's it working out for you?...Any pointers?? If not, what do you choose to do for living?
I'm kinda Super Stoked about this NEW linky party...Me, Myself, and I...specifically since I have't done an official ABOUT ME page for my blog...I'm excited to let my BLESSINGS and hopefully new Blessings (my readers- to-come get to know me better...and even more STOKED about getting to know my new BLOGGIES (blog buddies) that I've recently met/followed....
So...DRUMROLL PPLLEEAASSEE...
1. What is your biggest phobia? - I'm sooooo scared of not doing anything with my life...I have so many ideas and great plans and hopes and dreams...after graduating from college and having two kids after that its been harder to get back into the swing of things in the working world...
2. If you could relive any day of your life what would it be and why? - I would probably want to relive My hubby's and my dating days...we were so fun and spontaneous...we did whatever whenever...we had time and money to do things...LOL!... Now we have no time, little money, and three kids...Date nights are constantly in my prayers. But praise God, slowly but surely we're getting back to that. (Yeah Buddy!!)
3. If you could stay a certain age forever, what age would you be? - Maybe 24...legal but not fresh bait...experienced...been around the block for a bit so I'd know what to expect. Yet, I'm still young and spunky...full of energy...more guts to do and try new things.
4. Which celebrity do you get mistaken for? - Normally no celebs...I'm always mistaken for someone people actually think they know... BUT... I've been told that I look the singer, Mya.
5. What songs would be included on the soundtrack to your life? - 1. Make it Happen - Mariah Carrey 2. Step By Step - Whitney Houston 3. PYT - Michael Jackson (actually...anything by MJ is AUTOMATICALLY on my life's soundtrack) 4. Butterfly - Mariah Carrey 5. Whata Man - Salt N Peppa 6. Golden - Jill Scott 7. He Love Me - Jill Scott 8. Just Fine - Mary J. Blige 9. Unbreakable - Alicia Keys 10. Benny and the Jets - Elton John (no judging...that's the joint) 11. The Time of My Life - from Dirty Dancing 12. Everybody Wants to Rule the World - Tears for Fears 13. Don't You Forget About Me - Simple Minds 14. Try a Little Tenderness - Ottis Redding 15. Countdown - Beyonce 16. Love on Top - Beyonce 17. Can I Get A... - Jay-Z 18. The Wire - Kanye West 19. Stronger - Brittney Spears & Kanye West 20. A Women's Worth - Alicia Keys 21. Superwoman - Alicia Keys 22. This Woman's Work - Kate Bush & Maxwell 23. Heaven - Mary Mary 24. Get Up - Mary Mary 25. Melodies from Heaven - Kirk Franklin & the Family 26. Hosanna - Kirk Franklin & the Family 27. Don't Wanna Waste My Life - Lecrae
**Funny at first I thought I wouldn't be able to answer this last one and then OUT OF NOWHERE all these songs came flowing out of my brain all within 7 minutes...I had to stop.**
This is an excerpt from DARLING. Its an online mag I came across a few days ago and its AMAZEballs for several reasons. Its an online magazine, soon to be in print (SUPER STOKED) that's challenging the ideals of your normal young women's fashion/lifestyle/pop-culture magazine. Darling is good place to start to redefine your mindset of what beauty really is and to start addressing some those mind boggling questions you may have that you seem to keep to your self or that NO ONE EVER quite has the "right" answers for...
What are you waiting on...Go on over and check these Divas out. Then come back and tell me what you think...
1. Half of last week was FREAKIN' gloomy and depressing...and RAIN?!?!...all I have to say is BOO ON THE WEATHER'S LIFE.
2. 2/3 of the B-Boys went to visit some of Jaden's friends from school. They live in Marina Del Rey, just walking distance from Mother's Beach...So I had to get a photo opp of the fellas with the BEST Jedi knight poses on our way to the beach...Get it, BOYS!!
4. My mom wants her next dog to be a beagle...we both LOVE Snoopy...who wouldn't want Snoopy as a pet?!?...Although he'd probably be more my HOMIE than anything else...we would do ABSOLUTELY everything together...shop, eat...DANCE...but this beagle right here...is AMAZEballs HUGE...didn't know they could get this big...Not too sure I want my Snoopy to get THIS big. =/
5. Landan's first corn dog. Yes...he ate the WHOLE corn dog.
6. Jaden GROOVIN' while eating...what??...Don't tell me YOU don't groove when your meal is the bomb...#sideeye
7. SICK...and as of today...still sounding like General Grievous from Star Wars.
8. Sitting back waiting to see which B-Boy is going to get hurt first...I tell them ONE time to stop playing rough before someone get hurts...and after that if they choose to continue...they need only to expect one thing = CASUALTIES. #sideeye
9. Sippin' on some sizzurp!!...Limeaid...yuuuuuuuuummmmmmm.
10. Monday's lunch at the mall with the B-Boys and 1/2 of the parentals (my mom).
11. Handy Landy. You couldn't tell him NUTHIN'...he just knew that HE KNEW what HE was doing.
12. My babe getting his preachin' on...so proud of him. He did so well...well, he always does...and his analogies and applications are ALWAYS the best!...He made a reference of how the Power of the Holy Spirit is like the Power of Grey Skull (He-Man fans out there??...She-Ra??...) in how it can transform you and renew your mind just how it was only by the power of Grey Skull that Prince Adam could change into He-Man...then he had the nerve to show a clip...smh...#comedy
13. My FAVE pic of the week...my KaiBee missing his daddy.
I would love to know how everyone's week panned out...if you posted anything similar like your instagram pics of the week or your week/life in photos...linked them here so I can see and comment back.
