No Average Mom

I love working form home and have made enough money to supplement my husbands income quite nicely. When I first started I had 2 blogs and loads of ambition and now I have steady weekly work through multiple blogs. Now, hopefully, there will be reward for my diligence. I have recently signed up for an on-line medical transcription course and have been guaranteed a job when I am done and I learned about it through the blogging community I talk with. My husband is thrilled and realizes that if I finish this then this could be a full time job for me. There are risks though, like anything you do, something could happen and put a kink in our plans. If this is the case there is always my dream of being an online futures broker.

My husband and I have been working all winter to get the inside of our house finished to put it up for sale. Now that the weather has changed we can start to give the outside some needed attention. They say you need to have curb appeal to make a house POP to a potential buyer, you need to have something to grab their attention right off the bat. My husband has started to put the finishing touches on our porch that we screened in last summer. The last thing he had to do was to paint the porch the same color as our trim. To give it that finishing touch he even added a great hammock chair to match the all weather carpet. If he does anymore work like that I am surely going to have a hard time selling the place because it is just too cute.

We are going to be homeschooling our son next year. This is something I never ever thought I would be doing. After much research and discussion we have found a virtual charter school to enroll him in. This means he will be a public school student following a standard curriculum that meets all state requirements. The curriculum is awesome and offers tons of added things that you can’t get in elementary school such as foreign language options. We recognize many people don’t get the whole homeschooling thing but in our situation we have to do what is best for our son and this seems to be it. My in-laws are definitely going to have problems with the idea. I already discussed it with my mother-in-law who stated she was fine with it. The next day she was at our house requesting a private lunch date with my husband. I know my father-in-law is going to expound on how my son will never get into college and all that nonsense. What they will refuse to believe is that when it finally comes time for our son to start filling those resume templates is no one is going to care that he went to a virtual elementary school. They will be too busy drooling over the fact that he attended Harvard.

In the last few weeks I have had several different types of tests performed. Thankfully all of them came back normal. There was few tense moments after my mammogram but the report in the mail said everything was normal. I also had an MRI of my neck which was normal. The other tests were lab work and whatnot. This is all good stuff because I would hate for anything to be wrong. You never know when stuff like this will come back to bite you when you are getting life insurance quotes or whatnot. Aside from that my family needs me to be okay and I need to be here for them. The only troubling thing is when you go to the doctor for something pain related and they can’t find anything wrong with you. This is especially bothersome when you are like me and never go to the doctor unless something is really bothering you.

I just finished reading a book called “Every Good and Perfect Gift”. This is book ended up being not quite what I expected based on the cover. This book depicts the life long friendship between two women. The story centers around a pact they made when getting married to their husbands )who also happen to be best friends) that they would never bring children into this imperfect world. Well, at the age of 40 one of them suddenly decides that she wants a baby. This of course is not an easy road to hoe and requires infertility interventions of all types. I thought this might be where the story ends but it only begins here. After the miracle baby enters the world strange things begin to happen to the mom as her memory begins to fail. Thus ensue a journey no one expects that tests the limits of friendship. Read it.

Our littlest man is suddenly fascinated with coloring and drawing. Given that he isn’t even two this seems a little weird to me. Anytime he sees bic pens, crayons, or markers he immediately cries “color” ! This means he wants a piece of paper and a writing implement or else. Besides coloring he has already gotten a hang of the entire temper tantrum thing. My older son absolutely hates to color and always has which has been a problem in school. The only temper tantrum I am hard pressed not to give into is the little man’s desire to color. I would rather give in and let him color than have to battle him later to do so when he has no interest in it at all.

When school started last year my walking partner bailed on me. Since then the only exercise I get is chasing my kids here and there. I really miss walking and talking with another adult. This time was great for my body, mind, and spirit. My friend has more things on her plate than she can find time for and I apparently am now one of those things. Maybe I will just crack open a bottle of diet pills and be done with it. I am sort of in one of those moods where I am tired of people who only need you when they need you and forget you are alive the rest of the time.

We are down to the wire in terms of getting our house ready to sell. It is funny though you can put a ton of work into something and people will only notice the little things. For instance I took down all of the window treatments in our house and replaced them with roller shades. Our window treatments looked okay but didn’t let much light in. We had my mother-in-law over and these were the only thing she commented on. Not a word about the fresh paint in every room or new wall coverings but there was much said about the roller shades.