From The Mouth Of Babes

Another Friday is here and as promised last week The Little Peanut Traveling Show is back.

Yes, Little Peanut had a good week and came up with some solid material to entertain you. I tell you it's hard to be a child of a blogger these days. So much pressure and talk about no privacy at all.

I am just glad that when I was growing up my mother was able to embarrass me only on a local level.On a rare occasion my little "Ooops" made it national across the domestic phone lines white slim line telephone.

My poor children need to deal with me spreading their business World Wide. Yes, that's the price they have to pay having a mother with a blog. That and having a pizza shop on speed dial with dad's credit card on file.

Cartoon Picture of LP in his "magic" reading glasses and Beastie Boys


Anyway, I promised you little light Friday entertainment courtesy of LPTS so here it is.

Mr. Misery came home for a day in the middle of his work trip and brought us some freshly picked Blood Oranges from Arizona.

I love Blood oranges since I was little, but my kids never tasted them. The only oranges we get up here are Navel or Tangerines.

LP was very intrigued with the name and the redness of the oranges. As some of you might know the Blood oranges are not the best looking oranges so he was little hesitant to try them. Of course the name didn't help the case.

Courtesy of Google Images

Once he had a bite of mine he was hooked. I think he ate 3 or 4 in one sitting.

The next day my sister's boys a.k.a The Beastie Boys (BB1 and BB2) came over. They were hungry so I offered them some oranges for snack. BB2 was all over the oranges. BB1 didn't what anything to do with them once he heard the name. BB1 has Asperger's so trying anything unusual is very hard for him.

LP really wanted BB1 to try some and this is how he went about it:

LP: You seriously need to try some of these. They are just sooooooooooo de-li-ci-ous.
BB1: I don't want to they look weird and ugly
LP: They look normal once mommy peels them for you
BB1: They are called Blood oranges and that's gross
LP: That's just a name. The trees don't really go around killing people and putting the blood into the oranges, you know.

BB1 still not convinced and now he's dealing with dead people and killer trees on top of it.
LP is not giving up.

LP: What do you thing the tree is going around whacking people to grow bloody oranges? It's just a red juice, not real blood.I am telling you they're delicious.

Well, LP didn't convince BB1 to try a Bloody orange and I think he had pretty good argument going there, don't you?

Courtesy of Google Images



I have more material from LPTS, but it's Friday and I already took enough of your time. Some off you go now to spread more Comment Love.

Am I Becoming The Neighborhood Freak?

Last few weeks I've been going through some changes in my life.

I try very hard to keep positive and moving forward to my Happiness.

I know I came a long way in last 5 months, but I though I would be happier for myself and for my family.

I am no longer depressed and feeling sorry for myself. I know what I want and I know I will get it, but .....

There it is....the big, ugly BUT. I hate buts and I am doing everything in my power not to say it or think it.



Lately I've been doubting myself. I feel overwhelmed and worried about meeting my goals.

Mr. Misery keeps telling me how great I am doing and how proud he is of the work I've been doing with taking care of the boys and the house, living on the budget, dealing with the bills, writing and following my goals.

So WHY am I not floating on a cloud? Why do I feel so weird?

I'll tell you why, my friends.

I have a feeling my worst nightmare came through.

I have a feeling I started my MENOPAUSE.

I just turned 40 and according to my mother all women in my family were "blessed" with early Menopause.

Don't you just love the timing of Mother Nature? I have a feeling Father Time has something to do with it!

THIS IS NOT THE TIME!

Mr. Misery is home 3-4 days a month. My oldest child is turning 13 in a few weeks and my youngest child is in million activities. I just started getting my life back together. I set new goals that can't handle thinking and doings of crazy Menopausal woman.

Life finally started to be my OYSTER , again. I can not be going through MENOPAUSE right now.

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Can you say "mental breakdown"? I can.

This is how I've been feeling last few weeks:

- no visit from aunt Flow since December - the only good part if you ask me

- high metabolism and rush of Adrenalin when you least expect it - having Thyroid condition I feel like bulldog on crack most of the day lately

- weird food cravings ending in not eating or food binges - yesterday diet consisted of poutine, honey garlic chicken wings, DQ dilly bar and blood oranges - I feel so healthy

- mood swings - my kids are starting to get really scared and Mr.Misery is not here to protect them or act like a buffer - it's getting ugly

- talking like I just finished 10 year vow of silence - shut me up, please. I can't even listen to myself anymore and being home alone all day I am my only audience.I need to get out of the house more often, but who would wanna listen to blabbering idiot

- overwhelmed by everything - Mr. Misery forbid me to open my laptop on Sundays in a fear of my mental breakdown trying to keep up with blogging and commenting

and of course as Katy Perry would say:

"You're hot then you're cold
You're Yes then you're No
You're In then you're Out
You're Up then you're Down"

That's about sums up my life right there. Yes, I am becoming a circus freak and my children will be able to charge admission to the neighborhood children to show them The Crazy Lady they used to call "mommy".

So later this morning I will visit my dear doctor and ask him to take some of my blood and confirm my worst nightmare.

Wait a minute, my worst nightmare would be him telling me that I am NOT going through Menopause. That would mean I am just becoming Neighborhood Freak. I guess every good neighborhood needs one, right?

Might as well be ME.

It's Award Time Again

I usually acknowledge and share the awards given to me every Sunday.

I am 2 weeks and 1 day behind due to reevaluating my life and trying to spend my Sundays with my children.

So I want to apologize to all the wonderful blogger friends that gave me these awards.I really tried to do it sooner, but life happened.

So without further ado let's move on with the love sharing.

I received HAPPY 101 award from my wonderful friend Marilyn @ A Lot Of Loves. Marilyn is a fellow Canadian mommy. I love  going over and reading stories about her two cute little ones and her victories and struggles of motherhood.

I would love to pass this award onto following blogger friends I met recently:

Tesa @ 2 Wired 2 Tired
Sherri @ All In A Day's Work
Melissa @ Day 2 Day Living
Diane @ Diana's Cocina
JDaniel4's Mom

Another award I received was BEAUTIFUL BLOGGER award. I received it from 3 wonderful bloggers I love to visit as much as I can.
                      
                                               Misadventures Of Mom Of 3
                                              Jenna @ MN Small Town Mom
                                              Nicole @ My Real Review

Go check out these 3 awesome ladies and show them some comment love. You won't be disappointed.

I would like to pass this award onto these 7 Beautiful Bloggers:

Felissa @ Felissa Hasad
Tami @ Heart Makes Families
Darla @ Hissyfits @ Halos
Miss Meat & Potatoes @ The Meat and Potato Foodie
Jenna @ MN Small Town Mom
Nicole @ My Real Review
Pippi @ Pippi Girl Friday Mom Everyday

The last award I received was ONE LOVELY BLOG award from J.L.W @ The Practical Mom Guide.

I would love to pass this last award onto following lovelies:

SamiJoe @ Peek Thru Our Window
HomeSchool CEO @ Serendipity Is Sweet
Supermommy @ Super Mommy To The Rescue
Kelly @ The Pursuit Of Mommyness
Tina @ The Floundering SAHM

So grab your awards. Share them with others and spread the love.

Don't forget to visit all of these wonderful bloggers, you hear me now?

Never Take Matches From a Stranger

Yesterday morning while getting boys ready for school I was listening to our local morning radio show.

Something caught my interest and I decided to share it with you.

There was an incident at one of Starbucks's in the city close to us.Nothing happened and everyone is safe otherwise I would not make fun of it I assure you.

Apparently a clean cut male in red winter jacket was trying to lure a child to follow him to a street corner with MATCHES.  The child resisted and ran back to it's mother who reported the incident.

Yes, you read it correctly.....MATCHES. I don't know if it's the recession or the bad economy, but apparently perverts and pedophiles switched from ever so popular CANDY to Matches.

I don't know what this particular psycho was thinking, but he totally messed up the "Never Take Candy From a Stranger" thing. From now on we have to add....and MATCHES....

It's almost like a scene from "Dumb Criminals".

After this little announcement the radio station asked it's listeners to call in answers to this question:


"Should We Forgive Tiger Woods"?

Apparently Tiger Woods after months of seclusion decided to make a statement about what has been going on with his life and with inability to keep his little **** in his pants.

I though to myself. Why should I forgive him? I don't really care. He didn't do anything to me.I feel terrible for his poor wife and his kids, but it has nothing to do with me.

Then my curiosity got the better of me and I listened to Tiger Woods's Apology. It was mostly about being sorry for his selfish behaviour and for hurting his wife and kids.He talked about always being a private man and he asked the media and tabloids to leave his family alone. He realized that he cost the loss of  their privacy with his affairs and bad behaviour and he brought all this on himself.

I though it was nice of him to ask, but does he really think that the tabloids and the paparazzi will leave his wife and kids alone? The damage has been done and those vultures can smell blood money. Unfortunately, this is the society we are living in. Tiger didn't realized how good he had it being rich and famous while managing to shield his family from the public eye.No money can buy the privacy he used to have.

                                           "I Was Unfaithful...I had Affairs... I Cheated" - Tiger Wood


You screwed that up, boy when you decided to parade your other brain around town.

In his apology Tiger made sure that he cleared his wife's name from being accused of hitting him and hurting him after finding out about his affairs.

Well, consider yourself lucky. Many other women would break your clubs on your back and you'll be pooping golf balls for weeks to come. Then they would take everything you have and make your life a living hell. The fact that she's still with you and you are able to see your kids is a miracle.You should thank God everyday for that.

Anyway, back to his apology.

One thing he said really got me: "I though I can get away with whatever I wanted to.I felt that I worked hard my entire life and I deserve to enjoy all the temptations around me. I felt I was entitled.I was wrong. I was foolish. I don't get to play by different rules.The same boundaries that apply to everyone apply to me."

Really, Tiger.....you felt ENTITLED to disrespect your wife, to break your marriage vows, to hurt your children? You felt entitled to let down all the young kids that looked up to you as a role model?

BTW, my son was one of them.

Tiger did apologize to the young kids and their parents for letting them down. So I guess the question is:

"Do I forgive Tiger Woods for letting my child down?".......I AM THINKING........maybe a set of new golf clubs will speed up my decision.

What do you think? Should I forgive him?

The Bro Code & Friday Follow

It's Friday again and I am very sorry to inform you, that Little Peanut's Traveling Show won't be performing today I told him to step it up a notch so he's working on some new material.

Fans of LP would be happy to know that this past weekend LP reached his goal of eating 20 Timbits (donut holes) in one sitting after his hockey game. I am such a proud mother. Last week I wrote about importance of goals and reaching them. I guess LP's been reading mommy's blog and decided to change his life as well.

Instead let's talk about my soon to be hard to live with, obnoxious,hormonal  teenager the Hormone Boy.

Hormone Boy is a very smart child makes me feel stupid everyday. Yes, he is the "gifted kind" and No I don't know where he gets it from so stop laughing. In 5 weeks my preteen will become full blow teen. Am I ready? I don't think so.

That's not what I wanted to talk about anyway. As I mentioned HB is ubersmart . He's your typical geek bookworm. His love for reading and books is amazing. He can read 400 page novel in one weekend. Impressive? Well, he has nothing else to do anyway.

He reads inhales complete series like Twilight, The House of Night, Inkheart, Eragon, Percy Jackson, Mortal Instruments....you get the point. These are the books I find everyday on his nightstand and in his backpack to read in a school bus and during recess. These are the books I am used to.

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This morning I got the shock of my life get you mind out of the gutter it wasn't Playboy or my Victoria Secret catalog.

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On his nightstand right on top of The Battle Of The Labyrinth was.........BRO ON THE GO - new wisdom and selected classics from The Bro Code - for today's active Bro!

What is happening to my smart little bookworm? Did I lose him? When did this happen?

I am glad that Bro On The Go didn't replace his school bus reading material for now, but I am losing him to the DARK side.

Now I would love to share with you some of the "wisdom" that is Bro Code.

A BRO AT THE GYM: "God did not design spandex for dudes." (Exception: David Lee Roth in the 80's. That just worked.

A BRO ON A DATE: "A Bro is under no obligation to open a door for anyone. If women insist on having their own professional basketball league, then they can open their own doors. Honestly, they're not that heavy.

I have a feeling Mr.Misery will have little BRO talk after his return home.

In HB's defence I know he's just reading it for the laughs cause mama is raising a gentleman.

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I want to give a shout out to FRIDAY FOLLOW and three awesome ladies who are behind this awesome blog party .



Lynn @ Midday Escapades, Rita @ One 2 Try and last, but not least Tami @ Hearts Make Families.

These 3 ladies put a lot of time and energy to help all of us to meet each other, introduce our blogs and gain new followers and friends.

All they ask of us is to follow simple instructions and have fun.

Here's how YOU can join the celebration:

* Link up your blog name and URL using the MckLinky below.
* Follow the Friday Follow hostesses listed in the first 3 slots.  We will follow you back.
* Follow as many blogs as you like
* Comment on the blogs telling them you're from Friday Follow 

AND THE MOST IMPORTANT RULE AND THE REASON BEHIND FRIDAY FOLLOW

 * Follow back when you get a new follower through Friday Follow

I know it can be overwhelming and time consuming for some of us with Friday Follow becoming so popular. We miss to follow blogs here and there, but let's try. Lets make a bigger effort and keep this party going.


Friday Follow is about camaraderie, support, new friendships. Not all bloggers have the same interests, views and believes. I met so many wonderful bloggers in last 5 weeks and I learned lots from them. I admit I would never follow them if they didn't follow me and I would miss a lot of great blogs. That's the beauty of Friday Follow.You never know who you're going to meet.

Last week I didn't receive back 40 Follows out of 70  which made me little sad and dissapointed,  but such is life.

Guess what? I am back this week again and I am ready to PARTY.

As far as I am concerned the 40 bloggers that decided not to return the favor are missing out.

That is how I feel and it had to be said written. 


Once again, Lynn, Rita and Tami I thank you for all your hard work you put into this wonderful blog party.

Now, go over there, join and let's PARTY!

Don't Use My Toilet Paper.....I Am Warning You

 Now the following material might be little gross for some of my readers. There will be lots of toilet paper and bathroom talk. Don't say I didn't warn you.

It came to my attention that lately we have a wee bit problem with toilet paper in my household.

It seems like I've been buying large packs of it every few weeks now. I always though that girls/women are big users and offenders of overuse before mentioned product.

Well, being the only girl in a house where testosterone is served regularly every morning with breakfast I though to myself: "WTH, I don't visit the little girls room that much. Where does that damn toilet paper goes?" I decided to investigate.

I had to be really sneaky and careful. I couldn't just bust in on them while in the middle of doing the biz. What if I scared them into constipation for the rest of their lives? I could not have that on my conscience and dried prunes are expensive.

Then the offender got sloppy.

On Thursday I found the evidence. Three empty toilet paper rolls or whatever you call those little cardboard thingies under the vanity. One look into the bathroom trash can  filled stuffed with toilet paper almost gave me a coronary.

I flew out of that bathroom like bulldog on crack. It was my lucky day. All Male residents of the household were sitting in the living room trying to look busy.

Make a long story short the main offender was Little Peanut. Apparently he was having some issues with following the "perfect" instructions his father gave him in bum wiping. What a surprise.

....and the garbage full of toilet paper you ask? I am so glad you did.

Mr. Misery installed new environment friendly toilet that can't handle my youngest child's deposits so in fear of plugging it and getting mommy upset he chose to split it half and half. Half to be flushed and half to be kept in trash can for mommy to find it while cleaning.

I did have a talk with LP and I asked Mr. Misery to repeat his instructions and make sure that this time he understands.

Three days after.....I found another 3 empty rolls in the bathroom. Luckily the trash can was empty.

I lost my patience and I announced to my family that overusing of toilet paper will no longer be tolerated under this mommy regime. I will be removing all toilet paper and I will be given them toilet paper allowance. certain amount of squares per visit.

"Can you spare a square? No , I can't spare a square. I have no square to spare!"

That didn't go over well. I think there were even some tears involved and some finger pointing.

Later that day I expressed my feelings about the toilet paper usage to my BFF's husband we shall call Jimmy Chew JC for short.

JC understands my toilet paper issues as he shares his house with 4 females......, but I have 2 boys!

According to JC women don't know how to properly use toilet paper. We make something he called "paper gloves". Paper gloves are not only the reason for overusing, but also the reason for overflowing.

This is how girl/woman goes to bathroom according to JC:

"Oh, I need to go pee....I better wrapped my hand in a toilet paper like a boxer getting ready for a fight so I can wipe properly.....oh, no, now I need to go #2. Oh, well I can just make another paper glove. All done....no, wait I tinkled a bit. Time for another glove...all done."

The moral of the story is.....don't try to get sympathy from JC because all you get is a story for your blog.

And That's What I Think

I am so glad it's Monday.

Usually Monday is not the most popular day of the week, but after the weekend I had Monday is my new favorite.

Let us begin with Friday....

Friday afternoon minding my own business. Enjoying Mr. Misery all to myself before he has to leave again.

The phone rings. It's Hormone Boy's school. Apparently there was an accident during curling and HB is on the way to the hospital in an ambulance.

I heard words like...eye, blood, broom......I asked Mr. Misery to go the hospital without me as I had to stay home to wait for Little Peanut and The Beastie Boys (my nephews).

HB is fine. He was standing and waiting patiently for his turn when one of his classmate's lost control of his broom and it flew right into HB's eye. His eyelid needed to be glued and he has a little bit of a shiner.Nothing exciting.

Everything was better  except little hurt pride by Friday night and we were ready to watch The Opening Ceremonies of 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympic Games.

Mr. Misery is born and raised Vancouver boy and we are all proud British Columbians.

Although, I myself have little issue with having dual citizenship. I am Slovak and Canadian.Who do I cheer for?

Well, my kids had the answer all ready for me. Cheer for whoever is winning. Yes, leave it to my kids to solve international dilemma.

Little Peanut was all excited and couldn't wait to sing  the Canadian National Anthem.

Friday night 6pm .....the opening ceremonies start.....The spread is on the dining room table....honey garlic chicken wings, loaded nachos, fresh Bruschetta. Usual sport watching fare.

Little Peanut is getting ready to sing....

It's starting. Canadian National Anthem sang by young 16 year old jazz singer from Quebec. She might be very talented, but I did not enjoy her rendition of O' Canada. The words were sooooooooooooooo stretched out. It's almost like she had some time to kill. It was impossible to sing to it and that made Little Peanut heartbroken.

Shame on you, Nikki Yanofsky or whoever told you to sing it that way for breaking my child's heart. He was looking forward to sing for days. Now I have to deal with it and I was not planning on that. So, thanks again, Nikki.

As we were watching the ceremonies I was also on Twitter live reading the reactions of people around the world and tweeting back and forth with my friend in Germany watching as well. It was really cool. I was able to watch it with my family in Canada and my friends across the ocean. Thank you technology. You almost made up for Nikki breaking my son's heart.

I was very impressed with most of the ceremonies. The dancing and singing of the Aboriginal people, laser shows, performances....it was spectacular.

I got upset few times during the night due to ignorance of some Twitter people and I feel like I need to clarify some things.

Dissing Bryan Adams and Nelly Furtado was so not cool. I think they did awesome job.Maybe Bryan can use little meat on his bones and maybe Nelly's dress was little too tight. It was no reason to question why are they there. They are both born and raised British Columbians and proud of it.

Also suggesting that Celine Dion should have been there instead of them is absolutely absurd. No, she is not the Pride of Canada in my eyes.

Moving on.....K.D. Lang rocked the show. That woman can move a mountain with her voice. Sarah McLachlan was another great choice for first class Canadian entertainment.

All and all Vancouver can be proud. The ceremonies were a huge success even despite The Four Chiefs showing up late. Now, that's entertainment.

One last thing......I like Wayne Gretzky. I think he is fantastic hockey player and athlete. Great role model and wonderful human being.

Do you know where I am going with this? Yes, I did not agree with Wayne Gretzky to carry the Olympic Eternal Flame and lighting up the External Flame Cauldron.

My reason? I am one of those people who believes that professional athletes should not be part of Olympic Games especially the highly overpaid paid ones.

Well, this post is getting mighty long and I didn't even make fun of some of the uniforms yet. I didn't even tell you about my minor nervous breakdown and personal existential crisis on Saturday and Mr. Misery and my BFF Ms.Meanie forbidding me to go near my laptop on Sunday.

Maybe I will write a post "What were they thinking?"

So stay tuned. I am little extra bitchy spunky these last few days.


On a serious note:

My deepest sympathy and my prayers go to the family, friends and teammates of 21 year old  Nodar Kumaritashvili Georgian luger killed in training accident in Whistler.

From The Mouth Of Babes and Friday Follow

It's Friday ladies and gentlemen. Do I have any gentlemen in the crowd? I don't even know.

Anyway, Friday is here again and so it is time for more light comedy brought to you by Little Peanut's Traveling Show.....appearing daily at my house and might be coming to neighborhood near you. Watch out!

                                             




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Little Peanut plays hockey in Minor League. As many of you know hockey players require to wear lots of equipment. Some of it is not too comfortable, but it is a must.

Yes, I am talking about THE JOCK STRAP a.k.a Athletic Cup. Look at you all excited not...."we're going to talk about jock straps, yeeey".

As all hockey players my Little Peanut wears a Jock Strap. Just a wee little one right now, but a bonified hockey approved family jewels protector.

Little Peanut calls it the Wiener Protector.

Tuesday night as he was putting his gear on before hockey practice:

LP: "Mom, mom come here quick"
Me: "What is it, what happened?"
LP: "The straps snapped and my Wiener Protector is busted".
Me being a girl: "Just put it on and somehow attach it to your hockey socks and secure with hockey tape if needed. Just to get you through tonight"

He did it, bless his little heart and we left for the practice.

Later after the practice in a parking lot with people all around us.

LP as loud as he can be and bit upset: "Mom, it didn't work"
Me: "What didn't work?"
LP: "My wiener protector and the tape"
LP now pointing down there and leaving nothing to the imagination: " My wiener is over here, the wiener protector is over there...it DID NOT work"
LP: " I NEED A NEW WIENER PROTECTOR".

In case you are wondering the very next day I took my BFF and her teenage daughter with me shopping for a wiener protector. We did open few packages till we decided which one would fit Little Peanut. He was very pleased.

This is today's Facebook status of my BFF'S daughter's page:

In the words of LP Bailey "Wiener over here, protector over there, not working.. I need a new wiener protector. "

                                      


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I hope you enjoyed the peek inside the head of the phenomenom I call Little Peanut. Come back next Friday for more light comedy brought to you by Little Peanut's Traveling Show.

Now, back to business.....it's FRIDAY FOLLOW time. The best party in the blogophere brought to you by Lynn @ Midday Escapades, Rita @ One 2 Try and last, but not least Tami @ Hearts Make Families.

Friday Follow is one big party. Last week 472 blogs joined in. If you are not part of Friday Follow then you are missing out on some great blogs to follow. Why don't you give it a try. You might like it.










                    


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                                    Also something very exciting is starting today

                    Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympic Games

Wordless Wednesday - 2 Days Till Vancouver 2010

                This amazing picture was taken from Stanley Park by my friend Kristal


                               GO CANADA!

I Am Desperate Enough This Time Around

           " There's Always A Way If You're Committed."  Anthony Robbins


This year for me is about following my passion, dreaming big , setting goals and keeping faith.

In a past I used to dream big and set goals. That's about it. I did follow my goals for a little bit. Then life happened and someone or something needed me more then I needed to fulfill my dreams and reach my goals.

Maybe I was just dreaming too big, reaching too high and had high expectations. Maybe I set unrealistic goals or maybe I was afraid of success and sabotaged myself every time there was a potential for reaching my goals.

Lots of maybes......

I guess I will never know why I gave up on my goals and dreams in a past.

One thing I know for sure that goals are so important to live a good and happy life.
I didn't need Tony Robbins to tell me that. I did need him to tell me that maybe, just maybe my life was lousy because I had lousy goals.

The truth hurts and there is lots of truth in that. I was setting goals and setting myself to fail at the same time. Whatever goals I was setting I knew I couldn't reach them. There was no way.

Eventually I gave up and became more depressed and my life gotten worse.

Then I woke up and realized Tony was right: "What's real to you today is based on your past!".

Goals are very powerful. They create our future before it happens. They show us the way and they shape our life.

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I think I had to go through what I went through in order to realize what it is I really want and how bad I want it.

In the past the reason why I was following certain goals was not strong enough for me to work hard and find the way to get there. I wanted to have better life and I wanted to reach my goals, but I was not DESPERATE enough.

This time, my friends I know what I want from life. I know what I want right now. I know that reason why I want to follow my dreams and meet my goals is strong enough and big enough to get me there.

This time I know what is the WHY behind my goals and I am taking total and complete advantage of my DESPERATION.

This time I AM READY!

Last week with the help of Tony Robbins and his Goal Setting Workshop I set some short term and long term goals. Goals that are very realistic. Goals that will help me to reach the life I always wanted. Goals that will make me the person I want to be.

I am committed to follow these goals and I am committed to work on these every single day till I reach every one of them.

It's going to be hard, but I am very excited about my goals and about the focus they are giving me every day trying to follow them.

Do you have any goals? Do you keep working on them every single day?

If not, maybe it's time do find out what YOU want from life. What YOU want right now.

It could be very simple. Maybe you want to re-connect with your friends or family. Maybe you are trying to figure out a way to afford a family vacation this summer. Maybe you are trying to lose weight.....

The goals don't have to be big to change your life for better. They need to be realistic and you need to be clear why you what those goals.

Go for it! Set some goals and follow through. Keep working on them every day. It will be worth it.

Sharing the Love....Awards, Awards and more Awards

Oh, my , oh my.....it's been a busy week here at my little Misery To Happiness blog.

I gained lots of new and wonderful followers. I received many funny and supportive comments from my faithful old followers who I call my friends.

My life in blogosphere can't get any better. Can it?

Just when I though it can't get any better it did.

This week I received many wonderful awards from my old and my new followers.

I love getting awards, but I love to give them even more. Every award is very special to me and I take getting them very seriously.With every award you give me you also give me your friendship and your support.

I received a beautiful Sunshine Award twice. Once from a beautiful lady Jo @ The End Of The Rainbow and second time from my new friend Natalie @ The Adventures of Paul and Natalie

I would love to pass this award to the following people who bring little bit of Sunshine my way every time they visit me:

Marilyn @ A Lot Of Loves
Noelle @Elastic Waistbands & Comfortable Shoes
Helene @ I'm Living Proof That God Has a Sense Of Humor
Lori @ Life As Lori
Bethany @ Nobody Listens To The Girl
Debbie @ Suburb Sanity
Cristina @ When is There Time to Sleep
Blue Violet @ A Nut in a Nutshell

 I also received  101 Happy Award twice. Once from my new follower and friend SamiJoe @ Peek Thru Our Window and second time from another new friend and follower Steph @ Sharing The Pages of Life

I am suppose to list 10 Things That Make Me Happy (in no particular order):

1.  My boys laughter
2. The second my hubs walks through the door after long work trip
3. Support from my blogging friends
4. Unplanned lunch date with my BFF
5. Writing
6. Belgium Chocolate
7. Vegas
8. Sleeping in
9. Organizing my closets
10. Iced White Chocolate Mocha from Starbucks

I would like to pass this award onto my bloggers/friends whose blogs make me happy:

The Boob Nazi @ How Could You Not
Robin @ Insights and Belly Laughs
Holly @ 504 Main
Tracie @ Stir-Fry Awesomeness
Yonca @ Yonca is Cooking
Kimberly @ Terra Del Sole
Danielle @ Humes Party Of  Three

My last award was Beautiful Blogger Award from my new friend Deborah @ Moms Sanity Is Making a Comeback

As a part of this award I am suppose to share with you 7 Things About Me:

1. Sometimes I wear my PJ bottoms when I go visit my BFF
2. I am 40 , but I wear pony tails (not everyday)
3. I am cheap drunk
4. I collect Coca Cola memorabilia 
5. I love Las Vegas
6. People think I am a snob, but I am just shy
7. I drink Buttermilk and my hubs thinks it's gross

Now I am suppose to pass this award onto 7 bloggers I recently discovered and think they're great:

Becca @ Becca's Backyard
Sheila @ Ma Vie Folle
Jen @ Mommy's Online Garage Sale
Alicia @ More Then Words
TM @ Sun is Always Blue
Natalie @ The Adventures of Paul and Natalie
Christina @ Beena's Blog

I decided to change the rules a bit and I would like to pass this Beautiful Blogger Award onto 3 of my old followers who became my supportive friends and I think that they are BEAUTIFUL BLOGGERS:

Lynn @ Midday Escapades
Karen @ Strictly Simple Style
Polly @ The 5th Sister

From The Mouth of Babes and Friday Follow

Some of the things that come out of children's mouth.

Yes, they make you cry, they make you laugh, they make you think and they also make you eat your words.

There is never a dull moment with children around.....especially in a long, long car ride.

I want to share with you few of the most memorable conversations of this week.

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Every weekend after Little Peanut's hockey game we stop at Tim Horton's to pick up a Snack Pack (20) of Timbits (donut holes). It became a little tradition to award his commitment and hard work.Little Peanut usually shares some Timbits with his brother and Mr. Misery (if he decides to).

Saturday after the game driving home:

LP:"This is a hard job to eat 17 Timbits"

Me:"Why are you eating 17 Timbits?"

LP: "Because I decided to give HB 3 so that leaves me with 17"

Me: "You know, you don't have to eat all of them"

LP:"Yes, I do. I am going for my personal record and my mom did not raise a quitter"

Me: "Excuse me?"

LP:"I said that I am not a quitter"

Me: "I think that's very nice, but in this case we can my an exception"

LP:"Nope. You told me to never give up and that I can do whatever I put my mind too. So am I putting my mind to eating 17 Timbits"

5 minutes later

LP: "I give up. I just can't do it. HB can you eat 3 more so they are not staring at me?"

LP: "My new personal record is 14 Timbits. I will try for more next weekend. I just won't drink too much water during my game"

LP: "Hey, HB, check out my belly it's huge and round from all those round Timbits I just put in there".

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Little Peanut would like to have a TV in his room just like his older brother.

LP: " Mom can I have TV in my room?"

Me: "No. You are too young and besides there is no cable hook up there"

LP: "It's easy to hook it up"

Me: "No, it's not"

LP: " Yes it is. You just have to do some CABLEING and it shouldn't take you more then 2 days or so"

Me: "Oh, good to know. I get right on that."

LP: "REALLY?"

Me: "NO!"

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I hope you enjoyed this little light comedy brought to you by Little Peanut Traveling Show.


.......and now it is time for FRIDAY FOLLOW brought to you by three wonderful, caring and sharing bloggers: Lynn @ Midday Escapades, Rita @ One 2 Try and last, but not least Tami @ Hearts Make Families.

Friday Follow is one big party. Last week 390 blogs joined in. If you are not part of Friday Follow then you are missing out on some great blogs to follow. Why don't you give it a try. You might like it.

If The Golden Girls Could Blog

I need to get out more. I seriously do.

I am sitting here and trying to write something intelligent and it’s not coming to me.

What happened? When did I lose it? All I can think of is conversations between my kids. Even that doesn't seem so funny today.

There is basket of laundry to be folded and put away. I’ve been postponing it for last 4 days.

Something about folding laundry...it’s so boring...so mechanical.

At this exact moment there is nothing I want or have to share, nothing funny to write about. We just finished dinner. It was good...not my best effort,but kids are fed.

The TV is on and guess what am I watching? The Golden Girls.....good god....even they have more exciting lives. I need to get out people. Someone come and rescue me from this Mommy Coma.

Oh, sign of life. I just yawned. I've been told that yawning is a sign of boredom and somehow I think it's true. Oh, I yawned again....

It's so sad. I am an adult. I have car with tank full of gas. I have few dollars in my wallet, but I have nowhere to go.

Well, nowhere exciting that is. I have to take Hormone Boy to diabetic clinic for his check up and maybe pick up some fresh produce along the way. Yes, I lead an exciting life.You all must be so jealous. I don't blame you. I am jealous of myself.

I started real strong. Most of the day I was full of life. I had my platonic date with Tony Robbins in my new office. He made me to look at my life and set some goal. I did it. I followed through. I got the momentum going.....and then I died.

I am thinking Sundae.Yes, I need Sundae with cherry on top.

Bad idea. The kids will go all like: "Whatcha doing? What's that? Can I have some? Why not? But I want one? Pretty please with cherry on top."

Then I have to make them some and that will take longer and it will cut into my "boredom selfpity" party.

Where's hubs when I need him? Oh, yeah on the road making money so we can buy more ice cream and cherries. It's a vicious circle I tell ya.


40 minutes later

I am back. Did you miss me? I bet you didn't know I was gone did you?

Well, I decided to end the boredom selfpity party and go make some ice cream Sundaes. I made Sundaes for the boys and something very special for myself.

I made myself some delicious Bailey's Iced Coffee. It was just what the doctor ordered. I bet the Golden Girls didn't drink this potion while sitting around the kitchen table in the middle of the night. I guess they couldn't otherwise they wouldn't be able to sleep all night. It's not like they could do some blogging or commenting during sleepless nights. Wonder what Blanche would blog about. She would probably give beauty tips and step by step instructions on how to snag a man to senior citizens. Rose would have these awfully long blogs about nothing featuring domestic animals and village idiots. Maybe it's a good thing there was not blogging back then.

I better be going. I am feeling much better. Must be the Bailey's ice cream in my coffee. You didn't think I could recover this fast, did you?

I see laundry basket with my name on it calling me....

Almost....Wordless Wednesday

How do you know that your child has too much clothes and other stuff?  

                                      
                                           When he Gets Trapped in his Walking Closet

No child was harmed in this process  little shook up and I went to get my camera only after I was sure that Hormone Boy was alright. Then I laughed .....and laughed....and laughed.

I am not laughing NOW because I have to go and clean in all up.

My First Tag and Another Award

Yesterday my wonderful and sweet friend Kristen @ Scrappin' My Bliss tagged me. It was my first bloggie tag ever.

BTW, if you don't know Kristen go over there right now. I telling you right now. She was one of my first followers and I love her dearly. She also started a new blog full of amazing pictures she's taking herself. Her new blog 365 Daze To 40 is an awesome photo journal of her journey through the 39th year of her life.

So back to the tag.

This is how it goes: I have to answer five questions with five answers each, then tag five more people to play along.

Question 1: Where were you five years ago?
1.) In my beautiful old house
2.) Enjoying being WAHM
3.) Starting my online store
4.) Managing my son's hockey team
5.) Probably skiing

Question 2: What is on your to-do list today?
1.) Writing
2.) Making dinner
3.) Taking Little Peanut to figure skating and hockey practice
4.) Paying and filing some bills
5.) Re-organizing Hormone Boys closet (you'll see why in tomorrow's post)

Question 3: What five snacks do you enjoy?
1.) Chocolate
2.) Coke Float
3.) Papaya with cottage cheese
4.) Dairy Queen Blizzards
5.) Macadamia Nuts

Question 4: What five places have you lived?
1.) My parents hotel
2.) Grandma's house in Slovakia
3.) Boarding school
4.) Refugee camp in Austria
5.) My & Mr.Misery's first house we bought from his dad

Question 5: What five things would you do if you were a billionaire?
1.) Pay off my parents, my sister's, my best friend's and our debts
2.) Make sure my parents don't need to work ever again
3.) Make sure my sons, my nephews and my best friend's 3 girls will get a good education
4.) Take all the people I love for the vacation of their life.
5.) Buy a new house with play room for my boys and bathroom and office for myself. Of course it would have commercial kitchen

Now I would like to tag following five people:

Shell @ Things I can't Say
Gwen @ Parlinmom
Corrie @ Just Because My Pickle Talks
Polly @ The 5th Sister
Kimberly @ Terra-Del-Sole


Last week I also received a wonderful Happy 101 award from my new friend Bethany @ Nobody Listens To The Girl. For those who don't know her go over and read some of her posts. She's funny, fresh and upbeat. I love going over to her place. She's a great hostess as well.

I am not sure what are the rules for this award, but I would love to pass it onto following wonderful bloggers:

Teri @ The Mighty M Family
Helene @ I'm Living Proof that God Has
a Sense of Humor

It' s My Party and I cry If I Want To...

Yes, it's party time over here at Ms.Bibi's. It might be my party and I can cry if I want to, but there probably won't be much crying going on. I just like to have a choice in case I do decide to cry....

So come on in, grab a drink or two and celebrate with me.

What am I celebrating you ask? Well, it's been 4 months since I entered this wonderful world of blogging and new friends.

Today I am writing my 100th post and I couldn't be happier doing it.

In 4 months I got over 80 followers and that's a reason for celebration on it's own. There is over 80 people who actually like what I bring to the table and take time out of their busy life to come over and leave me wonderful comments of encouragement, praise or just let me know that they are here.

I truly enjoy every post I write. I enjoy coming over here to my cyber life and connect with my friends who I wish to meet face to face one day.

My dear friends, followers and readers you are one of the reasons why I made so many positive changes in my life. I look up to you, I cry with you, I laugh with you and sometimes I vent with you. You make my life complete. You are part of my extended family.

THANK YOU!

Of course, I couldn't do this without the support and encouragement from my family at home. My children who supply me with endless material for my posts and tolerate mommy not being there some days as much as she should (sorry). My best friend who reads all my blogs and still loves me despite of it.

Last, but certainly not least my wonderful, caring, loving and forgiving husband you all know as Mr.Misery.

This is the man that wanted to make sure that today's celebration is done in style.

We are living in partially unfinished house right now and I miss my beautiful office I had in our old house. I've been writing and blogging from our (not the most comfortable)dining room.

Mr.Misery was home this weekend and he gifted me with the most wonderful gift....my own writing spot.

I am writing my 100th post from the privacy of my beautiful bedroom sitting on a brand new comfortable chair with my laptop located on a brand new writing desk.

That's why after almost 17 years of marriage I am still completely and utterly in love with this man.

I hope you enjoyed this little celebration with me and I am looking forward to another 100 posts and 80 more followers.

We had this empty space between closet & bathroom

I used to write here

Now I Write Here