The Walls Come Crumbling Down

Never really did I contemplate coming back to blogging. It seemed like a better choice than plunking down $70 for a video psych visit on Monday(which I cancelled). It never dawned on me to write again instead of wasting that money on a stranger, it would take me five years to explain my life and strife that I’ve endured. Why not just spill my guts here, for free?

Blogging was always such a passion of mine but due to my low self esteem I never really stuck with it. I’m not a shiny, polished person. I’m a bit cluttered and dusty but it doesn’t stop me from enjoying and aspiring to have the finer things…when I get them they just aren’t placed in a spotless home or surrounded by perfect scenarios. My life is messy and it started out that way when I was born.

In the past month and half I’ve been to the emergency room and rode in the ambulance so many times I can’t count. Every single test I could think of was done and has come back okay. Granted, I had to get my heart shocked back in to normal sinus rhythm in an ambulance(the meds wouldn’t work)due to newly discovered SVT and I have newly diagnosed hypertension so there is a root cause to my mania. SVT runs in my family, my mother had to have hers ablated. The fact that this happened to me, one who despises prescription medications and having to seek medical treatment has thrown me overboard.

My mother has ridiculed me every step of the way. I’m no good because I don’t handle things like she does. This medical nightmare has really beaten up my soul and that’s why I’m blogging again, for therapy, to find clarity and some sort of normalcy again. I’ve flushed 95% of the meds prescribed by quacks and staying with the pill that keeps my bp at a reasonable rate and my heart from beating out of my chest and a potassium supplement.

Please, take note. You have to be aware and your own health advocate. Most doctors will freaking kill you and just find the one that makes the most sense. ER doctors are extremely dangerous and really should be only used in dire situations. It’s scary folks!

Probably a lot of the posts on this blog are goofy and quirky but today is today and yesterday was yesterday. Onward and upwards!

ABC Mouse

This is the second time I’ve tried ABC Mouse. The first go around I thought you were stuck using age based curriculum only, I was very wrong. To get the most out of the service, changing grade level is done by clicking “options,” then parent, child settings. This is invaluable to homeschool parents, especially unschoolers who forge way ahead at any given time. 

Modern Cat Giveaway

Check out Modern Cat Magazine on Facebook, they are giving away an awesome, pet hair specialized vacuum to one lucky cat owner!

Avon- Product Recommendation

I’m an Avon Representative and although I don’t like to be forward(pushing products for profit)we ARE homeschooling and I have a teen and my son has a one year old baby girl so extra income would come in handy. 

I’d love to feel successful at my home based business like a lot of people, so I will share my favorite products from Avon and if I get a few customers I’d be forever grateful! I’d definitely offer some giveaways, discounts etc. if I did.

Here is a hand cream that works miracles on dry skin…

My daughter also uses it as a primer when she does my makeup!

You can shop my website through Avon here and it will be shipped directly to you!

Feel free to comment any questions about products and I will get right back to you.

Sensational Sight Words

Today, this set of beginning readers are free for Kindle! Jenna has clicked with them so easily and the majority of the companion sets are available to read for free via Kindle Unlimited and one set through Amazon Prime Reading. 

Spaghetti Tacos ala iCarly

Remember iCarly? Your kids will love Spaghetti Tacos! Not really sure if they were a thing or just a line in the show but it’s a meal I will always serve…SO delicious and easy!!!

Happy and Sad, Like Peanutbutter and Chocolate

Every day for all of my life I’ve been over emotional. That is, until approximately two years ago. Actually, it began slowly about five years ago but for past two years my emotions have been dead…completely gone. My brain has been foggy and I’ve felt like a visitor in foreign land inside of my own body.

I attribute this to many semi-(but common in today’s world)traumatic events occurring in the past thirteen or so years. Telling myself to be strong and tough, to suck it up and not be a cry baby really took hold all of a sudden and I proceeded to be a shell of my former self. My oldest daughter, Paige won’t even watch tear jerker movies with me because I’m like a statue with no emotions but I think that’s about to change.

In the past week or so I catch myself getting weepy at joyous things, sad things…I’m coming back to life! You have to have sadness to be happy, I’ve figured that out. Just like I’m always so paranoid about germs and getting sick…BUT don’t we always feel like a million bucks after recovering fully from a cold or flu? You have to have bad to appreciate the good.

It’s exciting to be excited about feeling life again! I’m looking forward to enjoying things like I used too but appreciating them much, much more!

Saturday, there was a little person here that always brightens our world, Miss Sophia, World’s Best Granddaughter!

Flash Card Fun

You either love or hate flash cards, I adore them! Like everything, all fc are not created equal. I love these from Trend(Jenna took off on the right track immediately!)They are straight forward.

I also make flash cards out of copy paper and Sharpie which is limitless. She’s working on two books and will be reading them completely soon. She’s five in December.


My Mom said I was a wonderful teacher, my reply was that I have a very eager student which is the best case scenario. I consider myself blessed and lucky…and honored.

My Lil Guinea Pig

I’m the mother of a son and two daughters, 21, 14 and 4. It’s been a dream of mine to homeschool and Jenna, who turns 5 in December will be unschooled at home. 

Ever so thankful that the same group of teachers who were mean to my son sixteen years ago infuriated me this summer to prompt my decision. I will be forever grateful.

Alex Spin Art Spinner was an awesome purchase! Jenna loves it and I have a list in my head of cheap refill ideas.

Stack the States Apple App Store App has single handedly taught Jenna every state in the nation, a lot of capitals and landmarks. Stack the States 2 and Stack the Countries are also amazing apps.

We are very much,  in to the “unschool,” approach. Children are capable of teaching themselves if they have an interested, caring adult to give them ideas. It’s a beautiful concept with many roads and paths. My only sadness is that my older two missed out on this kind of learning. Fear of not giving children cookie cutter educations is no longer something that enters my mind.

Free and Bargain Kindle Books

Bookgorilla and Freebooksy are the motherload of free digital books! Lots of bargain prices as well.

One of my wish list books is rock bottom priced today!