Busy Bee

WOW! This is going to be a very busy next couple of days. I got home last night from work a little after 1a.m. (I guess that this was this morning) I was up again before 8a.m. in order to get some homework done and now the fun begins. I have to now take the kids to the Boardwalk and go to the movies all before I have to be back at work tonight. Tomorrow I have to get back up and go to work to work the Tim McGraw event at his concert. I believe that this is going to be fun. I have to serve beverages at the VIP event before the concert and then my boss bought us tickets to attend the show. This is going to be a long day tomorrow and Monday doesn't get any better. School on Monday morning then work that night. I can not wait until Spring Break where I might get a day where I do not have to do anything, but I don't think  that will happen. I hope everyone has a great weekend!

Registering for classes

I have been looking for my classes for the Summer and Fall. This is a total nightmare if I must say. I only have 30 more hours or ten classes, which ever way that you want to look at it. I look at it as 10 more classes. I am running into a problem that I can not find enough classes to fit into my schedule. This is really starting to irritate me. I am so close to getting finished with school and I basically run into a brick wall. With all the budget cuts, it is cutting down on the number of classes that are being offered, which is causing my problem.
I am going to go back now and see if by some miracle that I can find a way to do this where I can graduate this winter. Wish me luck, because I need all the luck that I can get right now.

Family Vacation

I am currently on my first family vacation with just my husband and kids. We are at the Great Wolf Lodge for the weekend. I was just sitting in the hot tub and remembered that I had a blog to write that was due yesterday, so I ran up to the room to write it. This is a great place to visit if you have children or if you just like water parks. It is cold outside today so we can not go out side and swim but inside is really the funnest anyways. The slides are awesome. I am going to make this short as I really want to go back and have some fun!

One Tired Girl Here

Oh! I so not know how I make it sometimes. With work, school and home life, this past week I have gotten about 4-5 hours of sleep each night. I get up in the morning between 5:30 and 6:00 a.m. in order to get my kids ready for school. When I leave the house at 6:40 a.m. I begin my daily adventures of driving from one side of Shreveport, to Bossier, to Shreveport, back to Bossier and then finally back to Shreveport begins. THe kids get dropped off at school and I head to school myself; depending on what day it is determines how long I am at school. When I get finished with my classes, I drive to have lunch with my husband (some-days this is the only time we get to see one another). After lunch I have about a hour to try to cram in as much homework before I have to get the kids from school. I get the kids at 2:30 and either take them to the house or take them to my husbands work, this all depends on what time I have to work or if my daughter has a soccer game. Then I am off to work for 3:45. Work is long, I usually get out of there around 10:00-11:00 p.m., depending on how busy we were. Then I finally get to go back home, which I haven't been to since early this morning.
This makes for a really long day and a really stressful one. I try to get everything done in such a little time. I have managed to get most of my homework done, I will admit that I have forgotten to do a few things in the last week and I am not happy about this.

Good news! Next weekend I will take a three day break! I am taking my kids to The Great Wolf Lodge. This considered  I will get some rest, but I am not sure about any homework that I will have. I am going to try to get everything done before we leave where I will not have to stress about it when I am trying to relax. Okay, I think that I have complained enough about how tired I am, but in the long run it will all be worth it.

Nasty Stuff Going Around

Uh! I thought that I had avoided that stomach bug that is going around, but I didn't. Today is the first day that I have been able to spend my day outside of the bathroom. I was so sick I thought that I was going to die. I missed turning in so much of my homework in my online classes and my classes I attend on campus that I am going to have to work extra hard to make sure that I get all of the points that I can on all of my assignments.
So I hope that none of you have to experience this stomach bug that is going around and if you do I know how you feel. Like death.

Sneaky Daughter

I am going to tell you how sneaky kids can be. Last week my daughter was going to eat with some friends, so I gave her $20 to pay for her meal and told her to bring me back the change. When she returned home I was at work and she tried to give it to her dad, but he told her to keep it. I was not aware of this and I had forgotten that I was suppose to get change.
While working Sunday afternoon, I received a text from her asking if I would take her to get some shoes. She said that she had some money and was going to pay for them. I agreed to take her.
Well I took her this afternoon to get the shoes and I thought that I would be nice and buy her another pair that she wanted. I paid with my debit card and she put the money that she had into my purse. On our way to her soccer game I remembered that I never received my change and it got me to thinking. I looked in my purse and she had put $20 in there. My wheels started to turn and I asked her if that was the same money that I gave her to pay for her dinner. She said no and began to laugh. That was the same money!! How sneaky is that. So instead of me just buying her one pair of shoes, I really bought them both. It was a very smart thing for her to do, but very sneaky at the same time.

Mardi Gras Parades

While I was attending the Mardi Gras parade last Saturday with my family and friends, I realized that people do not teach their children manners. Also, parents really do not keep watch over their kids very well.
I had my two children and I tool my friends three girls with me because she was ill. There were also five more adults with us and ten other kids ranging from 2-16.  The whole time we had a watch over our children and made sure that they did not go out of our sight, but I can not say the same for the people around us. We had several children wonder over to where we were and start playing with our kids and later the parents would frantically come looking fro them. I do not understand this.

I also came to the conclusion that parents do not teach their children manners either. Like I said before, we had several children under the age of ten. These kids love to get things off of the floats and love to watch them go by. I had an issue with older kids getting in front of the babies and then taking everything that was thrown their way. I was so furious at these kids, but I managed not to say anything to them. I was there to make sure that the kids had a good time, not to argue and fight with kids and their parents.

Remodeling

Ok, I have made a note to myself and sharing with everyone that remodeling is not fun. You should never try to remodel your home while you are going to school and working. Take time off to do this! I am putting new floors in my house and my house is turned upside down. I can not find anything and everything is everywhere. I can only do so much in a day with the school, work, kids and everything else life throws at you. I am actually writing this blog from my phone because my Internet is not connected right now. I can only explain how long this is taking and how frustrating it is. I will be so glad when thus is over with and I hope that all of this hard work and frustration is worth it.

Children this day and age

I was sitting here thinking about the way that children are raised in this day and age. Now don't get me wrong I am guilty of a lot of the things that I am going to talk about. We all want to give our children everything that we didn't have as kids and want to be able to give them more than we had. Is this right or wrong? Are the children growing up now going to get use to the fact that they are given everything and not have to work for what they want?
I know that I give my children everything that they want, if I am able to. I probably give them more than they deserve, but I want to be that parent that doesn't have to tell their children no. My children are both A-B honor roll and do very well in school, so I reward them for their accomplishments. Is this wrong? I want them to know that doing good in school is something that they need to strive for and I reward them with gifts when they do so.

But is this setting them up for failure when they become older? The younger adults, I will call them adults even though they do not act like it, that I work with have no sense of work ethic. Most either come to work late, do not show up, or work as little as possible to get by. Will my children act this way? How do I instill in them that working hard for what you want, gets you to where you want? Am I doing this by the way that I reward them for their good grades? Should I stop and just tell them that good grades are expected of them and not reward them? Am I doing the right thing?

Tips

Tips-- it should be 10% or more! I wished that people that come into restaurants would understand this point. We servers are only making $2.13 an hour and we rely on the tips that we make every night. If you do not have the money to properly tip a server, then you should go through a drive through.
I can understand if the service is not 100% not to tip appropriately, but I give my all in my work and I would appreciate it if you would tip equal to the service that you receive. Also, if you have a gift card or a coupon that does not mean that you can subtract the amount off the bill and then tip with that amount. I served you x amount of dollars in food, whether you pay for it or not you should still tip. I wished that it could be mandatory to tip appropriately on all tickets.
I will get off of my soap box now, just please if you go to a restaurant, please tip appropriately.

Breath Taking Morning

As I went out this morning to take the dog out and sip on my coffee, I noticed how beautiful it was outside. The ground is covered in snow and the sun is shinning. The sunlight coming through the trees are making a remarkable scene of sparkles and shine. I can see all the little animals that have made their way around the yard as we slept last night. There are little paw/foot marks going in every direction. I sit and listen to the birds chirping and singing and watch the squirrels running and playing. This is a beautiful site to see.
Now I am sitting watching out of the window my children playing in the white powder that have blanketed our yard. They are having a blast, I would go out with them but it is to cold for me and I have homework that needs to get done. This is one memory that I will keep forever. This weather shows how one little thing like snow covering your yard will make you stop and look and realize what truly is important in your life and how something so little can brighten your day.

Motivation

 The weather, stress, lack of sleep, or family obligations? What is the cause of me not being motivated to do anything. I have pulled up my blog at least two times a day everyday this week and I am just now posting. I do not want to do anything, not even take a nap. This is crazy! I am usually on top of things and on the go all the time, but this body does not want to do anything.
I know the fact that I need to loose a little weight will help me have more energy, but then again I am not motivated to work out. I am usually always on the go, but the last couple of days I have only done what I absolutely had to do.  I made it to all my classes and I came home and took care of the family, but I did not go to work or do any homework. I made myself today get up to clean the bathroom and wash some cloths, but not much of anything more was done by me. I really need to get out of this rut that I am in because I have to much stuff that needs to be done for me to just do nothing.
We will see what happens, I think I am going to get dinner done for the family and maybe get some of this homework done that I have put off to the last minute. Wish me luck!