I So Suck

Yeah, I totally do suck! How do I manage to let 2 months go by without posting? Amazing how easily those days just tick away, it really doesn’t seem like it’s been that long. I don’t think people who don’t blog really realize how much work blogging really is. When I had my first blog I literally would spend all day doing stuff for my blog and things related to blogging….like being a Mom it was a full time job that didn’t really pay LOL. I made a little bit of money doing website reviews and such…but no more in a year that what most people make working a few days at a full time job. I don’t have that kind of time to put into blogging right now, though I certainly didn’t mean to have such a long hiatus already. I would like to be a regular blogger, though not an obsessed one as I used to be….for now anyway LOL.

I haven’t been MIA for no reason at all, life can just be so darn busy LOL. I was planning for a road trip when I last blogged and now I’m getting ready to plan another one that we’re going on in a couple of weeks. I’ve also got the Contest bug back again, I used to enter a lot and while I didn’t win anything huge(yet!) I did win some things so thought I would try to get back into it and see what else I can win….maybe finally win something big . And I have my Facebook game that I love(Treasure Madness) which I don’t play to the extent I used to but I try to keep up with because I gave it up once and when I started it again it took me months to catch up again….so I try to keep that up….crazy I know, it’s just a game LOL, but hey, it’s my “fun” thing! On top of all that I’m a Mom of course which always takes up time, yeah my kids are a little older and fairly independent….but it still takes a lot of time to yell and nag y’know! LOL!

Now in addition to planning our road trip I need to plan our school year. The kids were going to be going into online school this year instead of me homeschooling them, but after some major problems with our school board we have switched boards and the new board doesn’t offer online. This other board is supposed to be a really good one though, and a change was definitely needed after the way the other board was treating us. So bad that I had to tell them to stop contacting us unless they offer us a full apology and I informed them I was filing a complaint with my MLA and with the Minister of Education…..I haven’t decided yet if I will file those complaints or not. I want to because I don’t want any more families to be treated as we were(we’re not the first they’ve done stuff like this to), but at the same time dealing with them for the past year or so has been so emotionally draining for me I don’t know if I can handle dragging it out(I don’t handle stress well at all). So because of all that I need to plan their curriculum which I wasn’t planning on being the case this year. My youngest is still easy because he’s going into grade 6, Elementary grades are super easy to plan. My oldest is Grade 8 though and way more complicated because of a serious lack of curriculum choice I have found for Jr High grades for Homeschooling. And since we’re going to be with a new board I sort of want to wait until we meet our new facilitator sometime in September likely, to see what they would suggest. So I need stuff to get them started for the year until I meet with him/her and can plan for the rest of the year.

Ok, well that was a long boring post after 2 months away LOL! I promise the next one will be better! Next post should either be an outfit or a post about where I’ve been doing my shopping lately…..depends what I feel like doing at the time LOL!

I would like to offer a special THANK YOU to Yoli from Diva Deep in Thought! I have to admit I was also feeling a bit bummed because I was having a hard time getting readers and I’m not sure why….I never had that hard of a time before getting readers and even though I was reading, following and commenting on other people’s blogs it wasn’t doing anything to get some of my favorite bloggers to read to come and read mine too. So I guess that might have made it a little easier to let the days tick by without blogging because I was so bummed about that. I just found out that Yoli asked where I went on her blog….I’m not sure if she has been reading mine but at least she paid attention to me commenting on hers(hers is one of my favorites! I just got good vibes from the first time I read her blog, I like kind and genuine people and that’s the vibe I get from her). Even though it was a while ago she asked about me it was just a few days ago I found out, and that made me feel so good and gave me the push to make an effort to try blogging again! So, thank you Yoli!

Jolene