Focus On Life: Hearts & Feel The Love (5/52 and 6/52)

I was naughty and missed last weeks Focus on life post. Not that I purposely missed it. I actually did not see any hearts around me at first. And when I did see some sweet little hearts sprayed painted on the road, I did not have my camera.  So after a afternoon of doing laundry and hanging up towels and blankets, They do not fit in my mini dryer.. I looked down at the grass that is turning a vibrant green and saw a patch of clovers in the dirt. Ran inside and grabbed my camera and took some pictures.

I also have two valentine tins that are covered in hearts. Mark dented one of them and the other is in the van. He is not home right now.  I plan to make bead caps with them. But have been delayed.

 The Macro setting on my point and shoot camera is not best and It was very uncomfortable to crouch down and take photos.

Now on to this weeks post.

 Feel The Love 

I feel allot of love from my three kids and my soon to be husband. Mark and I are planning out actual wedding date, well the day that we will get a marriage license. We will not have anything fancy, no wedding dresses and such. Just something very intimate, most likely at his mom's house. So seeing this is a photo prompt post. I shall leave you with pictures of my three kids.. Thank you for stopping by..

Timothy

Mya and Timothy

Mason

Focusing on Life: Take Time Your Yourself (3/52 Photos)

This one may be the hardest yet. I have three kids and a husband. I do not get alone time. I try to bead something every night. It does not always work out that way. Usually when I sit down I am to exhausted to do anything. Or I am in a creative slump. So to grab time to relax is very hard to do. So as I sit down to start this blog post I am whirring ideas around in my head to see what I can actually accomplish.


So here I am Saturday Morning and have not had the time to slow down and take time for myself. The top post was started earlier in this week. Yesterday I had to run Mark to the ER, he has gout in his left foot. Then it was off to take my daughter, Mya to her first therapy session. Came home and rounded the family up for dinner and dishes, laundry, and then of to bed not one, not two but three times for the boys. By the end of the day, I was to tired to do anything and had lost my light.. I did make two set of earrings, photographed one in the bad lighting of my studio. 

These will be rephotographed and added to my etsy later. So on to what I will do for myself today. I will get my house cleaned, we have company coming tomorrow, And I will clean my studio. I shall be back with a followup post that will show what I actually did.

Christmas Day

I had a wonderful Christmas. I got to see my kids faces light up, and see Mason ignore all the hub-bub to watch television. Below you can see a few treasured photos from Christmas morning.

Christmas Eve Present.

Christmas Eve Present

Panda Head!!

Watching Timothy try to open everybody presents.

Being told he can only have one.

 Mason was allowed to play with the wagon for Christmas Eve, He went to bed earlier. He had a busy day playing with a friend.

Christmas Morning!!

Before the kids attacked it.

The ONLY thing she wanted for Christmas. A  Bamboo Drawing Tablet.

Santa bought both the boys a My Pal Scout. It is adorable.

Opening his Mega Blocks.

Caillou came on, and we were forgotten about..

Opening her body spray.

Drooling on a new toy.

Embarrassed by the personal care gifts.

Opening the boys Shared gifts, Mason left us to watch TV.

Opening her jackets, from Nana.

Came back to watch Caillou.. Not interested in his presents.

Not really wanting to open them.

Opens it to make parents happy.

Smiling at her Lemonade Mouth DVD

Still working on the same gift.

Playing with his toys.

Setting up the gift Mason took 20 mins to open.

Inspecting the Mega Block table.

Christmas is hard work.

Deciding if his toy is cooler, or brother rattle is..

Opening Timothy's present.. Mason is playing with the DVR.

Playing with the truck.

 I have video of this toy falling on Timothy when he started opening it. It scared him and he ran (crawled) away. He didn't care to open it anymore.

Playing with his new toy.

I hope you enjoyed looking at some of the photos I took. Sadly we took the tree down after gifts were opened. The boys would not leave the balls alone, if you look at the bottom of the tree photo, by the blue recliner, most of the balls are missing,  I will post the video at a later date. I will have two more blogs before the new year.

Weekend Recap

It is Monday and I wish the weekend could have lasted a little longer. We have a eventful and busy one. Saturday we went to see marks father and did some back to school shopping for my daughter. She is going into 7th grade. I am very surprised that she passed 6th grade. She had a very hard year emotionally and mentally. I will blog about that some other time.

Mya Nicole and Timothy Brayden

She is my little artist. She loves to draw anime. She is at that long stage of being uncomfortable in her skin. She is by far a girly-girl.  And shopping for her was not easy. I got her one southpole shirt from the mens section. Two other shirts were black and gray. and the one I loved the most was shaped like a poncho. We also got Mason some clothes, He is in 3T already! He is a chunk.. We got Timothy superman onsie/pants and a romper.

I read in a book that a one year old should be able to make a tower four blocks high.  I was curious how high Mason could build. Unfortunately he didn't have any blocks. So we fixed that.:)

Timothy and the blocks

I had a hard time getting Mason to sit with us and play. After a little coaxing he joined us. Along with trying to eat the blocks. He finally started to stack the blocks. I was so happy. :)

Seven blocks high!!

I was equally happy when he stacked seven blocks. It fell over but we both were so happy.
Tomorrow I will blog about his new big (BIG) boy bed..

What Luck

I have the worse luck at times and the best luck at times. It's starts with mark getting a new job, well the job lasted and week and the owner did not pay him for that week. So we fell behind.. He found a new job within two weeks from the last job. And a few weeks in to the new job. Our car is repo'd.. Good news is some beady friends send me some feel better gifts.

Next I dropped my iPod and it shattered the outer screen.. The next day Christina from Feng beads announces I won her fraggles giveaway. I have only won two online contents, first was Lori Anderson's Ebook. And the fraggles. I am blessed. I absolutely love my new online friends.

On baby news, Mason is learning to climb up in to the chairs. :) he is almost two. Timothy is wanting to get down and move it like big brother. And even though she is not a "baby", my daughter passed in to 7th grade. This is a blessing. She has been through allot of emotional hard ache this past year.

Love Of A Child

I am a mother of three, my oldest is 13 and my youngest is 5 months today. I do not think I could live if something happened to my children.

Mason Zane born Oct 12, 2010

I do know how hard being a teen mother is, I had my daughter in my late teens. Its a struggle and you can feel alone. I suffered PDD  when I had Mason. I don't know why. But It was a dark time and I felt so alone. It faded and I never once had a thought to harm my child.  I have read stories online the past few months that infuriate me.

A young mother got high and left her 5 week old child in his car seat on the top of her car. She drove away with out noticing the missing child in the back seat. Her baby was discovered hours later in the road.  This report made me mad.

Mya Nicole (13) swimming at Grandmothers

I have also read that a 22 year old mother killed her child for crying while she was playing Farmville... Another mother let a professor she met online rape her 5 month old daughter while she watched. ARE YOU KIDDING ME!!

Mya Nicole (11) and Mason (3mo)

The worse was last night. I have heard about this video and wanted to dismiss it as a rumor. Mya came out of her room last night hysterically crying. She watched a mother beat her 8 month old baby, while being recorded and others stood around and watched. I watched this video while I held Timothy. It made me physically sick. This woman beat her baby with a pillow, tried to break her arm and leg, pulled her hair, and slapped her in the face/head. This poor soul crawled to this woman and wanted comfort. She shoved her away and continued to beat her.

Timothy Brayden born Jan 6, 2012

I cried and hung on to Timothy, and prayed for this baby.



I did not sleep last night, I kept seeing this poor baby being abused, and wondered if she was still alive. These women do not deserve to be mothers. The love of a child is something sacred. I know someone who is struggling to have a baby. And she would be a wonderful mother. Instead innocent souls get born to monsters.

Mason Zane (18 mo) and Timothy Brayden (4 mo) Easter 2012