Made a Decision....

I've decided that I'm going to turn this blog around and post about my life in a perspective that is probably unique to some, but not all. Like my last post I stated that the reason I was gone was the fact I became pregnant with my about to be 1 yr old daughter and the fact that we just moved not long after her birth. I didn't state that right when we found out I was pregnant my husband became injured at his job and after much discussion I decided to continue to work at my job, since I made the most money, and he stay at home and become Mr. Mom.

Yes that is right the roles have reversed in my home, I go off to work every morning and earn the BIG BUCKS, while my husband stays home and takes care of the kids, cooks, cleans, helps our son with his homework, takes our kids to their after school activites, mows the lawn, etc., etc, etc...............In the long run it works out my kids get to be raised by a parent instead of a stranger and we save at least 1000/month on childcare. I originally though that it would be a good idea for him to continue using my blog and write about his plights as a stay at home dad, but he really doesn't like to type, so it came down to me.

I love my husband and he does a great job raising our children the best way he can, with our hyper active 6 yr old son and our starting to walk daughter, the phone calls I get during my work hours are hysterical. I think the first call I got the first week, was the hysterical yet frightening out of all of them. My then 4 yr old son had figured out how to open the triple child proof locked window to his room and climbed out onto the roof of our two story house instead of taking his nap. He didn't get hurt, he was given a good time out and luckly the roof he was on was flat and not steep, but that call scared me to tears and almost wished we never made this decision. But when I came home finding what my husband had did to remedy the situation was hysterical, lets just say a bookshelf was sitting in front of the window and the new house we just moved into is only one story. He made sure that the door to our son's room during naptime was open at all times, so he could hear our son and he never underestimated him again. My husband is a work in progress and still after almost 2 yrs of doing this he is still giving me entertaining phonecalls of how our daughter takes off her diaper to our son making mudpies in the backyard.

The best part of this is watching him raise our children and be in their lives, which would have never happened if he didn't get injured. We both worked and had to rely on strangers to raise our son, but now we don't have to worry. Yes his back still bothers him from time to time and yes we could probably use the extra money due to these stressful economical times, but we don't need extra money to rent a movie, buy tons of snack foods, or eat out, what we have sits next to us every night to read them a story or watch a funny tv show, color a page together or just to be rocked to sleep. Those are what is important in life and will always be in my eyes and his. We may not have a glamourized life, but its our lives and we make due how we can.

Back from the Blogging darkness

Sorry to some of my readers about my sudden disappearence a year and half ago, but many things came into play. I became pregnant with my daughter and moved into a new home, so my life has been really busy as of late. I will be returning to my site now probably posting once a month maybe more depending on the headlines that have hit a nerve with me. I'm sorry it took me soo long to return, but I promise to stay on track. Hopefully the ones that left me will return once more, but I'm going to count my blessings that a few of you still come on here and ask me when I will return.

I'm back!!!

Ban Spanking in Massachuetts What??

I just read an article in my local paper about how state legistation(sp?) in Massachuetts is trying to ban corporal punishment (aka spanking) as illegal and if caught spanking or hitting your child under the age of 18 will be considered abuse and neglect and jail time will be considered! What the Fuck! When did spanking your child become such a bad issue, now I do give my son a quick wack on the butt if he does something really bad or after several time outs don't seem to be working, but considering it abuse is just down right stupid and taking away the rights of the parent to punish their child how they see fit.
I used to live in SC where corporal punishment is still allowed in the school, but the parent has to sign a form for approval, now this should be in effect in most schools I think since maybe the kids will behave more. I was spanked as a child and probably several people on here as well and it didn't screw me up at all. I'm 27 yrs old and still respect my parents and other people. Also as being a parent I don't think its wrong to spank your child if it keeps them in line and after several other punishments don't seem to work and if you are a parent of a young child you will agree that half the time, shoot most of the time, TIME OUTS DON'T ALWAYS WORK OR EVER AT ALL in case of the child and who he or she is. It seems more and more lately the government is taking away more parents rights. Am I not the only one who thinks this?