A Simple Country Mouse

Normally I write about being a mom, or cooking, or the antics of everyday life in our crazy house, but today I want to go a different direction. Today I want to write about something that we so often forget about when we become parents. Being a spouse. (On a side note before I get started, I seem to have a horrid case of stupid fingers today. So bear with me here please.)  As a mom sometimes I get so caught up in being mom that I forget I'm not just a mom. I'm a woman and a wife too. That means that while I've got kids to take care of, I've also got a husband to love on too. On the flipside, my hubby is not just a father, but a husband too. A husband that's got to love on his wife. Recently Josh and I haven't even been in the same book, let alone on the same page. And I won't lie, it's been really rough. It's been hard trying to figure out how to love on him. I haven't felt like I had the energy or the drive to love him as I should becau...

There's this point in every parent's life when you suddenly hit a wall. This wall seems to be to big to climb, go around, dig under, or drill through. You look at this wall and well let's be honest here, you break down and cry. You feel like a failure. You feel like the world's worst parent because of X, Y, and Z. X- You've spent your whole morning accomplishing nothing more than screaming/disciplining your kid constantly for a whole slew of seemingly endless shenanigans. Y- You can't even get the dishes done without stopping 500 times for hugs, spankings, timeouts, oh and of course the kids beating on each other for no apparent reason. Z- Your kid is a monster...or at least your 99% sure it is. So much so you've even started calling them an it just because you're completely sure this isn't your child. It's a monster that looks, sounds, and even smells like your kid but there's no way this little beasty could possibly have come from your loin...

There is one thing that will save a mom in most suburbia areas when she's got a sick kid and needs emergency supplies like Gatorade and juice. UberEats. If I didn't know better I'd say it was invented for that very reason. For a mom who currently has one kid curled up in bed watching Netflix on her kindle (another couple of wonderful inventions) as she's spent the morning throwing up, having a delivery service bring me coffee, juice, Gatorade, and food so I don't have to try to get to the store is a life saver. A simple to use app that only takes a couple minutes to set up, and allows you access to all kinds of restaurants and even coffee places. They are always adding new places and expanding what you can order. You can choose your favorite places and have them saved right at the top for easy access. Every driver I've ever had has been super sweet and always pretty well on time. You get to rate how the food is, the delivery, and add tips for the drivers all in...

I know I haven't posted in forever. Forgive me please. I had a post all set to finish up when I got some horrid news and have been scrabbling to right our lives ever since. It's been crazy and very, very, very stressful. But hey, on the upside things are looking up finally. Man was last year a doozy. You know I've posted before how just because it's a new year that last year's problems don't always go away. Well that's what I'm dealing with right now. Just before Christmas I received some news that just about ruined our Christmas, and New Year's for that matter. I won't get into it, but suffice to say it was pretty devastating to Josh and I. We've spent the last several weeks trying to get things back in order and while we are almost there with most of it, emotionally we are still pretty damaged. It's amazing how much one thing can effect so much, and how someone's flippant words can cause so much damage. For those of you who don...