Before I was a mom!!

Before I was a mom I would stay up all night long just to watch TV. I would work from 8pm to 6am and then go straight to school and still not be tired. Before I was a mom I spent my paychecks on clothes, shoes, and things I never really needed. Before I was a mom I went to parties almost every weekend. I didn't care about anybody or anything but myself. I did not put much heart into education or work or didn't care what people said to me or the tips they were giving me about life. Whenever an adult spoke to me, all I could say was "whatever". But all that was BEFORE I became a parent. Now my clubbing turned into PJ parties watching Spongebob and new Disney movies over and over and over again. My bed time is now at 9pm and my alarm clock are my children who run into my room each morning and scream "mom we are hungry". There is no sleeping in, or being careless. Now I spend my money on my children instead of myself. Right now I am tired, but right now I am a mom. All of this sounds so horrible to some of you, I am sure. But my children are the best thing that ever happened to me. They brighten my day, put a smile on my face every day. I became an adult and take advice from others and give advice. I care more about others then myself, school became very important to me. I want to be somebody, I want to give a great example to my babies. I would not change a thing. I am a mom now and I am going to be a mom for the rest of my life and this is the greatest job a woman could ever have. I feel accomplished and found my destiny in my life, I found myself. Sometimes there are days when I doubt myself but when my children say the three words "I love you" I know I am doing everything just right.

Thomas the cat.

Dear friends,
About 4 months ago we have adopted a Kitty. Beautiful redish- white male who we named Thomas or Tom or meowzer :) He is a very good kitty who loves to sleep, eat, and play. Last night he gave us a huge scare, he "ran" away. He was gone almost all night and I have spent half the night searching for him. It was not typical for Tom, he usually never leaves the front porch, he doesn't like water, but show me a cat that does. It was raining really bad last night and he was nowhere to be seen. I called him, walked up and down the street but he was nowhere to be found. Many thoughts crossed my mind, I thought he was eaten by some wild animal for dinner, or late night snake. Or ran over, or strangled by a snake. I cried and waited, and every 30 min I went out and called him over and over and over again with no results.
When I finally started to close my eyes I heard a loud miau and somebody trying to open the front door. We are talking about 6am here when our little "adventurer" finally came home. He jumped on my lap as soon as I sat back down, look at me and started to cuddle and purr. I was so happy to see him that I couldn't even yell at him, but would he even understand why I'm yelling? Probably not :) as I was watching him snooze away I wondered where he was and what was going on through his head. Those are questions that will stay unanswered forever since animals.don't talk. But I know for sure that he was very happy to be back home, his actions proved it to me. He is still sleeping at its already noon, he had a very long night but thankfully he is back home and....grounded!!!!!

The little things matter!!!

Today I have finally got my last box with the rest of my belongings from Kansas. I was so happy unpacking each item that I almost cried. Charlie calls me a hoarder but I see it differently, to me every item has a meaning. May it be a coffee mug. For Charlie is " just" a mug for me is more then that. It reminds me of a great gift he gave me years ago, he probably already forgot it came from him but I didn't. So as you all can see little things matter in life. I am starting to feel at home here in South Carolina, now that I have all of my things back, I can finally say welcome home my family, welcome home.