Attempting to be a Super Mom

I seem to have abandoned my blog again. I have a habit of doing that. I don't mean to. It just happens. I've really abandoned the internet altogether outside of work. I guess the important thing is that I'm here, updating now. There is some big things happening right now for our family. I just can't talk about them yet. I don't want to jinx anything. I've been working odd times during the day for me this past week and a half, and now we are getting into the August rush at work which means overtime. I'm lucky and only have to do it on Saturday afternoons but that means my whole Saturday is shot. I really cannot wait until the day I can become a stay at home mom. I really do like my job it's just getting too stressful for me. Ben is really starting to use his words. Today he was telling me "sure" every time I asked him a question. He's become very acquainted with his time out corner now. If you ask him, "Do you want to go t...

Since we were at the lake last week, I thought it would be fun to do a craft of under the water creatures. Since we were at Table Rock Lake and lake creatures aren't as cool to children as some ocean creatures can be we'll be doing things like fish, turtles, and octopuses. Also, I probably don't want to know what scary things were in the water we swam in at the lake. Today we did fish. Ben really enjoyed it and only ate part of one crayon which he quickly spit back out. We had a lot of fun. Ben coloring his fish: Our finished fishies :

Sorry for the gap in postings, my family and I have been on vacation. We went to Table Rock Lake with my in-laws. We really had a blast. We swam, road in the boat, ate good food, watched the fireworks display, and enjoyed good company. Shawn's cousin Zach has twin girls, that I believe are three, and they were there. Ben doesn't really get much time with other children his age, which is something I often feel guilty about, but he played really well with them. Those girls were so funny. Ben was driving them around in a golf cart (not really driving but pretend) and one of them told him "It's ok Ben, use your imagination." One had me taking pictures of her constantly while the other one was telling me all kinds of wild things such as "If you eat diet and drink diet then you'll poop diet." This was said while she was drinking a diet caffeine free coke. Today, Ben and I went grocery shopping. He likes to hold the keys, so I let him hold the...