The World According to Leslie

For my entire life, I have had the same 24 hours every day.  12 midnight to 12 midnight.  How is it that now, I don’t seem to get anything accomplished in those 24 hours?   My Schedule: Mondays: Work Cheerleading (for Chasity) Homework and Lesson Planning (for me) Tuesdays: Work Homework and Lesson Planning Wednesdays: Work Class (for me until 8:15pm) Gymnastics (for Chasity—which I have to miss) Homework and Lesson Planning Thursdays: Work Girl Scouts (for Chasity and me) Homework and Lesson Planning Fridays: Work CRASH! Saturdays: Cheerleading (for Chasity) Sundays: Church Homework and Lesson Planning Grocery Shopping   Granted….. there is always something else added to the Saturday and Sunday schedule.  For example, this Saturday, I have to work.  Beginning on Feb. 18th, we have Girl Scout Cookie Booths on Friday-Sundays!    I just feel SO behind!  Some days Most days I need another 2-3 hours.    Anyone els

Why would you want to raise a selfish child?  Well, that is a great question!    I never wanted to raise a selfish child, but it seems as though that is how the hubs and I have raised her.  So here is where we went wrong. 1.  We loved her too much. 2. We gave her things she didn’t ask for, but we thought she would enjoy them.  (She did.) 3. We taught her that she should share even if it means that she will have less than what she really wants to have. 4. We gave her everything that she needed. I’m not sure how we could have gone so wrong!  But, alas, we did!  With those few steps above, and a few others I’m sure, we have raised a really selfish child. I am hoping that this selfish thing is just a phase.  If not, she may end up with black pants, white t-shirts, 1 pair of shoes, and NO toys!  Why am I so upset with her?  That is a story for a different day.  Just know…. I have raised a selfish child.  You can too!    However…. no matter how selfish she is, she is M

Tomorrow the lovelies at school begin their exams.  They continue them until next week.  Then I get a couple of teacher workdays.  (I just need to have time to FILE some stuff! LOL)  Then... the following week..... our new semester starts.  So does Chasity's.  It won't be long until Spring Break!  You'll never believe it, but Chasity and I have the same Spring Break (I think!).  I need to check again before I state that for sure!

On December 29, 2011, I had had a headache for over two months.  I'm not talking about little nagging things.  I'm talking about headaches that made it hard to open my eyes, to focus on what I was doing, or to keep a train of thought.  It was hard to sleep.  It was hard to stay awake.  It was hard to do much of anything. The headache started one morning.  I woke up with it.  I don't even remember the morning that it started.  I thought it was related to my sinuses.  I took sinus meds.  I took pain meds.  Then a couple days (maybe 3) later, when I was still in pain, I stopped taking meds.  I had medicine anyway.  The fact that the sinus meds and pain meds weren't working meant that it wasn't a sinus infection and that I was going to have a headache for a few days. Before I had Chasity, I had ONE headache for a YEAR!  Yes!  I went to the doc for tests!  No!  They couldn't figure out why I was having a headache.  Finally one day, I woke up and it was GONE!

How is it that I missed two days of blogging already?  However, I have already blogged more in this MONTH than I did in the last 3 months of 2011. Girl Scout cookie season just started, so I am in the beginning stages of being the "Cookie Nazi".  Ask anyone in my troop....I'm a COOKIE NAZI!! I'm really late getting to bed tonight! Hopefully I'll fall asleep quickly.  I need to start getting more sleep. So I guess I am going to go take my headache medicine (that is definitely a story to tell)!  Then I am going to bed!

Wow..... Today is the last day of my vacation from work.  I have to get up at 4am tomorrow! OMG!  I am not sure why I am still awake at 10pm!  My hour commute tomorrow is going to be SO hard! So now, I am going to hit the bed I do believe. Tomorrow I might have something even more interesting to say! :)

WOW!  It has been almost 4 months since I have written. There are so many things that have happened since September.  I started working. I interviewed for another job. I didn't get the other job. I have been on Christmas break since December 20th @ 3pm. :)  Now, I am going to set a goal for myself.  I don't normally do resolutions.  I tend to break them quickly. But, when I set goals, I tend to keep them.... at least for longer.  My goal is to write daily this year.  Even if I don't have anything mind-blowing to write about.  I want to write, at least a sentence or 3, every day.  I think it would be good for my soul to write things out. Maybe if I get in the habit of writing, I will have a good habit of writing. Of course, I just watched the movie "Julie and Julia" yesterday.  I would LOVE to come up with something like that to write about.  For now, I think I will settle for just writing a little about life every day.  Then I will find something tha