The Life of a Home Mom

This topic is going to be all about BlogHer, Class and Shopping with Kids and if those three phrases didn’t make you break out a sweat or scream I don’t know what will. Okay well maybe this will do it….I went school shopping with all four kids today. Where did we go?  Walmart of course because they have cheap prices and I like to save money when I can. Since we only have a week before schoolstarts (less than that since they go back on Thursday) there isn’t much time left to grab those clothes, supplies, pay the school book bills (Did you know that only three states in the United States charge for renting school books? Indiana is one of them) I had the kids pick out two outfits each. Not to worry they’ll get more next week, shhh don’t tell them. (Geez I hope they aren’t reading my blog today.) I wanted them to try on the outfits for me, since daddy wasn’t here I had to wait outside the fitting room with Little A and wait for all three of the older to try on outfits. We were there (in the store) for well over three hours. Ugh! Ready to pull your hair out yet?

No? Okay, well imagine for the very last class homework (College) assignment you have to do an oral presentation online. Yep, that’s what I had to do tonight. So on top of a frazzled day of shopping (even though they were on their best behavior I still hate seeing the price at the register to go over $200) I had a voice that was going in and out, I’m still not over that darn cold so I have moments where I have no voice what-so-ever. Now my horror of talking and having it record was coming up. I use to love doing speeches but not like this. I did it, but went .27 seconds over so not sure how I did. Still with me?

BlogHer ‘10 is currently going on in New York City, which I had really hoped it would be somewhere near me next year so I could DEFINITELY go. I found out after reading my blog buddy’s blog, “Mrs.Day” that it has been announced that “BlogHer ‘11 will in fact be in San Diego, California. I’m not sure if I can go but I figure I could kill a bunch of birds with that trip. Why? Hmmm, I have family near San Diego, some in the Mojave Desert, LA and of course the hubby has some in Northern California and Vegas. So this might be possible. It would be pretty cool to meet some of the bloggers and PR people I’ve done business with over the years. Erica, of “Mrs.Day” is talking about trying to go too. I would love to meet her, she seems like a lot of fun and gives it to you straight.

Lets go over to to Mrs.Day blog and take a peek. She introduces herself as not being a domestic goddess, which makes me laugh because by no means am I. In fact the kids will joke that I’ll burn down the house if I cook, truth is I’ve never burned down the house, however I have had to take out all the batteries to the smoke detectors when I do because they are so darn sensitive. She even got married March 30th, the day after SoccerBoy turned 13, and it was to her very first boyfriend. Oh and by this I mean they reconnected after 20 years. Wow, imagine running into your old high school sweetheart after 20 years, falling back in love and getting married?  It sounds sweet, truth is I’ve been with mine now for 14 years. I hope Mr & Mrs Day share 14+ years together full of happy memories. The part that really makes me smile was in her comment section, her new stepson wrote how happy he was to have her as his mom. SOOOO SWEET!

Now before she got married she already had one son but when they married she was welcomed by 5 more boys. Read her post on how she keeps a bit of femininity into a house full of boys. Don’t forget to tell her I sent ya. Enjoy. Will you be going to Blogher 11?

Tags: Blogher '10, Blogher 11, school shopping

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