So sorry it has been so long since my last post. I have had different people saying they want to read another post, and as much as I have been MEANING to blog and WANTING to blog, I have simply not had the time or have just been plain exhausted. There has been a lot going on these past few months. And to put it simple, I'm now not only a mother of two boys, I am now a mother of 2 boys on the move. This makes it where I literally want to crawl into bed when they are tucked in for the night. Not only do I now have 2 mobile boys, but one of them turned 3. Enough said. He's 3. And the other one, wants your undivided attention. All. Of. The. Time. I thought as you bring more kids into the picture, they get less and less needy. This is not the case, and I'm only on child #2. Mr. G either wants to be held or talked to all of the time, or if he's not being paid attention too, he is sure to be getting into trouble. Like...his favorite thing ever, dog food. Our poor dog, Oscar, usually does not get to eat until 9 at night because if I put his food and water down during the day, it's usually means G and Oscar are "sharing" the dog food. Or even more likely, G is eating the dog food while Oscar is just watching from a distance.
In the midst of being exhausted with my mobile boys, doesn't the heat make people more tired and less motivated too? Or is it just me and a bad excuse? Regardless if it's just a bad excuse, we live in a house with no central air. That's right, no central air. This in turn makes my hubby and I quite irritable to say the least. Sorry to say it, but I can not WAIT for the Fall. We have now decided to have the TV and play area downstairs, while one of the portable air conditioning units is upstairs. Make sense? Probably not. But the basement is much more kid friendly, I feel. There's carpet down there for one. And we're hoping now when people come over, they won't walk right into a mess. We'll let them get comfortable. Make their way to the kitchen, maybe offer them something to drink, and then go down stairs and WHAM! Hit them with the mess that happens when you have children. Before, the couch and TV were upstairs, so naturally, so were we. Which then meant toys and chaos were upstairs as well. You walk in, and it was a cluttered mess. Now you walk in and their isn't even furniture. Not lying. We're in re-vamp mode, so you may just come in to my Scentsy mess, but otherwise, not a whole lot is going on. Ha! But back to my excuse about being hot. The heat has gotten to me more than ever this summer. And most likely, it's because I am now a stay at home mom, working businesses at HOME. Before I went to work and froze my tush off for a full day, and then spent only a few hours in a non air conditioned home. I'm thinkin' that's the difference of why I want the summer over and I want it over NOW.
I just returned home from Las Vegas (speaking of heat) on Saturday. This was the longest I had ever been away from either one of my boys. They were definitely in good hands, but it was still hard. I didn't cry...until the 2nd day. Of course the day that the Scentsy Convention started, and I needed to be focused, was the day that I got big knots in my stomach, and I felt like I was going to cry at any given moment. I kept it together pretty well, though. I honestly think i didn't cry the first day because as much as I LOVE my boys, I will be honest when I tell you, I needed a break. Apparently 24 hours was long enough before I started getting emotional.
The Scentsy Convention was nothing less than amazing! Not only did it make me realize that I am doing what I'm meant to be doing, but it also encouraged me in ways that I can't even begin to explain. #1, I am doing a job that allows me to be home with my boys. To watch them grow. To help me grow as a mother. But I am also doing a job, where I can help others achieve their dreams as well! I absolutely love that I can grow my team, and encourage my team to be all that they can be. The sky is the limit with Scentsy. We are our own boss. Our success or failure is up to us individually. It's all scary and exciting at the same time.
Scentsy's philosophy has always been to give more than you take. They also encourage setting goals for yourself. I have ALWAYS been a goal setter. However, I have only written down on a piece of paper what my goals are, a few times. How are you ever supposed to achieve your goals, if you have nothing to remind you what your goals are! Goals excite me. They challenge me. They make me feel accomplished. Even if you "fail" at a goal, you have something to work toward. Something to make you work harder at. So...I will list ONE of my goals, to hold me more accountable. Because quite frankly...this goal is probably the one that I would let slip through the cracks if I didn't have someone holding me accountable. For everyone that knows me, and knows me well, you probably know that I don't like reading. Never have. Not only do I not like reading, but I don't have the attention span for it. I am the person that reads 5 pages and will have no idea what I just read, but I probably know what I will be doing on the weekend or what my grocery list is. Why? Because I was thinking about everything else EXCEPT what I was reading. So I am bound and determined to read 'Eat That Frog'. This is the "go-to" book that I hear so many people referring too from my Scentsy family. I am also determined to LEARN something from this book. I won't bore you with a book report when I am done. But if it is as good as everyone says it is, I'm sure I will be referencing it in here. So wish me luck on achieving my first "publicly stated" goal :)
Thanks for stopping! It won't be so long next time. Promise.
