Its Friday!  I am so happy its Friday.  I have had a busy week, and I am not sure why?  I have been out and about almost every night but not really doing anything constructive.  I am feeling a bit overwhelmed today at what I have to do this weekend and for the next three.  I would love to get more stuff done for Croptoberfest, like plan a menu, purchase some new chairs, and a couple more make and takes.  I would love to wash and bring my patio furniture downstairs for the winter as I haven't sat on it in a while.  I would love to cut the lawn and weed my garden.  I would love to dust the bedrooms, change the beds, clean the bathrooms, dust the main floor, vacuum and mop.  This is my list.  I know its alot but I don't have any plans in concrete right now other than soccer Sunday morning.  I also have to go shopping for an outfit.  You see one of my baby cousins is getting married Oct. 13 and I want to look and feel good.  BUT I hate shopping for me.  I love getting the kids stuff, house stuff, really anything but stuff for  me.  My brother said he will come with me and wants to go to the Rideau Centre but the thought of going there just does not excite me.  I think I will push the shopping to the following weekend.  Thanksgiving is coming up and we have another family function that I need to do stuff for but again, not so much the inspired for that either.  To be honest I want to crawl in my bed, watch BONES, which I am totally addicted to, and do nothing.  I am in a bit of a funk I think.  I have no idea why either.  My daycare kids have been rockn', my kids, well they are my kids and they are fine.  I think I need to exercise but I am to lazy to.  So, what should I do?  How can I get all geared up for the weekend, and do what I need to do, and still do nothing?  Got any wonderful ideas you want to share?  I just thought I would ask.  'Til next time, happy scrapping, cooking, cleaning, sleeping......whatever you decide to do.

Blog Alert

I am very excited as I got some help from a fellow blogger  tonight with my blog.  Julie was amazing.  Her blog is http://mommyneedsbalance.blogspot.ca/.  I really enjoy her blog.  She likes to vent, tell you about her life and I always finish the blog read with a smile.

I hope I did post her blog right as she taught me how to do that tonight.  She explained widgets and labels and backgrounds.  After spending some time chatting I also realized that I have to chill out and stop feeling guilty when I am surfing and doing "research" on how to do this stuff.  It is totally important if I am gonna actually run with this.  So, not only did I learn a crap load about this blogging shit I also realized that it is ok to use my time in a different way.  I am sure I will still need to write it in my to-do list I have with me everyday, but at least this way its there and I will do it and not feel like I am ripping my family off of their time.  Wondering how many of you crazy women have To-Do lists?  I get a sense of accomplishment with mine and it keeps me on track but then again I am a little screwed up in the head.

Back to the information Julie taught me.  I learned how to put in pics and movies so yeah that will be coming down the pipes soon as well.  I have taken a bunch of pics of my make and takes and maybe I will give a sorta teaser as to what is happening at Croptoberfest.  Just sayn'

I have also realized people want to know about my cooking cause I totally love to that as well so I am looking forward to adding that to my blog.  Julie explained how to post websites and what I need to do in order for people to click and check out the recipes I found on-line.  I will go and label this now cause I know how....LOL again something else Julie taught me.

It's also 11:15 pm and I have to be awake tomorrow for my daycare kids and my own so I will sign off and go to bed.  Thank you to everyone reading and I am hoping laughing at my craziness, cause I know I would be.

So today I decided to clean out my daughter's room.  You see my youngest is well, kinda of hoarder.  She hates when I get rid of things, move thing, or even clean things without her being there.  In the past with my other kids I did this when they were at school, but with Cayla the melt downs were always EPIC.  I was prepared for her return today, biting my nails, anticipating the tears and yells.....guess what?  NOTHING!!!  She actually thanked me for cleaning her room, for all the new clothes and how much work I did.  I was WTF where is my Cayla.....that is when I realized my baby has grown up ;)  I did not know if I should cry or laugh.  I told her how proud I was of her and the smile was worth a million dollars.  Today, I cleaned, today I realized I have no "babies", today I cried.  BUT I am still a proud Mama and realized that I will always have my babies!  Just thought I would share my very happy yet sad story.  For those of you who know Miss Cayla know this was HUGE.

So, today--WOW what a day!  We started off with my daughter's year end soccer party at FUNHAVEN.  That place is huge.  It was the first time myself and 2 out of my 3 kids have been there and needless to say they loved it.  I did take 2 advil before even entering the doors and I would totally recommend doing that otherwise you are walking out with the biggest freakn' headache!

We left the crazy to go to a wonderful 5km walk for Myeloma Cancer.  This was the first year for this walk and a dear friend helped organize it.  Sadly, her wonderful Daddy has this shitty cancer so it is near and dear to her, therefore near and dear to me.  I managed to rangle up some young ladies to help out with some face painting.  That is when I realized how many wonderful 12 year old friends my daughter has.  Even my baby 16 year niece came!!!  Gotta love family and friends.  Seeing all these people out for such an amazing cause brought a sense of mushiness over me.  Next year, I will be walking and making sure a lot more friends and family come out.  If you have a couple of bucks and want to make a contribution to this cause check out the website at www.myeloma.ca.

We ended the night with some wonderful friends.  My favourite girlie girl is helping out family and is taking care of a special needs niece and I swear I bow down to her.  She already is crazy ass busy with her own 4 kids but now she has another child to care for and she is exhausted.  I would love to be able to help more.  I pulled out 12 sandwiches, veggies and salad in under 20 minutes.  That would be panini pressed sandwiches to boot.  At least she could get a bit of a break.  I would love to do more for her, but I know most of the help involves me listening.

I am off tomorrow and plan on doing some cleaning and more CROPTOBERFEST planning.  I would love to post some pics but since I suck ass at the blogging thing, I may end up posting them on my Facebook page.  Be sure to like my page its Sonia's Scrappin' room.

Anyways, I found some extra inspiration today between the walk and my girlfriend, that I have realized I have nothing to bitch about.  So, if you are tired or just blah think of all those people who actually have a right to be like that and think how lucky we are to not be them.  Once you have done that kiss your kids, and your hubby and go to bed and cuddle.....and just be thankful!

I have asked for some help from a special lady to help me make this blog alot prettier than it is.  You see I originally started this on my MAC in a program called iweb.  It was so easy to use and it made everything look really good and I could use my iphoto with it.  However, this is no longer available and in order to use something similar I have to pay, and lets just say I don't think there is enough people out there reading or caring right now :)

I had a great week, and was able to work on some of my make and takes for my Croptoberfest.  I have even got more confirmed people to come to my 12 hours of crazy scrapbooking.  I hope if you are reading this and have not registered please do it is gonna rock!  All you need to do is email me or check out my website at www.mycmsite.com/soniapavone.

I had a great week with my little people as well.  I love when I get to see them thrive and learn.  We have been working hard on sharing and behaviour issues and they have thrived.  We have also been doing lots of singing and dancing this week which really only does one thing, make everyone smile!

I am going to go and figure out some of my give aways today, and as I am in a giving and happy mood you guys might score on the receiving end.

One note I also wanted to mention was I made the school council again.  This is very important to me because I find that I get so much more information and have built very unique and strong bonds with these ladies and men.  Yes, I said MEN!  In fact I am Co-Chairing with a man and have been for the second year.  He is amazing and wants nothing more than the best for his girls and the school.  I think we make a rockn' team and look forward to fundraise, and spend together!

I love to hear from you so be sure to comment and take care 'til I chat again ;)

I am so embarrassed to say that I actually started this blog and website like over a year and half ago.  I kept second guessing my decision because I was really nervous.  I was scared of what people would think.  I was scared that my lack of grammar, spelling and overall attention to detail would make people laugh and not read.  BUT it took a lot of nights, chats and encouragement from some very special people to make this happen.  I also figured if you did not like the way I wrote, spelt or otherwise, you would not read it and I would not give a flying fuck.  

That brings me to my next point.  I know my language is uuummmm, direct, or as my Mommy says “vulgar”.  I have a confession I love to swear, so be forewarned I will be swearing in my blogs.  BUT there is some very important information I must share with you about my swear words first.  You must understand  that I am not by most definitions swearing, in my opinion of course.  I see it as simply talking.  Here is an example, the most important word to me is bitch.  You must understand the Sonia definition of bitch before we go further.  See, the word Bitch to me is a term of endearment.  It quite honestly  means “sweetie” or “girlfriend”.  I will call my best friends and ask  “Hey bitch whatcha doin’?” .  If however, I call you a “cow” or worse a “right cow”---that by the proper definition means you are a f-ing bitch and I am not happy with you at all!   

Now that I got some of the definition stuff out of the way here is a bit more insight into my writing.  I write without really thinking.  I don’t plan, I just type what is coming into my head.  Sometimes it will make sense sometimes it won’t but, the purpose of this is to share my ideas of the world I am in.  I am even hoping to share my make and takes and eventually make how-to-video’s.  I will probably  enlist my eldest to help me but I am willing to try but know it will be awhile before I get there.  

So, I got to thinking at 1:30 in the AM about my blog after my Crop, and after my first Redbull.  I thought well, to hell with me being all scared and shit I am gonna do it.  It just took  me a couple of days to find the time to actually do it.  See, today is my Anniversary.  I have been married 17 years.  Holy hell where did the time go???  Its funny but I actually love the guy.  I love him a whole lot and would be lost without him.  But, enough of that sappy shit.

I LOVE my Friday night Crops.  They are, shall we say, therapeutic.  Not only do you get to scrap, or make cards or click away, you get to BITCH.  The girls they actually listen.  They hear your frustration, and sometimes even up one on you.  Its a night where the girls have a drink, get away from the people they love and disappear into a world of pretty paper.  I will admit, I miss the running away part.  I loved going to the crops just to get out, but I love having it here cause I am a lazy ass and I just walk upstairs to my own bed. LOL  Crops are like going to therapy cause you have like 12 different opinions/suggestions sometimes.  For those who scrap or make cards or want to actually start this stuff, start with coming to a crop not a Creative memories show.  I may be fired for saying that, but I think if ladies seen what actually happens at these events they would hook line and sinker in the first 5 minutes.  So, to all my favourite Scrapper friends, if you are reading this, bring out your girlie girls.  I promise I don’t bite.  I look forward to the next crop which is the BEST one.  It’s a crazy ass 12 hour day of eating, scrapping and lots of bitching but WOW does it rock.  Bring out a friend, introduce them to this world, I promise they won’t regret it.

I look forward to my next bitch, I mean blog.......pass me around a little......spread your love..........I have always like that ;)