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Name: Danielle
Birthday: 1/9/1983
Gender: Female
Interests: I have lots of interests but right now most of my attention is focused on my kids and my husband. In my spare time I love to make hair bows, knit, sew, scrapbook, read, do hair, photography and spend time with family and friends.
Expertise: Being a mom to 3 in three years, a stay at home mom, doing hair, making hair bows, photography and other odds and ends here and there.
Occupation: SAHM/Student
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AIM:  lilarmywife2003
Yahoo:  mamato3in3
Member Since:
6/26/2006
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| but I have been told that I should be keeping a journal of the crazy and silly things that my kids do. So I am not going to make any promises that I will be updating this on a regular basis but I sure will try. As you can imagine with three kids my life is already crazy and hectic but also I have started going back to school. I am currently attending Regency Beauty Institute in order to get my cosmetology license. I am in school at night so I can be home during the day with the kids since daycare cost is astronomical. I am at school Mon-Thurs 5-9:15 and Saturday 8:30-5. I have been going to school since March and should be done in June or July of 2010. I will finish up school just before Breanna starts Kindergarten next July. Unfortunately she misses the cut off to go to school this year by 4 days! I am not sad to have her home another year but I know how badly she wants to go to school and how ready she is to be there.
Recently there have been a lot of changes with our family. We had to give up our house and move back into an apartment. We really never could afford the house in the first place and we made the mistake of buying a foreclosure that needed more work then we could afford to put into it. So we are in the process of doing a short sale where a company goes to our mortgage holder and says these people can no longer afford to pay their mortgage, we will give you this amount (substantually less then what we owe) and the bank will take it since it works out better for them (and us) then doing a foreclosure. So we are back in an apartment which is not really the most ideal situation for us, but works and everyone is actually much happier here then we were in the house. There are kids here for our kids to play with, we are right across the street from an elementry school, in a much better school district, and we are saving almost $600 a month between mortgage/rent and now we have all eletric so we no longer have an enormous gas bill that we did at the house. Things are still tight because I am still getting caught up on the utitlity bills we had gotten behind on at the house and now paying the bills at the apartment. But we will just keep on swimming!
Well that will be there for my first update of many. For those who still read, I have missed you and love you for always being there for us when we have needed you. For new reader welcome, sit back and enjoy the ride of our crazy, fun and wacky family! Thanks for reading!
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 This evening this wonderful thing popped into my living room and introduced herself as Sprinkles. Now the following is a word for word conversation with Sprinkles. S: Hi I am Sprinkles
M: Oh really, I am mom.
S: Breanna is not here right now she is with Ariel in the sea
M:(giggling) uh huh that sounds fun
S: Yes I am here to clean her room
M: Great, well it's messy so you better get to it.
S: I will and it will be perfect because I am a winner
M: (giggling still) really?
S: yes not a loser
M: (all out laughing now)
She disappears while I race to call my mom to tell her about my daughters new invention. She comes back in the living room to tell me about this toy and that toy that she is cleaning up, all the while calling me miss. I thought I was going to die I laughed so hard. I asked Sprinkles if I could take a few pictures of her, which she was more then happy to pose for.
 Afterwards she tells me that she must sleep in Breanna's bed because her spaceship was gone. I said oh I didn't realize you were an alien. And she said yes but not a mean yucky alien but a nice beautiful alien. We made her take all the sticker jewels off before bed but she still insisted she was not Breanna but still Sprinkles. I think Sprinkles will be making several appearences in our house... at least until the jewels lose their stickiness.
Oh the imagination of a 4 year old!!
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| Sorry I haven't been around. My birthday was on the 9th and I have been spending time with family and friends and laying low in general. But I wanted to post about this.
In September sometime a couple friends of mine and I took a trip to the zoo with our kids. I of course too my Nikon with me to get some shots. Half way through the day I realized that my shots were coming out extremely dark no matter the lighting conditions (inside or out, with or without the flash). I called Nikon and the tech guy walked through some steps to see if he could determine the problem. He wasn't sure what was causing the problem so he instructed me to send it in. It ended up taking me like a month to finally send it in for one reason or another. After I did I received a letter in the mail about 2 weeks later stating that the damage wasn't covered under my warranty and would cost about $200 to fix. After talking to my parents about the issue I remembered that we had secondary coverage through Circuit City where we bought the camera. I called them and explained what was going on. I was given a case number and told to have Nikon ship the camera back to me and contact them back with my case number and they would give me instructions on what to do from there. It took Nikon over two weeks to send me my camera back. Which meant by now I had missed Christmas with it. When I finally got it back I called the number back as instructed with my case number. The man who answered the call was SO nice. He took my information and told me that he would have a box sent out to me to ship my camera in and from there I would just have to call fedex to come and pick it up. The very next day the box came with inside was a second box, packing material, a label and even tape to close the box. Fedex came back the next day and picked it up. Here it is less then two weeks later and not only did they fix my camera but I have it back no questions asked. AMAZING customer service and support. I recommend that if you or any family member plans on making any big electronic purchases soon please go through Circuit City and get their service plan. Now I know what you are thinking.... I thought Circuit City was going bankrupt. Well from what I have heard they are BUT their service plans are run through an outside company (the people who took care of my camera problem) so if they do go out of business your service plan will still be carried out. Customer service like this should be rewarded by people going in and showing that we appreciate it. Like I said if you plan to spend your upcoming tax returns on anything electronic please support this company and buy from Circuit City.
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| As I am sure many of your remember all those news stories about toys being recalled due to lead being used to paint or make them. It was terrible having to rush around the house checking to make sure that your child did not have one of the tampered items lurking in their bedrooms or toy box. I even remember two Christmases ago several mom's made the vow to only buy handmade items for their children and family members. This was a good thing for not only the parents to know the products their children were playing with were safe but also for small business owners who make these toys and other handmade items (ie. clothes, hair bows, cloth diapers etc.). This new law is there to protect our children but the problem is that it is too broad and will force small business owners out of business.
I planned to launch my hair bow business this year, but if this law passes I will not be able to sell my bows online or any where else. I belong to a bow group who has made a post talking about this law and what it will do, please CLICK HERE to read about it. There are also some great links on what you can do to help. I would really appreciate if you took the time to check it out. Thanks!
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| So since it has been a while since I have updated on the things going on around here I will fill you in on the details. We have finally started decorating the house. After living here for 2 years I could take it no longer. When we bought this house we bought it as a foreclosure and knew that it needed a lot of work. What we didn't take into account was the fact that between the mortgage, utilites, and two (now three) kids was that we would have no money left over to do that work. The walls stayed white, there isn't a baseboard in the whole house, and our furniture was well... lets just say unpresentable. I was embarrassed to have anyone over in fear of the judgements that were sure to swirl around in their heads about us. Even worse I didn't feel like it was our home, but just some place we were staying. I didn't even put pictures on the wall or unpack any of my knic nacks. I felt like it was pointless, almost like tying a bow on a piece of crap and calling it pretty. My parents realized that I was pretty unhappy here and decided to help out. What started as just putting some color on the walls turned into a full out redecoration of the house. I couldn't be more thankful to them. Who knew a coat of paint could do so much to change my daily life. I am happier, more motivated to get things done, and am really starting to feel like this is our home. We still have a lot of work to do, because having three small children in the house and a husband who works tons of overtime doesn't exactly make it easy to paint and work on the things the need to be done. But hey we are getting there, and knowing that it's getting there makes things so much nicer. I almost wish I would have snapped before pictures so you could all see the huge difference, but I guess you will just have to live with the progress and finished work ones. | | |
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