Some of you may not be so young, and some of you may be quite young. Either way, it applies to anyone and everyone reading this blog post.
Being young is possibly the best thing that can happen to anyone and it does happen to everyone.
I will start with this. A piece of advice I can give to those of you who are still young is this:
"Enjoy being a child as long as you can. You are a child for a very short time. There will be plenty of time for being an adult." - Rene Erives
Maybe I am feeling a little nostalgic today. I don't know. I woke up this morning and I saw my kids asleep, and I wondered what they dreamed of. I wondered what they would do upon waking up. I felt clueless there for a moment since I have been an adult now for a good 20 years (give or take). It was almost as if I had forgotten for a moment what it was to be a child, and I notice, when things become stressful, I tend to forget, or at least put those memories aside.
I stepped outside for a few moments, still thinking about my job, my mortgage, my unevenly inflated tires on my car among other things. I checked the news and I went back inside to get ready for work.
On the way to work, of course the same things going through my mind as I went from a 5 MPH roll to a 30 MPH zoom on the freeway then back to stop... Repeat several times.
I sit here now, wondering what all I miss because of everything that I think about and how many opportunities I had to be a child even as an adult. We take everything so seriously and we are at war with one another because of our differences. In the end however, we are all still human. We all bleed red and we are all born, and we all die. What we do with that time in between is what is important.
Some people even die from too much stress. Stock market prices fall, we stress. We lose a job, we stress. We get divorced, we stress. We didn't get that promotion, we stress and so on and so on.
A child does not have to worry about those grown up things that kill us. They don't have to. Well, at least most children do not.
I guess my point is, if I have one, is that if you are young, then be young as long as you possibly can. Be a child. We are children for about 15-20 years, and then we are adults for a good 60 - 70 years. If you have children, please remember that sometimes it's okay to just go crazy, run around, get dirty, fall off chairs and ding your head a bit. It's okay to eat some dirt, catch bugs, and even pick up a piece of candy off the floor. It didn't kill us, and it certainly won't kill our children.
If you are an adult, you can no longer go back to those days to being a care free child, however, you can go back into your memories and dig out those dusty good times you had, and play them again in your head. I promise it will make you smile. If you share those moments, then not only will they make you smile, but you may also laugh out loud, and even shed a tear of joy.
Oh yes, as an adult, even though you can no longer be a child, you can stay young in mind, and you can have fun. So for homework, take a water hose, make some mud in the back yard, and get to making mud pies and having mud fights with your kids. Or you can do it alone if you wish. Don't worry about the neighbors... they're just a bunch of old fogies anyway:)
Thursday, August 18, 2011
Sunday, August 14, 2011
My smelly car
Yes, I have a smelly car. I have a four year old boy and a 14 year old girl. Soon to be 5 and 15. Each is dirtier than the next and they both come back on a complete circle.
I get up at 5 AM every day to go to work, and I come back home around 8:30 PM after work and school responsibilities have been fulfilled. Hence the dirty smelling car. I have no time to clean it on a regular basis.
I do try to do this once a week, usually on the weekends. However, for the past couple of weeks, things have been so hectic that I have not had an extra minute to take care of this.
Well, about a week ago, my car started smelling extra bad. It smelled like a jungle in there. It turns out that my four year old decided to wear wet shoes, and stuff them under a seat, next to the half eaten banana that, well, he decided to NOT eat.
My daughter stuffed a half eaten bag of Cheetos in the back pocket of my driver seat as well.
Now get this. Neither one of them is allowed to eat in the car, but just as prisoners sneak cell phones and other contraband into prison, so do my kids into my car. Personally, I think the dog is hooking them up with the contraband. I just don't know.
Well, my car is squeaky clean all of a sudden. But it was missing an essential. Something personal. Now, As you have probably figured it out, I'm a Scentsy Independent Consultant. and out of all people, I should have been the one to think, Hey! Why not keep a Room Spray in there?! I brought one out to my car, and I keep it in the glove box. I don't need to go to the carwash and pay $3 for their nasty fragrances that only last a couple of days.
I used it a couple of times. One spray is all it takes. Trust me, this stuff is potent, so you don't need very much. It's intended for bedrooms and such, but why not my car? I'm in it so much, it may as well be my room!
As for my two smuggling kids, I will be paying closer attention to them before they get into my car. We are about to go to the mall in a few minutes. I need new clothes. As a matter of fact, I will be using money from my Scentsy sales to buy these two outfits. I don't sell as much as I would like, because as you see, I work all day and the weekends, well I spend those upside down in my car digging things out from under seats.
For those of you who love Scentsy though, and have used the products, you know them and love them.
Thank you so much for your support!!! I'm off to the mall now. I need a personal assistant...
My website by the way is TrueWickless.com, just in case you want to stop by and take a peek!!!
If you use Facebook, you can find us at Facebook.com/AromaDance or on Twitter at Twitter.com/RenesAromaDance
I get up at 5 AM every day to go to work, and I come back home around 8:30 PM after work and school responsibilities have been fulfilled. Hence the dirty smelling car. I have no time to clean it on a regular basis.
I do try to do this once a week, usually on the weekends. However, for the past couple of weeks, things have been so hectic that I have not had an extra minute to take care of this.
Well, about a week ago, my car started smelling extra bad. It smelled like a jungle in there. It turns out that my four year old decided to wear wet shoes, and stuff them under a seat, next to the half eaten banana that, well, he decided to NOT eat.
My daughter stuffed a half eaten bag of Cheetos in the back pocket of my driver seat as well.
Now get this. Neither one of them is allowed to eat in the car, but just as prisoners sneak cell phones and other contraband into prison, so do my kids into my car. Personally, I think the dog is hooking them up with the contraband. I just don't know.
Well, my car is squeaky clean all of a sudden. But it was missing an essential. Something personal. Now, As you have probably figured it out, I'm a Scentsy Independent Consultant. and out of all people, I should have been the one to think, Hey! Why not keep a Room Spray in there?! I brought one out to my car, and I keep it in the glove box. I don't need to go to the carwash and pay $3 for their nasty fragrances that only last a couple of days.
I used it a couple of times. One spray is all it takes. Trust me, this stuff is potent, so you don't need very much. It's intended for bedrooms and such, but why not my car? I'm in it so much, it may as well be my room!
As for my two smuggling kids, I will be paying closer attention to them before they get into my car. We are about to go to the mall in a few minutes. I need new clothes. As a matter of fact, I will be using money from my Scentsy sales to buy these two outfits. I don't sell as much as I would like, because as you see, I work all day and the weekends, well I spend those upside down in my car digging things out from under seats.
For those of you who love Scentsy though, and have used the products, you know them and love them.
Thank you so much for your support!!! I'm off to the mall now. I need a personal assistant...
My website by the way is TrueWickless.com, just in case you want to stop by and take a peek!!!
If you use Facebook, you can find us at Facebook.com/AromaDance or on Twitter at Twitter.com/RenesAromaDance
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Thursday, August 11, 2011
Back to school
So it's that time of year again! Time to send the kids back to school, and for some, you must send your teens off to college. It's a time when emotions run high and people are running around shopping, and stressing about getting ready for the big day.
So what are you doing to get ready? We suggest going through your kids closet and looking for clothes that were not worn much throughout the year and use those clothes as a reference point to what you should buy for them this coming year. This will save you money by not having to buy an entire wardrobe, which of course, will end up being super expensive and much of it going to waste.
Remember also, that clothes that your children wore gently can be donated at a near by donation box or the Salvation Army. When you donate, instead of having a garage sale, you actually get more money back from the IRS than you would from sitting out in your front driveway all day on a perfectly good Saturday. Just make sure you get a receipt for your donations.
School supplies are a huge expense every year. Things such as a pencil bag can cost you in the neighborhood of a dollar to ten dollars depending on how fashionable or trendy it is. Now ask yourself the following question. How long did my child use his/her pencil bag before it disappeared? A day? Maybe a week? By the way, where do all the pencil bags go? Do they run away with the socks? Who knows. Cut that expense.
Buy a pack of pencils, and issue out two at a time. Giving an entire pack to your child can have you buying pencils again in a couple of weeks when those two have mysteriously disappeared. Folders can be expensive if you buy designer folders with puppies and kittens or the goodness forbid... Justin Beiber. Did I spell that right? Oh, well... We all know that folders end up being written on with markers, pens and crayons. Your kid won't even care that Justin Beiber is on the cover a week later. Sure, they'll complain initially, but they get over it. If you must make them happy, one Justin, kitten or puppy folder should suffice. The rest can be multicolored and will last just as long as the designer one, which will end up with your kids designs on them anyway.
I know this post is not about candles, but our kids are going back to school in about a week or so, and I just wanted to give you guys a few pointers on what we plan on doing this year. Okay, maybe a little bit about candles. Come by our new website TrueWickless.com. We just got approved for it a few days ago. We would love it if you bought a few items. Thank you so much!!!
So what are you doing to get ready? We suggest going through your kids closet and looking for clothes that were not worn much throughout the year and use those clothes as a reference point to what you should buy for them this coming year. This will save you money by not having to buy an entire wardrobe, which of course, will end up being super expensive and much of it going to waste.
Remember also, that clothes that your children wore gently can be donated at a near by donation box or the Salvation Army. When you donate, instead of having a garage sale, you actually get more money back from the IRS than you would from sitting out in your front driveway all day on a perfectly good Saturday. Just make sure you get a receipt for your donations.
School supplies are a huge expense every year. Things such as a pencil bag can cost you in the neighborhood of a dollar to ten dollars depending on how fashionable or trendy it is. Now ask yourself the following question. How long did my child use his/her pencil bag before it disappeared? A day? Maybe a week? By the way, where do all the pencil bags go? Do they run away with the socks? Who knows. Cut that expense.
Buy a pack of pencils, and issue out two at a time. Giving an entire pack to your child can have you buying pencils again in a couple of weeks when those two have mysteriously disappeared. Folders can be expensive if you buy designer folders with puppies and kittens or the goodness forbid... Justin Beiber. Did I spell that right? Oh, well... We all know that folders end up being written on with markers, pens and crayons. Your kid won't even care that Justin Beiber is on the cover a week later. Sure, they'll complain initially, but they get over it. If you must make them happy, one Justin, kitten or puppy folder should suffice. The rest can be multicolored and will last just as long as the designer one, which will end up with your kids designs on them anyway.
I know this post is not about candles, but our kids are going back to school in about a week or so, and I just wanted to give you guys a few pointers on what we plan on doing this year. Okay, maybe a little bit about candles. Come by our new website TrueWickless.com. We just got approved for it a few days ago. We would love it if you bought a few items. Thank you so much!!!
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