Fluff your Peacock

I'm sure you're wondering what the heck I am talking about. Well even if you don't realize it we all have at least a couple of peacocks in our lives. I first came up with the name when I was on my beach trip with my friends. My tried and true friend, Nicey, Is my Queen peacock. We were sitting on the beach and this guy came up to talk to us. The rest of us were just laying there because we all know we look better laying down than standing up and showing all of our feathers. But not Nicey, this bird always gets up and has this kind of cocky, upright posture and this air about her when strangers come along.. She is the Queen, mother peacock!

So after this very married guy "just being nice" leaves, I sat there and thought........ Oh my gosh, you just totally spread your feathers when that guy walked up and totally took over. You are like a peacock!!! Then I realized that her feathers need to be fluffed now and then. What I mean is that the peacock will do anything for you but you have to fluff her feathers now and then. For instance, lots of thank you's, lots of positive reinforcements, and lots of compliments. These things will take you a long way with the peacocks in your lives! I mean this in a very good way. Actually, we should treat everyone like peacocks. Very beautiful birds that have wonderful colorful feathers that need to be nurtured and taken care of and fluffed in order to keep them thriving.

I have realized that I also have a daddy peacock in my life. It is absolutely my dad. He would do anything for me but he requires a lot of fluffing and sucking up to. I have fought this bird my whole life. But after my epiphany at the beach I finally realized that its not worth the fight. The end results are well worth it!!

Lets thank all of the peacocks in our lives, what would we do without them??????

How do they do it??

Just got back from a long weekend of baseball in lulling. I still don't get the whole baseball thing. I feel like I am the only one that complains or thinks that the whole tournament thing is a racket. This is the drill... I usually complain about where it is and the fact that we have to get their an hour early, just to get everyone in and all of the snacks is a fortune and I literally sweat my ass off. Everyone else brings food, toys, drinks, battery operated fans, bug spray, sun block, and are all color coordinated, I seriously don't know how people do it!!!

So my housekeeper decided to not show around 2 months ago and since then I am in charge of the cleaning. How do people do it????? I feel like all I do is clean my house. OK so maybe I don't get up till 11:00 but from then till 11pm I do not sit down..Literally do not sit down between the cleaning, cooking, carting kids, going to grocery, working out, watering the garden, yelling at the kids, doing the laundry, more yelling at the kids, making sure all of the baseball uniforms are together for the games we have 4 days a week, not including Cameron's weekend tournaments...

What the hell! I know I signed up for this whole stay at home mom, wife thing but I swear it is so damn hard. By the end of the day all I want to do is have a glass of wine and chill out to watch Bravo. But one glass turns to Two then Three and then I find myself not wanting to get up at all the next day so I try not to drink at least Monday till Thursday, although the summer is a little different and the rules are bent a little bit more but I still try to abide.

So we get home late last night after we won one game and lost one the weirdest thing happened. There was a frog in my house and I swear he or she had the biggest dust bunny hanging on its leg it could not hop. Then I found a June bug with the same problem. I have never seen this in my life. I know I mopped Friday afternoon and swept twice since then so why are my floors so damn dirty. I give up!

In the mist of all this I found Bella eating lettuce on a fork which I thought is much more healthy than Chicken on a stick and actually tasted really good. Maybe I should start selling these at fairs...Lettuce on a stick????? Bella may be on to something.