http://beyondmom.com A mommyblog (mom blog) that covers parenting, life, business, tech, current events, television, and it all somehow connects together and helps you understand me a little better! Mon, 05 Jan 2009 20:22:55 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en One of the things we decided we wanted to start doing in 2009 was going to church. Between my seemingly impossible task of finding babysitters, plus my family being pretty much all old and dying, we need some kind of safety net for the family. You know, in case an emergency ... http://beyondmom.com/2009/01/we-went-to-church-and-werent-hit-by-lightning/ After all the fear of Randy being laid off. After all the fear of being afraid to look at the budget. After taking the kids to Mitsuwa on New Year's Day - and spending money knowing it wasn't going to be a budget friendly trip. It looks like we're going to be okay. The ... http://beyondmom.com/2009/01/the-sky-is-falling-only-its-not-really/ We buy rice in bulk from Mitsuwa Marketplace (aka the Japanese Mall - with convenient locations in Chicagoland, Jersey, and three in California) because it's awesome and you can do a lot with it. Plus we're trying to balance what we're eating to each meal being 3 parts carbs, 1 ... http://beyondmom.com/2009/01/food-storage-and-the-end-of-the-world/ I went from creating the December budget at the end of November with glee and hope to not opening Excel at all for the last two weeks. Here's the weird part: I'm pretty sure we're going to be just fine. But the logic of knowing that does ... http://beyondmom.com/2008/12/scared-of-my-own-budget-as-opposed-to-my-shadow-i-guess/ We are all better today...and now have more work to do than I even want to think about. But I started already and so did Randy. We're on track to finishing this and having next week to basically chill out and plan for 2009. It's going to be ... http://beyondmom.com/2008/12/a-24-hour-bug-in-more-ways-than-one-plus-i-was-cyberbullied-go-figure/ Randy kept me up most of last night - he's sick. When he's up...I'm up. This morning little Abby woke up making awful retching sounds. It is going to be an interesting day with Randy and Abby sick. Me? I'm not sick but Randy kept waking me up unintentionally and when he didn't the ... http://beyondmom.com/2008/12/family-under-the-weather/ I think my favorite part of Christmas this year was realizing that my absolute favorite part of Christmas is the car ride to my grandparent's house. The rushing and getting ready is over and you're driving to your destination. In those moments everything is perfect. The ... http://beyondmom.com/2008/12/christmas-was-good-thank-goodness-its-over/ So many things seemed to go wrong all at once, and you know what, I say to hell with it. I'm not going to be afraid of the next thing that could happen. I am a really lucky woman and need to stop having the biggest pity ... http://beyondmom.com/2008/12/christmas-when-it-isnt-easy-but-really-is/ This may be a premature judgement, but I think maybe I might be turning a corner. Because in case you haven't noticed, I've felt just a wee bit put upon over the last couple weeks. I fought it, and I had a few great talks including ... http://beyondmom.com/2008/12/i-think-the-worst-is-over/ You may have seen me complain on Twitter this morning that there was supposed to be a photographer over to my house this morning at 10am to do a photo shoot for an article running next week. When I called the assignment desk at 10:30am they hadn't scheduled ... http://beyondmom.com/2008/12/chicago-tribune-photographer-spotted/