Congratulations to Dara for winning the final pair of Famous Goodie Bag Tickets* to Shecky’s Girls Night Out in San Diego on May 14th.
Lisa, Mary and Dara are our winners and I can’t wait to meet up with them and their guests at the event! Thanks to everyone who entered and made the give away so much fun!
Good night~
Happy Military Spouse Appreciation Day!
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Ok ladies, I’m giving away my final pair of tickets to this fun event!
Enter to win a pair of Famous Goodie Bag Tickets* for you and a friend to Shecky’s Girls Night Out in San Diego on May 14th. Indulge in five hours of cocktails, amazing fashion deals, fab freebies in Shecky’s Famous Goodie Bag, and the best time ever with your BFF’s! Be the 3rd person to email me at Jen@MommyofMany.com with “Shecky’s Girls Night Out” in the subject box. The winner will be announced this evening!
Good luck!
In all my years of being Mommy, I’ve battled a constant tinge of Mommy Guilt. When I only had Kateri, I felt guilty that I had to work and go to school so much. When I had 4 kiddos, I felt bad that I was working around the house to keep things in order and running smoothly instead of spending more time playing with the kids. When I had 5 kiddos, I felt bad that we’d moved so many times and that Kateri and JJ had to get used to changing schools and making new friends. When I had 7 kiddos, I felt bad that I was so tired. Now that I have kids that are away at school, I feel bad that I can’t fulfill their every wish. Don’t misunderstand, they aren’t over-demanding, but there are many extra activities that happen and I can’t make all of them happen. The same is true for the kids who are still at home. They each come to me with needs, desires and ideas and if I said yes to each child, that would be at least 7 things, every day! So, I have to look at our schedule, budget, and ability and say yes or no. But it eats at me! I WANT to say yes to everything. And sometimes, the requests of one child will be more “doable”, more often than the requests of the other children. THIS is Doing the Dance of the Children! The guilt and bombardment can get overwhelming. I’m determined to focus on what I DO and not what I CANT do.
Now to try to get the kids to look at it like that!
Have a great day~
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Don’t forget to check back tomorrow for a chance to win the last set of tickets I have to Shecky’s Girls Night Out San Diego!
Congratulations to Mary for winning a pair of tickets to Shecky’s Girls Night Out, San Diego!
Don’t forget to check back next week for our final give away!
Have a great night~
Alrighty, I’m giving away the 2nd of 3 pairs of tickets to the event ! Start emailing!
Enter to win a pair of Famous Goodie Bag Tickets* for you and a friend to Shecky’s Girls Night Out in San Diego on May 14th. Indulge in five hours of cocktails, amazing fashion deals, fab freebies in Shecky’s Famous Goodie Bag, and the best time ever with your BFF’s! Be the 3rd person to email me at Jen@MommyofMany.com with “Shecky’s Girls Night Out” in the subject box. The winner will be announced this evening!
Good luck!
I got the opportunity to have my newest goddaughter for the whole day, today. Whoo Hoo! I haven’t had a baby in the house in a while, so I jumped at the chance to cuddle this sweet little bundle. I pulled up in front of her house, moved Gabi’s car seat to the second row of seats in the van, put Lauren’s seat in the first row next to Luke-Xavier and went in to grab the baby and all that she would need for a day away from her house. Once I got her car seat locked in and her bag put in the back, we were ready to go. I got into my seat and turned around to Luke-Xavier’s voice saying, “here”. He was trying to give her a peanut! All of a sudden I realized what I was up against! I have 2 preschoolers at home, who have no idea about having a baby around. They are both excited about the idea, but have never really been around babies. Luke-Xavier has no concept of needing teeth to chew or that babies only drink bottles. I’ve always taken for granted that my kids learned about babies as we went. Wow! I had to give a 3-minute talk on what babies could and couldn’t do, what the ate and how they slept, not to mention safety factors like, “you can not pick the baby up”. So, we got home and unloaded.
I am SO out of practice! It’s not even just the baby stuff, like needing to entertain them or hold and burp them (love the holding part!), but it’s the fact that you have to spend so much energy keeping the other kids off the baby! It’s the not being able to say, “mommy has to work for a few minutes, watch your movie”. It’s not being able to go to the bathroom without the baby, for fear the well-meaning preschoolers will give her a toy that isn’t safe, drop something on her head, step on her or pick her up. I DO remember that babies take a lot of time and energy, but it’s all the worry and equipment and guess work that I forgot about. How? How did I possibly forget after doing this 9 times? Well, all I can come up with is that all those years are such a blur. They were a constant flow of movement and thought. Yes, now I’m always Doing the Dance, but it’s so different! I can take 5 minutes to myself when I need it. I can schedule social engagements and count on the bigger kids to lend a hand.
I wouldn’t trade all of those years, even if I could and I certainly wouldn’t change saying “yes” to today, but it flashed me back to things I’d forgotten and how much work and how different things were for so long!
Babies are one of the greatest gifts and joys that you can be given. Luckily, all the work and energy that goes into them fades away into distant memories as life moves forward.
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Don’t forget to check back tomorrow for details on how you can be the next winner of a pair of tickets to the Shecky’s Girls Night Out, coming to San Diego May 14th!
Have a great day~
Congrats to Lisa for winning the first pair of tickets to Shecky’s Girls Night Out, San Diego!
I’ll be giving away another pair next week. Don’t forget to check in so that you can win!
Have a great day~
Alright ladies, here it is! Today is the first of 3 give-aways that I will be doing over the next few weeks. Enter to win a pair of Famous Goodie Bag Tickets* for you and a friend to Shecky’s Girls Night Out in San Diego on May 14th. Indulge in five hours of cocktails, amazing fashion deals, fab freebies in Shecky’s Famous Goodie Bag, and the best time ever with your BFF’s! Be the 3rd person to email me at Jen@MommyofMany.com with “Shecky’s Girls Night Out” in the subject box. The winner will be announced this evening!
Go! Go! Go! Email! Email! Email!
Good luck~
*Tickets may not be redeemed for cash. Shecky’s is not responsible for lost or stolen tickets. Duplicate or tampered tickets will not be honored. Must be 21 or older to attend. Proper ID will be required at the door. Contents and value of individual Goodie Bags vary. Ticket valid for one time use only.
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