Happy New Year!

I can't believe that it's actually almost 2008. Wow! Looking back at my previous posts, it seems that yet again, I have left you readers high and dry for nearly a month. How can yous tand the suspense of not reading the daily foibles of my life?

Ok, so here it is. I got the stomach flue for Christmas!!! Wow, I never would have thought I could have received such a great gift. The children and I were sick for nearly a week, and pretty weak for a few days after that. There's nothing like changing the diapers of runny diarrhea chidren who are at the same time vomiting and not eating. I think I watched the movie Cars about three times, which isn't a bad thing - after all, it's not Happy Feet!

So the children were sick, I was sick and luckily we were both sick at the same time. I certainly don't think I could have handled it if I had been sick and they had been well.

The good part about it is that I was off the hook for Christmas. No cooking, no baking. Whew! I never realized how much hard work goes into the holidays - why do we do that to ourselves? We had Chinese food for Christmas and it was pretty good, especially, as I said, I did not have to cook.

Another great thing that happened was a Christmas rush. Wow! Considering this is only my 2nd year in busines, I think I'm doing ok!

Anyhoo, that's it for now, and more later!

Positivity by Trula: Today is Love Thursday

While today may not be Love Thursday, (for some it's Manic Monday), bring a little positivity into your life by marking your calendar for the upcoming love Thursday. What is it? Read Trula's blog below:

Positivity by Trula: Today is Love Thursday

Christmas is just around the Corner

Dear readers, I don't have anything especially significant to say today, but just wanted to check in with everyone before the gap between posts got too large and I would have to write yet another 'mea culpa' post. Nevertheless, your entertainment in reading this blog comes first and foremost, so I will attempt to give a quick overview of what has been happening in the last three weeks.

I have been working hard on my website and am in the process of filling basket orders for Christmas. Wow! Last year at this time, I had a barely functional website, only one product and was basically giving the stuff away. Now I have more that four products (yes, I know that doesn't sound like a lot, but when you're making the stuff by hand and testing different formulas, that's a lot!! Now I am considering going natural and totally eliminating the dyes from my product. Notice I said considering!!!I really like the look of some of the colored product, which is why I have an all natural and a nearly all natural section to my website. If you're interested, click the banner at the top of the page.

The little ones are doing quite well - no colds, no one is sick - and my oldest is taking well to his swimming lessons. One day he came home and said to me "I hate swimming." Now, swimming is an integral part of the preschool program, so I wasn't having any of that. So I used that good ol' reverse psychology on him - "Oh really. What's the best thing you like about swimming?" And he proceeded to rattle off a list of things he actually liked about swimming, so another diaster thwarted. I wouldn't want to have to pick him up from school early because he didn't like swimming.

You know, talk about a non sequitur, but what the heck is up with Tyra's hair? Is it me or does it look like she just put a mop on her head? That straw look does not look good on her - I hope she goes back the burgundy!!

Well, that's really it for now - pretty uninteresting, I know, but ya know, that's life....that's what all the people say.....you're riding high in April...Shot down in May.

We're going to be getting our Christmas tree soon - this is the first year that my 19 month old will really be aware of what is going on...let's see how long it take for him to rip all the ornaments off the bottom half of the tree.