Hey everyone!
I hope your summers are off to a great start. Mine has been chock full of craziness but thats to be expected right?
Anyway I wanted to bring you all in on a new blog I just started about my recent couponing experience. Even if you think "Screw that there's no way I'm going to be those ladies with 900 tubes of toothpaste and 2000 toothbrushes" I encourage you to come take a look - www.clippininthemitten.blogspot.com. Join me loves!
Its interesting to say the least. I hope you'll check it out over there. I'd truly truly appreciate the support of my existing blogger girls :)
Also - if you know anyone considering couponing or who just wants to know what the heck its all about please send them my way. I've only been couponing for about a month so I'm literally sharing this experience from start to finish and so far so good. I'm kind of a couponing natural rockstar if I do say so myself.
Later yall!
Friday, June 24, 2011
Monday, June 13, 2011
JUST A THOUGHT...
Its been awhile friends and while I can't make any promises for the next post I had to get this off my chest... Just a little thought about the way people are...
If you have to proclaim to be a good person, mother, wife, etc in order to refute a claim someone has made about you then chances are you need to look in the mirror and reevaluate.
With all of the social outlets, Facebook in particular, I'm constantly reading someone state how good of a mom they are or how awesome of a wife they are and its SO BLATANTLY OBVIOUS that their need to announce these things comes from the need to counter someone's opinion of them.
If you are a good person, a good mother or a good wife then its who you are. You exude that. You exude it to the point that people who just meet you can tell what a good person you are. You exude it to the point that no one would ever in their right mind question your character. And its something that is so innate that you don't even recognize it because its simply your nature.
So again, if you have to make such claims then chances are the opposite is true or at least partially true. I have learned and continue to learn this lesson myself. I caught myself trying to convince my husband that I'm a good wife. I'd do this or that and say "See? I'm a good wife." And I realize that that is bred from uncertainty. I AM NOT innately domestic. So it takes conscious effort to do things that a "good" wife might do. Little things that probably come natural to most of you don't come natural to me - cooking, cleaning, etc. And its not that I'm lazy its that I fill my time with other things (primarily over-committing to helping other people) while neglecting those things a good "wife" and someday mother would do. But rather than make proclamations that don't hold their weight I realized I needed to sit back quietly and harness those skills. Practice makes perfect right? And all I do is cross my fingers and hope that over time the domestic gene becomes more and more dominant and I can exude exactly what I hope to be - a good person, a good wife and a good mother.
Perhaps the latter is the reason I'm hypersensitive to others making such ridiculous claims. Or perhaps you just get sick of the b.s. Either way its out of my head now and into the blogosphere :)
Hope everyone is having a fantastical summer!
If you have to proclaim to be a good person, mother, wife, etc in order to refute a claim someone has made about you then chances are you need to look in the mirror and reevaluate.
With all of the social outlets, Facebook in particular, I'm constantly reading someone state how good of a mom they are or how awesome of a wife they are and its SO BLATANTLY OBVIOUS that their need to announce these things comes from the need to counter someone's opinion of them.
If you are a good person, a good mother or a good wife then its who you are. You exude that. You exude it to the point that people who just meet you can tell what a good person you are. You exude it to the point that no one would ever in their right mind question your character. And its something that is so innate that you don't even recognize it because its simply your nature.
So again, if you have to make such claims then chances are the opposite is true or at least partially true. I have learned and continue to learn this lesson myself. I caught myself trying to convince my husband that I'm a good wife. I'd do this or that and say "See? I'm a good wife." And I realize that that is bred from uncertainty. I AM NOT innately domestic. So it takes conscious effort to do things that a "good" wife might do. Little things that probably come natural to most of you don't come natural to me - cooking, cleaning, etc. And its not that I'm lazy its that I fill my time with other things (primarily over-committing to helping other people) while neglecting those things a good "wife" and someday mother would do. But rather than make proclamations that don't hold their weight I realized I needed to sit back quietly and harness those skills. Practice makes perfect right? And all I do is cross my fingers and hope that over time the domestic gene becomes more and more dominant and I can exude exactly what I hope to be - a good person, a good wife and a good mother.
Perhaps the latter is the reason I'm hypersensitive to others making such ridiculous claims. Or perhaps you just get sick of the b.s. Either way its out of my head now and into the blogosphere :)
Hope everyone is having a fantastical summer!
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