Lifeofawife

Just got off skype with the husband =) its his day off! Boy o Boy I love getting to talk to him all day =) but anways..so today i had this brilliant plan to maybe get my but in gear to start working out again cause ive been slackin lately which isnt good so i came up with a reward system my hubby agreed to as in he buys me what i want when i reach each goal of course he always buys me what i want but thats besides the point haha anyways my goal is by my 21st bday which is 6 months from today... Read Full Story

So today started off kinda blah! woke up with a sore throat,tummy pains, and some major sinus issues needless to say i drug my ass up hahaha 5 different pills later a couple cough drops and a small nap im not doing to shabby =) but ive only been up for a total of 8 hours today but im soooooo pooped all i wanna do is sleep but im gonna try and stay awake for a couple more hours so i dont wake up super early =) but on a side not i just got off skype with my amazing hubby who always makes me... Read Full Story

Ok..sooo pretty new at this shoot I'm still trying to figure out twitter I don't know if i ever will haha but anyhoo My name is Brandi and if you read some of the things i filled out on this darn site you should know a bit about me =) I love to put stupid little smileys and haha's so be prepared to be annoyed by those I'm just a pretty happy person =) but I'm pretty random and you will be able to tell from my blogging once i start doing it everyday. I suck at punctuation and formation of... Read Full Story

I have been trying to set time aside each week to blog. Unfortunately that has become more and more difficult lately. Besides Big Brother being a big fourth grader this year and playing fall baseball, Dare Devil being in his second year of preschool and always needing to be kept busy and the Princess, two years old and more curious than ever, I am also pregnant with baby number four. Yes, I hear you, I must be crazy! This baby, we'll call them (we don't know the sex yet) Munchkin, was by far... Read Full Story

I entered my daughter, Genevieve in Parents Magazine's Cover Contest and she is up for the weekly reader's choice! Please take the time to visit the link and vote for her. Also please pass this link along to everyone you know! She's been through so much in her short life (including yet another hospital stay last month) so we all could really use something fantastic right now!! Thank you in advance! Nicole Here's the link: http://photos.parents.com/category/vote/photo/314476 Read Full Story

I recently became a writer on Examiner.com. I am the Newark Early Childhood Parenting Examiner, writing about different topics involving young children, babies and toddlers. Any suggestions you have for topics, things you want researched and discussed on my Examiner page can be e-mailed to me at Nicoledwatkins@hotmail.com . I am very excited to be a part of Examiner. com's panel of writers. Please come visit my section and leave any comments! Thanks so much to all my readers on blogger and... Read Full Story

Shelly passed away October sixth. I haven't been able to think of exactly what to say in this post because it's still so raw. She was coughing a lot the last time I saw her which was a few days before she passed. Then she began turning away visitors, wanting to spend time just laying in bed with her kids. Then she couldn't keep any food down. She had leukemic meningitis and in her last twenty-four hours she starting getting stiff all over, then came the fever. She was out of it for the most... Read Full Story

I've been at Shelly's as much as possible since she's been home. I feel like I should help in anyway I can since I know she would do the same for me or Bill in a heartbeat. Plus I selfishly want to suck in as much time as possible with her before there's no time left....... Her husband, Cliff has been amazing. He really seems to be holding it together but I could see him at different times holding onto her, afraid to let go. The other day Shelly fell asleep on the couch so I was trying to... Read Full Story

I visited Shelly today and yesterday. Everything still feels like one bad horrible nightmare. It still just doesn't feel like it's really happening. It's so hard to look at her, she was always this bubbly beautiful woman with glasses, curly hair and a huge smile that could light up the sky. Now she looks so old, no hair, since she's blind she doesn't need her glasses anymore, she's so thin and frail, her smile is small and weak but it's still there. I sat last night and let myself cry over... Read Full Story

There are a lot of things in this life I don't understand but lately I've been struggling with the biggest one. Why would God make someone so kind, loving, giving, understanding, young with kids suffer with an aggressive form of cancer? My husband's cousin, Shelly has been battling Acute Myeloid Leukemia since four days before last Christmas. As soon as the doctors discovered it, they admitted her the next day to begin treatment so her and her husband had an early Christmas for their kids... Read Full Story