Hi, thank you for taking the time to read my little blog/ journal whatever I end up doing with it. I thought I would introduce myself and my family a little bit.
I’m a mom to my two awesome little gamers. My son Julein is my oldest and right now he is caught up in the fort night craze and replaying Skyrim for the fourth time. When not attached to his PS4 or Xbox one he is a member of a BSA Scout troop and right now has the rank Tenderfoot. He has learned that it takes a lot of work to get merit badges and rise through the ranks of a BSA troop, but his goal is to make Eagle Scout some day and I am very proud of him and stand behind him 100%. He is also super artistic and is in the art club at his school; as well as in advanced Math classes. I can’t Math so I have no idea where this came from.
My second little gamer is Kori she loves all things Roblox and Minecraft and spends hours watching DanTDM on YouTube. She is also a bit of an overachiever; she is part of a local Girl Scout troop and one of the top cookie pushers… I mean sellers. She also belongs to a BSA Cub Scout Pack and is at the Webelo rank and working towards her arrow of light. She is also training for her first 5K through a program at her school called Go Girls Go which she really enjoys and is planning to continue training and running after the program is over.
I also have to talk about my hubby who is my best friend and partner in crime. I’m not going to pretend we have a picture perfect marriage; we argue and butt heads like most everyone else, but we always seem to work through our problems whether they are big or small. He works as a maintenance mechanic at a factory close to where we live. It is a very tiring and physically demanding job and most of the time very dirty as well. He’s also a giant nerd and spends most of his home time attached to the Xbox one playing Skyrim or Star Wars battlefront. Once upon a time he played D&D and Magic the Gathering, but since we moved a few years ago to where we live now we don’t know that many people and the ones we do know don’t play.
My job is to keep everything running smoothly with my color coded calendar I make sure we are ready for all of the week’s meetings (Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays are booked solid), for camping trips, volunteer work, and every other kind of outing you can think of. FYI if you ever what to hang out during the weekend we’re normally booked up at least 2 months in advance. Plus I have my job as a web search rater for Lionbridge which I get to do from home. You would think if I work from home I have more time to get things done around the house during the day. You would be wrong… While doing house work I think about all of the tasks I could be getting done for work, and while I’m working on tasks I think about everything that needs done around the house; cause ya know when the kids get home from school nothing’s getting done.
I decided to try and start blogging again as a way to get a little me time and to reflect on things going on in my life. Like I said earlier we moved a few years ago to a new town two hours away from our closest relatives and all of our friends. Needless to say there is no such thing as a date night cause I’m not letting a stranger watch my kids I don’t care how responsible the website says they are. This is also why I found a job that I can work from home so I’m always here if the kids need me. I’ve had too many awful bosses that didn’t understand why I would have call off to stay home if my kids were home from school sick… Well that’s a post for another time.
Gamer Mom 