Monthly Archives: July 2025

Art, Creativity, Daily Prompts, Life As A Mama

Quite Funny Actually.

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What strategies do you use to maintain your health and well-being?

So normally I’m very good at keeping us healthy. With the change of diet, exercise, cleanliness in public, clean house, etc.

However, recently we just went on a trip. And we were perfectly healthy. Taking our tonic everyday. Never eating out. (I was constantly cooking everything from scratch; so many bagels!! 😵‍💫)

But our last day, my mother-in-law offered me any of their organic foods; since they had to fly home. I took a can of refried beans, plain beans, and 1 1/2 jars of applesauce.

We two days ago ate the applesauce. Mind you the only ingredient listed was: organic apples, so I didn’t think anything of it. I thought it would be a treat, since I didn’t have to make it. Well, that was a big mistake.

We all eat the applesauce. My son likes applesauce, but never enough to lick the bowl clean. That should have been a dead giveaway away. Then my husband, daughter, and myself started to feel queasy in the stomach. Then maybe twenty minutes later, we all had the taste of aspartame in our mouths. The taste you get when you chew gum, or brush with Colgate. So I knew that the applesauce had something else in it. I looked it up and discovered that it had natural sweeteners added. Which can be aspartame. It’s a preservative. It lets it last longer after opening.

It’s scary to not be able to trust ingredient labels anymore. So we learned our lesson. I’m just going to make everything myself, because then I know what’s in it.

But after all this, my son caught a cold. Apple sauce with fake sugar to lower his immune system, and then putting his hand in his mouth when we went out shopping = sick. So my son is sick and my 7mo old is getting sick.

Just a bummer. To need to do things and I can’t.

Everyone else enjoy your Thursday.

Art, Creativity, Daily Prompts, Life As A Mama, Reflections

Both I Think.

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Are you seeking security or adventure?

I’m excited to try something new, but I want to get established quickly so that I have that sense of security.

Like right now, we are good. No debts, no overhead, no stress. But if my husband’s new job doesn’t take off the way we are hoping then we will be screwed.

So it’s terrifying to drop everything and try something new, but my husband’s last job was slowly killing him. So we had to switch things up.

So, yes I’m excited for change, but I want security hopefully in the next few months. Just for peace of mind.

‘Peace’ by emily2jane 07-04-25

Edited photo from night time. From 4th of July fireworks.

Art, Creativity, Daily Prompts, Life As A Mama

What I Wish. And What Is True.

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What time do you go to bed and wake up currently?

I wish I could still go to bed at 12am and wake up around 8:30. I would still be getting ample of rest and wouldn’t be feeling tired all the time, but I would get enough alone quiet time.

But in reality I go to bed anywhere from 10:30-1:30. Depends on if I can get into bed before 10. Because my brain seems to want to fall asleep at 10:30, but if I miss that window I have to wait for the 12am window. But if I’m not tired at that time I have to wait for the 1:30am window. I don’t get to sleep whenever I want to.

And waking up is not my body alarm clock but either my baby daughter’s or my son’s. The baby can wake up anywhere from 5:30-9:30am. But usually my son wakes up, looking for snuggles, at 7:00am. So depending on when I went to sleep that is not too bad or is terrible.

So I think I’ll have a goal of going to be at 11pm and waking up at 6:30am. So that I can have some alone time at night and some alone time in the morning.

But will that happen…maybe not until after all my kids are all 2. But I still have one kid to go. So I’ll start being better at sleeping in 4 years. Haha!!

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On an Oregon trip. So beautiful here!!

Start of our drive.

Art, Creativity, Poetry, Word Of The Day

Word Of The Day: Galumph 07-02-25

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Synonyms: shuffle, stomp, stumble, slough, trudge, lump, lurch, etc.

I go up the stairs.

I go down the stairs.

Several times a day.

This is nothing new,

Just like an everyday stew.

Leave the camper,

Come to the camper.

Constantly moving.

Until!

A stumble, a bumble;

A galumph down the stairs.

Pain!

And wet…

Deep bruising beginning,

My bones stinging.

But do I stop, no!

Do I cry, no!

I change and gather,

Then start on our walking adventure.

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I fell down our camper stairs about three days ago. It was pretty bad.

I had my baby in the stroller at the bottom of the stairs. So I decided to turn at the last step and step backwards. Didn’t realize my daughter had left a clear bin full of water there. So my foot found the edge of the bin and I thudded to the ground. Soaking wet, sore, and covered in mud. I managed to roll midair to my right side. So my whole right side is really bruised. I’m sore and black and blue.

But we had been preparing to go for a walk. So I got myself up, those treacherous stairs. Changed my clothes, and went for the walk.

I’m doing better now. I’m just bruised and sore. But I was able to exercise this morning.

Two good things came out of it.

#1 my phone did not get wet. It had been in my left back pocket!!

#2 I’ve been self-conscious about being in a trailer park. That I thought people were watching me, but once I fell no one came to see if I was alright. So no one is watching me. Bad way to find it out, but a blessing to know.