mile stones

parenting from a book?!?!

lately Ive seen more and more parents parenting by this method or that method....mainly attachent parenting and the Ezzo method.....but there are a few others out there that Ive done research on. Bascially ive done research just to see what all the hype was about. I never in a million years thought that parents would be "learning" how to be parents. Before I had Emma I had never really delt with children especially babies...I mean yeah I babysat when I was a teen but they were usually 5 years + so i had no experience with little babies. I never went to a parenting class or a breast feeding class....I never read a parenting book with the exception of what to expect when your expecting...and that was bascially to find out about my pregnancy and normal babything...rashes fevers and stuff like that. I never read a book on how to parent my child. But after knowing a bunch of peiople who have and who follow these books like its a religion I think this whole learing how to parent by reading a book is INSANE! Ive seen more parents 2nd guess their instinct when it comes to their child because of what they have learned from these stupid books than I have seen parents who are just enjoying their children and just doing what just comes natural. Its sad to think that parents are becoming brain washed as to how to raise their children and that they dont trust themselves enough to make certain decisions on their own. What is this world coming to?

On a Side note....I do what comes natually when it comes to my children and they are happy healthy little girls.

long time...

Its been forever since Ive posted anything on here....what can I say Ive been busy. Well Im back at my home In augusta GA and Im so happy to be back here. Things have been a little hetic getting setteled back into things but I think things are finally setteling down. The kids and I are starting to get into a rutine which is nice. Emmas still in her terrible twos which is kinda driving me insane but its alright. Lindsey is like the perfect baby. doesnt cry unless she needs something and shes just so advanced. Emma did everything a little slower than the rest of her peers but Lindsey is just so fast. Shes not even 4 months old yet and shes rolling over and sitting by herself and shes just to focused. Its crazy I thought for sure Id have a few months where all she does is sleep, but thats definatly not her personality. She just takes everything in. Its kinda sad in a way....not only will David probably miss all her mile stones....rolling over sitting crawling walking talking...but shes gonna out grow that baby phase fast and quickly turn into a toddler. Makes me want another baby so bad.  So David should be coming home late January/early February sometime. Emma will be 3 and he will have missed her 2nd and 3rd birthdays and Lindsey will be 11 months. I wish I could say that we have something awesome planned for his block leave when he gets home...but we dont. We'll probably just sit at home and enjoy spending time with eachother and our girls. David will probably also start wrking on the long honey-do list that ive been making while hes been away. lol. lots of little home improvemnet things. We usually do the together and have great fun doing them. We really take a lot of pride in our home. We want it to be as nice as possible at all times. Right now the house is a little messy...bascially I need to steam clean the carpet in the living room from where emma has mashed in banana (she did this last night) and mop the hardwood bathroom and kitchen floors. Just little things. Ive also been trying to give the house some good feng shui so Ive been decluttering thing and moving things. I wanna move the furniture in the living room but i dont really know if thats gonna be possible. our tv entertainment center is just SOOO heavy. I dont see me moving it by myself. IDK maybe ill gain some superhuman strength in the next few days and somehow move it to the end of the room. however if I dont like it there then ill have to move it back....::sigh::  I also wanna get another chair...we have one that we got from Ashley Furniture not to long ago and I really like it....if I move the entertainment center and the sofa and put the chair on the wall with the window then i would need anotherr of the same chair to have it balanced Ill talk to david see what he thinks. see if he would be alright with me spending $250 for another chair. I would be really feng shui to have it like that tho. and I think it might make the room look bigger and it would allow more conversation to tke place when we have people over. maybe ill move the sofa and chair just to see how it would fit. Ok enough of my rambeling...time to clean.