Sleeping on vacation?!?

So this past weekend me, my sister, mom and the kids took a trip to see my other sister in Louisiana. We had a great time but nap and bed time proved to be difficult with two, two year olds. One would be easy but the other would wake cry and wake him/her up. So every night it was a difficult trip lol. I ended up using the tula to put her to sleep everynight. Which ended up being a really good because it allowed my nephew to be alseep by the time i brought in a second sleeping baby.

When you are in Louisiana you definitely need to go to a parade. We went to the spanish town parade and had a blast. Most have a childrens section which is where we were. The babies had a blast getting beads and stuffed animals. Riley even got to dance in the parade. She loved it. We got asked about our carrier because it made it easy to walk through the crowds where a stroller was a bit difficult.

After a great weekend it was time for the 8 hour drive back home.   It was a great time but definitely time to start flying the drive was hard on the babies who both have night time coughs.

Keeping things clean?

So this post takes a left turn at the end. But most of my writing i dont plan, i write my feelings and I write whats in my head. Its why im writing a romance book. They speak to me(maybe im a little crazy!!)

So everyone knows keeping a room, let alone a house clean with a toddler is virtually impossible. I have been trying everything to try to organize the toys.  Riley has so many toys that we are so running out of space. We use most of my thirty one inventory to hold toys but we also use ikea products and any storage tub we find. What are your storage ideas??

With Riley being two we have decided she will start helping with some chores. She puts away her toys with me. She sweeps with her mini broom, and she feeds the dogs there breakfast and dinner. She lives to help. Im thinking of making a chore chart but i dont think she would understand it yet.  Life is always eventfull with the crazyness but when you get the chance to watch how fast they pick everything up and learn, it is truly amazing. But sometimes frusterating. As I sit in my daughters room and wait for her to fall asleep fighting me the whole time, I try to remember she is only 2. She is just now starting tongo to bed alone in her own bed and it times me easier not to be so frusterated when she askes tongo potty 8 times, or for every stuffed animal in her box. and even when she gets out of bed every 5 minutes and standa infront of me till I lay her back down.  I remember she kissed my booboos today and made me play breakfast at her table. She saw her cousin and ran across the house to give him a hug. She remembered to share her toys and his cup. And she didnt want him to sit in timeout alone so she did what he did so she would have to go with him.

So the house gets dirty, so i get frusterated with bedtimes and tempertantrums. Im raising a thoughtful, sweet and just a little bit sassy little girl. I am raising a smart, helpful, loud little girl. Who loves with everything she has. Who teaches me new things everyday. So i will take my dirty house that i only get to clean every other day(maybe). I would rather play.

Back!

It has been a while since i got to post, but im back!! I have had a sick toddler, then I was sick, and between that and holidays and birthdays it has been a crazy two month.

It is time to start a new year, with some changes. Not your normal get skinny or eat healthy changes. I am very negative about things that have to do with myself. I pick at little things on my looks, and put down things when it comes to me making things or my writing. This year is going to be a positive year!! A year filled with yes and with telling myself and others how beautiful they are inside and out!!

I have written 700,000 words this year in my book, which is something i am very proud of. Before i would have said thats nothing, its what some authors write in a day. But i am proud of that, do these other authors have a 2 year old who is attached to them almost 24/7. Because i do, some days i have nap time to write and others i dont, but i am doing my best.

Ok, so now to talk about this crazy 2 year old!! She has started saying her numbers more and is very into everything my little pony and pj masks!! We spend our days counting ponies and blocks and attempting to climb mommy like a jungle gym. Which is what is happening as im writing this. We have been moving her into her own bed, which is where she is for most of the night before coming to our bed. So I think its going pretty well! We also have hit a point where she will take 5 bites of food and then say she doesnt like it! If anyone has any tips on how to get her to eat please leave me a comment on how below!!

And lastly we have had a bad month with our dog bella. She had torn one of her acl's a few years ago. Then this year she went and did the other one. It has been a long long road to recovery. She had gotten to a good point and she felt better and tried to run because it felt better. Well now she is back at the start and is spending her days in a little pen so she doesnt run again. Its very hard because shes starting to feel better and wants to play. Any tips to keep a dog calm when they wanna play?

Thanks for reading and follow and let me know what you would like to read about. Im still making a list of all the things moms or anyone would like to read! 😃

Working from home.

I get asked a lot how hard it is to sell thirty one and write a book while being a stay at home mom.
All I can say is it's difficult, but not for the reasons you think. I write during nap time or after she goes to bed at night. And selling thirty one is fun, I do most parties online and that is usually done once or twice a day during a time when I can see Riley is really into a toy or game.

The hard part is the no's.  The people who ignore you when your just trying to help your family. It's the times when people tell you to get a real job. Yes I could put my daughter in daycare and get a job but with the price of daycare I would be working in order to put her in daycare. I wouldn't have time with her. I wouldn't get to watch as she learns a new letter in the alphabet or a new number. This month has been the number 2 because that's how old she will be. The hardest part is when someone who always talks to you and you always thought was your friend comments negatively on something about the reason you started to work for an online company. But when you help someone reach a goal for a party or make a new friend while helping them start on a business that will help there family it is amazing and I wouldn't change it.

Then there's writing that's difficult, it's the times when I can't write, because no one feels like talking that day. Yes I hear the characters in my head. Half the time I dream the scene I'm going to write. But when you can't get the words on the page or when you can't seem to connect the scene it sucks. It's when people are rude or make disgusted faces because of the type of books you are writing. I write smut or erotic romance, yes some poeple hate it but most of those people have never read it. Have never looked beyond it at the story you are trying to tell. Writing is my outlet, some people draw or take pictures or even work out but i write. Sometimes it won't go anywhere sometimes I can get  a new chapter for my book because I have a bad day.  I love writing, I love telling stories and I hope one day everyone can read my stories and feel the love I have put into it.

So yes working from home is difficult, I have a two year old who some days doesn't nap, who can mess up the whole house in less then 20 minutes. I get ignored or told no on a daily basis. But every so often I will get a yes. I will get to help not only someone have a fun party but also help my family with bills or groceries. Some days I won't get a single word written but on that rare day I will get a full chapter of two done. But every day I get to enjoy the giggles and smiles. The excitement that comes with learning something new such as jumping. I wouldn't change my days for anything. I will take the no's along with the laughter, I will take the silence in my head along with the kisses just because. Because I love it and I hope everyone gets a chance to do what they love :)

Meet the Crazy Messy Family, They are Mine!!

Welcome to my crazy, messy life. I'm Brienne, but I go by Bri most of the time.  I'm married to my best friend Patrick. We have had a crazy journey so far. We have been married for 3 years and together for a little over 4. The first year and a half of our relationship was spend living apart. We were the online couple who traveled 8 hours to see each other every weekend. Then we went through our first deployment. Our second didn't happen until our daughter was born. As you can probably guess my husband was in the military. The navy to be specific, but now he is going to school to become a firefighter. As for me, I'm a stay at home mom, a Thirty-One consultant, and I am currently writing my own romance novel. We live a crazy life, that just got messier when we had our daughter.

 This is my little family. My daughters name is Riley, and she will be two in just a few weeks. She is on the tiny side but she is just perfect. Born at 37 weeks she only weighed 5lbs. 4oz.  due to being IUGR. Me and her spent the last month of my pregnancy alone because daddy was out at sea. We had the help of our families because I moved home. I was scared to raise my daughter alone with two big dogs. At 34 week pregnant I got told i was only measuring  32 weeks and that they wanted to do a ultra sound to find out why. At 35 weeks we went in to find out why she was small, we found out her growth had slowed to the point where they believed she wasn't getting enough nutrition. Which to this day we don't know why.   The specialist we went to see said that it would be risking her if i went past 37 weeks. so we didn't and because of this circumstance Patrick got to fly in for the week of her birth. On 11/25/13 our beautiful baby was born. and just 3 days later Patrick was gone again. He didn't get to hold her again till she was almost six months old. But despite her small start into this world she is healthy as can be, yet she is still a tiny little thing.  She is the messy, because she loves to make messes with everything from her toys or even her dinner. 

Along with this crazy kid. we have the two biggest babies, Bela (light brown) and Harley (tan brindle) They are 5 and 7, and some of the laziest dogs I have ever met. Bella is my mutt and is Riley's best friend. she puts up with everything including being jumped on. Harley on the other hand is  a pitbull and is the grumpy old man, and would rather spend his days sitting on the back porch, than playing with Riley. They are both over 60lbs and slowing down in their old age. They are lovers not fighters and I consider them my first babies. I rescued them both, and hope to continue to rescue more in the future. 

Life is hard sometimes but we make the best of it. We are all healthy and happy, and that is what really matters. No matter what struggles we face we face them together. So that is my crazy, messy family, and they are mine. I wouldn't have it any other way.

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