Free Advertising

So Brick Street Mall is offering FREE Advertising for your site, blog etc.
If you don't know about Brick Street Mall, this is a site where WAHM/WAHD business
links are placed under one "roof" and create a mall feel for your shopping needs.
This is how our Free Program works:

All you have to do is:
1. Send us your banner and link
2. Place our banner and link on your site where visible
3. Email us letting us know you are all set up
4. We'll set it up and you Start enjoying free traffic
Your banner will be placed in our Directory
(if your category is not there, we will add it)
*no repeat companies

Come browse our categories and find what you need from our link partners.
We offer free info for medical terms and donations and troops support and update
these as possible. We also host the Original Online Craft Fairs (we will be restarting these again).
What is this? Well you come join us in our chat room where various presenters will send us links or pictures of their awesome creations for us to view, purchase and drool over. This is a great way to network with others and make new connections.
We had sooo much fun with these last year we decided to give it a go again and give our crafters a medium to expose their goodies to all of us once more and of course our direct shopping programs will also be welcomed.

If you are looking for front page exposure on our Top Ranked Page it's just $1/mo, $8/yr or $20/lifetime. These are priced lower than others because we are here to help support your business.

So stop by www.brickstreetmall.com and Enjoy our Site.
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Living with Punky Bruiser

It' been a minute since I posted last, mainly because we have been sick in rotations...and just in case you were wondering if I did a Typo on my tittle..NOPE. I am not talking about Punky Brewester the character brought to life by Soleil Moon Frye in the '80s,which I happened to love watching; I am talking about my very own Punky Bruiser. Yep life with Punky Bruiser is very challenging, exhausting, but loving and fun. My Punky is in love with purple, it if were up to her the world would be painted in purple with the occasional orange, pink, red and brown to contrast. See she loves these colors and they bring peace to her soul. Why? Well I don't know, and to tell the truth I've tried to figure this one out for 2yrs now and gave up and now I'm simply happy knowing it IS what it IS and it works for her, therefore it works for us. Purple works and so does mixed matched socks and shoes, tops and bottoms, it just does. Flowers and prints, stripes, dots, animals and all seasons mixed. And this has been OK because she never ventured into the world all discomposed. Never until NOW....yep she broke down and wore pink and white stripe panda shirt with blue jeans with green and blue turtle belt, white and red light up Reebok's with black socks with orange Jack o'lantern. EEEEKKK! I freaked, I tried to explain it did not match (she's usually very good about matching), but this particular day she needed to wear these mix matched items. She was going to Occupational Therapy and it's like she knew they'd be trying something new that day and would only be able to handle it dressed as "Punky Bruiser"
She broke every rule in my book and ALAS I now understood others I have seen dressed just like her. I was not going to fight, no point to it really, I explained myself a couple times and she was not "getting it" and instead of starting WWIII, I caved in and decided she needed to be herself.
And you must be wondering about "Bruiser" well that's her our little bruiser, she's tough and gets bruises often. She runs into the world head on full throttle no matter what. And when she's not getting them she's delivering them to our other children. Of course they are always under close supervision, but if you knew her you would see why it only takes her a quick second to overpower a 7yo while she is only 3. In a split second she can spell disaster in a million ways and still look angelic. Please don't get her wrong she is not lacking discipline, nor rules or limitations, they are there and set and time outs and lose of privilege take place,however she doesn't fully "get them". At least not YET. We hope and pray that someday SOON, she will join the others in the understandings of our family dynamics. Until then we keep living life with Punky Bruiser and loving her to the fullest and enjoying her silliness.
This is a glimpse in the life of my 3yo with Turner Syndrome, Developmental delays, ADHD, Anxiety Disorder among a few.


Here she is in her favorite color, purple with her older sister being silly.

Pssst: Raspberry Tutu by Anya Larre http://www.anyalarre.com/catalog.php

Miss Punky B Tutu made by mom

1 poop, 2 poop, 3 poop, 4!!!

Note: This is a mommy blog, so we might have the occasional mention of body functions. Feel free to ignore if offended...

How much more???? Yep that's ME, busy life with 4 kids, just sitting here waiting till the day I see NO MORE POOP! So I thought I had this all figured out, I mean I had my first born 7yrs ago and before that I had watched kids, many many times. I thought by 3 I would be done with diapers and by 4 wiping others so now what? I have changed diapers, wiped, potty trained, gone thru all these crazy bio waste stages and yet I am still baffled at my youngest.

It was pretty easy to get my oldest potty trained, only to mess him up and make him regress after 2 trips out of state, 1 which was a move and the birth of our 2nd. Pretty soon after we moved we were on track again and I was done wiping that butt. Now our 2nd child, my Diva Melody she was potty trained before 2yrs old, only regress to such extent it took us another 2yrs to get her back (long story). And don't get me started with still hearing the "Moooommyyyyyyyy" yelled from her bathroom when #2 arrives. Yep, still wiping that one, occasionally making deals to put an end to it....no such luck yet. Then we have our 3rd Josslyn, happy go lucky, moody girl. With her you never know what you'll get, and yes she has started going potty, but she is so frequent, she would have to live in the bathroom, nonetheless she makes an effort..and when she doesn't make it, which is her usual she is quick to let us know and bring her supplies. Now our 4th and last Mady (21mo), this is the child that has me scratching my head from the moment I found out I was pregnant. Everything was different, odd and confusing, but that's another story. Mady has taken to join in on the potty training and does pretty well, she announces proudly when she is about to go or in the middle of it, so we rush to help her get there. She has no issues peeling down rather quickly to make her trip to Mr. Potty,we can sit there till what seems like forever and nothing happen, but she is trying and occasionally her tiny body listens to her and obliges.

And now about my confusion and puzzled mind with her...if we do not notice she has pee pee in her diaper, she will strip down and run naked bums around the house as if she has been set free after going. And if we ever not notice immediately she has pooped she does the same and itches herself and we find her in disbelief with "muddy" hands and disgust! You would think after many attempts with same results she would figure out she would get the same outcome..why oh why does she continue to do this?? I never had my other 3 do this and yet she continues to do this on a daily or whenever the occasion arises. So I am praying that something clicks and she figures out Mr. Potty can handle this better than us and she takes it up to him to handle this situation.
All in all here I am 7yrs of wiping butts and about 4more years to go...all this work and time and experience and I can not even apply this to my resume. Ahh motherhood, done out of love..Priceless!


P.S Any pointers to help my child from getting "muddy" hands??

Just a Tuesday break

So after being pretty active I took a HIATUS from here and most everywhere else. Took time to re-think myself, my family life, my business, my everything. I've been reading, thinking, remembering, organizing thoughts, re-living memories and making new ones. After reading about TUESDAY, my heart sunk, I hurt so bad and it became all to clear how fragile we are and how present our mortality is. I felt the same pain I felt when I got Josslyn's diagnosis of Turner Syndrome, yes I know Josslyn was still very much alive, but that little girl was forever gone. Something had changed, it was still her smile, still her soul, still her love, still her everything, but not the same. But I will talk about that later so you can understand.

This past week was about TUESDAY, thinking about her and her pains and her family pains and joy. She has inspired so many and touched even more. I was not left out of this circle, therfore my family unknowingly was also touched. Thank You TUESDAY for reminding us over and over again, than in an instant our lives can change, we can miss saying good-bye, I Love You's and how much we care. I have loved more and said it, I have cared more and showed it, I have lived more and was thankful for it. I will never again take a single moment in my life, in my kids life for granted, for every second with them has been a gift of love from God.

My prayers are with you and yours....and now revived I'm back from my hiatus.

Go on over to TUESDAYS blog...and leave her mom a message.

Not MY MAN anymore.....huh??? HER MAN???

OK so bare with me...let me vent! Here I am thinking we have 4 kids ages 7,4,3,1 and after 8yrs everything should be stable, right? Right? So why does this beautiful Dark Haired female, I must admit she has a gorgeous face and puppy eyes and well she is YOUNG, says to me "MY MAN" referring to my husband!!!!????

UGG what was she thinking, that after all I've been through I would just give in just like that? For goodness sake we have moved from west to east to south and who knows where next, have been thru soo much, military changes and long, very long work hours and this girl thinks she can just call him "my man"...I don't think so!

Did you know we went thru 5 pregnancies and have 4 kids and 3 angels out of this? We endured a year of testing for Josslyn to figure out what was going on with her. Sleepless nights and still have these, hair pulling moments and great times too, not to mention everything else we have been thru us together and with our kids and still do. So I always thought of him as being MY MAN, never said it out loud, I am beyond that age and besides I do have his ring on my finger, so you can imagine my surprise when during this Ice Storm and days without classes as I am preparing dinner we hear the door open and kids running "Daddy, daddy" and Josslyn jumps out and says


"MY MAN", "MY MAN is HOME", I turned to look at her and the LOVE I saw in her eyes was truly "PRICELESS"..and Yes I have to say he is "HER MAN, HER DADDY, HER HERO"
and Yes all these thoughts of everything we have been thru raced thru my mind in a split second. I already knew how I felt, but this tiny comment made me realize just how much I love him and how much of MY MAN he is.

Now what were you thinking?


Now here's a pic of that beautiful dark haired, angel face, puppy eyes female I was talking about with OUR MAN!

New One of a Kind Necklaces for Girls

It's finally time to Introduce some new designs. Adorable(if I do say so myself) OOAK (one of a kind) girls necklaces fit for Your princess. These are my new addition to my line and they will be offered as OOAK and limited. They are lovingly crafted with czech miracle beads, lead free crystals, acrylic sparkly beads, and glass tubes and adorable small clay roses and SP findings. These would be perfect for Valetine's, Spring and Summer.

All items are handcrafted by me, made with love for your little girls. They have been approved my my very sassy princess who is 4yo. These will come in an organza pouch perfect for gift giving. Colors available Immediately are Red, Green, Purple, Blue and Pink flower, upon request we have orange, white w/pink, blue, yellow, dark green w/green, and hot pink w/pink, baby pink w/white Currently just 1 of ea. They come in 14" or 16" please let me now while ordering. These ship for $14 ea anywhere in US.
* since these are OOAK/limited and custom sized slight differences may be noted in each piece, main design will remain the same.

Mineral Makeup....what's the deal??

Well let's see in case you didn't know Mineral Makeup is what's HOT right now. There are tons of companies, some super expensive, some super cheap and some very good quality at great price. And that's what I am here to talk about. Good quality makeup made by a WAHM and at prices other WAHM's and SAHM's can afford. How do I know? Well I have been using Mineral makeup for years now, got caught in the infomercial and paid the high price all to be left with just a few colors I could use because they seemed to shiny for me. After that I bought from several different places on Ebay and even joined a mineralz company that no longer exists, all in all love minerals, but the colors were not working for me.

So I found Mineralicious, and what is Mineralicious? Well it's a company that sells mineral makeup, but this is different and I'm going to tell you WHY! The owner is Chelle a WAHM and homeschooler who had troubled skin and she developed this mineral makeup that even on her skin goes on all day without drying her, or leaving her face red or swollen like other makeups. Why? Because she does not use fillers like many other companies do. I for one have combined skin which gets drier and patchy in winter and oily and blemished in summer and this makeup does not make this noticeable or worse like others. I can wear it all day everyday like a second skin, without looking heavy or cakey. All the ingredients are listed on the site , so no surprises there. Oh and did I mention CUSTOM COLORS? Yep, you got it!! Want perfectly matched foundation? or want to match that special occasion outfit? or got an old makeup color that's your favorite? No problem Chelle will match it for you....she has specials running every month with super surprises.....and if you contact me I will give you a 10% additional discount. http://www.jreyes.mineralicious.com And if you'd like to join my team for a low fee or FREE and get in on the great advantages of this company...click on the link for details or contact me direct. I do not endorse this company only because I work with them, but I work with them because I believe in this company and use their products daily and I LOVE THEM.


On You Tube..Thanks Jessica for this.

Part 1 :

http://www.youtube. com/watch? v=B8TRRXa5fd4

Part 2 :

http://www.youtube. com/watch? v=hpw0RhA9Ap8