My Favorite Chicken

Here are the chickens that are the girl's favorites for the moment...

Pool Trampoline Dreams...

Okay, so this new thing I am curious about started in Costco...they have something like this that caught my attention when it was way up in the air after I grabbed the toilet paper and I had to check it out online because my husband said it was for putting out in the lake and jumping on while I totally thought it was obvious it would go in the backyard to be "either" a pool or a trampoline...turns out we are both right! There is a huge variance in the cost of these different things which I thought was interesting, check this out, here is the one that works the way I thought it would and that I would be most interested in having at my house...

I'd like that one up above because it can be either a trampoline or a pool...it's watertight in other words. I would really like to have a pool big enough to fit all three of my little munchkins in and maybe even me (or just my feet) too for the occasional sunny day in Seattle...

The one above functions more like how my husband envisioned...it 's a kids version of the one below that the pictures you will see if you click through show kids jumping on it while it floats in a pool. I would not be interested in this one just because I don't think it is safe to use in a pool (I confess...I was once a lifeguard and might be overly cautious about pool safety) I can't help but imagine a kid jumping off and accidentally clocking their head on the side of the pool or something...terrifying imho. If I lived by a lake or something I'd consider it, however I'm pretty sure that I'd skip the kids one and totally go for the one below if I could afford it:

I definitely recommend clicking through on this one, it is bigger, and accommodates larger people. I would love this if I lived by water, which might someday be the case but isn't yet so I'll just stick it on my wishlist for now...or maybe I'll put this one on my Ideal Life Pinterest Page til I DO live by the water and add the one above to my wishlist for now.

Organization...

Organization is a word that I have never been comfortable with.

Occasionally, I will get motivated and get REALLY organized...however soon that doesn't fit in with the rest of the picture and either meshes with another area in the house or my husband tries to help and confusion follows etc.

Part of the problem, for sure, is being 'into' SO many things at once. What can I say, life is interesting to me!! I have bills out so I can pay them soon as I have enough money, I have pictures out so when I get a chance I can put them up on the wall, clothes on their way to the laundry (actually that shirt's clean I think, maybe I'll wear it!), toys of course, bags I've used that have various books in them I need to keep track of. Books, ahhh the books. Between me and my husband we've seriously considered opening up our apartment as a library for friends to come borrow from, huge variety of business, self help, atlantis, ancient history, technology, tarot/supernatural, and so much more. Oh, then there's my businesses! I have my Arbonne of course, then there is the Trump Network, and also I am a rep for the Passion Parties. Then there is the groups I'm involved in...a daycare board, trying to get on a non-profit board to protect the rights of children, there's the MS Society where I'm trying to fit in but haven't yet, there's my "Moms with MS" site that just launched and is doing well, my blogging for Working Mother website, which I haven't touched much since getting laid off, meetups for the local Moms with MS and Seattle Hip Mamas groups and believe it or not much more...right now I'm distracted because munch is telling me she just spilled a 'little bit' of tea on the floor...hmm...

My mental health specialist I've seen a few times recently recommended I explore finding a sort of grant of some sort for getting organized, apparently this is something that other people with MS have trouble with as well. If you ask my husband, he is straight up convinced that it is because I (like him) have ADD but that I (unlike him) cannot take the medications because I'm nursing Hazel.

Now that I wrote all that I'd like to go try and clean up...actually packing is something I should do as well considering we are trying to be in the house being renovated right now within a month. Which is a whole other can of worms I'm not even going to touch right now. I'll just say it's going however it's meant to and I have faith it'll all happen.

Maybe if I do one of my simpleology exercises now...maybe that'll organize my brain...