blog neglect!

This is probably a crime....How long has itbeen since my last post?? Please forgive me.

So, lots going on around here. Lets see. I've been on the cleaning bandwagon. Hubbie leaves on tuesday with K and L so I wanted the whole house spotless. With the three of them gone, keeping the house clean will be soo easy! I didn't want to spend my VACATION cleaning the stupid house. I've been doing laundry, cleaning out bedrooms, deep cleaning bathrooms, and more....hubbie has been trying to help too. He cleaned the carpets yesterday! Notice I call it a vacation! It IS a vacation. God knows how I love them all, but man, without my toddler here will be like having 90% of my day become available. Think of all the things I'm gonna get done!! Plus with only general "maintenance" to do on the house...geesh...what am I gonna do????

I will tell you what I'm gonna do. FIRST, I'm gonna study... a lot. I want 100%'s on all my tests! I want to perfect my EMT-b skill list too! AND I'm gonna sew like crazy! I am going to finish every order/trade I've got, and if I run out of orders, I am going to make more things that I know will sell. I will start bumping my WAHM thread on DS when I get near the end of my list! humm...most of my stuff is trades at the moment! Xmas is coming! I need those presents! haha.

I've also been busy with other little things here and there. I am volunteering in J's class on Thursdays for an hour or so. I've been getting ready for Halloween and stuff.....thankfully it's OVER!

Yesterday I got a package from Jacklen....Yup my weekly package arrived! OMG, it is TDF! holy cow, I LOVE my soaps! I got a wasabi carrot body soap (Kaylee stole), I got a sugar cookie soap (reannah stole), some anti itch soap, after sun soap(in a horse head shape), margarita w/cuervo soap, a margarita salty bar, sweet dreams body butter, chocolate orange exfoliate, and a pearberry candle tart....I was in HEAVEN!

Ok, signing off for now...I will try to be a good little blogger, and post more often!

Lots goin on 'round here!

First I wanna shout this from the rooftops, I GOT A 49/50 on my EXAM!! The one from last week for my EMT-B program! It was on human anatomy and patient assessment. YAY!! I am SO SO SO SO pleased with myself....I've gotta gloat!

On a similar note, I had to miss class on Friday. Of course it was Lab, so FUN stuff...I was going to learn airway management skills...such as placement of artificial airways (tubes down the throat or nose)...Finally some "real" stuff haha. Anyway, I missed it because Lorraine had blood in her ear canal. I took her to her pedi and it was just a scratch on the canal thankfully, and not a ruptured eardrum like I was worrying lol. She mustve stuck something in her ear.

and onto another "patient" related discussion, my son went out with his dad this morning fine as a fiddle, cam back okay and quickly started feeling ill. then his temp went up...I knew it was high, I could feel his skin was HOT and dry...to top it off I was hot because I had just got out of a HOT bubble bath, so I knew my hand was already warm and to feel him and feel heat still.....I took his temp and it was 102.8...that was about 10 min after I gave him Motrin, so it may have been higher. It quickly went down to 100.7 and he is watching TV drinking Gatorade now.

oh and yesterday I did SOOO much! I folded all our back logged clean laundry. Then I cleaned out reannah/lorraines bedroom and put away alllll the kids laundry. I also, started and FINISHED three diapers! I know crazy huh?!?! Hubbie was nice and took Lorraine for the day, so THAT is the reason I was able to accomplish so much...it was AMAZING. Today, I have cleaned both bathrooms THOROUGHLY, studied for school, and made Lorraine a new soaker from the MY very OWN pattern I have been working up. Jennel's own pattern! It needs a very slight tweak, which I've already done...I just need to make her ANOTHER soaker to test it out haha.
For now....I have another 2 loads of laundry to fold! YUK!!
I need to join Jacklen's fly thingy....my room needs a very late spring clean.

yesterdays story!

Aww...Look at my Raining Baby Fluff Baby! Awww, look at her Raining Baby Fluff outfit! Jacklen made the shirt (handpainted), made the leggies AND made the hair clippie. I made to soaker. AWESOME work jacklen! Have I ever said I LOVE YOUR STUFF???!?!?!?! Like everyday I do!




here are some more of my faves:















Yeah I know the layout is all wacked, but I just don't feel like fixin it! There are a ton more pics, but those are my fave....Oh, ans here is one in the halloween outfit Jacklen sent....again I made the soaker!

Now, after I put her in the RBF outfit...took pics (thankfully) then started uploading...well while I was uploading, She decided to knock a glass off the counter...I ran to her and of course she tried to pick up a piece...Shegot a bitty cut on her finger....and of course got a little blood an the darn RBF WHITE outfit!! Only a teeny bit, so I had to rinse it...I think it will come out! Yikes, she keeps me crazy busy!

Hubbie is back....and already driving me batty....seriously....he is a pita...seriously....So here is "me." I am a student 3/4 time (so "almost" full time), I am a wahm...which i spend approx 4-6 OR MORE hours on a DAY....I have no time to study, I don't get to watch tv unless i stay awake until 2am watching things I have saved (from 6weeks ago) on my DVR, and hubbie...well here is "him." unemployed, and dad...thats it...soooo, IMO, there is a somewhat reversal of roles here....I absolutely cannot find time to do regular housework....picking up, swiching laundry, yes, I do do this...but I believe, a majority should be his responsibility for now...until another change in our "roles" comes to play...We have had discussions on this where I nicely try to explain, i wont have time for this or this, do you mind "picking up my slack?" I never point him out as the "unemployed" slack ass (which he is lately)...I always try to be constructive, and kind...(wellllll most the time). Today he told me maybe I could find time to "fold all this laundry." So I finally broke down and said NO...I wont do it. YOU can do it...and I tried once again to lay out my schedule for him...pissed him off for a little bit, but he is over it (i think). He has this wacked thought that a woman should be doing things such as folding laundry, and cleaning toilets...and he can get by with taking out the trash, a super quick vaccume job, and maybe a load of dishes...Yeah, its more then SOME hubbie do, but just aint gonna work round here....can you imagine the kind of laundry we have around here with 4 kids and one in cloth diapers...yeah, mountians...I am still going to be a "mommy", but daddy can be a "mr. Mom" for a while.

I NEED CHOCOLATE

yeah, I am PMS'n.....could you tell by my post a few days ago? Haha, So, I am feeling better. Better mood! NOW, I want Chocolate and salty things...Got some Jalapeno chips today and spoiled myself with a couple handfuls! Now for the chocolate...I need chocolate!

I invited my WONDERFUL friend Jacklen from Lil' Outlaws to be a guest vendor on my Hyena cart store...A couple days before we "opened" I posted on DS that I had a suprise vendor. A couple of my closer friends guessed of course because they know I'm tight with Jacklen, but it was SO exciting and plain FUN! Near opening another friend Terri, from The Mad Hatter posted saying she knew a secret. At opening before we knew it there were over 65 guests in RBF!! I was nearly falling off of my chair! We are #1 on "where are the hyenas." For now there is a small steady flow of guests..usually around 4-8people...which is nice! I really enjoy having LO as a guest vendor as I am REALLY in love with her product and they do accent my items well =)

Anyway, I'm off to dress lorraine in the shirt/leggies/clippie she made....time for a photoshoot!

I think I can do better than this

Or something needs to change. I HATE to bitch, or complain as I am happy with where things are at in life right now. Since I've started being a wahm my role around the house has changed a bit. It's still taking some time to get used to, I've had to well, spend a good deal of my time sewing. So that means my home is taking a beating...hubbie is unemployed, this s houldn't be a problem right...yeah...NO...it is a problem, he seriously believes he has accomplished a great deed to human kind when he loads the dishwasher and gives the living room a quick vaccume. Yeah, so I know thats more than alot of hubbies do and really I'm not here to complain about his lack of homaking abilities. What has gotten my panties in a bunch is my kids. and more so, myself. I can be a better mom than this. I've let them get away with too much and they have totally taken advantage of our new status (mommy working at home, etc). They are complete and utter slobs, and whos fault is it? Well, mine obviously. I've screwd up somewhere and have not taught them in the right way that it's improtant to take care of our home. I'm not even saying I have a problem with a little mess here or there, but what this going on in my home, is complete and utter chaos. Every single item they touch is left wherever they let go of it. That is not acceptable anymore....I used to be able to be behind their ass, picking shit up for them or remind them they need to pick it up. I absolutely do not have the time for that anymore. I am taking 3/4 time classes at the college for the EMT program and thats a fulltime job right there. And I spend time each and everyday on wahm items. Sometimes 8 hrs, sometimes 4....sometimes more then 8...I don't mind, I love it all. I just need to find some stratigies to be a better mom and show my kids how to take care of things....and I need them to start working harder to "earn" things....they are rotten hahaha. want it handed to them on a silver platter (as if we had one), and not have to work for things...welp....time for a new wayof running my home! yup yup!

I guess it doesn't help that hubbie is gone huntin' lol...And MIL was no help like she was suppost to be...anyway...enough bitchin and whinin...lets go get it done!

Anatomical answers

I Made these "board" type shorts for one of my FAVE WAHM, and then I cut and appliqued the ribbon onto this shirt night before last. This is for her Photoshoot for Breast Cancer Awareness! She is sending me some A-W-E-S-O-M-E soaps, I LOVE LOVE LOVE her smelly good stuff....I'd say we trade our goods about once a week, seriously no joke! Jacklen needs a diaper...humm well I need pail pardner, Jacklen needs some shorts, humm I need soap...OHOHOH, and she made me this AMAZING set for lorraine, with my RBF logo. hand painted shirt, with matching leggies and a hair clip...I am needing to make Lorraine a matching diaper and do my own little photo shoot...

Here is Jacklens site: http://liloutlaws.net/generalstore/

So, I was trying to think of a way of explaining to a mom, how she would measure her child for some pants...My brain imediatly came up with "begin at groin region and come straight down, ending at the medial malleolus." In english that means measure from the crotch to the inside ankle bone. Think she would of understood that? No, probably not unless she has taken an anatomy course. So why am I constantly combining medical and sewing? Well...Maybe because that must be who I am hehe...

I finished alot yesterday, and have a ton more to finish today, only I have to go to class at 1:30-6:30....It's lab day...we are doing cool stuff today. Our instructor said we better have our CPR and vital sign taking skills to be PERFECTED by the time we get to class today. Got er dun...We will be moving onto patient handling skills I think...SO, I have to move actual people, hopefully its not the stinky guy in my class lol..OKOK, yes I know I will be moving stinky people in the future! I can't wait to get to wound care, and cooooler stuff.

So, I miss hubbie, it's kinda lonely...but on the other hand, things are a bit more quiet here..

Here are more cutsoms I did:

I ment to post yesterday

But It probably would have been a major whine fest! haha!

Hubbie left yesterday mornin for his annual week long hunt...He better bring something home (for once)...SO in short, things are nuts here...I have TONS of responsibility left to only me. I have to take care of the dogs, chickens, cat, kids, house, school, custom orders, and somewhere find time in there to take care of me. And that my friends is an EXTREMELY short version of the chaos around here for me with hubbie MIA...

I am however working on some awesome stuff for customs! Halloween things, Breast cancer awareness things, and CUTE stuff, I will post pics later. I am finishing a TON of stuff today.

My house is a total mess...Like a serious tornado came and blew everything everywhere. It's never been this bad. Honestly, it's the last thing on my list right now. After I get some of these customs out, I will be studying, tomorrow I have class then this weekend MIL will be watching my 1 yr old...So I plan to try and clear out the rest of my customs!! after I do those customs, I will be studying again...THEN I will thoroughly from top to bottom, clean my home...and make it sparkle! I need my home to be clean again....I mean I will of course be doing minor maintenece during these times (dishes, pick up, etc), I just have to be able to "pretend" its not there...I HAVE to do this on my own for another week =)

Anyway, Off to finish some wipes!

Bee stings

So yesterday, KayLee got stung by a bee, while at a friends house..WTH, it's like 50 something degrees outside...I don't get it. Anyway, she is fine, just a little welt on her wrist, and she is totally cranky. Hew first bee sting. Would anyone believe me if I said I've never been stung by a bee? It's true, in all my 27 years, I've yet to be stung by a bee...

So I was sewing yesterday. A diaper for my friend Rachel. I was thinking that maybe all this sewing is good practice for my EMT stuff haha...No, seriously though. While EMS has much more dire consequences for mistakes, they both deal with needles, being precise, and you have to do things in certain steps...I know, I know, I'm nuts. I will shut up now.

Hubbie is leaving weds. for a week long hunting trip...Ugh...
Then, November 4th he is going to Oklahoma and he is taking the 1 year old and the 8year old. He will be gone 10 more days. Honestly, I don't mind. I wish I could go, but I cannot. My hours in class are documented by state. If I miss more then 10 hours in THREE months, I am out of the program, no ifs ands, or buts. I've already missed 4 hours...I was puking my brains out lol...Anyway, back to the Oklahoma trip. Without my 1 yr old around I will totally be able to zip, zip, zip thru MANY things. Homework, customs, cleaning....and then without hubbie and my 8 yr old, it will be sooo quiet around here....
I will have to do another post on my children soon. Baby's awake

Morning frost

So I woke up early on my saturday morning...whyyyyy didn't I sleep in? I actually like getting up early most of the time...it's quiet and calm in this normally crazy household. My cat Belle, was standing outside on the porch rail peaking in the window scratching at it...It was soo funny, I should have taken a pic..anyway, on to the reason for the title. I went to let her in on noticed everything is slightly forzen over....YUP, i live in Oregon...It's getting COLD out there...I need to make Ray some more longies...

Anyway, as this is my FIRST blog ever, I'll talk a little more about me. I have NO clue what I am doing here...Don't now how to blog and I'm not even a good writer for that matter...I can never think of interesting things to say and my posts might be boring haha..Half the time I will probaly get lazy and start miss-spelling words and leaving typos...please excuse those!

I am Jennel, I am 27yr old mama of FOUR crazy kiddos...K is 8, J is 7, R is 4 and L is 1...more on them on future blogs I am sure.
I have been going to college P/T for over two years getting prerequsited done to get into the EMT-B program and then into the EMT-P program. I am now FINALLY in the EMT-B program and am pretty proud as I worked pretty hard to get here...FINALLY some COOL classes! I actually had Lab lastnight...we watched a pretty nasty video, perfected our CPR, Vital signs procedures and also went thru the Respiratory and Cardiovascular anatomy and physiology.

My only issue with the labs is there is alot of "pretending" to be done...like acting...im not a good actor..get me on a real scene, and I'm in the zone. Like yesterday for example...we had to teach our "lab partner" CPR,as if we were instructors...It just gets awkward KWIM?

More on me later...The busy baby is awake!